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I lucid dream almost every night. For a good deal of my life I thought that everyone did. When I am dreaming I have to check often that I am not actually awak

I lucid dream almost every night. For a good deal of my life I thought that everyone did. When I am dreaming I have to check often that I am not actually awake, so I have a trick I use to make sure that I am dreaming. I know, it sounds a lot like Inception. A little more - I had night terrors up until I was 12. I would walk though my house in a frantic dream state, sometimes seeing things that weren't there on top of things that were. Maybe the lucid dreaming and early night terrors were connected.

Mandatum 12y ago
Out of curiosity what's your "reality-check"? I get to a state half-in-half-out where I can sort've feel my body and everything is black then I just sort of fall into 'unconsciousness' if I so choose - at which point I'm lucid-dreaming.
- mrcsparker 12y ago
  I bite my hand. If there is no pain, then I am dreaming. My mom had once told me that she had a bad dream where someone grabbed her, and she bit the person's hand and it was like biting through dough. One night, during a dream, I remembered this and bit the area between my thumb and my index finger and there was no feeling. Also, food has no taste when I am dreaming. It doesn't even really have texture.
tiler 12y ago
Do you ever suffer from sleep paralysis?
- mrcsparker 12y ago
  Never.
- Smirnoff 12y ago
  I am not the OP but I do experience sleep paralysis. I started experiencing it during my late teens; it was scary at first but I learned to control it and calm down when it happens. The worst part about sleep paralysis is that things happen to you while you are in bed in your room (or where ever you fell asleep) and things seem too real-- ghosts trying to choke you, a monster slowly crawling towards you, or just some person in the mask breaking into your house and you can't move or scream to ask for help. Sometimes it happens at night and you can move around (but that's a dream), then you wake up and can't move (and that's either sleep paralysis or yet another dream). Then you wake up for real but you don't know if that's still a dream. Sometimes it happens during the day when you nap. You can hear people around you talking but no one seems to see/feel that building is about to be destroyed or hear you screaming because you can't move your lips. Luckily, I learned to control it. All you need to do is calm down and say that it is a dream. Personally, there are clues that give up the fact that I am in sleep paralysis-- I can't see faces clearly, regardless of the thing being alive or inanimate (like stuffed toys). So I just calm down, admit that it is a dream, and fall asleep again. PS: I also wouldn't call it "suffering sleep paralysis". It happened frequently (several times per month) when I was young but after I turned 22 it might have happened 3 or 4 times only.

Mandatum 12y ago

Out of curiosity what's your "reality-check"? I get to a state half-in-half-out where I can sort've feel my body and everything is black then I just sort of fall into 'unconsciousness' if I so choose - at which point I'm lucid-dreaming.

mrcsparker 12y ago
I bite my hand. If there is no pain, then I am dreaming. My mom had once told me that she had a bad dream where someone grabbed her, and she bit the person's hand and it was like biting through dough. One night, during a dream, I remembered this and bit the area between my thumb and my index finger and there was no feeling. Also, food has no taste when I am dreaming. It doesn't even really have texture.

tiler 12y ago

Do you ever suffer from sleep paralysis?

mrcsparker 12y ago
Never.
Smirnoff 12y ago
I am not the OP but I do experience sleep paralysis. I started experiencing it during my late teens; it was scary at first but I learned to control it and calm down when it happens. The worst part about sleep paralysis is that things happen to you while you are in bed in your room (or where ever you fell asleep) and things seem too real-- ghosts trying to choke you, a monster slowly crawling towards you, or just some person in the mask breaking into your house and you can't move or scream to ask for help. Sometimes it happens at night and you can move around (but that's a dream), then you wake up and can't move (and that's either sleep paralysis or yet another dream). Then you wake up for real but you don't know if that's still a dream. Sometimes it happens during the day when you nap. You can hear people around you talking but no one seems to see/feel that building is about to be destroyed or hear you screaming because you can't move your lips. Luckily, I learned to control it. All you need to do is calm down and say that it is a dream. Personally, there are clues that give up the fact that I am in sleep paralysis-- I can't see faces clearly, regardless of the thing being alive or inanimate (like stuffed toys). So I just calm down, admit that it is a dream, and fall asleep again. PS: I also wouldn't call it "suffering sleep paralysis". It happened frequently (several times per month) when I was young but after I turned 22 it might have happened 3 or 4 times only.