Since I have been writing my dreams down in a journal, almost daily for 40 years. I am usually able to remember a lot of the details. I am a fast typist, and my fingers fly over they keys, as I recount things. I travel a lot in my dreams, but not in real life. In my dreams I am in other cities, I have never been to. I always meet people I don't know, and most times I can describe how they look. Many have first names, but not always last names. When I awaken, I research the names On-line, to see if they are real people, or if the name was in the news or something. It has never happened, that there is a real person with that name. On some real rare occasions, a known celebrity, will be in my dreams. Like an actor, or a singer.
I sometimes go back to the same dream towns and cities... So on.. I do not write them down like you, but as I sometimes have strong feelings that is easy to remember.
@@nikocat2008 From my earliest vivid dreams, were beginning in around 1970, when I was 17, I felt I had to write them down. Imagine having more than 40 years worth of dreams. Re-reading them jogs my memory of them. I never seem to visit the same (dream) towns. I also didn't have vivid dreams every day. Some years I had many, other years about 35 per year. In 2011, I logged 70, I don't know why I had so many vivid dreams that year. There are patterns, some are weird ones about my place of employment. Those were often (nightmares). By the way,....I am presently 70 years old.
For about 15 years I journaled my dreams, scribbling by hand as I lay in bed upon awakening. Then on the weekend I would type them up. I never encountered a premonition in anything I recorded (but I also experienced no trauma in that time). Then I rather seriously injured my hand at work - which put a stop to all these practices for several weeks. When I could type again I picked up my morning scribbles from the two or three days before my accident and I was unnerved to discover detailed dreams involving myself and my employer (who drove me to the Emergency Room) and efforts to get to a hospital. It unnerved me so much I stopped transcribing my dreams. It just plain freaked me out.
@@Brunoburningbright I can understand your view point. This summer of 2024, was the first time I had a weird and disturbing dream, that actually was kind like a premonition. In all my many years of writing down my dreams, that had never happened. The dream: I dreamt wild animals had escaped from a local Zoo, and were rampaging through my neighborhood, and they ran into my backyard, destroying my plantings, garden, my grape arbor, and all my decorative grasses. There were those tall wild horses, and lions and apes, who did the damage. Then,..in reality,...about 3 days after my weird dream, a rogue gust of wind,....not associated with any storms or rain showers, broke a very solid limb of one of my trees, in my backyard. The limb was flung down upon a glass topped casual table in my backyard, demolishing the glass and crushing the metal frame that held the glass. The glass was 3/8 inch thick, quite sturdy, and had been in my backyard for at least 20 years, in all weather conditions. It was SO sturdy that I worked on top of it, each spring, re-potting small plants. The tree limb was sound and healthy too, not rotted and ready to break. It was all kind of "freaky", that it happened.
I am a frequent lucid dreamer. Even under anesthesia I told the doc I was dreaming, he told me. I have also had dreams inside my dream. Yes, it is absolutely possible to preset what you want to dream about.
Please talk about nested dreams, I've these a lot. I lucid dream when i have nested dreams. The highest has been 4 nestings. I usually panic when i realise I'm nested dreaming. It kind of feels like I'm gonna get lost and never wake up. It's kind of sooo weird and panic inducing to wake up from, then realise u are still dreaming, then wake up again and still realise, nope, you're still in lala land, PANIC!!!, and only to do this like 2 more times before u see reality. It scares me sometimes.
Some of the most amazing emotions I felt in my life, happened in dreams, although those were not lucid. I would love to experience these emotions in dreams, if I could trigger those kinds of dreams to happen.
I grew up in a military family. We moved very often and that meant changing schools about every two years or so. When I was in Jr. High school and High school, the hardest part was learning how to navigate new schools. I have so many "anxious" dreams about finding the right room (rooms) to be in for my next class. I wake up very anxious, but I understand why I have these dreams.
I’ve been lucid dreaming for as long as I can remember. I actually listened to this last night while I slept and it was really interesting to hear in my dreams.
Me to, me to.😃 I was not even planing😮. I had a lucide dream and heard him talking about lucide dreaming... So random.😮 To bad I start working in an hour, I what more.😮 Well... Time for coffe.🥳🦄
I like asking the people in my dreams if they know their in a dream. And my kids know how to communicate with me while I'm dreaming. I have controlled my dreams for all of my life, ever since my near death experience.
Doesnt needing to verify that it's a dream signal that it is? I have had dreams where I ask "is this a dream?"....and then thought "It must be, since I dont question waking reality normally"
As a child I use to have dreams of being chased and unable to run away, those dreams stopped when I decided to stop and confront what was chasing me; since them I have been able to realize when I am dreaming, and I can influence my dreams. When I was an instructor, I used my dreams to rehearse my training presentations and take mental notes of any issue that I needed to improve. I know that I am dreaming when I notice the visual image is like that of a video game, or I recognize that a law of physics is being broken. My dreams are more colorful when I eat more plant food. I think that what we eat influences our dreams because since cells contain memories, our brain processes some of those memories in the process of incorporating them to our bodies. I have had dreams that I feel could only have come from the food I ate.
Listened to the first half of this podcast yesterday. Had a lucid dream this morning. I was astonished. This has probably happened to me a half dozen times in my life. I actually remembered to look at my hands. And sure enough they looked weird. Oddly, I'm not sure I was able to count my fingers, but my hands were sort of blocky. Sadly, it still somehow seemed impossible that I was dreaming, so I woke myself up. I sure hope this gets to be a thing. In the future I'll try to guide the dream instead of waking myself.
I am mind blown. I just left a long comment on the last video about my dream experiences since I was a child to now and this was exactly what I was describing. One of the things I mentioned was that I used to dream a lot and I would remember many of my dreams. I still remember dreams I had as a child, but I drew the conclusion that because of those memories, I started to become aware that I was dreaming as early as 5 or 6 years old. I was able to wake myself up from scary dreams. Then I realized that I could fly in my dreams so I stopped waking myself up and I’m in my 40’s now and flying is still my absolute favorite thing to do, well that and being able to move things with my mind. I had a profound experience in a dream that I was running in a place I’ve never seen before and I was running, the people were looking at me strangely and pointing at me as if if I should not be there I think that was the point that triggered my awareness and I remember thinking, how amazing it would be if I could figure out if the place I was dreaming about was a real place. So I stopped running at what looked like a cafe and I was able to read the word that was on the sign and it said middlegarten. So my intention was to write the word as soon as I woke up to remember it so that when I awoke, I could do some research. I continued running and I remember being on a road with trees that had yellow leaves, and there was a river beside me. I got to the end of the road and the only way for me to get away now was to jump and to fly over the water. I was almost caught off guard by what looked like a low bridge with small arches and with little time to think, I had to fly though one of the arches so I wouldn’t hit the bridge. I remember being so afraid flying through the arch and after I flew through, I got to see the the skyline of this place briefly before I awoke. I woke up and I immediately wrote the word down, which, was a great thing because I fell back asleep. Later on that day, I was explaining this dream to my sister because I was trying to describe the place I was at to her but the overwhelming feeling that I was really there. Then I’m told her that I read a word and she asked me what it was and I couldn’t remember. I told her that I had written it down after I woke up. We talked about how we both thought that we couldn’t read in our dreams and that confused me also. I did not know what or how but I was able to. To wrap this up, after doing some research about the word, I found out that it’s a real word and it’s the German English translation for middle garden. I searched for this place thinking it it could be im Germany, but I was having a difficult time finding it. I beba. Searching neighboring countries bearing in mind the German presence in those places and it turns out, after searching the word along with the description of the yellow trees and the water, I found a search hit and it was Prague in the Czech Republic. Now I’m all excited and my heart is beating fast and hard and as a start looking though the images, o found a picture of a road with yellow trees alongside a river. My heart stopped. I opened up maps to find out what else was in the area and after the dead end, there was the low lying bridge with the arches under it. I literally and without any control, started crying. When my sister got home, without saying anything I showed her the photos I found, she said wow that’s a really beautiful place and I agreed and she asked me what was going, I asked her, do you remember the dream I had that i was running and the people pointing and the word I wrote and she said yes. All of a sudden , the color drained from her face she says annnddd the yellow trees, and the water and omg the bridge with the arches. We both began screaming in excitement and after that, I knew for a fact that in some way, maybe in another dimension or timeline, I got a chance to visit Prague. And it’s in my plan to visit Prague in the near future hopefully.
Not that I’ve listened to too many people talking about techniques for reality testing, but this was the first time I’ve heard somebody talk about reading something. Ever since I was a child I realized I couldn’t read signs that weren’t common (speed limit signs v billboards.) or I would try reading a book. That’s how I could figure out I was dreaming. Took a long time to balance getting too excited about it then waking and staying within the dream. Good luck everyone.
ive notticed that this past week ive been going to bed around 9pm then i wake up around 3 am i stay awake for about an hour then i go back to sleep around 4am and ive noticed ive been going right into REM. Ive noticed ive been waking up at 6am thinking ive been dreaming then i look at my sleep tracker and sure enough i was in REM. and i noticed this happened a few times in the week so i tested and ive noticed that i have my deep sleep this first part and sometimes REMat the end of my deep sleep but everytime that ive woken up in the middle of the night and I went back to sleep around 4am ive always went right into REM and I always remember waking up from a dream.
😅I had an unpleasant dream, told myself in the dream that it couldn’t be real, told myself to wake up (I have done this before) this time when I thought I woke up I only dreamed I woke up, I realised I was still asleep, this happened a few times and I had to eventually shake myself awake, the experience was scary at the time, maybe I was in a deeper sleep that took a lot to shake myself out of
I’m on an SSRI medication (Lexapro). I’ve noticed that if I miss a dosage two days in a row, on the third night I’ll have many many vivid dreams and they are always, (thankfully), beautiful. I can’t really control the dreams, but they are so “real” that it takes a while after waking to sort out the difference between what is today’s reality, and what was last night’s dreams. Quite a wonderful experience actually.
SO! I Lucid dream using the hand method. I count my fingers to 5 twice and the second time never matches; or if i start speaking Japanese "fluently" when i barely speak it in real life i know im dreaming. another trigger is sleep paralysis: so instead of trying to wake my self up i tell my self to go back to sleep and immediately i start sort of hallucinating lucid dreaming... its kinda hard to explain . And Yes! Sleeping with a TV or podcast often shapes dreams too, and its so fascinating because it calibrates in real time. For example i often sleep to say Neil Tyson or Jim Al-kalili documentaries and as they speak it all shows up as visuals in my dreams or as a personal lecture to me as if we are talking face to face. All this happens to me because of really bad insomnia. Either way i will go for a sleep test but problem is i dont even think i can fall asleep in a lab or wires on my face. Thanks David!
Whenever I sleep on my back, I dream more vividly and am more likely to lucid dream. I can recall my dreams for hours afterwards. Some significant dream events go right into the long term memory and I can recall them just like any other long term memory.
Sometimes, when waking in the morning, dream continues for 10 to 15 seconds, gradually fading, as consciousness resumes control of the mind's voice. This includes sitting up with eyes open.
I have been lucid dreaming multiple times a week when I was in my teens and early twenties. Probably 90% of that was in the early mornings, last hour before waking up. Very often there was some trigger that made me aware that this is actually dream and not reality, and from that point onwards I was able to take over full control. Also used to have dreams that repeated years apart, or second part of dreams from few years prior.
OMG!!😲 It worked! I just looked at my digital clock - it said 5:00. Looked away, and quickly back again. And OMG - just like he said, it had changed!! To 5:01! This Lucid Dreaming feels so freakin' real!! J/K LOL!!😂 Actually, I love this series, and this Sleep/Dream set of episodes, in particular. I used to have recurring dreams in which I could fly. Had a whole routine of how to get airborne, overcome wondering if it were really true or not, and the thrill of making it happen. To concentrate, just begin to lift off, at first only barely & with great difficulty..., but then with increasing confidence, ease, & elegance. Such a beautiful feeling of joyous freedom!😃 Then, one time, I awoke in mid-flying dream - and suddenly realized in that moment that it had all been dreams all along. I haven't flown since. I really miss😢 that wonderful feeling. Perhaps, with these new insights, maybe I could coax such dreams back into my mind?🤔 Now, for such awesome content, why so few comments?? Only 39, after 7 months?? That's not right!! C'mon - feed the Almighty Algorithm!!😊 Thank you, David!! @InnerCosmosPod
I used to have a recurring nightmare. Long story short, I figured out i was dreaming once and after that, I could figure it out every night, even in good dreams, sometimes 2 or 3 times a night. But, i usually woke up shortly after figuring out i was dreaming, usually on purpose because i was a little worried the dream would turn on me and go into a bad dream, but sometimes I'd wake even though i didnt want to. One night, after maybe a year or so of doing this, i figired out i was dreaming and decided specifically NOT to wake up because it always took me 20 or 30 minutes to fall back to sleep. After that one night of not using the ability to wake myself up, i lost the ability to know i was dreaming aside from only the worst dreams. All the fun i was having playing around in dreams was gone. Everything went back to normal.
Yo tuve dos o tres veces sueños lúcidos. Uno de ellos fue buscado. Recuerdo que me di cuenta de que estaba en un sueño, pero no cómo me di cuenta. De todos modos, después de darme cuenta, inmediatamente me dispuse a flotar por los aires y sentí el viento en la cara el cual me hizo sonreír. Además de esto, vi un paisaje bello ilustrado por palmeras, arena y pirámides egipcicias, las cuales; claramente, me daban presuntos indicios de que podía ver una hermosa parte de Egipto.
Wow just found this series...I can't wait to dig in to it all. Dreams are amazing, in mu datkest period of my life i had one Dream i hold on to...and it all became true. It gave me a gift to know I had other rooms then just my cubord with food. I had foodaddiction. Today im on artist❤🎉
I am a neuroscientist and psychiatrist trained by several psychoanalysts and have had several lucid dreams I can always wake myself up by looking to the right upper quadrant three times I have a lesion of white matter in an area that projects to occipital and parietal cortex and have had HDTV quality visions of my left parietal cortex and cerebellum but it rotates in the opposite direction that I run after it in order to see it C S Vigor-Zierk retired UCI faculty
Thank you for this high quality presentation. I was given your link from my associate and dear friend lucid dream researcher Alan Worsley. I was an active amateur for several years with my friends at the Lucidity Institute in Palo Alto with Stephen LaBerge, and am a lifetime lucid dream aficionado. I am always on the lookout for sound information on this complex and intriguing subject. Well done!
I have them often I usually ask myself a question in the dream the way in which I respond to myself from the questions that make me aware of it all. Recently I had one falling backwards just before waking up. Fascinating 🤯
Lucid dreaming is terrifying to me because my conscious mind becomes trapped in the subconscious and i can no longer wake up by myself, someone else needs to shake me really hard in order for me to wake up. I could hear noises but cannot wake up. One time though i realized that i was dreaming and i came up with a plan to solve a math problem to check on how much i can use my brain during sleeptime. The thing is.. we are limited in what we can do in this realm. But i guess it also depends on the individual's brain
I'm the same and it is scary , my daughter has literally, grabbed my leg and shook me, in my dream it's something trying to pull me into danger, then I remember talking to her, she was telling me to turn over, and I was saying to her I had, then it was like a actually woke up and was like oh your right, so weird
When my regular dose of antidepressants is interrupted i have very vivid interesting colourful dreams. Ive had lucid dreams throughout my life from 6 years of age to my now 61 . I regularly after being slowly chased and not being able to walk properly, getting lower and lower with my heavy strides i start to hover low down in flying position but lately mimicking a swim stroke.
What a terrific series of films. I don't think I've ever had a lucid dream, by definition, but I do know that often, almost usually, I have extremely vivid dreams. Indeed, sometimes a dream, for good or for ill, will deeply affect my mood, sometimes for days afterward. As a little boy, I tried to explain to my parents what was happening to me. My mother would just shake her head, cluck a few times and tell me I would outgrow it. My father just grunted and ordered me to stop acting like a little girl. That was like 72 years ago and today, I'm just a happy guy, permanently surprised that I have lived this long.
Haha, great comment! Yeah, it's one of the most paradoxical parts of human existence - that "youth is wasted on the young". When we are young we are so hung up, so concerned, so worried, about things, about _everything!_ And then, as we age, we gradually learn that this or that thing that _had_ once seemed so important to us really isn't that important after all. And this process simply keeps occurring. What was important to us in our 20s becomes less so in our 30s, and what seemed important to us in our 40s becomes less so by the time we reach our 50s. The problem is, though, that even once you recognise this process in your own life, there is still no other way to "let it go" than to actually live through it. When we are young we have almost limitless energy to live life however we might want to, and to _be_ almost anyone that we might want to be, but we're all so hung-up on life's trivial details that we expend most of our energy running around blindly just crashing into things and not really getting very far at all. And it's not until we become much older, until we _mature,_ that we can begin to see what is and what is not really important in life. Youth is wasted on the young. Then, if we are very lucky, by the time we reach the point that we have and we are in our 70s or 80s, we can finally see that, in reality, there are very, very few things in life that are truly important. We learn that things such as friends, family, forgiveness (of both ourselves and others), generosity, fairness, kindness, and inner peace are what truly matter and that all the other things that we were once so fixated on, so focused, so committed to, making money, advancing our careers, projecting our personal image, living in the right house in the right suburb and being seen wearing the right clothes etc - that those things were all just annoying distractions in life, that they were all just temporary illusions that blocked us from reaching a much more simple, a much more peaceful, and ultimately a much more content life. It seems to be the case, and this is the paradoxical part, that it's not until we give up _trying_ to be happy that, finally, any lasting happiness comes. Youth is wasted on the young, yes, but this _must_ always be the case. For it is _only_ after some 70-plus years of exploring all those things and places that being human permits, of looking there and seeking that, of trying, of striving, to reach a place where we can finally breathe out a sigh, rest our tired mind and body, and _know_ that we have found it, that we have finally found the secret, finally reached that place of quiet contentment, of lasting inner peace. Because, until we've looked everywhere else we possibly can, until we've travelled down every last road towards that promised land, and until we have seen for _ourselves_ that there is no Nirvana there, it is only then that we learn the secret of life lies not _out there,_ but _within._ When we are 20, or 30, or even 40 or 50, we kind of take life for granted, and when we wake up each morning, it's nothing special; that your heart is still beating is simply to be expected. And it's not until a few more years have progressed that we begin to learn our existence here _isn't_ guaranteed, that life, as cliched as the saying may be, is indeed a gift. Because it is. Life is an infinitely precious, beautiful, and ultimately mysterious gift. It's just a pity that we can't see it when we're all a bit younger. Haha. Anyway, sorry if this message is poorly structured, contains grammatical crimes, or is even a little incoherent; all I wanted to say, though, is that reading your comment made me smile and that I'm happy for you. We might not be able to help wasting our youth while we are young, but the trade-off is being able to laugh about the craziness of it all once we're a bit, ahem, older. Life's a trip. The whole damn shows a trip. The world is mad, so what can you do? We can laugh, we can smile, we can say _c'est la vie._ We can marvel at the sheer insanity of it all. We can joyfully wonder at just how unlikely it is... at just what a gift it is... to bear witness to it all. Have a great day!
I met my mom in my dream twice since she passed away this spring. She was 92 year old and I am 62 now. My emotions when I met my mom in those dreams were quite different from others. When I see my mom in the dream, i can feel who I am as a current self, and I am so happy to meet and hug her, but while hugging my mom, suddenly I hear a child's crying whose voice is also me. And i am so sad and wake up. The dream is so beautiful as well as heartbroken. Still whenever i recollect the dream, my eyes are swollen with tears 😢
This is how I stopped having horrible recurrent nightmares. Not sure how it happened but when the nightmare starts or I recognize components it's just like I say no, this is not real...I'm going to make it a tree and a whole tree dream happens. It's way cool. I've had vivid dreams including sleep walking and talking all my life and have frequent lucid dreams.
Amazing non empty headed video, thanks. Why is there never any money in my dreams? Even when visiting a 'familiar' bar or pub, the bar tender will arrive with a beer and never get paid. Only on one occasion did one bar tender say "It's on the house" This was as I was reaching for my wallet in my left pocket. I have not had a lucid dream in two years due to disturbing dreams produced by events such as Covid19 and ww3 or 4. I may resume soon.. Thanks again.
I think it was lucid dreaming that shook up my assessment of De Ja vu experiences. I was unable to decipher, at times, if a recalled memory (de ja vu) was from a dream or from past experience. Anyone else have this? When you realize, in reflection, that a dream of the past and an experience are equally weighted? We recall the facts or truth we wish to be influenced by? They say that our brains fake some of the peripheral imagery, with sight, so to allow your focus on details your attention is drawn to. I digress😂🙏
I vividly recall my last nightmare ever. It was some time around middle school. I was dreaming about "monsters" chasing me around my gymnasium. My brain said "this is ridiculous" and I was able to wake myself up (after slight paralysis for what felt like a long time but was probably seconds). It never occurred to me to participate and control it. I wanted out of it. I don't think that I've ever felt in control of a dream since. It must be an interesting sensation to be a director in your own subconscious.
When I was a child and into my late teens I have always controlled me dreams. I was actually able to "rewind" a dream and make it go into a different direction. Then I had a period when I had exactly the same, bizarre nightmare that would wake me up in complete panic... Since then I cannot remember any of my dreams (30 years or so).
Interesting. When I was a kid I also had this "rewind" capability. But I did not have the ability to change anything, so I was watching the new version of the dream unfold and then decided if it is acceptable or not. Sometimes I had to rewind the dream up to 10 times to get the version I liked, sometimes I woke myself up after many trials because it just did not get better. It was an excellent tool to change nightmares. But as I grown up, I was completely lost this capability too.
Carlos Castaneda, discreditted though he may be, had said that to induce a lucid dream you have to have the will and focus to look at your hands in a dream and it will become lucid. I actually managed to do it one and it seemed to be correct.
Are there any studies with subjects trying ‘out of body’ experiments during lucid dreaming? I tried this about 40+ yrs. ago when first trying lucid dreaming. I felt or heard a buzzing sound going thru my body that scared me, so woke myself up…never tried again!
Great lecture. Question: what about a dream, very real , full of details when you interage with e others people in a coerente manner, its like living another life. That happens to me , almost every night.
Had dreams in the past in which my hand slips from the edge of the bed and exactly at that time, I am falling from a cliff at the end of a long trecking expedition in dream. Can we have a dream backwards that is triggered by the physical slippinng of the hand and build a long story and experience in positive time sequence?
By composing my own music, I’m able to maximize alpha wave activity and easily enter lucid dreaming state by listening to that music. It begins as mind movies are induced by the music which become increasingly vivid as drowsiness mounts. This is how I might pass time after I become bedridden in advanced age. So I keep composing and producing spatial-audio tunes and building playlists exclusively of these homemade works specifically for that purpose, while also designing a high-fidelity surround sound bed to enjoy them.
Hey! It's so lovely to watch this series. From my very childhood I have heard my mothers or my grandparents saying that the dreams that we see early morning or rather just before waking up often turns out to be real or something like that happens in reality! I had taken it as a myth for most of the cases unless I heard of some people experiencing this in real! What can be a possible scientific answer to this?
I have had perhaps 1,000 lucid dreams. Before I fall asleep I'd make a plan of what to dream. Started these controlled dream in response to scary dreams as a child. When the T. rex tries to eat me I'd close my dream eyes and kick and scream myself awake. At some point this became irrelevant as already I was aware I was asleep. No more scary dreams was the goal. Jumping head first into a rock was a little difficult as instinct of self preservation interfered at first. The key for me was proving to myself that this was indeed a dream. So I'd jump into the air. If I was dreaming I'd inevitably take way too long to fall back to the ground. Turns out if I'm asking if I'm dreaming or not is proof that I'm asleep.i could fly or do psychokinesis step in front of cement trucks and be a total jerk to those unfortunates I meet while dreaming. Eventually I ran out of things to try. I'm 65 now and lucid dreams are there if I want but the shine has worn thin. For many years dreams were very fun. I recommend any and all to get control of unconscious mind . Your imagination is the only limit. Anyone can do it!
Sleeping less than usual will help to have lucid dreams. If I only sleep for four hours per night for a week and then take a five-minute nap at noon, I will be more likely to have a lucid dream.
I actually have many "lucid dreams" and it's usually early in the a.m. between 4 and 6 a.m. It's really quite entertaining *usually* I just know in my dream that I'm dreaming and it's often quite funny dreams and I wake myself up laughing. 🙂
There are times I dream events that happen then actually happen but not necessarily in the exact way as it happened in the dream. I'm not psychic, I don't ever think that but I've never been able to understand that. Then there are certain dreams I've had since childhood and I don't understand why but they always come before life altering. It also happens that I dream when I'm being cheated on when it actually is going on. I cannot explain it but it's always true. So what kind of dreaming am I doing?
I'm well impressed with the thoughts about dreaming! I often fall asleep with the tv running, last night i was watching a documentary called "wildest: islands" i saw some crabs before i fell asleep, in my dream was large crabs, but the documentary moved on to giant tortoises, and i remember seeing large crabs, but hearing they're large tortoises, and i remember thinking"those aren't tortoises!" Normally, this would initiate a lucid experience But it didn't
I occasionally dreamt of someone speaking a foreign language. Once while I checked the words after becoming awake, they turned to be nonsense. Since then when I approach someone speaking a “foreign language,” the speaker stops speaking.
Any mention of food intake during the day prior to these attempted lucid trips? Seems like sugar in its many forms kicks off more activity for me as "fuel" during the night. Without practice, the main pattern in my life has been thoughts during the day that didn't get full resolution. Something distracted me or thought of a person then quickly changed to another subject. Those unresolved references get "cleaned up" rather vividly. ;)
I can induce lucid dreaming by drinking coffee if I wake up in the middle of the night and go back to sleep a couple hours later. I can eliminate these lucid dreams (which are sometimes disturbing, but not nightmares) by using marijuana before going back to sleep. I can also exit these lucid dreams simply by telling myself it's just a dream and to wake up.
I had plenty of lucid dreams before my 20s. I dont see how I could have possibly communicated anything to the outside world. I couldnt remember my name, my age, where I lived, couldnt read, couldn't interpret numbers, couldnt reliably speak or reliably understand speech, et cetera. Successfully relaying any information either way seems kind of sketchy
In recent years I am awakened from a sound sleep and in my dreams, and I am having a heated argument with some stranger. I have awakened, while I am slugging someone. In other dreams I am engaged in a conversation, and I am talking away, and something is said that makes me laugh. My laughing wakes me up.
I coud not sleep animore. I've puted this video on and I've ended up lucide dreaming and I could still hear alot of this UA-cam discusion.😵💫😃😃😃 Amazing.
I escaped from jail and hunted bears with my bare hands.... Really.... No not really, in my lucide dream.😃 This is so random. I rendomy puted this video and I am hearing this guy talking about lucid dreaming in my lucide dream....😵💫😃😵💫😃 So psichadelic.😮
Inception might be real. :) I remember multiple times when I realized I was dreaming (in uncomfortable dreams) I decided to wake up. Just to realize after a while I was still dreaming and waking up for real. That means a dream in a dream. Though I never had a dream in a dream in a dream...
I've been torment in my dreams only one second of last three dreams that I captured I don't give in to it because I'm more than that God may play into this so I just go not my problem it does a little because God is bigger I don't remember dreams anymore probably a good thing.
When I lost my visualizing 5 years ago after surgery, I realized l didn't remember my dreams anymore because I couldn't didn't have pictures to trigger the memory. I know l dream, but l can't remember them. This is called Aphantasia . About 5 percent of people have this, mostly from birth. Some people have all 5 senses Aphantasia . So, not everyone can dream. . Consider yourself lucky.
Wow! I loved this episode, but it was too dense with information. I will have to listen to it again. I think what I thought Lucid Dreaming was, is wrong. What I have experienced in some of my dreams, in rare moments, is a feeling that I have floated out of my body. And I called that a lucid dream. I feel I have left my physical body, and I float out of it, and I am hovering or floating over my sleeping body, and looking down, and I see myself sleeping in my bed. In that floating state, I move about my bedroom, next I am standing up right, but I am able to levitate, over the floor. I perform some simple tasks, all the while I feel my eyes are wide open, or that I can see through my closed eyelids. What I am seeing is clear and focused. I enjoy and I am aware of feeling light as a feather. Like my body has no solidity, and I am weightless. I feel extremely good, in those dreams.
Here’s an easy way to enter the realm of lucid dreaming, listening to talk radio while you sleep or nap, that’s when the outside world comes into your dream.
I listen to audiobooks every night to fall asleep. I often find myself IN the scenario being played but never actually know I am dreaming. I am just part of the story.
Have you ever heard the funniest joke in the world in a dream and wake up laughing, but don't remember the joke? Have woke up angry at someone from a dream you had about them? The movie 'Dad' (I think it was with Ted Danson and Jack Lemmon) is about a man's father living a whole different consistent life in his dreams as he slips away in dementia during his waking hours. highly recommended movie
In lucidity you can not "travel" anywhere. Your mind creates the entire scenario and it will most likely be quite abstract. There are too many external signals and thoughts that will pull you out of a dream such as consciously "thinking" about any physical movement.
I suppose "*SPOILER ALERTS*" are confined to consensus reality then too, huh? Shucks. jk. Another decent show on an interesting topic. I wonder how lucid dreaming relates to sleep paralysis. One piece of advice I'd have for the Producers would be to segment the episode into subtopics, but keep up the good work otherwise.
This will have more credibility if the other guy could provide some videos to proved his work and not you just talking… or maybe you can do some animation
Since I have been writing my dreams down in a journal, almost daily for 40 years. I am usually able to remember a lot of the details. I am a fast typist, and my fingers fly over they keys, as I recount things. I travel a lot in my dreams, but not in real life. In my dreams I am in other cities, I have never been to. I always meet people I don't know, and most times I can describe how they look. Many have first names, but not always last names. When I awaken, I research the names On-line, to see if they are real people, or if the name was in the news or something. It has never happened, that there is a real person with that name. On some real rare occasions, a known celebrity, will be in my dreams. Like an actor, or a singer.
I sometimes go back to the same dream towns and cities... So on..
I do not write them down like you, but as I sometimes have strong feelings that is easy to remember.
@@nikocat2008 From my earliest vivid dreams, were beginning in around 1970, when I was 17, I felt I had to write them down. Imagine having more than 40 years worth of dreams. Re-reading them jogs my memory of them. I never seem to visit the same (dream) towns. I also didn't have vivid dreams every day. Some years I had many, other years about 35 per year. In 2011, I logged 70, I don't know why I had so many vivid dreams that year. There are patterns, some are weird ones about my place of employment. Those were often (nightmares). By the way,....I am presently 70 years old.
For about 15 years I journaled my dreams, scribbling by hand as I lay in bed upon awakening. Then on the weekend I would type them up. I never encountered a premonition in anything I recorded (but I also experienced no trauma in that time). Then I rather seriously injured my hand at work - which put a stop to all these practices for several weeks. When I could type again I picked up my morning scribbles from the two or three days before my accident and I was unnerved to discover detailed dreams involving myself and my employer (who drove me to the Emergency Room) and efforts to get to a hospital. It unnerved me so much I stopped transcribing my dreams. It just plain freaked me out.
@@Brunoburningbright I can understand your view point. This summer of 2024, was the first time I had a weird and disturbing dream, that actually was kind like a premonition. In all my many years of writing down my dreams, that had never happened. The dream: I dreamt wild animals had escaped from a local Zoo, and were rampaging through my neighborhood, and they ran into my backyard, destroying my plantings, garden, my grape arbor, and all my decorative grasses. There were those tall wild horses, and lions and apes, who did the damage. Then,..in reality,...about 3 days after my weird dream, a rogue gust of wind,....not associated with any storms or rain showers, broke a very solid limb of one of my trees, in my backyard. The limb was flung down upon a glass topped casual table in my backyard, demolishing the glass and crushing the metal frame that held the glass. The glass was 3/8 inch thick, quite sturdy, and had been in my backyard for at least 20 years, in all weather conditions. It was SO sturdy that I worked on top of it, each spring, re-potting small plants. The tree limb was sound and healthy too, not rotted and ready to break. It was all kind of "freaky", that it happened.
I’ve learned to control my dreams when they get too spooky or sleazy.
I am a frequent lucid dreamer. Even under anesthesia I told the doc I was dreaming, he told me. I have also had dreams inside my dream. Yes, it is absolutely possible to preset what you want to dream about.
Please talk about nested dreams, I've these a lot. I lucid dream when i have nested dreams. The highest has been 4 nestings. I usually panic when i realise I'm nested dreaming. It kind of feels like I'm gonna get lost and never wake up. It's kind of sooo weird and panic inducing to wake up from, then realise u are still dreaming, then wake up again and still realise, nope, you're still in lala land, PANIC!!!, and only to do this like 2 more times before u see reality. It scares me sometimes.
Some of the most amazing emotions I felt in my life, happened in dreams, although those were not lucid. I would love to experience these emotions in dreams, if I could trigger those kinds of dreams to happen.
I grew up in a military family. We moved very often and that meant changing schools about every two years or so. When I was in Jr. High school and High school, the hardest part was learning how to navigate new schools. I have so many "anxious" dreams about finding the right room (rooms) to be in for my next class. I wake up very anxious, but I understand why I have these dreams.
I’ve been lucid dreaming for as long as I can remember. I actually listened to this last night while I slept and it was really interesting to hear in my dreams.
Me to, me to.😃
I was not even planing😮.
I had a lucide dream and heard him talking about lucide dreaming... So random.😮
To bad I start working in an hour, I what more.😮
Well... Time for coffe.🥳🦄
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I like asking the people in my dreams if they know their in a dream. And my kids know how to communicate with me while I'm dreaming. I have controlled my dreams for all of my life, ever since my near death experience.
Doesnt needing to verify that it's a dream signal that it is? I have had dreams where I ask "is this a dream?"....and then thought "It must be, since I dont question waking reality normally"
As a child I use to have dreams of being chased and unable to run away, those dreams stopped when I decided to stop and confront what was chasing me; since them I have been able to realize when I am dreaming, and I can influence my dreams. When I was an instructor, I used my dreams to rehearse my training presentations and take mental notes of any issue that I needed to improve. I know that I am dreaming when I notice the visual image is like that of a video game, or I recognize that a law of physics is being broken. My dreams are more colorful when I eat more plant food. I think that what we eat influences our dreams because since cells contain memories, our brain processes some of those memories in the process of incorporating them to our bodies. I have had dreams that I feel could only have come from the food I ate.
Listened to the first half of this podcast yesterday. Had a lucid dream this morning. I was astonished. This has probably happened to me a half dozen times in my life. I actually remembered to look at my hands. And sure enough they looked weird. Oddly, I'm not sure I was able to count my fingers, but my hands were sort of blocky. Sadly, it still somehow seemed impossible that I was dreaming, so I woke myself up. I sure hope this gets to be a thing. In the future I'll try to guide the dream instead of waking myself.
I am mind blown. I just left a long comment on the last video about my dream experiences since I was a child to now and this was exactly what I was describing. One of the things I mentioned was that I used to dream a lot and I would remember many of my dreams. I still remember dreams I had as a child, but I drew the conclusion that because of those memories, I started to become aware that I was dreaming as early as 5 or 6 years old. I was able to wake myself up from scary dreams. Then I realized that I could fly in my dreams so I stopped waking myself up and I’m in my 40’s now and flying is still my absolute favorite thing to do, well that and being able to move things with my mind. I had a profound experience in a dream that I was running in a place I’ve never seen before and I was running, the people were looking at me strangely and pointing at me as if if I should not be there I think that was the point that triggered my awareness and I remember thinking, how amazing it would be if I could figure out if the place I was dreaming about was a real place. So I stopped running at what looked like a cafe and I was able to read the word that was on the sign and it said middlegarten. So my intention was to write the word as soon as I woke up to remember it so that when I awoke, I could do some research. I continued running and I remember being on a road with trees that had yellow leaves, and there was a river beside me. I got to the end of the road and the only way for me to get away now was to jump and to fly over the water. I was almost caught off guard by what looked like a low bridge with small arches and with little time to think, I had to fly though one of the arches so I wouldn’t hit the bridge. I remember being so afraid flying through the arch and after I flew through, I got to see the the skyline of this place briefly before I awoke. I woke up and I immediately wrote the word down, which, was a great thing because I fell back asleep. Later on that day, I was explaining this dream to my sister because I was trying to describe the place I was at to her but the overwhelming feeling that I was really there. Then I’m told her that I read a word and she asked me what it was and I couldn’t remember. I told her that I had written it down after I woke up. We talked about how we both thought that we couldn’t read in our dreams and that confused me also. I did not know what or how but I was able to. To wrap this up, after doing some research about the word, I found out that it’s a real word and it’s the German English translation for middle garden. I searched for this place thinking it it could be im Germany, but I was having a difficult time finding it. I beba. Searching neighboring countries bearing in mind the German presence in those places and it turns out, after searching the word along with the description of the yellow trees and the water, I found a search hit and it was Prague in the Czech Republic. Now I’m all excited and my heart is beating fast and hard and as a start looking though the images, o found a picture of a road with yellow trees alongside a river. My heart stopped. I opened up maps to find out what else was in the area and after the dead end, there was the low lying bridge with the arches under it. I literally and without any control, started crying. When my sister got home, without saying anything I showed her the photos I found, she said wow that’s a really beautiful place and I agreed and she asked me what was going, I asked her, do you remember the dream I had that i was running and the people pointing and the word I wrote and she said yes. All of a sudden , the color drained from her face she says annnddd the yellow trees, and the water and omg the bridge with the arches. We both began screaming in excitement and after that, I knew for a fact that in some way, maybe in another dimension or timeline, I got a chance to visit Prague. And it’s in my plan to visit Prague in the near future hopefully.
Not that I’ve listened to too many people talking about techniques for reality testing, but this was the first time I’ve heard somebody talk about reading something. Ever since I was a child I realized I couldn’t read signs that weren’t common (speed limit signs v billboards.) or I would try reading a book. That’s how I could figure out I was dreaming. Took a long time to balance getting too excited about it then waking and staying within the dream. Good luck everyone.
ive notticed that this past week ive been going to bed around 9pm then i wake up around 3 am i stay awake for about an hour then i go back to sleep around 4am and ive noticed ive been going right into REM. Ive noticed ive been waking up at 6am thinking ive been dreaming then i look at my sleep tracker and sure enough i was in REM. and i noticed this happened a few times in the week so i tested and ive noticed that i have my deep sleep this first part and sometimes REMat the end of my deep sleep but everytime that ive woken up in the middle of the night and I went back to sleep around 4am ive always went right into REM and I always remember waking up from a dream.
Yep it happened to me few times.. everything under my control.. the feeling upon waking up is like after having a long laugh.. 😆
😅I had an unpleasant dream, told myself in the dream that it couldn’t be real, told myself to wake up (I have done this before) this time when I thought I woke up I only dreamed I woke up, I realised I was still asleep, this happened a few times and I had to eventually shake myself awake, the experience was scary at the time, maybe I was in a deeper sleep that took a lot to shake myself out of
Oof! I haven’t had that happen before. It would give me the willies too if I found myself having to shake myself out of it. Dream on, though 😊
I’m on an SSRI medication (Lexapro). I’ve noticed that if I miss a dosage two days in a row, on the third night I’ll have many many vivid dreams and they are always, (thankfully), beautiful. I can’t really control the dreams, but they are so “real” that it takes a while after waking to sort out the difference between what is today’s reality, and what was last night’s dreams. Quite a wonderful experience actually.
When different houses I’ve lived in are all off somehow, i can realize it and fool around in the dream.
SO! I Lucid dream using the hand method. I count my fingers to 5 twice and the second time never matches; or if i start speaking Japanese "fluently" when i barely speak it in real life i know im dreaming. another trigger is sleep paralysis: so instead of trying to wake my self up i tell my self to go back to sleep and immediately i start sort of hallucinating lucid dreaming... its kinda hard to explain . And Yes! Sleeping with a TV or podcast often shapes dreams too, and its so fascinating because it calibrates in real time. For example i often sleep to say Neil Tyson or Jim Al-kalili documentaries and as they speak it all shows up as visuals in my dreams or as a personal lecture to me as if we are talking face to face.
All this happens to me because of really bad insomnia. Either way i will go for a sleep test but problem is i dont even think i can fall asleep in a lab or wires on my face. Thanks David!
Whenever I sleep on my back, I dream more vividly and am more likely to lucid dream. I can recall my dreams for hours afterwards. Some significant dream events go right into the long term memory and I can recall them just like any other long term memory.
Sometimes, when waking in the morning, dream continues for 10 to 15 seconds, gradually fading, as consciousness resumes control of the mind's voice. This includes sitting up with eyes open.
I have been lucid dreaming multiple times a week when I was in my teens and early twenties. Probably 90% of that was in the early mornings, last hour before waking up. Very often there was some trigger that made me aware that this is actually dream and not reality, and from that point onwards I was able to take over full control. Also used to have dreams that repeated years apart, or second part of dreams from few years prior.
OMG!!😲 It worked! I just looked at my digital clock - it said 5:00. Looked away, and quickly back again. And OMG - just like he said, it had changed!!
To 5:01! This Lucid Dreaming feels so freakin' real!!
J/K LOL!!😂
Actually, I love this series, and this Sleep/Dream set of episodes, in particular.
I used to have recurring dreams in which I could fly. Had a whole routine of how to get airborne, overcome wondering if it were really true or not, and the thrill of making it happen. To concentrate, just begin to lift off, at first only barely & with great difficulty..., but then with increasing confidence, ease, & elegance. Such a beautiful feeling of joyous freedom!😃
Then, one time, I awoke in mid-flying dream - and suddenly realized in that moment that it had all been dreams all along. I haven't flown since. I really miss😢 that wonderful feeling.
Perhaps, with these new insights, maybe I could coax such dreams back into my mind?🤔
Now, for such awesome content, why so few comments?? Only 39, after 7 months?? That's not right!! C'mon - feed the Almighty Algorithm!!😊
Thank you, David!! @InnerCosmosPod
What is lucid dreaming? amazing and powerful.
I used to have a recurring nightmare. Long story short, I figured out i was dreaming once and after that, I could figure it out every night, even in good dreams, sometimes 2 or 3 times a night. But, i usually woke up shortly after figuring out i was dreaming, usually on purpose because i was a little worried the dream would turn on me and go into a bad dream, but sometimes I'd wake even though i didnt want to.
One night, after maybe a year or so of doing this, i figired out i was dreaming and decided specifically NOT to wake up because it always took me 20 or 30 minutes to fall back to sleep. After that one night of not using the ability to wake myself up, i lost the ability to know i was dreaming aside from only the worst dreams. All the fun i was having playing around in dreams was gone. Everything went back to normal.
Yo tuve dos o tres veces sueños lúcidos. Uno de ellos fue buscado. Recuerdo que me di cuenta de que estaba en un sueño, pero no cómo me di cuenta. De todos modos, después de darme cuenta, inmediatamente me dispuse a flotar por los aires y sentí el viento en la cara el cual me hizo sonreír. Además de esto, vi un paisaje bello ilustrado por palmeras, arena y pirámides egipcicias, las cuales; claramente, me daban presuntos indicios de que podía ver una hermosa parte de Egipto.
Wow just found this series...I can't wait to dig in to it all. Dreams are amazing, in mu datkest period of my life i had one Dream i hold on to...and it all became true. It gave me a gift to know I had other rooms then just my cubord with food. I had foodaddiction. Today im on artist❤🎉
I am a neuroscientist and psychiatrist trained by several psychoanalysts and have had several lucid dreams I can always wake myself up by looking to the right upper quadrant three times I have a lesion of white matter in an area that projects to occipital and parietal cortex and have had HDTV quality visions of my left parietal cortex and cerebellum but it rotates in the opposite direction that I run after it in order to see it C S Vigor-Zierk retired UCI faculty
Thank you for this high quality presentation. I was given your link from my associate and dear friend lucid dream researcher Alan Worsley. I was an active amateur for several years with my friends at the Lucidity Institute in Palo Alto with Stephen LaBerge, and am a lifetime lucid dream aficionado. I am always on the lookout for sound information on this complex and intriguing subject. Well done!
I have them often I usually ask myself a question in the dream the way in which I respond to myself from the questions that make me aware of it all. Recently I had one falling backwards just before waking up. Fascinating 🤯
Lucid dreaming is terrifying to me because my conscious mind becomes trapped in the subconscious and i can no longer wake up by myself, someone else needs to shake me really hard in order for me to wake up. I could hear noises but cannot wake up.
One time though i realized that i was dreaming and i came up with a plan to solve a math problem to check on how much i can use my brain during sleeptime. The thing is.. we are limited in what we can do in this realm. But i guess it also depends on the individual's brain
I'm the same and it is scary , my daughter has literally, grabbed my leg and shook me, in my dream it's something trying to pull me into danger, then I remember talking to her, she was telling me to turn over, and I was saying to her I had, then it was like a actually woke up and was like oh your right, so weird
I have sleep paralysis almost every night , o would love to here ur thoughts on this subject
most interesting stuff on UA-cam, been waiting all week for this episode, thank you
When my regular dose of antidepressants is interrupted i have very vivid interesting colourful dreams. Ive had lucid dreams throughout my life from 6 years of age to my now 61 . I regularly after being slowly chased and not being able to walk properly, getting lower and lower with my heavy strides i start to hover low down in flying position but lately mimicking a swim stroke.
What a terrific series of films. I don't think I've ever had a lucid dream, by definition, but I do know that often, almost usually, I have extremely vivid dreams. Indeed, sometimes a dream, for good or for ill, will deeply affect my mood, sometimes for days afterward. As a little boy, I tried to explain to my parents what was happening to me. My mother would just shake her head, cluck a few times and tell me I would outgrow it. My father just grunted and ordered me to stop acting like a little girl. That was like 72 years ago and today, I'm just a happy guy, permanently surprised that I have lived this long.
Haha, great comment! Yeah, it's one of the most paradoxical parts of human existence - that "youth is wasted on the young". When we are young we are so hung up, so concerned, so worried, about things, about _everything!_ And then, as we age, we gradually learn that this or that thing that _had_ once seemed so important to us really isn't that important after all. And this process simply keeps occurring. What was important to us in our 20s becomes less so in our 30s, and what seemed important to us in our 40s becomes less so by the time we reach our 50s. The problem is, though, that even once you recognise this process in your own life, there is still no other way to "let it go" than to actually live through it. When we are young we have almost limitless energy to live life however we might want to, and to _be_ almost anyone that we might want to be, but we're all so hung-up on life's trivial details that we expend most of our energy running around blindly just crashing into things and not really getting very far at all. And it's not until we become much older, until we _mature,_ that we can begin to see what is and what is not really important in life. Youth is wasted on the young. Then, if we are very lucky, by the time we reach the point that we have and we are in our 70s or 80s, we can finally see that, in reality, there are very, very few things in life that are truly important. We learn that things such as friends, family, forgiveness (of both ourselves and others), generosity, fairness, kindness, and inner peace are what truly matter and that all the other things that we were once so fixated on, so focused, so committed to, making money, advancing our careers, projecting our personal image, living in the right house in the right suburb and being seen wearing the right clothes etc - that those things were all just annoying distractions in life, that they were all just temporary illusions that blocked us from reaching a much more simple, a much more peaceful, and ultimately a much more content life. It seems to be the case, and this is the paradoxical part, that it's not until we give up _trying_ to be happy that, finally, any lasting happiness comes. Youth is wasted on the young, yes, but this _must_ always be the case. For it is _only_ after some 70-plus years of exploring all those things and places that being human permits, of looking there and seeking that, of trying, of striving, to reach a place where we can finally breathe out a sigh, rest our tired mind and body, and _know_ that we have found it, that we have finally found the secret, finally reached that place of quiet contentment, of lasting inner peace. Because, until we've looked everywhere else we possibly can, until we've travelled down every last road towards that promised land, and until we have seen for _ourselves_ that there is no Nirvana there, it is only then that we learn the secret of life lies not _out there,_ but _within._ When we are 20, or 30, or even 40 or 50, we kind of take life for granted, and when we wake up each morning, it's nothing special; that your heart is still beating is simply to be expected. And it's not until a few more years have progressed that we begin to learn our existence here _isn't_ guaranteed, that life, as cliched as the saying may be, is indeed a gift. Because it is. Life is an infinitely precious, beautiful, and ultimately mysterious gift. It's just a pity that we can't see it when we're all a bit younger. Haha.
Anyway, sorry if this message is poorly structured, contains grammatical crimes, or is even a little incoherent; all I wanted to say, though, is that reading your comment made me smile and that I'm happy for you. We might not be able to help wasting our youth while we are young, but the trade-off is being able to laugh about the craziness of it all once we're a bit, ahem, older. Life's a trip. The whole damn shows a trip. The world is mad, so what can you do? We can laugh, we can smile, we can say _c'est la vie._ We can marvel at the sheer insanity of it all. We can joyfully wonder at just how unlikely it is... at just what a gift it is... to bear witness to it all.
Have a great day!
I met my mom in my dream twice since she passed away this spring. She was 92 year old and I am 62 now. My emotions when I met my mom in those dreams were quite different from others. When I see my mom in the dream, i can feel who I am as a current self, and I am so happy to meet and hug her, but while hugging my mom, suddenly I hear a child's crying whose voice is also me. And i am so sad and wake up. The dream is so beautiful as well as heartbroken. Still whenever i recollect the dream, my eyes are swollen with tears 😢
I have sleep paralysis and have ny whole life. I have had around 20 lucid dreams in my life. My first one was about ten years ago, im 43.
This is how I stopped having horrible recurrent nightmares. Not sure how it happened but when the nightmare starts or I recognize components it's just like I say no, this is not real...I'm going to make it a tree and a whole tree dream happens. It's way cool. I've had vivid dreams including sleep walking and talking all my life and have frequent lucid dreams.
Amazing non empty headed video, thanks. Why is there never any money in my dreams? Even when visiting a 'familiar' bar or pub, the bar tender will arrive with a beer and never get paid. Only on one occasion did one bar tender say "It's on the house" This was as I was reaching for my wallet in my left pocket. I have not had a lucid dream in two years due to disturbing dreams produced by events such as Covid19 and ww3 or 4. I may resume soon.. Thanks again.
I think it was lucid dreaming that shook up my assessment of De Ja vu experiences. I was unable to decipher, at times, if a recalled memory (de ja vu) was from a dream or from past experience. Anyone else have this? When you realize, in reflection, that a dream of the past and an experience are equally weighted? We recall the facts or truth we wish to be influenced by?
They say that our brains fake some of the peripheral imagery, with sight, so to allow your focus on details your attention is drawn to. I digress😂🙏
I vividly recall my last nightmare ever. It was some time around middle school. I was dreaming about "monsters" chasing me around my gymnasium. My brain said "this is ridiculous" and I was able to wake myself up (after slight paralysis for what felt like a long time but was probably seconds). It never occurred to me to participate and control it. I wanted out of it. I don't think that I've ever felt in control of a dream since. It must be an interesting sensation to be a director in your own subconscious.
When I was a child and into my late teens I have always controlled me dreams. I was actually able to "rewind" a dream and make it go into a different direction.
Then I had a period when I had exactly the same, bizarre nightmare that would wake me up in complete panic... Since then I cannot remember any of my dreams (30 years or so).
Interesting. When I was a kid I also had this "rewind" capability. But I did not have the ability to change anything, so I was watching the new version of the dream unfold and then decided if it is acceptable or not. Sometimes I had to rewind the dream up to 10 times to get the version I liked, sometimes I woke myself up after many trials because it just did not get better. It was an excellent tool to change nightmares. But as I grown up, I was completely lost this capability too.
Carlos Castaneda, discreditted though he may be, had said that to induce a lucid dream you have to have the will and focus to look at your hands in a dream and it will become lucid. I actually managed to do it one and it seemed to be correct.
Thanks 😊
Are there any studies with subjects trying ‘out of body’ experiments during lucid dreaming? I tried this about 40+ yrs. ago when first trying lucid dreaming. I felt or heard a buzzing sound going thru my body that scared me, so woke myself up…never tried again!
Great lecture. Question: what about a dream, very real , full of details when you interage with e others people in a coerente manner, its like living another life. That happens to me , almost every night.
Had dreams in the past in which my hand slips from the edge of the bed and exactly at that time, I am falling from a cliff at the end of a long trecking expedition in dream. Can we have a dream backwards that is triggered by the physical slippinng of the hand and build a long story and experience in positive time sequence?
By composing my own music, I’m able to maximize alpha wave activity and easily enter lucid dreaming state by listening to that music. It begins as mind movies are induced by the music which become increasingly vivid as drowsiness mounts. This is how I might pass time after I become bedridden in advanced age. So I keep composing and producing spatial-audio tunes and building playlists exclusively of these homemade works specifically for that purpose, while also designing a high-fidelity surround sound bed to enjoy them.
You can write symphonies in early sleep. (Delta?)
Hey! It's so lovely to watch this series. From my very childhood I have heard my mothers or my grandparents saying that the dreams that we see early morning or rather just before waking up often turns out to be real or something like that happens in reality! I had taken it as a myth for most of the cases unless I heard of some people experiencing this in real! What can be a possible scientific answer to this?
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Salvador Daly had the same technique. Used scents in later part of sleep. Also had someone there to prompt him .
I have had perhaps 1,000 lucid dreams. Before I fall asleep I'd make a plan of what to dream.
Started these controlled dream in response to scary dreams as a child. When the T. rex tries to eat me I'd close my dream eyes and kick and scream myself awake. At some point this became irrelevant as already I was aware I was asleep.
No more scary dreams was the goal. Jumping head first into a rock was a little difficult as instinct of self preservation interfered at first.
The key for me was proving to myself that this was indeed a dream. So I'd jump into the air. If I was dreaming I'd inevitably take way too long to fall back to the ground. Turns out if I'm asking if I'm dreaming or not is proof that I'm asleep.i could fly or do psychokinesis step in front of cement trucks and be a total jerk to those unfortunates I meet while dreaming.
Eventually I ran out of things to try. I'm 65 now and lucid dreams are there if I want but the shine has worn thin.
For many years dreams were very fun. I recommend any and all to get control of unconscious mind . Your imagination is the only limit. Anyone can do it!
Sleeping less than usual will help to have lucid dreams. If I only sleep for four hours per night for a week and then take a five-minute nap at noon, I will be more likely to have a lucid dream.
Sleep is really vital for health and it's not healthy to sleep four hours per night for a week. Sure it may help but maybe not worth the health risks.
I actually have many "lucid dreams" and it's usually early in the a.m. between 4 and 6 a.m.
It's really quite entertaining *usually* I just know in my dream that I'm dreaming and it's often quite funny dreams and I wake myself up laughing. 🙂
I used to lucid dream
There are times I dream events that happen then actually happen but not necessarily in the exact way as it happened in the dream. I'm not psychic, I don't ever think that but I've never been able to understand that. Then there are certain dreams I've had since childhood and I don't understand why but they always come before life altering. It also happens that I dream when I'm being cheated on when it actually is going on. I cannot explain it but it's always true. So what kind of dreaming am I doing?
I'm well impressed with the thoughts about dreaming! I often fall asleep with the tv running, last night i was watching a documentary called "wildest: islands" i saw some crabs before i fell asleep, in my dream was large crabs, but the documentary moved on to giant tortoises, and i remember seeing large crabs, but hearing they're large tortoises, and i remember thinking"those aren't tortoises!" Normally, this would initiate a lucid experience
But it didn't
I occasionally dreamt of someone speaking a foreign language. Once while I checked the words after becoming awake, they turned to be nonsense. Since then when I approach someone speaking a “foreign language,” the speaker stops speaking.
I would like to know about hipnosis
Any mention of food intake during the day prior to these attempted lucid trips? Seems like sugar in its many forms kicks off more activity for me as "fuel" during the night. Without practice, the main pattern in my life has been thoughts during the day that didn't get full resolution. Something distracted me or thought of a person then quickly changed to another subject. Those unresolved references get "cleaned up" rather vividly. ;)
I can induce lucid dreaming by drinking coffee if I wake up in the middle of the night and go back to sleep a couple hours later. I can eliminate these lucid dreams (which are sometimes disturbing, but not nightmares) by using marijuana before going back to sleep. I can also exit these lucid dreams simply by telling myself it's just a dream and to wake up.
I once dreamed about dubstep before it was even a thing in my country. It was starting in the UK/ Europe at the time. Premonition, or?
to avoid affecting sleep quality it might be perhaps important to learn to comeback from lucid dreaming to non lucid one
I've been lucid dreaming since I was a child, is it really that rare or just not something people are talking about
I had plenty of lucid dreams before my 20s. I dont see how I could have possibly communicated anything to the outside world.
I couldnt remember my name, my age, where I lived, couldnt read, couldn't interpret numbers, couldnt reliably speak or reliably understand speech, et cetera. Successfully relaying any information either way seems kind of sketchy
In recent years I am awakened from a sound sleep and in my dreams, and I am having a heated argument with some stranger. I have awakened, while I am slugging someone. In other dreams I am engaged in a conversation, and I am talking away, and something is said that makes me laugh. My laughing wakes me up.
please new book
Hi! Very interesting channel. Are you going to talk about false awakenings and astral body experience in your videos?😊
there is only awareness... false and not false are aspects of the storyteller. awareness is. you are this. the end. p.s.
I coud not sleep animore. I've puted this video on and I've ended up lucide dreaming and I could still hear alot of this UA-cam discusion.😵💫😃😃😃
Amazing.
I escaped from jail and hunted bears with my bare hands.... Really.... No not really, in my lucide dream.😃 This is so random. I rendomy puted this video and I am hearing this guy talking about lucid dreaming in my lucide dream....😵💫😃😵💫😃
So psichadelic.😮
There's nothing new except what has been forgotten...
Sleeping propped up, like in a recliner, also makes lucid dreams more prevalent
Inception might be real. :) I remember multiple times when I realized I was dreaming (in uncomfortable dreams) I decided to wake up. Just to realize after a while I was still dreaming and waking up for real. That means a dream in a dream. Though I never had a dream in a dream in a dream...
I've been torment in my dreams only one second of last three dreams that I captured I don't give in to it because I'm more than that God may play into this so I just go not my problem it does a little because God is bigger I don't remember dreams anymore probably a good thing.
When I lost my visualizing 5 years ago after surgery, I realized l didn't remember my dreams anymore because I couldn't didn't have pictures to trigger the memory. I know l dream, but l can't remember them. This is called Aphantasia . About 5 percent of people have this, mostly from birth. Some people have all 5 senses Aphantasia . So, not everyone can dream. . Consider yourself lucky.
I can float but usually don't have the suspension of disbelief required for flying, what gives!?
Wow! I loved this episode, but it was too dense with information. I will have to listen to it again. I think what I thought Lucid Dreaming was, is wrong. What I have experienced in some of my dreams, in rare moments, is a feeling that I have floated out of my body. And I called that a lucid dream. I feel I have left my physical body, and I float out of it, and I am hovering or floating over my sleeping body, and looking down, and I see myself sleeping in my bed. In that floating state, I move about my bedroom, next I am standing up right, but I am able to levitate, over the floor. I perform some simple tasks, all the while I feel my eyes are wide open, or that I can see through my closed eyelids. What I am seeing is clear and focused. I enjoy and I am aware of feeling light as a feather. Like my body has no solidity, and I am weightless. I feel extremely good, in those dreams.
If I can’t run in my dream, I know I’m dreaming. If I can’t jump I know I’m dreaming.
Is there a connection there between dreams and a.i. Neither can reproduce hands 😲
THE HARDEST THING FOR SOME OF THE GREAT ARTISTS SUCH AS REMBRANDT WAS TO PAINT THE HUMAN HAND. YOU WOULD THINK IT WOULD BE THE HUMAN FACE INSTEAD!
When i leave the tv on and fall asleeo, i become oart if the show in TV.
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake” ~ Henry Thoreau
Is lucid dreaming different from sleep paralysis ???
Here’s an easy way to enter the realm of lucid dreaming, listening to talk radio while you sleep or nap, that’s when the outside world comes into your dream.
I listen to audiobooks every night to fall asleep. I often find myself IN the scenario being played but never actually know I am dreaming. I am just part of the story.
🤣my lucid trigger used to be Richard Dean Anderson, I was binging on stargate at the time. Well it worked.
for several nights I was actually part of the team 🤣🤣
Have you ever heard the funniest joke in the world in a dream and wake up laughing, but don't remember the joke? Have woke up angry at someone from a dream you had about them? The movie 'Dad' (I think it was with Ted Danson and Jack Lemmon) is about a man's father living a whole different consistent life in his dreams as he slips away in dementia during his waking hours. highly recommended movie
In lucidity you can not "travel" anywhere. Your mind creates the entire scenario and it will most likely be quite abstract. There are too many external signals and thoughts that will pull you out of a dream such as consciously "thinking" about any physical movement.
How about astral projection? That's where s* gets crazy
I am able to do that butt it is such a pleasurable place. I don't want to come back. That is the scary part
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I dreamt about this comment, and the next time I looked at it, it had 1 million likes.😊
I suppose "*SPOILER ALERTS*" are confined to consensus reality then too, huh? Shucks.
jk. Another decent show on an interesting topic. I wonder how lucid dreaming relates to sleep paralysis.
One piece of advice I'd have for the Producers would be to segment the episode into subtopics, but keep up the good work otherwise.
I hate dreaming. It’s aspect of being human I dislike.
What about dogs running in their sleep. They are dreaming😂
This will have more credibility if the other guy could provide some videos to proved his work and not you just talking… or maybe you can do some animation
Pinch yourself. 😂