Ever have dreams where you know you're dreaming? The ultimate version is "lucid dreaming" where you're completely aware and take control of the dream.
I've been trying off and on lately, with varying results.
Actual lucid dream
This one happened a few months ago. I think one of the big factors was that I was having a nap. I won't go into details however because they're NSFW.
Hints of Awareness
Most other times it's just been hints at lucidity. Most of my dreams are in story-format anyway, and I've always known how the plot would turn out... sometimes in my dream I was redoing a story, or in other times it was just foreknowledge of the plot and then attempts to change it.
But some have gotten interesting. I've been doing a dream journal - on paper and a new google+ account, whichever is easier at the moment. My actual blogs are more fleshed out than the quick descriptions here.
Dream 1: The TV show
I was a side character in a TV show helping the main character find a missing person. The Missing Person issue was a multi-episode arch (perhaps even the main plot).
Lucid moment: explaining to the main character that it was all a TV show and that I was just hopping in for the fun of an adventure. (and that this wasn't a romance fanfic - he was worried about that so I had to explain it to him). Then he pretty much rolled his eyes at me and went back to the plot. (and he kept trying to look like Jeffrey Donovan when he was suppose to be Christopher Lambert -I kept changing him back).
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Dream 2: The downloadable dog
I had another dog that I'd found... and then it vanished. But he could be re-downloaded from youtube. And the dog was invisible but kept poking at me with its paws.*
Lucid moment: realizing that this wasn't possible and I must be dreaming... but then I fell asleep in the dream. And then the dog acted normal.
* I realize now, that I really WAS being poked by a dog though. I was napping next to my RL pooch - when she dreams her legs move around and must have been poking my leg.
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Dream 3: Guests over - and discrepancies with reality!
(This is actually the third dream I had just last night, but the other 2 weren't lucid-ish). I remember dreaming about going to the bathroom, and then that we had guests over. And in the course of events somehow my shirt got ruined. I hid in the kitchen and asked my BF (3 times!) to bring me a new one cos I didn't want to flash the guests while I ran to the bedroom to get a new shirt.
Lucid moments:
1) Wondering why the light outside was darker in one window than in the other. Through one window it was late afternoon / early twilight. In another window it was full dark.
In my dream it was explained that ... i was suddenly using a flashlight and the brightness was making the contrast change. Like looking through a camera that automatically adjusts light exposure.
2) The third time I asked my BF for a shirt I suddenly realized I was wearing one.
Dream-Explanation: apparently I was zoned out - like sleep walking - when he gave me the shirt and I put it on without realizing it. and that i'd been drooling in my walking sleep too. (gee thanks, mind-of-pepperelf!)
Upon waking my mind went" OMG! Inception moment!"
not full-on Inception but... I thought of the parts where people moved from one scene to another and their minds tried to compensate by creating a backstory on how they moved to the next scene.
cos that's what my mind did twice - tried to explain something while I questioned it. Neat.
I've been trying off and on lately, with varying results.
Actual lucid dream
This one happened a few months ago. I think one of the big factors was that I was having a nap. I won't go into details however because they're NSFW.
Hints of Awareness
Most other times it's just been hints at lucidity. Most of my dreams are in story-format anyway, and I've always known how the plot would turn out... sometimes in my dream I was redoing a story, or in other times it was just foreknowledge of the plot and then attempts to change it.
But some have gotten interesting. I've been doing a dream journal - on paper and a new google+ account, whichever is easier at the moment. My actual blogs are more fleshed out than the quick descriptions here.
Dream 1: The TV show
I was a side character in a TV show helping the main character find a missing person. The Missing Person issue was a multi-episode arch (perhaps even the main plot).
Lucid moment: explaining to the main character that it was all a TV show and that I was just hopping in for the fun of an adventure. (and that this wasn't a romance fanfic - he was worried about that so I had to explain it to him). Then he pretty much rolled his eyes at me and went back to the plot. (and he kept trying to look like Jeffrey Donovan when he was suppose to be Christopher Lambert -I kept changing him back).
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Dream 2: The downloadable dog
I had another dog that I'd found... and then it vanished. But he could be re-downloaded from youtube. And the dog was invisible but kept poking at me with its paws.*
Lucid moment: realizing that this wasn't possible and I must be dreaming... but then I fell asleep in the dream. And then the dog acted normal.
* I realize now, that I really WAS being poked by a dog though. I was napping next to my RL pooch - when she dreams her legs move around and must have been poking my leg.
**********
Dream 3: Guests over - and discrepancies with reality!
(This is actually the third dream I had just last night, but the other 2 weren't lucid-ish). I remember dreaming about going to the bathroom, and then that we had guests over. And in the course of events somehow my shirt got ruined. I hid in the kitchen and asked my BF (3 times!) to bring me a new one cos I didn't want to flash the guests while I ran to the bedroom to get a new shirt.
Lucid moments:
1) Wondering why the light outside was darker in one window than in the other. Through one window it was late afternoon / early twilight. In another window it was full dark.
In my dream it was explained that ... i was suddenly using a flashlight and the brightness was making the contrast change. Like looking through a camera that automatically adjusts light exposure.
2) The third time I asked my BF for a shirt I suddenly realized I was wearing one.
Dream-Explanation: apparently I was zoned out - like sleep walking - when he gave me the shirt and I put it on without realizing it. and that i'd been drooling in my walking sleep too. (gee thanks, mind-of-pepperelf!)
Upon waking my mind went" OMG! Inception moment!"
not full-on Inception but... I thought of the parts where people moved from one scene to another and their minds tried to compensate by creating a backstory on how they moved to the next scene.
cos that's what my mind did twice - tried to explain something while I questioned it. Neat.
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