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Does anyone else do this?
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I'm obsessed with dreaming. Every morning I wake up to read what my dreams mean. I've thought about them so much that while I'm in a dream sometimes, I'll realize that I'm dreaming. It used to be "Holy sh*t! I'm dreaming!" and I'd forget a few seconds later. Now it's "Hey, I'm dreaming again" and I'll start controlling things in it. I've flown many times, and once I made a time machine appear because I wanted to see what would happen in the future (It didn't work because it was more like an ATM with no door...). Another time I seduced someone. Heh. I've gotten into analyzing them, and when you're dreaming, things are often more hazy and your thoughts are really loud and isolated. There's sort of a "Mute" button on, but with your thoughts going so to speak. Anyway, I'm thinking that not a lot of people do this, but it's normal to do.
Do you think it's normal?
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juliaa (30877)
2009-11-08 07:16:25
That's insanely cool that you can control dreams. That's almost like... a whole other universe you have control over. I'm not obsessed with dreams, but sometimes I love going to bed just to dream. I can control a dream in a sense that I'm like 30% awake in reality and am almost subconciously thinking about something and I can change things. It starts to feel like a dream that I can control. Geez that didn't even make sense. But all in all, you're pretty lucky lol
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Jen118584 (30020)
2009-11-08 07:27:09
Some people can definitely control what happens in their dreams, but not always effectively. I can do it. It's more of an awareness that you're dreaming and then a will to make something happen or not happen. I lost a cat a couple years ago and for a year or so afterwards I had dreams about finding her and in my dreams I knew I was dreaming but it was beautiful that I didn't want it to end, so I'd drag it out so that I could have more time with my lost kitty :(
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Janith (30941)
2009-11-08 08:29:04
This is absolutely normal. It's called "lucid dreaming" when you control your dreams. It takes some people a lot of time to develop the skill. Once you do, it's lots of fun cuz you can do things you never could in real life.
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Anonymousness (30928)
2009-11-08 21:43:06
@: Jen118584
Aw! :(
That is really beautiful. I remember I'd always have a dream the night after I lost a pet. I wish I would have been able to do that.
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Stupidlookingguy (21005)
2009-11-09 19:08:40
@: Jen118584
really? so how do you control your dreams?
you mean you actually can choose what you wanna dream of?
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Anonymousness (30928)
2009-11-10 15:39:52
@: Stupidlookingguy
Yeah, not before I start dreaming, but while I'm dreaming is when I decide. It's easier to provoke a lucid dream when you think about it a lot before you fall asleep. It's a crazy thing, but things just kind of appear if you think about them with that intent.
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Anonymousness (30928)
2009-11-10 16:01:35
@: juliaa
Haha! Yeah, it is like another world when you dream. Sometimes it feels so real, it might as well be a more-blurry alternate life. Anyone can do it though, and I highly recommend people try it.
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