Re:Can you teach yourself to control your dreams?
by sepa on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @10:44AM
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From what you say, I think that you could have experienced what it's known as "sleep paralysis", I remember reading about the subject when going over the same problem in my sleep. Maybe you should take a look on this matter, so you know exactly what you are dealing with, thus not being afraid of this condition.
Re:Can you teach yourself to control your dreams?
by saurabh on Monday July 27, 2009 @08:11AM
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I have had a lucid dream where I am flying above a farmland. I fall many times but still manage to fly for a few moments. I was showing it to somebody I don't remember. As for the "recursive dream", I did have it after watching Waking Life http://us.vdc.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/
These experiences often left me in a state of well being.
But I've also experience (quite often) what could be called a lucid nightmare: I understand that I'm dreaming and I decide to wake up. I shake myself, I slowly open my eyes and I start to see the room I'm in. Only to discover that I am still dreaming. At this point, fear kicks in and now I really want to wake up. But the cycle repeats three or four times before I'm relly awake, and each time I'm increasingly more scared of not being able to wake up anymore.