That night I was trying to lucid, and I said “I’m dreaming” or something (this was a longgg time ago) and I went to my bathroom and turned the light on, I realized I was lucid, and I ran to my room, and jumped and flew onto rocks, like I was lucid dreaming, but I think it’s just what I wanted to do if I was haha sorry if that makes no sense 😂

It was dark though, idk if that’s normal and I just expected it to look super clear/bright but it was almost like a shadow..

But I was like “oh I think this is my dream.” And thought about raising my hand and I did. I felt myself controlling it to flip over and I looked back up realizing I could do something now and I just tried to have a specific person walk in the room.

They did but they were also like a shadow figure, they room was kind of a dimly lit room

TL;DR : Is it normal to see your hand like a shadow almost? Or do you think it was just the room setting? Should I try something different?

Also, when they walked in they started to kind of walk fast towards me/scarily a little so I controlled it to not be scary which I think I did but then I woke up. Any tips on making it not scary?

I was like idk in between dreams in reality n i was trippin out but i had managed to lucid dream for like a good 15 seconds before fucking up

My whole life I’ve been able to control my dreams. They are very vivid and I can ALWAYS “fly” in them. Well, sometimes I run really fast and just kinda lift off the ground. Sometimes I can just jump and leap while I’m running and make huge bounds. I either dream like this or not at all. Also, if I wake up I can go back to sleep and turn the dream back on like a movie. I always thought this was normal but everyone I’ve talked to about it disagrees. On the rare occasion that I can’t control the dream, it always gives me this horrifying, sickening feeling of hurdling through forever. Usually spinning like a dude on a foosball table but always looking forward. Sometimes being endlessly chased. It’s been this way for as long as I can remember. Does anyone have any thoughts about this?

I think I found a surefire way to get a lucid dream. I found out, that most, if not, all of the dreams I become lucid in were nightmares.

In those nightmares, my fight or flight instinct was triggered, adrenaline was pumping, and my awareness was multiplied to Super Saiyan levels, allowing me to realize it's a dream.

So, I'm thinking, could I induce a nightmare on purpose so that it can turn into a lucid dream?

If so, how?

Sometimes I know during a dream that I’m asleep but I don’t recognise I’m dreaming? Is this a lucid dream or a pre-lucid dream?

Took a break now I just want to learn how to do it in the easiest and shortest amount of time possible. So would just doing reality checks, and dream journalling, be the best course of action?

I have a terrible time making my dream recall flow. It's always so stilted and rough. For instance, "I am inside a building and see a woman... I run away from two male DCs who began chasing me... I spawned a female DC and we went into the next room...

I am tired of beginning every sentence with the syllable "I." Any tips for making my recall more interesting?

How many of you use nicotine patches to help induce lucid dreams? I am curious which brand and mg you use.

Is it possible to pay attention only to hypnagogia as an anchor?

How do you actually get to have any real fun in such a short span of time?

Edit: I guess I was misinformed. thanks for clarifying for me guys!

I had a normal dream until I realised that I‘m dreaming, I stayed calm and screamed „hundert percent clarity“ and it worked, didn’t do a reality check though. Then I saw a random car, opened the door and immediately noticed it being automatic (I‘m used to manual) so I get into it and I press try pressing the clutch and then it was manual. The key also spawned in my hand when I wanted to start it. Then while I was driving I tried to change location by closing eyes and imagining, but it didn‘t work, then the dream ended and I woke up in the morning. How can I extend the dream and make it more often ?

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I'm trying to have recurring lucidity obviously and trying to find what best works for me but Ive been practicing pretty religiously for about 2 months now (I do smoke weed, ik that hinders me, I'm working on it lol).

But there's 1 lucid dream I went lucid from a reality check, I just remembered to pinch my nose and question things. But the other 3 lucid dreams I had, I literally am just spawned there in that dream with a great sense of security, the dream doesn't crumble around me and I can walk anywhere (the part I'm having difficulty on is staying lucid and staying in control, I'll slip back into a dream state sometimes, I feel weak minded and a too tired to keep control i think). But it's so weird. There is nothing , not one thing to tell this is a dream, I just start off the dream lucid. I do have many other dreams that I'm not lucid in, there's no difference for the reasoning as to what makes me recognize the dream to be lucid. It's like most of the times I have regular dreams and 4 of them just so happened to be lucid.

Am I having lucid dreams as a result in meditation. I'm trying all day awareness but Im really not sure if I'm doing it right? I do do this reality check that's kinda just for me I guess. When I do an action in reality or I'm on my way somewhere, I'll remember what I did for the day and how it got me to this situation in the day and what I am going to be doing(I feel like that keeps me in the present and aware. Idk what the reason I had a lucid dream was , if someone has experienced something similar..?

I sometimes know if I'm dreaming but I can't control them and I'm always obsessed thinking about what if I'll suddenly wake up because I woke up after a few seconds when I used to control my lucid dream (i can't control anymore it's been months now) So with that I just continue my dream because I don't wanna wake up, then I forgot that it's a dream again.

How to control my dreams again and stop obsessing about waking up?

I got totally stunned, so stunned that I didn’t know what to do. I could have flown or something and instead I just sat dumbfounded until I woke up

When i become lucid in a certain citations (like mine where i had a lot of spiders going in web (tiny one)). i can't control the situation. But im lucid but i can't control the events. So how do i get get like more control or get rid of the situation so i can explore the world.

I started lucid dreaming 5 or 6 years ago and if i am not so tired %80 of the time i realise i'm in a lucid dream and control it.
But i feel like my dreams have become vauge. Whenever i try to do something completely unrelated to the dream i wake up even though i dont want to (like everything i see start to fade away to whiteness). Whenever i take full control of the dream i somehow wake up. I think i wake a part of my brain that is responsible for logic thanks to that level of consciousness i cant maintain my dream. What can i do to maintain this level of consciousness for longer periods in the lucid dream?

I was dreaming non lucid, I was driving fast on the freeway at least 60 mph and then I saw car also going fast coming straight at me. The second before impact I remember thinking "this really sucks" in a pissed off kind away. I didn't even try to swerve out of the way, and everything went black, I don't remember the impact just straight to black. Once in the black void I was just consciousness no body, I immediately realized that I was dead and 100% accepted it and was super calm about it. At this point I did not know I was dreaming and I 100% believe the fact that I was really dead. After a second or two of calmly accepting that I was dead, I thought "I'm dead but I'm still conscious, sweet" and I remember feeling absolutely giddy at the sweet part, at the fact that I was still conscious. Right after that I woke up, realizing it was just a dream, I just laid back and thought "well that just happened". I was only in the black void after dying for maybe 10 seconds before waking up, but that experience was so real and profound.

So I went from pissed off before dying, completely calm after dying and complet acceptance of the fact, to giddy at still being conscious all within 10 seconds or so.

Last night I attempted the wild technique. I woke up at 4 am and layed completely still. Only problem was, I could never get sleep paralysis for some reason. So I layed still and waited. And waited. I eventually gave up when I saw the sun come up outside my window. Why didn’t I get sleep paralysis???

I just came up with these idea ive never seen it anywhere and im interested what would happen if someone asked this

im very new to this, i did technically manage to have a couple half-lucid dreams in the past but now im all out of practice. if you would, as a refresher, can you give me the best habits to practice to strengthen that muscle again? and please do go into detail as much as you can. i am aware of the impact of keeping a dream journal and also reality checks, can you give me more details and/or tips that you have found helpful over the years(if any). and also any other additional info aside from the journal or reality checks, that you have discovered as well? thank you!

This happened just last night and I’ve never quite had an experience like this before, so I thought I might share.

During the relevant part of my dream, things were pretty normal as far as dreams go. I was at a friend’s house from my childhood and we were just hanging out like we used to, along with some of my other childhood neighborhood friends. All of a sudden, I realize one of my front teeth is loose. At first, I was about to panic about losing my teeth (these type of dreams usually get to me), but then I remembered that this happens a lot in dreams. To add onto that notion, I pull out a molar (again, from from the front of my mouth) and instantly realize this is a dream.

At this point, I’m kinda interested in controlling the dream since I’ve never really done that before (at least not consciously). However, I was a bit hesitant since this dream was pretty nice as is, especially with me reliving some childhood moments and such. Despite this, I decide to commit and then start folding everything into a singularity, to start the dream from scratch and make something new.

As I’m folding all of the dream’s current setting together, it gets much darker and my friends disappear. Mid way through the process, the singularity forms into a warped mass with two red orb things. I start to get the feeling something has possibly gone wrong, and then I immediately hear knocking from behind me. At this point, I thought this was my mom in the real world knocking for help (she’s a little sick at the moment) so I half wake up.

In this state, which I believe was a sleep paralysis nightmare (I’m not sure about the terminology, sorry), I hear muffled talking behind my bed (where my mom’s room is) and I start to hallucinate shadows around me. It feels a bit intense, and I also realize I can’t move. What’s a bit odd is that I’m still aware this is sort of a dream, or at least that these are hallucinations from sleep paralysis. I should also note, The shadowy figures seemed to have been unable to form into anything cohesive, seemingly trying to turn into hands but dissipating quickly after. I also started seeing cut outs of small paper children floating above me (which I just thought was a little corny). I eventually force myself to move which ends the experience.

Only other context I should note is that during my nightmares (or that feeling I get before one can happen), I tend to overly push them to occur to see what happens. This wasn’t the case in this scenario, which kinda caught me off guard.

I can't drive and never did but in a lucid dream will I be able to street race In a lamborghini

Hello. I've been trying WILD for the past week. I've been able to reach the hypnagogia stage where I start seeing things . My bodsy buzzes etc. But I always fail after that and it all disappears. I tried to not focus on the hallucinations. It didn't work. I tried to turn them into a dream. It didn't work. I tried ignoring the. Didn't work

What should I do?

So I recently have gotten into lucid dreaming. I know tons of methods but so far the only one I’ve practiced is MILD with WBTB. After failing 3 nights in a row I decided to start a dream journal, mostly cause i can’t remember dreams very well, and to constantly do reality checks throughout the day. Last night, i had a dream that was pretty long and vivid. I remembered it all. I wrote it down in the journal and i’m starting to have dreams around once every couple days. I think I am very close to getting my first LD and I want to know what others think.

I’d already had a few LDs, but those were extremely short and quite unstable with me waking up a minute or two after achieving lucidity. Today was different.

Certainly an interesting start, I noticed a dream sign, the same one that prompted the previous LDs, but very soon after I had a false awakening where I quickly got back to sleep determined to transition back into the lucid dream, which actually worked.

So then I was in my room, in a lucid dream. This is the part where I want some advice, because while the dream was a lot more stable than my first successes, there was still a lot of chaos. Things changing when I wasn’t looking at them. I don’t remember the details but I thought hard about a subject and then my house was filled with weird AI-esque picture frames and weirdness, based on that subject.

I didn’t try to fix any of the dream weirdness, a lot of my focus was put on simply remaining lucid and on not waking up, so I ignored everything weird happening.

I tried to use my computer, which was at its correct spot, but instead of one big and one small monitor, I had 2 or 3 equally sized big monitors. I don’t remember the details, my dream recall isn’t that good yet, but I remember that what I was trying to type did not always match what was being typed in my pc.

I looked out the window and it was normal, but when I later looked out again, a train was there, just sitting on top of another building, for no reason.

Then a strong wind started hitting my window, and my window started getting out of position. When I got up to put it back, it refused to stay locked closed, it just wouldn’t work, eventually starting to come off the frame. I then shoved it harder to close it and that woke me up. (I had a fan blowing cold wind at me and I think that’s what caused that)

Overall a pretty interesting experience, much longer than my previous ones. Any ideas one how to deal with these instabilities and anomalies?

So this thing called ( Closed eye hallucinations) It started in one night when I was chilld and when I grow up it also get stronger I can see lights colors different shapes, so I just found out its some type of hallucinations but last night on the bed I tried to create something from those things and I started seeing faces of people that i didnt knew, and i tried to change and it changed into some weird big shape and i started to create a mini dream and it drove me to sleep it's tricky i was awake trying to create something and when I start to see the process i lost it there, and i think this can take me to lucid dream, anyone experienced this?

Sometimes when I’m asleep I realise that I’m sleeping (therefore I am able to turn it into a complete lucid dream). As someone who always used to get stuck in dreams I regret not utilising lucid dreams.

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