Can you control your dreams? (page 2)

foreword

Only once was I able to return to finish a sex dream....woke up a little later and thought whoa!!....LOL.

MidwichCuckoo

I lucid dream occassionally (not as often as I would like to, or I used to as a child)

I like how my mind works too lol. I do also have that where im just falling asleep, and i feel like im falling, and jerk and wake up! And you feel just like you went down a rollercoaster! I hate that! I can go back an change the endings sometimes, but not too often. Or how bout when your dreaming as if you were kicking someone, and wake up with your leg in the air? Too wierd these dreams can be!

stillajwexelder

Sometimes yes - if it involves me having wings and flying I can usually go back to the dream after I wake up and I end up flying into outer space - it is really weird - Unfortunately (LOL) if I have a sexual dream I never seem to be able to go back t othe good bit - you know when your hand has just touched naked br***t - and you want to go back into the dream - never been able to do that - only when I have a flying dream - weird or what?

Pole

As a child and then as a teenager I used to have a lot of nightmares. So I had to learn to wake myself up from a bad dream.
It sometimes got funny when I was really tired and my body needed a rest. My mind would sometimes trick me into believing that I was already awake although I still wasn't.
So let's say I was dreaming about this male-witch hovering in the air outside of my room and knocking on the window. To get out of this dream I painfully work through several stages of sleep trying to wake myself up. And when I'm almost awake and not afraid anymore realizing it's only a dream I suddenly feel appeased and very very tired.
So I dream about waking up completely, getting up and going from my bedroom to the kitchen to drink a glass of water. All is fine until I turn back to return to the bedroom and guess what ... the vampire creature is right in front of me again. This time it was much scarrier because I'm taken aback. It was there when I already thought I was awaken and the vampire was just a dream. LOL.
Piotr

carla

My mom & daughter can change their dreams while they are dreaming. They don't need to wake up at all. Came in handy when daughter was little, I would tell her to make friends with the monster (or whatever) and she would the next time! They both say if they don't like the way the dream is going they just change it, mid-dream. I find that amazing. The other daughter used to talk about 'changing the channel', like a tv. Not sure if she still has that ability. carla

Es

OOOOO your so lucky....if im having a great dream and getting woken up i can never get back to it. Im so jealous of you. The other night i was having a dream i was with Vin Diesel (dont laugh) and then my fiance woke me up just as we were getting down and i was so upset. Apparently he woke me coz i had this huge smile on my face LOL es

melmac

The classicist

I hate that sometimes when I'm starting to fall asleep, I feel like I'm falling and then wake up. Anyone get that?

I read once that this is a reflex from the times when our ancestors slept in trees. It was important to avoid falling from them.

I am able to lucid dream, provided I spend some days preparing myself to do it. Anyway, it doesn't mean CONTROL over dreams, because I can't elicit a dream whenever I feel like. What is possible (to me) is to randomly become aware in the middle of dreams, and then have some control over it (like flying or changing the subject of the dream, materializing objects...)

greendawn

I can't recall ever being able to control dreams in any way so I always thought of them as things that happen to us, I can often remember them and at times they are agreeable. I try to analyse them for their psychological significance.

TooOpinionated

I wish I could, but sadly, no. Never could. My son, on the other hand, tells me just what order his dreams are going to be in. He actually plans his dreams! I just stared at him in amazement.

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