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Hastur said:
Several months ago I bought a MP3 player, loaded it with a 20 minute motivational speech by Tony Robbins, plugged some computer speakers into it, put the MP3 player on loop, and played it through the night every night for two weeks.



Very interesting results.
Such as?
Within two weeks of doing that, I closed my bookstore, moved from New Jersey to South Carolina(didn't know a soul down here), and started a new career.
and changed your FBG name!
I reassessed my value and perception model. I realized I didn't want to be perceived as odd, but someone to be feared. Hence renaming myself as one of the most feared characters in literature. :lmao:

 
www.saltcube.com

This video course is packed with tips that many people have used to have their first out of body experiences and lucid dreams. In part one you'll learn how to use the body's own biology to put yourself in a subconscious focus without using any mental visualizations. This shortens the learning curve immensely and you very well may have an OBE or lucid dream the very first time you use the methods in this video course
 
I've been lucid dreaming for a long time, but it doesnt happen very often. I've never 'tried' to do it, hell i didn't even know it had a name til i clicked on the OP's link, but it happens from time to time. 1-3 times a week i suppose, never really keep track. I'm usually pretty poor at remembering my dreams, and even when im having a lucid dream i don't remember the dream being particularly long.

Though tonight i'm gonna 'try' and have one and see what happens.

 
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A Dream Interpretation: Tuneups for the Brain

A bit more on lucid dreaming...

Couple of snips:

Drawing on work of his own and others, Dr. Hobson argues that dreaming is a parallel state of consciousness that is continually running but normally suppressed during waking. The idea is a prominent example of how neuroscience is altering assumptions about everyday (or every-night) brain functions.
“I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it is consciousness itself, in the absence of input from the senses,” said Dr. Llinás, who makes the case in the book “I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self” (M.I.T., 2001). Once people are awake, he argued, their brain essentially revises its dream images to match what it sees, hears and feels — the dreams are “corrected” by the senses.
In fact, research suggests that only about 20 percent of dreams contain people or places that the dreamer has encountered. Most images appear to be unique to a single dream.

Scientists know this because some people have the ability to watch their own dreams as observers, without waking up. This state of consciousness, called lucid dreaming, is itself something a mystery — and a staple of New Age and ancient mystics. But it is a real phenomenon, one in which Dr. Hobson finds strong support for his argument for dreams as a physiological warm-up before waking.

In dozens of studies, researchers have brought people into the laboratory and trained them to dream lucidly. They do this with a variety of techniques, including auto-suggestion as head meets pillow (“I will be aware when I dream; I will observe”) and teaching telltale signs of dreaming (the light switches don’t work; levitation is possible; it is often impossible to scream).

Lucid dreaming occurs during a mixed state of consciousness, sleep researchers say — a heavy dose of REM with a sprinkling of waking awareness. “This is just one kind of mixed state, but there are whole variety of them,” Dr. Mahowald said. Sleepwalking and night terrors, he said, represent mixtures of muscle activation and non-REM sleep. Attacks of narcolepsy reflect an infringement of REM on normal daytime alertness.
 
Also funny, is how the memory of dreams will fade farily quickly. I can wake up and remember small details of a dream I had but by mid-day I am somewhat fuzzy on what I even drempt of. I always thought it would be cool to keep a dream journal but it seemed a little hokey.
bump....Has anyone ever kept a dream journal? I still have lucid dreams at the rate of ~1/week, and I always intend to start writing down what I can remember. Not sure what the point of it would be, but it'd be interesting to document, I think.This stuff fascinates me.
 
Why do I always wake up when I am having my best dreams?

When I take 3 melatonin with ZMA on a empty stomach before I go to bed it is like going to the movies.

 
Also funny, is how the memory of dreams will fade farily quickly. I can wake up and remember small details of a dream I had but by mid-day I am somewhat fuzzy on what I even drempt of. I always thought it would be cool to keep a dream journal but it seemed a little hokey.
bump....Has anyone ever kept a dream journal? I still have lucid dreams at the rate of ~1/week, and I always intend to start writing down what I can remember. Not sure what the point of it would be, but it'd be interesting to document, I think.This stuff fascinates me.
I am gonna start...
 
I kept a dream journal for a couple of years.

Got to the point where I would keep a tape recorder next to the bed so I didn't have to open my eyes.

I found that that the more I wrote/recorded the more I remembered.

Got to be more than one dream and some of them were Cecil B. Demille(sp) productions.

Loads of fun.

 
Not often, but occasionally (a few times a month) I have very vivid lucid dreams. My dreams are normally like movie scripts - a lot of dialogue and crazy plots - and I'm always the protaganist.

 
What if you could learn while you dream?

The idea of the surreal Hollywood blockbuster Inception, where people travel through someone's dreams to 'plant' an idea in his head may not be so out-there after all.

Researchers at Yale have found that 'lucid dreamers' - dreamers who have 'waking dreams' that they control - are able to learn new skills in their dreams.

A team is now experimenting with the idea of 'training' people by telling them what to dream about.

People who can control their dreams can use the unusual ability to experience a sense of euphoria, as if they have accomplished something.

But new research hints that people can actually 'use' dreaming as a tool to learn.

Being in command of dreams opens up opportunities to manipulate them for learning and training - although it may not be quite as precise as learning to play the violin while asleep.

Instead, 'lucid dreamers' can control areas of their brain to open up and 'learn' while they sleep. What's more, it seems that merely being a lucid dreamer seems to give you an advantage.

Researchers from Yale University found that lucid dreamers perform better in a gambling task, designed to test a part of the brain important to emotional decision-making and social interactions, said a report in New Scientist this week.

Peter Morgan at Yale University and colleagues think that this region can be trained.

Morgan and his team are working on how to train people using dreams.

Morgan hopes to be able to improve a person's social control and decision-making abilities.

'We know that by engaging circuits in the brain we can change its architecture,' he says.

It's already been proven that people who practice tasks in dreams can be better at them in real life.

One Swiss study, led by Daniel Erlacher of the University of Bern, showed that lucid dreamers who 'practiced throwing a coin into a cup were better at the real thing when they woke up.
I'd love to sign up for this study.
 
Big time lucid dreamer here, and I've been doing what they talk about in the article for years. The biggest obstacle, in my experience, is that when I'm practicing a task it's easy to forget you're dreaming after a while since you're focused on the task. For example, I occasionally used to practice shooting 3 pointers in my sleep and after about 5 - 10 minutes of dream time I would forget I was dreaming and then all sorts of the usual crazy dream stuff would happen.

Another common problem is I'm unable to control all the elements in my dream. For example, I had a lucid dream not too long ago where I was playing some uber high stakes no limit poker. I would be in the middle of a big pot and all of a sudden I would look down at my hand and would have extra cards. I would try to control my dream so I was back down to my original 2 cards without much success.

The most useful thing I've learned by lucid dreaming is to fear nothing. I've also significantly increased my pain tolerance. I've practiced hand to hand combat. Fought wild animals. Heck, just this morning after my gf left for work, I fell back asleep into a lucid dream and immediately a lion appeared from the ceiling over my bed and came directly at me. Years ago I would of been scared ####less and started running or made myself wake up. Not now. I chose to stand my ground instead and wrestled the lion. It was pretty funny as it only caught me once, biting my finger (and the pain that I felt was real and is probably how it feels to really have your finger bitten by a lion), then I defeated the lion and made it disappear.

 
Big time lucid dreamer here, and I've been doing what they talk about in the article for years. The biggest obstacle, in my experience, is that when I'm practicing a task it's easy to forget you're dreaming after a while since you're focused on the task. For example, I occasionally used to practice shooting 3 pointers in my sleep and after about 5 - 10 minutes of dream time I would forget I was dreaming and then all sorts of the usual crazy dream stuff would happen. Another common problem is I'm unable to control all the elements in my dream. For example, I had a lucid dream not too long ago where I was playing some uber high stakes no limit poker. I would be in the middle of a big pot and all of a sudden I would look down at my hand and would have extra cards. I would try to control my dream so I was back down to my original 2 cards without much success.The most useful thing I've learned by lucid dreaming is to fear nothing. I've also significantly increased my pain tolerance. I've practiced hand to hand combat. Fought wild animals. Heck, just this morning after my gf left for work, I fell back asleep into a lucid dream and immediately a lion appeared from the ceiling over my bed and came directly at me. Years ago I would of been scared ####less and started running or made myself wake up. Not now. I chose to stand my ground instead and wrestled the lion. It was pretty funny as it only caught me once, biting my finger (and the pain that I felt was real and is probably how it feels to really have your finger bitten by a lion), then I defeated the lion and made it disappear.
wtf. Seriously?
 
I had one of these this week where im in bed and couldnt move. Then all of a sudden i broke free and almost killed my fiance. :unsure:

I guess lucid isnt the right term. It was sleep paralysis in and out of the dream or something.

 
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Big time lucid dreamer here, and I've been doing what they talk about in the article for years. The biggest obstacle, in my experience, is that when I'm practicing a task it's easy to forget you're dreaming after a while since you're focused on the task. For example, I occasionally used to practice shooting 3 pointers in my sleep and after about 5 - 10 minutes of dream time I would forget I was dreaming and then all sorts of the usual crazy dream stuff would happen. Another common problem is I'm unable to control all the elements in my dream. For example, I had a lucid dream not too long ago where I was playing some uber high stakes no limit poker. I would be in the middle of a big pot and all of a sudden I would look down at my hand and would have extra cards. I would try to control my dream so I was back down to my original 2 cards without much success.The most useful thing I've learned by lucid dreaming is to fear nothing. I've also significantly increased my pain tolerance. I've practiced hand to hand combat. Fought wild animals. Heck, just this morning after my gf left for work, I fell back asleep into a lucid dream and immediately a lion appeared from the ceiling over my bed and came directly at me. Years ago I would of been scared ####less and started running or made myself wake up. Not now. I chose to stand my ground instead and wrestled the lion. It was pretty funny as it only caught me once, biting my finger (and the pain that I felt was real and is probably how it feels to really have your finger bitten by a lion), then I defeated the lion and made it disappear.
Were you able to beat this lion because he'd pause occasionaly, thrust his finger in the air, and shout "THEY'RREEE GREEEAATTT!"
 
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Big time lucid dreamer here, and I've been doing what they talk about in the article for years. The biggest obstacle, in my experience, is that when I'm practicing a task it's easy to forget you're dreaming after a while since you're focused on the task. For example, I occasionally used to practice shooting 3 pointers in my sleep and after about 5 - 10 minutes of dream time I would forget I was dreaming and then all sorts of the usual crazy dream stuff would happen. Another common problem is I'm unable to control all the elements in my dream. For example, I had a lucid dream not too long ago where I was playing some uber high stakes no limit poker. I would be in the middle of a big pot and all of a sudden I would look down at my hand and would have extra cards. I would try to control my dream so I was back down to my original 2 cards without much success.The most useful thing I've learned by lucid dreaming is to fear nothing. I've also significantly increased my pain tolerance. I've practiced hand to hand combat. Fought wild animals. Heck, just this morning after my gf left for work, I fell back asleep into a lucid dream and immediately a lion appeared from the ceiling over my bed and came directly at me. Years ago I would of been scared ####less and started running or made myself wake up. Not now. I chose to stand my ground instead and wrestled the lion. It was pretty funny as it only caught me once, biting my finger (and the pain that I felt was real and is probably how it feels to really have your finger bitten by a lion), then I defeated the lion and made it disappear.
wtf. Seriously?
Yes. Seriously. I've been lucid dreaming since I was a kid, and I got very good at it once I read a book on how to lucid dream in HS. I'd suggest you get a book on lucid dreaming and give it a shot. Within a month or so you should be pretty good at it. Then you can practice doing mock drafts in your sleep so you can try and have a better season next year.
 
Big time lucid dreamer here, and I've been doing what they talk about in the article for years. The biggest obstacle, in my experience, is that when I'm practicing a task it's easy to forget you're dreaming after a while since you're focused on the task. For example, I occasionally used to practice shooting 3 pointers in my sleep and after about 5 - 10 minutes of dream time I would forget I was dreaming and then all sorts of the usual crazy dream stuff would happen. Another common problem is I'm unable to control all the elements in my dream. For example, I had a lucid dream not too long ago where I was playing some uber high stakes no limit poker. I would be in the middle of a big pot and all of a sudden I would look down at my hand and would have extra cards. I would try to control my dream so I was back down to my original 2 cards without much success.The most useful thing I've learned by lucid dreaming is to fear nothing. I've also significantly increased my pain tolerance. I've practiced hand to hand combat. Fought wild animals. Heck, just this morning after my gf left for work, I fell back asleep into a lucid dream and immediately a lion appeared from the ceiling over my bed and came directly at me. Years ago I would of been scared ####less and started running or made myself wake up. Not now. I chose to stand my ground instead and wrestled the lion. It was pretty funny as it only caught me once, biting my finger (and the pain that I felt was real and is probably how it feels to really have your finger bitten by a lion), then I defeated the lion and made it disappear.
Were you able to beat this lion because he'd pause occasionaly, thrust his finger in the air, and shout "THEY'RREEE GREEEAATTT!"
Only Tigers do that. hth :mellow:
 
Big time lucid dreamer here, and I've been doing what they talk about in the article for years. The biggest obstacle, in my experience, is that when I'm practicing a task it's easy to forget you're dreaming after a while since you're focused on the task. For example, I occasionally used to practice shooting 3 pointers in my sleep and after about 5 - 10 minutes of dream time I would forget I was dreaming and then all sorts of the usual crazy dream stuff would happen. Another common problem is I'm unable to control all the elements in my dream. For example, I had a lucid dream not too long ago where I was playing some uber high stakes no limit poker. I would be in the middle of a big pot and all of a sudden I would look down at my hand and would have extra cards. I would try to control my dream so I was back down to my original 2 cards without much success.The most useful thing I've learned by lucid dreaming is to fear nothing. I've also significantly increased my pain tolerance. I've practiced hand to hand combat. Fought wild animals. Heck, just this morning after my gf left for work, I fell back asleep into a lucid dream and immediately a lion appeared from the ceiling over my bed and came directly at me. Years ago I would of been scared ####less and started running or made myself wake up. Not now. I chose to stand my ground instead and wrestled the lion. It was pretty funny as it only caught me once, biting my finger (and the pain that I felt was real and is probably how it feels to really have your finger bitten by a lion), then I defeated the lion and made it disappear.
Were you able to beat this lion because he'd pause occasionaly, thrust his finger in the air, and shout "THEY'RREEE GREEEAATTT!"
Also, pretend it was a tiger in your story, not a lion. Tigers are much more fierce. DAMMIT :ph34r:
 
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'Leeroy Jenkins said:
I had one of these this week where im in bed and couldnt move. Then all of a sudden i broke free and almost killed my fiance. :unsure:I guess lucid isnt the right term. It was sleep paralysis in and out of the dream or something.
Yea, that's sleep paralysis. It's natural for your body to go into this state when asleep so you're not physically thrashing around while you're dreaming. The book I had was called how to lucid dream in 30 days or something like that. I lost it a while ago.
 
'Dexter Manley said:
'Otis said:
'Dexter Manley said:
Big time lucid dreamer here, and I've been doing what they talk about in the article for years. The biggest obstacle, in my experience, is that when I'm practicing a task it's easy to forget you're dreaming after a while since you're focused on the task. For example, I occasionally used to practice shooting 3 pointers in my sleep and after about 5 - 10 minutes of dream time I would forget I was dreaming and then all sorts of the usual crazy dream stuff would happen.

Another common problem is I'm unable to control all the elements in my dream. For example, I had a lucid dream not too long ago where I was playing some uber high stakes no limit poker. I would be in the middle of a big pot and all of a sudden I would look down at my hand and would have extra cards. I would try to control my dream so I was back down to my original 2 cards without much success.

The most useful thing I've learned by lucid dreaming is to fear nothing. I've also significantly increased my pain tolerance. I've practiced hand to hand combat. Fought wild animals. Heck, just this morning after my gf left for work, I fell back asleep into a lucid dream and immediately a lion appeared from the ceiling over my bed and came directly at me. Years ago I would of been scared ####less and started running or made myself wake up. Not now. I chose to stand my ground instead and wrestled the lion. It was pretty funny as it only caught me once, biting my finger (and the pain that I felt was real and is probably how it feels to really have your finger bitten by a lion), then I defeated the lion and made it disappear.
wtf. Seriously?
Yes. Seriously. I've been lucid dreaming since I was a kid, and I got very good at it once I read a book on how to lucid dream in HS. I'd suggest you get a book on lucid dreaming and give it a shot. Within a month or so you should be pretty good at it. Then you can practice doing mock drafts Jessica Alba in your sleep so you can try and have a better season session next year time you are alone.
Mock Drafts???Fixed it for you

 
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'Leeroy Jenkins said:
I had one of these this week where im in bed and couldnt move. Then all of a sudden i broke free and almost killed my fiance. :unsure:I guess lucid isnt the right term. It was sleep paralysis in and out of the dream or something.
Yea, that's sleep paralysis. It's natural for your body to go into this state when asleep so you're not physically thrashing around while you're dreaming. The book I had was called how to lucid dream in 30 days or something like that. I lost it a while ago.
Its an in between state or something though because in the dream i am paralyzed and struggling to move and wake up and then all of a sudden im released. Ive punched a wall waking from this a few times and apparently lunged at my fiance who woke me up touchinfg my arm lightly (which i felt in the dream) and she said i was "attacking" her (but not really). Kinda scary though.
 
Lucid dreamer. Also have prophetic dreams.

Happens naturally. I would not be surprised to find out that it was a lot like hypnosis though and that you might be vulnerable to suggestion if you find yourself in a training program.

 
'Leeroy Jenkins said:
What book?
:goodposting:
Don't read a whole book... any "how to" article on the internet is good enough. The main key is to question whether you're dreaming in real life. Making it a habit and eventually you'll do it in a dream and find out you're dreaming. Then the difficult part is maintaining conscious awareness in the dream.
 
'Leeroy Jenkins said:
What book?
:goodposting:
Don't read a whole book... any "how to" article on the internet is good enough. The main key is to question whether you're dreaming in real life. Making it a habit and eventually you'll do it in a dream and find out you're dreaming. Then the difficult part is maintaining conscious awareness in the dream.
Oh thats all? I do that and attempt control all the time. But usually within the story thats unfolding rather than altering it altogether.
 
'James Daulton said:
'Dexter Manley said:
Big time lucid dreamer here, and I've been doing what they talk about in the article for years. The biggest obstacle, in my experience, is that when I'm practicing a task it's easy to forget you're dreaming after a while since you're focused on the task. For example, I occasionally used to practice shooting 3 pointers in my sleep and after about 5 - 10 minutes of dream time I would forget I was dreaming and then all sorts of the usual crazy dream stuff would happen. Another common problem is I'm unable to control all the elements in my dream. For example, I had a lucid dream not too long ago where I was playing some uber high stakes no limit poker. I would be in the middle of a big pot and all of a sudden I would look down at my hand and would have extra cards. I would try to control my dream so I was back down to my original 2 cards without much success.The most useful thing I've learned by lucid dreaming is to fear nothing. I've also significantly increased my pain tolerance. I've practiced hand to hand combat. Fought wild animals. Heck, just this morning after my gf left for work, I fell back asleep into a lucid dream and immediately a lion appeared from the ceiling over my bed and came directly at me. Years ago I would of been scared ####less and started running or made myself wake up. Not now. I chose to stand my ground instead and wrestled the lion. It was pretty funny as it only caught me once, biting my finger (and the pain that I felt was real and is probably how it feels to really have your finger bitten by a lion), then I defeated the lion and made it disappear.
Were you able to beat this lion because he'd pause occasionaly, thrust his finger in the air, and shout "THEY'RREEE GREEEAATTT!"
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: You might of been wrong with the lion but I laughed harder at this then anything I've ever read on these boards; good job.
 
Also funny, is how the memory of dreams will fade farily quickly. I can wake up and remember small details of a dream I had but by mid-day I am somewhat fuzzy on what I even drempt of. I always thought it would be cool to keep a dream journal but it seemed a little hokey.
bump....Has anyone ever kept a dream journal? I still have lucid dreams at the rate of ~1/week, and I always intend to start writing down what I can remember. Not sure what the point of it would be, but it'd be interesting to document, I think.This stuff fascinates me.
I am gonna start...
Did you ever do this?I had really a horrible dreaming week this week, so I'm bumping this.First memorable dream was an almost sci-fi horror plot. I tried my patented method of waking myself out of a lucid dream and failed...but managed to convince my dreaming self that I had woken up. It took a little while for me for realize I was still dreaming to re-enter lucidity. The worst part was the feeling of total dread that I would never wake up.Last night I had a dream where I was basically a passenger as I followed a friend to the hospital and watched him die in the ER as the doctors tried to save his life. I was lucid the entire time and again couldn't wake up.I can probably count on one hand the number of times I was unable to wake up during a lucid dream, and it happened twice this week. Does this happen often to you guys?
 
Also funny, is how the memory of dreams will fade farily quickly. I can wake up and remember small details of a dream I had but by mid-day I am somewhat fuzzy on what I even drempt of. I always thought it would be cool to keep a dream journal but it seemed a little hokey.
bump....Has anyone ever kept a dream journal? I still have lucid dreams at the rate of ~1/week, and I always intend to start writing down what I can remember. Not sure what the point of it would be, but it'd be interesting to document, I think.This stuff fascinates me.
I am gonna start...
Did you ever do this?I had really a horrible dreaming week this week, so I'm bumping this.First memorable dream was an almost sci-fi horror plot. I tried my patented method of waking myself out of a lucid dream and failed...but managed to convince my dreaming self that I had woken up. It took a little while for me for realize I was still dreaming to re-enter lucidity. The worst part was the feeling of total dread that I would never wake up.Last night I had a dream where I was basically a passenger as I followed a friend to the hospital and watched him die in the ER as the doctors tried to save his life. I was lucid the entire time and again couldn't wake up.I can probably count on one hand the number of times I was unable to wake up during a lucid dream, and it happened twice this week. Does this happen often to you guys?
I did not...I havent had a dream in quite sometime....i dont think anyway.
 
I usually know when I'm dreaming & can usually control them. I've also had times when I kept having aweful dreams that I couldn't control. Telling myself before I went to bed not to dream about whatever was bothering me would prevent them from happening.

I've always remembered dreams from every night & when I was in my early 20's (46 now) I decided to write them down but that didn't turn out well as I began having dreams where I was writing down my dreams from that night.

 
Nekkid Candice Swanepoel dream last night has me wishing I'd spent some time working on lucid dreaming.

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