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    I haven't had one in over a year or maybe even two, but I used to control my dreams every night if I wanted. I noticed when i take melatonin i have more vivid and memorable dreams, but not like I used to. I used to be ble to fly over the city and go where ever i pleased and practice oral sex on girls .

    How can I get back to my lucid dreams? The past 2-3 years have been the most stressful of my adult life and I think it may be why I lost my ability. During that time I would be out of control completely in my dreams and if i was flying , i would fall or hit walls and stuff. This year has been alot better and i am almost stress free (ETA:up until a recent event that has been controlling my dreams...ughh) and I have noticed more pleasant dreams, but still no control.

    Any ideas, advice? I miss flying , it felt soo real and freeing.

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    I love these kinds of dreams!

    I noticed I have these kinds of dreams during a particular time in my menstrual cycle (I'm on hormones but I still cycle, determined uterus LOL) so hormones affect the brain, at least in my case.

    I recommend you work out before bed to "release" stress and practice meditation before bed. It is possible to dream about what you want to dream of if you make a concerted effort (meditation, journaling, etc.)

    I have seen "dream machines" advertised (seem to be LED- containing goggles that track the brain into particular types of stimulation)...IMO the dreams can be more rich and meaningful if you do it on your own.

    I hope you'll update...This is not on my list of things to do at the moment, but when I can, I will......

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    I have more of them when I'm napping and when I fall asleep with a particular intention in mind for my dream. That sounds weird but its true. I had quite the dream experience today during my nap

    I know what you mean though about losing the "power." I used to dream about running. I was running without any effort, over all kinds of landscapes, dangerous and beautiful, leaping over the bad parts with ease. It was thrilling. They stopped when I was around 14, when the bitter, halting parts of life hit me right in the face.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LilyLove View Post
    I used to dream about running. I was running without any effort, over all kinds of landscapes, dangerous and beautiful, leaping over the bad parts with ease. It was thrilling. They stopped when I was around 14, when the bitter, halting parts of life hit me right in the face.


    I do feel that can be regained- it can take a positive life-changing event.

    Example- the last vivid dream I had was where I saw an ex-lover of mine- I was looking at him during a random moment in his life (he was inside his vehicle, making a phone call) I was so thrilled to "see" him I was happy for days after that dream. Who knows if I really "saw" anything at all...Maybe my brain just made it up but it made me happy...because meeting this man caused many positive changes, even though we're not in touch.

    So....Make the effort to bring goodness into your waking life, and it will follow into your dreams.

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    There are few things you can do to help you practice lucid dreaming. And there are times you are lucid dreaming and don't realize it. There are some really food books out there about it. I highly recommend:
    "The Lucid Dreamer A Walking Guide for the Traveler Between Worlds" by Malcolm Godwin.
    The prime time to set your body for lucid dreaming is in the morning after you've already slept some. Set your alarm and wake up, but go right back to sleep. You can get up and go to the bathroom, but get right back in bed. Then focus on going to that place.
    Also throughout the day turn your light switches on and off. This way you are more likely to do that when you are lucid dreaming. If you flip a switch and the lights don't turn off you are assured that you are lucid dreaming. Sometimes you're lucid dreaming and don't know it! Especially if you're out of practice. So the lightswitch method is a good way to tell. It's important to do it while you KNOW you're awake, because it's more likely you'll do it without thinking while in your dream. GOOD LUCK!

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    WikiBooks has a free text on lucid dreaming. The only times I've ever had them was when I took Xanax. It wasn't a pleasant experience, though; in my dream I kept trying to find some way to wake myself up but couldn't snap out of it. After it happened a couple times, I got a little used to the sensation and felt like I might be able to control it, but I haven't actually set out to have a lucid dream.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LilyLove View Post
    I have more of them when I'm napping and when I fall asleep with a particular intention in mind for my dream. That sounds weird but its true. I had quite the dream experience today during my nap
    Dreaming is much easier during napping because you are more likely to enter REM sleep where most intense dreaming occurs. REM is evidence that the neural firing from the Pons is impacting the cortex. Nap dreams are also much more vivid and, in my experience, exhausting.

    Dreams are difficult to remember because the areas of the brain most active in dreaming are not associated with areas of memory retention, and the emotional and visual areas of the brain are separated.

    The best way to hope to remember dreams is to keep a dream journal next to your bed and write out a few sentences immediately when you wake up. In my experience, this takes the dream into active memory and I can remember it much more easily.

    Most people on SSRIs may have different experiences because the serotonin and norepinephrine levels naturally drop during sleep, but the SSRIs will elevate them.

    If you are on high doses of any benzo, a common side effect is an intense need for sleep. It takes about 6 - 8 mg to shut my brain off, but a cool side effect of the short napping is dreams you will remember (oh, and this odd series of hypnic jerks that still let you fall asleep).

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    The mornings are always my best times for lucid dreams.. Sometimes I can balance right on the point of waking and sleeping where I can feel and be aware of both my physical body and my dream body at the same time, from within the dream itself. Very interesting sensation.

    I find lucid dreams are hard to "control". I'll be aware that I'm dreaming but can never really decide what i should do, or if I try to will something to happen, my dreams don't always listen to me. An exercise I try when when this happens is to practise a couple of very simple things, like touching a surface, like wood or metal and trying to feel every nuance as if it were real, or oddly enough, willing grass to grow from the floor.

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    If you need a jump start to get the lucid dreams back on track, the nicotine patch does some very strange things to your dreams. I am not recommending it recreationally but if you want to quit smoking and want some intense dreams it can be quite interesting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Persona View Post
    The mornings are always my best times for lucid dreams.. Sometimes I can balance right on the point of waking and sleeping where I can feel and be aware of both my physical body and my dream body at the same time, from within the dream itself. Very interesting sensation.
    This morning i woke up for a second and tried to remember my dream, and went bk to sleep with the intention of dreaming more. In my dream I was having sex with my husband, but i knew it was a dream and kept going, even though he was lying right beside me in real life. I woke up after and felt bad that he didn't get any irl.
    So i kinda did it, it must be b/c i was so consumed with trying to lucid dream yesterday. ima think about it alot again today.

    Thanks for all the tips, keep em coming. I find this so interesting, and before when i did it i never even tried it just happened like nightly.

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