So on Sunday morning I had one of the more intense experiences I've ever had while dreaming or lucid dreaming.

I had been drinking fairly heavy throughout the day on Saturday, working on a engine in my back yard. Well that took a toll on me and I decided to call it an early day. I laid down around 7:30PM after taking two tylenol pm, 20mg of Melatonin, and emptying a bottle of water. I definitely dreamed the whole night, semi-lucid for the most part. But the fun stuff happened when I woke up around 7AM. Still feeling groggy I decided to WILD. So I closed my eyes and held on to consciousness. As is typical, the intense, electrical vibrations began to occur and as they subsided I went into that gray waiting room before entering into a dream.

What happened next was amazing. The gray rolled away like parting clouds and all I saw were endless stars. I began to rocket through the universe, moving past stars, planets, nebulae, galaxies at completely impossible speeds(and in no particular order). I ran smack into the very edge of this universe and found I couldn't go past it. There was a vibrational barrier and when I hit it I could feel the vibrations resonate throughout my entire body.

It was at this point a female voice started speaking to me. Her voice was completely neutral in tone, no specific assumptions could be made as what ethnicity or age she was, like a properly trained reporter voice. Well she just started throwing knowledge bombs at me, answering questions I hadn't voiced, but only thought about. I so wish I had a full transcript to give to you all but my recall isn't superb(also hungover). What happened next was also something I've never done before. After we spoke for awhile I got sucked back into the waiting room because I was waking up. But somehow I managed to hold on this time and not fully wake up. I hovered in the waiting room and the same thing happened again. Gray clouds parted, rocketed my way through the universe but this time I wasn't flying around indiscriminately, I wanted to talk to her again.

So I did, second time around. She was out there, speaking kind and wise words into my life, I do remember she gave me a warning about how I was doing this, it had to do with using too much energy? I'm still baffled by this, so your guess is as good as mine. Well I got kicked back into the waiting room a second time, and I was able to hold on to my dream state a second time, and for the third time it happened again. I should mention at this point I am a questioning person when it comes to the existence of god. I know this is Reddit and that ruffles feathers, but it's where I'm at right now in my life. So I flew back out again, she's still there. I just get really bold at this point and ask her "Are you God?". She begins to laugh out loud, but not in a mocking way. She goes "of course not" as if to say how could I possibly confuse her for God? It wasn't in any way demeaning towards me and that's when I began to understand just how intellectually inferior I was, not only compared to her, but compared to everything else out there and the world in general. It was very humbling.

That's basically it, after that I returned, woke up fully and just lay in my bed surrounded by pure peace. I don't know what all she told me, save for what I shared with you all, but whatever it was stuck in my subconscious I believe, and that's why I felt the way I did waking up.

I failed again at not making a super long post, thanks for reading if you did, what are your thoughts?

tl;dr WILD induction, flew to the end of the universe, conversed with bafflingly intelligent female disembodied voice, it was amazing but wtf.

Hey everyone! It's been a while since I've posted here. As much as I wanted to post a lot there just isn't as much content that is reliable on the subjects that this sub may discuss. But finally, I've found a good segment on lucid dreaming once again from the amazing podcasters over at Mysterious Universe.

In their latest podcast after a brief discussion about UFOs, also interesting, they jump into precognitive dreams, deja vu and deja vecu, as well as entering the void or other dimensions via lucid dreaming. If this doesn't get someone motivated to start lucid dreaming then honestly I don't know what will.

While listening to this podcast I actually had several thoughts and realizations about my own dreams and experiences that related to deja vu (or deja vecu in my case). Here is some further reading on the three types.

[SPOILER ALERT! I WILL NOW DISCUSS A COUPLE THINGS WITH REGARDS TO THE SHOW! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND LISTENING TO IT FIRST BEFORE GOING ON!]

First, with regards to deja vu, I've noticed that the majority of my experiences can most definitely be ascribed to actually being deja vecu. It's not that I think I've done something similar before, but that I know for a fact I've experienced this before and I feel like I know what will happen next. If I try to guess what happens next I'm usually wrong, perhaps because I'm trying to force it, but sometimes I get a really strong emotion associated with it. I just thought it was interesting because some emotions I've had are negative like something bad was going to happen next, almost like I dreamed something bad would happen a long time ago about the present moment, but it doesn't end up happening. What if, if we have indeed experienced those things before, that because we have already experienced it even though we don't remember the dream fully or can't act on it we naturally avoid the negative encounter or in the past subconsciously made the necessary steps to correct what would happen in the future? Just food for thought. I remember on several occasions thinking for sure that something bad was going to happen next and bracing myself, but nothing ever did.

Another part that interested me was the discussion on the void, a black space lucid dreamers have been noted to experience. In this episode, they discuss the experience where someone entered the void and saw other people in it. These people ranged from those having OBEs, near death experiences, and even those who just day dreamed at work and somehow managed to have an OBE and end up in the void. The void is described as a black, two-dimensional space. In the event that the void really exists, what if it's where we go when we die? I often have death dreams, or dreams where I or me who isn't really me but someone else dies in some tragic way. Every single time I brace for impact if I'm falling from a height or get ready for my inevitable demise one of two things happen. I either A) wake up with a jolt, or B) enter a black space before either transitioning to the next dream or also waking up.

Before I thought it just went to black because I have no idea what death is going to bring. We can experience anything in dreams that we can imagine. But in my mind I can't imagine death, it's impossible. So I just assumed that my dream going to black meant that it was my own interpretation of what happens after death (which could still be the case of course). But what if in reality, I'm actually briefly experiencing a small piece of the void? Again, more food for thought.

Anyways, I had a really great time listening to this episode and as a long time listener it is definitely one of my favorites from Mysterious Universe.

What are your thoughts?

Warning: this is long, but I think worth telling.

My lucid dreaming path started with a simple curiosity with dreams. I started by writing down any little bit of a dream that I'd mostly forgot by morning, into my dream diary. Also, I had a book of dream symbols.

After jotting down what i could, I'd look up the meaning. At first there's not much to gleam from "had a dream I was doing something and someone I knew said something. Think I saw a bus...".
But sticking with it, soon I had a complete dream written down. Then more. My interpretations didn't work out, but I kept on. Soon I started to get that 'Ah ha, that works, I feel this interpretation is correct' feeling. But there would also be a feeling that I'd dreampt more dreams and that I still only had little pieces of those still lost dreams.

So I wanted to see if I could become 'conscious' of when I went from the waking world into the dream one. This very thought, this want or need, this real desire to do such a thing, I think looking back, made all the difference. I tried most of the techniques that can be found on the lucid dreaming sub's sidebar.

I found calming the physical body down and keeping the mental side, or mind awake, worked well. The first few times I'd start visualising things. Anything really. Just to keep the mind a little occupied. And soon I felt that falling feeling. Like your astral body or spirit, or mind, had slightly risen unknown to me. And then, known to me and what I called 'the falling feeling', the mind quickly resumed it's proper position. Aligned with the physical body.

And at first this 'falling feeling' scared the hell out of me. But determined to be lucid, I told myself this must be 'normal'. And so I pushed on. Soon I could lay down on the bed and start my calming and awake technique. Then while thinking or visualising the falling feeling would come.
I was ready for it and went with it. Bang! Into a dream. What was weird was still thinking in the dream, "how did I get here?". But I was lucid! I could see a dream scenario playing out as if I was semi-lucid, just like when someone remembers the dream but isn't fully lucid while in that dream. But I was lucid. And I could do whatever I wanted.

As I was familiar with the falling feeling I dared to fly from standing on the spot, up into the sky. And just like that I was soaring up through the air! I'd think it and I would be doing it. Cool!
Needless to say in dreams thereafter I would go through the dream as usual. Reacting to all the weird and wonderful scenarios, people and things. And yes I kept writing it all down to interpret later.

The thing was I was learning. At times of fear I would wake up. But again I kept at it. The biggest test was being attacked, killed and dying in my dream. But again learning to stay lucid I began to wonder what would happen if I let myself be killed. Soon I grew to not fear death in real life.
I wouldn't then, in waking life, just walk in front of a fast moving bus or anything. Instead I had a great respect for life. There were then times where in a dream, I would fight back. And because I was lucid (very lucid by this stage), I'd surprise myself at the ability to really control the dream.

One dream a dinosaur/monster thing with really big sharp teeth was going to bite me in two. I'm going to die here, fuck. But then I remembered I'm in control here. So I stopped the monster, almost like when Neo from the Matrix first stops the bullets. Just by holding up my hand to the monster and saying 'No!'. It stopped. I thought "I'll bite you instead" and I did. As soon as I tried, the beast fell down dead. Fuck yeah!

But how did lucid dreaming affect my life? Well if you say you're lucid in waking life. I was basically lucid 24 hours of the day and night. Broken down like this.
Lucid during the day.
Not lucid for that small period of 'falling asleep', but lucid in dream one.
Again not lucid in the waking up transition.
Lucid again while writing down that dream.
It's still night and so back to dreaming. Not lucid transitioning back into the next dream.
Lucid for dream two.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
I'd usually have three dreams per night. Long dreams too. So except for the few transition periods where I wasn't lucid, the remaining 'in dream' periods and in waking life, I'm conscious or lucid.

I began to notice a lot of deja vu in waking life. But these deja vu were from dreams I'd had prior. Weird but really interesting.
Also I felt so much more alive! And I had more energy! I can't describe it any other way except that I felt like a brilliant, blinding white light grew from my core outwards. I felt 'at home' both in dreams and in waking life. IDK, but I felt really alive, really alive. And at the end of my life, whenever that would happen, I'd really be going home. It was a good feeling.

Sadly I haven't continued at such a level for a while. Work and all. At the time I was in my late teens and early 20's. I'm not quite 40 but it's coming.

I want to get back into it again at that same level, but...
I love reading dreams from all the redditors that share their dreams. And I love trying my hand at giving an interpretation.

During that period of really lucid dreaming if you told me your dream I could, there and then, interpret it. And I'd be really good at getting you the right interpretation.
Obviously the dreamer is the only one that can get the symbols and meaning spot on right. An outside source like me can only issue you 'worldly' symbol interpretation, but I became really good.
Now I have to think a lot more on an interpretation, but it's still fun and an honor to have a reply that says I'm close to the mark.

Thank you for reading. Sorry to post a really long story, but thanks for reading.

Hope this helps someone and happy dreams.

Hello everyone! Welcome to this new subreddit. Now, I know what you're probably thinking... "great, another subreddit for an impossibly small audience that will fizzle out in a week..."

And I get it. I've had the same reaction plenty of times before and not just with lucid dreaming. But the difference here is that even if no one is subscribed to this subreddit I will continue posting interesting things that relate to lucid dreaming whether they're articles, podcasts, videos, etc. I want this place to look interesting even if it's empty.

But if it's not empty, which is my greatest hope, I want this to be a place where people can feel free to share there experiences without being judged. Had an experience that felt like it crossed the lines between OBE and lucid dreaming? Great! Please share it! Or maybe you just want to share how cool your lucid dreaming experience was. I want this to be a place where people can freely discuss experiences and topics that modern science may not necessarily agree with.

And of course, if you are a skeptic or fall into the skeptical realm, you are most definitely welcome to share your experience or bring up scientific discussions related to lucid dreaming. While we have /r/luciddreaming that deals with the scientific side of things, I want this sub to be more rounded.

If you have any questions don't hesitate to send me a message and I apologize for any formatting errors you may see as I get this sub up and running. Thanks for reading!