[seeker1950]

Anybody know about this here? I think I had one last night/this morning. Even when I would wake up periodically, I went back to the same detailed dream, in which I was me in my present age/appearance, and the characters were so consistent and real-like. I didn't want to leave it, but I finally forced myself to wake up!
Patty

[Perna]

I've had a couple in my life, where I figured out I was dreaming. Detailed dreams like you talk about, where you keep falling back into them; I've done that a lot.

What gets me is when I have a dream and wake and then fall back asleep and start another dream where the first dream is talked about! My husband had one of those where he was looking for his car in a carpark and couldn't find it and got frustrated so woke himself and then realized he couldn't find it because he parked it in previous dream.

So, why did you force yourself awake? Usually I keep trying to stay :-) It's weird when you wake from one of those and just feel it was so real and expect the characters you actually know to think or behave now like they did in the dream, and to know about the dream.

[seeker1950]

I love my dream life, but this one was different. In most of my dreams, the characters are inconsistent, and often switch identities, and I drift in and out of ridiculous scenarios. This is always entertaining, but in this dream, the characters retained their identies, even with several of my wakings, and they had long detailed histories. I became sexually involved with the "main character," a much younger (young enough to be my son!), a fellow art student whose wife/girlfriend was pressuring him to return to Michigan to open a bed and breakfast. The sex was awesome (unllike my regular dreams in which this is always unfulfilled)....I met the girlfriend who was understandably cold to me and she finally whisked him away with her, but not before I gave him my address and phone number. At the end of the dream, I rec'd a call that he had been hospitalized with chest pains after she discovered my note/address, and he had passed the message along to me to "keep my doors locked!" At that point I woke up...sadly!
Patty

[Perna]

Oh, wow! A whole story and good sex :-) I had one dream 30 years ago that took place over 3 nights. It got really spooky because it was like an installment TV show; each night I'd get a recap of the previous night and then it would continue! It was so real and taking place so many nights that I literally got confused whether I was living to dream or dreaming to live; my "what's real" got a bit mixed up. I still remember the opening, the narrow, steep stairs I had to climb up to somewhere important.

[salukigirl]

a lucid dream is where youre half asleep half awake. i do this almost every night and so does my boyfriend. its that feeling thats usually falling then you jerk yourself and wake up. i think youre talking about dream recall. the biggest thing about lucid dreaming is that you realize that youre dreaming. if all youre doing is remembering a dream, then its not really a lucid dream.
if you want to have more lucid dreams try keeping a dream journal. the second you wake up, dont even more your arms and legs yet, replay the dream in your head to remember what happened. even the slightest body movement can distract you and make you lose that memory. so record them for a while and you will probably have more lucid dreams. the second most commong action in a lucid dream is sex, the first is flying, so looks like you got 1 down. there are other things you can do that can eventually make it so that you can control your dreams. but thats not an easy task and takes years of training.

[sabby]

Yep....I've had lucid dreams too. I can remember waking up many times through the night and each time going back to the same dream where I left off when I awoke. It's pretty interesting to me when that happens only when I get up in the morning I'm completely exhausted and feel like I haven't slept a wink....LOL.

There have also been times when I've dreamt over a period of a week or so, not every single night, but a couple of times through that week the same dream, picking it up where it left off previously. I guess it means to me that there was unfinished business to attend to??


sabby

[Greenleaves]

I love lucid dreams! I have them once in a while, I think more than other people. Usually something triggers to realize I'm in a dream. It's so cool when that happens. I just think, I'm dreaming. LOL

In almost every lucid dream I confirm that I am dreaming by reading words, signs, words on boxes and products etc. If I read the word and it doesn't make sense, ie. It looks like Cherios rea goos, I realize I"m in a dream. For some bizzare reason, text never makes sense in my dreams.

Usually in a lucid dream I decide to fly. I fly a lot in my lucid dreams. I love flying. I control where I go sometimes. Once I was flying over ancient Egypt and it was super vivid. It was so cool!

I love lucid dreams.

[wickedwings]

that's my trigger, too, greenleaves! man, are dreams cool or what? they are my escape, soometimes. i feel better in my dreams than i do in real life.

[jacq10]

I remember when i was little (ages 7-12ish) whenever i would have scary dreams i would somehow force myself into thinking "its OK, its just a dream. think really hard about it and you'll wake up and it will be over." And i would wake up! It was pretty neat! I can sometimes do this now, but it was mostly with scary dreams that it happened, and i don't get much of those anymore! (well not like i use to!)