i want more control
Hi Robin – Yours is a fascinating account of lucid dreaming. While some people certainly experience lucid dreams with much greater frequency than others, I must say that the lucid dreamer who can will him or herself to be lucid on a given night is quite rare – though I have met a few, and […]
old friends
I keep having dreams about an old friend from high school. He and I were never romantically involved with each other, but we did go to prom together as friends, and we were developing a much closer friendship (at least, I thought we were) towards the end of high school. However, two things intervened to […]
it’s dark
Lately when I’ve been dreaming I suddenly “wake up” and realize that I’m dreaming. I understand everything that is going on as if I were awake, but when I look around to see where I am, it’s always real dark and things are a little different than they should be. I feel fine until I […]
inducing lucid dreams
Hi Pam – Did you know that some lucid dreamers actually set their alarms for four in the morning — just before the great avalanche of REM sleep is poised to begin — and drink a tall glass of water so that they will have the same dream you describe? Believe it or not, it’s […]
stranded!
I am a 38-year-old woman, and my very best friend whom I have known and been close to since I was in the sixth grade lives a state away from me. We don’t communicate as much as we once did — our lives are so totally opposite. I am married, have six children and a […]
manifesting
I wanted to share some of my ideas on what I believe is the next level in dream work. Over the last 20 years I’ve seen my lucid dreaming abilities evolve through many stages. The early stages had mainly to do with trying to maintain consciousness during the dream state and then figure out what […]
miracles
I am a 22 year old girl from Holland living in Mallorca (Spain). I have always been a great dreamer but only for the past year or so I started to become interested in them. My last experience of lucid dreaming was only last night. I was down at the beach looking at the sea […]
incurable disease
Hi Karen – I don’t know if your dream could speak more clearly. The message of the dream is that you don’t have a healthy relationship with your friend. You feel – when you are with her – that together you suffer from an “incurable disease.” But this – clearly – is not news to […]
my book
How nice to have a site devoted to lucid dreaming. It’s not often I get to speak about it because most people say, “you do what?” Most of the dreams I remember are from lucid dreaming and, as far back as I can remember, I have always lucid dreamed. For years, I simply assumed that’s […]
nova dreamer
I haven’t been too successful in my effort to create lucid dreams. Quite possibly, the problem may be in the effort itself; Dr. LaBerge warns about this in his book “Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming” when he says that a stumbling block in learning any new skill is trying too hard. On the two […]
nude and lewd
I was very interested in the letters in your “lucid dreams” category, because I am able to lucid dream when I choose to, although my husband refuses to believe this is possible. The two ways that I lucid dream are as follows. 1.) When I am threatened or frightened in a dream and I feel […]
old friends
Hi Jill – I agree with you that your friend’s disappearance is peculiar. While it is common to lose track of friends for a month or two – or even an entire year between high school and college – five years is a long time by anybody’s standards. What is more peculiar, and what contributes […]