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Originally Posted by stubbornforgey
'kids..do not try this at home without parental consent'
Have you ever tried to direct your own dream..
force your self consience to make it go the
way you want it to.??
Like the ones where your being chased by somebody..
have you ever stopped ..turned around (in your dream)
and ran that mutha down in your car or something like that??huh??
I heard..(rumor mill)..that someone did try that and it
drove them crazy.
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Hear it comes, right, but I've done that. I'm not saying that I'm ultra cool, because everyone can or has done that, whether they remember it or not. I think it depends on what state of REM (which is the state you're in when you dream). I suppose that if you're more towards the waking side of REM state, you're more able to do that type of dream management.
I mean, in the dream that started this thread, Vod had a sense that he was dreaming. Sometimes when you know you're dreaming you can manipulate the events in a dream, sort of like a defense mechanism, and sometimes you can't. I honestly think it depends on how close to consciousness you are without being outside of the REM state.
You've probably done this yourself, Forgey, but you may not remember.
I had a friend once that thought she was ultra cool because she had changed perspectives in her dream. She had gone from being herself, to this other guy across the parking lot (the locale of the dream), to an old lady. I was like, "Dude, that happens to everybody." Dreams are really neat, because while we all dream differently, there are all kinds of experiences to be had. Everybody has them at one point or another. That's just life and sleep and shit.
Where it gets hairy are people who have or claimed to have had prophetic dreams or have "walked" into someone else's dream or their presence if that person is awake (most of the time, it's not deliberate, but there are a few people that say they do it on purpose...I don't know. I believe in stuff like that, but then again, I don't really trust people. I've never done it. I've never heard of anyone doing whom I trust to be honest with me so, that's up for grabs).