Control Your Dreams

HoneyBadger

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I found this app called Sigmund that apparently allows your to control the topics of your dreams. It was developed at Harvard and MIT. Research has shown that external stimuli presented during sleep can affect dream content, thus reflecting information processing of the sleeping brain. So basically it repeats simple words (such as winter) into your ear while you are sleeping. It is calculated to recite them at certain stages of sleep.

I'll test it tonight and see if I have a dream about.. sex, flying, college, winter, and chocolate.

(Pulled from google because i'm lazy)

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Combine this with basic lucid dreaming skills, and you should be able to reality check and become lucid. Sound interesting, I'm gonna give it a try.
 
It has been working for me but for some odd reason I can barely remember my dreams when I use this. Before i could remember them vividly but not for some reason...
 
you gotta keep a pretty in depth journal and shit every morning. I did it a few summers ago and it worked but I rarely have them anymore during the schoolyears. I'm bout to download this app though
 
Sheeeiit. I didn't know about the journal part of LD. I heard about it and just tried setting an alarm at like 3 or 4 in the morning which actually worked on and off for me.
 
I have no journal and I remember pretty much every lucid dream.

Mine from earlier this morning was about me moving into a house in mammoth with 3 of my friends only the house had like 20 bedrooms and it was a weird commune with no furniture. It also only had 1 bathroom. I was trying to get the roommates to pitch in some cash for furniture and no one would.

Yep... thrilling stuff.
 
he asked about controlling a lucid dream. Dream doesn't become lucid until you realize you are in it.

I realized I was living in a commune and therefor tried to get people to give me money. I ended up leaving in the end.

Lucid dreams are weird. I have control over myself and can change things in the dream, but i can't really control other peoples action. It's more like real life and my mind just kinda picks something for them with out being aware of it.

Perhaps there are dreams where people can control every aspect. But a lucid dream is just being aware that you are dreaming. I constantly have dreams where I'm aware. About half of them are bad dreams and instead of waking up out of them I chose to stay in them and defeat what it is that I'm dreaming about.

I started being able to do it when I was having night terrors cause I was trying to stop them. Now it's just pretty much every dream. But I still have nightmares constantly, but rather than them turning into nightterrors, they turn into crazy lucid dreams that i eventually take control over. Unless it's a natural disaster... I have those dreams far too often, then its just a matter of me escaping.
 
Okay thanks for your reply. I think it is different from person to person, how much you (feel like you) are able to control. I have personally experienced being able to change enviroment and other people's behaviour.
 
doesnt sound like your really lucid? you should be able to control everything and anything you want. at least from your example it seems like your just semi lucid/vivid dreaming. Take advantage of that shit and go fly around or fuck zombies up in an apocalypse or something lol
 
lucid dreams are only defined by being aware you are dreaming. You can then chose to control or observe. I'm more of an observer, but I am aware and control my own actions, just not the actions of others. I fly all the time. I design things and create things and come up with stories that I then am compelled to write down cause the stuff happening in my head feels like a stephen king movie waiting to happen.

I guess I just find the creativity so much more interesting that I'd rather let things develop than pretend I'm hanging out with a guy I'm into. My dreams are very real and the people in them are always people I know and they maintain the same characters.

One reoccurring one is that I'm in an earthquake that goes on non stop and is so bad that I'm just outside of downtown LA and the buildings sway so heavily and are so elastic that they bang and clash into each other. And the sky is always bright yellow, orange, and pink. But I'm usually in a very normal dream just like enjoying my friends company or having a party and then the earthquake happens, and that's always when I become aware that I'm dreaming.

I'm at a point where sometimes things are so realistic, I have trouble distinguishing what was real and what wasn't. Like deja vu on steroids. This has also left me with a few "out of body" experiences. Like if I'm dreaming and I hear people talking, I'll have a false wake up and walk to wear they are and listen in on their conversation. If it's someone I dont know, then I end up making them into what I think or want them to be. Once it's over I walk back to bed and then tell myself to wake up and it's such a strange feeling cause I always feel like it really happened, but I know it didnt.

Ugh, ok, that is all.
 
I would say keep a journal because it not only helps you remember them but it will make your dreams much more vivid and you realize you are dreaming much quicker because you start to notice patterns in your dreams that are your "dream signs"
 
I have absolutely no problem remembering them and virtually every time I sleep I wake up to a lucid dream.

I don't go to bed at night, I'm a sleep when tired sort of person. This usually means I take 3 - 4 naps through the day. So in a usual day I have 2 - 3 lucid dreams, all very vivid.

I'm also oddly able to return to dreams. Like if my phone goes off and I've been in a lucid dream, I'm able to go straight back into the same dream cause I usually want to.

I think you just hit a point where they become so ordinary that it would seem strange to me to not have lucid dreams. I sort of feel bad for people who don't. I get massively creative during them and typically come up with my best stories and design ideas during them.
 
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