I've had numerous lucid dreams either entirely about flying, or where I chose to fly to change scenery of my dreamscape within that particular dream. I'm wondering if you have ever tried to fly in your dreams, or discovered that was what you were effortlessly (or not) doing during a LD dream sequence?

A few years ago i had this dream, i was whit a friend somewhere i don't know, we find this tree and we stop near it because we are tired and the sun is like hella strong at 40 grades, so then out of nowhere this slim tree start to pull itself out, the roots it had were getting turned into legs, and he had some sort of mask when he kind of stopped transforming out.

He just pulled it out and he had the head of a wendigo or some sort of wolf mixed whit an horse, a skull that was terrifying to look at, especially considering how small the mask was compared to the real creature face i was looking at.

I straight up tell him to run, after that i don't remember how but we are somehow in a building, seems calm, there is a large crowd and a lot of people that ik, then i start to hear some sounds from outside, and then screams, i see that bastard rushing and doing a genocide on the floors he was running into, i manage to run off while he is busy in the crowd, but i do notice that when he is almost on top of the building he notices something is not right and start looking for me again ( so i was his target).

I basically get out of there, and then run out, at that time i was training a lot and also experimenting whit meditation, i also had a lot of dreams that turned out to show some things that would actually happen in the future, so i did have a bit of talent whit this type of stuff or try to figure it out, thing is, i notice that something doesn't feel realistic, how i was in that building in the first place.

Then i also remembered the road in which i was escaping from that creature, was an actual road that exist and that i still remember to this day, and that building do not exist in real life, since i knew so we'll that road and the entire city of where that place was located, i was just shocked because I didn't know what to do.

Stuck in a dream, you can feel pain and more, and you have this slim giant hunting you down. I then came up whit a solution that actually worked out, i tried to meditate in that moment, like i used to always do, i always felt like it never worked for me at all, but it did, i took that fresh breath of air, started calming down and closed my eyes, right as i opened them i was safe, it was quiet and i felt like i managed to save my ass for once

The thing that i can't figure out is, why did i dream of that creature? I NEVER and i say never i could come up whit that, it was very terrible just to look at, i screamed whit fear at that friend of mine when i realized it wasn't just a simple olive tree but something that i can't even recognize, my goddamn father said that it was because of "videogames" and as one that is also a lot involved whit videogames since i was literally 4, no i never saw anything like that, not in a book, not in a picture, it's something that i only saw from my mind and soul

But im gonna be honest, i learned at least that i should believe in myself, because i kind of clutched it up in the matter of seconds whit that decision i took, hope you guys don't make nightmares or dream of these creatures, i don't feel scared at all, i study them if it happens that i see these things

I had my first LD and I’m obsessed with a part of it it was stairs that reached up endlessly they were super steep with a bright white light at the top so if anyone has anything similar that saw the top plz lmk

As a child, I had chronic nightmares. Bad enough to sometimes wake me up either screaming or shaking. The gift of lucid dreams was given to me by my "Deda." My dads dad. I told him about my nightmares and he said the thing that would change my dreamscape for the rest of my life.

"That's strange, you should be able to control your dreams by now." It changed my whole perspective.

I am 42 years old and ever since being a young child I have always known that I was dreaming. This gift also came with extras... Premonitions and precognitions. Always warnings, sometimes about good things but still warnings. A dream or vision of the future was ALWAYS a warning. Even seeing the premonition of my son's face as a baby was a warning because when he was 3 months old my late ex-wife and I broke up horribly. Her with bad mental health and I with bad mental health and anger issues. We broke up, she moved out of state taking my son with her. She got remarried and passed away in a house fire. All within one year.

I remember saying "I knew we would have a child and break up within 7 years... I just didn't know how bad the ending would be."

That being said? Some of the most beautiful adventures and images have come from my dreams. I wont forget them ever. Every time I wake up from a lucid dream I say "thank you."

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I am adding a bit more.

After Deda explained with a one-liner how to lucid dream... Somehow Ive always been aware of dreaming, its like breathing. You worry about how you breathe in and out only when you stop and think about it.

When my head hits the pillow, I know my dreams and/or flashes of dreams—until my head comes off the pillow. My daydreams or stranger dreams don't happen as often as they used to, as I got older.

When I was younger I would get constant dreams that explained the future in fragments and it would give me moments of understanding enough to survive... if not escape trauma. like

(oh... I'm going to get hurt because I made a drug addict paranoid about losing his only slightly high recent girlfriend... it would be nice to not have that 40oz beer bottle smashed against my dome..) A single image of me surviving a beer bottle smashed against my head was hardly enough.

A flash of (No really, don't do drugs.) would have been awesome instead.

Where the fruge IS this kind of paranormal lucid dreaming/flash image stuff supposed to be shared for grogs sake? I thought I was golden so I hardly checked until now. 10 months without reddit explaining my story was shot the heck down? I might as well write a frugin book that no one will read.

Some background information. I've been a lucid dreamer for well over a decade. I also have sleep paralysis and night terrors. I can more or less control the onset and offset of all of these and primarily partake in the lucid dreaming for the past 3 years.

While dreaming, I have a dream "base" i can retreat to in between states and dreams. I typically have full dominion over this base and retreat here if I lose control of a dream and it becomes a nightmare. In the past I would mess around with my sleep paralysis and night terrors because enjoyed the adrenaline rush and used this base a lot.

I would always get visited by entities which was either neutral or negative when experiencing sleep paralysis or a night terror. The negative entities are pretty typical in invading my senses (e.g., hear, see, and feel stuff in the waking world that's not there). The neutral entities would block my access in the dream realms and would prevent any attempts I made to leave my dreamscapes anf then they'd send me quite forcefully into my dreambase. About 2 weeks ago I'll lucid dreaming, I met a brand new entity who was not happy with my lucid dream (imagine you're a ghost who was running through as many rooms as quick as you can) where i was attempting to breach my own dreamscapes to "leave". I was told I'd never do that again and I cannot trigger a lucid dream, night terror, or sleep paralysis since then and I have tried EVERYTHING.

Has anyone else met a sleep entity like this before?

hello guys sorry for the spelling mistakes because I don't speak English. Last year, I had a lucid dream that I was in my room, and then a dream character opened the door of my room and said hello cheerfully. And it was my first time and I was shocked and suddenly I screamed loudly maybe a panic and green air came out of my mouth and I woke up. Later, I had a very, very clear dream that I yawned on my bed for a moment and that character was sitting next to my bed and she asked the other character sitting next to her: "Do you think he is asleep?" He meant me and then I woke up. It was not sleep paralysis because you can't yawn. And it's been a year and a half that I really want to do a lucid dream and I can do it, but I'm really afraid of the dark and dream characters. I saw a lot of horror movies when I was a kid. What should I do to face the dream characters? I know that no real harm will come to me. But I can't do it because of the fear of dark and dream character. I know the best advise is facing to the fear. But there are many people who watch scary movies but are not afraid at all. Even I wanted to join Kyokushin martial art. I want to read your advice. Thinx guys

Anyone know any good active lucid dreaming communities all the ones I seem to find are not really active

Hello everyone,

New research study (potentially 1st of its kind) investigating NDEs from the perspective of a Lucid Dreamer. I'm a student researcher with Alef Trust, supervised by Pascal Michael (PHD, NDE researcher)

We are specifically looking for participants to interview that had a lucid dreaming practice prior to their NDE. All practices are welcome.

The project looks to study how Lucid Dreaming may impact NDEs, inspired by Tibetan Dream Yoga practices in preparation for The Bardos.

If you or anyone you know fits this niche category and wish to take part, please send an email to the below to find out more and take part:

Pascal Michael - pascal.michael@aleftrust.org
Daniel Moore - daniel16moore@gmail.com

Hi, I'm new to this sub and never really cared about lucid dreams bcz I have been having them since my childhood, but this morning felt different so here it goes: My alarm went off in the morning, and I turned it off, thinking, just five more minutes. I closed my eyes, still half-awake, knowing I had a lot of work to do. When I finally woke up and looked around, my room felt the same but somehow looked different. The dimensions were off, but I knew it was still my room. I glanced at my clothes and realized I wasn't wearing what I had slept in; instead, I was dressed in traditional attire. It hit me—I was dreaming and had "woken up" in the dream.

Curious to see what was going on, I decided to explore. I stepped out of my room and found myself in a huge, traditional house. An elderly man greeted me with a "Good morning." Though I'd never seen him before, I instinctively knew he was my father-in-law. I greeted him back and continued exploring. In the kitchen, I found a woman cooking, and I knew she was my mother-in-law. She looked at me, smiled, and said, "Welcome, my child. Help me with this."

Confused, I picked up some vegetables and started preparing a traditional meal. Oddly, despite not knowing how to cook in real life, I handled it as if I'd done it a thousand times before. Realizing once again that I was dreaming, I left the kitchen without a word and walked out of the house, stepping onto a street. I turned back to see the large house l'd just exited and realized I was standing in an unfamiliar village.

I saw some children playing nearby and asked them where I was. They replied with a name I couldn't pronounce, so l asked an elderly man passing by. He looked at me with a strange, worried expression and said, "This is Kaushalya village, child, and you don't belong here." I felt a wave of panic and began to retreat, all the while repeating the village's name, promising myself I'd look it up when I woke up. I took one last look at the house and went back inside. A little girl ran toward me, saying, "The food is ready; come eat!" I asked her my name, and she laughed, thinking I was joking. When I asked how she knew me, she grew irritated and called out to my mother-in-law before running off. My mother-in-law came over and asked why l'd left the house without asking my husband for permission. I told her I hadn't known I needed to. She looked at me intently and said, "I don't know what's wrong with you today, but you don't seem like yourself. Go lie down in your bed and don't come out until you're back to normal."

A little scared, I went to lie down, trying to sleep, and the next thing I knew, I was awake in my own room. Since then, I've been feeling uneasy.. Immediately, I picked up my phone and searched for the village, and-voila-that village actually exists in India. My panic spiked, and I quickly opened Google Earth to see if I could find the house. I couldn't locate the exact house, but I did find the same street where I had seen that old man in my dream.

It really exists, and I've never been there in my entire life. I'm filled with mixed emotions about this. It's fascinating, but also a little terrifying. How could I have seen and felt emotions, details, and memories that aren't mine? It's almost like a part of me connected to a place l've never known.

Are there many older lucid dreamers? I’m 54 and just started trying about a year ago (though I’ve had them spontaneously over the years). I have had maybe an average of 1 per month for the past year.

I know some people struggle to LD as they get older, but others seem to do great.

Here I question those who are experienced lucid dreamers,spiritual seekers or at least open minded post there experiences on what comes after being able to lucid dream, after what I call the entertainment stage.

The title pretty much sumarises all. Yeah I predicted the future in 2 dreams I had, but lets start from the beggining.

Ive always had lucid dreams. They were always natural to me, and I had them almost everyday. But I never made a big deal out of it, nor did I try exploring or taking control over the specific dreams, until one day, back in 2021, i came by a youtube video on how to lucid dream, and since it catched my eye, I watched it, and there, my journey down actual Lucid Dreaming begun.

So I started using ADA method (it worked really well for me), and keeping a dream diary, as well as reality checks in and out of dreams, and later, even using dreams to review things i learned during the day and such. It became my superpower, and i loved the skill so much.

Until one day, I was in a dream where I got stuck on an airport trying to get in my flight but everyone ignored me, like i was invisible and unhearable, so, i never got my flight, even after going through the whole airport for help. I then woke up, wrote the dream down, and went on with my day. a couple of weeks later, me and my family had a flight to catch, and guess what happenened? we lost it due to nobody helping us with it, and lack of information and communication. I still remember the dejavu I had, while running with my family through the airport, and living in real life what I already lived once though a dream. It felt unreal. But nothing compares to what came next

Another day, another dream. Time skip some months later, I am dreaming again, this time, I am in my house, exacly as she is, my mom is stiting in the sofa, facing me (I am in first person p.o.v), and my dad is sitting beside her, but he is like, a spectrum, a hologram, but he was still present. In the dream, me and my parents got into a heated argument, and I exploded into anger and yelled at them, saying bad things. Later, i realised what I have done, but also, that it was just a dream, so I woke up.

Skip foward about 2 weeks, my mom on the sofa, holding her phone with my dad in facetime. We started to have an argument, and once again the deja vu feeling comes back. I imediatly stop, look at my mom and run to hug her, saying that I was sorry and that I was going to fix what she thought was wrong.

Later on, I thought abt it, and i find really confusing, intriguing and kinda scary. This happened about 2 years ago now, and I have had more interesting experiences but nothing like this ever happened again, but I wanted to share it anyways.Thank you for your time.

N.R

1. The amount of effort is not proportional to the result. One lucid dream (LD) can take hours or even dozens of hours of effort. On average, a practitioner experiences several dozen LDs in their lifetime before quitting. If they don't quit, they dedicate their entire life to it, day and night, trying endless techniques, practicing reality checks, etc.
2. All techniques are absolutely useless compared to the effectiveness of galantamine. The effectiveness of galantamine is directly proportional to its dosage. Thus, 16 mg will almost certainly send you into a powerful lucid dream or out-of-body experience. Therefore, all techniques like WILD are absolutely meaningless.
3. Non-lucid dreams are often more interesting than lucid ones. In a lucid dream, I find myself as my usual self, just in some virtual reality, which is only slightly more interesting than a computer game or watching a movie. But in a non-lucid dream, I magically transform into someone else or find myself in a different, impossible, mysterious world.
4. Lucid dreams are easiest to practice between the ages of 20-30, but during this same period of life, all other possible forms of entertainment are also most accessible. I don't actually know of cases where lucid dreams turned out to be more useful than regular entertainment. It's more like a lottery: you either get a lucid dream or you don't. There are very few cases where people actually practiced something or learned something interesting in them.
5. There are exceptions: some people, like M, always have lucid dreams. But this indicates that their brain is simply wired differently. The bitter lesson is that some people's brains are just "hardwired" so that they can always be aware of themselves in dreams, most often these are women. Whereas men are usually more interested in LDs.
6. In a sense, the main dream of lucid dreaming enthusiasts is some kind of erotic adventure. Eroticism in LDs rarely succeeds. But in the end, when the dream ends, all this virtual reality disappears, leaving the same feeling as after watching porn.Good onanism with great fantasy may be a better alternative with guaranteed satisfaction.
7. Almost all effects of LD may be achieved in active imagination sessions: daydreaming visualizations which are not guided, but in which you allow your subconscious to drive the process..
8. Illusion of permanence: Even if you've learned to induce lucid dreams regularly, this ability can suddenly disappear for weeks or months without apparent reason, causing disappointment and frustration.
9. Habituation effect: Over time, even the most exciting lucid dreams can become mundane and lose their appeal, like any other experience you get used to.
10. Disappointment in possibilities: Despite the seeming limitlessness of possibilities in lucid dreams, in practice it turns out that many desires still cannot be realized due to the limitations of our imagination and subconscious.
11. Disappointment in "spiritual experience": Many begin to practice lucid dreaming in search of deep spiritual experiences, but often find that most dreams remain superficial and do not bring the expected enlightenment.

I've been having sleep paralysis since I was 15. I'm now 25 and I get it less frequently. When I was a teenager, I'd experience it at least once every few weeks. Now it's once every few months.

Usually when I get sleep paralysis, I know how to snap out of it, and sleeping on my side would almost guarantee I wouldn't get it. I've learned over the years how to control my emotions, stay relaxed, and stop it from happening. But the most recent two instances were different from the rest, and I had no control over how long it took.

The first time it happened a few months ago, and I was in a dream-like state. I was in my bed and I think I recall seeing a strange figure, but it wasn't recognizable. It was black and fuzzy. I remember screaming at the top of my lungs and trying to get up and leave, but whenever I'd "get up" I was back in my bed again, unable to move. When I say I was trying to get up, it was like my spirit could get up, but my body couldn't. And while my screams felt real (I could hear them), I'm sure it was me screaming in a dream state than in real life. And my spirit would end up back in my body again. I remember trying to snap out of it like I usually can. I just tell myself it isn't real, move my fingers and parts of my body and I usually wake up. This time, it felt like I was stuck for 30 minutes in the same spot, caught in a weird loop. After panicking for a while, I told myself to count my fingers because I remember hearing somewhere that you can wake up from a dream that way. I counted "1...2...3...4", and what was creepy about it was when I got to 4, I woke up and was staring at my 4 fingers.

Then it happened again last night, and I was in the middle of a normal dream. This time, I was in a bed I didn't recognize. I can't move and start to experience the usual feelings of sleep paralysis, but while in a dream. I tried to get up and again, could feel my soul temporarily exit my body, and then I end up back in my body again. It's like a loop of leaving my body and coming back, while panicking the whole time.

This only happened to me once when I was a teenager where I thought I astral projected. And it has happened twice in the last few months and both times I was panicking, in a dream state, and couldn't control it, which usually never happens.

Has anyone experienced SP while dreaming? What are folks theories about the meaning of sleep paralysis in general? I've heard theories about it being a spiritual attack. I've recently become more religious and a friend told me it could be because I'm getting closer to God and the "demons" don't like it. I have no idea why I've been experiencing it for all of these years other than I sometimes have an irregular sleep schedule and stress out.

I have been intentionally and unintentionally (the opposite of what you probably think.. I mean specifically making sure I can't) lucid dreaming since around 15/16 years old. If you are somebody looking to try it for the first time there are lots of methods out there I think I've even written up a few of them you can search for but that's not what this is about.

What is more interesting to me now is why I started practicing in the first place. And it was because around that age I started having the most horrific, realistic nightmares that only active practitioners can probably imagine. (or maybe someone else who probably read too much Dean Koontz)

For me, it was, learn to control the dreams and the rough entry/exit or I was never going to be able to sleep again. So I did.

And I've been under the impression for the last 20-odd years that the reason I could sit in a chair and with a few minutes of focus walk directly into a dream state was because I was some freaking special shadow warrior ninja or some mystic nonsense.

But after some random conversations with my doctor, I learned that this intense lucid dream entry is referred to as hypnogogic hallucinations and it's a very well-known symptom of... narcolepsy. And that my brain dumps me directly into REM because of how deprived I am of deep sleep.

I'm wondering if anyone else out there has connected these dots or has a similar experience.

If so, what did you do with it exactly, and what self hypnosis/mediation did you use? How tired were you? Was it during WBTB? Did you use any subliminals or do anything in preparation?

I have always had extremely vivid dreams. I always wanted to learn how to lucid dream after one of my friends explained it to me in junior high. One night I laid down and I was basically meditating to go to sleep and I went into my first ever lucid dream I am now 30 that happened when I was 18. When I started lucid dreaming it was so much fun I don't even really have words to describe it. One day I found something on the Internet that said when you're dreaming you're not supposed to ask what time it is so I decided to test that theory out. One night I was lucid dreaming and I was in my old trailer park that I grew up in and there was a girl walking with me down the street and I didn't know her but she felt familiar, I knew I was lucid dreaming because I could feel elements of the dream shifting around me to what I wanted (I really hope that makes sense). When we got to the end of the Street I looked at her and I asked "where are we?" Because I knew that that was a question that I knew the answer to and I wanted to see if it was going to be answered correctly and she looked at me and she shook her head no. She was a girl that looked about 12 or 13 wearing a long white nightgown basically with blonde hair kind of like one of those ones that you would see in a horror movie but she looked very nice. Then I did exactly what all of the posts and videos and people have told me not to do and I asked her what time it was.. she stared at me blankly and turned around and walked off into the woods because my trailer park was on the edge of a state park in Minnesota and in my dream all of the trees were there that were supposed to be there. After that I felt the most alone that I have ever felt in my life awake or asleep and it was almost suffocating. I did the only thing I know what to do in those moments in my dreams and I laid down on the ground I curled up in the fetal position and I begged myself to wake up and I tried to close my eyes in my dream and open them as wide as I can because normally that's how I can wake myself up because when I open my eyes and my dream I open them in real life sometimes I open them to a new dream which is totally different sometimes I open them for real.. I couldn't wake myself up and I just laid there and I cried. For the next two weeks after that when I slept I didn't dream. Dreaming is how I get away from life and I love lucid dreaming it's like a little mini vacation and as I stated before the only way that I get actual rest but I couldn't dream. It's like asking the wrong questions took away my privilege of dreaming. I don't know if we meet sentient beings in our dreams whether they're Angels or demons or something on a parallel plane but follow the rules of lucid dreaming if you're going to do it. I know this sounds like a short story for a high school writing class but it's actually 100% totally real. Follow the rules.

Hello friends! How are you? I'm here to tell you about my dream because I wanted mystical, psychological or other answers to what this type of dream means.

I just woke up, I'm a little scared and forgive me for any mistakes, I'm using Google Translate!

About an hour ago I put on a random video in the background to sleep (it's an old habit), and this time it's comical: "Which açaí is better? the $10 one or the $50 one?" (Açaí It is a type of ice cream made with the fruit açaí, very popular here). I wasn't aware of it when I fell asleep, but I woke up in the dream feeling strange about EVERYTHING! In short and in an easy to understand way, it was as if I had limited areas of my house where I could go: living room and bedroom. And it was exactly when your internet is shit in a game and the map doesn't load and keeps bugging. It was a terrifying feeling because I called for my father and he DISAPPEARED! It was not rendered, that was the feeling.

The whole point was: I needed to find the $10 acai to wake up. I needed it.

But I simply couldn't access that information in my brain, I would guess the image of one and BOOM error. I would try another and BOOM error again!! It was horrible to make mistakes in the dream because I would come back to "consciousness" again, I would try to move and I couldn't. I would try to scream but my voice wouldn't come out. Dream paralysis, classic.

I even thought something supernatural was happening and my intuition made me close my eyes, but I ignored it. I needed to know which açaí was worth $10!

After trying a few times I found it, the beloved $10 dollar açaí... I tried

BOOM

Error again.

I was desperate, at this point I could already hear my cat desperate for food and the video playing It was all very funny, cartoonish, when I made a mistake a screen would appear mocking me.
Last time I found two $5 side dishes and chose them. $5+$5... $10

A lock opened and I finally woke up. And I am writing this to you while watching the video. Knowing that this experience lasted only 11 torturous minutes.

What kind of crazy dream, or loop was that?

Today morning, I saw a dream where I am in year 2018, studying some science course and driving ( I am actually a business student and do not know how to drive) and things were really different coz this version of me in my dream knows she is not alone and she is feeling suffocated coz I saw her memories and poor kid suffered a lot more than I have. She was there to pick her mom from her daycare that she owns, this version of my mom is not sick where mine was sick since 2012.

And since i was there and seeing her memories, she also started to relive it and she started crying while driving and her mom was asking what happened and she says her dad raped her when they were in old house(ik that house I lived there for my first 11 years) 2 years ago when this mom got admitted in the hospital. I couldn't bear that pain anymore and I woke up. Now i know so much more about her from memories, it didnt feel like a dream at all. Okay maybe i am hallucinating or something but how do I habe these new memories of her going to college, meeting new friends and her studying cosmic stuff. I think she is to be a scientist.

Edit: in my country driver sits on right side n my dream it was left. Usually when i dream about driving i always sit on the right.

Anyone connect to their higher self in a Lucid Dream? If so, how?

Transitioning to Astral Projection during an active Lucid Dream

Is it possible? Has anyone attempted it before / has experience with it? If so, how exactly do you do this?

Does it work in the other direction as well? Astral Projection -> Lucid Dream

Can you guys do an experiment where, you just sleep normally. Then comment your dream on here, or if you had none don’t, after that the next day you will have to sleep listen to an audio book on loop to see how your dream changed. It can be sci fi, adventure, mystery, anything! Post your results here, you guys can also spilt it up some hours normally sleeping, the other hour listening to an audio book, your choice!

Say like if you wat to bring something back from the dream world or to speed up the manifestation process would that be possible?

I finally, even if accidentally, had a lucid dream. To start, I meditate frequently, and have taken that practice as far as dabbling with hemi-sync binaural beats. I’ve done sensory deprivation floats prior to Covid. I frequently use cannabis and occasionally psilocybin.

I only mention this because, while I have tried to achieve lucid dreaming in the past, but I never achieved much more than getting to bed at a reasonable time, but I only mention all that stuff because I think those activities kind of prepared me for where I found myself.

I’d gone to bed relatively early on Wednesday after playing music with a friend for a few hours. I might have had a little alcohol, but not much. I came home, fed the cat, and had a slice of cheese for pre-bed snack. I think I was bed by about 9:15.

The dream started with me being a guest to Rick Moranis’ house, tucked in some sort of rural canyon in California. I had told a coworker how much I love the film ‘Streets of Fire’ earlier in the week, which probably was the source of my dream taking place in a house owned by Rick Moranis. Most of the dream involved different characters coming and going, and after a bit, I became aware I was dreaming. I think I usually would wake up at such a moment, but the dream kept going. I decided to wander the house in the dream, and noticed that I could open doors and anticipate what would be on the other side. After a little bit, I could decide what would be on the other side, like different furnishings.

I returned to the main living room and there was a different cast of characters (mostly the kind of women I’d see at the co-op, no one I recognized) populating the room. I effortlessly summoned the characters from previously instead. I began talking to them, and the language went from abstract to distinct relatively quickly and with many of them I could anticipate what they were about to say. After a little bit, I noticed I could will what they might say or talk about. I also started to fade the walls of the room to be semi-transparent and see into other rooms.

At about this time, I opened eye eyes and saw my bedroom in the dark. I was starting to get afraid that I was going to have sleep paralysis (something that has happened to me a couple of times in the past) but I had the sort of sensation that my dream was continuing without me. I closed my eyes and faded into a strange dark landscape where a giant dark ziggurat stood in front of me. I tried to will myself back to the party back at Rick Moranis’ dream house, but instead I once again woke up in my bedroom, it was about 315 am.

idk if the title makes any sense but whenever i get really vivid dreams i can never actually take control of it. like ill think to myself that i am dreaming and that i know none of it is real but ill have no way to take control. kind of like watching a movie if that makes sense. i’ll know that im dreaming but all i can do is sit back and watch the dream unfold without being able yo interfere much.

also, somewhat unrelated, but when i do try to control my actions it feels as though the slightest movement will pull me out of my dream. like i’ll realize that im dreaming but when i try to walk or run or do anything it feels like if i move too hard i’ll move my physical body instead of my dream body and wake myself up. though when i actually wake up i realize that that wouldn’t done anything

does anyone else relate?

I'm curious if it's possible to have a conversation with your subconscious through lucid dreaming? I imagine the process being finding a mirror and then having your reflection walk out of it. Could it work?

I wanna hear form you/your experiences of the possibilities and boundaries pushed from this altered consciousness state

Just discovered the topic of geometric dreams. I remember that i had similar ones as a child. Sometimes they would evolve into nightmares. Most times there was some uncomfortable pressure. Damn this is harder to describe than i thought it would be. Geometric dreams. It is a long time since i thought about this. I forgot about it until i watched this video about it. The guy exploring this uploaded the video 2 weeks ago and there is no one else talking about it like this in a video. There are however quite a few people discussing their experiences on reddit and similar spaces. They all describe something similar, something distinct, but with tiny details, variations of the same experience. They involve the extremes of our physical reality, like speed or sound or pressure and differently sized shapes. Geometric ones. In amounts and extremes that are hard to comprehend. Some describe the feeling that there is something wrong or that they have to do something to make it right. But many speak of failure. Being stuck. Thats where the pressure might also come from. I felt this too. I felt that i could change it a bit with my focus. And i often had the feeling that i was not focusing hard enough or in the wrong way somehow and it didn’t work. I could manipulate it. There was always some kind of dilemma. A geometric…. Misplacement? Imbalance? I don’t know. And there were always two „directions“ that i could manipulate the scene. Into the two extremes. Smaller or bigger, louder or more silent, faster or slower, etc…. But i never felt satisfied. Neither way was gonna be better. I don’t know if any of these two ways would have led to a resolution. I remember searching for other ways to escape. Other ways to manipulate it. More ways than two. I wanted a radar chart instead of a spectrum. I don’t remember finding such things. I just know that these dreams stopped somewhere in my teens, because i know that i didn’t have a dream like this for a long long time. Many people also describe a „void“ within which the „events“ would happen and in which the observer was „stuck“. And endless void, endless nothing. For me that manifested as a whiteness. Everything was white. And the shapes were black/grey or sometimes it was the other way around. Felt like a foreign place…. Like a whole universe. Sometimes scary. I think after a few times of having this dream i didn’t get so scared anymore. A reacurring theme in my life is dealing with and holding uncomfortableness. And i got a bit used to being in this space. And then i was more focused on exploring it, trying to find solutions, almost playing with it. I even remember looking forward to having this dream again so i could work on solving it. Heck so much time has passed since then and i didn’t even know that this happened. I saw this video about it and it popped right back into my head. Definitely gonna explore this further. I also saw people writing about wanting to reinduce the experience. I don’t know if thats possible… but it .. like it doesn’t even seem so far away. I mean i can still very much FEEL this imbalance. Feels like yesterday now that i remember. Crazy how memory works though. Some people said that they had this experience during a fever, like a fever dream. I don’t remember it being connected to that but maybe. Because it involves the topic of dreams, i think the closest method to explore this might be lucid dreaming? I haven’t mastered that one enough for that yet but somebody who has more experience in lucid dreaming might wanna try to work with that… what are your experiences with this?

For clarity and context, this is the link to the video i mentioned: https://youtu.be/tz7pEyLulW8?si=GAuVOygmJvsPmhVq