Dream Experiences

Ever have lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, OOB or other self>dream experiences?

This is a topic that has always been of interest to me,as I have had all of the experiences mentioned above many times and have become facinated by the suject.

I am actually able to now make noises in a sleep paralysis state to let my wife know to wake me up. Its very strange.

Please share your experiences here.

I also have an old blog regarding anything dream related at

thelucidmind.blogspot.com

I would like to try to get this going again to continue the discussions beyond this post, mainly focusing on experiences with lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, out-of-body experiences, dream premonitions, and any other dream related phenomenon or inspirations from such experiences. And don’t be shy if drug use was involved, I find it is in many cases including some of my own – on the blog I keep a very embracing and judgement free environment to promote intelligent discussion.

I am also willing to offer advice or further information on the subject, again best achieved through the blog. I hope this doesnt sound too "sales pitchy" – simply trying to develop a network for this type of discussion.
Thanks for great input everyone. If you are interested in sharing/discussing more, please visit

thelucidmind.blogspot.com

Oh wow i’ve had a few!!

A couple years ago i was laying in my bed sleeping heard like a strong ringing in my ears coming from my own mind (hard to explain) i awoke to feel like something or someone was sitting on my chest and i could barely lift my head up like my head was filled with 5 pounds of sand, i tried to speak and you know that feeling you get when walking in water how it’s like slow motion? well that was how it felt trying to speak just one word lasted for not even a minute but felt like eternity.
Another one i had recently i’d say 6 months ago and i awoke to that paralyzing feeling again and tried turning my head to yell for my husband and couldn’t , ended quickly though.
The lucid DREAMING is what i love and fear the most.
Last year my first lucid experience was i layed down to take a nap slowly drifting to sleep but still some what alert and experience that like like my arms were lifting up in the air in a floating nature but i was still alert to know that my arms were still laying beside be on the bed (sleeping on my stomach) then while knowing this i managed to trick my "floating arms" up gigher then i drifted to lucid land where i knew i was flying around any where but not places i new about, kinda like entering a weird carnival scene where things don’t quite make sence, continued to flying started seeing my co-workers (weird) then i saw a church flew inside through the stained glass windows and everyone was sitting around looking like they were attending a funeral but dressed casual (unusual to dress casual for a funeral) but the coffin displayed in front of them was an old fashion coffin, kinda like the ones from the 1800′s era i guess….just when they were about to open it i freaked out and forced myself out of the lucid dream…scared to see who was in the coffin.

The most recent hopefully not my last happened just 3 weeks ago. I could feel my entire body falling backwards through branches upon branches from trees kinda had a scared feeling but not really as to whether or not i was going to hit the ground real hard then bam i was in a tunnel with bright lights multi-colored then just plain white…the tunnel was kinda like a waterside all the turns really fun i was going so fast i loved it then i woke up blah back to reality.

Sorry this was long just really wanted to share it with you!
HAPPY DREAMING!

some dreams becomes real in real life.

It’s called being psychic. Join the club. I have had many dreams that have come true. It is a gift from God.

What are some of your weirdest self>dream experiences?
Has anyone else tasted food in their dreams?
experienced pain/pleasure
woke up laughing?
or has had a paralysis dream?

I have had dreams where i woke up laughing but I can never remeber what im dreaming about. Then some times when someone dies in my dream i cry uncontrollably for what feels like hours(i cry in the dream not in real life). Then one of my weirdest dreams is I dreamed that I was on an episode of sister sister (i dont even like that show) and i went to the bathroom and woke up to find that i had pissed in my trash can. :O
When I was little I had a dream that I was in an Old farm Silo and it was dark out side, i didnt know how i got in b/c it was enclosed on all sides and on top. I was in the middle of it on the ground and around me 360 degrees were tons and tons of barels stacked up all the way to the top, then all of a suden, tons of dead ppl started crawling out of the barrels and on top of me.
Well those are some of my crazy dream expiriences.

a lot of times my dreams predict the future, sometimes i get the exact picture of what’s going to happen., sometimes i get symbols of what will happen.
did u have similar experiences? and why is it that we are able to dream the future?

it’s not actually that, we can see the future through dreaming.

you see, we dream of what we want/ feel like will happen in the future (we keep thinking about it even at the back of our minds, that’s why we dream of it).

and sometimes, it really does happens.

now, that’s what we call, coincidence.

Its happened to me, and it felt real. I believe that they are real, but my significant other insists that they are just dreams. I believe that it was real because in the experiences, I was fully conscious. Insight anyone?

Consciousness tells you they’re a reality, but not which reality. To determine what sort of correspondence you’re getting with physical reality, you need to observe unsuspected things out of body and then successfully run across those same things in the physical world. I have done this with some extremely low probability objects over the years – but not all that often, and usually accidentally. You’ll probably need a fair bit of persistence to do this to your satisfaction, as perception is a lot less straightforward than you might naturally assume during these experiences.