Lucid dreaming.

I am just wondering if anyone is into it and/or have had a lucid dream...

For those who dont know what it is:

Lucid dreaming is gaining conciousness while dreaming. This can more or less give you complete control of your dreams which can be very realistic. There are several methods to induce lucid dreams. Some are more passive and only makes it more possible to experience natural lucid dream. There are some methods which, if you are doing it right, can make you able to lucid dream EVERY TIME you do it. The latter is called WILD (acronym for "Wake Initiated Lucid Dream"). It is based upon tricking your body to fall asleep while you are concious. You do that by lying completily still and breathing slowly and deeply.

/Discuss.

PS: I have only had a lucid dream once, which lasted for abour 5 seconds I am trying to learn WILD atm...

reading up on lucid dreams now.

Seems I get a LOT of those. As frequent as once a week.
Then again I also have the opposit: frequent nightmares that are VERY real.

Basically most of my positive dreams are lucid ones - lucidity comming when I catch myself thinking "bummer that I'll have to wake up at 7" as I did a few weeks ago.

The other point at which dreams very often turn lucid is when during a dream I switch role - the original me in the dream no longer can suitably represent the real me and I become another me in the dream - talk about split personality.

Certain very intense nightmares I force myself to wake up. Especially if there is a direct physical threat.

Also had a number of false awakenings even in one instance with sleepwalking

You lucky bastard!

I'll swap them for not having the nightmares.

My bad dreams sometimes get so real I spend half the day trying to prove to myself that they really were just dreams. Had a dream once that a friend of mine had been stabbed and died. It was so real, especially since in the dream was not about it happening, but about remembering it happening.
When I woke up I had to phone people up to completly convince myself it hadnt really happened.

Not sure I would call it lucid, but I do for sure have very detailed and thoughtful dreams now and then.

Lots of nightmares when I was younger, but now is it very calm (even if dramatic and monumental things that happens).

I have this habit of telling my brother about dreams, but they completely freak him out hehe

One of the more amusing ones, when I look back at it, was when I was 7-8 or so I imagine. I dreamt that I had broken my arm. Then I woke up with fever and I was in panic for my arm that was broken and I needed a doctor.

It wasn't home either.

Well I have a very strong memory of 2 dreams I had in my life.

I think I do dream all the time but usually I do tend to forget very soon after waking up about it.

In the case of those 2 *spacial* dreams that did not happen.

They were both very vivid and sharp, in colors and with sounds.

When I had the first dream I was still living in Italy (I did not speak English back then). In my dream I saw myself in a kind of Bar/Tavern/Pub.
There were many people around me and I was talking to then...in English.
I remember the place, it was a wood-paneled room, with the bar on one side and tables.
There was some music playing in the background...I remember someone next to me.
A friend I think, he was much taller then me...I remember him looking strong, and passing a drink to me with a smile. His face it's not very clear now in my memory...but I think I could reconize him.I remember going out of the bar/pub...it was a warm summer night, and I remember the smell of the sea and the sound of the waves

The second dream I had and that was as strong as the first one was of me, on a clif overlooking the sea...this was a painful dream because the next thing I saw was a woman (that was me) giving birth to a child. The little baby was a girl, and was given to the woman in a green room or tend. I remember holding this little baby and whispering words to her while she was holding my index finger with her little hand.

Then the scene changed and I remember seening myself wearing a Native American soft suede dress (I love those dresses by the way).

Do you think I am nut?

Much more did happen in those 2 dreams...maybe one day I will tell the full story of them.