Hey, does anyone have any tips on how to have nice dreams or how to dream what you want without it being a lucid dream? Like pre-programming yourself for some dream.
I don't want it to be lucid because I want to believe it for the moment.
A few days ago I had a dream where I kissed Satania on the cheek and caressed her so that was a really nice dream. She had some chocolate cookies and offered some to me but I politely declined since I try to eat healthy (but not doing too well seeing how I recently ate a whole pack of chips, not my fault though, parents bought some for me... well it is my fault since i didn't resist it)
Anyways priority dreams are ones where I interact with girls in a romantic way
Those are very rare but I really like them, it's always a bit sad waking up from one like that
>>39286611
I'd imagine genuinely managing a good mood most of the time will help a lot. Maybe not eating before bed. Here's a dream of mine
>back in early high school
>me and friends are walking through one of my friends yard
>it was in a more rural area so the yard was large and no other houses in sight
>stumble upon my dad
>"you know this is a golf course, right? You better go home."
>keep walking
>my dad is following us
>this is a problem because our goal has become go smoke weed
>stumble upon another friends house
>go inside
>from inside the walls are translucent enough to see through like blinds with light shining through
>sitting around anxiously waiting for dad to leave
>look behind me and there's an ancient African trickster God
>he keeps changing me and my friends to clay and back
>we can't smoke with this dude around us either
>anxiously waiting for nigger God to leave hoping he doesn't leave us as clay
It was pretty wacky, dudes
>>39286611
I don't think that's really possible to orient yourself towards. It's a subconscious thing
>>39286849
that's awesome. I wish I had African trickster gods in my dreams.
>>39286956
>that's awesome. I wish I had African trickster gods in my dreams
It was pretty crazy. The best part about dreams is what may have been terrifying in the dream (like the prospect of being forever turned to clay) isn't by the time you wake up. I had a dream that I was really freaked out by this television static entity and I was in sheer terror whenever it turned around.
Here's an unrelated dream
>back in middle school or some shit in this one
>riding my bike around looking for friends to play with
>knocking on all their doors but they all blow me off
>riding my bike back home
>I've got a mp3 player now
>it's made of 3 ceramic plates and only works when they're together
>when put together it's painted to look like a globe
>they don't connect and putting it together is like putting together any other ceramic item broken into 3 pieces minus glue or anything to keep them together
>there's a headphone jack in it
Weird stuff.
>>39287185
>The best part about dreams is what may have been terrifying in the dream (like the prospect of being forever turned to clay) isn't by the time you wake up.
Ehhh... this morning I was trying to fall back asleep after catching a morning class, and kept having a dream that my computer was all fucked up and had a virus on it. Specifically my copy of minecraft. The computer booted weirdly and had some text running on command prompt before launching windows or something, and everyone on the servers I played on turned out to be a bot managed by the virus. The worst part was I was half-asleep and kept realizing it wasn't real, but then in a few seconds something else fucked up would happen, like I look up from my bed and see a leak dripping out of my ceiling (in a room that wasn't actually my room). Really annoying morning and I didn't feel any more rested when I got up lol.
It's insane to me how detailed dream visuals can be. It really looks like real life if you pay attention. That's the part that scares me. I've been reading a lot about peripheral vision and blind spots and how most of our visual field is a completely fake construct of our brain most of the time. Scary stuff.
>a month ago
>go to bed with a feeling of deep, freezing cold despair
>had a dream recently where I was harmlessly catching rabbits with my hands in the backyard of my childhood home
I felt so happy again, it filled me with a sense of childish wonder and innocence. I watched a bunch of old pirate treasure movies that day and felt happy for that whole day.
What's the coolest dreamscape you've ever found yourself in?
Mine:
>procedurally generated American-southwest-kind-of-desert, mesas and rivers, but rendered in 80's computer graphics like you'd see in a vaporwave music video or some shit. Populated entirely with giant sculptures of vases, made out of copper wire wound in helices, wireframe vase sculptures of all sorts of different shapes and sizes, stretching forever in all directions
>>39287526
that's really fucking cool, I don't think I've had a dream that wasn't in our real world (or at least don't remember one) but I remember one time the dream had very strangely defined distant objects like trees and houses. Can't really describe it but they looked different, the color purple comes to mind but I might be making things up now. That night I felt as if I truly looked at the background of a dream for the first time in my memory.
>those dreams when you're naked in a public place
how does one stop having them?
>>39287666
You're more specifically asking how to solve the neurosis of being too afraid of embarrassment. It's something you have to work on over time, not a quick fix. But the short answer is stop caring what other people think of you, understand you're a part of the crowd and that others' pejorative is their prerogative.
>>39286611
I've been half-assed trying to lucid dream. I've kept a journal and been pushing my fingers in my palms to see if they go through for a reality check. No luck yet but I'm remembering dreams where I usually wouldnt. I had a dream I woke up cuddling a girl and thought about it being a bit overrated desu
>>39287526
>procedurally generated American-southwest-kind-of-desert, mesas and rivers, but rendered in 80's computer graphics like you'd see in a vaporwave music video or some shit. Populated entirely with giant sculptures of vases, made out of copper wire wound in helices, wireframe vase sculptures of all sorts of different shapes and sizes, stretching forever in all directions
damn that sounds A E S T H E T I C