Lucid dreaming

[raf_gti]

If you could would you not just spend all of your life asleep?

Imagine thre was a product which would enable you to choose your own dreams, why would you ever want to face reality? I mean what would you rather have, another humdrum day at work or the chance to win an F1 race then celbrate with Girls Aloud afterwards?

I know what option I'd choose!

[The Nur]

Imagine the dreams as your body atrophied and died...

I think I would rather just have real life.. far more predictable

I have no idea if the seventh word of this post is correct, I imagine I shall be corrected if not.

Edited by The Nur on Sunday 6th September 18:46

[Marf]

Better than Life™

[Rotary Madness]

I wish i didnt have to sleep ever, just think for a second, how many years of your life would be spent doing nothing if you sleep an average 8 hours a day

[MitchT]

Sign me up for musical stardom, a flashy pad in Monaco, a Benetti yacht, a Ferrari F458 and Nigella Lawson in my kitchen/bedroom

[Ikemi]

I have had lucid dreams in the past - Pretty cool stuff, although it doesn't happen very often When I am in a dream I can subconciously remember going to bed and falling asleep, therefore I realise that what I am 'seeing' is fictitious. From thereon I can control what I do, but have little control over what I am dreaming of ...

Sleep paralysis sometimes follows lucid dreaming, but I've never experienced this. Sounds quite scary!

[eldar]

raf_gti said:

If you could would you not just spend all of your life asleep?

Imagine thre was a product which would enable you to choose your own dreams, why would you ever want to face reality? I mean what would you rather have, another humdrum day at work or the chance to win an F1 race then celbrate with Girls Aloud afterwards?

I know what option I'd choose!

One day, you will go to sleep forever Why rush?

[ipwn]

Rotary Madness said:

I wish i didnt have to sleep ever, just think for a second, how many years of your life would be spent doing nothing if you sleep an average 8 hours a day

Like 33.3% of however long you live

[911DM]

Total Recall springs to mind... !

[10 Pence Short]

Someone's been watching Vanilla Sky.

[Airbag]

You can train yourself to induce and control lucid dreams, my psych prof (once upon a time) was a wee bit obsessed and went on at length about it.

[raf_gti]

10 Pence Short said:

Someone's been watching Vanilla Sky.

Not for a long time!

There was a segment on a radio station the other day and I thought it would make an interesting topic, that's all!

[Simpo Two]

Sometimes I've had dreams where I can levitate and float slowly around the room under full control - does that count as lucid?

[Steamer]

It has happened to me in the past - not for a while though.

However! As great as the sensation was, I was driving a car - in total control driving around roads that I knew very well and choosing where to go...but the car was still a volvo (couldnt change that bit!)

[Evangelion]

Whenever I try to drive a car in a dream it's always too small and I have to try to insert my hands and feet through the windows. I suppose this means something!

Another recurring car dream I have is that I've forgotten where I parked it and wander around for what seems like hours and never finding it.

[cazzer]

I confidently predict the holodeck will be mankinds last invention.

[Catz]

I love lucid dreaming ... I could quite happily spend all morning doing this.

Unfortunately real life sometimes interferes.

[whitechief]

Dream on......

http://www.lifetools.com/novadreamer/novadreamerin...

[srebbe64]

I once went to sleep in a dream and had a dream! I honestly thought I had died! Most odd.

[Gedon]

In an old book by Carlos Casteneda, I read some st about remembering to know that in a dream, when you see your hand that you won't wake up and you can do what you like. It's a kind of self hypnosis, I imagine.

I did it a few times and got to the whaheeey, there's my hand, now I can do what I like. For one reason or another, you get about a few minutes and then black out. That was my experience anyway.