Okay, anyone with experience in lucid dreaming: Have you ever experienced PARTIAL LUCIDITY? Meaning, you are perfectly aware that you are dreaming, but you can't seem to affect the dream in any way, or wake yourself up? I've been fairly "accomplished" in lucid dreaming for as long as I can remember, but this has only happened in the last few months. I can still tell that it's a dream, but I can't steer it at all. It's freaking me out! I've never not been able to wake myself up before. And knowing that I'm not in control makes me feel like I'm gonna die! I don't know what to do, please help me with suggestions!
i have lots of the other part, not knowing that i'm dreaming but being perfectly able to move arround and move other things (like mountains and cities) arround, in ways (like teleporting and levitation) i'm pretty sure none of us are in the habit of in real life. =^^= .../\...
I don't really consider controlling your own actions lucid dreaming. Perhaps I am wrong about that? I nearly always dream in the 1st person, that is I walk and talk and do what I like....but I don't normally realise that it's a dream, so I rarely try wild things like flying or somesuch. Carlos Castaneda had a very good bit of advice for controling dreams (which I always forget while I'm dreaming). He said: find your hands.
The theory, according to everything i've read and experienced in my own past: Almost every night I can tell when I'm in a dream. Little things will trigger it and set me off - the biggest pointer I have for anyone trying it for the first time is to question yourself in your waking life ("am I dreaming right now?") because once you habitually do that, and you find yourself asking that question in your dreams, the answer is obvious! As long as I can remember I've had this ability to recognize and steer my dreams. Once you know you're in a dream, you should be able to go where you wish and do what you want, knowing that you are in a dream world. See, in REM sleep, your brain is really working very similarly to waking life, but when you don't know you're dreaming it might seem as if it's all happening "to you" and you have no control over it. (I don't know how to explain this better, but there's a big difference between "I'm walking to the kitchen" and "I'm dreaming of walking to the kitchen") So, once you realize that you are in fact dreaming, you should be able to say, "hey, I'm gonna fly over the city", "...tell off my boss", whatever you want to do that can be accomplished in the dream world but not in your waking life. It's also possible to explore yourself more thouroughly than anywhere else, because every situation, every character you encounter, is really a part of YOU. And when you know you're dreaming like this, if you become uncomfortable in some way and want to end it, it's always easy to just tell yourself to WAKE UP. Never in my life have I had a problem with this. I don't know if it's some special gift I've been given or what, but even as a child I was able to recognize and control my dreams. What's happened lately: Lately it's been different. I might be in the same semi-mundane (but still kinda unusual) every-day sort of situation that makes up most dreams (that is before recognizing the dreams). It can be anything, like a few nights ago I was going to the store to buy toilet paper. When little things key me in to the fact that I'm dreaming, I've found lately that I don't have the ability to control myself or my surroundings. I can't make myself fly away, I can't control my situation at all. I'm still dreaming in the first person, and perfectly aware that this is a dream, but I have no way of steering the dream for some reason. Knowing that I'm not in control creates an uneasiness in me, and makes me want to wake up. But when I tell myself to "WAKE UP" I find that I can't. All I can do is let the whole thing play out as long as it's going to until something external (usually my bladder) wakes me. But knowing that I'm dreaming, this is all in my head, but I can't even wake myself really freaks me out. I go from a little uneasy to completely panicked! A few times it's gotten so bad that I was crying, moaning, or yelling in my sleep and it freaked my boyfriend out - he had to shake me awake. If anyone here has ANY experience with lucid dreaming, PLEASE HELP ME!
well that's just the thing, just cause it's not in the world you enhabit awaike, not even in a universe where things work quite the same way that they do when you're awaike, doesn't automaticly mean it's all in YOUR head. your head is what gets you there certainly. but what if there really is a THERE that this gets you to? not this there. but its own there. maybe the same there or one like it, we to to when we die? that's what one belief i'm familiar with seems to suggest. "why recon yourself a puney being when all the universe is folded within you?" i don't mean to imply that what you do in your dreams directly effects what happens in our waking world. i'm not that far off that deep end to suggest this happen or at least that it happens often. but what i will suggest, is that your dreams are like a client program to some sort of massively multiplayer alternative universe and that in dreaming we are connecting to it through some kind of nontangable internet. one that may span not only galaxies but universes, like zilazny's doorways in the sand or gordy dickenson's pritcher mass. nothing to make too big of a deal out of but that's how i see it. and the only difference between realizing it or not is simply realizing it or not =^^= .../\...
