It's not as simple as that, often time when I realize I am in a dream there are still inexplicable restrictions for what I can and cannot do, often contextually based within the dream. It's much like what cookie and fishy said to fly they must force some sort of other condition upon themselves within the dream 'to be a witch' or whatever, some sort of mechanism. I find this applies to my (rare) lucid dreams I'm trying to do something and half the time I cannot because I cannot solve the restriction.
I also hate half-sleep, where I was previously in a light sleep from a car trip or something and I suddenly become conscious but I cannot move fluidly and it takes a great effort to open my eyes and move my limbs and I feel really helpless and it sucks. Of course, I become fully awake in about a minute, but that minute of helplessness is complete ass.
one of my favorite sensations when dreaming is to be able to breathe underwater - often time when I do this I realize it's obviously a dream, but then I just relax and enjoy it, like if I am swimming in a pool with dream people and sink to the bottom without feeling the pressure of the water and straining my lungs, and I just breathe shallowly and slowly, laying out flat on the bottom.
I see. So what you mean is that, say you have a dream of a situation or something happening in school, the rest of the dream will most probably take place within the set of rules already placed in the dream before it started becoming lucid. Right?
Sleep paralysis is also cool, has anyone ever woke up with some unknown irrational fear, heart beating, palms sweating, adrenaline pumping and JUST CAN'T MOVE?
Usually the triggers from the dreams are strange, my most vivid one is looking at an old laptop running the Windows bootup screen and going OH SHIT.
i dont dream a whole lot, but
once i dreamt that i was made of really delicious bread, and my family wanted to eat me. i kept hiding out with people in my life, but inevitably they would try to eat me. they chased me with a variety of spreads, but they didnt catch me.
also, i dream in third person. as in, i am a spectator watching what unfolds, and usually i am also a character in the dream that i am watching.
sticking your dick through a portal is just ASKING for something nasty to occur
you can see what is on the other side dude, obviously you wouldn't stick it through if you saw someone hideous you wouldn't fuckin' do it
Not often, but every now and then I'll have moments in dreams where I seem to slow down: I can only move slowly, I'm incredibly weak, and my voice is very soft.I'm more interested in the weird quirks about dreams than what your dreams are about. Like has anyone else ever had a dream where when they walked they got farther away from where they were going? Like being on a treadmill that moves faster than you no matter how fast you run. I have this happen in my dreams all the time. Usually I get smart and turn around so I'll pushed in the direction I want to go but I always wake up before I make it to the door or whatever.
Doing a poor job of advocating that.do hallucinations count? i think they should
it's a really shitty, scary drug and super fucking bad for you. don't do it.
I have the exact opposite experience very often.I'm more interested in the weird quirks about dreams than what your dreams are about. Like has anyone else ever had a dream where when they walked they got farther away from where they were going? Like being on a treadmill that moves faster than you no matter how fast you run. I have this happen in my dreams all the time.
do hallucinations count? i think they should
i thought i was nancy botwin from the television program weeds when i had a fever of 104 degrees farenheit. it was strange, but i think i understand what mothers feel like when their kids are in danger, because i was afraid that the big black gang members were going to come to my house and kill my children if i couldn't get out of bed and sell them drugs. i eventually realized who i was, but had an INTENSE psychological battle with nancy botwin vader before i managed to convince myself i was me.
and then i thought i was a country, and there were a bunch of citizens on me. i couldn't tell what they were doing though because they were too small and i was a country. i tried to hear them and give them guidance, but i just couldn't do it so it was very disheartening. my bellybutton was the capital, but it didnt matter at all. i just knew it was.
i also have done diphenhydramine a few times, and it's a lot like being awake in a series of dreams.
the first time i took a hallucinogenic dose (500 mg), i was convinced that i was using my ipod, when in reality i was sitting in a chair staring at the blank ipod screen before dumbly looking up and asking my friends, "was i just playing doodle jump?"
i played not a single lick of doodle jump that night.
from there, i went to play saints' row, which is basically a GTA ripoff for those of you unaware. this would have been easier if i owned an xbox, which i do not. nevertheless, i was convinced that i was playing saints' row, until i realized i was laying on a kitchen floor with my hands outstretched as if they were holding a controller. i fell asleep watching the shadow of a cowboy ride off into the sunset and become an elephant.
the second time i did it, i went straight to bed. i thought that my friend's guitar cases were little girls leaning over me with some sort of malicious intent, but they always turned out to be guitar cases. go figure! i also saw shadows group together and turn into a pitchblack man staring at me. how was it staring at me? it had no eyes. didn't matter, i knew it was staring at me. it was scary as FUCK.
the third, and final, time i took dph was in my home, in bed. the walls shimmered and the room turned circular and my legs kept turning into a mermaid tail. i really didnt want to be a mermaid so i kept getting frustrated. then, i thought there was a party in my room.
for whatever reason, i was playing pkmn at this party. i turned to one of my friends to ask them an opinion thing about pkmn, only to find i was talking to thin air in pitch-darkness and was not holding a nintendo ds. i then found myself at work, where i was a bank teller. interestingly enough, i do work as a bank teller. i eventually realized i was on drugs at work and then that hallucination ended. i went to the bathroom and heard voices coming from down my stairs, but knew better than to see what they were talking about.
after that, i stared at my ceiling by ipod light. the ceiling swirled into a horrible storm, and a million voices started whispering. as the hurricane got faster, the voices got louder. my head was paralyzed with terror and i could not snap myself out of it. it ended after what seemed an eternity, but in reality had been only a few minutes.
it's a really shitty, scary drug and super fucking bad for you. don't do it.
maybe the last part of my post belongs in the drugs thread, but i feel that very vivid hallucinations are similar enough to very vivid dreams that they ought to be allowed in this thread. thanks for reading!
when i have dreams i am sort of there but not actually participating
the problem with dreams is that nobody else gives a shit what you hallucinated about last night. there is nothing less interesting than someone who talks about material accessible only to themselves, let alone when it's not even a coherent narrative. all dream conversations i have been involved in have been exactly like this thread - everyone ignores everyone else and tries to interject their own experiences and bring the subject back to themselves.
boring.