Have you ever been able to "choose" what you dream about?

They say that if you focus on something before you fall to sleep, you can kind of manipulate your brain into dreaming about it.

So i made this picture. I'm going to stare at it for an hour before going to bed.

I'll let you know if it works tomorrow, but i'm eager to know if anyone has any other tips for choosing your own dreams.

Tell me what you see under her mask.

You mean like that time I went to Mars and met Sharon Stone. Sure.

Sometimes, I guess. Once the ''story' starts though it's no holds barred so plenty of what I don't want could still occur.

It's called lucid dreaming. it's a little more complicated than that. 

Well one time I wanted a rival businessman of mine to dream that he didn't want to continue his father's company so I hired a team to go plant the idea in his head.
 
BUT IT WAS ALL A DREAM
(or was it!?)

I've tried many times, never happened. However the other night i was on chatroulette, then i closed my laptop and went to sleep and i was dreaming I was still on it. Same thing last night, I was at a party yesterday, and I dreamed I was playing pong. I can't wait until we finally figure what exactly dreams are. They interest me so much for some reason. 

" Sometimes, I guess. Once the ''story' starts though it's no holds barred so plenty of what I don't want could still occur. "

" You mean like that time I went to Mars and met Sharon Stone. Sure. "

" It's called lucid dreaming. it's a little more complicated than that.  "

Lucid Dreaming ftw, though I've never really had it happen for me...

I've dreamed of a video game I play a lot, especially before going to sleep. Also I'll dream about my studies when I go to sleep right after studying for many hours.

" It's called lucid dreaming. it's a little more complicated than that.  "

I kidnapped Leonardio Decaprio to discover the trick of how to control your dreams. 
After 24.6 slaps to the face, 
shocking him 93.562 times with a car battery, 
and water boarding him with kool aid... 
 
I finally realized that Inception was a sci fi movie... heh. 
 
But no.. i can't, and when i do i never do any daring crap. 
Like sometimes i dream at work.  I always behave and act like a kiss ass infront of my boss 
If i were to know i was dreaming i'd pull out a baseball bat and remodel his face 

I sadly don't remember my dreams very often. I might remember a few a year, but most of the time I don't remember them in the morning.

I don`t know if i`ll get banned for this... so i`ll just list this as a spoiler

" Sometimes, I guess. Once the ''story' starts though it's no holds barred so plenty of what I don't want could still occur. "

Heard about this on the radio a long time ago....  

Never tried it. I've had my dreams influenced by things I saw that day (crazy nightmares the first time I played Bioshock, for example) but I never tried to induce it.

I used to be able to control my dreams to a point, 
If you can realize your dreaming without waking up, You can make pretty much anything happen.  
 
I cant seem to do it anymore though,  
Dont know if its because Im older now or if it was the years of constant pot intake (Which caused me to stop dreaming at all for years) 
But it is definitely possible to manipulate your dream world.

I can do it quite often, but often while I'm dreaming I think "Shit it'd be really bad if this happens" and then exactly what I don't want to happen happens. This weekend I had no control whatsoever though, and my dreams were so fucking creepy I tried to wake myself up by slapping myself. I could feel the hits in the dream and my arm moving outside of the dream before I woke up. My heartrate was over 9000.

This post is cracking me up. I wonder what blind people dream about. That's gotta be some crazy stuff.

" This post is cracking me up. I wonder what blind people dream about. That's gotta be some crazy stuff. "

I dreamed that I saw my head laughing rolling on the ground, oh wait thats a Velvet Underground song. So all have to say no.

" @FunExplosions said:

" This post is cracking me up. I wonder what blind people dream about. That's gotta be some crazy stuff. "

why does this make me feel bad? "

 They say that if you focus on something before you fall to sleep, you can kind of manipulate your brain into dreaming about it.    

Well I actually lucidly dream every single day. Only problem is I somehow get a kick out of sufffering and generally awfull things.

I dont think thats possible. Is it? :|

" I dont think thats possible. Is it? :| "

I would think that choosing what you dream about is more akin to fantasizing about something rather than actually dreaming. I keep fantasies and dreams as separate phenomena.

" @Jasta said:

" I dont think thats possible. Is it? :| "

Oh absolutely. "

No but I've had a lucid dream twice before. In both I decided to kill everyone I could find.

" I can do it quite often, but often while I'm dreaming I think "Shit it'd be really bad if this happens" and then exactly what I don't want to happen happens. This weekend I had no control whatsoever though, and my dreams were so fucking creepy I tried to wake myself up by slapping myself. I could feel the hits in the dream and my arm moving outside of the dream before I woke up. My heartrate was over 9000. "

I actually have very strange sleeping/dreaming problems. I often sleep walk- but it's more of what I call a 'waking dream'. I am aware that I'm getting up, out of bed, and turning on the lights. But I don't really know why. I usually have some reason which is something strange like I see bugs crawling on my bed or something so I get up to turn on the lights. But that's when I realize they're not there and I'm awake and crazy. I was actually going to write this last night and describe how I frequently dream about bugs. Instead though I went to sleep and then last night I had another one! Something about these giant bees that were red. Giant red fucking bees! Shit was messed up. I used to try and manipulate my dreams with varying degrees of success. 

" @natetodamax said:

" @Jasta said:

" I dont think thats possible. Is it? :| "

Oh absolutely. "

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you can use lucid dream to, for example, look at your hands before you fall asleep, so that when you see them in the dream you recall seeing them out of the dream, to which you then realize you are dreaming and are aware that a dream is taking place. if you are skilled enough at lucid dreaming, you can then go on to influence the dream like you are awake and making active physical decisions, but of course you are still asleep.

All this lucid dreaming stuff just sounds like drugs with no possible side-effects (or are there?).

Okay, so i've had an idea. 
 
I have a projector that i use to beam movies onto the back wall of my house, so i can watch them from my garden. I'm going to set the projector up, so it beams a slideshow of images of me that i have edited Tali into using microsoft paint, onto the ceiling directly above my pillow. 
  
Hopefully this will work.