ok while it all sounds cool, i have issues an would probly end up schitzo so NO not for me

I had one after smoking a ton of weed and the last thing id talked to anyone about was my friends lucid dream, which he tried jumping around abit.
I realised I was awake then tried jumping over a house and it worked! It was properly mental it felt like being on a rollercoaster. Then I tried to go to my bedroom but ended up in my bedroom when I was a kid then I think I tried to bang some hot girl and got tired in a dream so woke up so I could go to sleep!

I learnt it as a kid; I used to have nightmares and so I eventually learnt to tell if I was dreaming. But nowerdays I like my dreams so I try and ignore the fact it isn't real. Often if I wake up during a dream I try to get it to resume.

The other night I had a saga of dreams which including me being captain of a team of lions(and some wolves that were supposed to throw nets) in a end-of-school game of American Football, witnessing various unexplained disasters in France as well as escaping a massive brawl with my mate Joe who avoided police questioning by pretending to be opening a Spar when the police lady asked us about the fight.

Maybe I should stay off the cheese?

I have had loads of lucid dreams. The two things that worked for me are:

1) Write down your dreams as soon as you wake every day. Over time you will notice that they become clearer and you will remember more and more.

2) Practising the Middle Pillar Technique & Circulation of Light exercises ( see The Middle Pillar Exercise ) . Was doing this twice a day and saw some great results. It is also really good for energising yourself before a night out.


Good luck

My first time I had something like this happen. I was dreaming, I was in the house I grew up. I could sense an evil force on its way to get me. After being terrified and escaping across the streets and through gardens knowing I was being chased by this evil unseeable thing. I stoppend and this sudden realisation "I know since I'm dreaming I can just wake up"

After that sense of relief I remember opening my eyes and waking up in bed.

Probably not quite the same thing, but I recently got back from Africa, where I've been taking the anti-malaria tablets Doxycyclone.

Talk about fucked up fucking dreams...!

The other night, I dreamt I was with my ex ex girlfriend Emma. We were sat in a sort of 1950s cafe. I haven't seen or heard from Emma for about 5 years. At the start of the dream, I thought to myself quite consciously, 'Shit, there's Emma. Ahh, this must be a dream. Oh well, I haven't been asleep long, I've got a few hours with her yet...' and we had a nice chat about life.

I tried to kiss her, but she wasn't too keen on that.

I still felt shit when I woke up.

I had a weird one last night.

I was walking down a tunnel hand carved from chalk on the phone to a friend of mine who told me to get him at the ice berg at the next turn off. So I walk down this tunnel then I reach a subway station, but the subway station and it turns out im in Pyonyang North Korea. But the whole place is filled with tourists, I heard a woman say
"You know for 50p, all the westerners can ride this all day". And she was carrying a macdonalds (Kind of reminds me of the product placement in dreams from futurama). So I jamp the turn style and it was at this point that I wolk up

Really weird since the dream was so vivid and had interaction with random people

i spent 3 months practicing the art of lucid dreaming and the best one i had was by accident after i left a open bottle of poppers in my bedroom

Ill have to check this out, im studying it in psychology right now so should be interesting

So, after reading through this thread last week some time and with no prior knowledge of lucid dreams I barely gave it a second thought. Although i did find it interesting.

And then last night, it happened, I had one! Before i went to sleep i was watching Miss Congeniality 2 which is set in Vegas, my favourite place in the world since going there the last couple of years. Anyway, I fall to sleep after and in my dream i'm in Vegas checking into a hotel when I suddenly realise its too good to be true and wake up as I realised I was dreaming. I fell back to sleep and i was back there, this time relaxing pool side with my friend and for a while I forgot it was a dream but then remembered, at this I said to my friend 'Its a dream, I just realised and woke up a minute ago' to which he replied 'So, you're still here, and so am I, so lets get on with it'. Then I thought to myself he is right, I know its a dream but Im gonna stay in it and have a great night in Vegas sarging!! Unfortunately it didnt get as far as the night out (Bummer!!) but for a short while I was living it up in Vegas knowing full well that it wasn't 'real'.

Im gonna give it a try tonight again, if its possible to remember to give it a try in semi conscious dream state.

'Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one'