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⌈ Secret Post #2747 ⌋

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[The Hobbit/Thorin Oakenshield]

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[The Vincent Black Shadow]

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[El Goonish Shive]

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[Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries]

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[Penny Dreadful]

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[Blake's 7]

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[Edge of Tomorrow/Tom Cruise]

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[Quirk]

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[Homestuck]

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Today I had an interesting dream, and woke up before it finished. So I, as I had done a few times before, fallen asleep again to try and continue it. This time it actually worked, but it didn't finish. It just continued for a bit.

I have had it be the case that I wake up, fall asleep, and the whole dream repeats, but that was a nightmare.

Anyone else ever try that? and how successful are you?

It depends on how awake I am. If I am just like "Blech check time on phone and go immediately back to sleep," I usually can. But if I have to get up, I won't be able to.

I have several reoccurring nightmares as well (including some that while I am having the dream I remember previous dreams and can act accordingly to problems I know will happen).

Dreams where you can remember past dreams are cool, especially when it's a dream that you had forgotten in your waking life until then.

I have tried to go back to sleep to continue a dream, but it's never really worked.

I think it's a subconscious thing, and might be why I never have lucid dreams either. If I try assuming control over the dream, then that means I'm aware it's a dream and it kind of fucks it all up for me. :P

I have, very rarely, had dreams that did continue, but it was entirely unintentional.

Interesting. I have problems with lucid dreaming too, but it seems to be different from mine at first glance.

I've had characters actually say "You're dreaming," to me in my dreams and I STILL couldn't lucid dream myself. Surely that would indicate my subconscious wanted me to lucid dream?

But then again no one understands sleep.

Same. There's definitely been times where I wanted to continue a dream, but it never works for me at all. :/

And I am sometimes aware that I'm dreaming, but that usually just freaks me out and makes me feel trapped.

Yeah, at that point I just wake up or feel the need to wake up. I kind of get disappointed, like "Oh, this is only a dream. Well, that sucks. I want the real thing instead and/or this absurd substitute to stop."

Yea, I understand disappointment. (Unless you're having a nightmare, in which case there should be relief instead. LOL.) It's so weird to be aware that it isn't real, though. Sometimes I'll wake up from a dream that felt like an entirely different life and it'll take a moment to realize, "Nope, this is your reality", and yea, it can be a disappointment.

Yes! It works for me sometimes, but I feel I used to be more successful with it when I was younger. I don't know if there are any methods that make it more successful. It just kind of happens or doesn't happen.

Given two of the responses, it seems the secret is to not wake up too much before falling back asleep.

If I'm in that bleary half-asleep state of waking up I can usually go back to a dream but if I'm too awake it wont work.

I am starting to think this might be an important part of continuing a dream.

If I have the time and am not interrupted while sleeping on I do this whenever a dream gets good enough. Strangely they will also never quite go as I expected and often times drift into absurdity

heh, dreams can do that!

Sometimes if I doze in my chair with music on my brain turns into some kind of fucked up cable TV with ADHD. I dream all sorts of weird, random crap. If only happens when I doze in my chair, so I often attempt to reproduce the steps needed, because as much as I enjoy having lunch with Superman and Wonder Woman (actual dream) or getting picked up from school by the Flash (actual dream) or riding in a 1968 Dodge Charger as Abraham Lincol plows it through a crowd of zombies controlled by surf Nazis heiling Billy Milano (actual dream) I think I like my dreams in Amazing Video Weirdness format better, as bizarre and nightmarish as it can sometimes get.

I used to be fairly successful at that, as long as I kept repeating the last scene/sentence in my head while I tried going to sleep again.

Once or twice, I got back to it and it continued on as it had been. A few times I ended up with a completely different dream, with no seeming relation to the interrupted one. But, generally, if I'm able to continue on with the dream, it goes from interesting to what the hell. I mean, there are dreams I've had that I didn't realize were weird until I woke up - I went along with the dream logic while I was in it. But the continued ones tend to be truly bizarre, so bizarre that I realize it while in the dream - I would guess it's a function of consciousness, in trying to get back to the dream, I have the knowledge that it's a dream and I'm applying actual logic to it rather than dream logic.

Ooh, my experiences have been similar to yours!
If I manage to fall asleep again before I wake up too much, the dream will continue.
But if I wake up too much, I'll kind of go back to the dream... But it will veer off in some weird, unexpected direction. Sometimes it will turn into a lucid dream and I'll be able to take control of it for a little before I wake up again.

I can only do this with bad dreams/where the dream is scary (in the context of the dream.)

Like the one time I dreamt I was in my room and suddenly these UFOs started flying to my bedroom window, there were also floating evil cows! I was so terrified in the dream and when I woke up. But then I went back to sleep and it continued.

Same when I dream about tornadoes. I have lots of dreams of tornadoes in my city, going to my house. (I'm not particularly scared of tornadoes though, it's one of my big interests in life.)

Tried it, but I don't think it's ever worked.

I do that, and it does work for me. The thing is, it's usually the upsetting dreams I find easier to go back to, because I feel like I need to go back and make things right orz
Sometimes it is the case where I'm taken to the "beginning" or a point where I "know" I can handle the "do-over". God, lucid dreaming makes me such a Mary Sue.

If I'm really lucky, I don't have to wake up since there's a point where I become absurdly aware and actually say things, in-dream, like, "No! I can't leave it like this! I won't let it get that far!" and fuck up the pacing of the dream because there's a chance I'll wake up and have to lol reset.

Getting back to pleasant shit is not as easy. I can get back to them, but only when I'm not thinking about it, so it's like my brain gives me surprise sequels in the middle of other dreams.

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