I've never been able to lucid dream but what I have finally mastered is being able to re-enter a dream after I've woken up briefly (to hit the bathroom, for instance). Comes in very handy when I'm in the middle of snogging Michelle Pfeiffer.

I love dreaming, especially lucid dreaming (something I have done quite often). The only thing I still find really freaky is the "falling" phenomenon you experience when your body falls into rem atonia while you are still conscious. That and having "wake up" dreams (you know, the ones in which you enact waking up, only to find something freakishly unreal about your surroundings).

Dreaming's awesome.

4 non-impacted wisdom teeth removed at age 31. I remember up to when they put me under, but not the first few minutes after waking up. Remember being groggy for a bit but lucid. Not much pain throughout the whole experience. Only used a small fraction of the meds they recommended. The only real unpleasantness was swallowing blood and getting food stuck in the holes (until I realized how to high-pressure swish water through there). It takes awhile for the holes to fill in but you get used to it and it's no big deal.

>> ^PHJF:

I was quite lucid ~5 minutes after waking up after my own removal.
Amateurs.


*high five* I ate a cheeseburger on the way home from having my wisdom teeth removed. Had all 4 removed. No pain or confusion.

I was quite lucid ~5 minutes after waking up after my own removal.

Amateurs.

I have a friend who spent several days in what's called "Dark Retreat," which is essentially a sensory deprivation not unlike this one.

After 3 or 4 days she said she was having vivid hallucinations and lucid recollection of early formerly-forgotten childhood memories.

I'm surprised he's so lucid!

Kid calls it stupid....

Shows how stupid kids are.

That animal is doing the sign for infinity. If anything this cat is lucid and artistic.

yes, atheism is the de facto position as it then requires additional information to change that position (and none is given). i would agree with that. atheism isn't a viewpoint, it's a lack of a viewpoint.



probably the most lucid thing i've heard craig say, except for the fact that he thinks it's nonsensical.

>> ^quantumushroom:

And what's the DEAL with that comment by DRAGEN? If one Seinfeld joke is hearing them ALL, then what's hearing TWO jokes? Infinity plus one? It's like a hamster cage filled with Grape Nuts and you're the wheel!
>> ^Drachen_Jager:
>> ^Porksandwich:
Yeah Leno is annoying. The commercial needs some kind of joke to allude to the Conan/Leno fiasco......maybe we can get one in the comments.

Some kind of joke that was funny at all would be an improvement. Seinfeld's entire schtick is to say inane things in a pubescent boy squeak. If you've heard one Seinfeld joke you've heard 'em all.



Meh, that's about as lucid, well spelled, grammatically correct and intelligent as you ever get isn't it Quant?

I kept a dream log for about three months. So, every time you wake up you don't move for five or ten minutes and recall you're dreams. Then rapidly wright down everything. If you do this day after day you remember more and more of your dreams. Then lucid dreaming becomes inevitable for you. But you can't have an alarm clock, you have to throw that shit away.

My doubt is definitely 'in dream'. It's pretty rare that I become conscious of my dream in my dreams. I actually dig when that happens, because I feel like that is the first step in being able to lucid dream, which I've never done.

I do have some weird sleep issues where reality and dream bleed into one another. I've got night terrors where I act out my fears in reality while dreaming (but usually can't remember). Usually I'm concerned for the safety of my family. Once I tried to carry Issy out of the room to escape some danger that existed only in my head.

I also occasionally get the opposite, sleep paralysis, where my mind wakes up but my body is still in sleep mode, which means I can only move my eyes. It's a very creepy and fascinating state to be in. To get out of it I have to muster this kind of unexplainable inner power. I've gotten to the point where I try to stay in it a while, because it is such trippy state of being. Still though, no matter how rational I think myself to be in full consciousness, that state is always frightening - because I am not in control.

Big Gigantic's album, A Place Behind the Moon
available for free download here: http://biggigantic.net/apbtm/

Looking Back

Sky High

Lucid Dreams

Limelight

Solitude

Step Up

Driftin

High and Rising

Shine

Cloud Nine

Breaking Point

A Place Behind the Moon

Lucid and Naive -- Meet Joe Rogan

That was pretty lucid.