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Lucid Dreaming
Does anyone on the list have an interest in lucid dreaming?
I have been trying off and on for years to have a lucid dream and got as close as I've ever been on Monday morning. I can't remember what I was doing, but it involved fast motion and having the edge of my finger caught in a window. I pulled my finger out of the crack and was thinking isn't this amazing, all of this physical sensation in a dream. I wasn't able to direct or prolong the dream, I was waking up and had those few brief seconds of knowing I was dreaming, but just couldn't hold on to the dream long enough to make it last longer, or direct the movement.
I attribute this small amount of success to CPAP, my numbers are getting better and I feel like I'm sleeping more normally, though probably still working off some sleep deficit.
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Permalink Reply by Mary Z on
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Well, jeff, in your case your life was in danger and that might have sparked the lucid dreaming.
Since I knew my numbers from that night I was reasonably sure that I was ok. Though perhaps a ResScan review might reveal that was a time of most of my apneic events. Considering your numbers at that time of your life and the 02 desats, I would be frightened, too.
Mary
<>I now consider that experience to be a frightening one, regardless of how beautiful it felt. I wonder now if my life may have been in danger at that moment from how low my O2 must have been from my being out from the Benadryl, since my AHI was 114.7 and I desaturated down to 81% SaO2 at my diagnostic sleep study without Benadryl!
It is my opinion that lucid dreaming is a malfunction, a type of parasomnia, or at least I believe that to have been so in my case, since I was doing all kinds of weird things in my sleep around that time.
jeff
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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on
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Did anyone see the recent episode of Family Guy on lucid dreaming? It was pretty funny. I have quite a bit of research on lucid dreaming that I will try and post later. I have to go be a good husband right now.
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Permalink Reply by amott1973 on
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I think it would be neat to be able to have some control in my dreams. I don't think I've ever have it, nor do I even seem to know if I'm dreaming until I wake up. But my husband has had them since he was a kid. Even as a child, if he had a monster or something coming after him in a dream he'd just turn around and confront it telling it it was only a dream and then change his dream around on purpose. I can hardly even imagine that!
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