Okay, if you can remember your dreams, can you control them? Have you ever had a lucid dream - where you know you're dreaming and can control it? I've only had one when I woke enough to be aware I was dreaming and turn the alarm off, but not exit my dream. It was cool, I immediately levitated (despite having just met Beyonce), but haven't been able to since. Recently, I've been trying to get myself to realise when I am dreaming, but when I see something strange in a dream I will try and figure out why it's happening, without realising it's a dream. And if I can't figure it out, I just kinda shrug and carry on. Something like eg a cereal bowl being bigger every time I look at it until it's the size of the kitchen sink, but I don't figure out it's because I'm dreaming.
So, how do you actually know when you are dreaming? Can you tell?
I've had very lucid dreams that feel very real and when I wake up am shocked that they weren't. Regards the conrtol thing, I don't have that much control, or maybe I do!
The medication i am on causes me to have vivd dreams...too damn vivid to be honest but over the years i have learned how to cotrol them...just wish they would stop sometimes
I often remember my dreams but I have never yet learned how to control the way a dream is going. I will often dream of something that is actually happening outside my dream state ie. idiotic neighbour having a bath at 5.00 am, letting out the bath water and the sound becomes Niagara Falls or a torrent in my dream that gradually wakes me up enough to realise that it is gushing bath water. Dreaming can sometimes be acquired through self hypnosis and you dont have to be asleep to feel it.
theres a lot about dreams we dont know, some are prophetic, some are things that have influenced us in our waking time and some we can control like in our own playground
Had a very real life dream for about 4 years runing, in colour, and in great detail. And i actually found the place in my dreams, which turned out to be silbury hill. As soon as i went and saw it with my own eyes my dreams stopped.Although i can remember it
If you make a habit of doing something rational when faced with disbelief, you can somewhat make it habit, even in dreams. For instance, when i was little i used to have nightmares constantly. My dad taught me to bite the tip of my finger every time i got scared. When i bit the tip of my finger in a dream, it never hurt, therefore i immediately knew it was a dream and it became lucid. I was able to manipulate every aspect of the dream, and as an effect, began loving my "nightmares". Not more than a few months after i took control of my dreams, though, i stopped having them altogether, or at least stopped remembering them. I honestly only have a memorable dream about once every 2 or 3 months now. I don't know if that is why, but be careful.
I am often in control of my dreams - I used to have horrendous nightmares as a teenager and was constantly in live or death situations and used to get extremely stressed until one night I gave in and thought I can't be bothered and just waited to die and of course, woke up. Since then I always end nightmares quickly by simply accepting what is going to happen and because you never die in your dreams I just end up waking up. My positive dreams never last long enough but I do tend to have really good recall of at least one dream a night and often hubby and I swap tales.
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