especially if do things that are impossible in waking state?
2007-01-06 09:47:45 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It IS possible to be aware that you are dreaming. I've experienced it a few times. It is called lucid dreaming. There is a technique that can increase your chances of doing this. When you go to bed, say to yourself many times, "I will wake up in my dreams."
Anway, I guess your common sense is not as active when you are dreaming so that if you are doing something impossible, you normally fail to realize that it is not real. Your inhibitions are also not as active in dreamstate so that in dreams you may do things that you would never do in real life.
2007-01-06 09:55:01 · answer #1 · answered by Lady of the Garden 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've had to deal with Lucid Dreaming for the last 9 years as a result of spending weeks in a coma with a 105.5 temperature. According to the brain docs, the activity center of my brain was moved to a new area, as the old one got cooked. I woke without the ability to do anything, and even think clearly. It took weeks for me to even realize I was awake. Somehow, the change that took place as a result of the illness altered how I dream. Though I can never quite get the shape of the female right, to do anything with that I can't do while awake, anymore.
Of interest, a lot happens when we are not dreaming. A study that came out this weeks shows that those in between times is when the brain sorts and stores data. I always thought it was happening during the dream cycle. You need 30 minutes of sleep for each hour awake for the brain to properly sort and store data. Less sleep means less retained, an effect similar to Alzheimer's Disease.
2007-01-06 18:03:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Lucid dreaming is bogus.
While you may have awareness of the dream and your role in it, you don't have the self-consciousness that you do in waking life which allows you to analyze, formulate alternative possible behaviors and carry them out. The awareness in dreams is a bit like being on a roller-coaster - you're stuck for the duration and the coaster is going to take you where it wills. You don't have the luxury of determining how you will respond or what will happen to you while in a dream state.
2007-01-06 18:07:10 · answer #3 · answered by Good Times, Happy Times... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I often know I'm dreaming. It's usually during bad dreams.
A dream is a way for your mind to have some fun without the restrictions of everyday reality. If you *knew* you were dreaming, and you chose the dream, and you only did realistic things...that wouldn't be much of a dream. Dreams require you to be somewhat out of it so that irrational things are possible.
Otherwise, you're just...awake.
2007-01-06 17:51:00 · answer #4 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have known I was in a dream and it was a dream before.
Also, I have been caught in a dream domain (hypnotic state) for about 1 year before. That is the problem with playing with self hypnosis. It is state of just about asleep and not fully awake. You can't go completely asleep, and can't get completely woke up.
2007-01-06 17:54:42 · answer #5 · answered by LottaLou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm usually aware that it's a dream--especially if I'm flying or being chased by monsters, also things are slightly different in the surroundings than they are in real life
2007-01-06 17:50:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can train your mind to be aware in the dream state. It takes work but it can be done.
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2007-01-06 17:52:25 · answer #7 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well there is the phenomenom known as Lucid Dreaming.
2007-01-06 17:49:23 · answer #8 · answered by Darktania 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well... often in dreams, especially in bad dreams, I realize I am dreaming.
2007-01-06 17:49:10 · answer #9 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Row row row your boat {body} gently down the stream merrily merrily merrily this is but a dream.
2007-01-06 17:55:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋