Any lucid dreamers out there?

[LogDog75]

I'm a lucid dreamer. For those who don't know what a lucid dream is it is where the person knows they are dreaming and often can change or influence their dream. I first notice this type of dreaming about 40 years ago when I woke up from an intense dream and realized I had made decisions in the dream. As I continued having these types of dreams I described it as "interacting dreams" meaning I was aware I was dreaming and I was directing the story line of the dream. Since then, I've learned the term for my "interacting dreaming" is called lucid dreaming.

There are four types of lucid dreams:
Knowing that you are dreaming.
Being able to control your own dream actions in a wake-like fashion.
Being able to manipulate your dream surroundings.
Being able to manipulate the dream actions of other people in your dreams.

I experience all four types of lucid dreams. A couple of nights ago, I dreamed I was in England (I was stationed there twice) visiting a small shop. The lighting was dim and as I was looking I saw some David Winter Cottages (which I collected) in a display cabinet. I looked under the shelf and saw an actual David Winter label and the details on label and the cottages was amazing. I then went upstairs where there was a supermarket. Again, many aspects of the dream seemed real including the shoppers, the fruits and vegetables, signs.

So, do any DUers do lucid dreaming? If so. what's your experience.

[Bluethroughu]

1. Yes, I do all four lucid dream techniques.

Rarely do I dream without control, but even then, I stand in third party able to end it if I choose.

It helped me overcome adversity in the physical world, by playing out what ifs.

[Dorothy V]

2. Yes, sometimes.

I don't remember my dreams as often as I did when I was young, and I don't manipulate them as often as I did then, but just recently I had a dream where I decided I didn't like the look of things. The dream was set in a rather spare shack in a deserty area, and I decided to add more furnishings to the shack, and added grass and an ocotillo in bloom to the area around the shack. I grew up mostly in deserts, the Mojave, the Sonora, and the Basin and Range deserts, and many of my dreams are set in deserts. Problem is, I don't much like deserts, so my adding some green to the dream doesn't surprise me.
Rarely I add a person to a dream. Many of my dreams include looking for somebody but an added character is usually not the person I am looking for.

[Moostache]

3. I have had a few very vivid experiences with this...but I cannot induce it or control it.

One thing I can do with somewhat predictable results is put myself into scenes in a novel while reading. I don't mean just visualizing it, I mean I get the sensation that even though I am consuming the story via vision on a page and interpretation in my brain, my experience is more akin to actually BEING THERE. It is almost like the feeling people have described to me when taking about controlling a lucid dream - a sort of semi-self-hypnosis effect that is very cool.

Its also one of the reasons that I can struggle with reading books that I have seen a visual adaptation (movie, TV or graphic novelization) of prior to reading the text alone. The imagery of the adaptation interferes with this weird phenomenon and I find myself much more distracted as a reader and unable to achieve this effect as readily. Just another reason why (for me especially) the book is ALWAYS better than the movie!

[Sneederbunk]

4. No. I am barely lucid when I am awake.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

6. ROFLMAO!!!!

[mitch96]

5. Neat, I did not know there was a name for it.. I can control some dreams and I have even woke my self up

if the dream was not going "my way". The dreams I DID NOT LIKE were the bad dreams that when I woke up I was still in the dream...Uff they were nasty. I think it's called night terrors..
I don't have them any more which is great...
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[MustLoveBeagles]

7. I have the first two types of lucid dreams

I have no control over it.

[3catwoman3]

8. I wish! Sometimes I know that I'm dreaming but, unfortunately...

...I cannot control the dreams at all. The "I wish" stems from how vivid the dreams are, complete with both color and tactile sensations, and they usually involve trying to complete some sort of task that keeps getting more and more complex and frustrating, and I keep running into repeated roadblocks of various types. I'm typically engaged in these various struggles all alone, with no one to offer any help.

It often a relief to wake up, and not unusual to feel mentally exhausted from a dream that feels like it lasted for hours even tho I know they don't