lucid dreaming

I have a relative who is absolutely convinced that lucid dreaming is a so to say "must have". Usually, he has a very critical approach to anything to such an extent that it borders on the absurd. Therefore, i was rather irritated when he told my about getting into lucid dreaming and me raising...

For about the last 6 months I've been interested in alternate states of consciousnesses, in particular out of body experiences (OBEs). Admittedly my interest in such a strange phenomenon stems mainly from my boredom, but I do feel OBEs are a challenging meditation exercise and could be a...

Lucid dreaming for those who do not know is when the body is asleep, you are awake and aware that you are dreaming. This is known the mind awake / body asleep state and can be achieved through attention focusing during the act of falling asleep. For some it is spontaneous and others something...

Its been a few years since I had one, but this morning I experienced an amazing lucid dream. I was semi-aware it was a dream, but the subject matter and vivid imagery made me feel a bit numb for a good few minutes into consciousness. I'm not too sure if I could have controlled it or not - I...

Ok I had a kidney operation and I was on painkillers. One of the medicines I was taking was a drug called roxicet. Roxicet is morphine based and I had never taken it before. It caused me to sleep 12 straight hours. Ok it caused me to dream. I couldn't wake up. Heres the dream. I dreampt...

A fascinating look at dreams from Nova reveals some new thinking about dreaming. Specifically, the discovery that there are REM dreams and non-REM dreams. The report contends that we may actually have 2 very different types of dreams -- non-REM dreams, in which we rehearse and perhaps even...

So I've been studying the phenomena of Out of Body Experiences for quite a few years and I've experienced a couple. I am of course entirely skeptical of the "Out of Body" explanation, since all of my OBEs have had the basic qualities of a Lucid Dream (meaning, the room I see is not exactly my...

Hi All. For the past few years, I've been practicing Lucid Dreaming (knowing you're dreaming during the dream) and have gotten fairly good at having them semi-regularly. I do this purely for fun, as the sheer entertainment value of playing God in my dreams is priceless... (especially the flying...

I was doing some reading up about dreams at Wikipedia and I ran across the term lucid dreaming. Apparently, lucid dreaming is when an individual realizes that they are in a dream and can fully control the dream (can pretty much do whatever they want in a dream setting). While I have never...