controlling dreams and when you wake up

[psi20]

Yeah, I have the same problem with alarm clocks.

[LucidDreamer]

I used to control dreams to some extent but now I never seem to dream. I don't know if I just can't rememer then or what but years have passed with no dreams. I do have a problem in that as I begin to drift off I stop breathing and wake up gasping so I had wondered if my body had got used to only going so far under and not alowing me to go through rem into proper sleep. Any shrinks and doctors in here?

I agree with sorcerer. You should be checked for apnea, but I'm not a doctor or even sane by some peoples accounts.

[LucidDreamer]

Does anyone ever tell themselves to remember their dream during their dream? and does anyone ever feel like they're not sleeping well because they're anticipating the sound of the alarm clock? i hate alarm clocks, and when i use them i feel like i don't sleep well because i wake up a lot within 2 hours of my alarm clock going off, and like 5mins before i'm in a somewhat semi-conscious state and the second that alarm goes off i HAVE to turn it off.

Get a nice relaxing alarm clock that lets you wake up to the sound of birds chirping or one of your favorite songs.

[Kingpin1989]

Nobody is technically SANE, and I cannot wake up without a nearby alarm clock.....

[RICHARDBATTY]

You may have sleep apnia(sp?), its a very serious condition, normally it requires you to wear a respirator while sleeping, I think you need to see a doctor.

Thanks I saw one he just said it was asthma. I don't seem to get any benefit from the sprays though.

[Sorcerer]

Thanks I saw one he just said it was asthma. I don't seem to get any benefit from the sprays though.

 

Not to try and turn you into a hypochondriac or anything, but perhaps if you're not satified with your doctors opinion you could go see another. Or even go see a sleep specialist......... fork out the $$ if u dont have free health care.

[zpoot]

yeah i would go ask another too...I don't think that would be ashtma...but i am no doctor and am not even out of college, so don't listen to my advice

[RICHARDBATTY]

Thanks for your concern chaps, much apreciated. I have inadvertently change the course of the thread though so I think we shouldn't talk about this now. But still thanks again.

[Guest professorCM]

this is only a theory but if you send simple messages repeatedly at a low volume, like you are dreaming maby if you are deaming and you can't remember it maybe your mind would pick up that mesage and it would be said by someone in your dream. Because one day when I was camping there was a dog hanging around us and he was scratching my tent and in some wierd dream I got killed by a knife going through my head after I woke up I was still hearing the noise of the knife it was the dog.

[Sorcerer]

Erm, again try learning punctation...... However yes sounds are intergrated into dreams, I have had similar experiences, I was dreaming about being chased through a forest by a gang who were hunting me. Anyway I found an old homestead in which to hide, I was huddling in the side of an old fireplace and the wind was howling down the chimney, something hairy reached down from the chimney and grabbed me, I woke up with fright. The point is the wind was howling outside, one of those highpitched resonation howls that gives u the sh*ts..... we me anyway.

 

Ive also heard about masks that monitor the speed of your eye movement, they can tell when you are in REM sleep, perhaps if you could combine this with the sound it would work, at the moment they use a flashing red light.... I think this would just wake me up. Alot of sleepless nights training might be necessary.

[Kingpin1989]

I believe that the subconcious cannot be drowsed as your concious thought can, so it is always in control of your mind and body, even while you are asleep, it picks things up from the environment and the result is that they show up in your dream....but this is only my opinion.....

 

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[zpoot]

Once when i was little i had a dream that i was a caterpillar that couldn't get out of its cocoon. When i woke up i was all wrapped up in my blankets and i had to get my mom to help me out

[Sorcerer]

Once I had a dream that I was in the Land of Pancakes I ate the most massive pancake you can imagine, then when I woke up my blanket was gone....... no wait, that was a Garfeild comic strip.

[Ophiolite]

You may have sleep apnia(sp?), its a very serious condition, normally it requires you to wear a respirator while sleeping, I think you need to see a doctor.

Whoa, Sorcerer. Don't panic poor old Richard. I am not a medic, but would it not be more accurate to say 'it can be serious', if indeed that is what he has. It would make sense for him to mention it to his doctor, though.

However, if you check Richard's profile you will see that all this is taking place on a holo-deck and we are constructs of the computer program he has chosen to run. So as long as he has all the safetys on he's in no danger.

 

On the main thread, I still have lucid dreams, probably once a week or so. I got interested in dreaming in my teens - I recall reading Freud's Interpretation of Dreams when I was fifteen. (En passant, could any bona fide psychiatrists out there confirm my view that Freud thought dreams dealt mainly with sexual represssion because his clientele were mainly sexually repressed Austrian ladies?)

The dreams I least like are the unpleasant ones where I know I am dreaming and wake myself up to get away from the unpleasantness, apparently successfully, as I am in my own bedroom, only to discover I am still dreaming. I think my record for 'waking myself up' stands at four, before I got back to reality. (At least I'm assuming it is reality. Richard, don't touch that off switch!)

[Sorcerer]

Makes you wonder if we are ever awake........

[zpoot]

The Matrix has us...

 

hehe, sorry that thing you said, Sorcerer, made me think of The Matrix. I LOVE that movie...but you can never help thinking of the Matrix is real....

[pi_of_9]

I can still control my dream. I had one last night in fact. I was mandatorily called in to work at a place that I worked 4 years ago. I arrived at work and then realized that I was dreaming and that I don't work there anymore. I walked off the job in my dream.

 

My favorite dreams that I can control are the flying dreams. I love them! I usually wake up on my back when I have my flying dreams but I normally sleep on my side, so I don't have them frequently.

[Jordie]

I am 16. What ever I am thinking about right before I usually fall asleep is what I usually end up dreaming about or something related somehow. What causes dreams? Is there some kind of article I can read up on them. I did a search on Google a while back but it failed to yeild any content that I though was useful.

[zpoot]

OMGOSH last night, i had this dream at school...as usual, and i was on this ride that i didn't really fit into and i was like hanging out and my grandpa would appear next to the lady controlling the ride and he would always say the same thing( i can't remember what) and she would too. Well, then the dream switched scenes and we were on a schoool field trip to San Antonio, and we were riding this train thing and every now and then we'd go up in the air and my grandpa would appear etc...Isn't it weird?? I told it to my mom and she asked if it was because i was feeling left out or something..i don't remember why that made sense cuz i forgot, but it did...

[Sorcerer]

"ride you didn't fit into"... do you mean you didn't have any room on the ride, or do you mean you were with people that weren't your "type"? Well, give me some background info on your grandpa, I'm not psychologist, but I can hazard a guess and psychoanalyse your dreams, I often do the same for my own.

[zpoot]

i didn't fit as in it was too big for me. What kind of info do you want?

[Verusamore]

Hi to everyone on the SFN board & I hope to learn alot from you people ,

if your wondering my name has philosophical meaning ,

so as for the peculiarity that explains the reason behind it .

[gene]

well, i find it very werid that a have a consecutive series of dreams for certain period of time. Then, after that for a long time, i have no dreams. then i have dreams in series again. THat is so WERID. it is like becoming a pattern. But somehow my dreams aren't connected.

 

isn't dreams caused but the workings of the conscious mind in subscious state? Is that how you put it???

[gene]

well, i find it very werid that a have a consecutive series of dreams for certain period of time. Then, after that for a long time, i have no dreams. then i have dreams in series again. THat is so WERID. it is like becoming a pattern. But somehow my dreams aren't connected.

 

isn't dreams caused but the workings of the conscious mind in subscious state? Is that how you put it???

[psi20]

Interesting. Last night I was able to control my dreams twice. I flew up for 5 seconds, knew I could control my dreams, wanted to fly to the sun, but failed and woke up. Then I dreamed another one with flying around a city, but the flying was like an astronaut jumping 20 feet off the ground for a couple of seconds before landing.

 

Regarding some posts that talk about conscious sounds in the dreams, my second dream had music from the radio that was playing. I leave the radio on a lot, so this probably isn't a factor in those flights.

 

What may be the factor is what happened yesterday. I was doing my history homework, got interested and read about the history of my people, read the history up to very recent years, and realized my entire world was turned upside down. Everything I had ever believed was just skewed, and my family and ancestors were lied to by the government (I don't want to go into detail of what I read).

 

But this was very emotional and may have caused me to levitate, meaning be lifted up. Perhaps the flights were a subconscious defense in the form of a metaphor.