can you control your nightmares

[New Era]

when you are in a dream can you control certain events or do you have no control when that event is happening

for instance lets say orohcimaru had a dream of sasuke going to his bed and fighting orochimaru for control of his body and sasuke beats him but orochimaru cannot change what is happening in the dream and just watches what happens.

[Sephy100]

If you could control your dreams then nightmares wouldn't exist.

[dominicansharingan]

Talking about this I haven't had 1 in a longggggggg longgggggggg time!

But I had 1 so bad I cried, I was like 9 or 10

[Ldude]

If you could control your dreams then nightmares wouldn't exist.

This.... unless you enjoy nightmares, but then they wouldn't be nightmares, so...

[Seraphîm]

Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream

[Cobra73]

Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream

This guy nailed it right on the money

[hokageofthehiddenhemp]

I can. i can always tell you how

[ShishaMastah420]

You can control your dreams, but only though actually training... Your brain is extremely activate during your REM sleep though so more than likely it would be an difficult task to be become aware during all of said activity...

[MellowHype]

Sometimes. After reading up on it and not letting it go to my head, it happens naturally. I had a dream I jumped off the twin towers and into a big fluffy cloud (don't ask how). Then I woke up and said wtf.

[Shinobi Train]

Sometimes, but it's hard. I had a nightmare about my brother torturing people and killing them; he was also about to do so to me. I might hate my bro on several levels, but he's not that kind of person at all. The only way I could solve the problem was to wake up. Afterwards I was really thrown off and had trouble going back to sleep. The dream itself messed up half my day because I had this weird feeling for a while. That's just one example of course...I usually have bad dreams, but it's rare for them to be that bad, though it happens from time to time.

Sometimes there's nothing that can be done.

[j mafia13]

I have done it before but its hard to completely do it. The best i can do is wake myself up when the dream isnt going my way. lol

[Germanicus]

Lucid dreaming, ahhh. Actually, when you can do this, there are no nightmares, cause you control everything. Look online, there's a lot of stuff on it. Never tried it myself.

[hokageofthehiddenhemp]

The trick is to drink plenty of water before you go to sleep so early in the morning during your Rem sleep you will need to pee and in the brief moment before waking up you will be able to control your dream , it may seems brief from my point of view but from yours it can last LONG , i once had that and i dreamt a whole week , but when i woke up i realized only 5 minutes have past

[hokageofthehiddenhemp]

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/waking-life/

whoever is interested watch this movie its all about lucid dreaming

[Prime Rib]

some times

[Jack Spicer]

I don't think so.

[zesto]

when you are in a dream can you control certain events or do you have no control when that event is happening

for instance lets say orohcimaru had a dream of sasuke going to his bed and fighting orochimaru for control of his body and sasuke beats him but orochimaru cannot change what is happening in the dream and just watches what happens.

of course you can control your dreams, you need a lot of practice like me. if i want to dream a nightmare tonight all i need to do is imagine/focus my mind seeing people becoming zombies eating everyone like in resident evil. it sounds stupid but i foremost can control all of my dreams. in other words I'm not a dead sleeper like other persons or you.

[neilson]

all i have to do is concentrate and then i become invincible

[Uchiha seeker]

nah i tried yelling once in my nightmare but my voice was like... meeep

[SandVillageShinobi]

I can't control my nightmares. The best I can do is wake myself up and go do something until I forget what it was about. I've had that whole lucid dream thing before, but I can never remember what they're about.

[Ashflura]

Yeah to an extent. You can prevent nightmares...it's harder to control them when your mind is wrapped in one though.

[UchihaBrat]

Hell no! That's why I call them nightmares in the first place!
Though I did have lucid dreams from time to time, I never did have one while it was a 'nightmare', as it's the helplessness that I feel makes it a nightmare.
To me, if it's a happy or somewhat neutral end to it, it's no nightmare, but if I can't exert any kind of control and it is a horrible dream, I call it a nightmare.
Though I used to try to, when I had woken up after a nightmare, continue and end it my own way!

[ccm30]

Dreaming that you are dreaming in a dream sounds twisted, eh!

Or a dream hat you are in a comma, but are aware, or something like being cremated alive, oh snap!!

...but no to the OP.

[AnimeFanGirl4Eva]

Yes, you can learn to "control your nightmares" if you have the will in your conscious to wake one's self up during a nightmare. During REM sleep, your brain waves function at a different pace than usual in ways, often giving the person acess to thoughts that come up from the deepest parts of your mind. That being your sub-conscious.

This process is called "Lucid Dreaming" in which on wakes one self up in mid-dream and realizes that it is a dream. I have PLENTY of lucid dreams and I have full control over them, being able to fly, shape-shift and control objects with your mind. The sub conscious is the strongest thing the body has, and when one sets their mind to it, you are pretty much unstoppable in any dream. When the mind find's out it is a dream, all the nightmares cease and disappear as the sub-conscious knows they don't exist. I have been through Lucid dreaming and Alpha Stage sleep. When in Alpha Stage, you are basically in between dreaming and reality, and often wake up confused or you think the dream really happened, as you can hear, feel and even smell what was in the dream. I have however, never had an OOBE, which I tend not to do. An OOBE (whole other subject) is "Out of Body Experience" in which the soul leaves the body, but always returns to it's vehicle, that being the body.

One can NEVER die in a dream. Anything you heard about that is false rumors to just scare you. You are a light source, thus cannot die. I have "died" plenty of times in my dreams, only to find myself still "alive" inside them. Nightmares can be caused by many things. The foods you eat, your thoughts and deepest fears. If you want to have less nightmares, then i suggest you eat certain food that produce less "Negative pheromones" in them, or perhaps listen to relaxing music before bed to calm yourself. It really helps if you also meditate if you find yourself being stressful or have anxiety. In other words, yes, you do have control, but very few master it and must be learned by ones self. It took me time, but I have pretty much got it down lol :3

[drknght]

I guess I know what you are talking about. For many times I experienced some events that I would swear I had them in my dreams. It feels as if you were able to predict the future. For the nightmares, I don't think you can control it. Nightmares are not logical, so if you will make a meaning to it, it will disappear.