The Dreaming Mind: Waking the Mysteries of Sleep | World Science Festival

Sometimes, when I’m going through a stressful period in my life, I have dreams with multiple layers—sometimes more than three. I know I’m dreaming, but the dream just keeps going, and it’s very hard to wake up. By the time I finally do wake up, I feel completely exhausted. It’s a really draining experience

.. at once point in my life i went through several experiences ..i was very religious at that time and my ( lucid dreams) was me fighting the demons! and they always told me the screaming won’t help wake up and i was aware it dream but couldn’t wake no matter how hard i try..when i finally wake up i would wake up screaming it was an awful and terrifying experience! back then i became genuinely scared to sleep and go through these kinds of experiences!i would even force myself to stay awake to avoid them

Meditate before sleep. Focus on what you want to dream about Focus your attention throughput the dayon a subject of what you want to dream about

Wow I put 2 separate part's of a dream I had last night in 2 video's

The moment when the dream was exited through a deliberate physical movement echoed Inception’s ‘kick’ — the mind choosing to return to waking reality

I was ready to give up, but then this video said "not today."

Just watch inception and now i m here ....really dreams are powerful resource to enhance yourself❤

It was so cool to hear her talk about DID. I have DID and multiple alters can have completely different perspectives of the same dreams, or even switch in the dream. Once two alters had completely separate dreams in the same world and didn't recognize each other in the dream, and only get the full story once we woke up. Each alter only remembered their side of the dream. Another time, those same two alters had a similar experience but kept switching back and forth and the perspective kept switching back and forth like changing scenes in a movie. Sometimes our dreams are even exhausting because we switch so much in our dreams.

2:15 ohhhh it's lucid dreaming then 😮😮 what experiences some time like I knowing that it's a dream simultaneously dreaming and trying to escape from dream .....

How do I contact you. I used to have so many lucid dreams. I can still remember them in detail. 20 years on. Haven't had them for a while.

I had a lucid dream once - and I wanted to write down how it felt, but I had no pen or paper - but then it struck me, that being in a dream I might be able to do magic; so I kind of pulled a pen and a paper out of thin air - and it worked. But then I woke up - it was afterall too cool for my brain to carry on with :)

I sometimes my dreams are continuations of previous dreams . That's surprises me, because I immediately remember the original dream even if it was from when I was a child

Dreaming is very amazing and scary at the same time ,,,i will never forget how i was in this dark place where no kind of light will work there ,,it was very scary cause you can even feel the darkness

I remember my first ever lucid dream I got too excited that I realized I was lucid dreaming, I felt like I literally got sucked up into space and then immediately woke up shit was cool af

I've had sleep paralysis most of my life- "night terrors" some ppl call it. It's a very strange experience and I'm glad I've only had it a handful of times throughout my life. I'm not one of these poor pl who have them almost every night. They're terrifying- but eventually -I did get where I could realize what was happening. Unfortunately- that realization doesn't happen until I'm almost awake. That said- usually now, I can just go on back to sleep. The second I realize what it is- this wave of relief washes over me and it's like- it's gone. The second you know what it is- it has no more power over you and you're no longer fighting and pushing to wake up- and everything just immediately calms down. I just wish I could do that sooner, because I have to go through quiet a long scare before it finally comes to me- it's that feeling of desperately trying to move, but you can't- that feeling is familiar, and it makes me think "This is sleep paralysis." But you know how many years it took that to happen- over 40. As a teenager I was petrified- I was surrounded by religious ppl and they of course had religious explanations that scared the hell out of me. Luckily, I grew up ad began to think for myself.

I'm thoroughly convinced that when we dream, our consciousness travels to an alternate dimension. It's the only way I can explain their vividness.

I feel i can in and out dream so easily. Just like walk into another world, so real.

As a little kid I inadvertently taught myself to Lucid Dream. I would often dream i was about to pee in a bathroom and would then wet my bed. I started to (whenever I was about to go pee) check my surroundings, try to change something, etc and would realize i am dreaming. I could then 'hold it', and fly arou d, sit on top of Skyscrapers and then finally wake myself up and go pee in waking world. Even when awake and about to pee, i would say tomyself, wait, am i dreaming (so it became habit), the habit became automatic and the question then made me realize when i was dreaming!

I often dream about my grandparents. It feels so incrediably real at times. Ive actually woken up crying or felt like i was crying.

I've dream journaled for 40 years. It's fascinating to revisit them and see the different phases and emotional evolution. The dreams got more poignent with age. Warnings to leave an abusive person, reminders to heal the inner child... all in colorful symbolisms. Most of my songs come from dreams too. I've been recording them for decades. Recently I simply had to organize and publish the journal.