Lucid Dreaming

[VeloJello]

Ohhh man I've been trying to lucid dream for the longest time. :O Someone told me that the key is to have what you want to dream about in your head as you fall asleep, and I've been met with no success whatsoever. My "failures", though, are always vivid and usually amusing. For instance...

• Trying to dream about my story's environment (a big city with ghost like figures in it) - actually dreaming about my grandmother framing me for a murder that she committed.
• Trying to dream about the aforementioned story environment again - actually dreaming about having wings that were really hard to use and flying too high.
• Trying to dream about a waterfalls-and-cliffs environment last night - actually dreaming about being an ambassador in a Mass Effect like world and trying to handle the security surrounding Vladimir Putin (yes) visiting Michigan.

This kind of stuff is why I keep trying. :D

[Dragon Master Mike]

Ohhh man I've been trying to lucid dream for the longest time. :O Someone told me that the key is to have what you want to dream about in your head as you fall asleep, and I've been met with no success whatsoever. My "failures", though, are always vivid and usually amusing. For instance...

The part about knowing what you want to dream about is so true (for me at least). I know from my experiences that if I haven't gone out of my way to plan what I want to do in the dream, If I do have a lucid dream, I don't really do much of anything. I kinda just do whatever, which is usually nothing very interesting.

Something interesting I tried to do once was called WILD (Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming) where you basically just slip from a waking state into a sleeping state and go directly from conscious to dreaming, resulting in a lucid dream. It didn't work, but I think I came close, and some weird stuff started happening. I started hearing people saying my name, and I started hearing cars driving by and seeing lights from the cars, but I know there wasn't a car. I don't think I was sleeping at that point, just very close to it, but either way it was weird.