Comments on: Goals, Dreams, Needs and Lucid Dreams http://athoughtadrift.com/gemmell/2007/04/14/goals-dreams-needs-and-lucid-dreams/ Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:30:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: grandad http://athoughtadrift.com/gemmell/2007/04/14/goals-dreams-needs-and-lucid-dreams/#comment-35 grandad Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:14:49 +0000 http://athoughtadrift.com/gemmell/2007/04/14/goals-dreams-needs-and-lucid-dreams/#comment-35 If you have a real lucid dream you shouldn't end up in a mess, the thing I found about these dreams was that you are always in control and invincible. I don't have lucid dreams as such now because I don't need to dream the impossible, I've got to the state of comfortable security that I accused you of being in! I still dream but the dreams are of being able to again do all the things that I used to be able to do and not end up aching or puffing! Age only stunts the performance not the desire! If you have a real lucid dream you shouldn’t end up in a mess, the thing I found about these dreams was that you are always in control and invincible.
I don’t have lucid dreams as such now because I don’t need to dream the impossible, I’ve got to the state of comfortable security that I accused you of being in! I still dream but the dreams are of being able to again do all the things that I used to be able to do and not end up aching or puffing!
Age only stunts the performance not the desire!

]]> By: Gemmell http://athoughtadrift.com/gemmell/2007/04/14/goals-dreams-needs-and-lucid-dreams/#comment-34 Gemmell Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:09:57 +0000 http://athoughtadrift.com/gemmell/2007/04/14/goals-dreams-needs-and-lucid-dreams/#comment-34 Grandad, Interesting that you've experienced this without knowing what it was (or at least that it had a name). Apparently it's quite common, but it seems that most people wake up when they realise they are dreaming. Or they only have slight control of the dream. I used to have dreams and I'd always end up falling. When I hit the ground I'd go completely black and the rest of the night would be a deep dreamless sleep. It was good sleeping. So you are unable to do lucid dreaming anymore? Or you choose not to? ~Gemmell Grandad,

Interesting that you’ve experienced this without knowing what it was (or at least that it had a name). Apparently it’s quite common, but it seems that most people wake up when they realise they are dreaming. Or they only have slight control of the dream.

I used to have dreams and I’d always end up falling. When I hit the ground I’d go completely black and the rest of the night would be a deep dreamless sleep. It was good sleeping.

So you are unable to do lucid dreaming anymore? Or you choose not to?

~Gemmell

]]> By: grandad http://athoughtadrift.com/gemmell/2007/04/14/goals-dreams-needs-and-lucid-dreams/#comment-33 grandad Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:28:27 +0000 http://athoughtadrift.com/gemmell/2007/04/14/goals-dreams-needs-and-lucid-dreams/#comment-33 Lucid dreams? Been there done that but didn't think that it was any big deal. When I read your link I realized that I'd used this type of dreaming, many years ago mainly. It was during a time when things weren't so easy and there was a bit of worry and, I suppose a bit of doubt about my ability to cope. I got so good that I could carry the dreams over several days and eventually didn't need to be asleep to join the world of make-believe. I think that it was probably therapeutic but I think that it could be a bad thing if one lets ones self move too far into the dream world. Funny, I'd never thought about this till your blog then I could remember zooming up and diving and another one I had was being able to swim under water because I'd developed gills. Trouble is that they get to be so real and enjoyable that they begin to have a drug like influence! Lucid dreams? Been there done that but didn’t think that it was any big deal.
When I read your link I realized that I’d used this type of dreaming, many years ago mainly. It was during a time when things weren’t so easy and there was a bit of worry and, I suppose a bit of doubt about my ability to cope. I got so good that I could carry the dreams over several days and eventually didn’t need to be asleep to join the world of make-believe.
I think that it was probably therapeutic but I think that it could be a bad thing if one lets ones self move too far into the dream world.
Funny, I’d never thought about this till your blog then I could remember zooming up and diving and another one I had was being able to swim under water because I’d developed gills. Trouble is that they get to be so real and enjoyable that they begin to have a drug like influence!

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