I recently experienced sleep paralysis, and while it was definitely unsettling, it got me wondering—can you use sleep paralysis as a gateway to enter a lucid dream? I've heard some people say it's possible, but I'm not entirely sure how it works.

If anyone has successfully done this, I’d love to hear your experiences! Also, do you have any recommendations or techniques to make the transition smoother (or less scary)? Or is it better to just ride it out and wait for it to end?

Those of you who have mastered lucid dreaming or at least got the hang of it, how often can you guys lucid dream?

So, I was wondering if anyone willing to share like a week's worth of dream journal entries? Basically, I was thinking about how Stephen LaBerge days you should try to have one dream a night as a prerequisite to lucid dreaming... well I write down something recalled everyday but it is usually little fragments and a flash of an image.. I was wondering or wanting to try and gage my progress. Maybe it's a bad idea but I've been Journaling for 5 months now and I started out with 1-point dreams, for me that is I can write something down but there is no context... for example, one of my dream journal entries was "rumeshpringa??" No context, no visuals... now I usually get 2- point dreams. 2 point dreams for me is any dream that has visual and maybe a little more context... for example, I wrote "You're trying to use an old book for a new book" and I had a visual of a white book with a peeling cover it looked old and damaged... And I often struggle to get these - laying there delving...

And on occasion I have 3 point dreams... which is plot, visuals, context...

So sometimes I suspect that I have a block of some kind... I was just hoping I could see what some elses dream journal looks like so I could compare.

I want you to help me on my lucid dream practice. I am a good lucid dream practitioner I have developed the ability to know the dream but not dreaming it. My problem is I am not able to see the illusion that's created by the dream environment. I want to be fully aware that the dream is not part of me but it's an illusion created by the dream/dreaming mind. This make me feel that the dream is part of me which is not. What I want to say is my scenario is when I am dreaming at that instant time I will perform reality check and the method that I use is wake back to bed. When I woke up and go back to bed it will be easier for me to distinguish the dream I will be in the dream I know the dream. From there I will be stuck, I will perform many reality checks but still in the dream not in lucid dream. I know that I am In a dream that's why i perform reality checks. But not dreaming i am stucked in this sutuation. What should I do? You know why you perform reality check but nothing happens only the dream. Not lucid. Help me please

I want you to help me on my lucid dream practice. I am a good lucid dream practitioner I have developed the ability to know the dream but not dreaming it. My problem is I am not able to see the illusion that's created by the dream environment. I want to be fully aware that the dream is not part of me but it's an illusion created by the dream/dreaming mind. This make me feel that the dream is part of me which is not. What I want to say is my scenario is when I am dreaming at that instant time I will perform reality check and the method that I use is wake back to bed. When I woke up and go back to bed it will be easier for me to distinguish the dream I will be in the dream I know the dream. From there I will be stuck, I will perform many reality checks but still in the dream not in lucid dream. I know that I am In a dream that's why i perform reality checks. But not dreaming i am stucked in this sutuation. What should I do? You know why you perform reality check but nothing happens only the dream. Not lucid. Help me please

I haven't had a lucid dream in years (or at least one that I can remember) and last night, I had one without intention after struggling to get comfortable and sleep for hours.

Once I was finally able to get myself comfortable, a few minutes later I still felt very conscious of my surroundings through ear and visually. Now, this isn't exactly something that's new to me. Whenever I sleep on my left side and face any side of the room that's not up against a wall, occasionally, I am still able to see my room in entirety and look around it despite having my eyes close. I have never been able to interpret this when it happens and I just always said to myself "Well, this is pretty neat, isn't it?" and assumed that I was lucid dreaming and would try to move around and teleport to places outside of my room but never could. This happened super regularly for me a few years ago. But, only from what I can remember, this is the first time I reached an actual state of lucidity from this. I was just laying in bed and observing my room as I went in and out of a scenario dream I tried to come up with in my head and then all of a sudden, I fell from the edge of the earth and began to free fall in outer space. It was so beautiful. I knew that this was different from what I normally experience immediately as I felt every single second of it. I don't even remember doing anything special for this to happen. My heart started to beat as my body began to warm up and it felt like I jumped out of plane with no parachute. In the first initial seconds, I nearly started to panic but I remember from all the post I read in this sub from when I tried to lucid dream intentionally, to not panic.

As I continued to freefall and my body started to relax itself, I started to take a closer look as to what was happening. The best way that I can describe the visuals of this would be if you were trapped directly inside the northern lights. I noticed other people too, but they seemed like they were dead as they weren't moving and simply floating at a regular speed while I was continuing my dropped at a million miles per hour. The best part about this was that I've been under some stress and depression in my life lately with a lot of tension around my head and constant headaches but upon realizing my state, all of that cleared up and my head and brain felt amazing and completely rejuvenated. At this point, I noticed something at the bottom that seemed like it would be end and so I tried to think of a place that I wanted to go. I was able to visually see these places but I couldn't for the life of me actually get there. I tried to move around, but I couldn't for the life of me actually do so. I wasn't even able to move my head. I thought about opening my actual eyes thinking that that would be the way to unlock movement but ultimately didn't out of fearing of waking up in reality and not the dream. Then all of a sudden I found myself in a desert which looked like and may have been Mars. I observed a blue sky and wind but overall it was pretty empty and quiet. Like before, I was unable to move, go where I want, or anything like that. I don't remember much of what happened after that, I believe it ended not too long afterwards but it was one of the coolest things that I ever experienced but sadly I was unprepared for it. Which leaves me wondering:

1. What exactly is it called when I'm conscious despite my eyes being closed and being able to still see?

2. For future reference for when it happens again, what do I do to enter a lucid dream?

3. Was the freefalling more of an entry of the lucid dream rather than the lucid dream itself? Was it waiting for me to control it?

4. How do I move in and control these dreams? Do I think about moving? Do I try to physical move in bed? Do I visualize that? What was I doing wrong?

It’s so disappointing I’m trying. Ihave reminder reality checks every hour on my phone , dream journal everyday before bed when I wake up .still can’t remember anything. Doing wbtb but not working

Hi, I recently decided to try mugwort tea, but most of the tea sold where I'm from are white mugwort tea. I bought one, but didn't realise it was white mugwort tea at the time, and since I already bought it I decided to give it a taste. It tasted nice (a bit sweet even) and not bitter at all. Anyways, I was wondering if white mugwort tea can be used as an aid to lucid dreaming like mugwort tea, or does it have to be specifically Artemisia vulgaris?

I had completely ran out of weed for like 3 days, so I used the wbtb method and ended up smoking in a lucid dream 💀😭 I js thought this was funny and wanted to share it

Just joined and read the guide… someone dumb it down for me I don’t know any of these things

I think I messed up with WILD and my brain, when I'm on the bed and close my eyes I can make my self feel like shaking, earthquake or like I'm on swing, like i can feel going up and down and every direction even sometimes if i try i can see my room shaking and the walls with my eyes open or i can move object but its only happening inside my head and i can see it, and it's only when I try to do it, so is this only me or it's part of the WILD you experienced too?

I’ve been borderline obsessed with the WILD technique. Even though it’s notoriously difficult (or impossible, I don't know) without WBTB, I’ve made it a nightly ritual. The hypnagogia alone is worth it, it's like a soothing gateway to sleep.

A couple weeks ago, I was having a regular dream where I had a false awakening and was heading to the kitchen for water. Everything seemed normal, until I tried flipping the light switch. My arm felt really sluggish and heavy, I kept missing it, and then my arm started teleporting back and forth. Then, everything went black. That’s when I noticed hypnagogia forming in the void, likely because my fixation on WILD made it the natural next step for my mind to take. Naturally, I decided to run with it. I focused on thinking of a scenery, and for some reason my first thought was “Rubik's cube.“ I remember immediately thinking “wait no,“ as it materialized in front of me. Anyways, then I thought of a beach, and this was the most insane experience I've had in a dream. It started generating below me, and I started falling toward it, as if I was skydiving. It felt really thrilling, as if I was genuinely falling for like 10 seconds. When I hit the ground, I stabilized and had a full-blown lucid dream. This episode primed me for what I now call IILD:

Today, I had 4-5 lucid dreams, all nested within a normal dream. I’d “wake up” in the dream and think, “Let’s try WILD.” And it worked, every time. I felt the full sequence: body vibrations, sleep paralysis rolling over me, and then I’d launch into another lucid dream. When I “woke up” from that lucid dream, I was back in the normal dream, ready to try again. It felt like eternities, it was so fun.

I'm calling this IILD (Inception Induced Lucid Dreaming)... unless this is already a thing? I'd love to hear what you think or if you have had similar experiences.

Im just starting to learn more about how to lucid dream. At first I was trying to get lucid without any dream recall skills or things like that. I've practiced my dream recall and now my dreams are more vivid and I remember them better. It left me with one question, what should I do next?

Hey all, new to this subreddit but I’m extremely curious if anyone else has experienced this, I got really bad insomnia after a bad hospital visit, we finally found something that works called mirtazapine, but for the last 3 nights in a row I’ve had really vivid scary lucid dreams. I’ve never been a big dreamer, maybe once every few months and I usually don’t remember it in the morning, but ever since starting this medication I’ve had extremely scary lucid dreams and woken up in a panic. Has this happened to anyone else?

Hey all, new to this subreddit but I’m extremely curious if anyone else has experienced this, I got really bad insomnia after a bad hospital visit, we finally found something that works called mirtazapine, but for the last 3 nights in a row I’ve had really vivid scary lucid dreams. I’ve never been a big dreamer, maybe once every few months and I usually don’t remember it in the morning, but ever since starting this medication I’ve had extremely scary lucid dreams and woken up in a panic. Has this happened to anyone else?

Hey all, new to this subreddit but I’m extremely curious if anyone else has experienced this, I got really bad insomnia after a bad hospital visit, we finally found something that works called mirtazapine, but for the last 3 nights in a row I’ve had really vivid scary lucid dreams. I’ve never been a big dreamer, maybe once every few months and I usually don’t remember it in the morning, but ever since starting this medication I’ve had extremely scary lucid dreams and woken up in a panic. Has this happened to anyone else?

For the longest time I just couldn't! even if it saved my life, I tried to wish something into being so many times and it would NEVER happen. But finally, today, I made it. Guys, you should have seen those TITS. 😂

I've been trying to catch my REM period for a couple days now but haven't had the best of luck. I find that my dreams are usually when I wake up around 8-9 am and one time I woke up at 5 am in the middle of a dream. I tried catching it at 4:30 last night but I don't think i was in my REM. Today I woke up at 9 in the middle of a dream. Could someone help decipher when my REM period usually is?

Hey everyone.

I went back to Lucid dreams 3 weeks ago I would say. (I first discovered Lucid Dreams 2 years ago but never managed to actually lucid dream. Got some kind of semi lucid dreams but only once or twice. Everytime I realize im in a dream I wake up instantly)

I have been trying to MILD for these 3 weeks but nothing. I managed once to realize it was a dream but woke up instantly and I think it was more due to ADA. (Because of the way I found out I was Lucid)

== I'm sure i'm doing it correctly because I have read the book (Stephen Laberge) and i'm wondering if I should try (like SSILD) something else or just keep trying (btw i'm also training my prospective memory with multiple targets every day)

Thanks for reading guys.

heyy so i’ve literally just started lucid dreaming and already being able to lucid dream with reality checks etc etc. I was just wondering though, how can i change my dream? /storyline. Usually im not lucid dreaming straight away when i fall asleep so ill be half way through a random dream before realising with a reality check. so for example i got myself in the start of a nightmare last night before then doing a reality check, i tried closing my eyes and picturing a different place with people to try and change the dream, but it didn’t quite work and i opened my eyes to just be in the same place, just the thing is i have no idea how to change my dream/storyline

A couple weeks ago I had a lucid dream where I was scanned by a UFO while parked in my car. It was cinematic as hell but that's beside the point. After I was scanned I looked down at my arms only to find that I had no body and that I was looking at the car seat. I can clearly remember my thinking in that moment: I said, "I must be dreaming because I cannot see my arms". This is where I need advice because even though I knew I was dreaming I continued with the "story" of my dream. It felt like deja vu because I knew what was happening but couldn't change the course of my dream or have any free will. It did feel like I had free will but I still continued with the dream, if that makes sense. How do I start controlling myself after I realize I am dreaming? Is there a trick to it? Thanks in advance.

After over a month of practice I've finally (albeit infrequently) started to lucid dream! It lasts for about a minute or so before I wake up but there's one problem... I don't know how to extend the dream without licking the floor.

During one of my attempts to make the dream longer (I tried spinning, closing my eyes, focusing on objects, etc... Nothing worked) I remembered a post I saw about licking things to stay in a dream...

Unfortunately, it worked.

Now, I can only extend my lucid dreams if I'm licking the floor.

Help.

Is there another (hopefully) cooler strategy I can try or am I doomed to floor-licking?

I'm very happy to finally lucid dream but I don't know how much more of this strategy I can take - not only is it super inefficient but it's hard to do anything fun while I'm on the floor and it tastes terrible.

Can anyone give me some tips and tricks to remember it

I've been looking at some WILD tutorials and comments. Some of them say that you are supposed to lay completely still and not even swallow your saliva, and others say that you move around some like how you usually go to sleep. Which one is correct?

So I’m curious what people have been using lucid dreaming for besides the “fun” of it. How you used it overcome a phobia? To get closure by having a conversation with someone who you couldn’t speak to in real life? Something else?

I have some ideas on what I would like to do with lucid dreaming once I learn how to do it but I’m curious what others have been doing with it.

Hi I'm 21 and I want to lucid dream. Fantasies have been my favorite think with books and series. But I've had bad experiences in dreams. I've had dreams where I 'wake up' in my dream and traumatic things happen. Than I 'wake up' again and it's horrible. This can happen over 20 times a night. I'm scared that that's lucid dreaming for me. Since I'm aware that I'm dreaming, but I can't wake up or change anything. I want more control and relief in my dreams. Any thoughts and tips?

Last night I was in a fortnite map and people were shooting 500lb humans at me and I had to grab them midair spin in a circle, and fling them back towards the cannons they were being shot from. If I can't realize during a dream like that will I ever?

I have heard that you are not suposed to ask someone of the date etc when you are in a lucid dream. For a while ago I asked someone in my dream what the date was (or something simular). And the girl I asked answer was ”You shouldnt have asked that) and after she answer it all went black and I could feel how I slowly was falling down backwards (I was standing atm). And then I woke up.

I’ve been lucid dreaming for almost a week and a half and they’re all either closely centred around my recent ex of 4 years or she plays a pivotal role in them. I swear there’s so much else to take up space in my mind but somehow I always end up dreaming about her or she’s just a big part of the dream.