Lucid Dreaming and Dream Control

[Captain Beyond]

If these are in fact lucid dreams,they can be controlled.In a true lucid dream,the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming.It is then a matter of the will to change the dream imagery.If however it is a nightmare,that's a horse of a different color.

Nightmares are dreams that occur on the lower astral level where much negativity resides.As stated elsewhere,certain foods can cause nightmares as they stimulate the lower chakras and we therefore exit into the lower astral dreamland via the lower chakras instead of the higher ones which we normally do.This does not negate the fact that there are emotional issues involved,and they should be addressed also,but I would not rule out some chakra work as well,but some people aren't into that 'weird stuff '.

[Random]

CB

I have never Herd of being able to SMELL in a regular dream.......

[Captain Beyond]

Perhaps then,it is a lucid dream.People however are different as some rarely dream in color while others always do.The movie 'Vanilla Sky' was a lucid dream gone wrong where all the negative emotions finally began to take over the dream.

[Alpha]

It sounds more like a flashback ( these can involve all/any senses - visual, auditory, tactile, smell etc ) , which is a symptom of Post Traumatic Stress, which can either manifest in either an awake, day dream or dream state.

Check your PMs.

[Captain Beyond]

Alpha is probably correct on this one and that would be the best assumption.Often these traumas are suppressed for some time only to surface somewhere later in time.

[Random]

Thanks Alpha And CB I am still going to seek Pro help But I deffinately appreciate all your info and help.....If one does not help MAYBE the other will ...read your PM alpha thank you

[Random]

I always dream in color...........BTW...never had a Lucid dream but I think it would be COOL to fly

[Aquarius]

Ramdom, usually our dreams pertain to something that is going on in our lives currently, there may be something bothering her whether on a conscious or subconscious level. You might her to ask why she is having these nightmares as she falls asleep at night and sometimes you get the answer.

Someone mentioned she had a baby recently, that can really throw everything out of whack. Good luck to her, I hope this gets resolved quickly.

[nightcat]

This is a puzzling and fascinating thing.

I'm SO very sorry that your wife is having to go through that... it's rough stuff. She'll make it through, though.

Some personal observations on smells, memories and the "astral smell":

Odors and memory are very closely related: A whiff of a scent can bring flooding back so many memories -- ancient memories and repressed ones, and vice-versa. Revisiting a memory that includes a scent can bring the imprint of the scent to the front of your mind again; it can be so strong as to make you certain you are presently smelling it! In fact, apart from music, scent is the most potent sense for memory release - including memories from past lives - that there is and the two come into play together in most every instance where traumatic and wilfully repressed memories are involved.

In the astral realm -- the upper astral realm as well as the lower, "nightmare" realm, I have noticed particular scents which can't quite be accurately compared to anything of this world. On three occasions I can think of when, in a pensive and brooding kind of mood I have inadvertantly taken a nighttime trip I have, of course, found myself in the lower... and once you've been there it is EASILY distinguished from a simple dream. Then I must take proper caution and make my way back. When coming back into my body from these I notice a VERY UNIQUE SMELL, and to me this scent is not at all subtle, it's POTENT, yet it's a scent which nobody else who has been in the same house as I at the time has been able to detect, even in the slightest, at all -- except for one certain cat who sniffed incessantly at where I'd lay. I'd guess that the scent is really an entirely different manner of spirit energy that, within my brain, translates as scent, my limited human brain having no other way to classify and process it. There is another - and of course more pleasant and subtle, while far less lingering scent! - that I have noticed sometimes when returning from the upper astral realms and also after some very intense and productive Reiki sessions. I wish I could approximate it in description but I really can't!

[Sean]

I have been lucid dreaming all my life. Long before i heard of the term. I think its because that in my dreams is the only place i have contol.

[Gummer]

I have been lucid dreaming all my life. Long before i heard of the term. I think its because that in my dreams is the only place i have control.

Do you have total control of your dreams?

[Sean]

Do you have total control of your dreams?

Always.

I think maybe i should clarify this. I have dreams that are nothing more than a review of the things that happened during the day.
But in my fantasy dreams i make the rules.

[nightcat]

Always.

I think maybe i should clarify this. I have dreams that are nothing more than a review of the things that happened during the day.
But in my fantasy dreams i make the rules.

I love that kind of dream!

It's a real treat when I have the preceding day replayed in a dream; I love to take control and re-do everything just the way I wanted it. To me, those are fun dreams.

I don't have them too often, though -- usually my dreams are very heavy and full of meaningful symbols I have to pay attention to.