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Game Maker's Garage => Trash Talk => Topic started by: Silverwind on April 25, 2010, 05:35:36 PM
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Has anyone ever heard of lucid dreaming? I've been practicing on and off for a few weeks now and although I haven't triggered self awareness yet I'm remembering a lot more dreams than I usually would.
It's quite interesting. Here's a wiki article on it: http://www.wikihow.com/Lucid-Dream
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Oh ho ho. You may think lucid dreaming is good, but thanks to the ad that appears on top if this page I have learned Quantum Jumping!
http://www.quantumjumping.com/lp/lucid-dreaming?sr=1
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Lucid dreaming may not be as good as you think. I once was completely lucid with no dream. I was sleeping but was aware. I couldn't open my eyes or smack myself no matter how much I tried. I had to wait until morning to wake up. Luckily time flows faster.
-Gan
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Lucid dreaming may not be as good as you think. I once was completely lucid with no dream. I was sleeping but was aware. I couldn't open my eyes or smack myself no matter how much I tried. I had to wait until morning to wake up. Luckily time flows faster.
I've had that happen a couple of times. It's pretty strange. I've always been able to will myself awake though, after just a few minutes of trying.
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Woh, you were just lying there unable to move? I think that's sleep paralysis. I've had several lucid dreams in my younger years, but they were all accidental and sometimes just caused me to wake up. The idea of practicing lucidity is to promote control over your dreams, which as you can imagine would be a thrilling experience. Some lucid dreamers even boast using their dreams to study or practice a craft, as during what's called REM sleep your brain goes over the activities of the previous day.
Yessir, I wouldn't mind getting a few hours work of Moon Fable done in my sleep. ;D
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That would be productive except for the fact that you would have to actually do it when you woke up.
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I've had dreams where I've accomplished something great in the iPhone RPG...
Then I wake up and go to my computer. Very disappointing.
-Gan
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Well, this is weird. I watched an episode of American Dad off the DVR where one of the characters has a lucid dream. Then I went to sleep, and had a sort of lucid dream.
All I can remember now is just standing in a room and trying to fly by jumping, but I guess I'm a pretty lousy dreamer because all I could do is jump twice as high as normal.
I also had the alarm set, but I kept getting up and pressing snooze. I did this for nearly 3 hours (I didn't have anywhere to go, but I wanted to try and get up to keep a good schedule). Between the snoozes, I was having little micro-dreams, which means I was laying down and going almost immediately back into REM sleep.
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I have these kinds of dreams at least once a month.
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I had a vividly realistic dream two nights ago where me and my sister were discussing TV commercials and how they rarely make any sense (a subject which we often do discuss) when we happened to glance at the TV and see a ridiculous addvert for "The Fugitive". The following was the dialogue (spoken in a dramatic movie advert voice, and yes, the horrendous grammar was included):
A man wakes up after murdering his wife but discovers that he hadn't already done it, so he calls the police who inform him of his loss and he becomes: The Fugitive!
I woke up because I could hear myself laughing. I've never actually seen The Fugitive, but I'm sure the plot is nothing remotely like that.
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Sigged for great justice!
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@Silverwind
What do you eat before you go to bed? ! ? ! ?
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I had a dream that I was a magical dolphin out to fight crime...
Woke up with plenty of rest but just a bit disturbed.
-Gan
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I had a dream that I was a magical dolphin out to fight crime...
Woke up with plenty of rest but just a bit disturbed.
-Gan
WOW man you guys crack me up for some reason... (http://gamemakersgarage.com/yabb/images/laugh.gif)
I remember a few times when I was trying to get myself to have a dream where I could fly and when it worked it was fun.
I also heard there's people who can think of ideas in their sleep.
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@Silverwind
What do you eat before you go to bed? ! ? ! ?
I heard eating pickles or really hot salsa before bed will odd dreams...
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http://www.urlesque.com/2010/04/26/unicorn-after-wisdom-teeth-girl-interview/
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A man wakes up after murdering his wife but discovers that he hadn't already done it, so he calls the police who inform him of his loss and he becomes: The Fugitive!
LOL! Classic! ;D
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Is that when you know your dreaming and you can change what you do in your sleep or something. i can do that. like all the time every night. But sometimes my dreams are reruns :(
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I do not advise anyone to practice lucid dreaming. I think I mentioned this at the time, but several weeks into practice I suffered from severe exhaustion, as each night presented an abundance of absurdly energetic dreams.
Many of the dreams recalled events from the previous day, only unlike events in regular dreams they were recalled with immense detail and were extremely unrestful. Other dreams would involve bizarrely unrealistic scenarios, such as dying from too much lucid dreaming. ::) To make matters worse I'd often wake up between dreams, and the combination of an overactive mind and an unrested body left me exhausted during the day. It took me weeks to resume a normal sleeping pattern again.
So once again: don't practice lucid dreaming.
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Incredibly lucid and energetic dreaming: Due to massive amounts of creativity.
Yeah I just have pure black. Sometimes a dream but I usually can't control it. Like me running through a cracking volcano with lava coming up or me trying to kill a rabid wolf with a metal pot.
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I had two weird dreams last night.
I like to have the radio on all night, playing my favorite station.
Earlier in the night, I heard the song "6 Underground" by Sneaker Pimps - in it's entirety, in my dream. Then I woke up after the dream, and the radio station was about 1/3rd of the way into playing the song.
The same thing happened again later in the night, except with "You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morissette.
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I once had a very strange Lucid Dream where I was just floating and spinning above my bed in 3rd person. When I woke up I was under sleep paralysis and I was too scared to move the entire night. Terrible experience.
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If there's something strange
in your neighborhood
Who ya gonna call?
GHOSTBUSTERS
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How about Mythbusters? That'd be quite a bit more interesting.
I once had sleep paralysis, wasn't scared though. I was just consciously asleep. Couldn't move or even open my eyes, could just think and hope morning would come soon.
A bit recently I had a dream where I was trying to kill a rabid wolf with a metal pot. Blasted thing just wouldn't die.
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Why bother controlling your dreams? It just means you will have to wait longer to wake up because you will be aware of time.
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Absolutely, and when you're actually experiencing it it's dreadful!
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I know a band that wrote all their music and lyrics while lucid dreaming.
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Crazy. The ability to control motor functions to write lyrics while sleeping with your mind perfectly aware? I'm impressed.
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Crazy. The ability to control motor functions to write lyrics while sleeping with your mind perfectly aware? I'm impressed.
No need to be sarcastic. I don't know the band personally so I can't ask them, besides they've been defunct for years. Also I think you missed the point. Their front man Toby Driver claimed to go lucid dreaming and look for/compose bits of music, which then became some of their songs. The point was the music was from his subconscious instead of his waking mind. Personally I'm not sure how much credence to give that, but either way the music is good.
Here, have a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGr2J8UTFtU
Heres a review that talks about the lucid dreaming: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/8096/maudlin-of-the-Well-Bath/
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Unique stuff.
Yeah the mind can do cool stuff when set free in sleep. I dream up code at times. Like if I go to sleep with a coding problem in my head. Wake up feeling great, start programming before I eat my wheaties.
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I had a dream once, where I was walking through the halls of the new YMCA in my area. I dreamed that 2 years before it was built.