Lucid Dreams

Always been fascinated with dreams. They are extraordinarily sophisticated pretty much alternate universes created within our heads at lightning speed.

I've had so many dreams where if I never woke up and kept dreaming it would be the real world as far as I was concerned. 😴

I have had many a morning where it's taken me a minute or two to fully grasp none of a dream I may have had was real.

I think having a lucid dream has only happened to me a few times and it was after doing something unfamiliar to me , like in a strange city , tourist attraction.

Sometimes I lucid dream. Once I realise I'm dreaming, it never lasts long though. It's like my brain detects I'm in control and decides to pull the plug. It's a shame because lucid dreams are really a strange "second life" experience, much more than normal wacky/fractured dreams.

That's very interesting, are you ever able to return to previously "visited" places or people?

Sometimes I dream about having a raging horn.

When I was a kid I used to have this dream where I was running across a road and there was a bus coming, but the road seemed endless and I was basically running on treacle and couldn’t reach the other side. Meanwhile, the bus is getting closer.....

I posted in another thread about dreaming I was falling. From roofs , aeroplanes etc. Since the divorce they stopped 🤣

I've had lucid dreams, though I tend to forget them when I wake up. But they usually happen whenever I'm in danger in the dream or if something happens in a dream that makes me not want to be there. I just force myself to wake up.

Dream quite vividly on a regular basis, often returning to the same places in a dream. More often than not, i dream of travel, holidays, busses, towns that don't exist. The strangest dream is the one where i'm pulling a thread, like a long hair, out of my throat. Man, I really hate that one!

The problems arise when you lucid dream that you've gone to the bathroom and you're ready to take a leak.

I have consistent dreams where I am in some social setting, like a stag-do, or family gathering, when at some stage I look down to realise I am naked from the waist down. And the same panic ensues, whereby I cover my modesty, apologising profusely to all and sundry as I try to get back to the hotel room to locate boxers, trousers and shoes. What it means I have no idea.

This is actually a very common dream. I think there is a list of common dreams people have.

Realising you are naked in public settings, being able to fly, dreaming that all your teeth are falling out are some of the most common.

Another I have which I think might be common is being in a fight with someone but not being able to throw a punch, like you barely have enough energy to lift your arm.

I never used to have sex dreams, but in my 40s I have started to very frequently and they are very vivid and very plausible, enacting fantasy scenarios that I have contemplated in real life but maybe not thought about for many years. That realism can translate into a lucidity, an awareness that although I know it couldn't possibly be happening, that it's real enough to be worth enjoying and that I intend to enjoy it for as long as it lasts.

I smoked cannabis daily for years and decided to give it up a couple of years ago. The only noticeable difference after I quit was that my dreams were way more lucid an memorable. I'd remember them for a couple of days which was never a thing before.

Another thing I noticed: People do not enjoy hearing about other people's nonsensical dreams.