What's your sleep like?

[ChristianVirtual]

DreamControl

I wonder: while dreaming ... Can you control your dream ?

I manage quite often to stop a scary or stupid dream. Of course I wake up for few seconds.

How about you ?

 

[mentaluproar]

I wonder: while dreaming ... Can you control your dream ?

I manage quite often to stop a scary or stupid dream. Of course I wake up for few seconds.

How about you ?

Supposedly, you can exercise a certain degree of control over your dreams. It's called lucid dreaming, I think, but I don't know how to do it.

 

[jeremyshaw]

I fall asleep, then wake up, but... sometimes feel like I've been asleep for a while. Sometimes, I blink, and I'm awake!?

 

[Merkava_4]

Have you guys ever fired a gun in your sleep? Whenever I do, the bullets come out real slow and they don't hurt anyone.

 

[Mord]

I wonder: while dreaming ... Can you control your dream ?

I manage quite often to stop a scary or stupid dream. Of course I wake up for few seconds.

How about you ?

Yup, I lucid dream and for a long while before I learned to do that I could stop unpleasant dreams.

I kinda just convinced myself that stamping my right foot would end an unpleasant dream, and after a while of fully believing it to be the case I tried it out and it worked.

 

[jeremyshaw]

Yup, I lucid dream and for a long while before I learned to do that I could stop unpleasant dreams.

I kinda just convinced myself that stamping my right foot would end an unpleasant dream, and after a while of fully believing it to be the case I tried it out and it worked.

I just close my eyes in the dream, I dunno why it worked. Though I need to close my eyes longer and longer to "wake up." I've actually been afraid (yes) that I may not wakeup in time

 

[Mord]

I just close my eyes in the dream, I dunno why it worked. Though I need to close my eyes longer and longer to "wake up." I've actually been afraid (yes) that I may not wakeup in time

I used to have dreams whereby I'd "wake up" from one dream seemingly in my bed, only to get up, and then clearly realise it was a dream, and try to "wake up" again and again and again countless times.

That was the main reason I wanted a trigger that I could rely upon and it's pretty much worked every time other than a couple and in those instances I did it again straight away and woke up.

 

[Thana6tos]

Pretty Good.

I get about 8 hrs of sleep each night, sometimes longer on the weekends. I look and feel better at 8, but the days (which are few) when I only get 5-6 hrs, I look and feel like .... well, horrible, often get into a bad mood and get nasty/bitchy at people. So I try to avoid those days or warn people to take cover

Back in my college days, I would get only 6 hrs and function pretty well, even look half decent. On weekends though, after hitting the gym, I would get at least 12 hrs of sleep. Love to sleep. Maybe it's my room, mattress, sheets,.... and there are all VERY comfortable.

 

[ChristianVirtual]

It's called lucid dreaming

Thanks; something new learned today.

 

[0000757]

ON school days I usually hit bed around 9:45-10:00 and get up at around 5AM. Weekends/non school days when I have nothing planned in the morning, is usually around 12-1AM and I get up around 10-11AM

 

[0098386]

Can function great on 4-8 hours sleep. I find that short sleeps have troublesome starts, but after that it's happy sailing. And that's without caffeine.

Have you guys ever fired a gun in your sleep? Whenever I do, the bullets come out real slow and they don't hurt anyone.

I've never fired a gun in a dream, but I can't run fast. If I ever want to move fast I have to use my arms and my legs like some kind of god damn dirty ape. More often than not it involves grabbing walls+floors and throwing myself forward. It's quite bizarre!

 

[ChristianVirtual]

Have you guys ever fired a gun in your sleep? Whenever I do, the bullets come out real slow and they don't hurt anyone.

Finally I found the guy shooting at me ... But agree: the bullets are slow.

Mostly I'm getting chased or death-punished; that's exactly the time when I stop my dreams. Don't want to be killed ...

Hello Dr. Freud: any comments ?

 

[iBlue]

I hate those dreams where you can't run, yell or hit hard enough. I find I can always fly away in dreams. Not like superman flying but a sort of swimming through midair kind of thing. I've dreamt that since I can remember and tried it out as a kid with much disappointment.

I've heard most people always wake up as they are about to die in dreams. I've had several dreams where I did die and watched the world around me appearing in the strangest way. I can't even quite explain it.

 

[lewis82]

I've never fired a gun in a dream, but I can't run fast. If I ever want to move fast I have to use my arms and my legs like some kind of god damn dirty ape. More often than not it involves grabbing walls+floors and throwing myself forward. It's quite bizarre!

Same exact thing here. It makes for quite scary nightmares when guys with guns or knives are running after you...

 

[Firestar]

My dreams are consistently about getting killed... I usually wake as I get killed.

Have you guys ever fired a gun in your sleep? Whenever I do, the bullets come out real slow and they don't hurt anyone.

You fire a gun naked?

 

[0098386]

You fire a gun naked?

Isn't that the best time for it?

 

[Firestar]

Isn't that the best time for it?

Possibly. Whatever suits him.

 

[mentaluproar]

I used to have dreams whereby I'd "wake up" from one dream seemingly in my bed, only to get up, and then clearly realise it was a dream, and try to "wake up" again and again and again countless times.

I've had those before and wow are they scary! It feels like I'll never wake.

The worst are alarm clock dreams, where when the alarm goes off, it becomes part of your dream. This always happens with those clocks that start soft and get progressively louder. The last one I had was at my grandmothers house as a kid. I dreamed that I was trying to turn off the clock, and even after pulling the battery, disassembling it, and crushing it to bits with a hammer, I couldn't stop it. Scared the crap out of me. Of course, after I woke, I realized the Wile E Coyote-ness of the whole thing.

Now, I just set my iPod to play zeros theme from megaman X really loud. Scares me awake every time.

 

[Queen of Spades]

I usually get 7-8 hours. Less than that and I'm tired and less patient. The longest I ever went without sleeping was like 60 hours or so in college, when I was studying for a difficult exam. Probably one of the worse three day stretches in my life. By the end, I was seeing things. After that exam, I ate a huge stack of pancakes and slept for 20 hours. Hehe.

sleep paralysis snip

This has happened to me a couple of times, and it's terrifying. Mine always seem to involve some horrible demon or ghost hovering over me and I can't move, yell, or get away. I haven't had one in a long time, I really hope I never have another.

I hate those dreams where you can't run, yell or hit hard enough. I find I can always fly away in dreams. Not like superman flying but a sort of swimming through midair kind of thing. I've dreamt that since I can remember and tried it out as a kid with much disappointment.

That's funny you say that - I can almost always fly in my dreams too. But it's not hardcore flying like you said, it's like easy floating from point to point. In my dreams, I always show off with it because no one else can do it but me.

I actually remember my dreams very often and I'm also a very suggestive dreamer. For example, last night I fell asleep watching Tomb Raider, and Angelina Jolie guest starred in my dream. That sort of thing happens to me all the time. Can be fun.

 

[wonderspark]

Another flying dreamer here, haha. It's often quite variable, too. For a while, I would have to start "climbing an invisible ladder" so to speak in order to get flying. That still makes me laugh.

My sleep is all over the place. Sometimes 5 hours, sometimes 12. I can sleep pretty much anywhere at any time, unless I'm extremely upset. Then I can't sleep at all.

I once slept under the 5-inch cannon while it was firing during general quarters, leaning up against a bulkhead on my first ship in the Navy.

 

[Moyank24]

I sleep between 4-5 hours a night and I can manage that much pretty well. I try to ride my bike between 15 and 20 miles each morning after I drop my kids off at school - that seems to wake me up and keep me energized for most of the day. I do admit to having an energy drink or two at night - I work until between 1 and 2am every night - so it defintely helps.

I don't have much flying in my dreams - I do have dreams where I'm constantly trying to get somewhere - work, school, and an airport are the most prevalent - and I never get there. There's always something that stops me, or delays me. I wake up from those dreams feeling super frustrated until I realize that I'm not late and I don't have anywhere to be. I absolutely hate being late to things - so those dreams may not be too hard to analyze.

 

[Merkava_4]

You fire a gun naked?

No ... in that particular dream I have clothes on.

 

[toolbox]

Need at least 8 hours other wise i feel awful in the morning. However as of late my kitteh cat likes to jump on bed at 5 am in the morning and declare he is hungry.

 

[iBlue]

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That's funny you say that - I can almost always fly in my dreams too. But it's not hardcore flying like you said, it's like easy floating from point to point. In my dreams, I always show off with it because no one else can do it but me.
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Haha, exactly! Whenever I do it everyone is shocked and awed and usually try to catch me, forcing me to need to go higher to get away from them. I've had several where I got too cocky and managed to get tangled in power or telephone lines.
Whenever I've been doing a lot of floating/flying I wake up tired (heh) and very disappointed with physics.

I remember my dreams probably 50% of the time. My husband has only remembered a dream once or twice in the 6-ish years I've known him.

 

[Huntn]

Thread Revival

I heard an interview today on NPR with a sleep expert who manages a sleep clinic in San Diego and heard four interesting things:

• Melatonin as far as a pill is the best thing you can take, however, it just tells your body, it’s time to sleep. It’s not involved in the sleep itself. So it’s useful for recovering from jet lag.
• No sleeping pill gives you the restorative rest you get from natural sleep. Being knocked out does not equal healthy sleep.
• You can never recover the sleep you lose, it’s lost. Yes, you may sleep more to recover, but you will not recover the lost benefit because you lost sleep.
• Short on sleep equates to a shortened life. Any negative, medically related thing that is going on inside you is worsened by lack of sleep, and that includes age related dimensia.