Weird Sleep / Dream Habits

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  • set3

    Years ago my brother sent me a video to watch about becoming lucid and controlling your dreams. As fate would have it I fell asleep with it on in the background and for the first time in my life I had a lucid dream.

    I was in a conservatory, looked out the window and saw a huge butterfly, about 5ft wide, flutter by. I remember thinking to myself 'butterfly's aren't that big, I must be dreaming'. At that point I realised I was actually dreaming. I remembered what Don Juan had told Carlos Castaneda about not staring at any one thing in particular as you'll lose it, but instead shift your eyes around from one thing to another. Then I became fully lucid.

    There were two old witch like ladies in the conservatory with me and at that point they chuckled to themselves and said 'he's getting it!'.

    I managed to manifest in to my hand by will a bottle of corona, which I put down, and then manifested an ash tray (important things). Then I woke up and realised the lucid dream video was playing in the background and must have triggered me.

    • I tried every night for about a week to replicate it by leaving the video on when I went to sleep but didn't have another lucid dream until about 6 months laterset
    • Very cool.monospaced
    • got some potential thar.yurimon
    • this is greatmaquito
    • Tried astral projection after reading a book. Got quite far but ended up with a massive fright one night and never did it since.microkorg
    • Sounds interesting, care to share what the experience was? I think fear is often the barrier..set
  • CyBrainX0

    This isn't quite dreaming but I have a mental exercise while falling asleep that I am a pile of sand falling though a metal screen this size of the mattress. The more I fall though the closer I am to sleep.

    • I like that. Kinda like dissolving into the calm.monospaced
    • like it too. i'm gonna try thismicrokorg
  • microkorg0

    I have the same recurring theme in my dreams all the time.

    Usually takes place in derelict buildings or old cinemas or schools. Being chased by something, sometimes with old friends from childhood too. Never see who is chasing so don't know if it's cops, aliens, monster, ghost ....

    Some dreams take place in a house, maybe a new one we've moved into. At some point I discover one of the doors can't be locked properly or that it leads to next doors house and again is not lockable.

    • Do you feel you are going in the right direction in your life? anything unresolved?yurimon
    • i have this dream recurring too... start with exploring a new place and then sometimes it turns into being chased or hiding from somethingmonospaced
    • ^ your dream means you are running from the truth. your subconscious knows when your awakened state dont.yurimon
    • and your words are the diarrhea that your brain is having because of the shit it eats, and therefore your diagnosis is both pointless and complete shitmonospaced
    • you are repressing something broh its your dream.. dont tell me.yurimon
    • i would say know you is you are running from a higher spiritual path that is an aspect of truth and entrenched in the lower materialism of this worldyurimon
    • meaning you are entrenched in the material world for security, and ignoring another aspect of yourself. sorry phone typinyurimon
    • you're wrongmonospaced
    • if you're talking about me, that ismonospaced
    • according to toaist health practices. your repression will end up as a disease or an emotional crisis. repressed emotions in toaism are circulation blockadesyurimon
    • You hear that micro? Yuri is a Taoist dream philosopher and he's got some doom for you. ;)monospaced
    • everything is motion and circulation. if there is a blockage it effects circulation in different aspects of the body prevents a healthy flow. tension is alsoyurimon
    • not a diagnosis but good to see how toaism handles health. pretty good.yurimon
    • I have had these dreams for as long as I can remember. The paths/ways/emotions change thru life but my dreams stay the same. So not one source.microkorg
    • They don't scare me and it's cool seeing inside old buildings.microkorg
  • CyBrainX0

    I had a dream in high school that was completely lucid. I wondered what it would be like to life my eyelid while sleeping. I did it once and thought. Wow. It's morning. I didn't expect that. I did it again and the third time I did it, I woke up thinking WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING??

  • maquito0

    A very recurrent dream I have is the harvest of weapons and ammo in different places, with a very clear determination to kill someone. I never know who the target is, but in the moment I have to shoot, the gun or rifle or whatever, turns into a very tiny toy gun, and I have to run. In those dreams, I can float (it's something like if holding my breath makes me float), I have trouble running, and I have a big issue with my punching skills, it's like in slo-mo, I can't punch properly. BTW, I never played shooting games; I never played any computer games.

    • I would find a real psychic, you may have attachments. narrow down starting from their? you live in an old house?yurimon
    • thereyurimon
    • Yurimon, just mash your forehead against the keyboardset
    • learn ingrish beeotchyurimon
    • Mash your forehead against the keyboard, it'll save time thinking and make more sense.set
    • ingrish mafacryurimon
    • lol love youset
  • maquito1

    My dreams are nightmares almost every time, and they are a total mess, like something out of Gaspar Noé's mind. I have dreamt I kill, I die, I fly, I lose my teeth, I fire guns, and I fuck like an animal. I often wake up sweating and screaming like a bitch. I also have sleep paralysis.

    • do you have any other unusual spiritual experiences?
      as far the violence, do you feel you have control over your life?
      yurimon
    • Same here except for the bitchy screams partterry_cloth
    • Sounded judgy, not my intention. Sounds like you've got some PTSD type things going on, mine have gotten less alarming as the years roll onterry_cloth
  • yurimon-4

    Davo, how are you doing financially?

    • 1.5%DaveO
    • your in the 1.5% elite?yurimon
    • just mash your forehead against the keyboardset
    • can i smash your forehead it looks more smashable than mine. you eat to much meat bro.yurimon
    • I eat meat once a week, haha. Yuritardset
    • Just mash your forehead against the keyboardset
  • BusterBoy0

    I have a recurring dream...probably 4 or 5 times a year, that I am witness to a major plane crash. Weird. I'm never actually in the crash but am pretty close and see the whole thing go down.

    • I used to have this! Now I see the best UFO ever - like mindblowing.fadein11
    • You harbor hatred for others.yurimon
  • inteliboy0

    I can't sleep on my back because of sleep paralysis.

    Almost every night I need white noise to fall asleep. Just put a fan on or the FM radio on fuzz. House mate is so noisey that I've even started wearing silicone ear buds.

    Also I sometimes lucid dream. It's incredible and better than any trip or video game.

    Every single night since a kid I put myself to to sleep by thinking about movie ideas.

    • sleep paralysis used to happen really often to me too. So often I stop giving fuck and started to enjoy it...pango
    • u r visitedyurimon
  • maquito0

    I read Castaneda with a hippie gf I had like 20 years ago. Apparently, when you wake up from a dream, go back to sleep, and carry on with the dream you were having, you have an amazing ability to control the subconscious. I have had, in fact, many of those dream "sequels" after waking up. Nevertheless, I can not control the fact that my nightmares are absolute agony, which usually make a total wreck of my sleep time.

  • robthelad0

    Since about 2014 I fall asleep peacefully in about 5 minutes after closing my eyes. When I dream, I take control.

  • sureshot0

    I often dream I live in a small wooden cabin in the Amazon Rainforest.

    • lingering unresolved problems, could mean you are not spending time to take care of your needs?yurimon
    • I hope you are being rhetoric yuri.sureshot
    • im practicing here. are you being rhetoric?yurimon
    • not always.sureshot
  • maquito0

    Worst nightmare I recall... I'm sure a shrink would really like this one. I am at this old house having dinner with a girl. It's her parent's house, and her parents are the devil and her wife. Devil is like a human size dragon who is very sarcastic and diplomatic about everything, and wife is a ghost or something, a light. She doesn't talk, but makes sounds of violins or something. I have to escape the place cause I know I'm going to die, and the fate of humanity depends on me. I go out, and the house is literally in the middle of the desert. I run like a motherfucker and suddenly I'm back at the same house, with my gf, the devil's daughter. Panic, wake up screaming like a goat.

    • I hope someone's really enjoying these tales.maquito
    • can you read my message?yurimon
    • I guess not,yurimon
    • ironic. one thing i can possibly help out with. filtered. sweet dreams amigo prince.yurimon
  • Beeswax0

    Fsh, i always see flock of fishies
    either in a sea, lake, river or a pond.

    sometimes white whales, sometimes koi fish, sometimes other different kinds.

    I searched for it. It says i'll get a lot of money from somewhere.
    I've been waiting. I have to pay my credit cards. sheesh.

    • lol I swear every dream means you're getting money.sofakingback
    • its more about potential of abundance through networking and fruition of your efforts.yurimon
  • yurimon-3

    post mo stuff. im going to practice
    [for entertainment purposes] < disclaimer cause you knows its troo. haha

    • < deterrentmonospaced
    • you're very good at this, yuri. Maybe you're better suited to the dreamworld.Fax_Benson
    • also seems mono prob has control issues. afraid to let go of control to a higher power.yurimon
    • grasshopper the real world n dream world are linked. one would say all is one.yurimon
    • what a cunt move talking shit about me in a post where I'm not involved, with completely fabricated assumptions about a stranger... condescending prickmonospaced
    • but wait, you're just being like this because you think it's "entertainment" and "you're practicing" ... I guess I should just let you misinterpret your downvotmonospaced
    • how is it condescending if you are an atheist who doesnt believe in a high power. plenty of people nowadays have control issues. neutral not good or badyurimon
    • because you're making assumptions about me and talking about me as if you're above me and you're also making suggestions about how to live lifemonospaced
    • when you do that, it's condescending whether you THINK it's true or not, whether it is true or not... it's just a way of speaking that is considered condescendimonospaced
    • you make these half-logical journeys in order to paint pictures of people you don't know and then have the audacity to dole out diagnoses and remediesmonospaced
    • when you do this, it's condescending, by definition... because it's unsolicited, because you don't know me, because between the lines, you're insultingmonospaced
    • if I were to say the same things about you that you are saying about me, you would not be happy eithermonospaced
    • If you haven't noticed, people don't want you practicing your dream interpretation on them. They don't appreciate your questions or your experiments.monospaced
    • Not because you're right or think you are, but because it's condescending in nature.monospaced
    • its not condescending if you are repressing something. how is it me when im basing it on info you provided. by definition anything negative to you is condescendyurimon
    • if you can't understand how calling someone 'grasshopper' isn't condescending, then you are either an idiot, or just trying to create conflict.monospaced
    • if someone posts a positive dream i will try to read it differently. dont get your nickers in a bunch.yurimon
    • it IS condescending! For all the reasons I said. It has nothing to do with if it's true, it has to do with the fact that you don't know if it's truemonospaced
    • when you tell a stranger they're repressing something, that's condescending.monospaced
    • holy shit, you will never get it... everyone else gets it except for you, it's insane... ask anyone, they'd agree with memonospaced
    • You talking to Yuri, mono? Block him, make QBN a better place for you and for me and the entire human race https://lh5.googleus…maquito
    • Buzz, link was an MJ picmaquito
    • you blocked a cure for your bad dreams. ironic.yurimon
    • dude, you posted a dream, i tried to interpret it. most people would say hmmm. is it true yay or nay. you dont particularly have a good dreamyurimon
    • your dream speaks for itself. not even snowflake age. i dont get it.yurimon
    • mono: my leg hurts
      doc: looks like you sprained it
      mono: you condescending prick!
      yurimon
    • the very idea that you consider yourself a doctor in this ludicrous failure of an analogy is condescending toomonospaced
    • you already admitted you don't know the definition of the word, and you've refused to either acknowledge or apologize... this is pointlessmonospaced
    • that was a metaphors of how complain on condescensionyurimon
  • pinkfloyd0

    Sometimes, I try to control my dreams where i'm flying.

  • kalkal1

    Abstract buildings that make no sense that feel so familiar. Secret passage ways that you couldn't possibly fit through. Usually a new property that's massive, but somewhere Ive never been. Ive very often lost something or someone and the theme is the panic of not being able to find them, or simply being lost some place in the middle of nowhere. For a short while after waking, the feeling of anxiety lingers. Nothing specific, nothing repeats. There are similarities (I think) between dreams but they are pretty random. Its like the familiarity comes either from other similar dreams or parallels with real places. Its almost not like there much visual going on but I can sort of try to describe the layouts, like portions of the structure is missing, like I just forgot how I got from location A to B, but inside the dream, it just makes sense.

  • Fax_Benson0

    I have an occasionally recurring dream that I was partly responsible for the death of somebody in the past (usually along with a real life friend of mine) and that the crime is on the verge of being discovered. The fear is visceral and it usually takes me a good few minutes of consciousness to convince myself that the police aren't on their way.

    • seems like you harbor guiltyurimon
    • maybe insecurity, fear of being discoveredyurimon
    • yeah, loads, but that's from all the real murders that I don't dream about.Fax_Benson
  • set0

    I often dream that I wake up, get out of bed, get in the shower, get dressed, make breakfast, eat it, leave the house, walk to the train station, get on the train, arrive at work... and then I wake up and have to do it all over again.

    It's fucking annoying.

  • monospaced0

    hahaha, yuri the dream interpreter!