Comments on: Lucid Nightmares – Participate in Dream Research http://dreamstudies.org/2008/10/06/lucid-nightmares-participate-in-dream-research/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lucid-nightmares-participate-in-dream-research the dream studies portal Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:34:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joleen Grace http://dreamstudies.org/2008/10/06/lucid-nightmares-participate-in-dream-research/comment-page-1/#comment-34794 Joleen Grace Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:52:54 +0000 http://dreamstudies.org/?p=301#comment-34794 Controllig the demons in my lucid nightmares is something I have just recently achieved. I wish I could say that it happens all the time, but it does not. Many times I wake up and realize that I was vividly dreaming and being controlled by them. If anything, if you can get them to fear you waking up in your dreams, it will not be so terrifying anymore. You have to realize what they are and what they want from you. The majoirty of them (the minions....community) exist and yet do not exist ...they exist in another plane that is fed by human sin...hence why they promote it. As for the superiors/generals/etc... they hate being named. Look them deep in the eye and you will find the name that will bind them to an extent where they can only do so much harm...they become limited....just as a name or definition limits us in some ways. It is the first cage you can cast upon them. But beware, naming them...angers them. Others will be sent to test you. Call them out for what they are. They hate light shown upon their shadows....because they are shadows. Googles. Controllig the demons in my lucid nightmares is something I have just recently achieved. I wish I could say that it happens all the time, but it does not. Many times I wake up and realize that I was vividly dreaming and being controlled by them. If anything, if you can get them to fear you waking up in your dreams, it will not be so terrifying anymore. You have to realize what they are and what they want from you. The majoirty of them (the minions….community) exist and yet do not exist …they exist in another plane that is fed by human sin…hence why they promote it.
As for the superiors/generals/etc… they hate being named. Look them deep in the eye and you will find the name that will bind them to an extent where they can only do so much harm…they become limited….just as a name or definition limits us in some ways. It is the first cage you can cast upon them. But beware, naming them…angers them. Others will be sent to test you. Call them out for what they are. They hate light shown upon their shadows….because they are shadows.

Googles.

]]> By: Maria http://dreamstudies.org/2008/10/06/lucid-nightmares-participate-in-dream-research/comment-page-1/#comment-23803 Maria Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:56:58 +0000 http://dreamstudies.org/?p=301#comment-23803 Hello. I recently found out there was a term of what my dreams are. I usually control fully what I dream of, except for times when I get lucid nightmares. It happened last year for over two months every night and recently has started happening again. The thing is, I am scared to fall asleep or go back to sleep and this is affecting my daily routine greatly. Yesterday I was talking to my boyfriend, whom I havent seen for a while and he wished me goodnight by saying "dream of me". So when falling asleep, I tried (as a mentioned I usually control what I dream and realize its a dream). The first thing I saw was a human-like figure leading me to my dream. It promised it would be what I wished for, but I knew it was lying and it was going to be a nightmare. Tried to fight it but could not and ended up having horrific experiences followed by 5 or 6 false awakenings (I get those every night) in each of which I had the false sense of security and something bad kept happening, which false awoke me again.. and again. Before I was fully awake I was still dreaming, laying in my bed, happy that it was over and there was a beautiful figure on the ceiling. It became demonic in seconds and I could actually hear my heart beat in my sleep. This is one of the mild cases for me. Last year I was seeing all kinds of creatures and I could talk to them, but they were all demonic, I could read their thoughts and what they wanted to tell me. I have always been scared of them in my dreams so they pursue me. Sometimes I try to be good to them and when I stop running, they stop chasing me and are not as scary, but is very difficult to do. The fact that I somewhat control the dreams makes me think that I might actually turn those nightmares into regular lucid dreams, but have no idea how. Also, I am not on any medications except for some painkillers for my back, but they are pretty mild. Please do let me know if there is any chance I could learn to fully control the nightmares, because it is driving me crazy. Hello. I recently found out there was a term of what my dreams are.

I usually control fully what I dream of, except for times when I get lucid nightmares.

It happened last year for over two months every night and recently has started happening again. The thing is, I am scared to fall asleep or go back to sleep and this is affecting my daily routine greatly.

Yesterday I was talking to my boyfriend, whom I havent seen for a while and he wished me goodnight by saying “dream of me”. So when falling asleep, I tried (as a mentioned I usually control what I dream and realize its a dream). The first thing I saw was a human-like figure leading me to my dream. It promised it would be what I wished for, but I knew it was lying and it was going to be a nightmare. Tried to fight it but could not and ended up having horrific experiences followed by 5 or 6 false awakenings (I get those every night) in each of which I had the false sense of security and something bad kept happening, which false awoke me again.. and again. Before I was fully awake I was still dreaming, laying in my bed, happy that it was over and there was a beautiful figure on the ceiling. It became demonic in seconds and I could actually hear my heart beat in my sleep.

This is one of the mild cases for me. Last year I was seeing all kinds of creatures and I could talk to them, but they were all demonic, I could read their thoughts and what they wanted to tell me. I have always been scared of them in my dreams so they pursue me. Sometimes I try to be good to them and when I stop running, they stop chasing me and are not as scary, but is very difficult to do.

The fact that I somewhat control the dreams makes me think that I might actually turn those nightmares into regular lucid dreams, but have no idea how.

Also, I am not on any medications except for some painkillers for my back, but they are pretty mild.

Please do let me know if there is any chance I could learn to fully control the nightmares, because it is driving me crazy.

]]> By: Joleen Grace http://dreamstudies.org/2008/10/06/lucid-nightmares-participate-in-dream-research/comment-page-1/#comment-416 Joleen Grace Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:06:17 +0000 http://dreamstudies.org/?p=301#comment-416 This is my dream last night: I was in my high school and middle school combined and was following an old boyfriend I had recently sent a letter to. I became distracted by an unusual set of stairs that I had never taken before.....this is when I became lucid, (As you may know most lucid dreamers have certain trigger objects that wake them up, mine is often doors, and stairwells. Though on occasion it has been a car or form of transportation) I became instantly aware that I was in the demon realm after following the stairwell to the top. I look around to see if anyone (demons) I know is around. The coast is clear so far and I observe what is going on. I am in a gigantic building that is a city within itself surrounded by massive dark angry clouds. People are walking around listlessly, they look so lost and confused and saddened by it. They all have a piece of paper in their hands. Suddenly I am pulled aside by someone. An old woman in a cloak pulls me aside very quickly (think of a witch/croan type) She pulls out a jar and wipes a gel like liquid under both of my eyes and tells me that I will be needing this for the journey, She then hands me a piece of paper. It is blank. Then she disappears. I am confused. Because I have dealt with the demons hundreds of times before and have become very acquainted with them I am wondering who will show up to greet me. I watch and wait and demons do appear and they don't notice me. Over the loud speaker there is an announcement that "she is now amongst us...and stuff about keeping an eye out for me and to find me. I can't believe they can't see me this time. They can't do anything. This is amazing. Whatever that woman (angel/protector/light) put under my eyes made me invisible to them. So I went up to the other people that I was blending in with and asked them about their piece of paper. What is it for? She says it is what she can not remember. I look at it and I read it....I can actually read in the dream. Your name is Mary. You have been in a coma for two months. Your husband misses you. And she vanishes. The other people who were wandering around wondering what was on their "unreadable paper" started coming up to me. Read mine! Read mine! So I did. I started reading there's one by one and they would disappear. Everyone was so joyful. They were remembering what they had forgotten and thus being released from the bondage of a comma or something like that. So of course there are demons out everywhere asking everyone to hold up there piece of paper and who is making the people disappear from their realm? I hold up my piece of paper looking a demon right in the eye, a demon who is looking for me and he sees the paper and moves on. Wow!!!! So then I decide to fly like I always do and love to do in lucid dreams. Big mistake. They shout "there she is!" and chase after me. I realize they can not see me unless I do something that I would typically do in a lucid dream like make matter dissipate so that I can fly out of the building, which is what I have done. I can see it from the outside now. This massive enormous building, no end in sight to the ground, perhaps there is no ground....only storm clouds shooting electricity everywhere. Now they can see me because none of the other people in the building are capable of doing what I am doing. I realize this and quickly decide to go back down to earth. A few random people next to grab me and act like I am just one of them. Where is she? they keep yelling? Fires are starting everywhere. Meanwhile more and more people are coming up to me wanting me to read them their stories....I latch on to the four people who I met when I landed and tell them to hold on to me and they will be able to fly to. That I can make them fly. The demons are angry...and I am on to them. I know they are fighting to keep these souls trapped. They want to find me and make me powerless but for this dream I was given the gift of invisibility for the sole purpose of saving these people. I fly straight into the blackest outreaches of the clouds to see where the limit was, where the end of this place is....and I am stuck by lightening. It course's through me and energizes me and suddenly all the demons can see me very clearly but it doesn't matter. I say a prayer to let the souls be able to read their own pages....and all of a sudden they can. They fly away in all directions free... and I realize these people weren't just in comas, most of them were dead and had gotten trapped by their own self hatred for something that they had done in their previous life and they couldn't remember it now...some had killed themselves and could not forgive themselves...and could not find the ones they loved or even killed themselves over....they were so lost. It was such an overwhelming feeling. They were free. The demons were extremely angry. I felt as if I had been used as a weapon against them...and perhaps that is what all these demon dreams had been leading to..I only wished all of the souls could be released. But the divine element in the dream was telling me that it was not there time yet but that I had marked them so that they would be able to wake up and remember and be free as the others had, they just needed more time. This is a demon dream that changes everything for me. Just as the last one did where they could nolonger control anything...I became like freaking neo....wtf lol This is my dream last night: I was in my high school and middle school combined and was following an old boyfriend I had recently sent a letter to. I became distracted by an unusual set of stairs that I had never taken before…..this is when I became lucid, (As you may know most lucid dreamers have certain trigger objects that wake them up, mine is often doors, and stairwells. Though on occasion it has been a car or form of transportation)

I became instantly aware that I was in the demon realm after following the stairwell to the top. I look around to see if anyone (demons) I know is around. The coast is clear so far and I observe what is going on. I am in a gigantic building that is a city within itself surrounded by massive dark angry clouds. People are walking around listlessly, they look so lost and confused and saddened by it. They all have a piece of paper in their hands. Suddenly I am pulled aside by someone. An old woman in a cloak pulls me aside very quickly (think of a witch/croan type) She pulls out a jar and wipes a gel like liquid under both of my eyes and tells me that I will be needing this for the journey, She then hands me a piece of paper. It is blank. Then she disappears. I am confused. Because I have dealt with the demons hundreds of times before and have become very acquainted with them I am wondering who will show up to greet me. I watch and wait and demons do appear and they don’t notice me. Over the loud speaker there is an announcement that “she is now amongst us…and stuff about keeping an eye out for me and to find me. I can’t believe they can’t see me this time. They can’t do anything. This is amazing. Whatever that woman (angel/protector/light) put under my eyes made me invisible to them.

So I went up to the other people that I was blending in with and asked them about their piece of paper. What is it for? She says it is what she can not remember. I look at it and I read it….I can actually read in the dream. Your name is Mary. You have been in a coma for two months. Your husband misses you. And she vanishes. The other people who were wandering around wondering what was on their “unreadable paper” started coming up to me. Read mine! Read mine! So I did. I started reading there’s one by one and they would disappear. Everyone was so joyful. They were remembering what they had forgotten and thus being released from the bondage of a comma or something like that.
So of course there are demons out everywhere asking everyone to hold up there piece of paper and who is making the people disappear from their realm? I hold up my piece of paper looking a demon right in the eye, a demon who is looking for me and he sees the paper and moves on. Wow!!!!
So then I decide to fly like I always do and love to do in lucid dreams. Big mistake. They shout “there she is!” and chase after me. I realize they can not see me unless I do something that I would typically do in a lucid dream like make matter dissipate so that I can fly out of the building, which is what I have done. I can see it from the outside now. This massive enormous building, no end in sight to the ground, perhaps there is no ground….only storm clouds shooting electricity everywhere. Now they can see me because none of the other people in the building are capable of doing what I am doing. I realize this and quickly decide to go back down to earth. A few random people next to grab me and act like I am just one of them. Where is she? they keep yelling? Fires are starting everywhere. Meanwhile more and more people are coming up to me wanting me to read them their stories….I latch on to the four people who I met when I landed and tell them to hold on to me and they will be able to fly to. That I can make them fly. The demons are angry…and I am on to them. I know they are fighting to keep these souls trapped. They want to find me and make me powerless but for this dream I was given the gift of invisibility for the sole purpose of saving these people. I fly straight into the blackest outreaches of the clouds to see where the limit was, where the end of this place is….and I am stuck by lightening. It course’s through me and energizes me and suddenly all the demons can see me very clearly but it doesn’t matter. I say a prayer to let the souls be able to read their own pages….and all of a sudden they can. They fly away in all directions free… and I realize these people weren’t just in comas, most of them were dead and had gotten trapped by their own self hatred for something that they had done in their previous life and they couldn’t remember it now…some had killed themselves and could not forgive themselves…and could not find the ones they loved or even killed themselves over….they were so lost. It was such an overwhelming feeling. They were free. The demons were extremely angry. I felt as if I had been used as a weapon against them…and perhaps that is what all these demon dreams had been leading to..I only wished all of the souls could be released. But the divine element in the dream was telling me that it was not there time yet but that I had marked them so that they would be able to wake up and remember and be free as the others had, they just needed more time. This is a demon dream that changes everything for me. Just as the last one did where they could nolonger control anything…I became like freaking neo….wtf lol

]]> By: Ryan Hurd http://dreamstudies.org/2008/10/06/lucid-nightmares-participate-in-dream-research/comment-page-1/#comment-415 Ryan Hurd Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:59:00 +0000 http://dreamstudies.org/?p=301#comment-415 Hi Sara, I've published a book about sleep paralysis nightmares, but not about classic lucid dreaming nightmares. However, you may want to also see my post on false awakenings: http://dreamstudies.org/2010/05/04/how-to-stop-false-awakening-dreams/ as well as listen to my presentation on lucid nightmares: http://dreamstudies.org/2009/09/28/lucid-nightmare-podcast/ Bottom line: we can't force dream characters to change. the change often has to come from within first, a change of attitude, which is easier said than done! but it's possible over time, and will lead to more productive dreaming. Hi Sara,

I’ve published a book about sleep paralysis nightmares, but not about classic lucid dreaming nightmares. However, you may want to also see my post on false awakenings:
http://dreamstudies.org/2010/05/04/how-to-stop-false-awakening-dreams/

as well as listen to my presentation on lucid nightmares:
http://dreamstudies.org/2009/09/28/lucid-nightmare-podcast/

Bottom line: we can’t force dream characters to change. the change often has to come from within first, a change of attitude, which is easier said than done! but it’s possible over time, and will lead to more productive dreaming.

]]> By: Sara D. http://dreamstudies.org/2008/10/06/lucid-nightmares-participate-in-dream-research/comment-page-1/#comment-414 Sara D. Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:27:02 +0000 http://dreamstudies.org/?p=301#comment-414 Did you publish a book based on your findings and research here? What about lucid nightmares? I have nightmares that are lucid but I cannot wake up no matter what I do. They are false 'wake-ups' into more nightmares where sometimes I have some control and sometimes very little and the nightmare characters seem to not want to change into something more friendly when I ask them but usually turn demonic. Did you publish a book based on your findings and research here? What about lucid nightmares? I have nightmares that are lucid but I cannot wake up no matter what I do. They are false ‘wake-ups’ into more nightmares where sometimes I have some control and sometimes very little and the nightmare characters seem to not want to change into something more friendly when I ask them but usually turn demonic.

]]> By: Lucid Nightmares and Dream Warriors | The Dream Studies Portal http://dreamstudies.org/2008/10/06/lucid-nightmares-participate-in-dream-research/comment-page-1/#comment-413 Lucid Nightmares and Dream Warriors | The Dream Studies Portal Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:06:12 +0000 http://dreamstudies.org/?p=301#comment-413 [...] deeply in my mind I decided to go ahead and model my life after it. Like Kristen, I suffered from lucid nightmares as a teenager – those dreams that you know you are dreaming but feel powerless to act in the [...] [...] deeply in my mind I decided to go ahead and model my life after it. Like Kristen, I suffered from lucid nightmares as a teenager – those dreams that you know you are dreaming but feel powerless to act in the [...]

]]> By: Jacqueline http://dreamstudies.org/2008/10/06/lucid-nightmares-participate-in-dream-research/comment-page-1/#comment-412 Jacqueline Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:04:47 +0000 http://dreamstudies.org/?p=301#comment-412 I don't have lucid nightmares often but when I do the come in clumps, are absolutely terrifying and are always brand new additions to my dream files. Usually I re-enter past dreams or fall asleep tailoring my own. Sounds weird but sometimes during the day,,randomly, I will recall parts of dreams which I remember bur haven't dreamed in years ...along with a plethora of other wacky stuff ha but I'm never able to wake myself consistently at will; However, I can manage to make myself an observer. I actually had to throw out my pillow after the last lucid nightmare I had. I found myself in our grocery store, which was completely rearranged, and walking. As I walked past the beer section I stopped and opened the door....instead of being in the grocery store I was now in a small pitch black room with another person, a boy. Instantly I was aware I was dreaming. Standing in darkness there was a flash of light in the center of the room. The boy was on one side of the room and I on the other. The light became brighter and began to swirl, as if opening. Gradually the light became a cluster of vivid glittering gold flecks which swirled and spiraled up out of the floor creating the image of a skeleton. Immobilized with fear the only thing I could do was cling to the edge of the darkness and try to become invisible. The boy was terrified and ended up in my corner clung to the wall right next to me. I watched in horror as the glittering, golden skeleton lurched in our direction and grabbed the boy by the ankle,dragging him back down into the swirling portal. I felt like I had narrowly escaped and the sense of evil was overwhelming. The moment the boy was gone and the room returned to complete darkness I woke up. I felt like I had witness the death and loss of someones soul--I haven't allowed myself to observe another dream since. I don’t have lucid nightmares often but when I do the come in clumps, are absolutely terrifying and are always brand new additions to my dream files. Usually I re-enter past dreams or fall asleep tailoring my own. Sounds weird but sometimes during the day,,randomly, I will recall parts of dreams which I remember bur haven’t dreamed in years …along with a plethora of other wacky stuff ha but I’m never able to wake myself consistently at will; However, I can manage to make myself an observer.
I actually had to throw out my pillow after the last lucid nightmare I had.
I found myself in our grocery store, which was completely rearranged, and walking. As I walked past the beer section I stopped and opened the door….instead of being in the grocery store I was now in a small pitch black room with another person, a boy. Instantly I was aware I was dreaming. Standing in darkness there was a flash of light in the center of the room. The boy was on one side of the room and I on the other. The light became brighter and began to swirl, as if opening. Gradually the light became a cluster of vivid glittering gold flecks which swirled and spiraled up out of the floor creating the image of a skeleton. Immobilized with fear the only thing I could do was cling to the edge of the darkness and try to become invisible. The boy was terrified and ended up in my corner clung to the wall right next to me. I watched in horror as the glittering, golden skeleton lurched in our direction and grabbed the boy by the ankle,dragging him back down into the swirling portal. I felt like I had narrowly escaped and the sense of evil was overwhelming. The moment the boy was gone and the room returned to complete darkness I woke up. I felt like I had witness the death and loss of someones soul–I haven’t allowed myself to observe another dream since.

]]> By: azothcat http://dreamstudies.org/2008/10/06/lucid-nightmares-participate-in-dream-research/comment-page-1/#comment-411 azothcat Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:09:08 +0000 http://dreamstudies.org/?p=301#comment-411 i can remember having a lucid nightmare i knew that it was a nightmare and i could even wake up but i didn't want to i felt like i had to continue to see whats going to happen and well after all it was a nightmare and the monster got me ...cuz i was stupid enough to continue...damn curiosity i can remember having a lucid nightmare i knew that it was a nightmare and i could even wake up but i didn’t want to i felt like i had to continue to see whats going to happen and well after all it was a nightmare and the monster got me …cuz i was stupid enough to continue…damn curiosity

]]> By: Ryan Hurd http://dreamstudies.org/2008/10/06/lucid-nightmares-participate-in-dream-research/comment-page-1/#comment-410 Ryan Hurd Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:17:10 +0000 http://dreamstudies.org/?p=301#comment-410 Hi Amanda, maybe it's time to baby-proof the house a bit more? If you have a 1 1/2 year old, she's got to be getting into more trouble than before, and this dream could be an expression of that. I also feel a "medical" hit in this dream, something in the diabetes area. If it were my dream, I would be careful about diet concerns with my baby and watch for how her energy levels fluctuate. But listen: I hardly ever do dream interpretation in comments anymore. If you're interested in more of this kind of thing, check out <a href="http://thedreamtribe.com/dap/a/?a=4" rel="nofollow">the Dream Tribe</a>, a site where we work dreams privately and securely. Hi Amanda, maybe it’s time to baby-proof the house a bit more? If you have a 1 1/2 year old, she’s got to be getting into more trouble than before, and this dream could be an expression of that. I also feel a “medical” hit in this dream, something in the diabetes area. If it were my dream, I would be careful about diet concerns with my baby and watch for how her energy levels fluctuate.

But listen: I hardly ever do dream interpretation in comments anymore. If you’re interested in more of this kind of thing, check out the Dream Tribe, a site where we work dreams privately and securely.

]]> By: Amanda http://dreamstudies.org/2008/10/06/lucid-nightmares-participate-in-dream-research/comment-page-1/#comment-409 Amanda Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:59:44 +0000 http://dreamstudies.org/?p=301#comment-409 Hi! I've always strongly believed that dreams try to tell you something. So i only got 3 hours of sleep last night, woke up with my 1 1/2 yr old daughter, put us both in her room and just layed on her floor while she played, i ended up falling asleep and having a horrible dream. In my dream i found her playing with a bunch of needles, then she just screamed and i realized she had them everywhere in her legs, me and her dad sat there and pulled them out, once they were all out, her legs were black and blue...then i woke up. I dont know what this means or why i would dream something so horrible? Can anyone relate or help out with this?? Hi! I’ve always strongly believed that dreams try to tell you something. So i only got 3 hours of sleep last night, woke up with my 1 1/2 yr old daughter, put us both in her room and just layed on her floor while she played, i ended up falling asleep and having a horrible dream. In my dream i found her playing with a bunch of needles, then she just screamed and i realized she had them everywhere in her legs, me and her dad sat there and pulled them out, once they were all out, her legs were black and blue…then i woke up. I dont know what this means or why i would dream something so horrible? Can anyone relate or help out with this??

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