Friday August 24, 2007 - Lucid Dreaming

VenM2 · Postby **VenM2** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:46 am

What about those dreams too good to wake up from? Or a dream which played a sort of epic movie in your head? I had several instances where really great drama unfolds in the mind

.

GamemasterAnthony · Postby **GamemasterAnthony** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 1:25 pm

I Can't control my dream, But I sometimes get weird visions of the future.

ME TOO!!! That's what I based my fanfiction chara's powers on!

BladeRaptor · Postby **BladeRaptor** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:10 pm

It's pretty rare for me to have lucid dreams. A lot of the time, my dreams that are like a movie playing in my head, which, for some strange reason, I'm not in. Once I'm awake, I'm a bit freaked out by the fact that I wasn't even in my own dream.

That and I've also developed a talent for being able to wake myself from nightmares before whatever horror my subconsious created attacks me. But they still get through sometimes, like that one with the jellyfish tentacle chamber. I fear jellyfish like some people fear snakes or spiders, even before that nightmare. But I digress. This was a good strip.

A dude named Vince · Postby **A dude named Vince** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:41 pm

Ozy smiled in this strip! That's a nice change. When I have dreams I'm in them from first person perspective, and they usually involve very weird things. Like driving a quad off of a very high cliff and being on a playground with the kids from the Magic schoolbus show. I beat one of them over the head with a bat.

gforce422 · Postby **gforce422** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:57 pm

Sometimes I get dreams inside dreams. You dream something, then you think you "wake up" from that dream, but you really just "wake up" into another dream.

...Anyone know sort of what I'm talking about?

Tom Flapwell · Postby **Tom Flapwell** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:03 pm

Lucid = Loose id

I can hardly believe I didn't notice. I thought it was sufficient fun even without the pun.

I remember a lot of vivid dreams, but I can't recall any lucid ones. There seem to have been some in which I realized I had more power over the situation than usual, but the possibility of a dream, even when partly awake, didn't come to me before I fully awoke.

DCS once said that he didn't understand why many people think Ozy "never" smiles, and he showed several examples from the past year. I'm still pretty sure he doesn't smile as often as he did in the early years, and hanging out with Millie must make his smiles seem all the rarer.

theteague · Postby **theteague** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:03 pm

At first glance I thought Ozy was refering to the psychodynamics term "id," one of Freud's three divisions of the psyche. Basically Freud thought that everyone has an id, an unconscious part of the psyche that is responsible for all of our primative impulses (food, sex, survival, etc.) I think that was what theteague was so... eloquently refering to.

Exactly. That's just the most subtly snide comment I've ever seen Ozy say. I almost want an extra panel on the end of Llewellyn overhearing this and yelling "Oh Snap!"

But yeah, the Id/Ego/SuperEgo is one of the few things I'll give Frued kudos for, even if I prefer the Child/Adult/Parent interpetation of the structure.

Virmir · Postby **Virmir** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 1:05 am

Here's an odd/interesting website on inducing lucid dreams:

http://dreamviews.com/

Though I think some of those people might be a little *too* dedicated.

I did try keeping a "dream journal" for a short time, though. It's interesting to record the sheer random nonsense our brains spew out while we sleep.

Sage · Postby **Sage** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 2:29 am

I've had a dream before. It had some Ozy and Millie characters in it.

The odd part? In the dream, I was Millie.

I'm a boy.

In my dream I was Millie.

See what's wrong here?

Arloest · Postby **Arloest** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:09 am

I've had a dream before. It had some Ozy and Millie characters in it.

The odd part? In the dream, I was Millie.

I'm a boy.

In my dream I was Millie.

See what's wrong here?

Yeah, the dream contained absolutely no cordial cherries! What kind of a dream is that?

NHJ BV · Postby **NHJ BV** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:33 am

I've had a dream before. It had some Ozy and Millie characters in it.

The odd part? In the dream, I was Millie.

I'm a boy.

In my dream I was Millie.

See what's wrong here?

Well, some time ago I dreamed I was Darth Vader, and normally I don't even wear black! It doesn't make sense!

Sage · Postby **Sage** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:38 am

I don't normally wear "no-brand overalls"

... and I normally don't have a tail (we are talking about real life here, lolz), or big fox ears etc.

So-

Æron · Postby **Æron** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:10 am

Sometimes I wish that my dreams would stay unremembered. Mainly because they are almost always completely insane. Sometimes I wake up and feel alienated and confused, thinking "...what?" And they always seem to feed on something I'm currently stressed out about or feeling guilty about, and I wake up in a bad mood.

A question about lucid dreaming... How can you be sure whether you are controlling your dream, or dreaming about controlling a dream?

Fritz · Postby **Fritz** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:13 am

A question about lucid dreaming... How can you be sure whether you are controlling your dream, or dreaming about controlling a dream?

That just blew my mind.

klimt · Postby **klimt** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:27 pm

Sometimes I get dreams inside dreams. You dream something, then you think you "wake up" from that dream, but you really just "wake up" into another dream.

...Anyone know sort of what I'm talking about?

yeah, i stopped getting those when i figured out what i was eating that caused them...

Define Cynical Fan Forums

Friday August 24, 2007 - Lucid Dreaming

Who is online