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A place for lucid dreaming discussion of topics that are not allowed in /r/LucidDreaming, paranormal, shared dreaming, etc.

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Older lucid dreamers

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.

8 Comments
2024/10/28
23:16 UTC

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Has anybody ever got threatened in a lucid dream they told me last night if I don't quit getting in trouble they're going to pull my plug whatever that means.lol

2 Comments
2024/10/28
10:56 UTC

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Where to now?for experienced lucid dreamers

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.

10 Comments
2024/10/28
08:19 UTC

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Ive pre-lived situations in Lucid Dreams before living them in real life

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

2 Comments
2024/10/17
20:06 UTC

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Bitter lessons about lucid dreaming

  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.
3 Comments
2024/10/17
10:35 UTC

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Reoccurring Sleep Paralysis for 10 years - what does it mean spiritually?

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.

4 Comments
2024/10/09
15:33 UTC

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Have you considered?

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.

4 Comments
2024/10/01
14:42 UTC

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Anyone use a self hypnosis/meditation to reach a lucid dream?

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?

7 Comments
2024/09/18
00:54 UTC

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Lucid dreams

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.

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2024/09/15
16:52 UTC

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I had sleep paralysis while having a lucid dream

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?

0 Comments
2024/09/11
04:21 UTC

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I had my First lucid dream With a combintion of WILD, WBTB and what i call "SILD"

2 Comments
2024/09/10
16:54 UTC

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Do you think you can visit the parallel versions of you via lucid dreaming

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.

0 Comments
2024/09/09
04:24 UTC

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

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

7 Comments
2024/09/01
06:14 UTC

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Transitioning from Lucid Dream to Astral Projection

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

14 Comments
2024/08/25
23:12 UTC

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Expirement

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!

4 Comments
2024/08/23
19:39 UTC

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Can you manifest desires with lucid dreaming?

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

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2024/08/19
21:26 UTC

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I think I finally had a lucid dream.

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.

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2024/08/18
20:19 UTC

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aware that i’m dreaming but not being able to do anything about it

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?

4 Comments
2024/08/13
18:10 UTC

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Having a chat with your subconscious?

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?

10 Comments
2024/08/05
09:06 UTC

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What are some of the paranormal/metaphysical possibilities of lucid dreaming?

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

7 Comments
2024/07/27
06:30 UTC

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Any experiences with geometric dreams?

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

13 Comments
2024/07/18
17:32 UTC

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Strange Coincidence or Something More? Dream Premonition in Construction

Hey everyone, in case you don’t already know, I’m a framing carpenter! 🚧🔨

For those who aren’t familiar, framing carpenters are the ones who build the skeleton of buildings, installing the wood supports that form the structure. It's a crucial part of construction. We build homes as well as apartments, condos, townhouses, and light commercial buildings for you, your families, and others. It's a crucial part of construction.

So, here’s something wild that happened. So last night or early this morning (I don't know what time it happened) I had this weird dream. I had a dream that Ephraim (my oldest brother) was doing some rough-in plumbing for a new house and he was using a hole saw cutting through a 2 x 4 wall's bottom plate and 0.75" OSB tongue and groove subflooring and he had hit a TJI floor joist below and I was trying to tell him to stop, but he just kept going through that and obliterating and cutting up the floor joist underneath.

Now, fast forward to today at work. Today at work we were finishing up a house. We've been working on it for the past two weeks and the plumbers came today to do the rough in plumbing. they had been using hole saws to cut holes in the subflooring, 2x4 and 2x6 studs, bottom and top plates of walls so that drain pipes and supply lines could be run through and they had used a hole saw to cut a hole through the subfloor for the toilet drain and there was a wooden I-joist in the middle of it and they went deep through it, cutting it up and our boss made me and two other guys go and put another joist on the other side of it as well as put a joist block in between the 2 joists on both load bearing walls. That was so weird that I had a dream about that and then it happened today.

Was that God or some divine being trying to tell me something? What do you all think? Was this just a coincidence or something more? Does everything happen for a reason? Was it God or some divine being trying to tell me something? I’m really curious about your thoughts on this. Drop a comment or shoot me a message—let’s chat! 📩💬

6 Comments
2024/07/16
03:53 UTC

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Weird experience, not even sure if it was a dream? Explanation in the comments.

I was asleep, I think, and I felt like I woke up. Everything around me moved like a lagging game, if that make sense. like my eyes framrate fucking dropped lol. A ring around what I could see was dark green, I heard myself(?) talk from outside my head, I was looking through my brain/eye sockets if that makes sense. like I was inside my own eyes? or looking through oval shaped windows, i guess? My voice was extremely gravely and raspy. My eyes felt like they were coated in gravel as well. Sorry if this is a bad explanation, it was a while before I could discover this sub

3 Comments
2024/07/16
03:44 UTC

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My deceased mother kept telling me to wake up in my dream

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2024/07/10
20:56 UTC

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Multiple Dreams at the Same Time (ability)

I wanted to share that’s is possible to fully experience and control multiple dreams simultaneously, along with switching between even more dreams. There is so much more possible than flying.

How I learned it It started as being indecisive about the progression of a storyline, After choosing option A but then deciding option B just to re conjure option A a short time later. I learned to jump between dreams, like having multiple tabs open on a computer, each a different thing. Jumping back and forth extremely fast barely progressing each one causes them both to occur at once, like split screening two tabs on a computer, but also having two mice to control both pages.

What multiple at once is like It is like fully experiencing one dream, but with multiple. Vision is not split or overlapping like a computer split screen, it is not multitasking, stimulation, control and attention both fully happen concurrently. I said it is not like having to multitask, but that does not mean it is easy without strain on the mind. Vividness/quality reduces with additional dreams and mental strain from the depths of each dream. Personally 2 dreams are easy without an impact on its quality, 3 is my practical limit where I have to sacrifice one or all dream quality. Changing or adding dreams has became as simple as thinking of dream C then dream A and B then all together.

Dream Jumping Something you’ve likely tried and done. Anytime you decide to change the environment and story, for example your dreaming and become lucid, abandon the dream that was occurring and creating your own, this is what I’m calling dream jumping/swapping. I can manage to keep track of 7 different dreams that I can go back to at a moments notice while multi-dremaing.

Uses I will multidream and swap in others while doing the following:

  • have fun with multiple different stories
  • explore a multiverse of a single story
  • have fun in one and study or self improve in another

For example I will be the main character in a movie in dream A while studying for a test in dream B, and designing something in dream C, with dreams D, E, F to swap with A or C for a different fun experience.

Closing Remarks I am not good at multitasking nor do I have a good memory while awake, this is not an issue to do this. The mental strain I described is just a feeling of the mind working hard while naturally being capable of doing these things.

Disclaimer I am a natural LD and dream control comes easily. However most importantly I never let doubt make me question if multidremaing was possible, I simply wanted to explore branching storylines, so I did and never questioned its feasibility until the results came in. If you can imagine it, then it’s possible and can happen exactly as you imagine it.

5 Comments
2024/07/06
03:55 UTC

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It seems like I can't dream like I used to anymore.

Hi, I've started the journey to having a lucid dream for two weeks, it's not the first time I've started and I've noticed that compared to 8 months ago I dream very little in the period between November and December when I tried (and managed to have a lucid dream), for the first time I had on average a dream every 2-5 days now after more than two weeks I only had 2. The first day I started this journey I measured my sleep with an app and it turns out that my REM phase is short now I don't know whether to trust you or not but I ask you. Why has this thing happened in the last few months? How can I solve it? How come I dream less than 8-7 months ago?

I usually go to sleep between: 00-00:30 But if I have trouble falling asleep (as sometimes happens) I can go until 1:30

I have dinner at 21:00-21:30

I am a student

Now that it's summer and I don't have school I go out every night with my friends

P.S. when I started 8 months (I started when I had a lucid dream and found out what they were) after 10 days I had another one and by January (when I stopped trying) I had atleast 5 Now not even one

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2024/07/04
23:28 UTC

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Not sure if this was a dream entity or a real person, but if this was you...

I spent an entire dream lucid last night and ended up working closely with someone in the dream and consciously left behind information should they need me again. I have no idea if this is something my mind made up or if it could have been a mystical experience, I have my doubts but I'm not completely unwilling to budge.

Anyway, if this person was you, I gave you my "card" along with a piece of important evidence. If this really was some sort of astral projection, this person will be able to tell me the name that I wrote on the card, a certain word on the card, what the evidence I gave you was pertaining to, and/or what kind of place we were in. If you remember any other details that I didn't mention, I'll take that, too.

Figured this was worth a shot. If anything it's a fun thought experiment.

Note: I did not use my real name or appearance or anything during the dream, so don't waste your time trying to find out who I am behind the screen. That'd also be a crime anyway, don't be weird.

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2024/06/30
03:18 UTC

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Messages

Not sure if this is the right sub.

Lately I've been having some kind of messages inside of my dreams, the first one that I can remember is when I had a tattoo on my left arm, I didn't know what it was, someone next to me told me "is the triple ***** of Odin" I couldn't hear a word there but I got it. When I woke up, I searched it and I found the Triple Horn of Odin. The next one was about a week ago, someone in my dream told me "the four masks", I remembered that later the next day, when I searched it I found "the four masks by Carl Jung". The last one was just yesterday, I was in a dream inside of a dream in the same position as I fell asleep not being able to move and something whispered in my left ear, very loud and very slowly "Shiva, Shiva, Shiva", and then I just woke up in my fist dream, I didn't have information about this god so I searched it. I found this so weird. Do you have any experiences like this? Do you know the meaning of any of these? What are your thoughts on this?

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2024/06/26
20:12 UTC

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There is no real difference between dreams and the waking world

Maybe you all already know this, but when you look at the reasons for why the waking world is real and dreams are not real, it all falls apart. I talk about it in this video:https://youtu.be/Mt8b-Ddq3RM

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2024/06/26
07:30 UTC

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Have you ever wanted to get paid for your lucid dreaming abilities?

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2024/06/14
17:00 UTC

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