MentalImage is Stanislav Tiptsov, a music producer and DJ from the Russian … Read Full Bio ↴MentalImage is Stanislav Tiptsov, a music producer and DJ from the Russian federation producing music in various downtempo genres such as Psybient, Psychill and Psydub.

Since childhood Stanislav was interested in films and music. He has been making music for nearly 10 years and is mostly inspired by Shpongle, Younger Brother, Pigs In Space, Astral Projection, Bjork, downy, Portishead and others.

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Jay B

1y↑7

Programs like these remind me of just how bottle-necked we are in certain departments of our human communication/evolution.
I'm watching these beautifully refined human beings still laying it down and playing their own game of 'all in' conversation, where the successful converser is the one most able to remain in the flow, when around them the others might be engaging their stream of dialogue , their own hope being that within the limited space available for interjectory ideas, they might win out , and just for a while, take for themselves that ever-lucrative space within time where intelligence might be allowed to exist in the form of delivered language.

The battle for advancing our most forward-approaches to mind, and its ability's to affect profound change,

Remains still, in this example,

narrative

God bless us all, however, if I may so ask, in this our endeavor to understand each other, and in that, to understand You.

Ap Ac

1y↑1

I don't know where to look for answers, but I've always done those things as well. Like so much about my dreams, I just assumed everyone did this until I'd discover otherwise when speaking with someone. It can actually frustrate me if I'm not able to go back into a dream because I've become so accustomed to being able to. Do you sometimes find yourself tempted to stay in bed and delay getting up so that you can return to the dream because you know there's more to see or just because you're enjoying it?

If I'm having what I think is a type of sleep paralysis situation I can find myself unable to get out of the dreams. I will be conscious, but paralyzed, and will call out because another person physically waking me seems to be the only thing that can draw me out of those dreams. When this happens, I feel like I'm trying to yell but my voice comes out like a muffled Minnie Mouse kind of plea to my own hearing. My husband told me what he'd witness was more like muffled whimpers. If awaken but I don't get up and physically move around it's very likely I'll get pulled back under. Even if I do get up it might be challenging for me to stay awake. I've come to realize that probably 90% of this type occurs if I've either been awake around 40 hours or more. The longer I'm awake past that mark the more likely it's to occur and it impacts how bad the sleep paralysis is. They can also occur when the tendons in my neck are extremely tight.

Of all my dreams, and I certainly have dreams that make those seem like dandelions and rainbows, aside from certain types of nightmares the repetitive pulled under dreams unnerve me the most because I always feel like something is trying to end me on a level that's like infinite ending. I'm aware it's a dream most of the time and yet that awareness doesn't stop the absolute terror and dread that I will die for real if I'm unable to escape the grasp of the blackness trying to suffocate me. Like cease to exist on all planes of all time of something vast in a way my conscience mind can't comprehend.

I'm always telling myself it's a dream and to wake up so as to stay calm within that terror. I'll try to instruct myself to move my toes or various other steps I think might wake me or might keep me from panicking, but the entity I'm trying to escape has so much mass that it at once feels like it's both suffocating me, enshrouding me, and sucking all that I am out of me. I've given in a handful of times because I became so weak that I could no longer summon the mental energy to escape and in that moment I'd accept that I wasn't going to wake up and I made peace with it. Every single time some entity would intercede and yank my being from the void that was swallowing me. While either giving me an earful and admonishing me for giving in when I was trained better. Whatever that means. Or initially the entity would swiftly give instructions or detail and implore I remember because it challenging or risky to something for him/her/it to show up.

The first time I had an OBE that I remember was in the middle of one of the repetitive dream sessions I couldn't wake up from. The all consuming entity wouldn't let me back into my body and I had this indescribable feeling that my energy was being replaced by another energy. That shook me to my core, but I was more observing as I floated and faded verses being able to do anything. Then another energy form shows up emanating this urgency to get to me. Like he was out of breath, but there was no body or breath. It was just the energy. He swiftly welcomed me to something that was essentially people capable of having OBE's. Explained what they were and told me how to tether myself to my body. Also admonished me for being stupid enough to leave my body in the helpless way I did as if I had any idea what was going on. He introduced himself while essentially shoving me back into my body and told me to be more careful. That I was lucky "they" knew it'd be happening soon so someone was watching, but there wouldn't always be someone watching or there might be the wrong someones watching. Then this sensation went through me that I can't put to words and he filled my conscious mind with a booming "Wake up and remember!" I woke up, remembered, and was terrified of getting pulled back under because that dream had an unusual feel to it. I searched a bookstore for books on dreams , looked for something called OBE, and found one talking about out of body experiences and astral projection and didn't know what to think. For awhile I dreaded sleeping because I didn't want to experience that again.

Of course, I did experience it again. Eventually I became comfortable with it. Once I became comfortable with it, I don't think it ever happened during those sleep paralysis being repeatedly pulled under dreams again. Do you also experience being pulled back in as opposed to putting yourself back in?

Ap Ac

I am enjoying this. I had night terrors from early childhood forward. In the early 70s my parents had no idea such a thing existed. The dreams I could remember were almost always extreme nightmares where the person I was in the dream would either almost die or would die. They were pretty horrific. I'd get stuck in a cycle of dreams where I'd dream I wake up over and over again only to discover I was still asleep.

In my mid-teen years I started lucid dreaming. In my mid-twenties I started living entire lifetimes as myself in my dreams, while interspersed with the others. The world would be similar, but different. When I'd wake up it'd be disconcerting because I'd have a lifetime of memories and emotions that weren't real and I had to learn how to quickly sort that. In my thirties I started experiencing sleep paralysis and sometimes I'd have to ask my husband if I was awake once I did wake up because I couldn't distinguish the difference between dreams and reality sometimes.

Now I'm in my fifties and for the first time in my life the vast majority of my dreams aren't horrific nightmares. I still dream entire lifetimes. I still have lucid dreams and creative/inventive dreams. I still occasionally have sleep paralysis, but have learned what triggers them and am better prepared. The night terrors are much less often now, but when they occur I almost immediately recognize what's happening and it allows my curiosity to override the fear. They only last a few minutes before the visual imagery disappears.

Dreams are very curious things. To me, they often seem more real than our "conscious reality". It's been interesting to reflect upon my shifting perception of my place within my own dreams as I've aged. It's also been interesting and often unnerving to observe the world end up reflecting those dreams back at me. For quite some time it had me not wanting to dream and I was envious of the people who'd say they couldn't remember their dreams. I don't remember mine as well as I once did and I feel that loss. I also wonder why, because sometimes I do still remember in vivid detail. The memory fades within a day or so unless something happens that causes it to suddenly explode in my mind again. Could be anything at all. Something as small as a scent, sound, or image to an entire deja vu kind of scene. I'll often get goosebumps when this happens.

I would enjoy seeing more videos on the various topics surrounding the subject of our dreams. Thank you for allowing us to view this enjoyable conversation. Also, thank you to the other commenters. I'm finding joy in reading your musings and experiences. 🦋

Bobby girl

1y↑3

@Lucas House there are several techniques you can learn, by checking reality while awake. Do it often enough, so it becomes a habit and you will eventually do it in your dream as well and on the dream you will become aware, that it is different and therefor know you dream. There are some awesome apps to help you remember your training.

Me 2 favourite techniques are:

1. Watch your hand, count your fingers. -> in dream your hand has no permanent boundries and often not 5 fingers.

2. Watch a clock, watch away and count to 5. Watch clock again -> in dream there is no normal flow of time so you will see f.e. to much time has past in just 5 sec.

But there are many more. Have fun.

All comments from YouTube:

Trent

1y↑37

Dreams become very clear when one trains the mind to go lucid during sleep. When you become aware of your dream inside of your dream, everything lights up, and you can rapidly transform, create, explore, fly, manifest, and perform magic that has always been portrayed in the best fictional and mythological stories of all time. If we understand that a soul or spirit exists, we can more rapidly tap into this realm, and therefore make more impactful changes to our waking environment.

Trent

@SyrupSplashin Okay, so you have the mind, which essentially creates your waking reality, or consciousness. While your mind is asleep, you dream, and if you've dreamed very vividly, you'll see that your dreams are extremely random and symbolic, signifying that they are brought about by something other than an explainable conscious self or mind. Unconsciousness, as opposed to waking consciousness, is the main indicator that there is something else more than mind that exists within us.

Now, if you've had a lucid dream, you will discover that you can indeed bring your conscious MIND into an UNCONSCIOUS space. But therein lies the difference between conscious mind, and unconscious soul. The soul is that part of yourself that may torment you in dreams with nightmares (which are symbolic visions of fears and indications you are using your MIND(the me) the wrong way in waking reality, instead of using the SOUL(the I that is me) to guide you. The lucid dream allows for us to face the torment of the unrecognized soul, and begin to come to terms with what that unconscious part of ourselves is trying to tell us during the time when our mind is supposed to be "asleep". The conscious mind often wants one thing, while the unconscious soul often wants something totally different. This is why development of the soul is important, and why lucid dreaming is a conduit to face the torment of a neglected soul directly.

SyrupSplashin

1y↑1

I don't understand the leap you made from lucid dreaming to the existence of souls.

Maggi Noodles

1y↑2

I have got some control over lucid dreaming. I use it as a virtual reality kinda thing.... I first be little sleepy then I think about that topic and imagine about it deeply... After that when I go to actual sleep state my thoughts have turned into a real dream so I'm lucid dreaming and can have control over my dream... So basically it got me the ability to dream about whatever I want, I just need to imagine about it deeply enough, when I feel sleepy.

exjw36

1y↑1

Started writing my dreams down on waking as a child. Trained myself to remember before I knew that was what I was doing. As a result I lucid dream and sometimes astral project. Dream world is fascinating. Real life movies of different genres

Trent

@Michelle Chapman That is awesome! I loved it the first time I flew in my dream, especially when I started becoming fully cognizant of the dream. Flying was actually my #1 "dream sign" that I recognized as being a dream while dreaming. Then I started manifesting scenarios and conversations with people intentionally, and it really changed the way I think of consciousness.

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Cala Jorgensen

1y↑27

I write and more than once I’ve been inspired in my dream, once I wrote a fabulous poem and another I worked out my response in a philosophical essay. I lucid dream fairly often and both times I knew I was dreaming and I told myself “I must remember this when I wake up I must remember this when I wake up” but unfortunately was never totally successful. After the dream about the essay I wrote some ideas down but it just frustrated me because I knew it wasn’t quite it - my rational brain had clicked in. The poem came to me while camping in the badlands and I sadly did not have a notebook beside me but I know for a fact it was the most beautiful poem I have ever written.

IndieCindy

1y↑5

As I got older, my sleepwalking turned into lucid dreaming, although I didn’t know that’s what they were called. The first lucid dream involved a drowning dream. I was not able to reach the surface of the water and then told myself this is just a dream, so just breathe in the water, so I did. Now a lot of dreams involve telling myself something to overcome a PROBLEM. Other lucid dreams I have had: the falling dream… involved telling myself I can bounce when I hit the ground so I did; I bounced when I hit like a bouncy ball all over the place. Hahaha! I have also had dreams so vivid and horrible that they would give Stephen King nightmares. Although I used to sleepwalk nightly I don’t have lucid dreams nightly. Lucid dreams usually occur on average once a month.

Touch Bionics

1y↑4

It helps me to recall my dream after I wake up if I think of some references. I often see my dog and cats in my dreams as well as me driving my car, so I start recalling it and most of the time it works
I manage to recall lots of details

taleandclaw rock

1y↑72

I have always been fascinated by dreams, perception and consciousness. I kept a dream journal nightly for 7 years. By the end of that time, i would remember 4-6 dreams most nights, and the detail of my dreams had pared down and become very direct and explicit. Several of my findings from this personal experiment shocked me, and frightened me, so much so i then spent quite some years trying to forget my dreaming!. One finding i will share, is that fully 1-2/3rds of those dreams turned out to be explicitly precognitive. Now that i am an elder person, i am preparing to record my dreams for the rest of my life. Its too much interesting time to just disregard. It makes zero sense that such an energy intensive and consciousness comprehensive activity would have no reason for existance.

Jernisha Richard

1y↑2

@Divinely Protected read the Bible very interesting and a lot of questions can be answered

Jernisha Richard

1y↑1

@Divinely Protected It's sometimes messages from God,but there are no past lives

A Cook

I too have tried to be diligent in documenting/recording my dreams.

Blue Waters

The amazing number of precognitive dreams I had when I wrote them down was incredible. It was even more lucid when I was pregnant and my feels were always very intense. I do my best to remind myself now that I am 70 that my spiritual self always has my back. It has gotten me out of many tight spots when I can relax enough to let it guide me in my waking life.

Caitlin Crofutt

Excellent, please keep doing that.

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thegreen sun

1y↑2

I’ve had lucid dreams in the past. Very cool ones too. But I had a very lucid dream recently. It was a stressful dream, it really felt like I was moving about in the dream then it ended being that I couldn’t breath all of a sudden ! I was HALF aware that I was in a dream so I forced myself to wake up and realized the way I was sleeping on my pillow, my airway was blocked because my neck was folded forward. I woke up gassssping for air. I woke up so tired and like I didn’t sleep at all and more exhausted than when I went to sleep. “Dreams” are sooo interesting. Thank God I woke up in the physical.

Dick Tracey

1y↑25

I often Lucid dream, and most often during listening to Science podcasts like this one. I go to sleep listening to podcasts every night because I have tinitus and the podcast helps. I find I am listening to the podcast in my dream, looking at Brian and watching his lips move. I then ask Brian a question, but he never listens just keeps on talking. At this point I realise that I am dreaming. I find it interesting that his lips move and are in sync with what he is saying. This makes me believe that there is a time delay between what I am listening to and the lucid dream that enables the two to be in sync. Once I dreamed I was playing drums to a jazz big band. I played perfectly to all the saxophone, trombone and trumpet arrangements. Then I realise I was composing the complete big band arrangement in my imagination. I could hear all of the instruments in the band playing.

Dick Tracey

@Michelle Chapman I never in black and white. I can't remember smelling in my dream.

Maggi Noodles

1y↑1

Michelle Chapman

Have you ever had a dream in black and white? No color? Can you smell in your dreams. I can't....

Shekhar Harsha

In an program on 'Dream', it was informed by scientist that clearing memories of places/people who are disconnected for a long, give rise of their images/stories in dreams. I have noted it in my experiences of my own so as shared by my closed ones.

Jay B

1y↑7

Technical Compliance

1y↑5

I have experienced shared dreams with peoples I cohabited with. They were blown aware. I was glad they remembered

José Machorro

1y↑1

Siempre un gusto, ver contenidos inteligentes. Gracias estimadísimo Brian

Mal-2 KSC

1y↑7

I actually have a check for the dream state that I came up with when I noticed that writing generally doesn't "hold still" in dreams. I read something that isn't likely to spontaneously change in real life, look away, then look back and read it again. If it changes, I'm probably dreaming. If I picked something (say, an electronic billboard) that could potentially have changed between the two spot checks, then I see how long it takes to change again. If it always seems to be when I'm not looking, then I continue to suspect a dream. If it changes while I watch, and in a way that makes sense for such a thing to do, it could still be a dream, but it probably isn't.

Edit: Being able to fly is a pretty big tell too. Sometimes I catch on and start manipulating the dream when I find myself flying, but often it's more entertaining to just let it do its own thing.

Parasite Lights

Thee more specific and detailed something is, thee more unstable it becomes in thee dreamstate. Thee ideal checking system that I developed for myself is with electronic alarm clock with a large display that lights up when you press it from above, and I keep it on thee bedside table next to my head. Before you go to sleep, you check thee time by pressing thee backlight button and do it again first thing when you wake up. If you do it systematically, without missing a single time, you start to dream very often that you are checking what time it is, but in thee dreamstate, unlike thee wakestate, thee alarm clock shows constantly changing nonsense. From there, thee last phase is to learn to react when you see that it is showing nonsense.

Nightmare Rex

you know the annoyign enitys that chase you sometiesm and cant ecsape? ive found noclipping away willa tualy loose the chasing enity behind you!

J Ruffin

The part about flying i used too but since i gotten older. Can't take off no more used to be able to go back to a dream for part two etc THE MIND is POWERFUL!!!!

Bill

1y↑25

Did you ever think that when you wake up all the people in your dreams might say." ,Hey where in the heck did they go ? They were just here a minute ago. "

Becks Lynn

1y↑1

While we are saying "whew, thank God that was just a dream!" LoL
😆

Gadooze

1y↑6

I had What-if questions, all of them are I need to go back to the past, in my life that bothered me that is answered by dream. Since then, when I got the answers, I got peace of mind.

vannalikehannah

1y↑10

My dreams are more exciting than my real life!!

angel-a

😂

debbie lushina

Fascinating! Thank you very much 💜

Dee-Dee Love

1y↑8

I have very vivid morning dreams just before I wake up, I always remember them and I write them down straight away and focus on the symbols not the story of the dream…..doing this helps me to see what I’m not addressing in my life and even sometimes how I feel about something…..it’s really helpful to me and I live my life by these dreams

Kiflai Asfaha

It happens to me. I forget my dreams quick. I dream once and I forget quick. Why?

Kiflai Asfaha

@Kristy Rodriquez

Kristy Rodriquez

I have dreams I can remember them when I wake up but most of them I forget after a while

Catrina B

1y↑2

I dream all 4 stages. Can't remember the name for them right now😁. I'm the narrator, the participator, the director and the watcher all at the same time. I'm aware but mostly I've noticed when I'm coming out of the deep dream when something triggers my " conciousness". I've fallen asleep or dozed off plenty and wakeup and hurry up and draw or write everything I remember. I've received messages for my future and voices have called me to wake me up as in my higher self. A woman's voice called my name softly and alerted me " she's coming hurry shes on her way". I call my mother and tell her my dreams frequently to help trigger or decipher.
Yet I believe I am what they call dream walkers🤷🏾‍♀️. I often assist others and mostly children as like a conscience saving them. Now Ive heard the association of dealing with issues in my life, but nah it's so random compared to my physical reality to emotions and feelings. As well I'm a messenger. I often relay future events, but I have not yet honed in on specific timeframes. When you come into self you become more connected to everything and becomes easy to hear and see physics and the arts intuitively. I have many journals that are calculations of math, physics, and other sciences that I have never study until I had dreams that tells me or leads me to research. As I was but educated as an Information specialist and only worked in customer service n banking, I rarely n barely know nor understand most of it. I've thought of going to Wash U to undergo a dream or psychological review.

ReadyBear 77

I remember clearly the 1st time I could control my dreams. I use to get this recurring dream where I'm getting chased by something or someone and I jump off the cliff and before I hit the bottom I always wake up.When im having a nightmare now i run and try and find a cliff to jump off or something high. I thought what if I could try and fly before I hit the bottom the next time I have the dream so 1st time I tried the butterfly's were that strong it wakes you up about the 7th or 8th time I flew when I jumped off the cliff it feels soo real the wind, my eyes watering ,the butterfly's from falling it's awesome feeling

Matt Smith

1y↑20

One thing that always fascinated me about dreams was certain geometries inside the dream. Relating to Brian's renovated building dream, I often dream of huge buildings or landscapes also, with crazy geometry. Unique shapes that make perfect sense in the dream. But when I wake up my brain can't make sense of the shapes I saw. I can REMEMBER the dream in its entirety. But when I try to focus on the intricacies like specific shapes, my conscious brain can't picture or make sense of it.

Nightmare Rex

yea i end up inside schools and hotels in dreams and theres ofton an arcade room with meany anomalus machines that make sense and function in the dream but dont in the 3-d

Melidsa Lopez

1y↑1

Different dimensions for sure! Humans are only allowed to see in 3 D a little of 4D but that’s it. You may have awaken your consciousness, that’s why you can be in control, or create, remember, and see things you can’t see or comprehend in this space. Of 3D

Stones Jones

1y↑1

Wow..I love this. And I can relate. The brain seems to be more fluent to transfer cognitive (earthy) paradigms.

Rishy Rish

1y↑11

i remember loads of dreams ive had from being a child to now and ive always felt that some of my dreams are like windows into parallel universes. Its like im always myself in my dreams but in a completely different universe or reality.

Mr. Anonymus

1y↑42

I really love that this content about neuroscience, sleep, consciousness and psychedelics is discussed by a multitude of experts in their field in such an interesting format for free. I hope this keeps going and we can ever further enlighten ourselfs about ourselfs. A big thanks for that.

Melidsa Lopez

@Marcus carr right!? Lol I know a few interview podcast that I see him on 😂❤❤❤❤

Melidsa Lopez

@Cuauhtli Padilla Arias makes perfect sense. We are creator beings that’s why. ❤❤❤

Marcus carr

1y↑2

@Cuauhtli Padilla Arias WOW! Thats a blessing!! Thats nearly a super power! Have you always been in control? I would love to read a research paper or watch an interview of you! So many questions!

Mr. Anonymus

1y↑1

@Cuauhtli Padilla Arias that sounds pretty incredible, I've tried to learn it but I've been far from that for sure :D

Cuauhtli Padilla Arias

1y↑5

I have been having lucid dreams since i was 9 yo, I have hyper lucid dreams when i can control everything and Im fully aware of everything, i can create cities, create and destroy people, know that conversations that i have with people are with my self, I can know that I'm dreaming and remember that laws of physics are created by me, I can eliminate gravity, I've checked my dream integrity by feeling my heart and trying to figure out how fast I was dreaming by counting seconds between heartbeats, but hyper lucid dreams are shorts and then i go back to normal lucid dreaming where I'm aware but not 100% conscious where I've heard most of lucid dreams fall. I can even be cartoon, be a paper, be a though a smell a color if that makes sense....

Ekaterina

1y↑11

I shared a dream with my daughter! We were both able to describe the content of this dream we both had enjoyed.

Ekaterina

@0_23_42_0 wow!! We were flying together above countryside!
What was your dream about, if I may ask?
This is so fascinating, isn't it?

0_23_42_0

I shared a dream with a roomie once, I wouldn't have believed her if she hadn't blurted out her part of the dream before I could!

Aliseedas

1y↑2

I had an experience where I saw my ex sleeping and he was mumbling and I started to ask him what was happening and he told me. And this went on for a few minutes and the next day I asked if he knew what he was dreaming he didn't remember or hearing me talking to him. Also I've had dreams where I'm like watching a movie floating above the story and not the person in the story. I'm observing it and then I had dreams where I was Chinese male in a different Era. I also can pause dreams to use the restroom and then go back into the dream where I left off. I think letting the mind come up with the dream so it does what is needed. If we alter the dream it may not do what the dream was suppose to do for the mind. If anyone has experienced this or nows where to look for the answer please reply. Thank you

Ap Ac

1y↑1

Michelle Chapman

So you can wake up and go back to sleep and continue the same dream?? Damn thats awesome!!

Azazel'sWings

1y↑5

What if... voices from spirit boxes or things we may hear are people communicating while we're asleep 😮

Neil Beni

Dreams are a collection of all the things we done that day and are uploaded to the UNIVERSAL MIND... 👊💥😁
That's my belief...

alessandro paci

1y↑1

when i was 16year old 38 years ago i study a book of hypnose and there i learn the lucid dream state. relaxing exercice .breathng tecnics and let the hearbeat slow down and it was fantastic funny to see this research

Elaine Andrepont

1y↑7

I’ve had prolific dreams without knowing it. When my dreams in New Orleans were intense enough to share with my best friend, I did in order to basically let them out and loosen them from my strong hold. After several shares, life moved forward. When I had waking visions those were shared as well or my friends noticed my dream drawing on my cocktail table. Many, many years passed and those vivid dreams came to fruition without my noticing or realizing until my friend called to check up on me. After hearing what took place, he stated that my dreams and visions are prolific. All at once all of what I shared made perfect sense. I had those profound dreams and visions to prepare me as well as my friends emotionally and mentally for ours and my future. It truly hit home when I unpacked my belongings from storage and I looked at my drawings.
If my long past friend would not have reached out to me I might would not have made that connection. Same goes for if I would not have shared my dreams and visions.
ETA🌹

VGiacobe

I have very vivid dreams and I remember them in details.

Betty Ivy

1y↑3

I had a dream when I was younger not even a teenager yet that I was eating a lollypop and I new was dreaming so I tried to wake up fast hoping to still have the lollypop in my mouth, and was so disappointed when it wasn't in my mouth after I woke up 😅

Rastafari Sanc Sie

I Was just Dreaming 💤 Whilst listening 🎧 to this? I don't know how that Happened By A Higher Power? But When I Awoke I was Definitely laughing 😆😂 😆 As I Remembered my Silly Dream ❤️ 🙏 Ase Ase Amen

William Bayer

1y↑32

Shared a dream with a roommate once. I dream almost every night, he almost never does. Still remember the dream and him asking me in the middle of the dream if it was a dream and I told him yeah. We woke up half hour or so later had a chat about it. Such a crazy thing

circlek

I wound up in what felt like a large communal lucid dream one time after my roommate did something in a dream that I knew he would never do in a million years. - It was one of the coolest dreams I've ever had, - not as cool as your shared experience though...my roommate was mostly just in the first dream...after I went lucid he went off to play music or something : )

Sarath Bulathsinghala

1y↑7

What I cannot fathom about dreams is how they are constituted by the mind? The dreams I have are so perfect in their intricate details. Some dreams are of objects and persons I have never seen or met before and they are so 8K constructed. How does the brain get the inputs to construct these forms which we see in dreams and to be so lifelike if there are no previous memories or inputs of the same? Or are dreams constructed in a lego-like manner out of already seen or heard pieces of existing memory lets?

It is as if a monkey given a paintbrush has painted a Raphael!

If the brain is only a storage device with very very large memory capacity, then can supercomputers dream?

Andrea B

1y↑2

Also I just wanted to comment and say much RESPECT to Ken and Antonio for advocating for fellowman and the things we still hold sacred in our modern world where we cannot advocate for the amount of stimuli and advertisements we do have to contend with on a daily basis

Jesse Herbert

1y↑2

I had the pleasure of hearing a presentation Deirdre gave at the first regional conference (Northeast) of IASD outside Boston a number of years ago, and to say it was excellent is putting it lightly. I purchased a number of her books on that alone (and the stellar reviews) but have only had time to read parts...if she sees this, I hope they are available now as audiobooks (or will soon be) as I love listening to these while commuting/etc. As she shows in this interview, her insights have depth and are rich with layered understanding. Bravo!

ACb

1y↑5

I started lucid dreaming as a kid because I was determined my dreams should have the intro music like the cartoons on TV 😂 so I created my own as I went to sleep and found I could have further control into the dream … 🤩

Maggie H

1y↑9

I LOVE my dreams no matter how bizarre they are. I rarely have what you might call a nightmare, but those tend to stay with you for a while if you wake up to one. I often fall asleep to some sort of documentary or art tutorial and I do find myself in lucid dreaming. I can hear the person on the show talking, and I'm have some sort of dream that relates to what they are saying. I used to have a recurring dream, for years and years and years. It was not a pleasant dream and although I have had that dream for a VERY long time I remember it with some fair detail. I often dream my teeth are crumbling and falling out and while I'm dreaming it, it feels so real that I wake up so glad it was a dream. I also dream sometimes that I cant walk very well. I have to forcibly move my legs to take step. But I have had either one of those recently either. I've had a dream that I can remember fairly well, that I've had only twice, but it was the very same dream. Many of my dreams include work colleagues - the same ones, but in a social situation taking place in the office. When I began painting about 5 years ago I would often dream about painting and once in a while I'd have an inspiration for a painting, I'd wake up, make a note of the painting I want to do, and in the morning I'd get up and paint it. I called the series "Out of a Dream". I think there were 5 or six of them and I even sold a couple of them.. Sorry for rambling, But I'm fascinated by dreams and love talking about them. .

Jay B

1y↑1

I love you, for telling the world of your experiences. For the value it may add; Today I enjoyed for a while that precious space between sleep and wakefulness, when a rising warmth fills an already safe environment , and the mind is free to exist within a place where ,to this fella at the least, lucidity and the dream state were dancing,
within a volume of important new ways of thinking which the video id had streaming was talking about.

Lori Miller

1y↑78

My dreams are so realistic that I wake up exhausted from them.

Brandy Severin

Oh same, 100%

Renzo Benz

Yes!

Lisa Johnson

Totally exhausted upon awakening 😵

A bit fruity

1y↑1

Yo dude, that is sick. I wish my dreams were that vivid

Lily

1y↑1

@Bad Cornflakes makes it less, I still dream but I don't remember 😂✌🏻

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Ginger Holt

1y↑5

I don’t always have vivid dreams and I cannot control them.
When I do have vivid dreams that are beautiful, I tend to remember them the most and treasure them as something rare and precious.
My favorite one was about two years ago.
I began to fly over open water and I lifted myself above a beautiful recreational sailing vessel.
The view was incredible as I looked down upon the ship. The details that I saw and the colors and sensations left me feeling euphoric.
I surely love the memory.

Johnny NiteTrain

1y↑7

Listening while I’m about to fall asleep. Btw, I had the most bizarre dream recently…I never usually remember them but this one was so insane I’ll never forget it. Long story short, what I remember from my dream is that an old high school buddy of mine (who I haven’t even thought of or seen in 15 years) and I stole a car, got arrested… so I used my one phone call to my grandpa and he said he’d send a lawyer. However long later, my lawyer walks in, and it was Danny Glover. What in the actual f-ck?? I mean I like the guy as much as the next person but not like some Danny Glover diehard fan or something. So I was like “what is the hell is Danny Glover doing here?” And he was like (in his Danny Glover voice) “I’m your lawyer son.”
Me: “but you’re not a lawyer, you’re Danny Glover” then I woke up so freaked out…. I couldn’t make this up. But my brain sure did in my sleep.

Marky Mark Detroit

1y↑1

Dreaming is like putting your experiences in DVD format and pressing shuffle on a 100 disc DVD player.

Glen Hunt

1y↑22

Awesome topic and, as usual, awesome panel. Even after 2 1/2 years of our using videoconferencing en masse, I still find myself in the uncanny valley whenever I see people next to each other, but only interacting straight ahead, lighted a bit differently, etc. I miss their turning and directing their attention to the person speaking and the others reacting. There's a lot more substance in in-person panels. Still, wonderful job World Science Festival team!

Michael Claffey

Ma$e

Glen Hunt

1y↑4

@Alexander Abrashev It's common in academia since we have so many colleagues around the world. Face to face is always nicer, but not always feasible. When WSF discussions are face to face, I feel more comfortable and get more out of it. I do get it when they're done remotely though. Also, it provides greater opportunity to get visual aids on point during editing, like they did here.

Alexander Abrashev

I don't get it why they're still doing online meetings. Most of europe doesn't use online meetings right now

Glen Hunt

Do they still get WSF water bottles?

Montana Crone

I’ve always been a prolific dreamer. At age 3 I was very confused about dream and reality. We tend to dream in metaphors and puns. And for me, it helps to recall the dream by telling it out loud. It would make sense. Solving problems, gaining a better understanding of a situation.

Don Petersen

When ever I have too much time away from work. I have dreams about things I haven't done but want to do at work.

ItsProStyles Hacks

1y↑3

One thing I've noticed while sleeping on a lobster boat while the engine is running with the sway of the ocean is its very easy to get into a state where your still awake yet sleeping so you still hear the engine but your dreaming and your thoughts become very lucid for example if your dreaming about someone talking it becomes very real as though the person is right beside you actually talking. Also if you say think about making a song while you go to sleep, when you get in that half asleep state it's as though your thoughts go on some instinct autopilot and the song becomes perfect, yet if you suddenly realize what's happening and wake up you'll never remember the lyrics of the perfect song you created. Also once your fully asleep your dreams are very vivid, creative and amazing not quite a lucid dream which I've had once which was like I woke up in a virtual reality, it wasn't like a dream it was like real life, I could feel the sand between my toes, I could smell the outdoors and the sunset was so bright and real, it was life changing as I've never experienced that in a dream, I literally just kept looking at my hands and my surroundings in amazement but I knew it was a dream but it had every detail and feeling of real life. It didn't last that long before I snapped out of it and woke up but to this day it's changed my way I look at dreams and what they are capable of. I now try to pay more attention to what happens in my dreams and try to remember them for as long as I can because the new thing I've noticed is it's like my dreams try to tell me things, 2 relationships I've had now I had some dreams that tried to warn me of a future outcome. The first relationship I dreamt that me and my girlfriend was at some sort of get together or party and she was cheating on me, in real life many months later she went to a campground get together/party and cheated on me and left me. Not 100% the same as the dream but the gist of the dream was there. The second girlfriend I constantly had dreams of her always disappearing and when I would find her she was prostituting herself or sleeping with some guy. For months I dreamed this....in reality I actually learned later she was sleeping with some men for money and she was sleeping with random guys just for fun. I couldn't believe how on point my dream was and how desperately it tried to tell me night after night. Also right before the bidens blunder in Afghanistan I had a dream that me and my kids were in a desert mountain type terrain trying to hide and escape, we were soo scared and then we seen troops coming our way and we tried to hide cus we thought they were hostile but they were usa troops and we were soo glad they were on our side then I woke up. About 3 days later in real life the taliban took over Afghanistan and families were trying desperately to escape. My mind was kinda blown. Everyone should keep track of their dreams. Don't forget them

Keevin Rassi

1y↑4

Wonderful and insightful, thank you...
I miss my REM cycles, it's as if I'm missing an utterly important portion of my conscious recollection without my dreams throughout my insomnia...

It's a bit creepy thinking about subconscious marketing while sleeping, which seems to be getting closer to hypnotic states of mind where one is more susceptible to suggestion (to each their own here though). Always good to be properly informed...

Unaltered hypnotic states...?...🤔

Mitchell

1y↑1

Today's dreams are tommorws questions so pay attention to your dreams! Your guides/guardian angel do come to you!
A silver cord connects our souls to our bodies when we sleep & our souls leave our bodies (souls don't sleep) & we go to other universes, dimensions or the spirit world or those who have a near death experience are connected to there silver cord tho once you go through the light your cord will be severed & if you wake up especially woken up by something you might notice yourself or a person paralyzed once woken because the soul has instantanasly appeared back into the body & the body remains paralyzed for however many moments until the soul reconnects to the body!

We're all born psychic so best to learn the basics. But important to know there's no short cut to god!

Kiyoshi Furuya

1y↑4

I was able to collapse the walls and allow myself to lucid dream while being awake by controlled sleep deprevation and cough medicine induced half-sleep. It gets dangerous when those walls collapse past a certain point but the experience can also be very informative. I've also listened to Brian Green lectures on string theory and particle physics while sleeping and I do believe that a lot of the information is retained, although not directly. I find that listening to educational content during afternoon naps is the best for critical thinking.

Kiyoshi Furuya

@Aussie icone For a year? Any noticeable side effects? Loss in motor skills or memory, or unusual mood fluctuations? I just started and there's not much data out there. Just wanna make sure there are no long term side effects.

Aussie icone

That's funny. I listen to Lex Fridman podcast and videos on theoretical physics while going to sleep most nights for the past year or so to learn stuff.

Kiyoshi Furuya

@QUICKSILVER In one experience I had to hold a spot as the universe expanded, guardian of that particular point in space-time. It was ultra cold and I couldn't move. I don't know why but when I came to, I imagine it to have been 40000 years. But mostly, I created scenes for the novel I'm writing. I blanked out and wrote a book in three weeks. But, like a dream, super inconsistent. 3 years and 5 edits later, still polishing it.

Kiyoshi Furuya

1y↑1

@QUICKSILVER No. It started out like reading a very visual book. Next thing I know, I'm totally immersed and watching scenes with people conversing, I can fly across vast distances, don't have a body though. If I look down, I would just flip in that direction. And no arms to lift up and see. An hour or two would go by but when I snapped back to reality, only minutes had.

Kiyoshi Furuya

1y↑1

@Caedmon Berkes-Adams No, its codine based and not psychedelic. It puts you in a half-sleep state while the caffine in it keeps you from falling asleep. I wouldn't suggest it unless it was in a safe clinical experiment environment. I did 2 weeks with only about an average of 10 hours of sleep and was able to experience some time altering lucid dreams. I was writing a novel and dreamt hours of the scenes within, in a semi-lucid state, but when I popped back, only a few minutes had gone by in realtime. The walls between reality and the subconscious collapsed and I ended up in the psyche ward for about a month. It took me 3 days to rebuild the walls between hallucinations and reality. And I believe I had a limited experience of what insanity is like. If we could pull people back and listen to their stories, profound stuff.

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Nick Taylor

1y↑2

Not only do I have lucid dreams on a regular basis but I also have had out of body experience. It indeed is true and anyone can learn to do it you just need to do the right things for practicing.

Alex B

1y↑1

Brain Greene, is the best. Love this guy. The way he delivers information, just amazing. Sounds, like a really good guy in general too. Can’t get enough of this ‘show’.

Verbier Yoga

1y↑4

Thank you Brian, such a fascinating talk. I wish you could invite some of the Tibetan masters who actually practice dream yoga all their lives. I am sure they have a lot to share. Also it got very disturbing when the lady started defensing the guidelines so suspiciously much:) when someone defends something so fearfully it’s always a sign things are the opposite of what she was saying;) I suspect all these “guidelines “ are to calm down the general public and for liability reasons. Something else might definitely be happening behind the scenes.

Coach Key

1y↑2

Wow that’s crazy! I’ve said exactly the same thing and told the person in my dream that was a dream and I shook myself up and woke up. 😮

Rebecca Solis

1y↑4

I had a dream I attended a dinner party hosted by Brian Green. It was a super boring dinner so I decided to increase the vibes by persuaded all the guest to play tennis & basketball. At the end we all jumped in the pool fully clothed. Such a fun party Brian! 😊

minikids2

1y↑13

Keep up all the great content :)

Rain 03

1y↑6

Whenever I try to explain a regular dream and find myself lacking proper terms to describe what I saw in my dream, I then realize it’s because I’m really trying to explain what I was feeling, the emotions I was feeling during the dream. I also seem to experience dreams as an expectator sometimes, like a third person camera following the dream.
Lastly, I have not had lucid dreams yet, but I had a dream involving a particular house (with different architecture to the houses in my country) and then many years later I travel to a diff country, pass by in a car and I saw this house just like in my random dream 🤯 in my dream I visited the inside and found out there were bones hidden behind the basement’s walls.

Rain 03

1y↑2

wow, that sounds like a cool super power to have 😂 thanks for sharing your experience.

ACb

1y↑2

Sometimes in my lucid dreams, I move into the spectator role to change the narrative. Like, once something so bad was about to happen I just didn’t want to deal with the trauma so I turned into the narrator and fully changed the scene to move the dream on. I think I even said out loud ( in the dream) “No, it’s not gonna happen like this.”
It kept the same kinda vibe after, but saved a lot of lives in the process hehe.
You may be closer to having a lucid dream than you think 😅

Andrea B

1y↑2

This is so interesting. Lol it made me remember that as a chronic sleep talker, my sisters and dad used to ask me questions while I slept and I would answer. I remember one time my sister asked me what my MySpace password was and I told her correctly 😅 😂 probably about 45- 1 hr of being awake did I have a vague recollection of it occurring

Satana

You remind me of my sister. When she's talking in her sleep and then her eyes are kind of open lol. Yet, she doesn't remember any of it.

Peter

I wonder what his thoughts on dreaming the future

Riley Hoffman

1y↑2

I used to teach art history. If I get another go 'round, I hope I'll choose bio-physics. Wow. Love this stuff... yay entanglement! At this point in retirement, I've had two novels published ("Saltine," [Otis, 2021]; my characters (in my mind, if not on the page) behave very much like lucid dreaming characters as described. One day, I asked one of my characters how he votes; the response was, "Back off, Rachel... it's every American's right to privacy." Hmmm. Should have asked while asleep.

James Moore

1y↑6

I often find myself flying in my dreams, but it takes a certain amount of concentration and finding a rhythm. Last weekend I got open water certified in SCUBA and found the experience of using my inhalation / exhalation for buoyancy control to be very similar to my flying dreams.

I'm interested in buying a new sleep tracker. My garmin doesn't seem to be as accurate as my old fitbit. Does anyone have any suggestions for the most accurate sleep tracker?

Sebastian Szajuk

1y↑1

I often avoided danger in my sleep by jumping over it with moon like gravity because i couldn't run away. Then i learn how to control it and i started to jump so high and have a long decent more than gliding than you could call it flying. Nowadays i do it very rarely.

Miodrag Bujosevic

1y↑2

Im not flying, not like bird or superman. Im just hovering few inches above the ground and glide gently with moving of my toes.

A. Eyow

1y↑3

flying in my dreams is one of my favorites

Anderson System

1y↑2

We are consciousness and so when we dream we experience consciousness. We can tap into other dimensional spaces in the universe in my opinion.

Dragon

You all know the end justifies the means but also helps create it... quantum reality experiments suggest this so perhaps remembering dreams maybe only a possibility when God (if you like) finds the best new reality for the planet...

God

1y↑6

Rarely w/out using any prescribed methods, i accidentally get lucid dreams seemingly fairly common. Believe it or not, it seems not to be restricted to non-fiction. Like on three occasions met the western-style dragon of which one landed right in front of me. Ordinary conversations with distinctively non-humans too.

Navreet Kaur

Thank you brian for this level of free education and discussion

Tixmeel Kurneex

I have had a good number of dreams where I died, I was an ancient warrior in one of them and as I was in a battle my enemy overpowered me and I knew I was dying so I let it happen, it was so interesting as I waited to see what would happen in that transition from life to death

Karma Jones

1y↑1

My first remembrance of having lucid dreams goes back almost as far as my memory I would say to age 5 or so..
When I started studying special relativity I could not completely wrap my brain around it.. I had a lucid dream during this time period where I put Einstein in a classroom with me and I had him teach it to me.
I know honestly believe I have just as good a grasp on everything involved that I can successfully explain it to a Layman.
I answer a lot of questions during my sleep.

MISSMARYJO

Teach me how pretty please

Tommy Huffman

Super amazing presentation. I'm glad you included the guy who does portraits, because it's interesting, but it seems fake. The math experiment was incredibly fascinating and worthy of deeper research.

Edward Armstrong

1y↑1

I have a seer gift. Some of my dreams mean nothing but I often can see things right before that happen. Or I’ll see a place in a dream and I will be at that same place within the next few days. I’ve also visited heaven to see a friend who lasted away before also and I talked to him

Space Man

1y↑5

Reality is in the things you dont see but instead FEEL.

Jem Adamson

1y↑3

Ive definitely gotten artistic ideas in dreams a couple times. And definitely cool scifi book ideas

Don R

Sometimes dreams doesn’t always makes sense until we try to figure out what the message is in our dreams ,it is trying to tell us something that is when the dreams keep repeating itself,trying to tell us something 👍🏾

Neil

1y↑2

There was a BBC programme in the 70s in which two-way communication was achieved with a lucid dreamer. Can't remember what it was called, but it shows that this work was done nearly 50 years ago.

Ap Ac

Diala Mark

1y↑3

I have unique experience with lucid dreams, I learnt how to drive a car in my dreams, years later, I drove with no instructions or any help from anyone and it was so profound feeling about my ability.

Peter Simon Spiess

1y↑1

Dreams are like fingerprints - unique. Making a science out of it by slicing the state of the brain as receiver while sleeping. Dreams take seconds and are individual. Conscient people don't dream, but receive visions and ideas.

Christopher MacLeod

Some dreams I wake up yearning for the dream not to have ended almost a sadness it wasnt real sometimes like last night it's scary and uncomfortable huh go figure

jim ranallo

I've been fascinated with dreaming since I was very young...I took the subject on yrs ago and studied about a year...enough to help me interpret my dreams and being a avid dreamer...very many nights...I could "pause" a dream if I woke up in the course of a dream...and hit "play" and return to the same dream....not everytime but often...at times I could relate a dream back to daily input...but also had dreams that were quite obviously a visit from a loved one that passed away... especially during a crisis and seemingly guiding my waking conscientious...I still remember many dreams and enjoy them immensely.... Cheers from Mexico

Troy Thomas

I love the neurological cellulose communication. I was just telling my probation officer on my last visit. That I believe this was possible, and or maybe I have.

Yoci Ceri Ellko Di'Viktori Watts

That lady is lovely as she is happens to have had a major hand in the development of the technology that allows a human brain to type and control a computer in...lets say China
a project that was started in a lab out in Boston and also in a little room\ suburban facility, somewhat local to me, in Maine and in fact this study and understanding of this premise since has spread outwards to several larger countries in the form of neural technology and things like the Muse headband, the technology that allowed an actual rat to fly an airplane the technology that allowed humans to control a rat that flies an airplane and several other things including and not limited working along with DARPA to develop a interesting chip that records memory which may interest the gentleman there on the right hand side
to be fair it's highly likely that he had a hand in a large amount of all of this developmental technology as well so I will say it's nice to see him choosing the side of the gentleman in the middle i
t would be a deep pleasure to find that this lady in particular has maybe grown to find reasons that she may want to tailor her approach in regards to ethical behavior in the realm of Neurologiscals "waking and or a subconscious life" so on and so forth in her future as well that is all I appreciate your interviews they are as non-biased I think it's an interview can be and somehow in the face of sometimes tense moments can be somehow lighthearted and an absolute Delight you have an intense skill is an interviewer and thank you for dedicating some of your time to allow the rest of us to enjoy that

Russel Burgess

1y↑5

I can always tell when my dog is dreaming. Sometimes her legs move like she's running, or she's making wimpering or excited sounds telling me that she's seeing something in her dreams.

Miodrag Bujosevic

1y↑13

I'm 45 years old now and as far I can remember I always have had what is called Lucid dreams. I have never dreamt a nightmare. If dream was stupid, disturbing or simply boring I would said to myself (while dreaming): dream that good looking girl you saw yesterday or, most often, dream that gig you played that was good, because I was a drummer before. I hope they will talk deeply about lucid dreams. They are fantastic.

ACb

1y↑2

@Miodrag Bujosevic yes same, but then I wake up OR realise I’m actually alive and narrate my dream elsewhere 😃

Bobby girl

1y↑3

Miodrag Bujosevic

And so, it is clear: dreams don't foretold future, they don't predict anything, they are always late, same kind of strange post thinking.

Amie Anderson

1y↑4

Creating your own dreams, being the story writer and knowing it's you doing it.

phantomhawk01

@Alex unless you were just dreaming that you were lucid lol

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Don R

Personally I think dreams are messages to us to know in real life 👍🏾

Cara Fizzy

I had a dream/nightmare journal.
It was great everytime I woke up id grab my journal and write down what I had experienced and the date and time.
For some time I had stopped dreaming I thought it was difficult for me to recall anything and even yawn for about a year or 2. But I think it was just life changes and stresses now looking back, I think I'm going to start up my journal again.

uriel contreras

1y↑1

amazing i thought everyone dreamt the same I'm a very every night lucid dreamer I not only make my dreams but can manipulate them in any way shape or form its very fun and I would say about 97% of my dreams I'm in full control.

Ella Mis

1y↑2

Dreams are experiences of the soul, they can also be messages from the soul to the mind and they can happened on many playgrounds: our internal emotional self, our subconscious mind, on the energetic side of the Earth or even on the energetic side of other planets and galaxies and sometimes, in the Astral, but for existing in Astral that soul needs to be detached of the physical life and very tuned to the spiritual side. When a soul is fighting with a monster, that dream is showing that you struggle with certain emotions and instinctual traits and the soul feel just like that, as being attacked of a monster, as this is how you truly feel inside. A sister or brother could represent your own mind, the list is endless, they are all symbols because is how the soul communicates with the mind. The soul dosent see things, as is pure energy is sensing and vibrating, but the mind cant translate those frequencies so the soul is making the translation through visual symbols and emotions.

Anna B

1y↑1

Im an insomniac, but I'm an expert in dreams. Lucid/night terrors/paralysis/dreaming where lost things are/etc.. they are like movies!

Samantha Heart

As someone that has been aware that I'm dreaming since I was a kid a over the past 20 years or so have trained myself to be able to control things in my sleep, like leaving certain repeating dreams I dont like or change certain things. I can say you will never understand someone elses dream. A dream is your sub conscious letting you know if your waking life is going in the right direction. Dont get me wrong some dreams are just dreams but some your sub conscious trying to communicate with you. You just have to figure it out because they ain't always literal. I remember all my dreams Ialso have dreams that have developed with me meaning people have grow got married..had kids....and became friends and people I go to see in my continuation dreams people I've never seen or met in real life

urminthermin

Also now I can fly and feel things , taste things ,change dreams and travel . I have gone five layers deep by falling asleep in my dream and waking up on another level and up existing I had to go back to previous dream until I got back to this reality.

Beth Erin

1y↑1

I stopped dreaming when I stopped watching TV...if I do watch a series or movie I will have them

Latent Avail

I find myself in Lucid Dreams quite often. I practiced the dream grounding thoughts and the moment I get a whiff that I'm in a dream, it becomes lucid. Most of the time when i become lucid inside dreams it's because i need to wake up. When I tell myself to stay asleep and explore the playground, I often experience horrors such as killing sprees or other tragedies. One time I saw a large feline predator bite the head clean off the sherrif. It took forever to wake up and that cat chased me for hours.

Mostly if I want to manipulate the dream it's already lucid. And interestingly the ones that are lucid are the only ones i remember these days. I have PTSD and my dreams often make that worse.

On the other hand, I usually have the ability to hover and fly at will. I practice every time it activates but i'm still not spiderman.

It should be noted that I lucid dream about twice a week and that's when i'm getting 10-14 hours of sleep every night.

jhonny3053

If you haven't seen the movies 'Waking Life' or 'A Scanner, Darkly' yet, I would recommend them to dream enthusiasts because they explore a lot of these ideas in a much more visual manner. Dreams tend to come alive in the creative realm of society, showing us things which are not real outside of our individual minds but can generate a tangible emotional response in others which, in turn, leads to real social consequences.

Allison Workinger

I have had Premonitions at Random Times All at Night Time & Feelings of Vibes from other People. I used to Be Able To Read Dogs Body Language when I was a Kid up to when I was in High school. As a Kid I was the Piped Piper of Dogs & Cats!!!

Charles McClure

1y↑1

When we realize we are all dreaming, the dream is the matrix... the dream of the world to who we are a body with a brain, and we are also an awareness. The Lucid part is only the awareness, the awareness is the dream, and the dreamer is the etheric form of the fractal of self of the all. The Monad.

Crafty Criminalist With Ms. Z

I sleepwalk and when I am able to remember what I’ve dreamt they are terrifying dreams. My sleep is scarce as is, due to ptsd and such frightening dreams and realistic dreams that I don’t get good sleep. I’ve started with a sleep doctor, and know she is very, very qualified and am lucky to have her. Hopefully this part of my life can be helped at some point, it sucks to never be rested and always fighting.

New Message

1y↑7

I've had several lucid dreams, and I love it more than anything else in my life.
The trouble is, I get so excited that I'm dreaming... I wake myself up. So while I've had many, they never last more than a few minutes.

ACb

1y↑1

I’ve found I can get back into the dream if I don’t have to get up, am still tired, and start indulging in the content of it again… brining it forward with my imagination until I fall into a light or deeper sleep again.

Mitchell

Miodrag Bujosevic

1y↑2

Just relax and follow the story, it's like a movie. Be an observer.

Chris Quinn

1y↑3

I never realize I'm dreaming while dreaming until the point I'm at risk of injury or death and at that point is when I understand I'm dreaming. Just like in consciousness pain is always the ultimate reality and it appears that connection follows while sleeping.

Timothy P. Floyd

1y↑1

The Jack (toy) Leonardo had in Inception

Chris Quinn

1y↑1

@Timothy P. Floyd you drive a Ford, you're gonna need that jack more than me.

Chris Quinn

1y↑1

@Timothy P. Floyd what?

Timothy P. Floyd

1y↑1

Keep your jack.

DOPE NOIZE

The past few years, my dreams have become so real, I have often mistaken reality with a dream. It's gotten me into some trouble as of recent.

Lisa Hansen

1y↑1

In 2019 I had the same dream every night. I don't understand why or why it stopped. I still have the dream, just not every night. Now I have the dream at least once a month now. The year I continually had the dream I felt like the dream is where my other nighttime life existed. I have many reoccurring dreams. ALL of my life since I can remember. As a child I had lucid dreams. I left my body and looked at myself lying on my bed many times. I knew what my house and block looked like from above. My dream life is a whole other dimension. To many dream/sleep anomalies to write about here. It freaks me out when I think about what I experienced in my dream/sleep state as a child. I can pretty much except and deal with this as an adult.

Edward Armstrong

I have a reoccurring dream about my truck getting stolen. I’ve had these dreams for atleast 10 years no matter what vehicle I had. I also have elevator dreams regularly

Brother Mine

I would like to have heard more about the hypnotized state of mind, which might be closely related to the lucid dreaming state... in both states it's possible to influence the direction of the ”hallucinations.” I presume the brain activity of hypnotized people is surely worth studying, and presumably has been studied. It has the research advantage that a hypnotized person can communicate with the experimenter more easily and in greater detail than a dreaming person can.

Richard McVay

1y↑1

I was listening to this live stream during my afternoon nap... I'll compare it upon watching it again, and then see what happens during my next 'lucid dream' :)

WildLily5069

1y↑5

dreams is a communication between outerself and inner self. ..it is a bridge between the two kinds of self ..

Doug O

I remember very clearly the nightmares I had as a four-year-old child. They always seemed to be focused on large objects in a dark space flying around. One night while I was having the dream I stood up and went in the bathroom turned on the water in the basin and splashed cold water in my face. When I turned on the light I could see myself in the mirror, but in my head the dream was still running like a movie. Soon after that I began to think the dreams are the garbage can of the Mind, where ideas are sloughed off.

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