read this article, it's cool

[girr_says]

There is a lot of research being done in dream control, particularly in the areas of lucid dreaming and dream incubation. Lucid dreaming is a learned skill and occurs when you are dreaming, you realize you are dreaming and you are able to then control what happens in your dream -- all while you're still asleep

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Lucid Dreaming

[tehgleaso]

I've had a couple lucid dreams before. The key is not to think too hard about having them. Once you realize that you're asleep, it's a pretty common reaction to wake yourself up immediately. The trick is not to try to change so much at once as your increased brain activity will make it harder for you to stay asleep. If you're beginning to regain consciousness, the trick I found is to anchor one foot on the ground and use the other to spin myself around.

Also, I read about the devices used to alert yourself. One of them I use is to check a clock twice in a short span of time. Usually when I'm dreaming, clocks don't show accurate times or sometimes they randomly skip about in order, showing a random number each time I look at a clock. I've also had a bunch of dreams where I start to wonder if it's a dream, but somehow become assured that it's not a dream by things around me. I'd also say they mess up perceptions of reality. I was once assured that I wasn't sleeping during a dream where thinking of Captain Planet while holding your head in a certain manner would teleport you to Millcreek (WTF).

I've read that the most common time to have a Lucid Dream is when you wake up in the middle of the night for whatever reason, stay awake for like 15 minutes, and fall back asleep.

I could type more about Sleep Paralysis and Painful Awakenings (I don't know the correct term), but this comment would become incredibly long winded.

Re: Lucid Dreaming

[girr_says]

thanks for your insightful....insight