/r/LucidDreaming
All about Lucid Dreams. Learn and share how to induction methods & techniques, post questions, challenges, articles, resources, and scientific news.
All about Lucid Dreams. How to, sǝɔuǝıɹǝdxǝ, etc.
Please take discussions of the paranormal such as astral projection someplace else. Binaural beats are also inappropriate. Let's keep this in the realm of science.
Quickstart Guide for Beginners - Know this stuff before you post!
Finger Induced Lucid Dreaming This appears to be the biggest improvement in lucid dreaming techniques in a long time. Be sure to give it a try.
Dream Views A good fairly comprehensive guide. There's also a great message board and an online dream journal.
LD4all A message board, it's got solid information and good community.
All Day Awareness is a great approach. it is effort intensive, but pay back in lucid dreams and more awareness in life.
This FAQ was produced by the Lucidity Institute. It's not pretty, but is based on solid science.
LD - Lucid Dreaming - Being aware that you are dreaming while in a dream.
RC - Reality Check - A test to establish whether you are in a dream or waking life, actively done during the day in hopes that the habit will continue within dreams.
DC - Dream Character - Any personality you encounter other than yourself...well, occasionally it can also be yourself.
WBTB-Wake Back To Bed - Waking up for 20-30 minutes, then going back to bed increases the chances of lucid dreaming. Use that time to read about lucid dreaming or plan your dreams, and make your intention solid. Can be combined with other techniques.
MILD - Mnemonically Induced Lucid Dream - In short, MILD is telling yourself as you are in bed ready to sleep that you are going to become lucid when you dream, then visualizing yourself in a dream becoming lucid. Repeat until you fall asleep.
WILD - Wake-Induced Lucid Dream - A technique in which you maintain consciousness while your body falls asleep. Not for the squeamish.
FILD - Finger-Induced Lucid Dream - A technique using subtle finger movements as you fall asleep.
SSILD - Sense-Induced Lucid Dream - A technique where you use awareness of your various senses as you cycle through them while falling asleep.
False Awakening - False Awakening is in essence just dreaming that you woke up, only to usually immediately after either actually wake or have another dream of waking up from the previous dreams. Those can often happen multiple times in sequence. It can be a bit jarring but also fun. If those happen often use it to do a reality check every time you wake up (or think you do).
SP - Sleep Paralysis - A natural, safe part of the process of falling asleep which causes you to be unable to move your body. The paralysis process happens to you every time you go to sleep. When you WILD and experience SP, you are conscious while it happens. Sometimes you may be visited by the dream transition buddies--relax and enjoy the show until you can interact with your environment. Attempting to induce SP is NOT required to achieve lucidity.
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Let me preface this by saying I am between the age of 45-55. I have been into lucid dreaming and AP since I was about 17. I read a book or two on lucid dreaming which taught me techniques and gave other pointers to practice while awake to help while dreaming. After taking notes in my dream journal for about a month I stated lucid dreaming and what I thought may have been AP (story for another time). Long story short…I could finally control my dreams at a scale of about 4-5 (out of 10) and had a lot of fun doing it. For reasons unknown (and can’t remember), I stopped practicing it and eventually lost interest.
I recently came across calea zacatechichi and African dream root which sparked my interest once again. I just drank my cup of calea and going to try some basic techniques I learned when I was 18 to see what happens.
So, WISH ME LUCK! Glad to be here.
I will report back…
Was very unnerving of an experience. As a kid I used to lucid dream all the time, as I got older and started drinking, using weed and other life stuff I stopped. For many years because of alcohol I didn’t dream at all. I’ve quit all that and have been going down a path of self realization and one thing I wanted to pick back up is lucid dreaming. I had my first semi lucid dream a few nights ago and it was hell.
I say semi lucid because while at first I wasn’t lucid the torture made me lucid but I wasn’t in control of the dream. At some point in my dream I had a cast on my leg, a man I believed to be a doctor was conveying to me that he was going to remove the cast with a new painless method that I wouldn’t feel at all. When he started to remove the cast he used a scalpel to start cutting a deep ~1ft slice into the side of my calf muscle. This is when I became lucid but wasn’t in control. I became paralyzed as I watched this man slice into my leg while smiling. I could feel every inch of the blade cutting me open. I could feel the warm blood running down my leg. I was screaming in pain and terror but there was no one. As I was stuck there bleeding and in pain I started telling myself it’s just a dream and to wake up which I did shortly after.
But man wtf?! My younger self lucid dreams used to be about flying and touching boobs. This dream left me unsettled and a bit traumatized even now. I’m still going to work on my lucid dreaming but any tips to control them better?
Does having 12 hours scren time hurt my chance of lucid dreaming is it better to have healthy habbits for better lucid dream drop rates?
I had a really weird dream Thursday night/Friday morning.
I think I've lucid dreamed one time, and it was when I was very young. I don't remember it, but I remember telling people I've lucid dreamed once before. I haven't since and don't have good memory recall either, as I always forget (most, if not all of) my dreams or just don't have any. I haven't actively tried lucid dreaming either and am very new to this.
On Friday I woke up at 5:20am. I decided to go back to sleep because I wasn't supposed to get up till 6:30.
When I fell asleep, I woke up in my bed. Currently, I'm not sleeping in my bed because of a broken roof tile causing damage, so it was strange. I was definitely in my room, and I felt like I had just woken up. My sister had walked in and was standing in the doorway doing something. I don't remember what I asked her or what she said, but I do remember that it sounded weirdly jumbled. This is when my brain went "oh, what if I'm dreaming" and it felt like a click. Trying to recall a way to check if I was dreaming, I looked at my hand and mildly freaked out because I had an extra finger. I also tried to put my hand through my other hand, and it worked — and also felt really fucking weird.
I don't remember much after this.
Spontaenously, I was standing on the other side of the room facing the bed instead of laying down. I think after realizing I was lucid (?) I got really excited, and it probably made me lose lucidity. I tried to make a portal to my desired reality (I'm a shifter) and one appeared. It was orange and rectangular, kind of like a door and almost identical to a TVA portal.
This is the part that confuses me? I got excited, and tried to go through the portal; buti couldn't. It felt like the dream was glitching and I couldn't reach it, like I was stumbling. I didn't manage to go through the portal.
The only thing I remember after that is going into another dream right after where I was sitting on a bench with some of my family. I don't remember anything else.
I woke up very confused.
I have very very little, almost no, experience in lucid dreaming, so I'd like to know if this could've been a lucid dream or just a strange dream? It was a strange experience and had me dumbfounded the whole day.
I’ve been trying to LD for about 2-3 weeks now, I’ve only managed to do it twice, both times were very short because I got too excited, and both of them also basically looked exactly like real life, which made it easy for dream me to notice something was off (like having 7 fingers, or noticing my houses layout wasn’t the same.
I usually have very high fantasy dreams, like last night I had a dream I was on a futuristic spaceship with a crew, and we were going to a mars type planet to mine crystals. that planet was colonized by humans, the “rich” people lived in a small town, and their houses were square metal houses and the poor lived in large slum cities. Random lol, but night on this planet was incredibly beautiful .
The dream I had the other night was me and a few DCs exploring a “high fantasy” castle (reminded me of lothric castle from dark souls) we were trying to steal a specific item that was hidden somewhere in the castle, while trying to avoid the vampire looking dudes.
In both dreams, there was a moment I felt myself almost become lucid, but since everything is already so strange I sort of snapped out of it. Like with the spaceship dream, I noticed one of the townie DCs was wearing a Crystal necklace that looked exactly like the one I wear irl, and I asked her where she got it, then I went up to her and grabbed it to look at it closer. I was weirded out by it, and stared at it for awhile, but eventually it went back to being a normal dream.
And in the vampire castle one, at some point we had to turn into blue teddy bears as a disguise so that the bad guys didn’t recognize us, and I remember being weirded out by this and staring at the DCs while they walked around as those bears, but we quickly went back to being humans and it’s like dream me forgot that it even happened.
How can I train myself to recognize dream signs when my dreams are already so weird and random?
Like the title says, I suddenly had a ton of Lucid Dreams and they were the clearest ones I've had to date. A little background on me, I've been a lurker for a good at least 5 years and have had a high interest in Lucid Dreaming within that time, so far until now I have only had a handful of low level lucid dreams. I have never gone full tilt into it by doing reality checks and dream journaling until recently, but that died off after a week. I was asleep for around 7 hours until I had to wake up earlier today to go do something, I strictly remember waking up from the dream so I was in REM before I woke up. I had some sort of heightened awareness in that dream where I was questioning how I got some places and it was also pretty vivid.
After waking up, I did what I had to do and stayed awake for around 2 hours and 30 minutes at the most and I went back to sleep. The dreams that followed were the longest lasting and most clear dreams I had to date, I don't distinctly remember how I got lucid in the first few dreams but I can definitely remember how I got lucid in the most recent. I believe I lost awareness at some point and it turned into a normal dream and then after a bit the dream dissolved into a black void, I don't remember the transition. But I somehow got lucid in that black void, I don't know how, the best I could describe it is that I knew the feeling of my low lucidity, if any, and that triggered me to become lucid.
So I was in this void and I was still aware I was asleep, not in a dream yet I don't think, so I just tried manifesting one by imagining a place I wanted to be and also doing a mix of imagining myself rolling out of my body. Then I remember just trying to force like my dream eyes open and suddenly I was standing in my dream in a place kind of similar where I wanted to be. I won't go into details of what my dream was about next, but it was the most vivid one I've had to date aside from a few dream control issues and it suddenly ending after I'd say 7 minutes. Also forgot to mention, I was doing reality checks throughout just to make sure I was dreaming.
I definitely think it was the ungodly long WBTB method I did technically that helped me with lucidity and I want the opinion of others on their takes on it. Also wondering if anyone has had a similar experience with just getting lucid by just knowing the feeling of the dream and their own low lucidity, very strange.
Hi, Alex here! Better buckle up bc this is LONG.
This happened when I was very young, like 6 or 7, and was the only time. For context, when I was a kid my parents and I usually went to my mother's small village surrounded by forest and some meadows where cattle graze. It was almost abandoned, the "residents" only went there in summer bc it's basically in the middle of nowhere in the mountains. However, a few houses were still inhabitated all year round, but nowadays is completely abandoned except from our house, which we visit sometimes for maintenance, and in the summer.
When I was little, we used to go to my mother's house a lot. I remember liking the village but not the house because it was empty, so I always sneaked to a place we call palleira (kudos if you know what it is bc idk how to translate it lol) which is like an open building used to store hay and/or wood inside a property. I always played by myself there and I used to, whenever was the rare occasion for me to play with other kids, explore the village and climb trees and all that typical child stuff. Even so that I sometimes disappeared, my mother went home to get something and freaked tf out when she found out I was nowhere to be found until I appeared either running around the street or with her godmother.
But why am I explaining this? Basically to point out that me going to weird places without my parents knowing wasn't rare, I just didn't do it too much to not get a whoopin. And why do I need to point this out? Bc all my life I've thought that what I'm about to tell was something I actually lived bc I remember it like an actual memory, not a dream (it was obviously a very lucid dream).
So one day my parents went out to do their different chores on the property and left me alone in the house to do my thing, as always. I was unfathomably bored playing in the palleira, so I decided to go exploring. Recently, my parents were talking with some of the residents about an abandoned trail next to the fountain (nothing fancy, it was a tube in a wall that dispensed drinkable water from a nearby creek in the mountains, this is an old village). That trail was right next to another abandoned fountain and a borehole (which is actually more like a dirty water pit) that was actually overgrown by weeds, which made it basically invisible. They told my parents to be careful around there bc one of the residents fell inside and broke a leg and, fortunately, was able to be rescued not long after because they were walking by and heard screaming. The pit was like 15 meters away from the road, so they found them and brought to them to the nearest hospital (which is like 1h30m away, btw) and fortunately they could recover but had to use a cane to walk bc they were old.
So, after hearing this, my brain had the brilliant idea to go check it out, obviously.
I get out the house and go to the trail. I was looking for the pit (I really don't know what I would've done if I'd found it tbh) but I obviously I don't find it bc it's completely covered by weeds. So I keep walking up the trail, everything around trees and stuff, I was actually enjoying the walk. I get to an opening on the base of what seems like a meadow on a hill with trees around and a single big tree on the top. At this point I was walking for a while and I got to the point where I no longer knew where I exactly was bc the trail breaks up in different directions and gets confusing and I just walked on instinct. So, instead of trying to go back where I came from risking get even more lost in the forest. Also, as I walked even deeper, the grass started getting tall to the point it reached my waist and that didn't help to get my bearings. So I decided to get to the top of the hill to look for some buildings on the distance to walk in that general direction. I distinctively remember the grass was like dry and yellow. It was like a field of reeds on a slope with a tree on the top where the tall yellow grass wasn't as tall as down the hill.
I reach the tree and look around but see absolutely nothing and, surprisingly, I don't freak tf out bc I'm basically lost in the middle of nowhere in the forest. Also, just as I start looking around I see something moving under the grass where I came from, so I just wait to see what it is (I obviously was curious bc I was basically a child with no sense of caution). It reaches where I am and it was one of the big old dogs from one of the residents, who had some cattle. I'm not too sure what breed it was, but he looked a lot like a St Bernard with short hair that I could literally climb on and ride like a horse at that age. He looked at me, took some steps down some direction and stopped as if waiting for me to follow him, and so I did. I don't really remember the trail, but he led me back to the village through a completely different trail. Like, the village has a main road in the middle and a road up a slope towards the old abandoned school, and I walked down that road to my house bc I was tired of walking.
My parents knew nothing about this, didn't even realize I was gone (I don't even remember for how long I would've been gone but not too long, maybe an hour or less) and I never told them the story until a month ago bc I felt nostalgic back home. I'm in my 20s and I live away from home, but I went back for holidays and we drove to a place near the village, so I suggested we stopped by. I told them the story and asked if they knew the place I went, bc for me it was a memory and something I lived. However, not even my mother, who lived her entire childhood in that village and knew the area, knew what I was talking about and said it had to have been a dream. Still, we were feeling like doing some exercise, so we went to the village and walked around searching that slope with the tree. Mind you that it happened like 14 years ago and the area changed a lot, but we basically found nothing and reached the conclusion it must've been a really lucid dream that, for some reason, stuck with me.
And that's the story. It still feels weird to think that it was actually a dream and I know it does sound like one bc there are many things that don't add up, but that hill/slope with that big ahh tree and that tall yellow grass feels weirdly specific. I know for a fact that I've never seen anything like that, specially not at that age when my world was basically reduced to my house, a palleira and a couple of big chestnut trees that I used as a "tree house".
Welp, hope you enjoyed the story lol. And if anyone else experienced something like this, either a really real dream that feels like an actual memory or even a dream where you saw a place like that, feel free to share! I'm curious!
Basically I was falling asleep and I entered a dream , not knowing it was a dream , basically it went something along the lines of I was at a place with my freind now sure where or who but he chucked his phone in the air and it landed on my head for some reason my vision started going all messed up and I got really dizzy then I woke up suddenly and I made like a shocked noise is this normal or was it just a weird dream
I started dream journaling a few days ago and have been successful in my attempts to log every dream; even if it’s just me writing what emotions I felt because I couldn’t remember what happened. I would greatly appreciate ANY advice even if it’s the simplest things.
Hey everyone. I’ve experienced a lucid dream drought recently. In fact, the quality of my dreams overall has taken a dive and it feels like I’m regressing. I eat pretty clean, probably have a bit too much screen time, but the one thing I know I indulge too much of.. the vape! Does anyone have a similar experience, or if you have experience of increased dream quality after quitting it, please share, as that would no doubt increase my motivation levels to stop.
I'll try to keep this brief.
My first lucid dreaming attempt was a combination of SSILD/WILD. I had hypnagogic hallucinations that related to falling, seeing flickering lights/colors, a faint humming sound, among other things.
These hallucinations caused me to panic and caused something similar(?) to sleep paralysis in me when I forced myself to wake up. (being that I was unable to move my body/felt like i couldn't control my body)
Is there any way to avoid 'feeling' yourself falling asleep? Typically when I go to sleep I'm not as focused and don't feel any hypnagogic hallucinations, which I prefer, as they scare me to death.
I've heard this is mainly with WILD, but I'm unsure since I'm pretty new to this and haven't seen anyone asking this.
Are there any methods that don't make you focus heavily before going to sleep that cause this? This experience took a toll on me and I had difficulty falling asleep/insomnia for about half a week out of fear of 'focusing too hard' in my sleep and feeling it again. I'd appreciate any answers. Thanks!
I'm new to lucid dreaming. I've known about the term for a while but never gave it a try. My first step was to keep a dream diary to improve my dream recall. It's been a week since I started, and I'm happy to say that I can now remember multiple dreams throughout the night. I've also noticed a pattern in my dreams and it always involve fighting. Whether it's me battling someone like Spider-Man or acting as a hitman assassin using guns, the main theme of my dreams is always violence and combat. What could this mean?
If I want to have Star Platinum as my stand and fight DIO. Do I hove to consciously think about everything or does it flow naturally?
I was able to get lucid last night, I didn't use any methods or anything I just kind of realized oh I'm dreaming, kinda out of nowhere. For a couple of seconds everything stayed normal, but I closed my eyes and said when I open them this will happen (I don't remember what I was trying to do) and that made me wake up. Is there a better way to make stuff happen in my dream without waking up?
I’ve never successfully had a lucid dream, but last night, for the first time, I finally had a moment during my dream where I looked around, thought “huh, this might be a dream” and decided a to do a reality check. Yay, right? Progress! But it DIDNT WORK. I looked at my hands to see if they looked funny, but they looked completely normal. I tried pushing my finger through my palm, and it just felt like a solid, normal palm. I guess I should’ve kept trying other reality checks, but in the dream, that was enough for me to be like “damn, guess this isn’t a dream”. Woke up afterward and was pissed at myself for being so close but yet so far.
Has this happened to anyone else? Anyone have any tips?
So this happened over a month ago and I just wanna know if it is a lucid dream or not, so one night I did what I usually do before basically passing out on my bed I didn't even remember falling asleep, then next thing I know I'm on the stairs in my house making out with a girl,who's face I can't begin to describe, and at first I'm like wtf who are you, like i don'tknow you but i feel like i do, but I think I knew I was dreaming, but the whole dream only lasted like 15 seconds, I couldn't move like my body wouldn't do what my brain wanted, but I felt conscious it was weird. Was this a lucid dream or am I crazy?
It was completely unintentional, too. I woke up for a few minutes to help find the keys with my husband, and went back to sleep. I quickly went into a dream.
Though I realized I was dreaming right away. I was outside my apartment complex watching a mean storm roll in over town. I remember thinking, that's weird, it's the middle of winter in North Dakota. Why is there a severe storm rolling in? That's when I went lucid. I'm an avid weather enthusiast/storm chaser, so it makes sense that I dreamed up a storm, lol!
After I realized I was dreaming, I decided to watch the storm some more. The incoming shelf cloud was so vivid, the storm blocked out the sun, the cold blueish-green hue of the hail core was so vibrant. I walked around and noticed that the trees were beginning to bud as well. I had changed the season! I was awestruck by the beauty of the storm, the wind howling through the trees, the thunder felt so real...
After that, I managed to change the scene. Not sure how I did it, but I was now in the backyard of a house I didn't really recognize. Suddenly it was summer. The trees were so detailed. Every leaf, the grass, the random dirt patch in the yard, the soft, warm breeze. The delightful scent of lilacs was filling the air around me... I was so happy. I felt total peace. I walked around the yard for a bit marveling before I looked up.
Man, that sky was something else. Imagine a clear June day, not a cloud in sight. The sky was such a beautiful, serene shade of blue. I was moved to tears by the whole scene. Once I teared up, I ended up waking up. I can't accurately describe how amazing it felt to feel the breath of spring during the middle of winter, lol. And the utter peace that I felt in that moment. I hope I can have more lucid dreams!
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There is a thing I do when I try to lucid dream but I don't know if it leads to lucid dreaming but it never works for me.
I wake up around 5 in the morning and close my eyes in bed and and wait whilst trying to be aware but not awake. Eventually my whole body started to fade away. Then I feel like I am falling asleep super loud noises like, "wom wom wom" like techno teleportation sounds or somethings. Sometimes there is also chills going threw my whole body.
I always start to get scared because of how loud and insane it is. But I wait until I enter a dream.
Eventually the sounds stop and I feel my body again and I open my eyes just to see I'm still in my bedroom.
I repeat the technique over and over again with the same thing happening. In fact I now some times do it at night without even trying. Last night it happened to me like 5 times with almost zero effort.
I feel like I am so close but by brain like kicks me out last second every time.
Good afternoon, I want to start having lucid dreams, but I have some questions, what is the best way to write down your dreams, in a notebook or on your cell phone? Another question is how do you write it down? Do you just write the events or do you add something else?
So I’ve been wanting to get into lucid dreaming but I take trazadone for my anxiety when trying to go to sleep, and was wondering if something like that would impair lucid dreaming? Cause it knocks me out quick
You ever have that moment in a lucid dream where you realize, uh oh, you’re dreaming… and instead of flying, you’re just desperately trying to find your keys in a parking lot? It's like my subconscious is actively trolling me. Meanwhile, everyone else is out here flying with dragons while I’m fighting with my car's alarm. Come on, subconscious - get it together!
Welcome to the weekly lucid dream story thread.
Post your lucid adventures below, and please keep this lucidity related, for regular dream stories go to r/dreams and r/thisdreamihad.
Please be aware that story posts will be removed from the sub if submitted as a post rather than in here.
Ive been attempting to lucid dream for years and no matter what i tried MILD WILD videos whatever and it just wont work i really wanna lucid dream and i have been writing my dreams down too.
Hello everybody! I just recently came to the mind-blowing realization that not everybody has lucid dreams. I'm 31M and I have lived my entire life thinking that this was how everybody dreamed. When I was very young, ages 1.5-3.5 I had what my mother describes as " insane night terrors". It was so long ago that I don't really have a recollection of it, all I remember was feeling extremely freaked out and afraid of sleeping when I was a wee lad. She said that it stopped when I started sleeping on my side with a pillow between my legs, and now as an adult, I have an irrational fear of sleeping on my back. And I still sleep on my side with a pillow. As a child, and all the way up to the age of about 17, when I first discovered marijuana, I had lucid dreams *almost* every night. I would guess that probably around 75% of my dreams pre-pot were lucid. As a child, I did not enjoy them or find beneficial in any way. They were always extremely vivid. Either absolutely incredible, or dark and disturbing. But more often than not, they were truly disturbing in my late teens. I believe this may have been why I subconsciously became a pot-head overnight. I remember when I first discovered it, the thing I loved the most about it was the quiet nights. I had no dreams, good or bad. And I suppose while I was in a period of my life where they were mostly bad, this would have come to me as a great relief. Anyways, fast-forward to now. About a week and half ago, I was having trouble sleeping. I did not want to bother my wife, so I went out to the couch to read a book. I was laying on my back reading, and after bit my eyes started to feel heavy so I laid the book on my stomach and tried resting my eyes. Eventually I started to feel myself drifting to sleep. It was a relief, because I had been trying for hours at this point. But at the last moment, right before I would normally lose consciousness, I felt the couch below me disappear, I felt weightless, like I was being sucked down and backwards. It freaked me out and I immediately jolted up on the couch. My heart was beating out of my chest and my whole body was tingling. I still do not know what the heck to make out of that. But it has gotten me very interested in dream states. After this experience I decided to quit my decade long cannabis habit and start exploring my dream states some more. I clearly have some kind of natural predisposition to them, so it seems foolish not to explore this some more. The past few nights, I have only taken a very small toke to help me fall asleep(I've got to be up for work at 6:30). But last night I went cold turkey and was able to sleep great. I have only quit once in the past. I don't remember how long it took for my dreams to come back, but I remember the REM-rebound affect was VERY intense. I got back on the weed after 1 week... Last night, I started a dream log. I set my intentions for a lucid dream. I woke up and tried to recall, but I had nothing. Are there any supplements that will help speed this up, or would that be unwise? This is all very new to me, but I'd like to read up on the topic some more. Can you kind people suggest some reading for me? Or even just some advice would be great. Thank you!
I have learned a lot about Lucid Dreaming, but which techniques should I apply? There are many techniques.
I haven’t been lucid in a while but I’d like to think I have pretty vivid dreams regularly. Tonight something clicked. I never noticed this before but something felt off. I didn’t feel like I was on earth but somewhere alien. Does anyone else get this feeling?
Recently as I’ve been falling asleep I’ve been just listening to my thoughts pass, sort of like meditating. But I’ve noticed the things I’m thinking of start feeling more real/like I’m there with my eyes closed. I start to actually picture it, but I know I’m awake. It’s like I’m dreaming but my body is awake almost? I wonder if I opened my eyes during if this would be sleep paralysis. This only happens when I’m falling asleep or after I’ve woken up and went back to bed. I don’t remember continuing the dream after I fall asleep though. Not sure if I’m forgetting or not bc I tend to remember whatever dream I was having before I woke up and nothing else. Any advice to get FULLY lucid ? I’ve had awareness in dreams like saying “this would be so nice if this was real life right now” but nothing past that. I do reality checks , but I’m not consistent with it. Whenever I see a clock, I make sure to check the time , look away, and check it again and I ask myself “am I dreaming right now? Well the clock stayed the same time, I’m probably not” I keep a “dream journal” by writing down dreams I remember on my notes app , I’m not sure if I should do a physical one instead? Any advice appreciated!
So not really a lucid dream but I did become lucid at the end, so basically me and my female cousin were just walking at a park and some skinny guy was looking at us too much (he looked like he was trying to be a Joe Goldberg copy) and so I said nothing meh he's just drunk, and when we were heading home I saw him following a girl, I was Hella suspicious, and he attacked her, I said hell no he's a women killer and what if he kills my cousin next yk, I grabbed a knife and went to his house, as. The door was opening I tried to kill him right away but it was his dad, and there was an awkward "oh hi hru I'm here for your son" idk why he had it so normally for a 15 year old coming up to see his I think like 30 year old son but anyways, there I go inside and see there are only 3 ppl in the house, killer, dad, brother, and so as time passes a bit the really really nice brother tells me to go to his room, and remember his room was upstairs with a bathroom door inside his room, I went there and no one was in the room but I opened the bathroom door there he was with a bathtub full of blood and the a dead body, I striked him but he took my knife and stabbed me on my shoulder (I felt that ouch) but remembered he was really skinny, I grabbed the nearest rop or wire and tied his neck up with the sink and he was choking, but there his innocent brother comes but he saw me and I had to kill him, so I started choking him with my forearm and poor guy i felt so shit, and man I had my finger prints all over his body so I cut him up to pieces and hid the parts, when i went home and tried to sleep I was thinking how the kill will be with me my whole life, you can add but you can't remove, and as I was sleeping I became lucid and jumped of happiness but man that dream fucked me up real bad, I'd never hurt an innocent soul in my life.