Kasper
Basically like playing God in your own dream... control over everything. I don't know for sure if it's a well-known term, I am familiar with it though... it's quite commonly discussed on other forums that I browse from time to time. I think though, MC you may have mistaken it for something like "vague" or "hazy", however lucid is the exact opposite... meaning "perfect clarity". It's always fascinated me though, and I'd like to give it a try one of these days.

Anyway, back on topic, we don't want to force Serge into another topic split.

Yeah, By Sky I meant loads more channles, That ariel thats put on top of your house and it gets all those channels for you, e.g. Sky One

Casper
Are these really "lucid" then? AFAIK, you can't call it a lucid dream unless you are aware of the fact that you're dreaming. If you're aware of it, you'll know there's no harm. I think I read somewhere that lucid dreaming can actually be applied to overcome nightmares...
I guess perhaps I'm wrong, I personally only had one incredibly lame lucid dream. Not even worth mentioning.

GeorgeHarrison
I never looked too deep into it and memorised it, but there are various methods for doing this, they all sound pretty logical. The only ones I can remember without picking my brain apart are that you can watch your clock frequently, every five minutes or so... look at the time, look away, wait a couple of seconds and look back. Such routines could influence your dreams and if the clock shows a different time the second time, you're dreaming. The second method is about waking up with an alarm clock at night and try to focus on something, don't remember, fall asleep again. Oh yeah, that one reminded me of something else where you're supposed to try and take control when you're in a state of being somewhere between sleeping and being awake. It's all really difficult to master, I think an "experienced" lucid dreamer could succeed once, twice a week. Having to practice all these things seems really annoying and boring, so although interesting, I find it pretty lame.
The one lucid dream I had was after the first time I heard of it, and it was the last thing I did before I went to sleep. So I guess it was just still hanging around in my thoughts, and inside the dream I managed to realize that it was a dream! It was pretty short, because what I could do was very limited, and I instantly jumped from the current dream to a new one. Now, I was having this wonderful dream right before realizing it, and the lucid dream just ruined it, so I forced myself to wake up. Fortunately, once I had fallen asleep again, I returned to my previous dream.

Casper
Wow, that's pretty odd... I'd just go do something reckless once I figured out it was a dream.
But yeh, I think that without actually knowing about lucid dreams, you might not react all that strongly to realising it's a dream. I don't know, perhaps I've had these a long time ago or something, it just sounds familiar.
Thinking about the fact that you can't really think perfectly straight while dreaming adds up to this as well. Dreams are always odd, sometimes more, sometimes less, but there's always things that are way off. I suppose you're not exactly supposed to be able to think straight either while sleeping, such things would automatically be put on standby to let your brain rest. Enough of my equations that I can't put to words though. Brainz!

SimpReal
Ah, yes... those ones are really unnerving! It's kinda of like lucid dreaming, it is different though.
Good description, I can never recall what it feels like, but that sounds about right. Leaves me afraid to go back to sleep. :S
Hope your dreams shapen up anyway!

I saw this topic, and of course I was not going to stay out since I've studied "Lucid dreaming" for quite some time now.  I was completely hooked.

Lucid dreaming is not actually controlling completely your dream, but instead, it is knowing that you are dreaming.     Thats for those who said that they can control their dreams which is impossible. You can react to whats happening to the dream in a diferent way while on the dream.  One cannot control the subconscious mind and neither the unconscious, what happens while lucid dreaming is that some of that subconcious mind is used as concious mind in a little pertentage and so you can do things on a dream that not everyone can control, and even when you wakeup and fall asleep again you could continue somehow.  But thats part subconciously done too, most likely you loved your dream or hated it too much that you are asking for it, involuntarily.    There are so many ways to interpret "Lucidity" yeah, but in the terms of a dream, it means that you are able to recall your dream, and not right away on your first try, even for that, you'll need to practice it and explore how far you can go. Time will tell if you can completely remember the dream.  Not everyone has the same ability to reach this point.


Does it has happen to you that you wake up and are sure that you had an amazing dream but you cannot remember nothing at all?  Well, that is the purpose of lucid dreaming; to take that dream out of the subconscious mind and place it into the conscious mind.

If any of you are "really interested" in how to be a lucid dreamer, I have a book called the Genius code.  There is a chapter about the topic, and with audio too.  I can send it to you guys if you just pm me. I'd be glad to share the jewel.

OPUS
Nah, I'm just not that kind of people. Most of the times my dreams are something I really appreciate, something more than my regular life. I just don't want to know that I'm just dreaming. I tried to learn lucid dreaming in the past, because I thought that "lucid dreaming" means "controlling your dreams", "seeing what you want". That would be useful indeed but when I realized that "lucid dreaming" means only that "boundary state", I abandoned it. I keep having nice dreams sometimes, I can't ask for more.

Yeah, thats what I said.  You cannot completely control a dream.   But yes to a certain point like you said.