deltav
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| 22 Apr 2014 04:47 AM |
So this is something interesting I wanted to discuss. I bet quite a few of you have already heard about lucid dreaming, which amounts to being aware that you are dreaming. One of the things that make lucid dreaming so appealing is the ability to control your dream (though total dream control is kind of very difficult, and normal control isn't guaranteed either). The idea of being able to mess around with the world like a god is very appealing.
However, I discovered some time ago that dream control can also occur in normal dreams. An example from a dream I had quite a while ago: I was in some room, and I had apparently taken hallucinatory consumables. This resulted in my vision flashing in different colours (as if I were at a party), and my sense of balance went belly-up and I kind of fell forwards. At this point, I literally thought: "No stop that" and all the effects spontaneously wore off.
One might argue that that was part of the dream plot, but it didn't feel like that. It was more like a response to the dream itself rather than an idea fabricated by the dream.
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| 22 Apr 2014 04:48 AM |
THANK YOU OP FOR CONFIRMING WHAT I'VE BEEN WONDERING FOR A REALLY LONG TIME
so basically, even though i don't think i've ever really lucid dreamed, in pretty much every 3rd dream i'll say something like "OH WELL LOOK THIS IS A DREAM, but i'd better not shout about it too much or else my subconscious might notice!"
i never figure what to make of those moments
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| 22 Apr 2014 04:49 AM |
wish i could do that
be like
i want an ice cream
have an ice cream.
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| 22 Apr 2014 04:49 AM |
| Next time shout it to buzz your subcon off. |
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| 22 Apr 2014 04:49 AM |
lol idk.
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| 22 Apr 2014 04:50 AM |
@mega
u got no idea m88
turning yourself into a dragon and having epic fights is where it's at
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| 22 Apr 2014 04:52 AM |
"next time shout about it to buzz off your subcon"
i have a really funny story about that actually if you wanna hear it
kinda long doe
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| 22 Apr 2014 04:58 AM |
(bit of backstory required: closing my eyes in my dreams always automatically wakes me up)
so basically i was in this giant mega shopping centre, and i was fighting the final boss of the dream, my father, in a battle of wits
he was an evil magician, and i was a good magician. for once, i had all the magic powers i dream about at my disposal, and i was finally ready to wreck him good and hard (he's a recurring boss in my dreams). so, i picked up a brick and threw it at him, but he used his dark magic to turn it into rain, saying "nope m8 that's not gonna work, you'll need to use a SUPER DUPER MAGIC SPELL to defeat me"
he then explained that I must raise up my arm, close my eyes, and then release da spell
so i took his advice, never stopping to wonder why he'd tell me how to defeat him, just like any self-respecting protagonist would do, and closed my eyes and raised my hand up.
and then, suddenly, i realised i had been tricked. slowly i began to wake up, all the while yelling "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" at the top of my voice, until i was completely awake
i got rekt pretty bad
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| 22 Apr 2014 05:00 AM |
| man instant ice cream is where its at |
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| 22 Apr 2014 05:02 AM |
fun fact, i had an ice cream just before fighting him
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| 22 Apr 2014 05:07 AM |
Ahahaha. Defeated by the action sequence. That's pretty cool.
I've actually been trying to develop better dreams. Like, encourage dreams that were good and interesting to experience, discourage vague and blurry stuff. The nice thing about it is how you can witness it develop. For example, you know how reading in dreams is usually pretty difficult? The text is garbled and changes continuously? Well, at first the words in my dreams were like that. I recall one time where I met some creature with a nametag hanging above its head, something among the lines of VolVel. Didn't make a lick of sense. Then I got a dream of a top-down minecart game. My life-bar was called a cookie-meter. As if my dreams slowly became literate.
Another example, which I think is pretty damn cool. I once had a dream about a woman, who was apparently also a thief or something. She looked a bit like Michael Jackson. So my dream-self came up with a joke: "Why can she always get away? Because she's such a smooth criminal!".
Yes, the joke was pretty terrible, but I never had a dream like this before. |
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| 22 Apr 2014 05:08 AM |
you say this as if you already knew that
why is this
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| 22 Apr 2014 05:08 AM |
"man instant ice cream is where its at" hell no weaponize EVERYTHING turn the entire world into dakka |
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| 22 Apr 2014 05:09 AM |
| im so jelly i wanna have a society run on ice cream |
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| 22 Apr 2014 05:10 AM |
my last post was @mega btw
@deltav
yeah ive basically been kind of screwed lately
about two months ago, something happened to my dreams. i'm not sure what, but basically it is incredibly hard for me to remember long ones any more, whereas previously i had no real trouble at all
not really sure why this is, but on another note: is a dream journal any less effective if it's on a computer? because writing for me is really hard work, whereas typing is, well, effortless
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| 22 Apr 2014 05:11 AM |
| i said exactly because your mind was trying to tell you that ice cream is the best and that wizard battles are just a mini game after eating your ice cream |
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| 22 Apr 2014 05:12 AM |
@extreme really i dont think it really matters where you dump your dreams in as long as you do it
also i have the luck of having a really weird sleeping pattern i wake up after 6 hours or so i should actually try to go to bed early for once but nnggh |
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| 22 Apr 2014 05:18 AM |
@delta
thought so about the writing part. i try to do it on most days, but lately my dreams have been really boring, since I CAN'T REMEMBER THE FLIPPING GOOD ONES BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL LONG
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| 22 Apr 2014 05:19 AM |
You can use your imagination and control. |
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| 22 Apr 2014 05:23 AM |
@ventus
can what?
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| 22 Apr 2014 05:26 AM |
| i have trouble with keeping my journal because i hate my handwriting :< |
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| 22 Apr 2014 05:27 AM |
YA KNOW WHAT
I DUN NEED NO DREAMS IMA MAKE A STORY RIGHT NOW AS KING OF OT I HAVE THE POWERRRRR
ok so there was me and i was doing king stuff and then a skeletron was like ima kil u king and i was like plebs plz and then i used my king staff of the imminent 9th justice and hit him with it and he died the end |
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| 22 Apr 2014 05:29 AM |
@mega go wash your mouth with a chair |
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