r/woahdude • u/Botatitsbest • Sep 05 '18
WOAHDUDE APPROVED Lucid dreaming
https://i.imgur.com/h6ltgiU.gifv157
u/FoxtrotPapaGamma Sep 05 '18 edited Sep 05 '18
Who’s responsible for this immersive artwork?
Edit: Adrian_allinger on IG. Thanks u/ogcolliebear
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u/WreckyHuman Sep 05 '18
And how can I make this my wallpaper?
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u/_k_a_l_i_ Sep 05 '18
There is an app on playstore which allows you to set gifs as wallpapers... Wait, I hope you asked for smartphones.
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u/Tonytarium Sep 05 '18
how would you even make this?
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u/Reddit_Wall Sep 05 '18
My guess is that: The background is either a video from a weather balloon, or just a picture slowly moving up. The girl is a 3D model with simulated fabric with the light roughly matching the lighting of the background. Background and model are then combined in something like After effects with simple glitch effect.
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u/WaveDysfunction Sep 05 '18
I STILL SEE YOUR SHADOWS IN MY ROOM
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Sep 05 '18
Can't take back the love that I gave you
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u/CeeForever Sep 05 '18
Ofttimes I have waking nightmares where I seem to be immobile. Contemplating you in my place of rest. It’s true you were all-encompassing to me. Speculating a band of betrothal. Whereas currently it’s preferred that I would cease to exist.
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u/DrWYSIWYG Sep 05 '18
I tell you what, I am in hospital right now and had some ketamine for pain yesterday and I felt just like this.
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u/Intu24 Sep 05 '18
pahahahaa good stuff isn't it, get yourself some headphones with music next time
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u/madmaxturbator Sep 05 '18
You entered a k hole... but have you left?
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u/intantum95 Sep 05 '18
Don't know if you've ever read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch but the entire book is basically this. You aren't sure if the characters are actually awake from their drug experience.
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u/SwedishBoatlover Sep 05 '18
I had a lucid dream a few years back when I realized I could fly, and that I'm not limited to the atmosphere. Apparently not by lightspeed either, as I zoomed away to get a full look at the milky-way, and then flew back down to earth. The whole thing took around 30 seconds, so I must have been going many, many, many times the light speed.
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u/droidfone Sep 05 '18
Sadly, I am unable tp break physics in my dreams. Whenever something awesome happens, my stupid brain rewinds the thing saying that is not possible. Only once did I fly, albeit using jetpacks, but got vertigo in 10 sec flight.
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u/SwedishBoatlover Sep 09 '18
A few years before I realized I could just break physics and fly, I had another lucid dream (I tended to get two or three every ear between I was around 12 and around 28, it was many years ago now) where I realized I could do shit without any consequence, I even realized that all the "people" in my dream were just constructed actors. So I went to an AFB and stole a fully loaded jet. I then bombed the shit out of some town, just for fun. I don't remember if I landed before waking up, probably not.
I did however know pretty well how to fly a plane, since I've been obsessed with planes since I was a kid, and have spent countless hours (I'd be too embarrassed to reveal exactly how many) in various flight simulators.
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Sep 05 '18
How the fuck y'all are doing these!? Teach me!
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u/TheFutureIsAwesome Sep 05 '18
Whenever someone specifically asks in these kinds of threads how to learn it, I hope its okay that I plug my app on Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lucid_dreaming.awoken
I think its the most popular one out there for that purpose, AMA if you like.
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u/Kingboomber Sep 05 '18
How does it work?
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u/TheFutureIsAwesome Sep 06 '18
There's key exercises you can do if you want to learn lucid dreaming fast, and this app supports those.
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u/Ghostmaimerzz Sep 05 '18
Oh hey, been using this app for the past week. No lucidity yet, but it's helped me remember a majority of my weeks dreams. I usually only remember 1 dream a year without help. Thanks!
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u/UniversalAwareness Sep 05 '18
I had a dream I was skydiving, deployed a parachute and glided down over a grassy hill for what felt like minutes until I landed. It was powerful enough to motivate me to get licensed to skydive and now I'm a few hundred jumps in.
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u/Jerico_Hill Sep 05 '18
Holy shit, I did not think of going to space. Thanks for the idea man, I'm gonna work on that next.
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u/Doctor_Kitten Sep 06 '18
Once you get to space, keep going. I've visited other dimensions in other realities. Have fun with that idea. Be careful, it can get nightmarish real fast if you're not in total control. I've had 2 dreams where I did this, I lost control of one. I have not tried it again since then.
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u/SwedishBoatlover Sep 05 '18
As long as you can convince yourself to ignore physics, it's damn cool! Unfortunately, it was a long time since I last managed to lucid dream.
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Sep 05 '18
Can some one please make this a moving wallpaper for iPhone 7 Plus? For the lock screen ya know?
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u/SrgSquirrels Sep 05 '18
get the app intolive, lets you convert videos to live photos. just download the vid from reddit and convert it. just made this vid my wallpaper
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u/Exitiabilis Sep 05 '18
Came back after downloading to say thank you for the recommendation worked great for me.
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u/Torisen Sep 05 '18
On a Samsung Note9 I just saved the .MP4 file and it let me set it as wallpaper as is, and it is perfect. Not sure what hoops iOS requires, but it's worth it.
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u/CuntOfCrownSt Sep 05 '18
Can you make yourself have wet dreams?
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Sep 05 '18
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u/kitiikit Sep 05 '18
Uh yes you can. Nocturnal emmison. Happened to me once. Was fvckin a celebrity. Came on dream. Came on irl.
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Sep 05 '18
I orgasm in dreams often, in fact it’s probably the best experience of orgasming for me personally, probably because it takes no manual stimulation and no effort. (I am a woman)
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u/Jon-W Sep 05 '18
That's so strange. Usually mirrors don't work right in dreams
Edit: which is why they can be used as a trigger. Messed up, unrecognizable face
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u/Kryptosis Sep 06 '18
I trick that I use to escape dreams is rolling my eyes back in my head very far until it hurts and then consciously trying to do something with my hands like snapping.
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u/Grasboi16 Sep 05 '18
Damn sounds interesting. Only problem, you probably have to sleep sober to achieve lucid dreaming right?
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Sep 05 '18 edited Sep 05 '18
So I've only had a handful of lucid dreams but I really nailed flying in the last one. I wrote a comment about this before but to sum it up, you can do anything so long as you expect it to happen. I jumped up a little bit and told myself to fly. No luck. Before I did it again I convinced myself that it would work (harder than it sounds) and it worked. In another flying dream I used a hackysack that allowed me to fly haha
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u/nightmarefuel62 Sep 05 '18
That's always the hardest part for me. I tend to become lucid a lot and whenever I try to do something that doesn't work I know it's because I don't expect it to. Convincing yourself it's supposed to is super hard. I have been able to fly a couple of times though, it's real fun
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Sep 05 '18
I completely agree, the world around you seems convincing enough, and you're trying to convince your brain that a cardinal rule of physics is about to be changed lol
The dream where I figured this out I flew very shakily, but as I gained confidence I soared through this gigantic mall, it was great. Flying is my go to every time I'm lucid
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Sep 05 '18
I always “float” for awhile before flying. And I spend a good chunk of time convincing the people in my dreams it’s totally gonna work. I think that helps convince me. Like no no no, it’s totally gonna happen. See!? When I jumped my feet stayed above the ground and it looked like I was skating on air! Then I can fly.
Same with telekenisis which is my favorite thing to do in lucid dreams apparently.
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u/Fr31l0ck Sep 05 '18
I can never tell when I'm dreaming (so technically I can't lucid dream) but after I wake up I can regularly remember discovering super human abilities and haphazardly playing with them.
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u/tape_snake Sep 05 '18
I've been unable to completely eliminate gravity, but I've got gliding nailed down. I can gain altitude by what I can only described as a 'rocket jump' where I suddenly get launched upward and maintain any momentum I had. Good enough for me tbh, it feels more real.
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u/nightmarefuel62 Sep 05 '18
That's crazy, that's exactly how I've been able to do it. A super jump that just keeps going
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u/Jerico_Hill Sep 05 '18
I can do this, but I retain my dear of heights, so it's as much terrifying as awesome and I hate it yet love it at the same time. Occasionally I'll plummet for a while and my stomach goes.
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u/_JustTemporary_ Sep 05 '18
Practiced Lucid Dreaming for several years solid in high school. I could shapeshift, summon things, change the landscape, etc, but couldnt fly until i figured out a trick
Try jumping and holding your legs tight/extended from the take off, as if youre still pushing from the jump. It feel like youre still adding force to the jump in mid air and thats the only way I could fly at first haha. Might work =]
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u/CuntSmellersLLP Sep 05 '18
I hardly ever lucid dream, but I can fly in every dream. But I played too much Pilot Wings 64, so I have the exact same flying mechanics as the Birdman levels. Lots of flapping to gain height.
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u/iaminfamy Sep 05 '18
I too have practiced lucid dreaming and the trick I've found is that there has to be a "logical" reason for me to be able to fly.
Flying on my own, with no aide from anything, is something my brain can't comprehend.
To get around this I "create" a belt that I can wear that let's me change my gravitational orientation that's connected to my thoughts.
So I think "up" and my brain knows the belt is supposed to make me go up. So I go up.
Then think "that direction", the belt does it's thing, my brain allows it, I fly that direction.
I've found that a lot of stuff I couldn't do in lucid dreaming becomes easier if you implement rules that state things your are trying to do should be possible.
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u/guttervoice Sep 05 '18
I always just decide to fall upward and it works. Though I have noticed if I wanna wake from a lucid dream, I have to run in place like Scooby Doo.
Still can't turn lights on or off.
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u/thebiggestdouche Sep 05 '18
It took me forever to figure this out! I didnt realize it would be the same for other people too. The most I could do for a while is sort of glide a little, and still dont get the flight down every time. I can't do any of those other things though.
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Sep 05 '18
It's so hard to do because even in a dream, your brain knows you're not supposed to be able to fly. So you have to kinda trick your brain.
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u/november1320sixteen Sep 05 '18
i noticed lately that i've been flying way too fast but im not scared to die from it . im always moving and its difficult to just stop and stare . i live near a lake and flying over it is sooooo pretty . i was considering buying a drone just to continue to get that view because i never want to forget it .
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u/Vladimir2033 Sep 05 '18
Since you practiced it you maybe know a bit more and can help me with my problem: I started lucid dreaming a couple months back, never tried to do it, i just knew it's a thing and it i suddenly started doing it but it was cool so i didn't mind. For a few weeks now i it's starting to get weird, i often find myself debating with myself if i'm dreaming right now or not WHILE i am sleeping... i convince myself i'm not dreaming right now while i'm dreaming. I sometimes have problems to determine when i wake up that what i dreamed of was only a dream or actually happened it's starting to annoy me and i feel like it's actively stopping me from having good sleep. Do you know how i can fix that i stop lucid dreaming entirely?
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u/PM_ME_IN_A_WEEK Sep 05 '18
When I fly in dreams I do a breaststroke swimming motion. That's pretty easy for me.
Running never works though. It's like I'm in chest-high water and it's probably because I'm moving my legs in my bed and they won't move fast.
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u/walter-wallcarpeting Sep 05 '18
I have two types of lucid dreams, although it's been a while. The first is a flying dream and just being able to fly is amazing. These are typically very short dreams and result in me waking up or the dream abruptly ending. My other one is me training myself as Spider-Man and that has been more of an ongoing learning experience, as I seem to be more susceptible to the laws of physics in those. For example, my webbing wouldn't stick to the wall consistently so I've had to work on that (dreams and abilities seem to pick up where the last left off.) I've also had to get over the fact that I need to be surrounded by tall buildings. The last one I had was me in a barn, I was able to swing between eaves, my webbing stuck consistently to the walls (I've always questioned how such a small surface area can hold Spider-Man up) which was amazing and I was also able to fit inbetween joists while swinging. I think my next task will have to be the sticking to the walls reliably with the tips of my fingers as I still question how that works in real life. The swinging part is magical when it works. Should point out I'm not in costume, i think it's just the ability to launch, swing and fly through the air that is so fantastical.
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u/PM_WHY_YOU_DOWNVOTED Sep 05 '18
I've tried to fly probably thousands of times. I can jump high sometimes, and hover a little if i kick hard enough (like trying swimming though custard). But i've never just flew before.
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u/clearliquidclearjar Sep 05 '18
My lucid dreaming always feels a little more like a drunk person playing Grand Theft Auto.