Dream Study

[Cryss Winters]

I was thinking of doing a dream study. (basically a pen and notebook type deal) Any suggestions? If I wanted to sleep during the day and be up at night, would this affect the dreams?

 

[Venture]

It hasn't effected my dreams that much, Latley for this past week I've been going to sleep relitavly late around 4:00-6:00 AM and waking up in the late afteroon 3:00 PM

I might as well enjoy my last few weeks as being able to do nothing at all, agree no?

If anything I have been remebering my dreams more frquently two yesterday, and even one today, but it's mostly the end of the dream and not the whole dream.

 

[Ulysses]

Wearing wet socks to bed also helps.

 

[Cryss Winters]

Wearing wet socks to bed also helps.

I've never heard that one. Would that just simply be an oddity which confuses you when you dream so you remember it?

 

[severus]

I heard eating popcorn before bed gives you vivid dreams.

Don't know where I heard it...but I'm sure it's perfectly accurate.

 

[echoplex]

I heard that looking at pictures of giraffes while recanting the lord's prayer and eating an orange is the best way to have good dreams.

Conversely, if you want to have nightmares you should lick an apple and drink one pint of olive oil.

And if you want your dreams to foretell the future just kiss a fortune teller before sleeping.

Just don't talk to a cat or read a journal before bed. You won't dream at all.

These are all true because I heard them somewhere.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Say to yourself, "I am going to dream tonight and tomorrow I will remember it" and I know this sounds silly but seriously, try it. You subconscious is always listening to your conscious mind and you may be surprised how obedient it can be.

I use this technique for waking up at exactly 6am, though I have absolutely no idea how my subconscious know the time is 6am, it just does.

 

[Cryss Winters]

Say to yourself, "I am going to dream tonight and tomorrow I will remember it" and I know this sounds silly but seriously, try it. You subconscious is always listening to your conscious mind and you may be surprised how obedient it can be.

I use this technique for waking up at exactly 6am, though I have absolutely no idea how my subconscious know the time is 6am, it just does.

Thank you for posting here, I was afraid this thread was destined to die.

Yes, I believe I read that first factoid before on this site, I've used it to great affect.* I've tried to tell myself to wake myself up at a certain time, but if I need to wake up at a certain time I keep thinking about why and end up staying up all night.


*I couldn't decided which was write affect or effect so I looked it up and found...

...as a noun, affect is used primarily by psychologists to refer to feelings and desires as factors in thought or conduct.

I don't know...

 

[snowqueen]

Affect is the verb, effect the noun

I've used it to great 'effect'
I never let things 'affect' me
The 'effect' of alcohol is unpredictable
Alcohol 'affects people in different ways

Psychology uses 'affect' to mean 'mood' or 'emotional state'

The patient's affect was low
(in notes) Affect: the patient's mood is low with increased lability
Hence depression and bi-polar disorder are also known as 'Affective disorders'

Cog's advice is sound btw! It's what dream therapists etc recommend

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Really? I thought it was just BS I came up with on impulse.
Wow, what a surprise

(I'm being a sarcastic ass-hole for the lulz, just ignore me)

 

[snowqueen]

I love the fact you chose to sarc me on the last comment and not the utter pedantry that preceded it.

 

[The Fury]

I had a very weird dream last night. I dreamt that Cog was burning my apartment to the ground. I don't actually know what he looks like so I just saw myself without a face using a blowtorch but for some reason i knew it was Cog.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Was I smiling and wearing something with a hood?

 

[The Fury]

You didn't have a face so smiling would have been an accomplishment. I think you might have had a hood though. Hmm perhaps it was a premonition! Y'know when I said I lived in Cork, I was lying, I actually live in...the amazon. Just in case you want to visit me, I live in the hut next to the big tree.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Pfft, who needs a face to smile?
YOU WILL DIE IN FLAMES!
-Smiles at Fury-

 

[Cryss Winters]

Affect is the verb, effect the noun

I've used it to great 'effect'
I never let things 'affect' me
The 'effect' of alcohol is unpredictable
Alcohol 'affects people in different ways

Psychology uses 'affect' to mean 'mood' or 'emotional state'

The patient's affect was low
(in notes) Affect: the patient's mood is low with increased lability
Hence depression and bi-polar disorder are also known as 'Affective disorders'

Cog's advice is sound btw! It's what dream therapists etc recommend

I was confused. Thanks for clearin' that one up. =3

 

[Tyria]

You could always try to get someone to wake you up at various points in your sleep cycle. If you are dreaming, you may be able to remember some that you would forget over the cycle. The only problem is waking up and writing the dreams down, and then falling asleep again. Good luck

 

[severus]

I heard eating popcorn before bed gives you vivid dreams.

Don't know where I heard it...but I'm sure it's perfectly accurate.

I heard that looking at pictures of giraffes while recanting the lord's prayer and eating an orange is the best way to have good dreams.

Conversely, if you want to have nightmares you should lick an apple and drink one pint of olive oil.

And if you want your dreams to foretell the future just kiss a fortune teller before sleeping.

Just don't talk to a cat or read a journal before bed. You won't dream at all.

These are all true because I heard them somewhere.

I realise that my popcorn statement is likely not true, hence why I added "I heard" and a smiley. Perhaps you did not notice the sarcasm.

 

[flow]

man, this probably isn't even the right thread to write this in but so be it! Last night I dreamt that I was dreaming a lucid dream, I then woke up from my 'lucid dream' where I was flying around some artificial city for quite some time and was telling my friends about it..but then woke up from that. Wtf.

 

[Venture]

You could always try to get someone to wake you up at various points in your sleep cycle. If you are dreaming, you may be able to remember some that you would forget over the cycle. The only problem is waking up and writing the dreams down, and then falling asleep again. Good luck

I can almost never be woken up in my own bed, mostly because my mind knows that I am safe and comftorable there so that nothing alerts me to wake up.

 

[Tyria]

I can almost never be woken up in my own bed, mostly because my mind knows that I am safe and comftorable there so that nothing alerts me to wake up.

There are sleep clinics and sleep studies that you might be able to become a part of. I have read accounts of people who remember dreams because they were woken up while having them (they might not have remembered them the next morning, but were able to talk about them since they were awakened while having them).

If you don't want to do that, you could always try to get someone to come bursting into the room and raising all sorts of hell to wake you up while you are asleep. It may lower your safety/comfort level in your mind

O.O

 

[Venture]

I remebered two dreams last night.. or well today I just got up a 4:00 PM, but they are too vague for you to probably make any sense of them though. They also say to read a some of your dreams before you fall asleep.

Occaisonaly I will wake up early in the morning, aroud 5 to 6 for no reason at all it seems I would not even have use the facilities.

I've pretty much got into the habit of endless sleep or unitterupted sleep.

 

[Deleted member 1424]

Can anyone here lucid dream? I could use some tips.

 

[Tyria]

Can anyone here lucid dream? I could use some tips.

You could always try to take control of your dreams. If you are dreaming and don't feel in control, do something so out of context that it makes your mind stop for a second. I think if you challenge your mind to do something that it would not expect, it can help break up the flow of some dreams. This for me would be step one.

Grab hold of the dream, and control as much of it as you can. You will not be able to do this with all dreams, but if you can wing it then it makes for an interesting dreaming experience. Change the colors on the walls, and make people/things do what they normally would not be able to do. This is step 2 for me.

Step 3 - have fun!!

Note: Also try to look at people's faces and clocks as well (if they are around). Try to see small minute details; the brain sometimes skips over them (and you realize that you are dreaming). Then you can have fun with it and enjoy the ride.

I hope this helps you Adair

 

[Hawkeye]

Rarely I get these what I like to call Super Dreams. Everytime I have one I always wake up with a searing headache as if my brain has been overloaded. The pain lasts for hours.

The reason I call them Super Dreams is because they are almost realilty. By this I mean I feel fully conscious and I'm aware of my surroundings. I can touch, smell and feel in these dreams as if the objects were real. I don't know how I get them but some of them are really weird.

The last one I had was a while ago now. In the dream I some how managed to buy the Empire State Building. I removed all the floor levels so I would have the worlds tallest ceiling and people would pay to see it. I remember I utilized the space perfectly by hoisting a grand piano up to the top and dropping it. The sound when it hit the bottom was unreal. I can't remember what brought me out of that dream but I would love to experience another soon!

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aha, so I am experiencing a powerful lucid dream. Interesting.

 

[Deleted member 1424]

You could always try to take control of your dreams. If you are dreaming and don't feel in control, do something so out of context that it makes your mind stop for a second.

The problem is I can't recognize when I am dreaming, so I can't take control of it that way. I usually dream in a 1st/3rd person hybrid; about events completely unrelated to me. I've tried falling asleep thinking about intentionally lucid dreaming; but that doesn't really work. I've even 'thought' during a dream that something was impossible or defied physics. My character (I never play myself in my dreams) always dismisses it it instead of thinking "oh this must be a dream."

 

[preilemus]

adair, a girl in my class claims this works:

make a big X on your hand and keep redrawing it until the point where you instinctively know its there. then, when you dream and dont see an X on your hand, you will realize youre dreaming. at this point you will either wake up, or continue, entering lucidity

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Watch the matrix, then think about it a lot; lucid dreaming is just like being Neo.
It's a matter of staying focused but relaxed, otherwise you'll just wake up.

I've always wondered if somebody could lucid-dream while standing up, the idea being to achieve that state of absolute cognitive awareness without being trapped inside an effectively paralysed body. I wonder if meditation is lucid-daydreaming?

 

[Venture]

Watch the matrix, then think about it a lot; lucid dreaming is just like being Neo.
It's a matter of staying focused but relaxed, otherwise you'll just wake up.

I've always wondered if somebody could lucid-dream while standing up, the idea being to achieve that state of absolute cognitive awareness without being trapped inside an effectively paralysed body. I wonder if meditation is lucid-daydreaming?

I find it hard to meditate I end up thinking and thinking again and again about something, when that happens I try to focus on my breathing but sometimes it dosn't work very long.

 

[zephryi]

If you look up lucid dreaming, there's a huge amount of material on it (thank you hours of StumbleUpon @___@) (and because you never thought about doing that, right?). Anyways, here's a site I found before that I remember to be pretty decent: http://www.dreamviews.com/whatislucid.php

Basically, what people said before, finding some way, any way, to prove you're in a dream and shocking yourself enough to become aware of a dream but stay asleep (I've seen spinning around within the dream as a method to stay inside the dream once you've reached lucidity). Many of the sites I've read on the topic recommend trying to start a dream journal, as apparently the ability to remember more of your dreams increases chances of gaining lucidity (I assume because it makes you more aware of your dreams or something...?). Continuing on what Glovehead said, in a way, I've seen recommended practicing time checks like Crimson_Knight suggested, but during the day to get in the habit of doing it so you can actually remember when you sleep.

And then there are those odd MILDs and WILDs that you can find on that website. I've always wanted to try inducing a WILD, but I fail at it. XD

 

[echoplex]

I realise that my popcorn statement is likely not true, hence why I added "I heard" and a smiley. Perhaps you did not notice the sarcasm.

I noticed it. I was simply adding to it!

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Okay, I will now try to offer some serious input to this topic (god help me)...

One thing I've noticed in my experience with dreams is that the content of my dreams tends to derive from unfinished thoughts earlier in the day, or even week. I've read things that would suggest some truth to this. For instance, say you're alone thinking about something interesting when a friend comes in and interrupts you in mid-thought. You may not get back to that thought process again that day, but your brain still anticipates the continuation of it and may use dreaming as an opportunity to expand on those thoughts.

Undoubtedly of course, the dream(s) is likely to be much stranger than the original thoughts were, and it may deviate so much from your thoughts that you may not recognize any correlation upon waking from the dream.

I have also read that thinking about a particular subject before sleep does not make you dream about it. But I think Cog is correct that simply telling yourself you'll remember whatever you dream makes you more likely to recall it.

If I wanted to sleep during the day and be up at night, would this affect the dreams?

I think it might actually. I have read that differences in light patterns can affect dreams quite a bit. For example, apparently flickering light can cause scary dreams. We are naturally inclined towards sleeping at night, so your brain might interpret too much sunlight during sleep as unpleasant, which may affect your mental state during a dream.

Also, I've always been more likely to be awakened by dreams during daylight hours, even if I didn't need to get up anytime soon.

 

[severus]

Last night I dreamt of vampires and getting ice cream. I think it might have been two seperate dreams, which is exciting because I usually have trouble just remembering one of them.

Although, I was reading a book about vampires during the day. And I had recently just quit veganism, so ice cream had just become a possible snack.

Hm.


@Echoplex, oh okay. I thought you were mocking me.. Anyway, that's interesting how light patterns can affect dreams.

One of the little devices designed to induce lucid dreams invovles a flashing light, but I'm not sure that's related.