i can’t move on from what happened, cause what the heck did i just feel 😭

in the dream, i was walking past people building a house. then the next things was, i walked past a guy who randomly called me pretty and got pinned down by him on a bench (which seemed to me that i was in some outdoor cafe).

that’s where he knelt before me and fingered me. and what drove me speechless was that, I FELT IT

he even pulled me in a french kiss, and his tongue, i could vividly remember how it moved against mine like THE HECK 😭

it didn’t last long cause i somehow managed to get out of my dream due to how surprised i was 💀

I cannot stand people that are spreading misinformation about lucid dreaming!! Everytime i see someone posting videos from this channel with a subway surfers duet i want to scream. And then i see the comments and they all are saying like “i did this and it worked” like no. Lucid dreaming takes years of practice and you are lying. You cannot learn to lucid dream in one night! And them theres people saying things like “do not look in the mirror in a dream” nothing happens. The thing that happens is your imagination. Dreams are your imagination sl you van influence that and if you expect the dream to become a nightmare it will become one. People should research thing before making it their whole personality.

Hello there!

My name is Joseph, and I have something that I still can't get to grips with. It's going to sound like a copy pasta or some made-up tale, but it isn't. Believe me.

(My parents room is to the left if me. This is important for later on)

Here's a little bit of backstory. I live with my mum and dad, and as of late, I have been sleeping with my light on. I am in my late 20s, so i definitely don't need a nightlight, but I simply forget to turn it off once every now and then. I have developed this "habit" over the last couple of months and have really thought nothing of it. I am also pretty sure that most of the time it isn't me leaving it on... Sometimes, I turn it off if I wake up in the middle of the night, but more often than not, it is my dad who turns it off. I hear him come in and turn it off, nothing ambiguous there.

So, with all of that in mind, here comes my problem that still irks me. Last month, something unusual occurred. I wasn't dreaming as I was fully aware of what was going on and was in control of myself and my surroundings. Someone something came to turn my light off that wasn't my Dad. My door cracked open as it usually would. However, the hand was bigger than usual, and I started to slam the door against it. Obviously, if this was a "real" thing, it would have started to scream out. It didn't. I opened the door and stood there further away, which was a much slimmer version of my dad. I remember saying, "I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry! Are you alright? " No response. This figure then went to the left and never made a noise as i never heard the door open or close.

Now, what on Earth was this? It hasn't happened since, and my light has been off.

Anyone that could help? Thank you.

First time experiencing this being I must have come back to my body or began entering and when I did I noticed this dark being laying next to my body on the bed. I turned my head fully to look at it and when I did it rolled over to look at me then got up from the bed and walked away toward the doorway of the bedroom.

Second time, coming back towards my body again and mustve seen it before I entered. So I completely come back but still see him. My body was snoring while I was away and entered it was still snoring and even though I was aware of the snoring I guess it expected me to stop and wake up but I continued snoring purposely and it comes over above my body face to face and I said to it "faggot" and it quickly went away. I now completely woke up and I got a sad sensation/vibe whatever from that same part of the room that it was standing in. Idky but I apologized to it. Does anyone have any explanation for this being?

Context: The day before yesterday I had a lucid dream in which I was in the playground of my old school, I was having fun testing things (gliding, seeing if physics is respected etc.) It There were a lot of people in the playground, but they didn't seem to mind seeing a guy flying calmly in the air 🤣 After having fun I finally decided to enter the establishment in the hope of talking to old college friends. When I got home I noticed that the school was decorated in a particular way, it was as if there was some sort of party, there was even a sort of mini store dedicated to Michael Jackson (with his different costumes etc.). Being a fan of MJ, you know your friend, I immediately wanted to try the different outfits, but then suddenly out of nowhere a woman (who I didn't know) stopped me and told me not to do it . She really insisted that I should not test the costumes, with the only argument being that MJ was a murderer. Her speech made no sense but she was starting to get angry as I refused to listen to her. Her face was starting to get scary and it scared me, so I decided to gain momentum and fly at her at full speed to punch her. The blow was so powerful that it made him go through the wall. At that moment I thought I had gotten rid of the problem but a dark-haired woman appeared out of nowhere and stuck to me and because of that I am awake

Question: I've been having lucid dreams since I was little, it's always been a trivial experience for me. But recently I started to be a little more interested in the subject and I want to increase their frequency and learn how to do them better. control. This is not the first time that a situation like this has forced me to wake up. Could anyone give me a tip to avoid this kind of situation? THANKS

So firstly, I am not used to experiencing those things, but yesterday : While I was sleeping a was having a dream where I lay exactly on my bed, talking to a "friend" ( I dont know her personally), who was sitting on a windowsill. ( The dream was pictured exactly as my room ) We was talking about something i cant remember since i have memory problems. And I cant remember if I asked her something or she asked me, but one of us didn't answer.

The scary part : After the question that one of us was asked and didnt answer, I turnt my head to the pillow ( to get into more comfortable position ) and blinked. And BAM! Shes gone, after some miliseconds I tried to look at the door ( behind my bed ) AND a BLACK CREATURE literally CRAWLED so fast to me, put her/his hand on me and that touch felt so fucking real, then i wake up and the feeling was still on for a second. It literally fucked up my mind. Was it real, or was it fake? I know its fake, but it was so real? What even triggers it to cause? I was reading a bit of this and said that it can be caused by tiredness or lack of sleep. But still.. it caused me to this moment and i dont even wanna sleep again (its 3:10a.m. rn )

Quick story of similiar experiences When i was a kid (6-8years old) I also dreamt something, and then wake up, but i wake up like 75% paralysed. I couldnt scream, run, normally walk without slowmotion. I got from my bed and went to my moms room to ask if i can sleep with her cuz some crazy shit is happening. Idk it felt like a minute for me to get from my room to my moms room ( which is literally near my room ).

Idk it felt like it would be better if i shared this experience. Maybe others experienced this too and doesnt want to be alone. And maybe i get my answers what caused it and why it feels so real.

So last night I tried using mild and during the first dream I had I was being chased by a robber in a mansion and I hid under a blanket and I realized while under it that I was in a dream and I started waking up but since I knew I was dreaming I forced myself to stay sleeping then the dream ended after a few more seconds of the dream but I stayed sleeping and entered another dream where I did not know it was a dream. Idk what I experienced but it’s the first time i’ve been able to make progress at all since I started a few months ago.

I’m not a person who does drugs or anything and I’m a pretty careful person normally, so I’m just asking if there are any perfectly legal supplements that have no risk of harming you in any way. If there isn’t anything just feel free to tell me whats the closest to it at least. Answers are really appreciated as I just don’t think I’m wired to be able to have consistent lucid dreams otherwise

So in the past Summer i could remember a dream like every day, but now, it feels like i havent remembered anything since like 3 months. Do yall have any tipps on this and could it be because it is getting colder or something? Thanks.

Last night, I had a strange experience while trying to fall asleep. I kept opening and closing my eyes every 5-10 seconds for what felt like a long time. I even got up to use the bathroom about four times. Then, at one point, I opened my eyes, and my entire room looked… purple. It struck me as odd, but I didn’t think much of it at the time, I just closed my eyes again and eventually fell asleep. Thinking back, though, it doesn’t make sense. Could that have been a lucid dream? I’m almost certain I was just lying there with my eyes open, in my actual room.

Weird things like this have happened before. One time, in the middle of a long sleep, I felt this sudden, almost forced urge to look over the edge of my bed toward the door. I after that I even did this automatic strange back roll toward the top corner of my bed, and then, suddenly, it was like I teleported back to my original spot. I couldn’t move, and I saw my room, but it was unusually bright and vivid. The whole thing felt incredibly real.

Another time, I got jumpscared by someone loudly broke through my door, turned on the lights, screaming nonsense. It was terrifying and I got so frigging jumpscared, and again, it felt real even though it didn’t make any sense.

Are these lucid dreams? They feel so vivid and realistic, but they’re also bizarre and hard to explain.

So I recently stopped lucid dreaming and dream journaling because I need to get more sleep (I'm always tired).

Recently, I woke up to my alarm ringing. I swear I pressed all the buttons and it did not stop. I took out the cable. Nothing. I took of the batteries, one by one. Nothing.

Then I legit woke up for real. So I was just wondering if this is considered a false awakening...

Idk if thats what they are called or even a thing, this has been going on for atleast 20 years off and on, i will be sleeping and in my dream i will hear someone say something like “ theres a snake in your bed” or “ theres a mouse in your bed” and i will wake up and jump out of bed pull my blanket off my bed see a snake get startled and quickly escape under the bed im moving the bed trying to get to it then i realize its not real and go back to bed, its usually always an animal but 1 time that really scared me was i woke up to someone asking me if they could borrow my jeep, i lived alone but family had keys to my place, i remember waking up seeing shadows under the door to my room and someone asking if they can borrow my jeep, i don’t let anyone drive my vehicles so i ignored it and went back to sleep, that night i had a dream that i was driving and i went to the convenience store and got some donuts and went home but i don’t remember getting home, the next morning when i went to work my jeep was parked in a different spot, i lived in an apt, but no sign of donuts and i remembered everything like it was a dream, so was i sleep driving/walking idk, has anyone experienced the wake up dreams its usually animals but a few times its been ppl

Yall so I actually kind of did WILD today because I got into sleep paralysis. BUT the second I did I started hearing voices. I know that's normal when doing this but it was so convincing because I thought it was my brother waking me up. Then somehow I did WILD again and the same thing happened but it was my father. So yeah also the shift to sleep paralysis feels weird. Afterwards I had a non lucid dream 😔. Oh well we try again next night!

Context:

Currently I am trying to improve my dream recall, even though I am able to remember at least one dream each night to keep my streak (currently 40 days) I often can't remember much, sometimes even what feels like only half a minute of dream time, just a short scene or even just a place or person but no "story". On the weekend it is easier since I can go to bed later and sleep longer, I have most lucid dreams at that time. Still I want to improve my dream recall but I don't do much for it when awake, mainly because I'm not sure what to do exactly. So I decided to try and find answers in a lucid dream.

Intention:

Yesterday I decided to set my intention to stay in bed until I had a lucid dream, since I didn't have to work today I could take the time and this intention worked before quite well. In the lucid dream I want to call out to the dream itself (not a dream character) how much I care about dream recall and that I am looking for tips on what I can do to improve it.

Lucid Dream:

This morning I succeeded and had a lucid dream. I was on a big parking spot and remembered how I wanted to practice lucid dreaming, this made me realize that I had no idea where I was and that itself made me lucid instantly. I walked around for a bit, then I remembered my intention. I just looked up and loudly stated my request to get help with dream recall. Then I just heard a deep, loud and clear voice from the sky answer. It seemed like god talking, but since I knew it is my dream I knew it must be my subconscious. I was able to pick up a few words, but it was mixed with gibberish, basically making the answer not helpful at all. I even asked to repeat which led the voice to mumble something quietly for two seconds. Then I imagined another voice answer and asked again, I did hear a different voice, but it was echoing and I noticed myself already waking up quickly.

Did anyone have similar situations, did you find out how to change/improve it ? Any tips for improving dream recall, maybe exercises while awake ? Please let me know what you think. Any help is appreciated !

okay it's not my very first lucid dream, but it's the first lucid dream i didn't panic so much in.

i was in bed when the dream started because it transitioned from sleep paralysis. i was at home but my surroundings looked unusual, more ethereal because they were bright and glowy. it all felt so unreal. i got up and went to a room to see my mother ironing clothes (it's unusual since we have a maid). i sat down beside her and i was in a good mood because she seemed to be as well. i read up on lucid dreaming before and knew a few reality check methods, so i checked my hands and my fingers looked distorted, so i immediately knew i was in a lucid dream. also for some reason, there are a lot of dramatic sound effects when i lucid dream so when i did realize i was in a lucid dream, there was like a vine boom sound effect 😭. after this, i don't know what we were talking about, but one very important and memorable thing that i remember is; i had a crush that time and i knew you could get what you want in a lucid dream so i asked my mother if i could go on a date with him but for some reason, i kept losing my voice whenever i say his name. i tried to say it multiple times, but my voice just kept going away. my mother looked at me, very confused. but eventually i said it, and she didn't let me go on a date with him, but she was very playful with her reply. i was playful back to her, but also confused because you can get whatever you want in lucid dreams, can't you? after that, i went to the living room and i wanted to test out my lucid dreaming powers so i pictured my favourite fictional character, expecting him to appear normally, but my cousin appeared instead, in a cosplay of my favorite character. i think i just doubted myself too much and he had a very dramatic entrance. i went back to bed after that to get out of the lucid dream (yes, i don't know if it's normal but i do have the ability to do that). my parents were there with me (i always found comfort in their presence, especially when i'm about to go to sleep). i immediately saw a link. at first, i didn't know how i ended up lucid dreaming since it was my first time, but i guess during the sleep paralysis, i pictured myself waking up to peace with my family and that's how i ended up in the lucid dream.

still, i don't know why i kept losing my voice whenever i tried to say my crush's name, i don't know what's stopping me. am i unknowingly nervous to ask? is it not what i truly desire?

if I continue sleeping , I get maybe 2 other dreams and then my memory of the earlier dreams gets worse and I can remember less of them.

what should I do please?

is it okay to not remember everything? or is it actually better to have messed up sleep?

I have had lucid dreams many times during past 20 years, during scary dreams, exciting ones, ordinary dreams and ...

The latest ones happened 2 back to back nights, about 2 weeks ago:

1st night:

I was watching my elder brother (has passed away 2 years ago) in the long shot, walking from right side to the left, I was wondering how desperately I wanna talk to him, at the moment I realized that it's a dream and the dream faded out.

2nd night:

Again at the same situation like previous night, I was watching my brother walking in the long shot, again I desperately wanted to talk to him, I realized it's a dream and all of it will be gone, so I needed a solution, I thought "maybe if I take out my smart phone and take a video it will work" and then "nah man, the video will be gone too"

After a while I was talking to my friend about these whole experiences that how I mostly know that I'm dreaming, and told him about these 2 nights, he then told me about the term "lucid dreams" and the forums where ppl talk about their experiences.

Actually Idk if I should take the effort to master it, to get it completely under my control to have the chance to talk to my brother, we had a relationship like Zooey and Seymour Glass had btw, or just keep working on it in the therapy sessions where sometimes it's just like I'm talking to him not the therapist.

One of the reasons people induce lucid dream because they want to solve a problem. Is there anyone that has successfully solved their problem in Lucid Dream? Please share

Stressing dreams. They're the opposite of strange.
I can picture my mind with half an eye open.

Warping here, looping there.
Trying to put together a big picture.

But the puzzle is odd, it doesn't make sense.
The context is void. Its parts don't add up.

Only the spin doesn't stop.
This is a world where you're always on top.

Crunch go the thoughts that exhaust you in your sleep.
Why are you solving, isn't this the time to free the heap?

Hey everyone,

Last night, I actually remembered a dream for the first time in a while. It was a false awakening that felt very real.

In the dream, I woke up and looked outside to see it was daytime. I panicked, thinking I was late for work. I checked my watch, and it showed 7:30 AM. I always thought you couldn't read time in dreams, but there it was.

Then I woke up for real and saw that it was 4:09 AM. I was relieved but also struck by how vivid the dream was.

My dream recall is usually pretty bad, so I'm just glad I remembered something. Has anyone else experienced something like this?

So I fell asleep normally and then I woke up to my alarm which is really loud and sudden. This was intentional as it gets me into sleep paralysis immediately after I wake up really easily and it also scares my annoying neighbor. I wanted to induce SP so I could LD. Anyway while in sleep paralysis things start to get pretty unsettling and for some reason I can't focus on my dream scene. I start hearing heavy breathing and footsteps so I decide to lighten the mood by playing some music in my head. I had this workout gym song stuck in my head so I focus on listening to that. It sounded very real and like the song was actually playing. I don't know why but I decide to open my eyes and I see a very muscular shadow figure doing workout poses and flexing his (or her or their, I'm not gender assuming) muscles and then I burst out laughing and I snap out of sleep paralysis but I still laugh for like a minute straight before doing SSILD and getting an LD.

Sleep paralysis really isn't that bad and if it is, pro tip listen to music in your head it makes it much less scary.

whenever i try to lucid dream, i go to sleep and wake up. and its like im watching myself have a dream.

i can open my eyes and wake up at any second in it.

and its like that i almost have no control over. instead of having control over the dream it feels like im suggesting things to my brain.

like whenever i want to delete something or spawn something, it might do as i say or sometimes do the most random thing ever.

plus the dream has no color. and i realize im dreaming in it. but it just feels like im watching someone have a dream and i can suggest stuff that might happen or not to the dream.

is this considered lucid dreaming?

So have somewhat of an issue- this morning had a successful wild- but my partner , bless him since having long covid and recovering was left with involuntary leg movements in his sleep. So I pulled in and out of lucid dreams this morning because I seem to wake up very easy with movements he makes. My question is is there a way to deepen the sleep state to ignore the movements? Or is it an evolutionary adaptation from our ancestor days to wake up easy with being moved? I don’t want separate beds as still like cuddling when falling asleep at night but my progress in lucid dreaming during wbtb is hindered quite a bit because of this lately. I am able to go back to lucid dream straight after waking each time- but I don’t always return to same place lol

I keep having dreams where I experience some sort of lucid-ception. I’m bad at explaining but I become aware of the possibility that this is dream but I’m not aware of myself in this reality. I end up dreaming about falling asleep and lucid dreaming and thinking my dream self is the real reality. I think it has been hindering my ability to control my dreams as I struggle to do anything and end up forgetting about my lucidity.

I’m sorry that was poorly explained but does anyone have advice on how to remember and keep myself focused? Or any tips in general? I can feel that I’m half way there as these dreams are becoming more and more common. Just struggling with this one thing.

I read somewhere on reddit about this audio on youtube with always induces lucid dream of some kind. But yesterday when i listened to it for like 3 hours while sleeping, i didn't had any weird dreams or maybe had but don't remember. What i do remember is that i felt really weird that night, i was feeling tingling sensations and i think i had a dream where someone was saying something like "let's be quick before those travelers from parallel universe come...." not exactly the same words(i think i kept thinking about lucid dreaming or parallel universe due to which i had this dream). But still wasn't able to induce lucid dreaming :(

I had a few lucid dreams as a kid and teenager. Recently, I decided to try getting into lucid dreaming more seriously. I’m reading LaBerge, keeping a dream journal (usually recording two dreams per night). My dreams are pretty short (or I only remember a small part, like just one scene), and it seems like they change when I try to recall them. I’ve been looking for dream signs, but my categories are all over the place, so I’m not sure yet. I’m also reading posts here and checking out techniques online. I try to do reality checks when I remember, and I’m working on MILD and WILD techniques—but sometimes, I can’t fall asleep because I’m trying to keep my mind awake while my body relaxes.

I was hoping to have a lucid dream in my first week, but that didn’t happen. Still, I’m determined to keep going until I can lucid dream at will.

Today—day 11—I realized I was dreaming. Not because of a reality check, but because I suddenly noticed I was a dog! I forgot to stabilize the dream, but I kept reminding myself that I was dreaming. I was flying around a park filled with autumn leaves, the colors were more vivid than usual. I reminded myself once, but then got caught up in the experience and forgot. I stayed lucid for about a minute.

If you’re starting out, don’t give up!

(Sorry for the bad english, not my main language)

To give context, for a long time now I have had this type of nightmare kinda similar to a sleep paralysis (I don't know how else I could describe it). You could say the 'paralysis' is regulated, sometimes completely paralyzed, sometimes numb but able to move, sometimes fully able to move. But always 'waking up' in my room.

It's happened enough times that I've gotten to the point where I become lucid only in that specific type of dream, and they usually have a base recipe every time:

If I have full mobility in the nightmare, then everything is normal, things happen as if it were real life. I can move, I can talk, I can get out of bed, and all that. What usually tells me whether I'm dreaming or not is asking someone, or noticing something out of place. (For example, one time I started getting ready to go to college, and after getting dressed and making breakfast, the TV wasn't where it should be, and that woke me up.)

If I have that minimal and numb mobility, I usually can't get out of bed, things out of place don't wake me up, I can't make any noise no matter how much I move my mouth, and there is always either a presence or a voice whispering things. To wake up I need to get rid of whatever is bothering me, that is, close my eyes and cover my ears. A really complicated task.

If I have no mobility at all, all I can do is wait for whatever my mind has prepared to torture me to hurt me. (For example, once it happened that the room was filled with water up to the ceiling, and I couldn't move from the bed. To wake up I had to breathe the water and drown.)

In each and every one of these scenarios that my brain prepares for me, I am aware that I am dreaming (except when the dream is too real, then it takes me a little longer), and I'm the one who has to figure out what to do to wake up. This is exhausting, because I have these kinds of dreams more than 3 times a night, they leave me paranoid when I wake up in those dreams, to the point that if things are going well, I have the urge to ask somebody if I am dreaming, and when I actually wake up, I am exhausted, as if I had not slept at all.

I have most of these dreams written down, although I started a few months after the first experiences.

I'm not sure what I was expecting when I wrote this. If you'd like, feel free to leave me your thoughts. Thanks for reading.

Hey guys I hope you all are well I am new to this area of Lucid dreaming and I was wondering can LCD be used for subconciosus mind programming to quit bad habits or improve health condition like insomnia weight loss etc

I am primarily interested in this area and have read about Hypnagogia which is the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep and how during this stage the subconscious mind is evry receptive. I have also been reading about the role of subconscious mind in many aspects like habits patterns etc

Thanks