i want to start trying to Lucid Dream but I am working 3 shifts

morning is 6am-2pm

afternoon shift is 2pm -10pm

and night shift 10 pm -6 pm

it seems very difficult but I was wondering if someone had succeed it ?

I’ve been tracking my dreams for about 3 months and i’ve been doing it for so long that I have started to wake up every night around 5-6 hours after I first fall asleep. I try to imagine my recent dreams and becoming lucid when going to sleep but it has never worked but i have started to have multiple dreams every night or 2. I’m just confused on where to go from here and how to finally have my first lucid dream. Any tips or thought will help.

How do I LD and what is the best 'method' to do it

So I've been trying to lucid dream for more then a week now, I don't wait for it to come that fast, i know it usually takes a month of practice to LD.

But I've been thinking recently if anyone have tried to LD after a sip of non-strong coffee. And if anyone did, did it help actually? Was it feeling different then without it?

Hi everyone! I was hoping to gain some clarity whether or not I am lucid dreaming. Over the past few months, I have been experiencing dreams we’re I’ll be observing it and then all of a sudden I take over and live the dream, but I don’t have a conscious thought that I acknowledge that I’m dreaming. For example, I am a personal trainer and I had a dream that I was at work and a person came up to our front desk and my coworker was talking with her and I was overhearing the conversation and she was hesitant about signing up with personal training. It was then that I consciously started explaining what personal training is and how I would help her. But I never had a aha moment of “wait a sec” I’m dreaming, it felt like real life and my real thoughts and processes. I’ve never had this mode of “control” in a dream before, so I feel like I’m getting somewhat close to being able to do it, but not quite yet. What are your thoughts?

So I became lucid last night after going to bed at about 9 a.m. because I have school in the morning. I woke up about 2 a.m. in the morning because of the rain then went back to sleep. After going back to sleep about 15 minutes later I was back in another REM session in which I realized I was dreaming. This is the longest that I have became lucid in the dream. It felt like I was lucid for about three hours which was the longest I have ever been lucid. In this dream, me and my siblings and couple friends were playing volleyball in the backyard. But then I looked at my hands and realized I had an extra amount of fingers. Then I realized I was dreaming. I then went over to my neighbor's house and went into her house and then I saw them sleeping, in which I woke one of them up. While going through a shortcut to my neighbor's house, I saw a very large owl with red eyes, which I ignored. I tried flying, which I have achieved in other lucid dreams that I have had, but it was not successful in this dream. Around the last 5 minutes of my lucid dream, I tried to create a dream character that could tell me when I was dreaming so it would be easier to become lucid, but I could not spawn a dream character as it was difficult for me. So I thought of something and got this ribbon pen, a pen wrapped in ribbon, that would let me know every time I am dreaming so I could become lucid as an option.

I've been trying to lucid dream on and off for a very long time now and every time I've had a lucid dream I just sort of forgot that I'm in a dream after about 15 seconds. I'm trying to get back into lucid dreaming again and I would like to know if there's something I can do to prevent this. Any other general tips would be apreciated as well.

Have you ever had a false awakening lucid dream that felt very real? Like I had one that I got up, got ready for work, went to work, worked for a while before waking up and it was entirely like the real thing. Side note: almost all of my dreams are lucid or somewhat lucid, don’t know why

ETA I always start becoming aware of the dream midway through, and sometimes am able to control what I’m doing

Lately I’ve been trying to train myself to lucid dream regularly, trying for a few times a week at least. And I’ve succeeded, despite being a copious smoker of weed! The only issue is, I just…don’t do anything about it? More often than not, now, I’ll realize I’m dreaming, then I’ll just carry on with whatever I’m doing in the dream. Sometimes I’ll even spin around once or twice to keep myself from waking up, but I still don’t try to manipulate my environment or do anything special. Which is extremely unlike me. In the past, every time I dreamed lucidly by happenstance, I would -immediately- start changing things and flying around. But now…my dream self just couldn’t care less about any of that. Has anyone else experienced this?

I’ll keep this short. Last night I attempted WILD I naturally woke up in the middle of the night (out of a dream), got some water, wrote down my dream and then got comfy again. I focused on my breathing and the label of my eyes (not too much) I imagined myself appearing back into my dream. I felt tingling in my body I could hear my heartbeat through my chest and I saw some white fiery light. I continued to lay still and relax through it all and after a bit I saw static and the tingles again. Still I pressed on, but after the static and what felt like at lest an hour, my right hip started to BURN. It almost felt like someone was holding a lighter at my side. I knew this was probably part of it and that I just had to press on but after what felt like an additional 30 mins of my flesh feeling like it’s being burned. I rolled over and scratched it. The pain faded away and as it did I felt like I failed the last question on the test. After that I tried again but fell asleep. I didn’t become lucid, but had some pretty vivid dreams after.

TL;DR: tried wild, felt tingles, felt heart beating hard, saw white fiery hypnagogic images, felt tingling again and saw static hypnagogic images, and finally felt a horrible burning feeling that made me tap out.

Was I close? I was told to try the WILD cycle technique, where I sort of turn my body every now and then to prevent the feeling from becoming overwhelming. It was my intention that if I moved, it would sort of reset my progress? Any tips?

Im not sure if this is allower on here, cuz im not trying to tell a story. So today I had a normal dream, where i was suddenly abel to feel stuff, and really hear stuff like its real. But only 1 Second in i woke up, how can i prevent this next time?

I had a dream about having a lucid dream.

I was in a dream and I said to myself "omg am I lucid dreaming"? I could do anything but run fast and in the dream, I realized that I was in a dream.

I think someone followed me in the dream and I tried to run but couldn't do so fast.

I tried to wake myself up in the dream and I did. I was laying down on my bed, and I just "woke up" then I sleep texted people and I guess went back to bed.

I woke up for real this time and didn't even remember the dream that I had until now, a couple of hours later.

Has anyone else had a dream about lucid dreaming but didn't actually have a Lucid dream?

Why does it happen? It has never happened to me before.

my totem is a hair bobble around my wrist i flick it when i want to do a reality check,

over a month or so worth of data i have only lucid dreamt twice.

Do i need a more specific object to lucid dream is a hair bobble too vague too weak,

also how do i know that i will reality check in dreams?

Thanks

I hardly spend any time on here despite loving lucid dreaming because most of the posts are "I came in my bed lol" or "can I fuck (insert actor/actress of choice) in a dream?"

It is very annoying and counterproductive, and I believe it has a net negative effect on this subreddit and this hobby.

So this morning I woke up but decided to sleep in a little longer. I knew about lucid dreaming but wasn't able to get it consistently. When I went back to bed I felt that I was going into sleep paralysis and thought "oh shit time to do it" and started trying to focus to get a lucid dream. First time it sucked because my dream was all messy and I couldn't control anything and nothing was tangible (can't explain), then I woke up and got another sleep paralysis as I was trying to sleep. This time I tried making a scenario in my head and this repeated like 2 more times that I can remember (each dream lasted like 15 seconds) and eventually I got to this flying over an empty desert scenario that made me go into an actual lucid dream where I could control things. I thought "woah no way it actually worked" but after some time I just woke up to a sleep paralysis again and couldn't go back to sleep.
I want to know how I can stop this process of waking up and getting sleep paralysis and just be able to keep a dream going.

Begginer Post,

In dream manytimes I got idea that it's dream, and idk I'm awake from dream or not Idk how to describe so it's like

I'm not fully into sleep, but dream is also running behind, I think I got to know it's dream but when I try to control or spawn things it didn't work, and dream and sleep and everything freaking feels big mess,

Anyone can you tell me what this situation is?

I've been trying to LD for at least 3 months now, and haven't found my successful LD yet.

I do WILD every night and SSILD if I managed to turn off my alarm consciously, I've even tried using Melatonin pills to kinda boost the chances but still no LD. Sometimes I'll do RC but not that often.

I am kinda desperate to actual get a LD, so please if you have any good way or tips that you would like to share with me, leave it in the comment.

First off, I'd like to say that I'm a bit ignorant to the community at large. I've since read the FAQs and introductory posts on this reddit, and I hadn't really thought much about lucid dreaming other than it being a regular situation for me for almost my entire time dreaming and wanted to share my experiences.

I remember it starting when I was still a really young kid, pre-pre-teen, around 7 or 8 and I had an awful reoccurring dream that I was flying through a barn house that was filled with scary monsters almost like a haunted house. I still get this dream from time to time, but it allowed me after the third or fourth time to realize that it was just a dream and I became a lot less scared. At the beginning, it would wake me up constantly in a panic sweat.

A few more years go by, and I begin to just notice all of my dreams and somewhere in middle school, after talking to some friends, someone told me they could control their dreams by digging in any dirt or gravel they found in their dreams and uncovering a "banana yellow N64 controller." I thought it was hilarious and dumb, but shortly after I became more aware of my lucid dreaming and had enough agency to move around in the dream space, I uncovered the "banana yellow N64 controller" and since that point have been able to control my dreams about 80% of the time, but I'm lucid almost 100% of the time.

I can also forcibly wake myself up if I'm not enjoying the dream and can "reset" by falling asleep afterwards aware that I want a different dream. I can also do the inverse and I frequently go back into dreams once I wake up to see how they pan out. I must admit I don't dream too often anymore and they're mostly mundane, but if I'm enjoying it, I can hop back in. I mostly use that skill to feel like I sleep longer than I actually am, because I usually set an alarm way early for things and hit the snooze button multiple times over 45-60 mins, but each time going back into the same dream and feeling like I get longer than the 5-10 min snooze time.

I have noticed some oddities with how I can force myself out of dreams and definitely have experienced sleep paralysis, which was more terrifying than any dream. I remember one instance in which something felt heavy on my chest, couldn't move anything but my eyes and could see the dream lightly layered over my normal vision of my room. I realized it wasn't a dream when I tried to will myself awake (like I do while dreaming) and nothing changed. I was stuck like that what felt like 10 minutes before I then tried to fall asleep, but I can't exactly remember how I came to after that incident.

I also noticed that when I force myself awake from bad dreams, which is my normal go-to now as it's just simpler and quicker to just "reset" than trying to modify the dream, I sometimes wake up with my arms and hands folded over my chest and my legs crossed with one of my feet pushing down the other, it feels like a "vampire pose" for lack of a better description.

I'm not sure if any of this is unique but I feel down a reddit rabbit hole that brought all these experiences to the forefront of my memory. I also don't do anything consciously to prepare to do this, not sure if that's relevant or not, but I see different techniques and such, and wanted to share my experiences.

I have had a couple LDs but trying to induce them more regularly and deliberately, most of mine have been random.

I had my first ever FA last night and it was scary as shit, but is it generally a good sign that I am experiencing it?

There was a crazy/mentally unstable man that had infiltrated my home and was yelling nonsense, I calmly tried to get him to leave and then he pulled a knife on me. Spooked the bejeezus out of me for a second. It was really vivid and I was actively convinced it was real life, not so much like my other dreams where I'm just kind of in between critical awareness and just cruisin'.

About 3 weeks ago I took a break from doing techinques and writing down dreams due to being busy and staying up late. Before that I think I had only one lucid dream but I'm not sure, I could control stuff in my dreams but it didn't feel very lucid. But today I had the weirdest exerpience I've ever had in dreaming. I was walking outside and saw giant buildings in the sky that looked really impossible to build and I don't live in a city and for some reason I looked at the time and looked back (even though I don't do it atm due to the break) and the time changed but something felt off, I felt like it was too real to be a lucid dream and I had a hard time controlling anything and I was thinking to myself how can this even be a dream, but at the same time every thing was weird and not normal. It was in the night and I was in my room and I'm 100% sure it was a dream since when I woke up I was in a lit up room. The other weird thing was fighting the thought of waking up and this being a dream, it was weird, and I felt special after fighting off that thought. What do you guys think, was this a fake lucid dream Or a real one that I wasn't ready for? I wonder if I should get back to lucid dreaming, I find it funny that I get these results when I take a break, but Imma be honest both of these lucid dreams happened around the morning when I fell asleep again so I was using a technique not even knowing it lol.

Is there any way just to dream lucidly and not be able to control it

I dont know if this is lucid dreaming or if lucid nightmare is a thing but im new to this experence ... Iv had very vivid dreams/ night terrors for years now that feel very real and I always remember them in detail and they even often begin where they left off the night before like some alternate reality I live in... thease dreams are always filled with people from my past who are either gone or we cut ties and they are usually being mean to me ... anyway a couple times now iv been in a dream with thease people and I suddenly realize I'm in a dream and remember my life and I start frantically telling thease people I love them and miss them so much and begging them to come back and I tell them how they passed or haven't spoken to me in years and it's always frantic and then I wake up... and all day I feel like i just saw them but I know it wasn't real ... any idea if this is lucid dreaming nor night terrors or both im trying to figure out how to make it stop

New to the subreddit but I need advice. Recently for the last few months my dreams have been following the same constant pattern and structure. It always goes like this, I kill someone or I beat them up and then run away but no matter how far I run the police will always be seconds away from finding me. Like in one dream I killed my husband (I don’t have a husband irl) and I ran real far, changed my name, my identity, everything about me but the police still showed up at my door and I had to continue running. Every dream I have is just the same frustrating cycle of me desperately trying to escape the results of my actions. I’ve been having dreams with this exact sequence of events for months now, and these dreams are always lucid. I don’t think I’ve had a non-lucid dream for ages now. Any ideas what my dreams mean or why I’m having this same dream pattern?

Ok, so i've been trying lucid dreaming with SSILD, b3cause in 3+ years i've never had success, so tonight i was feeding my donkeys, but i saw it was night but i just tought it was early in the morning so i kept going, then one of their containers for the food was full of water which is impossible because its full of holes, then when i tried to empty it it disappeared, so i shut my nose and could still breath and i said "Woah this is a dream" but the moment i became lucid i woke up for a leg pain😭😭 (sorry for the bad english)

So I have been trying to lucid dream for like 4 years, I think. I tried, I gave up, tried again and gave up again .And in those times I had like 3 lucid dreams.But from Oct 10 till now, I had like 5 Lucid/semi-lucid dreams . I figured out that waking at 3/4 am and goes to sleep work for me but I had to wake up naturally in order to have lucid dream as alarm waking up didn't work. And all of my this experience is as soon as I realize I am dreaming, I wake up. Now my question is how many lucid dreams it take to have a stable lucid dream ? I asked this question on chat GPT too but i want to know about peopes experience too because I want to stay motivated and try not to give up again.

And the first two posts are about sex. I personally believe that the infinite possibilities of lucid dreaming, is just cornered over a simple personal matter. I think there should be another subreddit about this sub-topic, like the subreddit sexondrugs. P.S. Just a rant.