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Ilikebeaver
958 posts
50 months
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I can often control my dreams.
I mostly realise this when I slightly wake up in the middle of them and fall back to sleep and into the dream, but then I decide where it goes, what I do. What questions I ask and what I say.
It is weird, and sometimes can be so nice that I won't want to wake from it at all
I have to remind myself that these were dreams the next day though, as I have often spoken to people who featured in my dreams as if everything that was said in the dream actually happened
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The Boy Lard
404 posts
92 months
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Quite often have the type of dream where I'm in control.
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elster
16,645 posts
79 months
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I very very rarely seem to dream, or at the very least remember any dreams.
I feel as thought I am missing out
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Asterix
16,364 posts
97 months
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Laplace said: For the most part I have recurring themes, I fly a lot. I have to flap my arms REALLY fast, it's pretty tiring but it gets me about.  I used to have loads of flying dreams as a kid but can't recall having any as an adult. There was one flying dream where I was out and about, as you do, and I met a girl from school and we flew around a bit. Next day at school I gave her a note saying how I loved her because she was my flying partner and we must be in love and stuff. I was 6 
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Condi
2,657 posts
40 months
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I had a really nice one last night, not sure if I was in control or not. It turned out the way I wanted, but was a complete surprise, as I had expected the other person in my dream not to behave like that.
If I was in control surely I would have known what was coming?
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crazy about cars
Original Poster
2,317 posts
38 months
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Wow...if the accounts of posters in this thread are real then I suspect Lucid Dream is quite a common occurrence? Intriguing stuff...
I once had sleep paralysis before from waking up after passing out from a heavy binge. It's very scary as you felt paralysed but fully awake. It was initially cool as I felt like I'm floating above my body at first then started to "go into" my body. I am fully aware of my surroundings but just can't move. Oh, and I hear weird noises too....well freaky experience that one.
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Jem0911
4,181 posts
70 months
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Having given up the booze three or so years ago I can now control my dreams.
Prior to that they took their own course.
My recurring dreams have a set format though.
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PugwasHDJ80
5,184 posts
90 months
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The "me" in my dreams can, and does, make concious deicisons about whats happeneing in the dream, but that "med" isn't aware that i'm dreaming.
The "me" that is watching the dream (and remembering the next morning) can't control the dreams.
Suspect i need to see a pyschologist!
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crazy about cars
Original Poster
2,317 posts
38 months
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PugwasHDJ80 said: The "me" in my dreams can, and does, make concious deicisons about whats happeneing in the dream, but that "med" isn't aware that i'm dreaming.
The "me" that is watching the dream (and remembering the next morning) can't control the dreams.
Suspect i need to see a pyschologist! A dream in a dream? Have you seen "Inception"? 
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crazy about cars
Original Poster
2,317 posts
38 months
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Jem0911 said: Having given up the booze three or so years ago I can now control my dreams.
Prior to that they took their own course.
My recurring dreams have a set format though. See, this is interesting. Due to health problems I have been reducing my alcohol consumption lately as well!
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Marf
22,907 posts
110 months
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No, I have tried to make lucid dreaming work, but whenever I realise I'm dreaming I wake up.
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GTIR
19,072 posts
135 months
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I've had the same dream every night since March 2009. Jade Goody visits me and we spend all say doing stuff. It's quite good fun. Tonight I think we are watching Madness in concert.
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0a
8,427 posts
63 months
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Yes, when I had insomnia and didn't sleep for 4.5 days, but then I was also seeing things in the room that were not really there but I could manipulate them. Very strange.
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Watchman
1,950 posts
114 months
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I have nightmares very often, 3 or 4 a night for ~5 nights a week (I get dreamless nights a couple of nights a week). Because of the nightmares and because they have been recurring since I was about 8yo (I'm mid-40s now) I have a lot of control over them - to dispell them mainly and move onto the next thing. This means I go into the nightmare but quickly recognise what it is and move out of it, often into the next one. So I seem to shuffle through the nightmares for a short while before falling into dreamless sleep. The beauty of this is a couple of hours before I wake, I start to dream "normal" dreams but I retain that sense of control. My wife has recently asked why I'm so horny in the morning.
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AlexC1981
1,291 posts
86 months
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I've had two or three flying dreams, but I've never been able to fly more than 12 inches of the ground. More like a hover really. Disappointing.
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Bacon Is Proof
3,021 posts
100 months
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goldblum said: Most times I can control what happens in my dreams,though I have no control over what dreams they actually are. I used to liken it to a Steve Jackson/Ian Livingstone "choose your own adventure" book.
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Alfanatic
5,979 posts
88 months
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Jem0911 said: My recurring dreams have a set format though. No kidding  I have read somewhere that you can train yourself to have lucid dreams, not sure how. I've hardly ever had one but they are great. To those saying they rarely dream, I have read somewhere else that you only remember the dreams that you wake up in the middle of, or I assume very shortly afterwards. I think every healthy person when when tested has shown dreamlike brain activity during sleep.
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DWS
332 posts
87 months
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Ilikebeaver said: I can often control my dreams.
I mostly realise this when I slightly wake up in the middle of them and fall back to sleep and into the dream, but then I decide where it goes, what I do. What questions I ask and what I say.
It is weird, and sometimes can be so nice that I won't want to wake from it at all
I have to remind myself that these were dreams the next day though, as I have often spoken to people who featured in my dreams as if everything that was said in the dream actually happened This is exactly what happens to me most nights. the odd thing about it is that if there is any "signage" in the dream the letters are all mixed up so as not to mean anything. It's one of the things I Conciously think I have to look for just to see if they ever do make sense. The mind is a very strange thing.
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Mr Happy
4,269 posts
89 months
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Strange this should come about, I comprehensively nailed a lass who I used to go to school with (and fancy like mad) in my dream last night... bliss  and before anyone says, we're the same age and in the dream it was present time... I didn't dream about nailing her as a schoolgirl!
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N5 NRO
162 posts
25 months
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I occasionally have quite unpleasant/scary dreams in which I am aware I am dreaming, yet I have no control over them. I will desperately and unsuccessfully try to wake up, and have recently discovered that all I can do in the situation is control my breathing. My solution? I breathe as heavily and quickly as possible until my girlfriend wakes up and then she will wake me up, thus ending the nightmare.
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