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For some reason I can never take control of my dreams, whenever I try whatever action I do in the dream I do in real life and I WAKE MYSELF UP.
However it does work for a lot of people because you can change the general outline of the dream, but a lot of people refuse to as they believe dreams can hold important information, even horrific ones. As it is the subconscious, it is entirely possible that this is true.

It takes a while to develop being able to tell when you're in a dream. When you first begin realizing it, you're probably getting excited at the prospect and the excitement is what wakes you up. But if you keep at it, you'll become more used to it and begin to stick around.

This has been talked about a lot lately, but a dream journal really helps. Just something next to your bed that you can roll over right as you wake up. Y'see, I find that when I wake up, I can remember my dreams fairly well until I begin thinking about real life stuff again. But if I keep thinking about the dream it never fades. This lets you remember long enough to write the entire dream if you wanted to, but what's helping is that writing requires you to think of your whole dream multiple times, and it commits itself to memory instead of fading away. Plus the writing will be there to remind you as well.

Then things are quite a bit easier from there.

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It takes a while to develop being able to tell when you're in a dream. When you first begin realizing it, you're probably getting excited at the prospect and the excitement is what wakes you up. But if you keep at it, you'll become more used to it and begin to stick around.

This has been talked about a lot lately, but a dream journal really helps. Just something next to your bed that you can roll over right as you wake up. Y'see, I find that when I wake up, I can remember my dreams fairly well until I begin thinking about real life stuff again. But if I keep thinking about the dream it never fades. This lets you remember long enough to write the entire dream if you wanted to, but what's helping is that writing requires you to think of your whole dream multiple times, and it commits itself to memory instead of fading away. Plus the writing will be there to remind you as well.

Then things are quite a bit easier from there.

It's not the excitement really that blocks me off, it's the fact that when I move in the dream, I move the same way in my actual body.
I tried to walk in one of my dreams and my leg moved in real life.

Keeping a dream journal can help, but for the most part I don't remember my dreams as soon as I wake up, it gets kind of irritating sometimes, but I usually dream horrific things when I do remember them.
The last one I remember the full dream of is when my chest was slowly sawed into by skeletons.

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Have you ever thought of trying to take the good old "take control of your dreams" route that's repeated so much in so many stories about people suffering repeated nightmares? The dreams make life hell for them all until they learn to sort of lucid dream within their bad dreams, and slap their nightmare's shit.

I have literally no scientific knowledge of this shit. Only that trying to gain the ability to learn when I'm dreaming when nightmares happen would be what I'd do if I was in your situation.

I covered this in detail a while ago. That is the way to go. Keep track of your dreams, eventually take control of your dreams, nightmares over.

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It's not the excitement really that blocks me off, it's the fact that when I move in the dream, I move the same way in my actual body.
I tried to walk in one of my dreams and my leg moved in real life.

Keeping a dream journal can help, but for the most part I don't remember my dreams as soon as I wake up, it gets kind of irritating sometimes, but I usually dream horrific things when I do remember them.
The last one I remember the full dream of is when my chest was slowly sawed into by skeletons.

And did your real life chest actually get sawed too? An arm or a leg moving occassionally is common. No one's body moves based on the way their dream body's move. Your arms and legs might swing around for like 15 seconds, but you're not going to be doing roundhouse kicks and hadoukens.

Damn I wish I could, all I end up is "OH SHIT IMPENDING NIGHTMARE! ITS COMING!! Soon^TM!!! EJECT!1!1!!!" Close enough?

Nightmares don't happen that often for me, but when they do (and I run away from them) I feel frustrated that I could've faced it instead. I'm just too scared to face them and risk getting hurt.

Do you mean monsters/enemies as nightmares?

The worst sort of nightmares are when you dream that something terrible has happened which is plausible in real life, like someone close to you dying, or being fired or losing money. There is no way to tell they are dreams and no way to escape them either. When you wake up you STILL feel shitty because they are plausible problems, as opposed to a boogeyman chasing you with a laser gun.

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Damn I wish I could, all I end up is "OH SHIT IMPENDING NIGHTMARE! ITS COMING!! Soon^TM!!! EJECT!1!1!!!" Close enough?

Nightmares don't happen that often for me, but when they do (and I run away from them) I feel frustrated that I could've faced it instead. I'm just too scared to face them and risk getting hurt.

I wouldn't feel frustrated. I hardly have nightmares and so that's my usual response as well when they happen. All except once...

Only in one single dream in my life have I went lucid inside of a nightmare. My twin brother was trying to murder me and he was hunting me down for some reason, and when I realized I was dreaming, I waited for him to come around the corner and I literally went super saiyan on his ass, and called down an apocalypse of lightning onto him and just destroyed the building as well as everything else around me. There are no words for how badass I felt since it still felt like it was real life, despite the dream.

Say, how many posts have you guys made in this very thread?

There was a way you can view it, I forgot how but it was brought up a few times.

Just came back from an intense rugby workout and vomited four times in the toilet.



So how have all your days been?

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Just came back from an intense rugby workout and vomited four times in the toilet.



So how have all your days been?

Sick, tired and fed up with what life is.
Pretty good.

Life is bretty good. I still need to get used to this fairly time-consuming job, but once the paychecks start coming in I think I'll be just fine.

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Say, how many posts have you guys made in this very thread?

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There was a way you can view it, I forgot how but it was brought up a few times.

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1545

1629 posts here. Somehow I thought it'd be more than that. I don't know where the hell the other 19,000 posts could be.

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1545

I got 566

Although tbh having a fuckton of posts in the chat thread is not always a good thing.

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Life is bretty good. I still need to get used to this fairly time-consuming job, but once the paychecks start coming in I think I'll be just fine.

Nice to hear, good luck with that man

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1629 posts here. Somehow I thought it'd be more than that. I don't know where the hell the other 19,000 posts could be.

Pretty sure that they are in all your RP threads.