Lucid Dreaming

[A22]

Well I couldn't find any threads about this specific subject. Is there anyone interested in such a thing? Anyway, I've been trying this just to see how it goes - I'm not doing this for too long.

First of all I've started to go to bed a little earlier. Then I've started to write down my dreams as soon as I wake up. At first I could only remember enough to write down a couple of lines about the dreams I had. Now I can remember enough from my dreams to write down more than one page about them. I've started to do reality checks during the day so I can remember doing them while I'm dreaming (like pinching myself). No luck yet.

Today I had my first lucid dream. Well, kind of. It was like this: I was in an elevator that got out of control and as soon as I realized that I was dreaming I got out of the elevator (like a teleport or something). Right after I got out of the elevator my dream took over and I didn't even know that I was dreaming anymore. It's not much but I think I can do better with some practice. I'll be doing this for some more weeks. Any tips or experiences?

 

[Kokoro]

Well I couldn't find any threads about this specific subject.

Try the search engine next time. It's in the control bar between 'New Posts' and 'Quick Links.'

http://www.intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=5324
http://www.intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=4369
http://www.intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=1571
http://www.intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=5619

Other than that, I doubt that you will will get better "tips" here, as opposed to the other online communities dedicated to lucid dreaming. You're on the right track for starting off. However, it's my understanding that you should be looking at it in terms of months instead of weeks if your goal is proficiency, unless you're a natural. Enjoy, it's fun stuff.

 

[A22]

I couldn't find any of those using the search engine. Anyway the last post on those threads are from 2 years ago so I'll look for some forums about it

 

[Zionoxis]

I've been doing it for a month or so, maybe a little more. So far, I have yet to get one at all. I have increased dream recall tenfold. I can remember, just can't control...yet.

 

[Darby]

I haven't done any of those recommended things, i start to have one every few weeks or so, my problem is as soon as I realize I'm dreaming my brain freaks out and everything in my dream starts shaking violently till I wake up, it's pretty lame.

 

[Jesse]

I started doing the things recommended, I got to the point where if I stay in bed a bit longer I got a grip on the dream but it started doing funny things to my head, for instance dream and waking life started heavily influencing each other, more nightmares(or at least i started remembering them) and just the general annoyance of doing reality checks and what not.

In the end I couldn't find the worth of it but will say the dreams in which I had awesome sex increased quite a bit. Seems like my councious mind is a lot more horny than my uncouncious mind.

 

[Particle]

Twice now that I know of, digital clocks have given away that I'm dreaming. One time I was sitting on my bed and looked at my clock. It was like 7:24 AM or something like that, which meant I was a little late to wake up that morning, but I wasn't in danger of being late for work. I thought about something I was working on for a few moments and then got up to leave.

As I often do, I caught another glance at my clock. The display said something like 7:92. I stared at it for a second, and I remember thinking, "I'm pretty sure that's not even a real time." At that moment I remembered having read how digital displays aren't coherent in dreams for some reason, even though analog ones are. I looked away and back toward the clock a few times in rapid succession, and every time I looked the clock face was displaying a new time of day.

At that point, my anti-nightmare functionality took over and by a process I can best describe as a violent disintegration of the dream environment, I woke up like I normally do. It was prettier than when the process normally happens, which is when I'm about to have a nightmare. Colors started flashing in my eyes and bits of my entire night's dreams were playing in super-fast reverse motion for a few seconds. Then I was awake, staring at my ceiling.

 

[mke2686]

Well I couldn't find any threads about this specific subject. Is there anyone interested in such a thing? Anyway, I've been trying this just to see how it goes - I'm not doing this for too long.

First of all I've started to go to bed a little earlier. Then I've started to write down my dreams as soon as I wake up. At first I could only remember enough to write down a couple of lines about the dreams I had. Now I can remember enough from my dreams to write down more than one page about them. I've started to do reality checks during the day so I can remember doing them while I'm dreaming (like pinching myself). No luck yet.

Today I had my first lucid dream. Well, kind of. It was like this: I was in an elevator that got out of control and as soon as I realized that I was dreaming I got out of the elevator (like a teleport or something). Right after I got out of the elevator my dream took over and I didn't even know that I was dreaming anymore. It's not much but I think I can do better with some practice. I'll be doing this for some more weeks. Any tips or experiences?

huh kinda similar to my latest dream, i was in a helicopter something went wrong and it was about to land sideways and start rolling, right before the blades hit the ground the dream kind of skipped back to before it happened and i corrected the landing. very intense up until the second i realized i was dreaming.

drinking a shit ton of water before bed helps me with the dreaming

 

[Particle]

If you really want trippy, try the dream I just woke up from. I was playing a rather tame session of Minecraft when suddenly something felt wrong. I don't know what detail I picked up on, but somehow I knew I was dreaming so I woke myself up. Since I had been in the early-night, deep part of dreaming my body was paralyzed in the real world. About three times I dreamed that I had sat up, all the time experiencing that sort of violent shaking associated with the wake up process. Eventually I felt my fingers in my right hand move. I just was just laying there, trying to stay awake and move, listening to myself breathe but being unable to even open my eyes. In reality it was probably seconds, but it felt like ages. Shortly after, I was able to get up for real.

 

[Sosekopp]

I have lucid dreams now and then. Last week I had one where a huge burning meteor crashed into the building I was in, miraculously causing virtually no damage. "Huh," I said to myself. "Isn't it supposed to explode or someth...* *BOOM* *runs like hell*

 

[childish_intellect]

Here's some expert advice (yes that is me). I've been at it for quite some time now. It has been so long in fact that I cannot recall the time that I started. There is a time frame that exists right before you fall asleep and much later before you start going to sleep. I'd say it is more closer to the former and it is often the one that someone is spooked out of. I haven't counted the seconds (yes it is a span of seconds) that one will have available to them when doing what I am about to tell you. Before falling asleep...think what you want to dream about. It does not have to be a complete process tree. A few words will do it but mind you, it has to be done very fast or Morpheus will be upon you before you can even realize it (which would be the time when you wake up the next day and say "aww damn!").

For those of you that realize that you are in a dream I suggest suggesting what you wish to do next. When dreaming people are treading on what I like to call "baby lands". These lands are very good listeners. These lands will obey your commands because they do not know any better ('tis why I call it baby since a baby will mirror any behavior it sees). Another thing to note is that the willpower lies in the dreamer. Do not dull yourselves with lacking control over what is happening. The pinch-me-I-must-be-dreaming concept doesn't really work.

Another thing I wish to share. For those of you that wish to fly, it is not enough to just think it, you have to feel it as well.

As of late I have been neglecting my sleeping habits. The most I've slept in this month is five hours. The last awesome dream I remember having was when I was being chased by giant, rotten, blood-thirsty rottweilers whilst running across a vast grey wasteland (now what could be awesome about that you may ask). I started to lose my footing and that was when I took charge. I felt like flying. It wasn't enough though. I took it a step further. As soon as I took a leap into the sky I transformed into a large blue dragon and flew into a calm, deep blue sea.

 

[Darby]

Soooooo lame. I just had an awesome lucid/Inception-y dream ever(for me), but now it is fading.

I don't remember much, but basically I was going around "my neighborhood"(quotes here because it certainly wasn't my real one), and talk to people, I talked to some old guy and to this guy I would liken to superman, I talked to what may have been a talking mole, and he reminded me of some music and an old memory and I started to cry, made me feel better. then I did some other stuff, but I kept having to repeat it(kind of like in Groundhogs day where he has to keep trying till he learns to do things right).

The one I had to repeat the most(if my shoddy memory serves was I had to go into some guys hut, he was some ugly secluded neckbeard(which in all probability is how I see myself, but not jumping to conclusions yet). But each time I talk to him more people that I talked to before show up till there is this smoking hot redhead(possibly light brown) girl there, and she's being really nice to him and we're all trying to help but it's obvious he doesn't want it/we can't help him. So I give the girl a smile and we walk out, we start talking and it's nice, and then I wake up.

When i awake I'm like "o shit, that was a pretty legit dream, I'd like to remember that" so I whip out my dream notebook(that I've only ever used like once), and the thing is filled almost to the brim, It takes me forever to find the end and when I do, I just start writing like a madman, pages upon pages, and when I'm finally close to done I'm like ok, it should be safe to move now, since I'm almost done, I have most of it written down. when I go to move my head in a serious way next thing I know I move my real head, and I think "oh shit, that was a dream within a dream, and I didn't write down anything....." now I'm here super sad because I barely remember anything that actually happened (detail-wise).

 

[A22]

I've just had an amazing lucid dream. I could control my actions, some of others actions and interact with objects. I've slept for 7 hours in a row then woke up then went back to sleep. The dream started lucid. I was trying to convince people in my dream that what was happening wasn't real - which doesn't make any sense - but I wanted to see what would happen. Whenever I tried to "take control" of the dream, it got more fuzzy, and I had to do constant reality checks during the dream to remember that I was dreaming. But anyway, it was a great experience. I've choosed at some point that I was going to jump from the window and try to fly. Although I knew I was dreaming (like, 99% sure) I couldn't jump. IDK I was too scared that I was hallucinating and that wasn't really a dream.

 

[ElvenVeil]

hmm.. My dreams are always lucid. And I dream often (I know it is said that we always dream) . . I don't really have many other sorts of dreams.
When dreaming I pick my own actions, if I see the result in something I don't like, then I go back in the dream and change my actions thus altering the series of consquencess they have. .
As I know that I am asleep I can also at times force myself to wake up if I know that I am going somewhere/has something to do.

I sometimes write down the dreams, as they actually seem to have very interesting plots and feints : p

 

[persuedsmile612]

This happens to me so much I wouldn't generally consider posting about it. I have no I dea why I have such vivid realistic dreams so regularly, but I just though I'd post today because:

Lucid dreams made me late for work!!!!

I was just dreaming I was someone else, in a differenet place and a fully constructed life.... I turned my alarm off in my sleep...

Haha it's cool but not always a good thing! Usually I go to work grumpy besause my alarm cut off a great dream...

 

[persuedsmile612]

@ElvenVeil
I can totally relate, most dreams are eith lucid or semi lucid, I always know when Im dreaming.
Often I wonder what causes it but mostly I just enjoy whereever I go!

 

[Da Blob]

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lucid_Dreaming

If I am not mistaken there is an entire thread on the topic in the WEBsites of Interest subforum

Personally I am not opposed to using the concept of "Astral Plane" in reference to lucid dreaming - although I do so simply to share ideas, not that I actually believe in its existence...

 

[Moocow]

I just drank a cup of mugwort tea before taking a nap. I didn't actually fall asleep, but rather I lay in bed having visions for 3 hours.
As in, I could open my eyes or get up any time, but I was extremely relaxed and experiencing a sort of extremely vivid daydream. The first one was a fly-through of a network of old, grimy, abandoned hallways. It was kind of a labyrinth of some underground passages that resembled a subway station.

The last one I had was too bizarre to describe. It was as if I were an insect or something running across a vast expanse trying to reach this large teepee like structure with a black ink symbol on the side. My vision was fisheyed and very unfocused except toward the center.

 

[TimeAsylums]

shit.

So, I've died before in my dreams (not lucid dreams, just regular ones)

Have you guys ever had the affect of every single time you die, you wake up? I swear it's a psyche/brain thing. The brain thinks it is actually dying because of the vividness, and so does the psyche, so it wakes you up.

anyway, for the first time ever, my death was caused by my own hands. I was having a nightmare, which in the last minute turned into a lucid dream, I had the ability to choose my death, and I chose to commit suicide, it was so violent and slow that I woke up shuddering, I wonder if my brain thought I was dying, and I also wonder if that death was so vulgar to my psyche that it also rejected that reality.

Interesting.

Also, the majority of my dreams has lately been around the theme "last person alive." I've heard it represents teh desire/need to be around people vs to be alone

lel Dom-inf I/E challenge in my dreams YO!


...obv just an interpretation

 

[RaBind]

I did awaken from a lucid dream one time, after realizing that it was a dream. The way I figured out that I was dreaming is because I couldn't read the time, on a clock (This seems to have stuck with me ever since I saw Waking Life). I don't usually look to see what the time is in dreams, and funnily the only reason I bothered to look is to explain, to people in my dream, that you can tell if you are dreaming, if you can't tell the time in a dream. I than looked at a clock, that was to my right, and it had several numbers as well as it's hands missing. I instantly realized I was in a dream when this happened. I didn't wake up from my dream though. Instead I woke up to a dream where I was sleeping in bed, in my previous house. I think I was still having sleep paralysis because it was hell to open my eyes, and I really didn't wanna go back to sleep. Overall the experience was pretty creepy and interesting, if I could I'd do it again but I can't be bothered to practice to make it work.

 

[PmjPmj]

I dream lucidly on a semi-regular basis, though less so in adulthood I have found; my childhood years were perhaps best for it. Through awareness of my dream-state, I conjured up some incredible, high-fantasy bollocks that still has a special place in my blackened, cold heart.

Perhaps dominant Ni (and therefore an enhanced connection to my subconscious) provide this boon. Whatever the case, I have been fortunate with lucid dreaming - it has always come quite naturally to me.

 

[MentalBrain]

I'd like to offer my experiences with lucid dreaming. I don't really "dream" often; I'm way too sleep deprived most of the time for that to happen. I do, however, know what Moocow is talking about. It's a thing I've learned to do. The basic idea is to lie still and completely relax your body, to the point of even replicating the breathing patterns you have in your sleep, while still maintaining your own consciousness, something I typically accomplish through an unbroken train of thought, even if I am just thinking about the fact that I need to think about something to remain lucid. The result is a sort of vivid vision or hallucination where you're aware of your physical body but can't move it, and your mental abilities in the "dream" are reduced. You ARE still conscious, though, and capable of influencing the dream through conscious decision, it just takes a bit more effort of will than is commonly depicted. I originally learned this method through the Internet. Here's a link:

http://www.lucidology.com

I suggest sort of disregarding the stop-drop-roll method, because I manage just with sleep breathing, but that might just be me. Go forth and dream.

 

[Pyropyro]

I don't why but I want to know why I get quite tired when I do lucid dreaming it is as if I stayed up all night.

This is why I only attempt it when I'm sure that I'm free the next day.

 

[peoplesuck]

my last lucid dream was 2 nights ago. I was watching the news and it said the world was ending, i could feel the meteors hitting the earth. i went outside on my porch to watch the end of the world, realized it was fake.(not sure how) everything felt sluggish and thick, colors blurred and i woke up.

 

[principle]

is this lucid dreaming? im not entirely sure.

I close my eyes and i just start dreaming in my mind thinking of things, a fantasy.

Dreams need to somewhat make sense in your mind, so thats what i do with mine although its a fantasy i try to keep it real as possible.

I can only do this when im really tired but then i fall to asleep but im subconsiouly awake, almost like i know im sleeping but im still inside my dream. I think of whatever i want from there.

I know dreams happen in the most deep level of the sleep cycle, REM sleep which is usually hours after you initially fall asleep.

Can some1 answer if this is lucid dreaming?

Yes most of the things i think about are perverted. NO SHAME

 

[Variform]

Twice now that I know of, digital clocks have given away that I'm dreaming. One time I was sitting on my bed and looked at my clock. It was like 7:24 AM or something like that, which meant I was a little late to wake up that morning, but I wasn't in danger of being late for work. I thought about something I was working on for a few moments and then got up to leave.

As I often do, I caught another glance at my clock. The display said something like 7:92. I stared at it for a second, and I remember thinking, "I'm pretty sure that's not even a real time." At that moment I remembered having read how digital displays aren't coherent in dreams for some reason, even though analog ones are. I looked away and back toward the clock a few times in rapid succession, and every time I looked the clock face was displaying a new time of day.

The reason is that your neurological brain part that is in charge of language isn't working. Try reading text in dreams and it is a garbled mess too.

 

[Variform]

is this lucid dreaming? im not entirely sure.

I close my eyes and i just start dreaming in my mind thinking of things, a fantasy.

Can some1 answer if this is lucid dreaming?

Yes most of the things i think about are perverted. NO SHAME

No. LD's are dreams in which you are aware you are dreaming and in which you can then, after proper training and using special techniques, take control over the dream.

I had only two LD's in my life, even though I made some serious work of it. Dissapointing, I could not keep it up, like EVERY fucking thing I ever try.

 

[Lot]

I've been trying to practice lucid dreaming. My dream recall really needs work, though. I have had them before, and currently have them, but I can't remember enough about them.

I'm mostly doing the lucid dreaming, so I can try to astral project. That seems like the ultimate experience. But there is only anecdotal evidence of it's existence. So I could be trying to do something that'll never happen. I can live with that.

Calea Ternifolia, is an herb that I've been reading about, that helps with lucid dreaming. I'm probably going to try it out. Also melatonin is supposed to help.

 

[JimJambones]

I often have vivid dreams which include incredible detail and vibrant colors. Sometimes I can hear music and people talking, smell things(rarely), and experience pleasure and pain, and I have sex with all sorts of people I never will get to have sex with in real life, unless my dreams are some sort of clairvoyance(highly unlikely), which means I will soon become a male whore.

I have experienced lucid dreaming numerous times and it's just something that has happened without trying. Usually it's some inconsistency I notice(no surprise there) which draws my attention to the fact its a dream, such as a relative being present that has already died, or a nightmare about having to take a final exam and realizing that I graduated college ten years ago.

 

[nanook]

The best way to access your dream world is to fall in love with yourself, to be fascinated by your conscious experience for the sake of itself, not for goal oriented expectations. Most people, including myself, will have their first intentional experiences with altered states as a result of goal oriented expectations. It's nice if this is working and i don't want to destroy it for you, so i will not go through a list of those goal oriented motivations and tell you what is deluded about them. But they will all get lost with experience, since what you will discover will be different from what you have expected, based on the crazy talk you have heard on the internet (Except, for a while you may succeed in hallucinating exactly what you expected). So i'm thinking, maybe you might as well try to get it right from the start and fall in love with consciousness. Enjoy yourself.

Maybe you can intuitively discover how goal orientation creates separation in yourself. Separation between waking mind and dream state. If waking mind intends to utilize dream state, it will be impatiently wait for dream state to happen and to be over, so it can start interpreting or analyzing the shit out of it, it's like growing plants and eating them half way, when you should be growing a jungle and leave it alone. If you manage to treat your waking mind a little bit more like a dreaming mind, since dreaming is actually it's original nature, the separation softens out. Dream that you are awake at daylight and dream that you are dreaming and night time and just enjoy it. Thats actually the purpose of having a dream journal, or doing reality checks at daytime, if you do it right. You attune your waking self to the frequency of your subjective experience, which is always dream like. Life is a dream, you know

 

[Variform]

Calea Ternifolia, is an herb that I've been reading about, that helps with lucid dreaming. I'm probably going to try it out. Also melatonin is supposed to help. [/I]

Interesting. I ordered some of that. It should arrive next week. Not the Ternifolia though. Zacatechichi is what they had in stock.

 

[Lot]

Interesting. I ordered some of that. It should arrive next week. Not the Ternifolia though. Zacatechichi is what they had in stock.

They are the same thing from what I've read. There are some guides on how to ge the best out of it, online.

 

[nanook]

Calea zacatechichi has given a delirious quality to my dreams and it gave me somewhat red eyes or similar side effects, if i remember correctly.

Various similar substances cause stimulus and stress and sometimes stress can result in higher dream recall, not so much lucidity, unless lucidity is normal for you.

What can help with lucidity is a powerful spiritual experience like salvia divinorum because it can shock you awake, cause you to question and reexamine your whole experience of reality and consider all possibilities. Salvia does not cause lucid dreams, like a magical button that has no other effect. It's an irresponsible scam, if shops sell it for that reason. You won't smoke a bit of salvia and have a lucid dream the same night. It increases overall lucidity in life, waking and dreaming. Like a near death experience would. Because it is a near death experience. (Don't consider taking it, if you are not curious). It's not a simple chemical effect. It's how it affects your soul/psyche. So you smoke salvia divinorum a few times and this inspires a few years of utmost fascination with consciousness and having lucid dreams will come more effortlessly in this time.

Thats how it was for me. And then my dream experience began to involve ego death more and more often. That's where lucid dreaming will get you, eventually. It's paradox, initially you inject your ego into your dreams and you turn them into a big fuck-fest, visit some aliens as well, yeah right, but then your ego may do spiritual inquiry into the dream-state and it becomes apparent, that nobody is home. Those dream characters aren't yours. You are a dream character, just like they are. The dream belongs to nobody and everything belongs to it. And then some karmic nightmares can kick in, because the ego looses resistance. I've died so many deaths in my dreams. Not physical deaths. Yeah i was shot in the head a few times, but those deaths are noting like ego deaths. I guess i can't describe it. But all reality appears to turn into an evil nightmare, if the apparent meaning of reality becomes the insight, that you can not exist, hence you can not do anything at all about reality. It's like identity becomes alien to the ego, because it's seen like noting but a giant curse and there is nothing else, no way out. Those are intuitive dreams, not story-line-dreams. Odd orgies of meaning fucking itself over. So i got scared. That set me back. Now it seems that the only motivation that can carry me into the dream experience is a willingness to die. Does that seem like a contradiction to what i said before about enjoying yourself? Well. Fear has a different perspective than wisdom has.

"Existence is not cunning. It's very simple, it's innocent. So if you can keep these two qualities - innocence and intelligence - together, one needs nothing else. These two will lead one to the ultimate goal of self-realization" OSHO

Where is the innocence in those karmic dreams, in which my existence and identity seem to fuck me over? In witnessing that i have no responsibility, because it's all over my head? It may be more demanding than that. It may take giving up all resistance to witnessing the truth of the curse. I don't know.

 

[Lot]

What can help with lucidity is a powerful spiritual experience like salvia divinorum because it can shock you awake, cause you to question and reexamine your whole experience of reality and consider all possibilities. Salvia does not cause lucid dreams, like a magical button that has no other effect. It's an irresponsible scam, if shops sell it for that reason. You won't smoke a bit of salvia and have a lucid dream the same night. It increases overall lucidity in life, waking and dreaming. Like a near death experience would. Because it is a near death experience. (Don't consider taking it, if you are not curious). It's not a simple chemical effect. It's how it affects your soul/psyche. So you smoke salvia divinorum a few times and this inspires a few years of utmost fascination with consciousness and having lucid dreams will come more effortlessly in this time.

I've smoked salvia a few times a few years back. Ironically, my cannabis supplier gave me some for free tonight. That stuff changed my mind set for a couple years after smoking it. For me, it showed me joy in pure madness. It was the most freeing experience I had ever had at the time. Not sure it was the most lucid, though. I'm going to be smoking some very soon anyways. I'll update you guys how it goes.

This thread is really tripping me out. First it was necroed just as I was reading more about lucid dreaming. Now you bring up salvia after I just got some and been wanting to use it again. One more coincidence and I'm going to be scared.

 

[nanook]

erm, ...

GOD MADE ME POST THIS FOR YOU SON

Spoiler

well, it's probably not too much of a coincidence, i'm just so simple minded, i have to post in every thread about lucid dreaming and i have to mention the three things i know something about, because i don't have a life. i'm not too much of a believer in objective synchronicities, but i entertain the possibility sometimes.

 

[Pyropyro]

Had another lucid dream last night and it has an amusing trigger and a freaky ending.

Someone gave me a book, edited by Cog, which contains INTPf's creations and cited with our real names. The guy also said that I can get my royalties as one of the authors, just bring a Corgi as my ID and meet someone to get it. It didn't feel right since I doubt Cog will want to share royalties.

Anyways, after enjoying running around and bugging dream people I stopped controlling the dream settled on a normal dream instead. I woke up in another dream lying face down. I shifted my head to the side and saw a figure with a black gown and a bone white mask. It was looking at me quizically but was otherwise non-hostile. I woke up afterwards.

 

[peoplesuck]

Anyone else never talk in a dream? Even when i become lucid talking is never even a though. am i alone on this?

 

[Helvete]

Not sure this is the right place for this post, as I haven't to my knowledge, had any lucid dreams. I say this as I would assume that if I had I would know about it.

I used to dream really vividly and have some reoccurring ones but for the past however many years or such I can't recall any dreams I'v had, as if I wasn't having any. I'm not saying I wasn't but it was happening so infrequently* that I had no recollection of it when I woke up or at all. In a few or the repeated ones I revisited the same places and the exact same things happened in the dreams. Weirdly all these places were real locations, or rather, they were places that I knew of in real life but what I was seeing/experiencing had little to no actual similarities to the real locations not in dream land. E.g. The town I lived in I perceived as a city in my dream; completely unrelated visuals yet the connection I had to the town had deep enough ties to not cause conflict with this in my dream, or something.

So the dreaming near enough ceased for a while, up until very recently. I'v been dreaming again very vividly, although this time they're haven't reoccurring visually, but the content has. So reoccurring themes but happening quite obviously in all manner of contexts and subtleties. I wouldn't say any of these have been lucid dreams but I can recount them quite accurately and during the dreams the perspective I'm viewing it from can shift; sometimes first person, sometimes third, never from someone else's though. This shift is something I remember from my old dreams too.
I cannot remember if I had this with my old dreams but recently I have had great difficulty falling asleep, which could be a cause for the dreaming. Usually I fall asleep with little to no trouble and awake again with no recollection of anything that happened while falling/during being asleep.

I'm pretty sure my subconscious is telling me something.
I wonder what insights you guys have about it and if it's anywhere near what I think. Although I'm not sure I'm ready to disclose any of the content yet, I await any further development.

*Maybe I was dreaming, I don't know as I had no memories of it when I awoke, so I couldn't know the actual frequency.

 

[Pyropyro]

*Maybe I was dreaming, I don't know as I had no memories of it when I awoke, so I couldn't know the actual frequency.

This is probably it. I think I only remember my dreams because I actively wish to remember them via dream journals or posting about them on the net.

The sleep problem may also cause some of your dream "memory loss" issues.

 

[Pyropyro]

Anyone else never talk in a dream? Even when i become lucid talking is never even a though. am i alone on this?

Come to think of it, I don't usually speak during my dreams as well although the Dream NPC's (which is a part of my psyche) do speak to me. I think the only times I spoke in my dreams is when I'm struggling with horrors that were spawned by nightmares.

 

[Jaffa]

I wish I could remember ANY dream.

But I suppose that's what medicated sleep does.