Comments on: Taking Control of Your Dreams

By: Raisilap

Raisilap — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:32:24 +0000

A lucid dream is a dream that you can control, a dream that gives you the ability to turn the situation in your favor, in case it’s a nightmare. In conclusion you can can control everything in your dream.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 06:59:57 +0000

In addition to the Remee, the Zeo headband is another electronic device that can help those interested in learning lucid dreaming. If you combine it with apps like ZILD for android, when the headband detects REM sleep, the phone starts flashing lights, playing sounds, or vibrating. The idea being that if you see/hear/feel these things in your dream, its a signal to you that you are in-fact dreaming.

Cool tech coming out for sure!

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:20:01 +0000

I’d like to improve my erotic dreams through lucidity, as they often go awry for some reason. It would be exciting to take them to their logical, climactic conclusions, and get the most out of dreaming. Doesn’t anyone else think this, or are they afraid to say so?

By: Phil Bikle'

Phil Bikle' — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 03:43:34 +0000

The fact someone can create a near death light at the end of the tunnel dream does not prove other people’s experiences are just dreams. Some test pilots who pass out during practice test flights report a light at the end of the tunnel experience also but never with the other experiences many near death people have. I was very skeptical about near death stories until I had one after a heart attack. I am not sure it proves life after death but it changed my mind about the possibilities. I taught psychology for 41 years and was always very skeptical about the subject. Dreaming, even lucid dreams seems a whole different experience.

By: Max

Max — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:29:25 +0000

Lucid dreaming is not something that you need to purchase any type of device to do. There are simple steps to help yourself maintain or gain/regain lucidity in dreams. One thing is to fall asleep calmly, relaxed, and slowly. You also need to be in a consistent sleep routine (the hardest part for me). Another very simple but effective method is to set an alarm during waking hours, a simple but recognizable sound effect, and each time the alarm goes off take a look around you and figure out whether you are awake or dreaming. One way to check is to look for any number, then look at it again. In a dream, almost 100% of the time numbers will not stay the same if you look away (strange huh?). Also, you can look at the ground, most dreamers aren’t able to directly look at the ground. Do this “Waking-Check” 3-5 times during your waking day, until it becomes routine, then once accustomed, set the alarm (with the SAME sound) to go off an hour after you fall asleep. You will then hear the sound in your dream, and will routinely perform the same Waking-Check. If you don’t startle yourself awake when you realize you’re dreaming, the congratulations! You’ve reached lucidity!! And no purchasing of apps or devices involved!!

By: Don Haywood

Don Haywood — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:49:32 +0000

I first had a lucid dream before I was ten when I heard my own voice tell me that I was “just dreaming” during a recurring nightmare. From that point on, nightmares became fun and not nasty. I didn’t realize that lucid dreaming was unusual until my college years. Now, at 64 I seem to dream less and when lucid, it is more the third person watching than directly participating.

By: baj

baj — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:09:55 +0000

I started teaching my younger sister how to control her dreams when I was about 5 or 6, I can not recall not knowing how to do it…I would also program our dreams by asking her or telling a mini story….ie.”We will go to candyland where ther are lemonade springs….” (got that idea from a song)or we are going to meet some fairies…as a child my son never once recounted having nor woke from a nightmare, I was amazed there was a name for this…but better often are amazing dreams that come to me without control, I love watching where they go, but often I know that I am dreaming…also I can change things in the dream…My son has commented that he dreams so much he awakes tired and I can relate.

By: Herman King

Herman King — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:56:02 +0000

I have had a few lucid dreams but only controlled one. I have also had one or two dreams within dreams. I woke up and was still dreaming! What do you call that?

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:42:19 +0000

I learned to swim after a lucid dream experience in college. Beforehand I could not put my face in the water. In my dream I had fallen in a river. I remember floating downward, on my back, looking a sheer wall on my left, in crystal clear water, able to breathe. I realized I was breathing, and reasoned that I must be dreaming, and relaxed and enjoyed the experience.

When I awoke and went for my next swimming lesson I no longer had any fear of putting my face in the water and went on to not only swim but to enjoy the 3 meter diving board, too.

A bonus was getting the last laugh on those guys who teased me about not being able to put my face in the water, when they were too scared to dive, a couple of them even from the 1 meter board!

By: L Page

L Page — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:25:30 +0000

As a physician and practicing Buddhist, I have experienced “lucid dreaming” quite often. But it is usually an observational or awareness state, not an overt (or covert) way to manipulate dream content.