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Be Youmu, the softest.

QUALITY THREAD

I can't get myself to fall into a lucid dream.

How do you guys do it?

Would Melatonin help?

I suppose the first step would involve not being tied to your mortal coil

then the hellishly long (and probably impossible) task of getting in good graces with Yuyuko

>>5984453
You produce that naturally even before going to sleep, goof

I don't much recommend attempting lucid dreaming, frought with un-great things

I considered lucid dreaming, but considering my paranoia I probably shouldn't.

Fucking Slender Man would probably ruin everything.

QUALITY THREAD

>>5984453
Melatonin makes your thoughts too clouded to properly have a lucid dream.

The best way to have a lucid dream is to have an entirely clear head.

I am going to try to lucid dream again tonight and apologize to my lover properly.

>>5984465
Yeah, but I have bottles of it.

So many bottles.

i remember having a few lucid dreams, but i don't remember them, the only thing i remember is that i say "quick-save" in my mind so i can get back to my dream before i wake up, but i can't quick load when i sleep the next day

>Calea zacatechichi, also known as Dream Herb, Cheech, and Bitter Grass, is a plant used by the indigenous Chontal of the Mexican state of Oaxaca for oneiromancy (a form of divination based on dreams.) The plant naturally occurs from southern Mexico to northern Costa Rica. It has been scientifically demonstrated that extracts of this plant increase reaction times and the frequency and/or recollection of dreams[1] versus placebo and diazepam.

I personally tried some and it didn't really do much for me.

last night I had a touhou related dream. Too bad I don't remember most of it, besides being in a class room and seeing reisen and tewi's panties

bern thread

>>5984479
I'm still clueless to this whole idea.

I saw the picture with instuctions.

You just lay back and stay still?

What a coincidence OP. I was making love to Yuyuko last night.

>>5984438
I only had a touhou related dream once. I was basically giving oral sex to sakuya. I dunno why it was Sakuya since she isnt my favorite touhou or one that I'm particulary interested in, but it was cool nontheless

The only Touhou related dream I ever had was about the /jp/ company making a 3D danmaku.

I wish I could have a nice dream in which I hang out with my favorite characters, but I seldom see any dream in the first place.

Latest dream I had was fucking weird. I was living in my house, but it was remodeled as a school dormitory. For some reason I was sleeping in the same bed as a girl and another guy, then I went to the room next door and choked the guy living here from behind. I threw him down the stairs, then I head people talking in the kitchen. Fucking weird.

>Lucid dreaming
nb4 100+ posts.

>>5984481
Whats funny is how many Touhou-related dreams I have is inversely proportional to how much Touhou-related stuff I'm doing (playing games, reading doujins, discussing it) Like last month I had nearly no real contact with the material and I was having Touhou related dreams quite frequently, like they were calling me back

damn it

Last night I had a /jp/ related dream.

Sadly, it was about the Arcueid tripfag. He was an obnoxious black man dressed as the Type-Moon character.
Very disturbing.

>>5984504
I gave you withdrawal symptoms.
u mad?

>>5984495
Lucky bastard.

>>5984490
You're simply staying conscious while falling asleep. It works best if you set alarm to wake up a couple hours earlier than normal, then go back to bet a bit later. It's harder during the day since your body doesn't need rem, and at night because your body is trying to put you down.

>>5984490
Having lucid dreams that way is a shitty, shitty idea.

I wish I could lucid dream, but my sleeping schedule is honestly just too fucked up for me to focus on things like that when I'm trying to get to sleep.

Captcha: nessarl year.77

Just a quick question: Do you people who have Touhou-related dreams see them as 2D? 3D? A combination?

>>5984643

Its kinda weird, since I always tought imaginating myself having sex with a 2d was impossible, until it happened to me. When I was eating Sakuya out, it was kind of a mix between 2d and 3d, or what I'm trying to say is that in my dream I wasnt aware if she was either 2d or 3d, when I woke up, I realized she was kind of a mix between the two, the best way I could tell it is that it was probably 3d but with some features that were 2d that my mind proceded as 3d. It didnt look silly or anything.

I've had three Touhou related dreams so far.

1: At the end of some random dream, Cirno and I kinda "wrestled" a bit, if you know what I mean.

2: I had control of Sanae with my Xbox 360 controller, and I had to press up and X to make her run up walls. She could also jump on enemies heads to defeat them. I remember staring at her 3d model for a while, and it was pretty amazing. I couldn't believe my mind could have come up with such thing, since I'm not really an artist or 3d modeler.

3: During some random fps dream, I remember there being a screen on a while that was playing a top down 3d touhou with Marisa.

The last Touhou-related dream I had was with Byakuren. Oh god I wish I didn't have to go all the way to Gensokyo just to see mai waifu ;_;

The only Touhou dreams I've had were of playing the games. You guys are strange.

>>5984476

Me too, and while it helps fall asleep, it's horrible for dreams. It gives your dreams ADD and you NEVER get to the good part. Dreaming about finding a lot of money? Too bad you never pick it up. Dreaming about chasing/being attracted to a girl? Too bad you only see her once and she ignores you. After that it always veers off into something else; mostly running around strange buildings for me.

Best dream I ever remember was with two horny Mithra. Of course, it ended after one was about to sit on my face (While wearing Racial gear, if I remember right). Weird thing is, like >>5984504, I haven't even played FFXI in years...

>>5984765
Same with me.

I can't remember having sex in my dreams at all.

>>5984643
You know, I can't really tell whether they're 3D or not.

Touhou girls only visit you in dreams for one night stands.
That's why they don't want to let us stay in Gensokyo and claim them as a righteous wife.

Still haven't had one since that time I was Suwako in my dream. It was pretty awesome, I didn't give a shit about anything and instigated a fight between Sanae and Kanako which ended with Sanae delivering a flying kick straight into Kanako's face.

After the dream, for a few minutes, I felt that I truly understood her mentality /situation to a depth I can't describe.

>>5984847
Yet you didn't find time to explore your new-found loli body?

drams are low tiere.

There was a time I saw bullets every time i close my eyes.
well i guess that was TOO MUCH touhou...

dreams are low tier.

There was a time I saw bullets every time i close my eyes.
well i guess that was TOO MUCH touhou...

>>5985596

>>5985596
Better take a break every 24 hours.

>>5984768
>Playing an FF game after IX
GTFO.

>>5985596
>Dreams
>low-tier hallucinations
You don't know much about dreams do you?

I discuss powerlevels in my dreams!

PROTIP: You can't have sex with your waifu if you fap in real life.

>>5984474
Actually, some things like alcohol can enhance dreams..
Well, they'll shorten them as well, but supposedly the dream will be really intense.

>>5985648
You can do whatever the fuck you want in a lucid dream as long as you prepare it right.
All you have to do is drink a potion or switch a light switch or do some other action with a dream object and say to yourself something along the lines of "this will make [x] happen".

You can do whatever the fuck you want in a lucid dream as long as you prepare it right.
All you have to do is drink a potion or switch a light switch or do some other action with a dream object and say to yourself something along the lines of "this will make [x] happen".
Or so I hear.

The best /jp/ related dream I ever had was about Perla getting gangraped by ugly guys.
Too bad I was not able to help or join the fun ;_;

How come nobody has posted any mindfuck dreams yet?

I can never have a good lucid dream. I always end up beating everything to death or slicing it in two with blunt objects. Something I could possibly rape in a lucid dream? Unconsciously walk up to it and blow the shit out of it. That and walking on my hands, always happens in lucid dreams, like gravity ceases to exist in my lower body and only affects the upper body.

>I will never sex waifu in dream

>>5985696
>lightswitch

NO NO NO NO NO
FUCK NO
YOU NEVER TURN LIGHT SWITCHES, YOU NEVER LOOK IN MIRRORS, AND YOU NEVER SCREAM. These all cause lucid nightmares, and lucid nightmares are the scariest shit ever.

I don't dream as much as I used to
But my dreams are nightmares 90% of the time
Had sleep paralysis for the first time about a month ago(might've been a nightmare)
No lucid dream after that

Only lucid dream I ever had was using kamehameha against monsters once I realized I was having a nightmare

Only had 2 /jp/ related dreams
1.Being a Yukkuri and getting killed by ryougi shiki
2.getting bullied by yuyuko

>>5985697
I was in your dream banging Perla?

This is the best day ever.

>>5985715
How the fuck do you have a nightmare when you know nothing can hurt you in your lucid dreams?
You're a fucking pussy if this is true.

Months have passed and I still haven't achieved lucid dreaming ;_;

>>5985731
When you gain consciousness in a dream, your body's natural reaction is to wake you up. The easiest way is to scare you awake. Sometimes you may get sleep paralysis during, which can be a horrifying experience.

>>5985728
Why can't I get bullied by Yuyuko in a dream?

>>5985740
Bullshit.
This is pure fucking bullshit.
I don't even know where you got it if you even did get it, that is.

>>5985740
You're always in sleep paralysis when you're dreaming.
What you're probably referring to is when you have a Wake Initiated Lucid Dream, that is, when you try to become conscious of your dream by being aware that you're falling asleep (or some shit like that.. I didn't look into it very much because it can get really fucked up).
As for the scaring part, you're always 'conscious' in your dreams. Lucidity just means you know you're dreaming.
The reason beginners often wake up after they realize they're dreaming is because they become excited and this jolts them from sleep.
As far as I know, this is not a defensive mechanism.

Why dream about a specific touhou created by ZUN when you can instead create your own superior touhou waifu in your dreams and craft her through repeated thought prior to sleeping to be in your own image of god or what a perfect god would be like to you?

I get haunted by this on a regular basis.
It always tries to grab my head.

Why is this happening to me? I want to dream about touhoues and not some weird shit like this.

I once had a dream where me and Rin were in love with each other (i.e. was not unrequited love...) and were having sex.

I don't remember very well, but unfortunately at the end of the dream, it started to look she would've started hating me if the dream continued any longer than it did...

I had a dream once where I was running through a maze-like building done with the same sort of looks of a mindfuck warehouse place (how do I say it.. It's kinda like the impression left by the film The Hills Have Eyes or, more obviously, the Numbers world of Yume Nikki.. Lots of orange, white and red) and I was opening all these doors and running through different hallways and empty rooms terrified when I finally saw for just a second Reimu burning on top of a stove before I dodged into a room with egg-shaped chairs and bloody flooring and this pair of floating skeletons and a naked, laughing Yukari comes up to me and one of them speaks to me with woman's voice and a sort of British-like accent: "'E looks so promisin' beneath all that skin" and that was when I woke up.

How do you guys get these romantic dreams?

I almost always end up being a badass adventurer.

>>5985982
How do you get these badass adventurer dreams?

I almost always end up being in a waifu romance.

I had a dream where I couldn't find my politics class and I was in the wrong room until I realized I was in 2000-19 instead of 2000-20. I left as the female teacher came in and went to the right room. I ran into my professor in the hall and we entered class together. Class started, and he was talking about how we'll be teaching maritime search and rescue someday, even though we won't know how to do it ourselves. Someone started foaming at the mouth, and me and someone else dragged him down the stairs to the doctor's office. The doctor was a woman who had a pistol for some reason. While the doctor tried to treat the foaming guy, dozens of zombie humans and creatures starting pouring into the room. There was a tiger and a mermaid, among others. I fired the doctor's pistol at them, but it had no effect. Finally, I ran out of ammunition and they overwhelmed us. When they cornered us, the leader of the zombie people emerged and said that we should join them. He had a handful of pills and told me not to say anything. Then he started putting pills in the survivors' mouths, and they starting foaming at the mouth and dieing too. When he got to me, I put my hand over my mouth and begged him not to. I grabbed some pills from his hand and put some in his mouth instead, and put some pills in the zombie's mouths too, and they all starting foaming and soon they were all dead too. I started running away to find my car which was 9 blocks away with another survivor who I guess I was related too. It was dark out and I couldn't run very fast, and we kept running into followers of the zombie leader guy. One of them tried to convince us to join them, but when she stepped forward to talk to my companion, I snuck up behind her and snapped her neck and left her by the roadside. My companion said I did a good job and we started running again. We came across a heavily wooded area, which was good because then we could see the flashlights of our pursuers, then I woke up.

>>5985982
>>5985996

How do you get these dreams?

I almost always end up being in a nonsense dream.

>>5985996
I don't know. It's a mystery.

>>5986006
We only care about /jp/-related dreams.

Captcha: Norms glorisaw

I dreamed I was an X-Com agent storming an alien ship once. I got separated from my squad-mates and spent the entire dream running like hell and grenading alien eggs. The pistol did NOTHING.

Too bad most of my dreams are boring school shit.

>>5986027
You're just jealous.

You won`t believe me anyways.

I never dream about anything. I just go to bed and wake up the next morning.

>>5986064
You dream every night
You just aren't able to remember

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>>5986064
You just forget about your dreams. I bet if someone woke you up in the middle of a dream, you'd remember it.

Several times, when I'm having my dreams of going around and saving towns and cities against bandits, I've seen many naked women approach me.

Every single time I can remember, I just said, "No thanks", pushed them away, and ran to continue doing badass things. Why does this happen to me. I can't even get laid in my dreams.

>>5986076
Because deep down, you are a good person.

This is what makes you eligible to go to be taken to Gensokyo on the last day when ZUN goes around to world to pick up The Pure.

I've had a few lucid dreams, not today though. Today I had a normal dream about me being a sniper, operating from my apartment. I was apparently a member of Zero's (as in Code Geass) army, as he later came to my assistance by geassing that bald guy who was throwing German WW2-style grenades at my kitchen window, making it easy for me to shoot him. Some of the other enemy combatants turned into zombies. Also, it turned out that beneath Zero's mask there wasn't Lelouch but Bill Murray.

I think I've posted this before but I had a few dreams where I killed people
Not out of emotion but because I had to, or I was paid to or something
Killed a shit ton of people each dream too

Also my dreams are usually like the plot of higurashi

>>5986088
Dude, you shot Bill Murray.

This one time, I had a lucid dream about being hitman 47, assassinating a hot stripper girl, only to have the room turn entirely dark and have the hot stripper girl's clones come up and rub their bodies all over me while one of them have sex with me/gives me a blowjob.
It ended with us posing as a group. It was very confusing..

>>5986103
oops, I meant to say I shot they guy he geassed, not Bill Murray himself.

The Japs have lots of interesting site about dreams and especially lucid dreaming.
http://dream-diary.net/ - if you're a really sick voyeur want to read other people's dreams
http://utopian.xxxxxxxx.jp/ - gives a short overview of everything, has a whole section dedicated to getting 2D characters into your dreams

http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~TFM/
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/arisu/ -- more in-depth sites

I hope I remembered my dream correctly...

Last week I dreamed my house wasn't on its street but in the middle of nowhere, and Ramses from Courage the Cowardly Dog came up to my house asking for his damn slab, and I told him no so he summoned a bunch of creatures to assault my house, I was fighting them off but even guns wouldn't do anything because some were those Drudge Skeletons from MtG that have Regenerate. Sometime during all this there was something with my dad, maybe we were arguing, then we escaped to the top floor and were gonna slide down the roof like in Legion but then I woke up

>>5986072
Bullshit! you can't flip a lightswitch in a dream!
If you try and nothing happens is one of the ways to know you're dreaming.

Is there any translations of this? I want to read the section about how to get the 2d girls into my dreams.

>>5986127
Is there any translations of those? I want to read the section about how to get the 2d girls into my dreams.

I once had a dream where I woke up in Mayohiga which ended me waking up in my own bed IRL screaming DONT EAT ME.

How do you become aware of dreams? I havent had a dream in months.

>>5986127
>has a whole section dedicated to getting 2D characters into your dreams
This is awesome in so many different ways.

>>5986257
You will remember your dream tonight.
That is how.

>>5986257
First you need to learn how to remember your dreams
Your mind isn't strong enough
Gonna take you a few years if you want to learn to lucid dream

>>5986257
The most important thing is improving dream recall. Keeping a dream diary has helped me remembering one or two dreams from basically every sleep.

>>5986459
forgot to say, I almost never remembered any dreams before I started. When you do dream something, write it down immediately.

By the way, "yume nikki" is the Japanese word for Dream Diary.

I had a very detailed lucid dream that I myself was Yukari, and I had all the powers of boundary control you would expect her to have. There was nothing I couldn't do. I'm having open eye visuals of gaps on walls that I want gaps to be on. I'm scared now, what if Yukari has bestowed her powers on me... I haven't tried touching the gaps yet. I don't want to accidentally get sucked into Gensokyo too soon. I must pack.

>>5986152
This is the most retarded shit I've heard.

>>5986476
I've only had two touhou dreams that i can remember, both involved Yukari, but clean ones, of course.

anyone else notice how in OP's pic, Yuyuko has her chopsticks stuck in the top of the rice?

>>5986478

I don't know about light switches, but mirrors are a good key.

You'll never see yourself. You might see someone else or a monster or nebulae or a blank wall where a mirror should be, but mirrors don't reflect normally in dreams.

It's probably because the human brain can't even recognize a mirror. We just can't handle it. We see it as a window that you can't enter.

"A world in the mirror" comes up in fantasy a lot for a reason.

I had a dream I was a worm, and I was infecting /jp/ with lots of cancer
I had 2 of them actually

I can't lucid dream for shit. I realize I'm in the dream, try to think something happening but it doesn't and I just do things in the dream normally and awesome stuff still happens. Also for some reason whenever I look in a mirror, they're always genderbending mirrors. I don't know why, but they just are.

I've only had one touhou related dream. It involved Patchouli Knowledge, but I don't think she actually did anything. She was just kind of there. What a waste.

I can only recall two Touhou related dreams I've had.

One involved Meiling coming over to my place and hanging out with me. We chatted as if we were old friends about this and that, while we hung her laundry in my kitchen. I complimented how nice her clothes looked and we talked about the old uniforms we both used to wear. She was working as a body guard for someone important that was talking to my parents in the next room. Might've chatted with this important person as well. It could have been Remilia, I can't remember. Sometime later I greeted either Nitori or Suwako while waiting for my ride.

The second involved a couple of people (including myself) being dressed as Reimu at some party or gathering. One of us might have been the real Reimu.

>>5986503
Patchy seems to be the touhou that appears most in my dreams. She's like, attached to my subconscious or something..

I had a Touhou related dream.

I was playing one of the games on Lunatic. I can't remember what game exactly, the patterns seemed made up, and I can't remember the character. But it was Lunatic because the game said so.

I 1cc'd it.

I cheered in my dream, and then I woke up, smiling and with my arms stretched over my head. I ran to my computer. I still can't 1cc SA on Normal. I cried.

>>5986524
>>5986503
I wish I would have dreams about Patchy.
I don't even care if she actually does anything, just to think she'd be part of my subconscious mind is appealing to me.

Well, okay, I guess she has to do fucking something, but it doesn't have to be sex or relationships or something.
I just want to take it easy with Patchy.
In my dreams.
Specifically within my dreams where we're alone... OKAY FINE I LIED. I WANT TO MAKE SWEET FUCKING LOVE TO PATCHY.

I think I had two Touhou-related dreams, one of which I have forgotten already. In the other one, some acquaintances and me were chasing some evil youkai (Suika actually) that was gapped in by Yukari in some kind of convention center. Stuff was pretty chaotic and we never got to see either of them.

>>5986482
I guess it's the proper thing to do when you're dead.

I think I came close to managing to start a lucid dream the other day, but I got scared about how fast my heart was beating, and pulled out of it.
Is this normal?

>>5986599
...No..?
If it's the content of a dream, what's bothering you?
Anything can seem to happen in dreams and you're not thinking very logically within them either.

>>5986599
Yes.

I have lucid dreams with ease, a lot of them were Gensokyo related and all of them focused on my waifu.
The bad thing, like another anon said, is that there's no "quick save" and I can't control them.
I prefer lucid day-dreaming if it even exists, I am often able to see characters and to "feel" them.

I will never dream about Seihou. ;_;

Whenever I lucid dream I'm inevitably like "I MUST FUCK SOMETHING".
I'm so anti-sex irl it hurts. why

I've never had a dream about anything /jp/ related, but I would like to.

But, one time I had a dream my friends were excited about something I called a doll, which he then proceeded to rectify and called it an "Artistic figure finely crafted by a master artisan with 16 points of articulation."

>>5984643
It's really hard to explain..
It's like a combination of 2D and 3D, yet at the same time, it's not.
They 'look normal' (2D I guess..) to me, but even though I see it, it's usually kinda like a concept.. I've also dreamed that they were 3D, but not like IRL 3D. They looked like poorly done/earlier video game characters
Sometimes, I have full-fledged 2D dreams as well, but from all the dreams I can recall, these were from a third-person perspective and they weren't touhou related..

The only one I can think of at the moment was this one where I was watching the inside of a cage where there was cannibalistic penguin attacking a police sheriff penguin that walked into his cage.

>>5984643
Neither for me
Try to imagine your touhou character in your head
That's exactly what they look like

I once dreamt that someone was doing a presentation on the similarities between Gensokyo and Imperial Germany.

Then I woke up and fired up my favourite IOSYS album on my iPod.

People who get lucid dreams usualy have a rather unsettled mind.
The lucid dreaming state itself is a rather unsettled sleep and during proper sleep your brain activity is generally too low for you to have proper lucid dreams.

Also, lucid dreams aren't always that great, sure you get used to having lucid dreams you can usually learn to manipulate them as if you have control over "reality", being able to do time skips and change point of view, wake up at will, and manipulate and alter anything really.
But as stated above, lucid dreams aren't that good for actual rest, eventually you will miss being able to sleep normally, and if it gets worse you might even start to feel drowsy within your dreams.

But then there's the catch, the nightmares.
Lucid Nightmares generally turns into some kind of horrid super nightmares.
And fear is a funny thing you see, andin a dreamworld it can take more or less any shape, if you can fear, then fear can also visit you in your dreams.
But fear is extra dreadful in a dreamworld you control.
Fear is an emotion as any other, and emotions and thoughts are linked and it's these emotions and thoughts that forms your dreamworld. If something scares (like real fear) you in a lucid dream, even if it is just for a moment it doeasn't change the fact you felt fear, and that's enough.
When struck with fear in a dreamworld it doeasn't easily go away, it doesn't matter if you erradicated whatever scared you in within your dream, the you yourself, your mind, is still scared, whatever scared you within your dream is just an illusion.
But while illusions might not be real, they still aren't powerless, the fear they can induce is real, the pain (yes, pain in lucid dreams can be real pain) that it can bring is also real.
And as long as you feel fear, no matter what you do within your dream the nightmare won't end, the fear will take new shapes and reform, but it won't end.

Lucid Nightmares truly can be horrid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khY4dAdfDTE
You will never play chess with Abraham Lincoln and a beaver.

>>5986654
>I'm so repressed irl it hurts.

fix't

>>5988441
I only see a perfect little oni as 2d images I've seen before. Even if I try to imagine myself with her, I can only think of 2d images.

I wish I could dream of Touhou consistently. I had one last night where I was sipping tea with Remilia and Patchouli, then suddenly we were transported to a war zone and were forced to fight some alien bastards.

Much more exciting than real-life could ever be. Wish I could control my dreams, but it would appear that I cannot lucid dream for the life of me.

>>5988552
>fear
mite b cool

>>5988576
Actually you are controlling it all the time, you are just not aware.

MAKE IT RAIN ON DEM YOUMU

>>captcha: barely youccoy

Not quite a dream, but my first time on mushrooms was right after failing spectacularly in MoF. At one point during the trip I encountered a swarm of Suwakos to cheer me up. Sadly, I have not been able to repeat this experience.

>>5988552

I find it hard to be scared in a lucid dream when I know for sure that I can ridiculously fuck up anything that may spawn, but that may just be me. Hell, you can just wake up if things are going badly, why not just do that? Your dreams should fear you, not the other way around.

Has anyone else stopped dreaming as much as they grew older? As a child I would remember laughing myself awake from something awesome happening in my dreams. Now I put off sleep as long as possible since it's just a lying-in-bed/wake up to alarm timeskip.
Also: I would kill a man to get sex dreams. Never had those even in puberty. ;_;

>>5988617
>sex dreams
I had one once
I wasn't sleeping alone that night
It was of my best friend

>>5988552
But even with all those amazing lucid dreams I could have, I still don't really miss my lucid dreams.
Sure I can long after some amazing dream like that from tiime to time, but I don;t really miss what came with it.

As mentioned above, to have natural lucid dreams, your mind generally needs to be somewhat unsettled somehow, and in other words also not quite capable of fully resting.
COmbined with how lucid dreams themselves doesn't really give the same benefits as regular sleep, combined those factors can get quite tough.

But sure there are techniques to for lucid dreams, how to realize you are dreaming (and not waking up).
Reading walls of text, checking the time repeatily as if you had some kind of mania etc etc
WHen your brain lowers it's activity and shuts down others certain tasks can be hard nonetheleast, reading or undersrtanding what time it is can mess up your perceptions in ways that (should) only happens in dreams, if that happens and you don't wake up from the shock, then you may very well have taken your first step towards real lucid dreams.
The very fact that you realized that you are dreaming also contributes to your ability to remember things from the dream itself, cause when you realize you are dreaming your brain activity ups itself some, and your dream becomes even lighter, and light dreams doesn't do all it's memory organizing tasks such as "flushing the RAM" for an example.
/Eventually after being used to lucid dreams you should be able to realize that you are in a dream simply by "feeling" it. Being asleep and being awake aren't the same after all, so it is only natural that it feels different, normally when we are asleep however our perceptive powers are usually just too low for one to realize the difference, but experience can compensate for your lack of perceptive power while asleep.

>>5988649
But my strongest memories from my rather long period of lucid dreams is still that I was never fully rested, at least it never felt like it.
Sure I could rest and it wasn't that bad at all times, but it was also never that great and at times it could be really bad, so naturally I felt tired.
But it was also a relatively tough part of life for a whole amount of other reasons, when most of those issues got better, I also started to sleep better, and when I generally started to feel better my lucid dreams gradually slipped away.
And now, years later, I rarely ever have lucid dreams anymore, and funny enough I can't really say I miss them for some reason, even though I have many extraordinary memories from that period of my life.

That said, I don't really know why, but I don't really reccomend them that much anyway if they don't come "naturally", cause even though I have a hard time to describe lucid dreams as anything other than extraordinary nonetheleast, I still can't really feel anything other than how lucid dreams are overrated.
Perhaps the fact that I knew they were all dreams lessened any "satisfaction" could get from it, don't really know actually, it's just a feling I can't really get rid off.
My line of thought when I think back always end something like "Yeah lucid dreams were kind of awesome, truly, but meh".
Then there was of course the nightmares, but that was only an occasional thing (even though they could be rather common at times).

>>5988600
>I find it hard to be scared in a lucid dream when I know for sure that I can ridiculously fuck up anything that may spawn, but that may just be me. Hell, you can just wake up if things are going badly, why not just do that?
My mistake, I was actually going to cover that, but the post became kind of long and apperently it didn't make it.

But sure, most of the times it was natural to wake myself up, no need staying int he dream if it's no good, right?
If something scared, well rather "startled" me, then of course it wasn't that big of a deal for the huge majority of the time, you just "made it better" yourself with your controlling powers.

I guess I should have been more clear, but I used the word "fear" for a reason, the word fear is actually quite strong, but I guess people overuse the word.
Simply being startled or scared by smaller or mediocre things shouldn't have to jepordize anything if you aren't already kind of down for some reason.
But when genuine fear kicks in, then shit gets real.
It has a strong effect on your mind to not go away easily.
Even if the you in the dream make everything be allright, there is still a chance that you are still afraid, only that you haven't percieved your own fear properly, you could misjudge the fear as some similair emotion or throw it off as adrenaline from whatever happened previously.
But if things starts to get ugly and refuses to go away (because you still have fear), then it can eventually bring subconcious thoughts of helplessness.
That not being able to erradicate whatever induces the fear even with all those powers can have quite some impact, and it can affect you to the point were you start to doubt what you can do or not, even if you didn't particuarly have such doubts on your mind.

>>5988801
And how should I put it. Such fear or shock, can easily "diminish" your powers, and to realize that you your powers have diminished somehow, even if only to a lesser extent, that realization easily furthers the diminishing even more due to doubt risen from why it "X" didn't happen entirly as you wanted it when you tried.

And now, I can't call my self some sort of expert or anything of the sort, cause I have never went through with actual reports or studies on the matter, but I did once in college try run a kind of "survey" about lucid dreams.
And I talked with them some on their experiences on lucid dream. Sure it was only with my fellow students. and even tough there were quite manny students as a whole I only managed to talked with a few that seemed to have had actual lucid dreams.
But the majority of them actually explained that they had had similair experiences on fear and lucid dreams.

And what I have heard and a few of my fellow students at the time pointed to if not there could be a connection somewhere.

And I don't know, there could be, I never did do a research on the thing anyway.
But I still have a line of thought from that time.
If it is true that an unsettled mind is more receptable to the state needed for lucid dreams, then it may not be weird for nightmares to have a stronger impact on lucid dreams themselves.
Cause (this one may perhaps be rather obvious), an unsettled mind is at the same time more receptable to nightmares.

In the end if one were to confirm an actual study on the thing I would figure that it would come down to the relation of fear and lucid dreams and their effects on eachother.
But yes, fear is a powerful thing, and quite possibly even more so ina world were everything is controlled by your inner emotions and thoughts just like it.

Walls of text, what would a lucid dream thread be withoout them?

I only have had one /jp/-related dream that I can remember. It was shortly after I played EP6, Erika had me chained to a bed and was saying how she was going to do lewd things to me (don't remember exactly). I woke up before she actually got started though :/

>>5984775
I've had a few semi lucid dreams before. In each one I tried to shift the direction of the dream towards sex. I've never gotten farther than foreplay without waking up, it sucks. I guess the problem is I don't know what sex feels like, so it's hard to imagine properly.

>>5988889

It feels just like masturbating while holding something warm. Happy dreaming.

>>5988889
I've never had sex before and I've had numerous sex dreams. I guess it just depends on your mind, it does really feel good once you do have a sex dream though.

Too bad I rarely have sexy dreams, I had one a few weeks ago, woke up right as I jammed it in her though. That pissed me off so much.

Avoid drinking liquids. Go to sleep. Usually wake up a couple hours before my body wants to get up. Keep eyes shut and lay in bed with some train of thought of what to dream for the next couple hour. Mind should be stuck with the train of thought when you were half-awake. Works most of the time for me.

I've been dreaming in Hakugyokurou since 2007. The tea there is delicious.

I have periods where I just have lots of sexrelated dreams. Sex in dreams, is for me at least, the best feeling ever. It feels way better than fapping. Probably feels better than normal sex as well. Not that I'd ever know.

I have a lot of lucid dreams, asleep and awake.
When I was little I actually lived exclusively of dreams, growing up I've started to increase lucid nightmares instead. And they are possibly the worst thing you could experience.
When I wake up from a lucid nightmare I am so terrified I can't do even bring myself to do the basics or browse 4chan. I can't even move.
Tonight I'm probably lucid dreaming again, this time I will go meet Ushiromiyas. In my dreams they don't die painfully and I get along with Maria and Ange, we play together all day.

I've only ever had two lucid dreams. In the first one I was hanging out with two guys and a girl from high school. For some reason the guys started some shit and tried to beat me up, but then I was like "Wait. This is a dream". Then I ripped their hearts out and walked up to the girl, ripped her shirt open, and started feeling her up.

In the second one I was walking through this hallway that reminded me of Imperishable Night and I thought "Since this is a dream, I hope Irisu shows up soon so I can fuck her before I wake up". Then I opened a door and saw this.

I'm not sure I've ever had a legitimate lucid dream, but I have had a few /jp/-related dreams. Mostly Tsukihime.

so much bullshit these last several posts...

go to bed
wait a while
????
profit

i want to have a lucid dream of youmu

I had my first /jp/ related dream last night. I was boxing Rudolf. He beat my ass.

>Follow instructions
>Start sleep paralysis stage
>Impaired breathing with images of aliens looking down at you
>Fuck this shit I'm waking up

>>5989042
She's okay. At least she isn't boring.

>>5989057
which instructions you used?

Lucid dreaming?
It's called having an imagination. There's no secret to it, either you have one or you don't.

>>5988801
I had terrible nightmares almost every night as a kid, then I learned to kick the shit out of them with lucid dreaming.