Are you an active participant in your nightly dreams?

Sometimes. If I figure out I'm in my dream, I take the opportunity to do things I really wouldn't do. Start food fights and things like that.

I had a dream a couple weeks ago in which I had a growing feeling that what was happening in the dream was being manipulated by some malevolent force. The feeling was so strong that I willed myself to wake up and even after that I got out of bed and walked around to make sure I didn't go back into the same dream again.

I do lucid dreaming a lot...it's fun to manipulate what goes on.

I guess not, by this definition. I'm in my dreams, and I do stuff in them, but it's not lucid and I'm not controlling it.

The "I don't dream" should not be an option, as everyone dreams.

...I don't remember mine, but the few over the many years that I have remembered, I played a part.

I don't remember my dreams very often any more. When I did, this would happen now and then...

sometimes

I have a significant role in them - they're generally from my p.o.v. but I don't really control them.

I don't always control them but I'm always in them.

Recently I have been very involved in my dreams. Something must be bugging me.

Only a handful of times, none recently.

Sometimes yes.
I have a recurrent dream of my ex- husband that is VERY frightening to me....but when that happens, I somehow manage to recognize it, and always create a phone - for some strange reason....and I call my husband to come and get me!!! And often, I will wake myself up calling out his name!!! It's very effective.....

ive been having this odd dream that im in the car with my dad and he's drunk and he passes out at the wheel and we swerve into the next lane and hit a car and im killed and he lives. i always wake up when the crash happens. and im always crying. its weird b/c i can feel the pain from the crash all over

Sometimes. But more often than that I have dreams where one could say I am the director or just a guy watching some film... Haven't been lucid dreaming for times. May I have two lucid dreams and a cup of hot chocolate, please?

I control them but i do not have a charcter participating in the dream. When i do experience dreams first-person, it's in a vision of someone elses experience, not my own. I usually have a top-view dream perspective as if from the ceiling or hovering overhead, and my own body does not appear in dreams at all.

I don't have much control.. I can't seem to recognize the fact that it's a dream to really take hold of it.. I'm more of a spectator or unwilling participant.

A few weeks ago, I dreamed that I went to visit Biggles. She lived in this very pretty old stone house with a pretty lawn and a little stream. In the stream were 7 stone turtles. I also remember talking to her handsome older brother about food.

In native folklore, the world was built on the backs of 7 turtles. This may relate to some earlier knowledge of tectonic plates. Interesting dream. I dreamed of a Lord of the Rings sort of world and had to travel around where a river canyon had been after mudslide. I awoke to find that a slide had just killed people 80 mi. from here. In the dream, I ran into a mountain community called howdy-doodyville, still living in 1940's-50's fashion since they lost contact with society after dodging any WWII involvement. The wierdest scene was earlier when i was atop an island pillar in a swamp/lake and had to escape being seen by warriors in a canoe towing a chained 24' yeti walking behing them.

Maybe it means something! I actually do live literally on the bank of the River Thames in Oxford (repesented by the old stone house?) and there's a stream at the bottom of my garden in Sheffield. Hmm, what could the seven stone turtles be? And how did my brother suddenly become handsome?

The astral world has it's equivalent to chat-forum avatars (reaching Hindu pantheon extremes). Glad I snagged that SC photo of you while I had the chance. I don't know about the turtles, but they somehow feel right. Stable; Rocks, even when standing on water. Ancient, wise. (toe biters perhaps). The stream could also be some astral port, and the turtles SC members. I really don't know though. Ask They how she feels about turtles.

The thing about dreams is that it's easy to find some interpretation that seems to fit. We have 7 turtles that you thought might represent tectonic plates and we have lots of water - link those together and think when she had the dream...aha, tsunami! Then, what do my brother and they have in common when it comes to food? They're both diabetic. Which could represent post-tsunami disease and problems getting food.

But equally it could mean that they is going to come and visit me, talk to my brother about food whilst, ironically, I get eaten by a sudden swarm of 7 angry turtles!

The photo was feeling very dated - it's about a year old and just didn't seem like me anymore.

..a stream at the bottom of a garden... that's exactly what it was like.. but the garden area was surrounded by vegetation or low hedges or something... and we walked down this small slope from the house to the stream. That dream lingered for days.

My back garden in Sheffield slopes down to the stream and one of the boundaries is a privet hedge and there are plant borders down the other boundary. I wonder if I have a picture on my computer...

How weird would that be?

I'd love to see a picture.. maybe I can dream it more clearly next time if I really know what it looks like

I often have lucid dreams. I read about it when I was 13 in Psychology Today (I think that was the magazine). It gave an excersise you could do to promote lucid dreaming. After waking from a dream the article instructed me to do something that required my attention for about 10 minutes (it suggested reading). Then you go back to sleep. I never actually tried it, because I had just woken up and all I wanted to do was go back to sleep. However, I have had lucid dreams before. I also heard that vitamin B6 or B12 affects dreaming, but I am uncertain in what capacity it does so.

sometimes, i used to lucid dream a lot more when i was younger. i wish i did more, it's fun..

I think I have

I look forward to another. Any photo of me feels outdated now. My cameras were stolen (they needed repaired or replaced anyhow). No one took photos last holiday.

Either of those interpretations do sound valid. That's where intuition comes in. My dream matched the mudslides in content and mood. Her dream seemed to feel more peaceful. I think food was just her symbol for a good time, or perhaps temptation.

I mostly avoid having my photo taken - and when it is, it isn't generally on my own camera. But the SC camera is on its way

I am in control of my dreams, and I would love to remember them if I could!. I remember one dream I woke up kicking and "screaming" it was a horrible dream and my cat went flying" off the bed, she did not know what the hell was going on! I participate in my dreams at night yes I do.

Yay!

no, I am a passive inhibitant and it sort of seems as if I didnt have any free will while I was in my dream once I wake up.

Yes, but I don't believe in the shizzy surrounding dream studies. I am always the 'first person' character within what ever game the mind is playing about with. You know... I'm there, but yet not. lol

When I am in an especially painful dream, more like a flash back really, I can talk to myself, tell myself its a dream & to wake up & it will be over. Doesn't always work though.