
Jul 27th, 2008, 01:01 PM
I've had lucid dreams since I was little (but of course I didn't know they were called "lucid dreams" back then)... I assumed everyone had them, but when talking about dreams with other people noone understood what I described. They thought I meant some kind of hybrid state between daydreaming and actual sleep... But when I have lucid dreams I'm always in a very deep sleep, have absolutely no sense of my body lying in bed. I just know on an intellectual level that this is the case, but I can't feel it; rather, if I lucid-dream I'm walking, it feels just like real-life walking, if I dream I touch something, it feels just like really touching something etc.
When I was still living with my parents I had one of those dreams. I thought I woke up and got ready for school, but then I noticed something or other wasn't right, and I eventually concluded that I wasn't awake after all, but was just having a lucid dream.
Then I became convinced that since I could so clearly feel that I was up and walking, I must be sleep-walking. So as an experiment I went to my desk, took a piece of paper and wrote "dream" on it.
Eventually I woke for real and went to the desk... but no paper with writing on it.
Later on other people have confirmed that I do just lie there like a normal dreamer when I have those dreams... so all the actions I perform are just in my head... but they feel as real as anything I do in waking life.
For a period of time, about a decade ago now, I was on quite a lot of psychofarmaka - neuroleptics and heavy tranquilizers. I would always have nightmares then, dreams like real horror movies, but even in sleep I was kind of drugged so nothing could scare me. I'd walk around among rotting zombies that wanted to kill me or whatever, and it would be lucid too (my undrugged lucid dreams are usually about very realistic stuff, but these were not). And I would think something like "Duh... I ought to be scared now... this is like a really scary horror movie... but I just can't be bothered to be scared...*sigh*".
When I had just started practicing for my driving license (pretty late, I was already thirty) I had weird dreams about this, not surprisingly since it was on my mind a lot. Once I dreamt that my sister, whom I was practicing with, had started to practice driving with my oldest dog too. He was gonna take a driving license as well. We had bought him his own car, and had it customized so that he could reach the pedals with his hind paws. Only it was hell trying to make him abide by the traffic laws, he'd drive like crazy. I clearly remember that the car we bought for him was a red Audi A3 from -95.
This is just a tiny sample though... I've had TONS of weird dreams during my life... and I usually remember them too.
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