Can you subconsiously control your dreams in your sleep?!
Question: Yes, you can. It's called lucid dreaming and there is a ton of information available about it online, just google it. There's also books written on the subject, scientists who research it, and even tools you can buy to help you lucid dream. I warn you, though, lucid dreaming is a pain in the *** and will make you tired in the morning. Some people think it's worth it since you can essentially do ANYTHING in a lucid dream. The better you get the more you'll be able to do. At first you'll only be able to do simple stuff like flying, but you eventually you can learn to change scenery and make anything appear. Then you can interact with the world you create. You may never get to that point, though. I've done it, but only a couple of times. I guess I'm just naturally good at it. I don't intentionally mess with it, though. You can get strange nightmares and even hallucinations when you're awake. I'll go into more detail on that in a bit. Here's a community for people who are into lucid dreaming:
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/inde...
The general gist of it is first you have to learn to recognize that you're in a dream. If you want to get better at this then you need to learn to remember your dreams better. The best way to do this is to just start doing a dream diary. You actually wake up many times during the night even if you're not aware of it. What you can do is write down what you were dreaming about every time you wake up. I told you this was a pain in the ***, didn't I?
Once you get better at remembering your dreams then you can learn how to recognize that you're in a dream. Odds are you've done this before, but never intentionally. Generally this just involves learning "dream signs" and ingraining how to recognize them in your mind. I've never really gotten good at this, I just recognize that I'm in a dream randomly on occasion.
Okay, odds are you've recognized that you were in a dream before, but were bound by the laws of physics, what you expect would happen. How do you actually control the dream? Well it's quite simple for me. Wanting something to happen won't work, instead you have to expect that it will happen. For example, if you expect that when you jump you'll start flying then you'll start flying. If you expect that a fireball will shoot out of your hand and explode then a fireball will shoot out of your hand and explode. If you expect that you can make a building collapse by snapping your fingers then you can make a building collapse by snapping your fingers. For me, this was effortless the first time. All I had to do is remember to expect things to happen. I was able to control a lucid dream simply by taking a nap after I read this. It could be different for other people, though. My technique may not work for you. However, I now always remember how to control a lucid dream when I have one. However, there are varying degrees of difficulty on what you can do. Flying is easy, changing scenery is hard, having sex is next to impossible. The more lucid dreams you have, the more you'll be able to do.
After a while you can try WILDing(wake induced lucid dreaming) which is probably the most effective way of lucid dreaming, but doing it for the first time is difficult. Basically, you set your alarm for 5-6 hours after you go to sleep. Then you stay up for a little while, after a while your body will start craving sleep again. At this point you'll usually go right into a dream if you fall asleep. The trick is to stay conscious while you're going a sleep. Here's what worked for me. First of all, chocolate, B vitamins, and caffeine all make it easier to WILD. A Loca Moca Java Monster, an energy drink you can find at Wal-Mart or just about any gas station, has all of these things. You can try that, or just take a supplement, some coffee, and eat a little chocolate. Don't get too much caffeine, though, or you won't be able to get to sleep. Next, you need to stay awake for 45 minutes for the caffeine to take effect. I can recognize that I'm getting close to sleep by letting my mind wander waiting for my thoughts to stop making sense. When this happens I intentionally race random thoughts through my mind and wait for them to become more vivid. This isn't a common technique, you should look up stuff on the internet. Next you can actually learn to feel when sleep paralysis kicks in which I'll explain later. At this point, all I have to do is stare into the darkness and wait for something to pop up. Once you seem something, stop it with your mind, forget about reality, and zoom into this image. This is the same thing as earlier, expect it to happen. If you're like me then eventually scenery will start to form around this image. For example, once I saw a tiny soccer ball appear in the distance, then I zoomed in on it, and eventually a dream appeared around it which was a kid holding a soccer ball. Cool, huh? After that, do whatever the hell you want with the dream.
On sleep paralysis. This is one of the reasons I don't deliberately induce lucid dreams. This happens right before you go to sleep(you may feel it if you're WILDing) and you're in sleep paralysis the whole time your asleep. The reason for this is so that you don't move in your sleep. If sleep paralysis fails then you might start sleep walking, which can be dangerous. Normally, you're completely unaware of this, but it's possible for you to wake up and still be in sleep paralysis. This is bad. What you feel will vary from person to person. For me, it's the sound of rushing air all around me, a feeling like electricity going through my body, and the feeling like my bed is flying upwards rapidly and I'm being crushed downwards(I sleep on my side btw). The most important thing is to NEVER open your eyes. If you do, you might start seeing hallucinations. Sleep paralysis is also called "Old Hag" Syndrome. As the name suggests, a common thing that people see is an old woman. Your brain will also interpret the pressure on your chest and the difficulty you have breathing during sleep paralysis when you start panicking as something visible In other words, the Old Hag may sit on your chest and start strangling you. The more you panic the worse it will become. The old woman is a common hallucination, but it's one of many, there's no telling what freaky s*** you might see. You could see stuff a million times worse than an old woman. To get out of it, calm down, close your eyes, and try to wiggle your toes. Eventually, you should snap out of it. Another solution is to try to WILD, it's actually extremely easy to do during sleep paralysis. As long as you know you're in sleep paralysis, you didn't open your eyes, and you're not afraid, then you can pull it off.
I hope this gives you a good introduction. If you want to learn how to lucid dream then simply use google. Either ignore it, or have fun.
Answers: Yes, you can. It's called lucid dreaming and there is a ton of information available about it online, just google it. There's also books written on the subject, scientists who research it, and even tools you can buy to help you lucid dream. I warn you, though, lucid dreaming is a pain in the *** and will make you tired in the morning. Some people think it's worth it since you can essentially do ANYTHING in a lucid dream. The better you get the more you'll be able to do. At first you'll only be able to do simple stuff like flying, but you eventually you can learn to change scenery and make anything appear. Then you can interact with the world you create. You may never get to that point, though. I've done it, but only a couple of times. I guess I'm just naturally good at it. I don't intentionally mess with it, though. You can get strange nightmares and even hallucinations when you're awake. I'll go into more detail on that in a bit. Here's a community for people who are into lucid dreaming:
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/inde...
The general gist of it is first you have to learn to recognize that you're in a dream. If you want to get better at this then you need to learn to remember your dreams better. The best way to do this is to just start doing a dream diary. You actually wake up many times during the night even if you're not aware of it. What you can do is write down what you were dreaming about every time you wake up. I told you this was a pain in the ***, didn't I?
Once you get better at remembering your dreams then you can learn how to recognize that you're in a dream. Odds are you've done this before, but never intentionally. Generally this just involves learning "dream signs" and ingraining how to recognize them in your mind. I've never really gotten good at this, I just recognize that I'm in a dream randomly on occasion.
Okay, odds are you've recognized that you were in a dream before, but were bound by the laws of physics, what you expect would happen. How do you actually control the dream? Well it's quite simple for me. Wanting something to happen won't work, instead you have to expect that it will happen. For example, if you expect that when you jump you'll start flying then you'll start flying. If you expect that a fireball will shoot out of your hand and explode then a fireball will shoot out of your hand and explode. If you expect that you can make a building collapse by snapping your fingers then you can make a building collapse by snapping your fingers. For me, this was effortless the first time. All I had to do is remember to expect things to happen. I was able to control a lucid dream simply by taking a nap after I read this. It could be different for other people, though. My technique may not work for you. However, I now always remember how to control a lucid dream when I have one. However, there are varying degrees of difficulty on what you can do. Flying is easy, changing scenery is hard, having sex is next to impossible. The more lucid dreams you have, the more you'll be able to do.
After a while you can try WILDing(wake induced lucid dreaming) which is probably the most effective way of lucid dreaming, but doing it for the first time is difficult. Basically, you set your alarm for 5-6 hours after you go to sleep. Then you stay up for a little while, after a while your body will start craving sleep again. At this point you'll usually go right into a dream if you fall asleep. The trick is to stay conscious while you're going a sleep. Here's what worked for me. First of all, chocolate, B vitamins, and caffeine all make it easier to WILD. A Loca Moca Java Monster, an energy drink you can find at Wal-Mart or just about any gas station, has all of these things. You can try that, or just take a supplement, some coffee, and eat a little chocolate. Don't get too much caffeine, though, or you won't be able to get to sleep. Next, you need to stay awake for 45 minutes for the caffeine to take effect. I can recognize that I'm getting close to sleep by letting my mind wander waiting for my thoughts to stop making sense. When this happens I intentionally race random thoughts through my mind and wait for them to become more vivid. This isn't a common technique, you should look up stuff on the internet. Next you can actually learn to feel when sleep paralysis kicks in which I'll explain later. At this point, all I have to do is stare into the darkness and wait for something to pop up. Once you seem something, stop it with your mind, forget about reality, and zoom into this image. This is the same thing as earlier, expect it to happen. If you're like me then eventually scenery will start to form around this image. For example, once I saw a tiny soccer ball appear in the distance, then I zoomed in on it, and eventually a dream appeared around it which was a kid holding a soccer ball. Cool, huh? After that, do whatever the hell you want with the dream.
On sleep paralysis. This is one of the reasons I don't deliberately induce lucid dreams. This happens right before you go to sleep(you may feel it if you're WILDing) and you're in sleep paralysis the whole time your asleep. The reason for this is so that you don't move in your sleep. If sleep paralysis fails then you might start sleep walking, which can be dangerous. Normally, you're completely unaware of this, but it's possible for you to wake up and still be in sleep paralysis. This is bad. What you feel will vary from person to person. For me, it's the sound of rushing air all around me, a feeling like electricity going through my body, and the feeling like my bed is flying upwards rapidly and I'm being crushed downwards(I sleep on my side btw). The most important thing is to NEVER open your eyes. If you do, you might start seeing hallucinations. Sleep paralysis is also called "Old Hag" Syndrome. As the name suggests, a common thing that people see is an old woman. Your brain will also interpret the pressure on your chest and the difficulty you have breathing during sleep paralysis when you start panicking as something visible In other words, the Old Hag may sit on your chest and start strangling you. The more you panic the worse it will become. The old woman is a common hallucination, but it's one of many, there's no telling what freaky s*** you might see. You could see stuff a million times worse than an old woman. To get out of it, calm down, close your eyes, and try to wiggle your toes. Eventually, you should snap out of it. Another solution is to try to WILD, it's actually extremely easy to do during sleep paralysis. As long as you know you're in sleep paralysis, you didn't open your eyes, and you're not afraid, then you can pull it off.
I hope this gives you a good introduction. If you want to learn how to lucid dream then simply use google. Either ignore it, or have fun.
No. I can't.
google "lucid dreaming."
I used to try and tell myself what to dream when I was a teenager, sometimes certain points would get in there. Mostly just when I leave the TV or radio on, stuff gets incorperated in there.
I've done it lots of time.
No -
Will someone wish me sweet dreams??
Please
You can try and control your dreams, but you run the risk of waking yourself in the process
Is possible, but you had to use your brain cell and is not good idea, cause you actually getting less sleep and make feel more tired; people who dream alot usually are more tired in the morning, because brain need to rest as well..
yes! infact i just did it last night...like when it is boring i add an element to keep the dream exciting. its like part of it i feel i can control but the rest i can't, and when it gets too crazy for me i guess my body makes me wake up.
but yeah, i think the whole "controlling your dreams" thing is pretty cool, give it a try.
I am not sure... I know that before I sleep I think of something and while thinking I fall asleep and then dream about what I thought... but as soon as I try to control my dreams I wake up
yeah, why not?
I can, but I guess it depends on the person, though, just as some people dream in color, and some in black and white.
I can't but I sleep with a talk-radio station on all night, & often when I wake up, I realize I was dreaming about something that was being discussed on the the radio..Every so often, there is a commercial that involves a phone ringing, & it wakes me up every single time they play it..
When i wake up half way through and then carry on with the dream i can, cos i think that then i'm still only half awake or something, eg. the other night i dreamt that i died from being shot in the head, i woke up really freaked out, thinking i was dead and wanting to live, and then in the next part of my dream i got resurrected and woke up feeling happier.
I am not sure if there is proof, but I have at times cause myself to have a dream just by keeping something on my mind before going to sleep. I wish I had more info on this, but that is all I know.
Nearly always. When I get into a tough spot, life threatening situation, or I'm falling, or something bad, then I tell myself that it's ok, cause I'm just dreaming, then I go on to a different dream.
Yep, but it takes practice. I used to really be into my dreams, writing them down first thing when I woke up. I got into interpreting them. Eventually, I was talking to myself in my dreams..."Okay, I know I'm dreaming and I want this to happen" It works.
I think sometimes u can. For instance, when a nightmare starts getting really scary, I vow to myself 'this dream wont get any scarier!'. It works a lot of the time, and the storyline of the dream changes thereafter.
I think your wording is wrong. Technically your subconscious DOES control your dreams. I have had dreams where I knew I was dreaming, I did have a limited control over them. I couldn't change my surroundings, but I could control how I reacted, what I did or I could become an observer and watch my dream play out. It was really weird.
In a way -
I once dreamt I died through a shot in the head...
Then I was falling and everything was white -
And I was coming back up again like an angel
It was the best dream I ever had.
Yes, you can actually. What you are asking about is called "Lucid dreaming". It is helpful to control nightmares, or just to experience things that you cannot do physically, like flying for example. It is really fun and a great technique to learn. The source below has an mp3 that you can download and it will gently guide you into a lucid dreaming state of mind.