Do you practice Lucid dreaming?

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Emperor-
Brilliant!
I have realized I was dreaming a couple of times and told myself such in the dream, thus waking myself up. I have never tried to manipulate my dreams, however. How did you do it? What exactly happened?
Willow

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can you wake yourself up from dreams you dont like?

Yes...is the answer to that one:)

luv & peace
stormdeva x

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Just a note on Lucid dreaming Its a state of consciousness that's in-between waking and sleeping so the dream becomes very vivid.
love and blessings
lightwinds xx

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Hi Emperor and all

You might find this intresting on Lucid Dreams

Much Love
Sharon

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Hi Sharon
Hope you and your family are well. Your link is absolutely fascinating...........thank you so much!!!

Love
Yasmin x

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Hi Yasmin

Lovely to hear from you.....

Yes they are great.

Hope you and yours are well too. Thankgoodness the snow has melted;)

Glad you enjoyed the link.

I thought it was very intresting too.

Much Love
Sharon

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Is this lucid dreaming, when you are 'watching' your dream, like if you were watching a movie, so you are able to make observations that the 'you' in the drream isn't making, or you direct the dream ad direct yourself in the dream iykwim?
Anyway, I do that, but not sure what it is.

My son has a special word he uses when he is in a dream to get himself to wake up, but he only remembers it when he is dreaming 🙂 which I think is quite strange. He is aware he uses a word but just doesnt remember what it is!

Not sure if any of this answers your original post, but I just wanted to add to your general enthusiasm over the dream forum!

Sharon xx
DEVA

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Great thread Sharon;), that one about the woman and well, perhaps thats an experiment i will not draw in public.

but Deva its when your are in a dream and then you realise it is a dream, and that it is of your own making. We can all do it, it is a an art to perfect, not that i have, i have had my moments. When i do realise its a dream, i usually like to jump over houses and try to fly, i have had a few successes,
and the feelings magic, but it takes a lot of control, to keep you from waking.

I have not done it in years mind you, but i think i will start again by every night saying a little prayer, "In my dream state i wish to awaken, i will remember the word "Yes", as a trigger. i use the word Yes, as it is a very common word used a lot. you keppsaying that for more than 7 nights in a row, and it will filter through to your subconscious. If honed properly it can resolve deep rooted matters in life. Want to say something to a loved one passed on you couldnt say when they are alive. Maybe it would work.

love to you
Emp:)

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Hello,

Since I believe that dreams are a message that our unconscious is trying to give us, I would never want to manipulate a dream or change it. For me it would feel like having a discussion with someone and telling the other person what they are supposed to say. Yes, I do have dreams that are scary or that I don't like. I always try and find out what they mean for me, what is going on in my life that I need to work on.

Artemis

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Sometimes if I wake from a dream and I feel that it has not finished properly, I can go back to sleep and enter the dream where I left off. I have done this more than once in a night, even having answered the call of nature inbetween! Is that lucid dreaming or not dreaming at all?

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Hi Poppet,

It may be your unconscious that grabs the chance to keep on telling you what it has to say... Like resuming an interupted conversation?

Artemis

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I like to add, I have woken up from a dream, by talking in my sleep. I must of been loud to wake me up. can anyone explain why we do this, as I thought once we are in dream land, thats us out for the count.

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Hi Artemis

That's an interesting thought. Sometimes I have gone back into the dream and 'rewound' it and changed events. How would you explain that?

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Hi Emp and all,

I had an experience last night which has left me bewildered and a bit confused [sm=nuts.gif]
It was weird, as I realized in my sleep that I was dreaming but it felt like I was awake. I could see the room in very sharp detail but my eyes were closed and the strange thing is that I was aware of this all the time.
The colours seemed more vivid, and there was a sense of energy.
I know that in one of Carlos Castanedas' books, "The art of dreaming", he talks about being aware of yourself as you are physically asleep. It has a deep meaning to the shamans. As shamanism is my core spiritual path I am intrigued and was hoping that you may be able to help me out here.

Also it seems that I talk in my sleep, but the strange thing is that I will only speak Dutch and never English!

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Hi Spiritual happiness

I found this for you

Sleep talking (somniloquy) refers to any utterance made during sleep, from one word to entire sentences. It can be brought on by stress or some illness. It is relatively harmless although disturbing to room mates.
SYMPTOMS:

Speaking or muttering during sleep
Sleeper is not aware he is talking
Sometimes shouting, singing or moaning
May be associated with other sleep disorders
May be associated with physical or mental illness

TREATMENT

Avoid or eliminate stress.
try relaxation techniques or meditation.
Have someone awaken you

I do it often. I give my hubby an earbashing both day and night..lol;) I've done a lot of research on sleep, as I personally suffer from sleep disorders myself. You never actually switch off even when asleep. I grant you at stage 5 , dream stage, your brain is as active as it is through the day but even inbetween the 5 stages you get partial wakings where you may see something (sleep terrors), walk, or talk.

Hope this helps???

Much Love
Sharon

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Rainbow Serpent, I know a shaman can travel to many places while sleeping and speak to people in other Country's it is a very deep and personal jorney, as they travel the realms of the earth and higher plains they have guidence by a spiritual teacher and they have protection of wich they call in themselves. Also a shamam can speak many words of that which he dose not speak or know.
Sometimes as i sit and speak with a person and they start maybe to tell me about there home or placed they live that i never been to i feel then i am walking within that home as they speak and tell them about it before they tell me.
It also like if you wanted to see a Native American Indain medicine man he would no you was coming before you knew yourself.
Just wanted to share with you.
love and blessings
lightwinds xx

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ORIGINAL: Poppet

Hi Artemis

That's an interesting thought. Sometimes I have gone back into the dream and 'rewound' it and changed events. How would you explain that?

I have no specific explanation about this one, besides that something must have changed in you -even if very slightly- between version I and version II...

Artemis

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Hi Artemis

I wonder what the purpose is though? I always thought that dreams were unconscious thoughts, but if one is able to go back, rewind and change them does that not make them conscious rather than unconscious? I also have prophetic dreams sometimes but I can't go back and change those.

Can/does anyone else do this in their dreams?

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Hi Poppet,

My youngest daughter is also able to rewind/fastforward her dreams. She used to have nightmares when she was about 8 years old about zombies chasing her. At one point it go so bad she was having the same dream every night ! Then on yet another night when she came running into our room in a panic i asked her did she know why the zombies were chasing her? She said she didn't so I suggested that maybe the next time she had the dream that she be very brave and stand still when the zombies came and ask them what they wanted.

Two nights later I was awoken by feeling her long hair dangling in my face which gave ME quite a start lol! She was leaning over the bed and smiling!. I asked what had happened and she said she had done what I had suggested and asked the zombies what they wanted. "They wanted me to meet their Mummy and we all went to a zombie milk bar and had green zombie milkshakes and they were really nice!!" she said!

So, now she can control things if they start to get scarey but she's also travelled in her dreams to a garden where she meets Angels in what she calls "the shed"! and spends time with them.. She's 14 now and doesn't tell me much about her dreams now, they're full of boys at school!!

Love and light

reikiangel

xxx

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Hi Everyone.

I have just read through these and I have a smile on my face, I thought I was a weird sort of person, and felt for a time, I was the only one, (I have only ever b4 spoken to reikiangel about any experiences I have had) as I can change my dreams also, if I am really scared, which is normally for someone I love, and if something is happening to them, I have woken myself up and gone back to sleep and made it change.

Also a few times, not many, thank God, (I don’t like it) I dream, in what I can only explain as a ‘negative picture’ kind of way, and these do come true, they are not always necessarily bad things that happen, but I don’t like to know what ‘will be’. I was told once I should enhance this, (I sometimes get ‘feelings’ when I am awake and these also come true) as it is a gift, but I don’t see it this way, especially if it is not so good thing about to happen and it is not possible to change the course of its action. I am not selfish and I use any ‘gift’ I have to help others, but in a different way to the way I have seen reikiangel and other on the forum use theirs.

And I seem to dream most when I am troubled about things, so reading in here, it seems, that maybe some of the answers are within us, and because we are not seeing them, they are coming to us in our dreams??

Love n hugs
Teddy xxx

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Dear Reikiangel and Teddy

It's nice to know I'm not alone!