Lucid dreams

a lcid dream is a dream wherein you realize you are dreaming, and are then able to control your dreams. i stumbled upon lucid dreaming about 2 years ago when watching a youtube video in which a guy said he has been able o do it as a kid, so i figured its something you are born with and i couldnt learn to do it. Recently however i remembered it and i have been doing research and it is possible to learn to have lucid dreams so tonight starts my self training. so i was wondering has anyone else heard of lucid dreaming or has even experienced it. tell me what you think

You could try listening to faint binaural beats (find em on youtube) while sleeping. I've never tried it, but I read somewhere they "supposedly help". It supposedly also helps to try and remember dreams you've had, so wake up and sit for a moment and just recall all you can remember.

Also try, especially since it's Spring Break and you don't have to worry as much about sleep scheduals, to wake yourself with an alarm in the middle of the night ~3:00-4:00 three times at 20 minute intervals. Then, go back so sleep without any interruptions until you naturally wake up.

As a semi-related note, studies found that ~40% who go to bed thinking "I'm going to dream about ____" actually wake up remembering a dream about that subject. Dreaming (according to some theories) is a way for the body to "make up" problems that could appear in the future - Dreams can be a place for the mind to learn from past experiences and apply them to "new" and "unexperienced" problems. In fact, your body, during REM sleep, actually tries to act out the dreams you are having. However, during REM your brain renders your entire non-vital muscles unusable so that you don't hurt yourself when "acting out" these dreams. People with sever sleepwalking-like disorders often have a problem where their brain won't "shut off" these muscles, therefore they act out their dreams just as if they were awake.

I heard that if you do regular "dream checks" during the day it helps... for example, if every 15 minutes you tap yourself in the nose to check that you're not dreaming, it will become a part of your routine, so naturally you'll also do it while dreaming.

i had a lucid dream once.... i started grabbing girls' boobs... now i can do that in real life since im in a frat.

Eddster wrote: now i can do that in real life since im in a frat.

this made my day hahaha