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Tick
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| | | | | | posted 3/31/2007 05:09 |  | | | | | | | | | Yesterday I set my alarm clock to 6:45 and this morning it rang at around 6:57. This thing is not only inaccurate but also make the most retarded alarm sound. It beeps for half a second, stops for 2-5 seconds, beeps and continues like this until I turn it off, it's probably broken. Anyways before it rang I was enjoying a nice dreamless sleep. As it rang I awoke, then slipped back into a light sleep, and awoke, and slipped back into sleep, and awoke, and... this was probably caused by the random beeping pattern. In this sequence of waking and sleeping it felt as if I was completely awake. The only thing that was wrong was that I could alter my body in weird ways. I touched my front tooth and it moved as if it were to fall out. I was pretty scared so I reached over to turn my alarm clock off. Then I touched my tooth again and it was fine.
Pretty damn weird.
Anyways I'm going to try this again and see if I can alter any other features of my body, should be fun, I'll get back to you.
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Justathought
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| | | | | | posted 3/31/2007 20:01 | | | | | | | | | | Maybe look up 'lucid dreaming' in google - a much less uncommon occurrence than you may think. Weird is the word, but it's pretty cool, to. Have fun exploring. :P
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lordjakian |
| | | | | | posted 4/2/2007 15:17 |  | | | | | | | | | Tick, lucid/creative/irrational dreaming is a fun thing, enjoy it.
Heres some simple common sense tips you could probaly find anywhere on the net, but I'll put them here for you since you made the post. Hope you enjoy.
Try something productive with it. Keep a notepad close to your bed and be able to write in the dark. The reason people forget their dreams is only because they don't connect it with themselves. Normally, only extremely emotional dreams can be remembered because it forces the body to become aware of it, creating an emotional effect. After waking up, people wonder why they are feeling the way they do and remember the shredded ending of a dream. Normally they then throw it to the side, saying "Oh, it was only a dream" and then forget it, like it was a piece of trash.
If you keep a notepad near by, and force yourself to be more aware of your dreams by writing them down as soon after you awake, you'll eventually become more proficient in remembering them in their entirety. Well, maybe not entirety, cause even I can't do that, but you'll be able to remember more then you would without practice, thats for sure.
I don't really focus on trying to control the dream so much as being aware of it. Its more natural to me and seems easier to do. I see it as simply a solid first step. Hope what I said can be meaningful for you :)
P.S. Becoming more (aware of it/ being able to remember it) is much more important then being able to control it. Simply because you probaly do already control it to a certain degree, but if you can't remember it in the first place then it is equally meaningless.
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tkorrovi
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| | | | | | posted 4/2/2007 16:29 | | | | | | | | | | Seems that your alarm clock brought you into some half sleep state where the dreams and reality are mixed. BTW loosing teeth means that you are loosing some power, by some dream interpretation. I wonder why people still torture themselves by using these stupid alarm clocks, and why they even still sell them. Buy yourself a radio which has an alarm, also some tv sets have alarm, it would switch your radio or tv on at the right time, and it would play as loud as you wish, no beeps. You can also use a cd or dvd with music which would awake you the best.
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tkorrovi
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| | | | | | posted 4/2/2007 16:55 | | | | | | | | | | Oh yes, forgot, you can also use your computer to awake you, if you happen to have any speakers connected to it. If you likely happen to use windows, then go to start -> settings -> control panel and double click scheduled tasks. There you can put any program to run at any time in the future. This can be your media player or anything else which makes any noise, you certainly use either mplayer or vlc, not anything like windows media player, so for mplayer just write there mplayer, add path if necessary, and file name which you would like play, with some other players it should be somewhat similar...
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EnterpriseCrew |
| | | | | | posted 4/13/2007 01:52 | | | | | | | | | | I think lucid dreaming is something i should try sometime. It always seems to be described as very interesting. But I don't think I'm getting enough sleep as it is, and if I try it, I think I shall be even more tired. Thanks for the tips, Jakian. =) Heh, I'm one of those weirdos who carries a notepad wherever I go, even out to dinner. :P I usually use it to take notes of things I remember I need to look up on-line, but I also get these strange deja vu/memory things that I've started writing down. They're alot like dreams, in that I forget them quickly if I don't make a definite effort to remember it, and even then it's vague.
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Mike-AE35 |
| | | | | | posted 8/22/2007 02:30 | | | | | | | | | | What you were experiencing clearly was a form of lucid dreaming or nearly lucid dreaming. Google links to Lucid Dreams, The Sleep Research Institute, and the work and books of Stephen LaBerge. A lot has been done and written about this topic. LaBerge has developed many strategies to induce, explore, and even maintain the lucid dreaming state. It can literally be the most amazing sort of realistic fantasy experience imaginable, because it literally is a voyage into a dream world of your own making. LaBerge has even developed a device designed like a mask with built in REM sleep detectors which aids a person in inducing and maintaining lucid dreams.
In terms of psychological theory, the state between the waking state of consciousness and the dream state, which is synonymous with REM (rapid eye movement), is a destructuralized personality state, which is also called the hypnagogic state. The most bizarre and surreal and therefore extremely difficult to remember "dreams" occur during the few minutes of passing through this intermediate stage between the waking and the dreaming states of consciousness. As your alarm clock continued to go off, you were probably in some kind of pattern of movement in and out through these states. You can experiment in recovering a hypnagogic memory by going to sleep on your back with one of your forearms propped up against your side in a vertical position. As you begin to drift to sleep, the muscles in the forearm gradually relax until the arm falls over, which usually wakes you up. At that moment, your memory of whatever you were thinking would probably represent the kind of surreal dream-like thought characteristic of the hypnagogic state.
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