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Lucid dreams are really awesome. I used to have them when I was younger and it stopped. The best part is when I had them I could actually control what happened. It's happens when mid dream you realize something doesn't make sense you and you realize you must be dreaming, and that your mind is controlling the entire environment. It's a shame I was like 14 so I only thought about tits when I went through that phase because I remember the feeling it gave me to have absolute control. It was better than any drug I could ever imagine.
I remember the dreams were always triggered when I was scared and felt I was going to die. I remember distinctly this dream where Jason from Friday the 13th was chasing me and at some point I realized it didn't make sense, it's a dream. Then I thought how he wasn't there turned back and he was gone, then I started thinking of this girl a had a crush on in 8th grade and.... well, we will leave it there.
Anyway, if you can do it man it's the best feeling I have ever had. There is no drug more powerful than your mind <3
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Definitely want to try lucid dreaming. I've been wanting to for a while but I kept forgetting to try it. Thanks for the reminder.
About the EHS and being afraid to sleep - don't be such a pussy. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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whoa. finally I know what sleep paralysis is! It happened to me 10 years ago and in spite of a couple near-death experiences and bad trips it still remains the single most terrifying event I've ever experienced. It seemed like I was stuck in bed for an hour, trying to scream but not being able to move my head or make a sound.
After describing it to two friends who had no idea what I was talking about, I gave up and just hoped that whatever it was, it would never happen again. Lol now I don't know what to think. Part of me wonders if I'd be just as scared if it happened again now that I know...
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I've attained control over my dreams on a few occasions, though the lucidity wasn't very high. One time I've achieved what the TL guide calls WILD completely on my own without knowing what it was -- I had a short, repetitive electronic song playing on repeat, and as I focused on the details of the music while it played over and over and over I sank into some quasi-dream sleep paralysis state while remaining completely aware of myself. It was a pretty crazy experience.
Also, while I'm thinking about lucid dreaming:
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So it's called EHS huh. I've had some nasty experiences with that shit before. But It's usually no sound at all just an explosion of scary feelings blowing up at the same time as I wake up and it makes me so confused cause nothing scary was really happening in the dream.
Also had some fucked up paralysis dreams. They're all practically indetical as well, I'm always facing the wall in my bed and someone is right behind me usually screaming or something.
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EHS is part of a hypangogiac state, wherein you're inbetween the awake/asleep boundary.
It varies for everyone, but with practice you can induce it on command, and use it as a way to get into a lucid dream if you're able to overcome the fear.
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wait so is the Exploding Head syndrome where you hear something that didnt actually happen or is it when you hear something and you wake up in fear?
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EHS... glad to know I wasn't just crazy.
Yeah, it is actually pretty friggen crazy when it happens. Startles the shit out of me.
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I think I can elaborate on this lucid dreaming and EHS you're referring to.
Typically, people are in one dream when they're asleep. However, with a strong sedative, you can enter a dream WITHIN a dream. Similarly, if you train yourself to become a skilled architect, you can be in a dream within a dream of a dream that's INSIDE YOUR MIND. Not only that, but you may be able to construct your own dream levels beforehand and change aspects of your dream when you're inside them. This is essentially lucid dreaming.
However, when you distort too many things in your dream, your dream will use a defense mechanism to retaliate, creating a dream militia of armed killers. It is important at this point to not die; or else you will fall into limbo, which is the so called "sleep paralysis" someone referred to earlier in this page.
Instead, it is better to wake up from a "kick". This could be anything, from a doorbell ringing suddenly to someone knocking over the chair you're sitting in. However, it may only take you to the dream level that is one higher than your current one. To get back out of your dream, you may want to coordinate several kicks in multiple dream levels by using music that can permeate through the dream layers. It's pretty much the same thing as Exploding Head Syndrome.
That's all I remember from now, learned everything from a Christopher Nolan film. Hope it helps!
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This is serious. I've been experiencing something like lucid dreaming during my whole life, but I never went in for such things at all.
Now, after reading the german edition of wikibooks about lucidity I will definitaley will give it a shot.
We should stick to the lucidity topic, because I really want to hear someones experiences or problems they faced when they try to achieve this state of mind.
On the other side, this whole EHS/sleep paralysis stuff is scary as shit and I don't wanna hear anything more about it. Damn, I'm even sure I'll dream about that shit next night ... 
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This is so awesome. I am actually super interested in this. Will definitely try this tonight and post my experience.
Also, I always have dreams in which I am "flying". Those are kind of like my favourite.
My least favourite would be the one with the endless stairs, where I am running away from something and we are running on staircases. "thing" is chasing me and I am running up, down, sometimes reach dead end/whitewall, have to run up go into another corridor and flight of stairs.
/shudder
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I have recently tried to lucid dream more, and I have had 2 false awakenings, but exploring your subconscious mind is really fun and I think you shouldn't worry about EHS.
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When I read the thread title, I thought there was a syndrome where you head spontaneously exploded.
I was let down 
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I don't get any dreams =( yay for psychedelics that sort of fix that!
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On March 29 2011 15:29 kellymilkies wrote:
thing" is chasing me and I am running up, down, sometimes reach dead end/whitewall, have to run up go into another corridor and flight of stairs.
Is "thing" considered to be visualizable? Or is it just something abstract?
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Alright, I'm really intrigued by this (and relieved to learn about EHS; I often wake up after hearing someone loudly scream my name), but I'm also a little wary of trying it.
For the past few years, I've sort of depended on my subconscious to solve problems for me while I sleep. Virtually any kind of predicament seems to apply to this exercise--anything from writer's block to difficulty with math problems to issues in my personal life--and as long as I focus on the matter in question as I'm drifting off to sleep, I almost always wake up with the elusive answer I'd sought, even if I can't remember the dream used to figure it out.
I might be revealing my ignorance by asking this, but would lucid dreaming interfere with this problem solving process? I mean, if I were to really get the hang of lucid dreaming, would I be lucid in all my dreams?
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I found a method of achieving lucid dreams by accident. My lucid dreams almost always happen as long as I stay up for 16 hours, take a quick nap for 1-2 hours, then wakeup to do something for 30 minutes to an hour, then finally going back to sleep trying to finish the rest of my 8 hour recommended sleeptime. Once I start on the rest of my 8 hour sleep, I go into a DEEP REM state, so deep that I notice it and become aware during my dream lol. It feels like I get on average a 1-2 hour lucid dream session and sometimes even longer. I do wakeup when these lucid dreams end, only to fall asleep again and go back into another. It's pretty cool & and fun but can be annoying if I just want to seep without any interruptions.
I discovered this method because I always tend to stay up until 4-6 am playing SC2 (lately because of GSL), only to wake up an hour or 2 later to run some really important errands in the morning then get back home to crash hard on the bed.
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On March 29 2011 13:22 Coagulation wrote:
just watch out for the sleep paralysis and false awakenings.
Holy shit, thank you for finally putting a name to this. That happened to me a 3-4 months ago, and it was the absolute oddest experience of my life.
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Alright. Going to sleep. Writing D on my hand. Telling myself I'll remember this shit.
No dream journal for tonight. Don't expect much (anything) to happen, but I'm starting.
THE JOURNEY BEGINS.
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