Comment I exert some control in my dreams frequently (Score 1) 308
I've been a hardcore gamer for years, currently don't play much anymore though. Now I am not really a lucid dreamer, since I don't feel like I have total control, but I do feel that I "nudge" myself in the dream from a passive role to an aggressive one.
Before I give some examples, here is a cool trick: I figured out a way to have real hardcore lucid dreams: Buy a pack 21mg nicotine patches, slap one on your bottom (low chance of getting a rash there) and go to sleep. Unless you normally smoke a pack or more a day, the nicotine will give you a restless night, meaning it is easier to take control of the dream and after you have a dream, it's a lot more likely you will remember them vividly the next day. I've experience a couple of really awesome dreams that way, that were far better then some drugs.
Here's an example of two scenarios I frequently play through (not lucid, but still with a feeling off taking limited control):
I'm having sex with a couple of really pretty big breasted women, everything is fuzzy and blurry (nice tits though) when all of a sudden a demon dog jumps in and starts tearing the ladies to pieces more monsters start to follow and they corner me. As they slowly come closer and I stand there all naked, I "think" a huge sword into my hands, from there on the butchering commences (although I sometimes slice everything up, including the pretty girls and everything ends up in a big red bloody mess, it's still better then getting ripped to pieces by the monsters).
Another one is that I am back as a kid in school and all my classmates are taken hostage and I'm hiding somewhere while the hostage takers are looking for me (sounds a lot like counterstrike this one doesn't it?). Just as they are getting close to me, I teleport out of the school building onto a nearby rooftop, with a machine gun in my hand and I start firing at them. I usually wake up at a point late in the gun fight, when I am almost done killing them.
I've had dozens of variations of these two themes, always switching into Godmode at some point and ending up with lots of gore and blood.
Sometimes they involve black or multicolored spider like rotating monsters and I wake up while getting ready to attack them. That really freaks my wife out, because for about 20 seconds I continue to "see" them while I'm awake (even if the room is pitch dark) and I'll start yelling at her to look at them.
Before I give some examples, here is a cool trick: I figured out a way to have real hardcore lucid dreams: Buy a pack 21mg nicotine patches, slap one on your bottom (low chance of getting a rash there) and go to sleep. Unless you normally smoke a pack or more a day, the nicotine will give you a restless night, meaning it is easier to take control of the dream and after you have a dream, it's a lot more likely you will remember them vividly the next day. I've experience a couple of really awesome dreams that way, that were far better then some drugs.
Here's an example of two scenarios I frequently play through (not lucid, but still with a feeling off taking limited control):
I'm having sex with a couple of really pretty big breasted women, everything is fuzzy and blurry (nice tits though) when all of a sudden a demon dog jumps in and starts tearing the ladies to pieces more monsters start to follow and they corner me. As they slowly come closer and I stand there all naked, I "think" a huge sword into my hands, from there on the butchering commences (although I sometimes slice everything up, including the pretty girls and everything ends up in a big red bloody mess, it's still better then getting ripped to pieces by the monsters).
Another one is that I am back as a kid in school and all my classmates are taken hostage and I'm hiding somewhere while the hostage takers are looking for me (sounds a lot like counterstrike this one doesn't it?). Just as they are getting close to me, I teleport out of the school building onto a nearby rooftop, with a machine gun in my hand and I start firing at them. I usually wake up at a point late in the gun fight, when I am almost done killing them.
I've had dozens of variations of these two themes, always switching into Godmode at some point and ending up with lots of gore and blood.
Sometimes they involve black or multicolored spider like rotating monsters and I wake up while getting ready to attack them. That really freaks my wife out, because for about 20 seconds I continue to "see" them while I'm awake (even if the room is pitch dark) and I'll start yelling at her to look at them.
