Are lucid dreams actually possible?

Are lucid dreams actually possible?
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Yes. It takes a little practice, but it does work.
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Has anyone else experienced lucid dreams?

Description : Has anyone else experienced lucid dreams?

Last Answer : Yes I have. I made a comment answering what you’re asking in this other thread, which I will link to instead of copying and pasting my answer here.

Does anyone have lucid dreams?

Description : Does anyone have lucid dreams?

Last Answer : I had one once. I decided to try and fly like everyone talks about in dreams, turns out I could jump really high and far, but not really fly. I woke up disappointed.

What is the deal with lucid dreaming?

Description : What is the deal with lucid dreaming?

Last Answer : I have done it a few times, but not for about a year. With me it starts with waking up in the morning as normal, but noticing that things seem a bit strange, and then checking and double checking ... awakening. I get stuck in that cycle for what feels like about an hour until i genuinely wake up.

Have you had a lucid dream?

Description : Have you had a lucid dream?

Last Answer : I used to experience them regularly, but in the last year or so I am having trouble remembering my dreams at all. I’m okay with that, right now.

Any tips on Lucid Dreaming?

Description : Any tips on Lucid Dreaming?

Last Answer : It was simple for me.I used to have nightmares about getting attacked by bears.I finally told myself before I went to sleep that I would fight back if I dreamt of bears again.Sure enough,it happened.I ... bothered by those dreams for a long time.Until recently. What does that mean?? Oh,never mind ;)

Can you give me tips on how to have a lucid dream?

Description : Can you give me tips on how to have a lucid dream?

Last Answer : Ha I just saw that movie waking life. go watch it. Anyways I just started trying to figure that out too. I guess the first step is to knowing you are dreaming. The other night i knew I was ... I walked up and started talking to someone in my dream. But thats all the further ive gotten with it.

Any tips on intentionally lucid dreaming?

Description : Any tips on intentionally lucid dreaming?

Last Answer : Edit: the question that partially inspired this question is http://www.fluther.com/disc/60808/what-is-the-scariest-dream-you-can-remember-having/, not the link I posted in the question.

Do you lucid dream?

Description : Do you lucid dream?

Last Answer : Nothing like this has ever happened to me and if it did it would scare the hell out of me too!

How often, if ever, do you lucid dream?

Description : How often, if ever, do you lucid dream?

Last Answer : I have only lucid dreamed a couple times in my life. This was many years ago, and I was being chased by Freddy Kreuger (morphed with the person who abused me when I was a child). In the ... friend recently, and will try to notice when the opportunity arises again, so I might attempt to lucid dream.

What do you do in your lucid dreams?

Description : What do you do in your lucid dreams?

Last Answer : Never experienced a lucid dream, though I’m keenly interested in the subject. I’m considering purchasing the Remee Dream Mask which uses lights to cue the sleeper into recognizing and controlling the dream. Haven’t made up my mind yet; would appreciate your feedback.

Would love a neurologist to answer this question about Lucid Dreams.

Description : Would love a neurologist to answer this question about Lucid Dreams.

Last Answer : AFAIK there are no neurologists on Fluther.

Has any one ever had sleep paralysis, I recently experienced this and it was horrible! I ususaly have lucid dreams where I know im dreaming but never something like this?

Description : Has any one ever had sleep paralysis, I recently experienced this and it was horrible! I ususaly have lucid dreams where I know im dreaming but never something like this?

Last Answer : Holy shit. Ive had the same thing. Its pretty wierd and my friends have had it too. Its like your mind is a awake but your body isnt. Sometimes people have told me they even feel as if there is something evil beside them.

Just how vividly do you remember your dreams?

Description : Just how vividly do you remember your dreams?

Last Answer : More often than not, quite clearly, especially the really complicated ones that I’ve nicknamed “Saga Dreams.” And I write many of them down in order to analyze them.

Do our nightly dreams have any deep meaning?

Description : Do our nightly dreams have any deep meaning?

Last Answer : While we sleep our brains continue to think, to remember and to be stimulated by external stimuli like sound. Some dreams mean something, some don't. It's really that simple. Suggest you search ... answers to your question, which is asked regularly and perhaps more often than any other on Fluther.

Not dreams, but nightmares?

Description : Not dreams, but nightmares?

Last Answer : Obviously, something in your waking life has triggered these memories, which have translated themselves into nightmares. My advice-and this, from one who has suffered many nightmares in his life, many recurring- ... and not to do anything but give yourself a bit of time. Restful sleep will return.

Know of any other occurrences of dreams like this?

Description : Know of any other occurrences of dreams like this?

Last Answer : Sounds like you've been sleeping too much and have nothing really to look forward to responsibility wise. I'm just taking a wild guess because I used to be like that. I'd sleep all day and wake up at night ... and be totally delirious of the world. I'd be conscious but I'd also stay in my own head.

Are sleeping dreams to help us remember, forget, predict or sort, or a combination?

Description : Are sleeping dreams to help us remember, forget, predict or sort, or a combination?

Last Answer : It is my personal theory that we evolved dreams to prepare themselves for events that may happen in the future. For example: You fight a crocodile in your dream and you have better odds of beating a crocodile in real live if you were to be attacked.

Had any interesting dreams lately?

Description : Had any interesting dreams lately?

Last Answer : I had an interesting but plain dream where I was out on the streets, it was raining hard, and I had this dying purple flower in my hand. I had to plant it somewhere but I couldn’t find a single patch of dirt to plant it in. I was stuck in a concrete jungle.

Can you control your dreams?

Description : Can you control your dreams?

Last Answer : Try this.

Why do I always have bad dreams?

Description : Why do I always have bad dreams?

Last Answer : I’d guess that what’s actually happening is that the negative dreams are the only ones you’re remembering. If you don’t recall dreams easily, then perhaps only the most intense make it to your conscious mind after you awake.

What kind of crazy dreams have you had?

Description : What kind of crazy dreams have you had?

Last Answer : It’s not really crazy,just strange that I would be in a men’s bathroom draping my hair over the head of a bald man to show him what he’d look like in a wig.

Are dreams influenced by sensory input?

Description : Are dreams influenced by sensory input?

Last Answer : Well the premise is sound but how would it help with sleep disorders? Most sleep disorders are just chemical imbalances I think. Well, maybe that wouldn’t even constitute a sleep disorder… Anyway, psychological reasons for insomnia might be helped by it.

Why dont I remember my dreams?

Description : Why dont I remember my dreams?

Last Answer : If you put an alarm, so it can wake you up every 45 minutes, you will remember it. We are able to have on average 5–6 dreams at night, one in every 45 minutes. But, by the time you wake up, time passed and you forgot it. this info is from psychology class I’m taking now

Do you want to remember your dreams?

Description : Do you want to remember your dreams?

Last Answer : I never remember my dreams. Maybe for a few minutes after I wake up, but that’s all. The thing is, I’ve gotten a ton of great artistic ideas from the snippets of dreams I do remember – so yes, I really wish I could remember my dreams :)

Have you ever had disorienting dreams/disoreintation causd by sleep pattern?

Description : Have you ever had disorienting dreams/disoreintation causd by sleep pattern?

Last Answer : answer:Yes, I had gotten to a point once where I had trouble dividing reality from my dreams, partially thanks to my practical experiments with R.E.M. sleep, it really started to irritate me. After I stopped screwing around with my subconscious though it slowly got better.

Where do dreams come from?

Description : Where do dreams come from?

Last Answer : We do always dream. If do don’t wake up soon after having them, you don’t remember them, though. I would suppose that if you have more of a reason to wake up, then you will remember more of your dreams. Also, what you’ve been eating can be a factor.

When you get into bed, do you suddenly recall the dreams you had the previous night?

Description : When you get into bed, do you suddenly recall the dreams you had the previous night?

Last Answer : No, I generally remember dreams when I wake up in the mornings. Great Question ubersiren!!!

What do my fluctuating exam result dreams mean? if anything...?

Description : What do my fluctuating exam result dreams mean? if anything...?

Last Answer : Pretty sure That means you will kick ass. I am always right. Trust me.

Why am I having these crazy dreams?

Description : Why am I having these crazy dreams?

Last Answer : Have you ever missed the 11am class from not waking up or for any other reason?

Are dreams the way that our subconcious talks to us?

Description : Are dreams the way that our subconcious talks to us?

Last Answer : I cannot take seriously a question that begins with: “like”

Where can I begin sorting through my dreams?

Description : Where can I begin sorting through my dreams?

Last Answer : Keep a pen and notebook by bed. The minute you are conscious enough to write, describe and transcribe the dream. Maybe after several months you may see a pattern. Look beyond the images to the feelings they engender.

Has anyone else ever had colorful and colorless dreams?

Description : Has anyone else ever had colorful and colorless dreams?

Last Answer : I don’t think I’ve had a colorless dream, but I’ve had a sepia one. I’m not kidding either. It looked like an old photograph.

What does it mean when your teeth fall out in dreams?

Description : What does it mean when your teeth fall out in dreams?

Last Answer : That usually means you’re very worried about something or anxious… there’s a lot of theories that it means you’re really worried over your appearance and how people look at you. Whenever I have this dream which is rare it means it’s time for me to chill out!

Do you remember your dreams?

Description : Do you remember your dreams?

Last Answer : I’m like you.. I remember my dreams for a little time after I wake up, and I forget it during the day, just some of them I can remember with details, but I can’t tell you. LOL

Are 'wet dreams' real?

Description : Are 'wet dreams' real?

Last Answer : Wiki

What sort of atmosphere do your dreams have?

Description : What sort of atmosphere do your dreams have?

Last Answer : I have a similar experience. I hardly ever happy dreams. Wish I did.

How can I stop remembering my dreams when I awake ?

Description : How can I stop remembering my dreams when I awake ?

Last Answer : answer:I'm not sure if simply trying to forget the dream is the way to go. I think the bigger question is why these dreams are happening in the first place, generally it's some kind of worry or ... strange ability to know what dreams mean. They've done if for me before, and their advice helped me.

Should we allow our dreams to effect us?

Description : Should we allow our dreams to effect us?

Last Answer : answer:Effect is a noun, affect is a verb! Anywho, I don’t read too much into mine. If you let cryptic, subconscious messages make you second-guess yourself, you could find yourself in a lot of confusing situations.

Anyone know what makes you 'jump' in your dreams?

Description : Anyone know what makes you 'jump' in your dreams?

Last Answer : I don’t, but it really freaks me out.

Can you please help me find a cooling pillow that actually works?

Description : Can you please help me find a cooling pillow that actually works?

Last Answer : You may be in luck here. I moved from Montana (cold) to southern Utah. (waay hot) I found a product called a Chillow which was a God send so to speak and it made sleep possible on hot hot nites. ... It is a device you add water to and put it on my regular pillow and for me it's been wonderful.

Can lack of sleep actually kill a person?

Description : Can lack of sleep actually kill a person?

Last Answer : I don’t think it’s directly fatal. At some point I think you’d just shut down. But the stress results in high blood pressure and increased health risks that would give you a shot at death indirectly..

Has anyone ever actually fallen asleep while counting sheep?

Description : Has anyone ever actually fallen asleep while counting sheep?

Last Answer : I’ve tried, but after 9 trillion it gets real boring.

During a dream, have you ever known you were actually in a dream?

Description : During a dream, have you ever known you were actually in a dream?

Last Answer : It's called lucid dreaming, and yes, I have done it. I have no idea how many times. More, I'm sure, when I was remembering my dreams. Usually I had no idea how long they lasted-time ... different in dreams. In any case, anything is possible in such a dream, including dreaming that you are dreaming.

When you haven't actually slept for 24 hours or even 48, what happens to you physically or mentally?

Description : When you haven't actually slept for 24 hours or even 48, what happens to you physically or mentally?

Last Answer : I do it a lot of the time and usually i’m just all happy and kind of out of it, i’m not a very grumpy person unless you wake me up in a rude way though…

Is it possible to have a panic attack while sleeping?

Description : Is it possible to have a panic attack while sleeping?

Last Answer : Are you on any medications for your depression and anxiety? They could be causing the dreams.

60 hours awake, is this possible?

Description : 60 hours awake, is this possible?

Last Answer : I read about a man who stayed awake for eleven days. He then slept for 24 hours. And he was back to normal.

How is it possible that I can dream in 10 minute bursts?

Description : How is it possible that I can dream in 10 minute bursts?

Last Answer : You may still be dreaming.

Is it possible to become immune to sleep aids?

Description : Is it possible to become immune to sleep aids?

Last Answer : READ the package, an overdose will keep you awake. If your not fighting a cold a small shot of alcohol (brandy) will do the same thing DON’T DRINK ALCOHOL AFTER ANY MEDICINE.

Have you ever experienced "Lucid Dreaming'? If yes, what was it like?

Description : Have you ever experienced "Lucid Dreaming'? If yes, what was it like?

Last Answer : I did a few nights of melatonin to help me sleep and on the last night I had a horrible nightmare in which I could do anything- like in a lucid dream- but I was very slow at all of it ... Maybe not the exact thing you are asking- but it was terrifying enough that I have never taken melatonin again!

Have you ever had a lucid dream?

Description : Have you ever had a lucid dream?

Last Answer : Yes, only once too, but I distinctly remember, consciously thinking, this is a dream, just wake up and I did. haha I dreamed my car rolled down a hill above a lake or drainage canal of some sort and after I ... a dream and I woke up. What a relief, I didn't actually drive my car into a lake. lol