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Melf    | | posted 24-Mar-2008 7:28pm |
I don't think so. I'd end up like Mildred Montag. I've lucid dreamt loads of times, but this is too clinical. |
| they | | posted 24-Mar-2008 7:49pm |
I would fly and have sex more.
Maybe flying sex. |
| Galomorro | | posted 24-Mar-2008 7:58pm |
Oh yeah, fer sure! I've always wanted to do this sort of thing. Dreaming's fun and I'd like to make it even more fun, dreaming about things I like most. Lucidity and "high dreams" more often would be cool. And to remember 'em more often. |
Crayons  | | posted 24-Mar-2008 8:19pm |
I've been trying lucid dreams, no dice so far. But I wouldn't use a device or have holes drilled in my head. Unless it was like a dollar. |
LindaH    | | posted 24-Mar-2008 8:59pm |
Sure. I can manipulate them a little bit, when they are lucid. Did you know you can suggest dreams to yourself during the day, and eventually, you'll have one like the suggestions? Much fun! |
bill  | | posted 24-Mar-2008 8:59pm |
Dreams seen by a man-made machine
How does it seem, how does it seem
That we can see each others dreams
That we can see each others dreams |
| bill | | posted 24-Mar-2008 9:08pm |
No, I think messing with dreams is a bad idea. But, then again, it would be fun to try this, just to try it. |
| JessicaWoman99 | | posted 24-Mar-2008 9:45pm |
Yes why would I want to do this in the first place, and maybe it just sounds like a good idea! |
| Irene007 | | posted 25-Mar-2008 12:33am |
No, I think dreams are a release - a necessary release... Don't mess with it - daydream instead. |
| justjulie | | posted 25-Mar-2008 10:26am |
you can and i do |
| justjulie | | (reply to bill) posted 25-Mar-2008 10:29am |
look for your hands in your dreams. once you do, if only for a breath, you'll be able to. difficult to do and to 'hold', but cool none-the-less for that one fleeting moment... |
| justjulie | | (reply to they) posted 25-Mar-2008 10:30am |
> I would fly and have sex more.
>
> Maybe flying sex.
totally... |
| they | | (reply to justjulie) posted 25-Mar-2008 11:01am |
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| Enheduanna | | posted 25-Mar-2008 11:33am |
I guess. I would certainly manipulate the bad ones into good ones, if nothing else. The rest I would probably just leave alone. |
| snowmoon | | posted 25-Mar-2008 11:58am |
i can already do this.  |
| kcthedog | | posted 25-Mar-2008 12:57pm |
As the article was presented (very interesting) I am somewhat apprehensive to the negative affects that may occur, this reminds me a little like psychedelic drugs. I am skeptical that a device could create specific images and emotions; I would expect stimulation of ingrained memories and possibly much more lucid dreaming. The issue as I see it would be similar to LSD, where it affects one individual differently than another. I have had a lot of personal experience with “acid” and know that not everyone should try it. I have seen some very scary reactions in people that were not mentally well balanced and were not able to handle the sensory input that LSD creates. I would expect that some people may react negatively with over stimulation of the sensory areas of the brain.
I dream lucidly a lot on a regular basis and usually I can remember them fairly well if I make an effort to. I enjoy the adventure of not knowing what I will dream about and surprise and amaze myself with my dreams, I might be disappointed if I thought my dreams were not my own. Besides some of my dreams are deeply personal and the idea of someone being able to record and play back someone else’s dreams opens the opportunity for mind manipulation and in my eyes that would be very dangerous to our personal freedoms.
There was a movie made years ago with Natalie Wood called “Brainstorm” I will not take up the space to describe it but follow the link below to read a synopsis of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_%281983_fi...
It conveys pretty much how such a device could be misused or abused, in one scene two scientists record the act of sex onto a tape machine, later another scientist comes along and when nobody is around starts to play it back in his head. He is found later still with the headset on with his eyes fixed and dilated; he OD’d on the looped tape! Another issue that would come up is the issue of experienced death possibly recorded and played back to someone, would that induce death? Then there is the Military, God only knows what they would do with such a device.
I like dreaming the old fashioned way.
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| thecomic22 | | posted 25-Mar-2008 2:52pm |
Maybe. |
| RGirl | | posted 25-Mar-2008 4:56pm |
No, but I do in a way already. I can say in a dream to myself 'This is a dream' and change what is going on. |
| Galomorro | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 25-Mar-2008 8:03pm |
I remember Brainstorm from LONG ago and would like to see it again. Interesting. |
| kcthedog | | (reply to Galomorro) posted 25-Mar-2008 8:22pm |
> I remember Brainstorm from LONG ago and would
> like to see it again. Interesting.
Did you have to emphasize “LONG” ago, yes it was 1983 some 25 years ago, and most of the people on this site were babies or young children, and I was 29 years old.
SO I AM AN OLD MAN!
(I dont feel old, nor do I act it, only in my dreams.)  |
| Galomorro | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 25-Mar-2008 10:28pm |
Oh sorry, but I think I'M the oldest person on SC now. I act like I'm about 12 or so, however. So I was 39 at that time I guess. |
| ihatespiders | | posted 25-Mar-2008 10:45pm |
Sometimes I can and I do. |
| LindaH | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 25-Mar-2008 10:50pm |
Do you know you can suggest dreams to yourself? Why do you think I dream about my favorite bands? |
| Iseult | | posted 26-Mar-2008 9:10am |
No. I'd rather not have dreams at all. |
| kcthedog | | (reply to Galomorro) posted 26-Mar-2008 11:22am |
We need to create a "senior SC forum" for all those over fifty. It would be curious to see how many of us mature folks are here. |
| Galomorro | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 26-Mar-2008 11:23am |
"Mature" in years maybe... |
| kcthedog | | (reply to LindaH) posted 26-Mar-2008 11:25am |
> Do you know you can suggest dreams to yourself?
> Why do you think I dream about my favorite
> bands?
I have been able to auto suggest a dream topic but not as regular as I would like, I mostly get surprised about my dreams and I have fun trying to figure out where in the hell did that come from? |
| kcthedog | | (reply to Galomorro) posted 26-Mar-2008 11:25am |
Of course!  |
| LindaH | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 26-Mar-2008 12:12pm |
I had dreams last night that was all new stuff. Strangers, places I've never dreamt before. Nothing familiar at all, except one dream was near a car dealership in midtown, and a driver looked kind of like Carlos Santana. He was driving too fast. |
| Biggles | | posted 26-Mar-2008 2:20pm |
It would be nice to be able to stop nightmares - I never seem to wake up, just go on and on with them getting worse and worse. |
| kcthedog | | (reply to LindaH) posted 26-Mar-2008 3:02pm |
You DO have a thing for Carlos don't you? |
| LindaH | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 26-Mar-2008 3:39pm |
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| Galomorro | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 26-Mar-2008 5:51pm |
Actually I never wanted to grow up even when I was a kid. Didn't look like the adults around me were having any fun... |
| kcthedog | | (reply to Galomorro) posted 27-Mar-2008 12:23am |
> Actually I never wanted to grow up even when
> I was a kid. Didn't look like the adults
> around me were having any fun...
We are adults but with a child at heart!
I feel like I should be saluting you, with all those gold stars you look like a four star General!
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| Galomorro | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 27-Mar-2008 10:59am |
I don't really know what all those stars mean. |
| cloudhugger | | posted 27-Mar-2008 5:02pm |
Yes, dreams can be healing. Dreams emulate what is happening in real life. If stress was in the body it could show up in the dreams. Standing up to the big bad wolf would be much easier in a dream than it would be in real life. |
| LindaH |
No matter how stressed I get, I always have good dreams. I don't remember ever having a scary or bad dream. I hear it is common, but I never get them. |
| kcthedog | | (reply to Galomorro) posted 27-Mar-2008 11:18pm |
> I don't really know what all those stars
> mean.
I feel they mean that you are very creative and imaginative as well as having way too much time on your hands! |
| Galomorro | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 28-Mar-2008 12:09am |
I finally checked it out. Means well-rated -- only I didn't think mine were all that well-rated. Only wish I could think of more that haven't already been done... |
| LindaH | | (reply to Galomorro) posted 28-Mar-2008 12:12am |
I make lists of questions and then cross ones off that I don't want to make into surveys. |
| kcthedog | | (reply to Galomorro) posted 28-Mar-2008 12:20am |
U rok! |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to LindaH) posted 28-Mar-2008 10:05am |
Good for you. |
| Galomorro | | (reply to LindaH) posted 28-Mar-2008 11:48am |
Good idea. Now if I can only think of more questions... Sometimes I think of one, then find out it's already been done... I wonder how long we have to wait before we ask a former question over again. After all, there are new people here now. |
| Galomorro | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 28-Mar-2008 11:48am |
Awwwww thanx. |
| Gomezy3k | | posted 30-Mar-2008 11:14am |
Yes!!! In fact I wish I could live in my dreams forever... My dreams are awesome..even my worst nightmare is far better than my real life... |
| Gomezy3k | | (reply to Galomorro) posted 30-Mar-2008 11:17am |
> Oh sorry, but I think I'M the oldest person on SC now. I act like
> I'm about 12 or so, however. So I was 39 at that time I guess.
How old are you.. I am 57 so unless you are 58, got ya beat as oldest ol' phart here... Although I prefer Soiled Senior Citizen rather than the Dirty Old Man label... I am a curmudgeon and love it.. Heck I refuse to grow up, so act like I am a teenager also...
And I agree, I also never wanted to grow up or grow old. Spent too much time with the elderly and saw what time did to them. I always hoped I would be dead by 40 because that was OLD!!! ... Dang it.. missed that one.. Oh well maybe by 60...
Cheers!! |
| Galomorro | | (reply to Gomezy3k) posted 30-Mar-2008 11:19am |
Hah- gotcha beat - I'm 64. |
| Gomezy3k | | (reply to Galomorro) posted 30-Mar-2008 11:21am |
> Hah- gotcha beat - I'm 64.
Cool then I bow to you and take my hat off... |
| Nitroeddy | | posted 30-Mar-2008 11:26am |
I'd always dream about all my favorite things in life, and some that would be my favorites if it was possible. |
| Galomorro | | (reply to Gomezy3k) posted 30-Mar-2008 12:31pm |
Thanx. |
| moviesnob |
Yeah - it's cool to have vivid dreams and screw around with what's going on. |
| mightybazooka |
Absolutely! it would be like living in my own world! Imagine the possibilities of that...
Although if it was possible I would sleep all the time |
| Enigma | | posted 9-Apr-2008 10:53pm |
I can and do. |
| MagicalJamie | | posted 17-Apr-2008 10:21am |
Yes, and have tried in the past and failed. (Lucid dreaming) I hear it can be a life changing amazing experience to be able to do it every night at will. Very spiritual and self discovery oriented + self happiness and amusement.
HOWEVER
That article on artifical dream manipulation is interesting, I'd give it a go for sure though. |
| LindaH |
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| Melf |
I remember when you were so intent on Lucid dreaming... you got me into it. Every other night or so for two months. It's too much. Just wanna sleep all the time.
Thom Clark was in my dream last night. Ugh. |
| aquawolfy | | posted 28-May-2008 4:10pm |
Probably not |
| jess82091 | | posted 18-Jun-2008 2:29pm |
You're actually supposed to be able to manipulate your dreams with some practice. I don't know, I never really tried it, but I have a dream book that says you can. |
| jess82091 | | (reply to they) posted 18-Jun-2008 2:32pm |
> I would fly and have sex more.
>
> Maybe flying sex.
Hahaha...this sounds like a great idea. |
| docgbrown | | posted 25-Jul-2008 6:46pm |
I have and still do |
| HMC35 |
Heck. yes. |
