I was reading last night about lucid dreaming but I don't really understand it...can anyone explain it simply?
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It's more like being in control of yourself while dreaming... allowing your consciousness to be in control of you while your subconscious shows you the images.\n\nYes, I have done lucid dreaming.  It's hard to explain and harder to do if you have never done it before.  But I have found it very helpful once I worked at it.  One way that was helpful for me was to think about certain things while I was falling asleep... while trying to remember I AM in control of myself, just not in complete control of the images I will see when I do fall asleep.  You have to make sure you are relaxed when you go to sleep, drink water for at least a couple of hours before going to bed and try not to think too much on what has happened during that day (like what TV show was on before you went to bed... or what music you were listening to) as these things tend to shift your lucid dream to just a regular dream and you lose control of yourself.
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I will not change my plans based on a dream, but I may change some of my long term habits. I do think that dreams can be useful, and we can learn so much by paying attention to them.  I don't think we get messages from other people or spirits in our dreams, but I do believe it is our brain's way of working things out and pointing some things out that we may have over looked. I kept having a dream where my college professor became ill and asked me to take over the class. I would always say yes in the dream but I became all stressed because I did not know anything about the subject matter.  After keeping track of this for a while, I discovered it was my job that was stressing me out because people kept piling stuff on top of me.  I finally started to tell people that I was at my limit and could not do anymore. We hired another person, and the dreams stopped after that.
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I know this doesn't answer your question, but, on stevepavlina.com he talks about lucid dreaming and how to develope it.  He has a lot of great articles that I think you may be able to benefit from.
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a dream is just a thought process. \nWe dont have to be asllep to dream. We even dream sometimes when we are awake...Our Brain goes on a thought spree..\nand makes us believe what ever it thinks. Thats why dreams feel so real sometimes...
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I don't know if its the first dream I remembered but it is the one, or should I say two that I remember the most. I was about 11 and it was a lucid dream, one were I knew I was dreaming. I was able to control the dream, I wont go into detail. I was not as wild as I could of been because in the back of my mind in the dream I had a little doubt. The very next night I had another lucid dream, this time I was positive it was a dream and even tried to convince the people in the dream that I was dreaming. Even going as far as going to my bedroom in the dream and looking in. Wild I know but true. I checked on the net when I was older and apparently this is something you can teach yourself to do.\nI was a printer for twenty years. Now I am a service manager for a power sports store.
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You know when you are asleep and dreaming? You can do anything be anywhere or with anyone !? You can fly be on your own 1000 foot yacht, or have any woman (or man or whatever you like)...There are good dreams and terrifying dreams, nightmares where you fall off abridge or monsters are chasing you. Pretty much ANYTHING can happen in dreamland, right?\n\nWell LSD is a chemical that tricks the brain into thinking it is asleep and triggers the part of the brain that allows you to dream, but you are awake. This is a very very powerful and potentially dangerous situation. Imagine having the ability of to dream while you are walking around. You get hallucinations your brain plays tricks on you and you may have trouble distinguishing between reality. This is problematic when trying to accomplish such mundane tasks as crossing the street....\n\nTo answer the question, it may not have lasting effects but while you are under the influence the line between reality and not will be very fuzzy and perhaps invisible. This can get you hurt or allow you to have a terrible nightmare that you can't  awaken from since you ALREADY ARE AWAKE!\n\nThe other side of the coin is also true. You may have a beautiful experience. Most people can handle it, but then MAYBE NOT...................then don't look into the mirror.
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I am a dream reader and this one has thrown me for a loop. I don't know if its cause you didn't write clearly or if it's because it's a difficult dream to interpret.\n\nFirst I just want to clarify what your dream was (yes it was your dream, not hers).\n\nYou dreamed that you were seeing her dream through her eyes, correct.\n\nIf this is the case, it is a very hard dream to interprete.\n\nThe main reason is because I don't know what your her dream was about.\n\nThe only thing I can really tell you for certian is that either you and her are intertwind or you believe you are.\n\nLet me ask you some questions so that you can answer this question.\n\nCan you tell what she will say to you even before she says anything at all?\n\nCan she do the same?\n\nWould you be able to tell what she is doing at any hour of the day or night even when you are not with her?\n\nCan she do the same?\n\nIf you want me to help guide you further please e-mail me and tell me as much as you can about the dream. The more I know the easier it is to give an accurate reading.
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Dreams. Its a word to be understood properly. Dreams are generated from us, it uses the information which we have some where deep in our minds, it uses all that what we know and make a new kind of event in our unconcious mind.\nSign and Signals are alwyas floting around us, and they are not send by any divine power, as the power is right inside our own self. To understand the sign and act on it depends on how we manage to understand our own self our own power.\nEvery living being is connected with an invisible network and communication between each other is always happening, its our recevier which is capable to filter the signals or no.\nTHIS IS JUST 1% OF WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY... WOULD LIKE TO SHARE MORE IF IT INTRESTS ANYBODY...
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That's actually an interesting question.\n\nOneriology, the scientific study of dreams, has revealed much about these mysterious experiences full of imagery.\n\nOne theory of dreams (the activation synthesis theory) states that dreams are the brain's attempt to interpret random impulses from the brain region known as the pons (which produces REM sleep). "Memory, attention and the other features lacking in a dream state depend on the lack of norepinephrine and serotonin, producing a psychotic state, as well as a lack of orientation to time, place and person."\n\nIf we could accurately measure these random impulses and the brain's reaction to them, we might be able to construct a probablistic (or, though unlikely, a deterministic) model of dreaming. This may vary greatly among individuals, though. If we could do that, along with being able convert the imagery into a visual format (definitely not trivial), we might be able to record our dreams.
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According to some sources 70%. Some say 5%.\n\nAccording to this article: http://hometown.aol.com/fuffels007/page4.html\n\n73%\n\nThe reality is no one really knows. Because not many people know what lucid dreams actually are. And those that do, don't report it to anyone.
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90% more likely do we forget our dreams. it's the domain of the subconscious. try dreams central, its a website on dreams and its meaning.
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dreams are a way for your brain to let go of things it say while you were awake.\ndreaming is sometimes your subconscious letting you know what you really would like to do..\nlike people flying..maybe you either wish you could fly an airplane or maybe you wish you could transform yourself into a bird..\ndreams are very important to a healthy mind even if some of the dreams are not what you would consider healthy..
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Dear Laura,\n\nI agree that dreams bring important messages about what is going on deep in our hearts and souls.\n\nIt is also true that sometimes it may take weeks or months before the meaning of a dream becomes evident to us.\n\nSome dreams we will never know the meaning of, and we have to accept that.\n\nOur inner selves are far more complex and powerful than our ability to understand it.  \n\nThings are worked out inside us in ways that are for our good, but it does not mean that we will ever come to fully understand it.\n\nPart of life is about learning to trust the process of life and to become ok with "not knowing".\n\nI hope this helps you.
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I hadn't heard that before. If they are then it is your own personal truth. I don't think I do believe this statement. Dreams are the minds way of assisting you to sort throught a puzzle or dilemma or problem. Something you might not have even realised consciously that you were pondering. I am talking about the subconscious mind and the unconscious mind. If a dream is not precognitive ie. a vision of a future event (most dreams are not precognitive), then it is a dramatisation by the mind using expressions, images, words etc that are known to yourself. The mind generates a play if you like and you the sleeper are the only audience. So you are the only one who can recognise the images/expressions used in the play to understand what if any underlying message is there. Knowing this then saying dreams are the invention of truth is quite a sweeping generalisation which in fact, does not really tell you anything at all. Sounds like pretentious rubbish to me.
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I have experieced this several times. People have told me it's deja vu, but deja vu is only a strange feeling that you have done something before, not actually dreaming about it.\n\nI was able to experiment a bit (very limited), where in some cases I tried to follow how the dream played out, and in some cases I tried to do it differently.\n\nMy conclusion... \n\nI don't know. I have never met anybody else with the same experience, and haven't been able to find anything on the internet either. Don't worry about seeing the future though, if things come true, they will, if they don't, they won't. Worrying about it won't help a stich. \n\nI would suggest looking into "lucid dreams" which is the closest thing I found where one can control their own dreams, which I have also experienced. Interesting stuff.\n\nGood luck, and try to enjoy it, there aren't too many mystical things in the world today.
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During sleep, the brain is still operating even though we are not conscience of the thought patterns and usually cannot control the images, sounds and information that comes along. A dream is the brain's way of organizing this information into a form that it is used too. Tossing and turning in bed are ways in which the brain inadvertantly "pulls strings" with the rest of the body. Talking is not too far from that. The patterns that move around the brain might just trigger speech.
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its not loosly sleep it is really called lucid dreaming and the best way is to repeat to yourself every time something wierd happens ask yourself are you dreaming while your awake sooner or later your subcon cathes on and when something wierd happens in a normal dream you will suddenly ask am i dreaming and funnily enough that will wake up your mind in your dream while your body still sleeps this is called lucid or clear dreaming and its the dreaming you can control its wonderful look it up under lucid dreaming and have fun i did.