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I just went into REM sleep and had full control of my body within the dream. In it, I managed to get shot and it basically felt like getting shot. Everything went to slow motion, visuals became blurred and the pain spread throughout my body. Now I've never been shot in my life so I'm wondering how I could experience it in a dream when it was obviously fake.

I'm tempted to shoot myself and compare the findings.
 
DO EET.

Maybe lucid dreaming is some ****ed up form of Remote Viewing?.....
 
Lucid dreams ftw. I can't do it though, all I can do is fantasize if I accidentally wake up in the night and thus continue / correct my dream. :p
 
That would be funny if it turned into a premonition and I ended up getting shot in the same spot.
 
I would lollercopter.

I've had quite a few dreams where you can "feel" stuff, but they weren't lucid dreams. [D: Face] D: [/D: Face]
 
I've had my share of lucid dreams, but very rare and it's lots of fun. In one dream I was in the middle of this fire fight, but then I realize it's a dream and I go to one of the dudes that was shooting at me and literally pick up a parked car and whack him on the noggin:LOL: . It's especially funny when you become lucid in a nightmare and go cong fu on the monster's ass:cheese:.

However recently I've been having more and more of those so called waking dreams and they scare the shit out of me D:
 
Remus said:
I've had my share of lucid dreams, but very rare and it's lots of fun. In one dream I was in the middle of this fire fight, but then I realize it's a dream and I go to one of the dudes that was shooting at me and literally pick up a parked car and whack him on the noggin:LOL: . It's especially funny when you become lucid in a nightmare and go cong fu on the monster's ass:cheese:.

However recently I've been having more and more of those so called waking dreams and they scare the shit out of me D:
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What the hell! I wish I could pickup cars in my dreams.
 
You can! With your....Imaginaaaaatiiiooooon!

I had a dream last night that freaked me the Hell out.

All I remember is that I was running down what I guess was a hallway inside of a house with a friend. Further down the hallway I trip and do a faceplant into the ground. Now this is where it takes a turn. Some hybrid creature like the thing in Feast starts grabbing and pulling on my leg. The view immediately switches to first person and for a moment, I gained control of my actions. I started kicking the hybrid in the face until it let go. I got up and I grabbed it's head. I started tearing its lower jaw apart, then shoving the severed jaw down its throat. After that, I finished it off with a curbstomp. From there, my friend helped me up and the view went back to third person. I lost control after that.

Would that count as being lucid?
 
TollBooth Willie said:
You can! With your....Imaginaaaaatiiiooooon!

I had a dream last night that freaked me the Hell out.

All I remember is that I was running down what I guess was a hallway inside of a house with a friend. Further down the hallway I trip and do a faceplant into the ground. Now this is where it takes a turn. Some hybrid creature like the thing in Feast starts grabbing and pulling on my leg. The view immediately switches to first person and for a moment, I gained control of my actions. I started kicking the hybrid in the face until it let go. I got up and I grabbed it's head. I started tearing its lower jaw apart, then shoving the severed jaw down its throat. After that, I finished it off with a curbstomp. From there, my friend helped me up and the view went back to third person. I lost control after that.

Would that count as being lucid?
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That sounds pretty cool.

I've had dreams where I'm walking on the sidewalk towards my bus during winter and theres an ice patch in front of me and I slip on and I can never regain my balance and I keep slipping.
 
Yeah that's cool Willie, but I don't know if it's lucid dreaming. I mean you were relatively in control of your actions but did you know it was just a dream?

The annoying thing about lucid dreams is that they don't last too long. In my experience after I become lucid it lasts perhaps a few minutes and then it's an instant wake up:(
 
I don't know. It felt so real. With everything going on, I didn't even question whether it was a dream or not, especially when I gained control over my actions. Thing is, when I was in control I could "feel" the blood spraying onto my face and the hybrid pulling on my leg, etc., but I felt nothing during the running sequence or the end.
 
So would it be possible to die from a dream? Say something horrible happens within the dream and you have a heart attack.
 
Core407 said:
So would it be possible to die from a dream? Say something horrible happens within the dream and you have a heart attack.
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Unfortunately that is possible D: D:
 
You mind interprets pain, even if you dont experience it...lucid dreaming is great if you have control over it....I have been trying for OBE's for a while and have actually done it a few times. It is one of the coolest things you will ever experience.
 
Remus said:
Unfortunately that is possible D: D:
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My dad mentioned that a lot of people will have pain while sleeping and within the dream, that pain will manifested in the dream in some form.
 
I have dreams where I fall or miss a step on some stairs, then I suddenly wake up and my legs spring in the air to try and stop me falling lol. It's such a rush, takes me a few minutes to figure out what just happened.

Lucid dreams are amazing, apparently you can train yourself to do them, had them years ago, not any recently, I think you need to be sleeping for long hours (e.g. normal).
 
Mutley said:
I have dreams where I fall or miss a step on some stairs, then I suddenly wake up and my legs spring in the air to try and stop me falling lol.
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Yeah I had a dream like that a week ago while i was in the train and I almost kicked the guy in front of me LOL:cheese:
 
"Your mind makes it real." And that holds true sometimes as far as lucid dreaming goes. I have dremt lots of times that I had a gun. And it seemed all the times. Like, the most recent one I can remember, I think, would be where I was part of a unit or something, and I had an IMI Galil rifle. There was this guy there, so I shot him. Tiny detail: I even looked through the ironsight as I did. It seemed real. Felt good, too. I also shot a guy with an AK, I think that might have had something to do with the AK47 airsoft I have above my bed.

None of the times I thought about shooting myself. I guess I'm not that EMO! But come to think of it, shooting doesn't equal cutting, so...

Try it. As long as you don't come running out, screaming "THEY GOT ME!!! HEEELPP!!!"

Anyway, the strangest thing is that, at the point of realization; A lot of times when I've realized that I was dreaming, a lot of the times I thought "Damn, now I'm going to wake up.". I guess I like sleeping! :)

I wonder if one could 'induce' lucid dreaming with a mild hallucinogen or something.
 
I hate it when you "wake up" 4 times in the morning but actually you are sleeping the whole time. Usually I get up, go to the bathroom (dangerous), rinse my mouth, take a shower, then go "oh shit, I'm still sleeping" and then I "wake up again"
 
worst is when you try and scream in a dream but theres no sound or when you try running away from something and you get nowhere

never used to get anything like this but its started happening recently
 
Dan said:
I hate it when you "wake up" 4 times in the morning but actually you are sleeping the whole time. Usually I get up, go to the bathroom (dangerous), rinse my mouth, take a shower, then go "oh shit, I'm still sleeping" and then I "wake up again"
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Had a fairly long version of that. I could not wake up, and when I did, it took my like an hour to be sure.
 
I wonder what would happen if you had a lucid night terror. Probably explode.
 
I remembered trying to wake up when I was being chased by my twin in the water at our lake house.
 
About a year ago.

spookymooky said:
I was originally going to post this in the weird dreams thread, but its long, and different enough that I think it deserves its own. This is only about my 3rd thread, anyways.

Last night I had the worst nightmare of my life. Usually I enjoy nightmares, but this was the first time a dream really scared me.

It started out with a completely different dream, I was hanging out with a few of my friends, on some kind of grass and dirt path. It was incredibly peaceful and relaxing. As night fell, I began to gravitate towards a female friend of mine, and it almost turned into another, much more enjoyable type of dream, but she's got a boyfriend and I told her I didn't want to mess with that. At that point the dream shifted.

Suddenly I was in some european town in WWII, and in command of a small squad of soldiers, all of whom were younger than me, about 12-15 (I am, and was in the dream, 17). A few new boys arrived, and I began showing them the ropes, in pretty much the exact style of Lt. Dan from Forest Gump. A small group of soldiers attacked, and I instructed one of the boys on how to fire a thompson (sp?). He killed all three. There wasnt any gore, and we didnt bother checking out the bodies. I then checked a chart on how to identify enemy ships and plane. Afterwards, I went to sleep.

When I woke up, I knew, because it was a dream, that I had been in a coma for the past four years. Nobody knew why, and didnt particularly car. I was in a really crappy field hospital and I realized no one had taken car of me when I was asleep. I was extremely nautious, my hearing was odd, as though the pressure on my ears was wrong. I couldnt see well. My head felt weird. More than that, my mouth felt extremely odd to my toungue. In addition to the weird profile of my teeth, there was this disgusting, sickly sweet taste in my mouth, and a fluid that kept leaking in. I spit some out and it was blackish brown pus. Worst of all, my mind had rotted. I wasn't quite mentally retarded, but thinking was hard, and I had the mind of a ten-year-old.

I got out of bed, and tried to talk to some of the men around. They were now all older than me, 20-23ish, and tried to ignore me, and they mocked me behind my back, or occasionally right to my face. I went over to a mirror, and I can't really describe quite how terrifying my face was to me, but this is how it looked. The first thing i noticed were my teeth. They had rotted almost completely away. The front left one was completely gone. The hole the remained was brown and oozing. What was left of my teeth were jaggedy brown and yellow stumps, about half the size of regular teeth, a little spongy to the touch. The brown pus I was tasting, and had to keep spitting out, was leaking from the exposed pulp. The other really significant thing was my eyes. They were swollen terribly. My left eye was invisible beneath huge lumps of pink, swollen skin. There was a tiny stream of blood which leaked out. My right eye was almost entirely covered, only my iris was barely visible. I couldn't see any whites. In addition to this my muscles were horribly atrophied, and my skin clung tightly to my bones, not cartoonishly but as if I were starving, wherever I wasnt swollen, especially on my face. I was also bald.

Upon seeing this my nausea increased massively, and I hobbled quickly to the bathroom and vomited. I retched some pretty sick fluid into the toilet, but it felt like I was purging myself of it, and I felt quite a bit better. On my way in, I noticed a real life friend of mine, who seemed to have been conscripted since my coma. He ignored me, but I could tell he recognized me, and was disgusted. I was glad he had ignored me.

I went back to the mirror, and thought "I've wasted seventeen years brushing my teeth for nothing. Seventeen years of that stupid mindless task and I have nothing to show for it." It followed from that that I had wasted my entire seventeen years of life for nothing. I had spent so much time, and so much effort into building up my life to this point, and suddenly for no good reason it was all wasted. I knew from this point I was completely useless for anything, both stupid and horrifying to see.

Over the next few days, the level of teasing and mocking escalated to the point where it was getting violent. Finally I picked a fight with someone, who happened to be a six foot tall, heavily built black man. I didn't get my ass whooped, though. He knew I couldn't fight, so he didnt do any real damage. Afterwards, he helped get the other guys to back off, so things improved that way.

It seemed that the army (of whatever nation I was a fighting for) had been trying to discharge me since I had woken up, and had finally gotten a hold of my parents. One day they showed up at the HQ. They were overjoyed that I had woken up from my coma, but when they saw me, I could tell that they were disgusted, but tried to hide it. They soon left the base, obviously looking for ways to get out of the responsibility for caring for me.

That night, I went to bed, and for whatever reason, this part was almost as scary to me as seeing myself for the first time. I lay down in bed and began to cry because my situation was so terrible, and just as I was falling asleep, I turned onto my side. Suddenly reality began to fade out. It was just like a "fade to black" from a movie, but encompassed all my senses. The cot I was on slowly, over the course of 1-2 minutes faded into my matress. At the same time, my eyes cleared, my strength returned, and my teeth faded back into being. Oddest of all was the return of my mind. I slowly realized that I had been dreaming, and it wasn't real. I still had my body, my eyes, my mind, and my teeth. My whole life was ahead of me.

I was shaking a little bit, and my face and pillows were wet with tears.

I still haven't quite gotten over this, and might never completely. It really was the most horrifying experience of my life.
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Holy shit that sounds awful. I would have kept telling myself it was a dream, which usually normals me out.
 
Core407 said:
I just went into REM sleep and had full control of my body within the dream. In it, I managed to get shot and it basically felt like getting shot. Everything went to slow motion, visuals became blurred and the pain spread throughout my body. Now I've never been shot in my life so I'm wondering how I could experience it in a dream when it was obviously fake.

I'm tempted to shoot myself and compare the findings.
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Your body is thinking "well, from what i've seen in movies and shit of people getting shot, I can get a good idea of what it'd feel like".

For all you know, what you felt could have been nothing like what getting shot felt like.
 
spookymooky said:
About a year ago....
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Holy shit! That horible. I've never had a nightmare that extreem, however I too have been having some weird dreams lately regarding my teeth ( probably because I really need to go to the dentist:p ).

Something I've noticed is that if I go to sleep with my hands beneath my head almost always I have freacky dreams that my hands are cut off, or are horibly deformed and shit like that.
 
sinkoman said:
Your body is thinking "well, from what i've seen in movies and shit of people getting shot, I can get a good idea of what it'd feel like".

For all you know, what you felt could have been nothing like what getting shot felt like.
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Thats why I was going to shoot myself and compare the results.
 
I've been watching too much House, and recently I've been dreaming episodes...
Made up stories mind, which is pretty cool. But I'd assume if I remembered them in full detail they wouldn't make much sense.
 
Core407 said:
Now I've never been shot in my life so I'm wondering how I could experience it in a dream when it was obviously fake.
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You only think it felt real by comparing to what you imagine it'd feel like. And what you imagine being shot feels like was how you felt in the dream.

Also whilst on the topic: You only dream whilst you're partly awake -> when you can think to some degree, but you're in a self suggestable state so thoughts and feelings are easily visualized.
 
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