Decide ones own dreams (actual dreams)

[AlexanderM]

Ever since I was a kid I have been able to control what I would dream about. Not with a 100% success rate, but very often - almost mostly I would say.

 

My favorite dream would be about traveling to another time, but with a twist. I would be able to bring three things. So let's say I would go to the stone age in Europe... then the last thing I would decide on before falling asleep would be which three things to bring. I would have to consider what weaponry already existed at the time. Sometimes I would even bring penicillin and save the king's daughter from a serious infection and then I would get half the kingdom. Other times I might just bring arms and brute force my way to power! A bulletproof suit or at least west, and go back to the wild west... although going to a period with guns always seemed risky even if I has superior weaponry. But going further back, and I could singlehandedly defeat entire armies

 

Try it

 

Why I am telling this by the way?

 

To celebrate that I just received my first Showcase 20!!!

 

[rodan57]

Needed to look it up.

 

 

My dream would be to go back in time to buy these comic books off of the newsstand.

Small potatoes but perhaps another way of wanting to be twelve again.

[AlexanderM]

Needed to look it up.

 

 

My dream would be to go back in time to buy these comic books off of the newsstand.

Small potatoes but perhaps another way of wanting to be twelve again.

 

Yeah, that would be a good reason too

[01TheDude]

How much saving would you have to do when the dinosaur appears to be a brontosaurus?

[shadroch]

Dion is going for the giant red berry. To a herbivorous creature, she looks like sundae.

[AlexanderM]

Dion is a cool name. I suggest Jimmy.

[AlexanderM]

Grunt

[ForlornOutcast]

Lucid dreaming is cool. Seen some of the most beautiful otherworldy things there. Doesn't happen to me too often unfortunately. Once or twice a year. I also can only control the dreams a little, but I usually will go explore, which is like nothing I could ever explain.

[fiberbiskit]

Ever since I was a kid I have been able to control what I would dream about. Not with a 100% success rate, but very often - almost mostly I would say.

 

I was always told that if you can see your hands and feet in your dreams that you can control them.

 

I hardly dream but when I do I never recall seeing my hands or feet

[Senormac]

[Brian48]

If I could control my dreaming, I doubt it would make it pass the board's filters if I tried to tell you what.

 

Hint - it sure wouldn't be a comic.

[valiantman]

When I was a kid, I could control my dreams... sometimes.

 

I had a recurring one where I realized I was dreaming during the dream and decided that I could fly like Superman. For some reason, though, I could only rise a few feet above the ground... which really was the same "view" I would have if I was running. I always woke up very tired, as if controlling my dreams was the opposite of resting.

 

As an adult, I rarely control my dreams. Dreams of falling, I usually force myself to stay asleep. The moment I hit the ground, I'm in the middle of a different dream... as if hitting the ground was the same thing as changing the channel on the TV.

 

If something impossible happens in a dream, I sometimes can take over the dream at that point. For some reason, though, it's always very near my alarm time, as if it happens near morning, or as if controlling a dream takes longer and you don't get much time to be in control before you wake up.

 

Noises at night (or dreamed noises) sometimes result in sleep paralysis (or dreamed sleep paralysis)... I'm not sure which. It seems like I'm awake in my bed, but I can't move. I might be dreaming that I'm awake in my bed. It might just be a result of dreaming while I'm lying on my arm and it "goes to sleep" so my dream is that I can't move anything even though it's just my arm. I don't know about those.

 

Most of the time, though... I'm just watching the dream TV. If I kept a dream journal, I'd probably have something to write about five days a week. My wife said she never remembers her dreams. She doesn't sleep well, so maybe she doesn't get to that REM state often.

 

Before the internet, I didn't know the term "lucid dreaming". If I mentioned controlling my dreams to anyone, they looked at me funny... so I figured I shouldn't say anything.

[Norrin_Radd]

I'd never heard of dream incubation (decided what to dream) or lucid dreaming until very recently. It's intriguing..