I'd welcome the lucid dreams back, and i know it is possible to generate them, but i have never really practised it as an art.
They say that to properly dedicate yourself to lucid dreaming you have to change your sleep patterns fairly drastically, and that's just not going to work as a plan
It's definitely a very interest subject to look into. And thanks i'll be sure to check out that movieNow I get interested into the lucid dreams as a subject and will try to gather some knowledge on the topic.
Your third paragraph reminds me of the movie "Waking life" which I guess you will enjoy if you haven't watched it already (and thanks for reminding me to watch it again xD)
At this point in my life i don't really choose to lucid dream or not. Only about 50% of my dreams are lucid, the others are normal. Basically it just depends whether or not i realize im dreaming during the dream. One my my psych major friends told me that lucid dreaming can be bad, because normal sleep/dreams are a way for your mind to recover from the days events and that you are not allowing your brain to do its job. idk about that but my lucidity frequency does kind of have a direct correlation to my stress levels now that i think about. Definitely interesting.My big question now is : why try to get lucid dreams when most of my dreams feel like movies at best ? I hear testimonies of many people who claim their dreams, while not being lucid, feel real, like they actually see the world around them with details and thing happening.
My dreams are only made of feelings, a story, and instead of, let's say a room that I can see around me, only the feeling that I'm in this room.
While perusing the forums i found only one big thread containing a topic on INTP dreams. And although i would love to spark up discussion on the crazy dreams that go through our minds, this thread is more specifically for Lucid Dreams and Sleep Disorders. So feel free to share what your brain does to you at night X)
Ill start...
I taught myself to lucid dream around the age of 12 as a combatant for nightmares. Once i figured out that i can control the nightmare, they stopped being scary haha. Since then i have had many great experiences lucid dreaming; ive taught myself to fly, i have walked through walls, and i have teleported. Just to name a few. It is definitely an unbelievable experience being able to control ones dreams, so to start i would love to hear some other peoples great trips through the world of lucid dreaming.
It does come with a price however, my mind decided to fight it over time. I would try to wake myself up from these dreams, only to wake up in another dream that seemed so close to reality it would take me a while to realize i was still dreaming. Then it got worse where i would continuously wake myself up into other dreams multiple times until i was terrified that i would never actually wake up. (Btw here come all the inception trolls haha) My dreams would even blatantly lie to me, like if i asked my mom or gf if i was dreaming they would say no you're awake! haha wtf.
From there it only progressed. In my teens i start getting sleep paralysis. For those of you who are not familiar, it is when one wakes up but your brain doesn't give the signal to your body to wake up at the same time leaving you temporarily paralyzed. This was scary at first but i dealt with it. Until i had both happen to me in the same night. I "woke myself up" 8 different times into different dreams, only to finally wake myself for real but into sleep paralysis that lasted 15 min or so. It sucked.
So any other INTPs with sleep disorders, here is a thread to share.
I really would like to have a lucid dream, but I can't ever break out of the torpid stupor of my subconscious mind. Do you have any advice? (I'm 15, if that's of any relevance. It's probably not.)