inception and lucid dreaming

I can control mine all the time--I can wake when I dont like that way it is going, I can usually control when I am flying, and I am pretty much aware of what is going on. I did have one the other day where I absolutely couldnt move or talk--was weird no matter how I tried. So I just woke myself up!!!


I've been able to fly in my dreams several times. However i once tried and my arms were completly restricted. I woke up and found myself in a sleeping bag. I wonder how much of my dream i was physically acting out!
 
I've had dreams so good I simply was crushed to wake up and accept it did not really happen. Rarely can I control anything going on in them. What practical value is lucid dreaming other then holodeck time though? Is it worth trying to control it all? Hell I forget most of it within minutes. We dream for brain health reasons as I understand it.

Of course some people get creative inspiration and get rich off their dreams sometimes.

That Twilight author and James Cameron with Terminator, or so he claims.
 
Keep Freud out of it. His theories no longer hold up in the modern scientific world. He was the "gateway drug" to modern psychology, yes, but his research has almost entirely been overshadowed by the growth of the field.
 
You guys really need to add a "I only want opinions that agree with mine" notice and the start of your threads.
 
You guys really need to add a "I only want opinions that agree with mine" notice and the start of your threads.

You've got nerve on that one buddy. Anytime someone has ever gone against something you've liked in a topic YOU started, you've gone crazy arguing for pages with them. I'm done with this "conversation".
 
Wow Ok back on topic. Since we were talking about dreaming, I have this reoccurring nightmare. Where I am walking down a street and all of a sudden I start to feel myself lifting up. I am fighting it trying to hold on to whatever I can. I start yelling for help and no one can hold me down so I keep floating higher and higher. Once I get really high up in the air, all of a sudden I just drop and it is the scariest feeling. Right before I hit the ground I wake up. So what do you folks think my dreams are trying to tell me.
 
Wow Ok back on topic. Since we were talking about dreaming, I have this reoccurring nightmare. Where I am walking down a street and all of a sudden I start to feel myself lifting up. I am fighting it trying to hold on to whatever I can. I start yelling for help and no one can hold me down so I keep floating higher and higher. Once I get really high up in the air, all of a sudden I just drop and it is the scariest feeling. Right before I hit the ground I wake up. So what do you folks think my dreams are trying to tell me.

Well...it can mean some different things, such as:

It can mean that you’re detached from the event you’re watching. You may feel that you can’t influence or control the event so you’ve put yourself outside of it. This may mean that you need to think more deeply about the event and how your actions can influence it.

Another interpretation is one of relaxed waiting. You’ve become detached from the event and relaxed about it so that you’re no longer worried about it. This can be a good sign if something was stressing you out previously.

On a spiritual level, this can indicate out of body experiences or a premonition of death.

I prefer to believe it means that you will victoriously overcome obstacles which are seemingly overwhelming you. So let go in your dream the next time you dream it, realize it is a dream, take control and see what happens.
 
I prefer to believe it means nothing at all.

Therefore nothing to worry about.

"Sometimes a banana is just a banana, Anna"--Sigmund Freud (Dan Akyroyd), Saturday Night Live
 
Thanx for the input Moocriket. I love how this movie (inception) is making a lot of people talk about dreams. It is really cool when you think of what dreams are. It is a false world made up of things that you feel and notice that you don't realize you felt and noticed, Pretty cool in my book.
 
Every time I have a lucid dream, I immediately decide I have Jedi powers and can fly as well. Then I have a ball, flying around and moving stuff with my Jedi powers.
 
Another inception related dream element i've experienced is the influence of the physical world while dreaming. (Spoiler) When loud noises or extra movement occured i'm the teams previous dream or physical world, the would feel or hear it in their current dream. One easy example of this is when my alarm clock becomes audible in my dream several seconds before waking me.
 
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