Not really a lucid dreaming questions but it was definitely interesting. So I got my wisdom teeth removed today and it was the first time I was given Anastasia, when I got home I went straight to sleep but I kept having those dreams where you fall in a hole or you get dropped from high up and then wake up by jerking your body. Has this happened to anyone else? Is it just the Anastasia ?

I say “lucid” as I have had a single dream where i knew it was a dream. I was on a war plane (the kind you see in movies, with it lined with seats and a large door in the back for people to skydive out of.) with other people. Suddenly alarms started blaring and i heard an explosion then i yelled “EVERYONE I NEED TO SAY SOMETHING. I AM DREAMING RIGHT NOW” and thats where it ended😭. Didnt get to control it, js got to inform my subconcious people that i was infact dreaming. What about yall tho?

I often dream about lucid dreaming, but these aren’t actual lucid dreams—they're just dreams about lucid dreaming. Sometimes, when I try WILD (Wake-Induced Lucid Dreaming), I briefly enter a lucid dream state but quickly lose awareness, and the dream becomes non-lucid. Other times, after performing WILD, I realize I’m dreaming and have multiple lucid dreams in one night.

I feel like I go through hypnagogic states and transition between dreams, but I can’t achieve full lucidity. Even when I do manage to get lucid, I either wake up quickly or lose lucidity again.

What can I do to improve? How can I stay fully lucid for longer and avoid waking up too soon? Also, is there a way to strengthen my awareness during the hypnagogic phase and make the transition into a lucid dream smoother?

Hello, after accidentally having a lucid dream I have been trying on and off to try to have more but I have a question. Y'all who use these methods where you have to wake up at 2 and do some stuff then go back to sleep, how?!? Not only how do y'all go back to sleep but also how do y'all actually get enough sleep not to always feel like a zombie? Anyways I need to get to sleep cause it's 10:30 over here. Goodnight!

I hope this is okay to post in here. I read the rules but slightly confused on the rules, so hopefully this doesn't ban me. In the last 2 months, I've randomly started lucid dreaming, at least that's what I think it is? I've never actually tried to lucid dream before. But anyways 2 months ago I was sleeping, dreaming, and something happened in my dream that made me realize I was dreaming. Is that what lucid dreaming is? In the dream I decided to try and wake myself up because I was really scared when I became aware that I was dreaming. I didn't like how it felt at all. So I started doing things in my dream to try and wake myself up. It worked fairly quickly, but instead of waking me up completely, I slipped into sleep paralysis before I woke up. I've had this happen now about 3 or 4 times since the first time. And every time I purposely wake myself up from the dream, I slip into sleep paralysis before I actually fully wake up. Has anyone else had this happen before? I don't like being aware I'm dreaming when I'm dreaming. It's so scary to me. But sleep paralysis on top of it, is even more scary!

Little intro bc first post here: So when I was a child, I almost had lucid dreams every night, I could also wake myself up from almost every dream and stuff like that, I experienced it so many times that I started remembering how to do it and I could do it on command.

Until I started smoking weed heavily (age 13 (yeah I know that's young)) and lucid dreaming became something I could only experience once in a while.

Now I smoke way less and the last couple of months I started dreaming (or remembering my dreams) more again. But the lucid dreaming hadn't come back at all. It was like I completely lost my feel of it.

I will have to include some dream story to make sense of the situation.

So this last night around 05:00 I went to sleep after a night out and I had this weird feeling that if I'd sleep on my back and just try again it would happen and BOOM... I fell asleep fast asf and had control over my dream, but not in a way I have ever experienced before. I could do everything, not only stuff like flying or running, punching etc. I could do anything I wanted to, I could change the scenery, I could teleport places and destroy buildings like in fucking dragonball. But the very best and weird thing I could do was just stop moving and see what'd happen if I wouldn't think about anything (which was really scary bc the scenery of my dream changed gloomy everytime i stopped moving and thinking). I red somewhere when you experience something like this you should go up to the people in your dreams and listen to their random conversations, sadly I don't remember anything they said but I do remember it was all gibberish. Anyhow I had some fun with my dreams and all of a sudden I see this girl and I stop to see what would happen and wtf, she changed into this demon lookin girl, so I woke myself up. I could immediately fall back asleep and boom I was in a LD again, some stuff happend and woke myself up, fell back asleep and LD. This contineud until I woke up at 10:00, it was the weirdest shit I have ever experienced but it was also amazing. I really hope I can get in that state again tonight or any other time.

Did anyone else ever experience something like that state?

I'm wondering if there's a way that I could lucid dream TONIGHT without waking up. Also, I'm pobally only going to be up a few more hours so it needs to be quick as well. Thank You!

I knew that lucid dreaming was a thing, but I never really cared about it. Untill suddenly I just had a lucid dream, it just happend. And since then every night I've been lucid dreaming and the thing is I dont like it I hate it cuz I am scared of it. I actually just woke up from a lucid dream, I tried falling back asleep but I couldn't, I was hearing sounds like a dog barking the floor cracking, I was even shaking. I didnt have a good night sleep for 5 days by now, I don't know what I should do pls help me. I think that the reason why every night I'm lucid dreaming us cuz I am scared of it and that makes my brain always think about it.

I can't dream, like I only feel heavy on my chest I can't move my hands and I don't feel my legs and I see some static noise like stuff and black lines getting distorted, I can't get past this (like entering the dream). Srry for my english

I spent 2 months consistently practicing MILD w/ WBTB + dream journaling + reality checks and I wasn’t able to get any lucid dreams. The only time I did get a lucid dream was months later

Are there methods that dont require you to wake up?

Is lucid dreaming fun or terrifying?

This is a vote! I wanna get into lucid dreaming, but wanna know what I'm getting into first!

Comment 🙌🏻❤️ If you think lucid dreaming is fun,

Or Comment 👎✨ if you think lucid dreaming is Terrifying and not fun.

Thank you guys so much! Love y'all ❤️

I’ve been thinking about an idea for an app, and I wanted to get your honest feedback on whether it could be useful for those of us who love exploring lucid dreams.

The concept is pretty straightforward: the app would let you design a simple interface or “dashboard” with specific dream functions (like flying, teleporting, or changing the environment). The idea is that you’d visualize this interface while awake and practice “pulling it up” in your dreams to use the functions you’ve pre-selected.

Here’s how it would work:

1. Customise Your Interface: You decide which dream functions you want to include and how they’re organized (like toggles or buttons).

2. Reality Check Reminders: The app would prompt you randomly during the day to do reality checks, and after each one, you’d spend a moment meditating on your dream interface to make it feel natural.

3. Dream Visualization: Before bed, you’d take a few minutes to mentally rehearse using the interface so it’s ingrained in your subconscious.

4. You perform a reality check in your dream as you would in real life. This would prompt you to pull out your app and then you can simply toggle the predefined functions in the dream.

The idea is to make dream control easier and more consistent by reducing the mental effort of manifesting abilities directly. Instead, you’d just “open” the interface in your dream and select the functions you want to activate.

Would you find something like this helpful?

I’d love to hear your thoughts—both on the idea itself and how you think it could be improved or adapted. Thanks!

So I’ve come to the conclusion that when it’s a social setting I cannot become lucid in a dream because I think it’s just regular life. But what I’m thinking is, I’m going to try to use that as a trigger for me to become lucid. The moment I see it’s too many people in real life and in the dream I’m gonna do a reality check because the only way I can become lucid if it’s a scary dream and I tell myself to wake up because I’m scared.

Also, the dreams I’ve been having lately have not been crazy dreams they’ve been normal regular dreams like nothing really out of the ordinary I don’t remember having bad dreams as well as much. I definitely used to dream more when I was younger when I’m looking back at my dreams, they were more to them. Now my dreams are kind of boring dull and dry. I probably have had one dream with the special person that’s in my real life .

I haven’t tried lucid dreaming in a very long time but I’m getting back into meditating, and all of the things. I’m a bit of a canna smoker, so I don’t dream, or some say I don’t remember my dreams. I don’t feel like I dream. I go to bed and wake up about 6 hours later. It has been like this since I started smoking daily, and considering the dreams I’d have I’m glad. But curiosity grows. So my question is.. where do we go when we’re asleep? If I understand correctly- conscience and soul are one and the same but not directly within the body. I see it as a connection, like a wire connecting each one of us to something bigger. So I’m back to the question.. where does the soul go when the body’s asleep?

So I’m curious as to how I achieve my first ever lucid dream. I was laying down. I know I was sleep and my mind was awake because I’m telling myself that it feels like my teeth are cracking. I know now I that was because of my breathing thru my mouth. Mind you it’s pitch black I don’t see anything, but I keep saying my teeth are breaking. My teeth are breaking for a moment. I was going to just let it go and accept it. I even thought “ dang my teeth are broken now” but then that’s when I noticed my teeth can’t be breaking. I must be dreaming and then I did my reality check. It didn’t work then say oh well I’m gonna try to do what I said I was gonna do when I become lucid , I wanted to fly. And that’s when I start to visualize something. A scene comes into existence and I’m walking in a field. Then I jumped up and surprised myself bc I couldn’t believe I actually did it

Y'all, I really love this community-and it has some REALLY great stories about lucid dreaming, but in almost every story, I come across a program called WILD. I don't know what it means! Can you guys please share what it means with me? Please and thank you! Love y'all ❤️

Can somebody please explain what WILD is? I love this community and think it has some awesome stories, but almost every story I come across some program called WILD and it just leaves me confused. What is WILD?

How does meditation help lucid dreams? And if so how long of a meditator do I have to be to see results

TL;DR I love dreaming, love going to sleep and excited for whatever adventure might come my way. I have only ever been able to induce lucid dreaming twice, but both times I made the mistake of not knowing where/what I wanted to go/do, so it turned dark quickly. I fall into lucid dreams often though, sleep paralysis too unfortunately lol, though I can wake myself when I want to. However, I am starting to think that this realm between the worlds is a lower dimensional plane, and not safe to be in. How do I rise above this plane, any tips or tricks?

Reason for my post: Recently I was touched three times in a lucid dream, and each time felt very real. The first two on my hands, and the third on my hip, which inevitably woke me because it scared me how real it was. I was spooked and turned the lamp on, went back to sleep but knew I'd fall back into another lucid because my ears kept having the pressure change wash over them. I took too long to wake myself, and opened my eyes into a dark room, and knew that I shouldn't be there, that 'they' knew I was there. In the previous dream, I don't remember most details except that I met a woman whose face I couldn't see, she was seated at a table and said "these three words" to me, but I don't remember what they were. I also remember saying to someone that only beings of my highest good were welcome, but I knew that lady was powerful - I want to say dangerous but I also wasn't harmed that I know of..? - and I shouldn't be there. So the second time I fell into the darkness, I knew for certain I shouldn't be there, and immediately thought of my mom, a light source, and woke up. The thing is, I swear I saw the shadow of the grim reaper next to my bed as I opened my eyes into the waking world. But then I also knew I was protected and felt safe enough to turn out the light and go right back to sleep. Thoughts?!

r/LucidWetDreams

My question was if anyone else has experienced a sensation of their ears changing pressures before/during a lucid dream/sp, but then I came on here and saw that it was common. I have started to notice that every time I have that sensation wash over me - (and it keeps happening while I'm dreaming, like a wave pouring over my ears, a vibration of sorts?? a sound surely but mainly , a frequency? I truly am not sure. Even when I wake myself completely, then I know I will go back into another lucid dream because it's still washing over my ears) - I fall into a lucid dream.

TL;DR - My new question is on your observations/experiences on getting touched by others in these spaces - and how real the sensations feel. What must be happening in our physical bodies?

lengthy personal experiences below, if allowed: The last lucid dreams I had, I was touched twice on my hands, which were warm and solid touches, and then a third time on my hip, which scared me how real it felt and I woke immediately. I was touched once before by a figure all in black, the first time it had really stuck out to me, and was so real, so warm the touch, that again, I woke immediately. Prior to that touch, I was floating upside down in a dark underground earthen cave, and someone was pounding on a red metal door screaming at me to let them in over and over again. Since I knew It was just a dream, I decided to face my fear and see who was behind the door. I was able to right myself up in the air, FELt the sensation of gravity flipping in my stomach, and then was able to use the force of my weight landing on the ground to pull open the door, when the figure stepped thru and touched me. In another dream, I was walking over hardened lava rocks, and It hurt my feet so badly every step. later I put my hand brake thru some of the crust to water flowing below it out to the sea, and it was so cold and feeling like real water. I stuck my hand in a snowbank in that same dreamscape, and my fingers were so cold, I wondered if they were getting frost bite in real life.

ALSO Maybe unrelated, maybe not, but I feel interesting to note that my mother is a pisces - her eldest daughter and son are both pisces, I am a pisces moon. Her grandson also a pisces, and we all experience sleep paralysis often. My mom has had many 'prophetic' dreams in her lifetime - her siblings also experience these things so clearly the bloodline goes back further than her. Example - one time she dreamt of a woman named Mary XXX, I can't remember the exact name, but the next day at work, she drew the blood of 7 Mary XXX's in a row, or some variation of the name. !!! She was also at the scene of her brothers death before she knew he died, watching a car drive into the sky, when a call came that woke her from this dream to say that her brother had been hit by a car and died at the exact same intersection she was 'at' moments before.

ALSO ALSO My brothers method of getting out of sleep paralysis is to breathe thru his nostrils super hard so that his wife hears and will wake him out of it lol. I personally am able to will myself awake, though sometimes it is very difficult, it feels like the veil is stickier somehow. I believe that the "powers" I have in my dreams have been elevated ever since a nightmare that I had in 2020, where I became lucid and said hell nah, you are not welcome here, this is MY dream! I really haven't had a scary dream since, unless there was a specific message attached to it that I needed to see.

I hade kind of a lucid dream. While napping I was on the verge of waking up when it felt like i was paralysed but this have happened before so i just relaxed and tried to go conscious in to the dream. I had a auditor hallucination of somone banging on my door but i knew it was suposed to happen and went in to a kind of weak lucid dream where i felt i would easily wake up. In the dream i laid in some bed with a door close by i dont know where i was, but i remembered i heard if you lick something i would become more intact or something with the dream. I felt that if i moved too much i would wake up so i snailed my way to the door and licked it and it helped a bit but i woke up pritty fast afterwards.

So my question is, what can i do to not wake up. Every time I have a become lucid I always wake up very fast.

I just think that, one of the main cincerns of this subreddit is the excessive nsfw posting. So why dont we ban nsfw posts on this subreddit and create a new one purwly for nsfw content

So last night I had one of the longest and vivid lucid dream I've had, also one of the most awareness too.

For most of the dream I just played out what was happening, it's been a while since I had a long lucid dream and usually when I feel like it's long it ends but this one didn't, anyway I've been playing the last of us lately and I thought it would be fun to fight some zombies.

So I'm flying around and I imagine everyone turning into zombies, I really focus into it and something weird happens. As I'm focusing on my imagination things start losing it's realism and then I wake up with only an image of what I wanted in my head.

I've read a lot about expectations in LDs, so I'm thinking instead of imagining things in dreams we should expect them to happen. What are your thoughts on this?

I'm planning on doing a drastic change on my sleep routine, from sleeping at 2am and waking up at 11am to sleeping at 10pm and waking up at 6am. I'm doing this so i can do the WILD technique easier, as i cant sleep when the sun is out. But i'm sure that will break my sleeping routine, specially the REM cycles. How much time will it take for my REM cycles take to adjust itself? From 9am REM to 4am REM.

I think I had an uncontrolled lucid dream exactly 3 times. The last time, I was in a dream. I woke up in my dream and looked at my hands. My hands were invisible, I couldn't see them. At that moment, I realized that it was a dream and told myself that I was dreaming. And I stood up and tried to fly. And I took off a little but I couldn't fly completely. Because my fears didn't allow it. Then I wanted to see a person I loved and said his name. Then I lost control and evil spirits started to come. I shouted to myself, "wake up, wake up" , but I couldn't wake up. I slapped myself but I couldn't wake up. I tried very hard to wake up. I even thought about killing myself. But I couldn't do it because of my fear. Then I thought about sleeping. And the moment I fell asleep, I woke up in the real world. Is this a lucid dream? And why couldn't I wake up even though I wanted to?

So I can consistently make my dreams lucid after ages but I wake up when I realise any tips

Hi, I tried to post this in sleep paralysis, but it won’t go through, so I’m posting it here because it is a lucid dreaming topic (lucid nightmare).

Years ago I discovered accidentally a formula that worked for me to end sleep paralysis, making the shadow person go away at my command (which seemed an impossible task until then -> the shadow people used to vanish only when they wanted to, after they scared the heck out of me).

The best part is that I was then able to reproduce the technique a few weeks later, when the next episode kicked in. So far, years after, I didn’t have another one. I’ll describe how it went & thoughts on it, hoping some can find details here that work for them, too.

On the second to last night it happened, an unexpected shift took place. Even though I could not move, as I was seeing the shadow person approaching, the feeling that I was in my childhood bedroom overlapped for a second, so I instantly felt some comfort I haven’t felt while in the same situation. For the first time ever, due to that vague confusion, I let other thoughts roam inside my brain, besides the usual 100% dread, hopelessness & struggle to grasp air. And that crack in the darkness is what led to my 2 words discovery.

Thinking back I realized that the same mind which detects the fear, creates the fear - so only that mind can end it, if we allow it to think a liberating thought. (If you have your fingers on the light switch and you just turned it off, you can also turn it back on.) A small positive thought can act like a wedge that splits a big log in 2. Your positive thought is 1% of what you have in your mind in those moments, but it can crush the 99%.

So, when I accidentally felt safer, despite still not being able to move or speak, my brain spit out 2 words, “Disappear, disappear” AND the shadow person vanished instantly, while I was able to breath & to move my limbs right away.

It was the first time I wasn’t afraid to go back to sleep & the first time I ended the episode. I also knew what to do when the next one started -> and I ended it promptly by thinking the same two words. I was so happy that it worked again; I wasn’t sure it was going to, but it did!

I didn’t know about lucid dreaming back then, but years later I realized that sleep paralysis is a type of lucid nightmare. When you understand that, you understand that you have control, too - you are not just a passive spectator & victim. Sleep walkers walk, but don’t remember. People with sleep paralysis have their bodies asleep, but their minds are kind of awake. If we leave space for something else rather than just dread, we could end the nightmare. That was my case.

I hope this thought process will help some. I explained how I got to the point when I accidentally became more confident than before, yet, how I got there is not that relevant in the big picture. More relevant is what that triggered me to do afterwords -> to think the safe words. Those words were the only very small luggage I had to make sure I’d carry into my next bad dream & then pull myself out of fear enough to believe in them & use them.

More about snapping out of fear -> following are different ways to try get to the same outcome, in case some ideas are easier for you to remember while you are in that dreamy state ->

As I became aware of the fear, I became aware that I-am, as in “I-am much more than the fear” ( kind of - ‘if I can feel fear, I bet I can feel something else, too’) and that allowed me to shout with my mind “Disappear, disappear!” - try to remember these 2, or anything else quick like that.

In order to cut the episode short, I finally used the fear as a wake up call or an alarm -> just like a burning ache on the skin reminds one not only to stay frozen, terrified of dying in a blaze, but primarily to pull the hand away from the flame. (Think of a deer that is paralyzed in front of car headlights & remember, you are not that deer anymore.)

If the dread seems to paralyze your body - as you acknowledge how you feel, use that awareness quickly to “unparalyze” the brain - don’t use it only to assess your helplessness in that moment, as I did when I ONLY focused on the fear & on what I WASN’T ABLE to physically do. Instead, use the awareness to activate the feeling, word or positive mental image which could work for you literally like a spell.

The key is to snap for one second out of the terror & to remember that you have the fingers on the light switch/ you are the switch. You are the source & receiver of all thoughts, good & bad.

There is an old R&B song saying, “The boy is mine.” Now say please, “The brain is mine.” It all starts (and ends) there (including your nightmare - you know it is a lucid one, so try to control it & make it lucid all the way).

Let one positive thought surf whatever else you feel, like the passenger who just hid in the toilet of an airplane going from New York to Paris, & flew with no ticket across the ocean. Sneak in that small positive thought because it can cross you over the ocean of fear.

Another analogy -> Neuralink patients. They finally coordinate commands with their brains. Metaphorically speaking, snapping out of a lucid nightmare is kind of like that, once you remember you could make available & then try a new type of mental/ emotional response while in the dream.

This might not work from the first time, but please practice, and maybe you won’t have them ever again. I saw posts saying - “stay calm & go through it” etc. - I guess I jumped straight to - ‘get out of it, now.’ I am grateful & I can’t explain why they stopped after my second success, maybe because I believed I could end them from there on. Please, no matter what was your experience & attitude until now, be flexible with the way you think. I too considered I couldn’t ever stop them until I did.

Also, some say, ‘try to breathe, wiggle your toes.’ Feeling paralyzed & focusing on those only increased my terror because no matter what, I couldn’t be faster than the shadow person in motion, approaching the bed. I think that if you are out in an ocean or sea, the advice is not to move the limbs a lot, but to float instead. I guess this applies to sleep paralysis, at least for me - stop wasting time or energy on the body. You are focusing on the wrong ‘soldier’ or savior. Your most efficient, fastest savior is the mind. Unplug the dream.