Do you believe in dreams?Follow

What I know about lucid dreaming:

Lucid dreaming is pretty much controlling your actions in a dream. How do you lucid dream? While dreaming, you must realize that you're in a dream. How do you do that? The first step is to remember your dreams.

To remember your dreams, start a dream "journal". Every time you remember your dream(s), write what happened in a notebook or something. Before you go to bed every night, read through your dream journal.

Another good idea is to make it a habit to look at the palms of your hands to make sure they're "real" or "normal".

I've only been able to lucid dream once (maybe twice, not sure if I really had control), and all I was doing was pressing the gas and break pedals on a go-kart. The maybe time was a really bad nightmare, when some monster was holding me in the air, and I was pleading for my life, begging it to make it quick... freaks me out to this moment that I did that... I think the nightmare was so vivid that I just sort of broke in and did that.

Err... sorry for the rambling. ^^;

I hardly remember my dreams. Maybe once or twice in a year.

I did have an experience once, where I felt like some huge thing is pressing on my chest and I was unable to move my body at all.

Sheeeeet ******** I remember dreams I had in the womb!!


seriously, waht kinda dreams you think babies have?

For some reason almost 99% of my dreams are about Tornados. Sometimes I'm watching it destroy things, sometimes I am running away, and other times I'm right in the middle of it. I have no idea what it symbolizes, or what relevance it has to my life, but for some reason tornados seem to be a common theme.

Wet dreams.

Though many will just pass this byas being the brain replaying an impression, I've had several of those deja vú experiences. I know that deja vú happens when the brain replays an impression you got a couple of milliseconds before, but some of my deja vú experiences are very odd. For instance, last week I was watching the tellie like so many evenings before. I decided to turn it off and go play some computer, right before turning the tellie off I had this odd feeling that my cat would enter the room and I would continue watching the tv. I barely thought it over before my cat came into the room and the Tonight Show (my favorite evening show) came on.

I was quite stunned, but nevertheless continued to watch the tv.

I am, to a certain degree, very odd. You might even call me superstisious. I don't like looking people in the eyes for too long a period, I fear that my eyes will reveal my inner most secret thoughts. I also believe in precognition(sp?) and that you, through dreams achieve a short ability to look into what will happen. Call me stupid, but I've had too many deja vús like the one above to doubt it.

I even have a deja vú that replays ever so often. Sometimes when I have to choose between something (most often, it's whether or not to open a door) I often think, just as I open it, I should've let it be, I did so last time. There is no last time, it is merely my brain skipping a track just to jump back a few seconds before my senses register my actions.

Or is it..?

I've had several lucid dreams, and I've been able to control a few of them. Nothing major, and it's usually a "pick up where I left off" situation (like I woke up to go to the bathroom or something).

For a long time, I used to dream about elevators that were out of control, and didn't just go up and down; they also went side to side and looped around. And they were almost always in some kind of bizarre building that looking like something out of a Batman movie or something.

This was when I was with my ex, which was a bad situation, so I always equated the crazy elevators with my feeling like I wasn't in control of my life.

I had to quote the entire post, it's just too amazing. Those are the exact same thoughts I have whenever a deja vu occurs. It's like a curtain is lifted for a brief moment, revealing things from past, present and future mixed into this impression that leaves me without direct memory of it, but more like a feeling that this is the right thing to do, or that something like this will happen soon. Maybe it's just our sixth sense playing a trick on us?

I believe that there are people who will one day see the entire context of the existance we live in. That, somehow, the truth about everything is let out to those capable of understanding it. I believe that with enough knowledge and if you accept what you are, what you're supposed to do with your life, then you will be able to bend what we call reality. Imagine if you could realize and accept that the world is as we know it because we think it is. I'm saying we're in The Matrix, not at all, more like a reality hidden behind our reality.

Well, I think I'm going to stop now or people will write me off as a lunatic (prolly too late anyways).

I'm very fascinated by this phenomenon. I'm Atheist by choice, but I still think that there is a force unknown present here and everywhere.

Getting dizzy just from thinking about it, hope it makes at least some sense.

If you'd like to give me your oppinion, please PM me so that we can continue the discussion there.

A bit late but...
I think that most dreams are just the detritus of the mind, the random images and thoughts that pass through our subconcious based on the things that are happening in our life, our emotional state, past experiences etc. But, and this is a big but, some dreams do not appear to fall into this thread.

I have extrememly vivid dreams, so vivid that if I fall in love in a dream, have a child or someone dies I will sometimes cry/mourn for them when I am awake because it feels that real. I dream in color but also in 'feel', 'taste' and 'smell'. I almost always remember several dreams a night and can actually lay down and as soon as I fall asleep start dreaming. I am also extrememly sensitive to what goes on outside me, IE if the television is on I will dream what is happening on TV word for word, so I have to be careful of things like that (imagine falling asleep during a scary movie...).

Some of my dreams are horrible and unlike most people I do not wake up just before I am tortured or die etc. I actually experience the entire thing including the pain. Some dreams are so real that I will actually take action. For instance I once dreamt that I was a priestess in training and that these half man half snake creatures were chasing me through a moonlit forest. I stumbled into a clearing and was surround, tied to a stake and then tortured. The snakemen dips wands into boiling wax and rolled them down my arms and legs peeling off the skin. When I woke up I was covered in blood because I had torn all the skin from my arms with my own fingernails trying to stop them. To this day I cut my nails as short as possible. You would think that kind of pain would wake me up but it doesn't. Iv've had dreams so scary I bit right through my tongue and I still don't wake up.

Sometimes I dream of past lives. Many people don't believe in that and it's ok but I have no other explanation for the very intricate and lengthy 'lives' I live in my dreams nor for the intense feelings of attachment and rememberence I feel to them. Some of my dreams are so detailed I have actually made them into stories and am currently working on a novel based on one of my dreams. I have had several dreams that have come true, usually very silly things (I always dream about the place I will live next before moving) but occasionally something more bizarre. For instance I once dreamed about a little girl who died and the next day it was in the papers. I usually have no control of my dreams even though I am aware it is a dream but sometimes I do. I remember once when I was little and I was dreaming of being chased by zombies. I stopped in the middle of the road and told myself 'This is just a dream, you can do anything you want' and proceeded to fly away. At which point the zombies started laughing and said well its our dream to so we can fly to and chased me through the sky.

The condition you are refering to is sleep paralysis. I had a big problem with it when I was a teenager and seriously thought I was either going crazy or being abducted by aliens. Before modern science figured out it's cause people used to believe it was demons sitting on thier chest and holding them down, IE the succubus. Here is a good site with more info: . I think mine was due to stress because I had a very hard life and stopped having this problem after I left home. When I was very little I could leave my body at will even when I was awake but I can't anymore and wouldn't even if I could. Still sometimes I do get that feeling where I am almost asleep and then suddenly jerk back and feel like I am falling very fast. Maybe my soul wants freedom even if my brain wants safety.

Most of my dreams are the same common dreams everyone has, running down a road that gets longer and longer, being naked in front of your class, etc. But some defy logic. I guess I should not be surprised considering the other bizarre things that happen to me and my mothers even wierder sleeping habits but it really is quite strange. Good luck and blessings, Prana

Ack! Stupid double post... ><

Edited, Wed Jan 26 10:41:01 2005 by Kaliprana

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and in light of that note, think about things like "past lives". If indeed all time is the "same time" then this must mean that we are living several lives at the same time..... our souls that is are participating in the same conceptual events, corrolating with where it overlaps.

This argument is by far one of the most difficult to fathom. i picture the "soul" to be like a cylinder that presses through all parts of time. Our personal perception as the human beings that we are only operates in one point on the long "spriral" that is time.

That's to say that as the "spriral of time" overlaps with itself. Picture it like this. If you veiw a spriral from the "top" (2-dimensionally), it looks like a circle. This circle would be composed of all of the overlapping layers of time. Our souls poke through all of this layers at a certain point. Thus as we live this lifetime, there are others that are overlapping... thus it's not truly the case of one life-time effecting another, but instead all lifetimes operating in conjunction with one another.

The problem with this idea is that we are still forced to think linearly about this... and the case goes: Where is the differentiation in these "cycles" of time. In other words: Waht is it that determines Where one layer of the "spiral" begins and where it ends.

Sorry for my rambling... I'm still not fully awake yet. So if this makes no sence at all waht I just wrote, blaaaaaaa

It may be because the usual event are emotionally identical to waht were are feeling "now". So if you see lifetimes as overlapping, the similarities would most likly stop us from realizing anything different. in other words, because usually the same type of event are happening, we'll notice waht is right in front of us first, rather than waht is buried deeper.

The reason that I say "emotionally" is because I think that the mundane things in our past lives don't really matter too much. Whether I'm riding in my Pontiac or in my chariot, the concepts are still the same, thus our souls recognition of the event would be the same.

One could view this as our lifetimes repeating one another, but if indeed they are happening simultaniously; then this cannot be. The are each merely reflections of one another.


However, there is then the question of the growth of the soul.

If everything is happening at the same time, then how indeed do we grow as individuals? I think that question though requires belief in multiple layers of dimensional perception.
That is, perhaps the part of us that is on the surface of our souls; that is the part that grows... in which case that would mean that our eternal soul is actually just a road that our true selves travel on...... wow I'm having a revelation... That our soul is just a vehicle as well...... and our body is just another part of that vehicle, and that there is another deeper part of our being that is capable of transcending this entire cycle of existance......

I should go fix these computers now...... before I drive myselve insane with thought.....