Lucid Dreaming

[blockguy™]

sometimes i dont even have dreams

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[HerpaDerp]

for me it's pretty easy to tell when I'm in a dream. also, sometimes in the morning when i fall back to sleep, i'll immediately know i'm asleep and in a dream

yeah WBTB is pretty successful

hnnnggg im so jealous of you, i have yet to really succeed except here and there

sometimes i dont even have dreams

nah u always have dreams, you just dont recall them most of the time

[hillkill]

i've only done it one time that i can recall. i don't know how i did it, or how to do it again, but it happened. i'm just afraid of the possibility of sleep paralysis.

[McZealot]

TBH I haven't had much dedication but I lucid dream all the time. Maybe every 3rd night? People who claim they can have whatever they want happen in the dream (aka play god) are probably exaggerating but I can control myself fully and even commit superhuman feats (fly and making large jumps).

The only way I am ever triggered is by realizing whatever is happening is wrong. The most common way this happens is a lack of pain. I'll be bit by a wolf or hit by a car or attacked by a monster and I'll realize "Wait a minute... that didn't hurt. I'm dreaming." After this I go completely lucid. If it is a nightmare I will usually force myself to wake up by twisting my chest left and right rhythmically, until I awake and I am twisting my chest in bed. If it's a nice dream with an unfriendly element (for example a beautiful forest but I get attacked by a wolf) I can just sorta "teleport" elsewhere in the environment.

The other way it happens is if I am immediately faced with a sure-death scenario. Usually this comes in the form of a massive drop. I'll fall off a bridge or a cliff or out of a plane and as I am going down I'll realize "wait a minute this is a dream". Unfortunately I usually wake up the moment I hit the ground but if I can catch myself or just take the fall it can be fun.

A few days ago I had a dream that I was on top of a mountain in a Japanese-looking area. There was a house, but it was surrounded by a locked fence and I couldn't enter. I went to the edge of a cliff and saw wolves below, so I decided to stay up there. I turned around and a wolf was there. I began to crawl towards the edge of the cliff, away from it, and it lunged at me. As soon as it bit into me I realized it was a dream, and I ended up falling off the cliff but hugging it to use as a cushion on the fall. Once I got up from the bottom, totally lucid, I managed to jump straight back up the cliff and in front of the house. The fence gate was locked, but I managed to jump straight through it. I found the power pretty fun, so I continued to jump straight through the fence a few times. Then I decided to check out the house. I went towards the door, but I unfortunately woke up before I got much further.


So no--lucid dreaming doesn't always require a great amount of effort and honestly I've never been able to force myself to do "reality checks". However if I read up on lucid dreaming or watch videos about it the night before, I will almost certainly go lucid in my dream. That's because it's on my mind at the time, and as thus comes up in my dream. I feel pretty lucky because some people try very hard and can't do it and I just sorta do it by accident. If you have any questions or anything about it, I'd be happy to answer. Try looking at the lucid dreaming subreddit.

[HerpaDerp]

TBH I haven't had much dedication but I lucid dream all the time. Maybe every 3rd night? People who claim they can have whatever they want happen in the dream (aka play god) are probably exaggerating but I can control myself fully and even commit superhuman feats (fly and making large jumps).

The only way I am ever triggered is by realizing whatever is happening is wrong. The most common way this happens is a lack of pain. I'll be bit by a wolf or hit by a car or attacked by a monster and I'll realize "Wait a minute... that didn't hurt. I'm dreaming." After this I go completely lucid. If it is a nightmare I will usually force myself to wake up by twisting my chest left and right rhythmically, until I awake and I am twisting my chest in bed. If it's a nice dream with an unfriendly element (for example a beautiful forest but I get attacked by a wolf) I can just sorta "teleport" elsewhere in the environment.

The other way it happens is if I am immediately faced with a sure-death scenario. Usually this comes in the form of a massive drop. I'll fall off a bridge or a cliff or out of a plane and as I am going down I'll realize "wait a minute this is a dream". Unfortunately I usually wake up the moment I hit the ground but if I can catch myself or just take the fall it can be fun.

A few days ago I had a dream that I was on top of a mountain in a Japanese-looking area. There was a house, but it was surrounded by a locked fence and I couldn't enter. I went to the edge of a cliff and saw wolves below, so I decided to stay up there. I turned around and a wolf was there. I began to crawl towards the edge of the cliff, away from it, and it lunged at me. As soon as it bit into me I realized it was a dream, and I ended up falling off the cliff but hugging it to use as a cushion on the fall. Once I got up from the bottom, totally lucid, I managed to jump straight back up the cliff and in front of the house. The fence gate was locked, but I managed to jump straight through it. I found the power pretty fun, so I continued to jump straight through the fence a few times. Then I decided to check out the house. I went towards the door, but I unfortunately woke up before I got much further.


So no--lucid dreaming doesn't always require a great amount of effort and honestly I've never been able to force myself to do "reality checks". However if I read up on lucid dreaming or watch videos about it the night before, I will almost certainly go lucid in my dream. That's because it's on my mind at the time, and as thus comes up in my dream. I feel pretty lucky because some people try very hard and can't do it and I just sorta do it by accident. If you have any questions or anything about it, I'd be happy to answer. Try looking at the lucid dreaming subreddit.

you have a natural talent for it, most people are oblivious to signs like those and hence need the effort to learn them.

I've faced similar situations to as yours, scenarios of life-or-death and I always realize I'm dreaming but in a fearful way as in "I WANT TO GET OUT OF THIS DREAM" and I wake up instantly. Rather than realizing I'm dreaming and taking advantage of it, I realize it's a dream and make it go away instantly by waking up. I have no idea how to stop doing this/control it and honestly I'm getting tired of all these false signs and not being able to lucid dream.

I get really envious of regular LDers because I just can't find the rhythm and then I lose motivation and it's basically a giant circle of failure for me so far.

[hillkill]

you can play god in lucid dreams, or at least i can. i have 100% control. i just dreamt of loving chicks right on my desk in school lol.

[otto-san]

i lucid dream occasionally, typically gaining lucidity during the middle of the dream when something seems particularly off. lately, triggers have made me consider "that's not right, is it?" but i don't actually make the full connection to "this is defo a dream"

but i've always lucid dreamed off and on. i don't actually tend to remember my dreams after waking up. p much the only time i ever do is if i lucid dream. the hardest part is maintaining the dream and lucidity at the same time. it's a tough equilibrium to balance and i p much always either wake up or lose control almost immediately. though, if i become lucid at one point in a dream and lose control, i tend to become lucid again later.

there was a time when i tried to learn how to invoke lucid dreams but the closest i ever got was REM atonia i think.

also, has anyone else ever fallen asleep in their dream and had a legit dream inside a dream cus that's happened to me at least twice

[Nonnel]

I've done it like 5 times but I always either don't have control of my surroundings or I lose control of myself

[darkeningnight]

TBH I haven't had much dedication but I lucid dream all the time. Maybe every 3rd night? People who claim they can have whatever they want happen in the dream (aka play god) are probably exaggerating but I can control myself fully and even commit superhuman feats (fly and making large jumps).

The only way I am ever triggered is by realizing whatever is happening is wrong. The most common way this happens is a lack of pain. I'll be bit by a wolf or hit by a car or attacked by a monster and I'll realize "Wait a minute... that didn't hurt. I'm dreaming." After this I go completely lucid. If it is a nightmare I will usually force myself to wake up by twisting my chest left and right rhythmically, until I awake and I am twisting my chest in bed. If it's a nice dream with an unfriendly element (for example a beautiful forest but I get attacked by a wolf) I can just sorta "teleport" elsewhere in the environment.

The other way it happens is if I am immediately faced with a sure-death scenario. Usually this comes in the form of a massive drop. I'll fall off a bridge or a cliff or out of a plane and as I am going down I'll realize "wait a minute this is a dream". Unfortunately I usually wake up the moment I hit the ground but if I can catch myself or just take the fall it can be fun.

A few days ago I had a dream that I was on top of a mountain in a Japanese-looking area. There was a house, but it was surrounded by a locked fence and I couldn't enter. I went to the edge of a cliff and saw wolves below, so I decided to stay up there. I turned around and a wolf was there. I began to crawl towards the edge of the cliff, away from it, and it lunged at me. As soon as it bit into me I realized it was a dream, and I ended up falling off the cliff but hugging it to use as a cushion on the fall. Once I got up from the bottom, totally lucid, I managed to jump straight back up the cliff and in front of the house. The fence gate was locked, but I managed to jump straight through it. I found the power pretty fun, so I continued to jump straight through the fence a few times. Then I decided to check out the house. I went towards the door, but I unfortunately woke up before I got much further.


So no--lucid dreaming doesn't always require a great amount of effort and honestly I've never been able to force myself to do "reality checks". However if I read up on lucid dreaming or watch videos about it the night before, I will almost certainly go lucid in my dream. That's because it's on my mind at the time, and as thus comes up in my dream. I feel pretty lucky because some people try very hard and can't do it and I just sorta do it by accident. If you have any questions or anything about it, I'd be happy to answer. Try looking at the lucid dreaming subreddit.

I have lucid dreams at about that frequency too, but sometimes its a sort of half lucid-ness (like sometimes i can control it then lose control then get control again, etc.). I must say though that it isn't uncommon (in fact its very very common) where someone only has a fully lucid dream only once or twice ever. Last night I had in which I was stuck in a mountain range when I saw a house on a mountain. I approached it and inside it was disheveled and hadn't been lived in for a long time. After I walked around the house, I walked into a bedroom which was perfectly clean with the lights on. The dream ended after I walked inside of a computer screen and saw myself as another person.

Sometimes I even have up to 4 nights a week where they are lucid/half lucid.

[GMO Ferret]

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Whenever I have dreams, I feel pain. I get stung by a huge wasp? I feel a prick. And when I wake up I still feel it. I once had this dream where I was on vacation with my family at some western house in the desert. This cowboy guy came up to me when I came out of my house's door at night. He said, 'Every day is the same; but I'm gonna have some fun today.' He pulled out his revolver, and for whatever reason gravity was lowered. I began running to the non-burning campfire, jumping along the way. He missed every shot. We began to wrestle next to the campfire. He took my leg, and began to twist it to where it hit about 90 degrees past where it should go. I felt a huge pain in my leg. I took his hand out of rage and twisted his hand around and around and around, to where it kept snapping. He then sat there and died.

The next morning my leg had a really bad cramp in it, right at where he twisted it.

[Blocky943]

are you sure that was a dream

[SteveJenkins]

i lucid dream alot but its not that great being aware you're in a dream

if i ever get a nightmare then its not lucid and feels horrible

[Legoboss]

i lucid dream a lot but most of the time any movements i do feel kinda floaty and delayed
on the plus side sometimes if i scream menu enough a video game menu pops up and if i exit i wake up
the thing is sometimes the menu wont show up or it takes forever

[The Resonte!]

sometimes i manage to lucid dream and do stuff

but only in dreams where i am in control of my body (as opposed to random sequence of dream events)

and sometimes i have dreams where i'm not exactly lucid but i attempt to do superhuman stuff anyway

[Decepticon]

i've had a few lucid dreams but they're always when i least expect it or whenever i'm not actually trying to do them

one i remember more than the most is i was with the team from the show 'ghost hunters'

we were outside this old, completely-rusted looking factory that had actually somewhat thin walls, but it had holes all over

the sky was for some reason red, and everything was lit up but rather dimly. there were a bunch of big holes in the factory's walls, and those elevator   and container things sticking out the side. also, the entire ground was (idk how to explain it perfectly) like a pile of gravel. it was solid enough to stand on, but it was roll-y and piled higher in some areas. we went inside the factory and looked around, and it was basically what you'd expect in a generic factory. but, the entire factory was empty except for one or two pieces of small machinery. everything the factory was a part of was some kind of rusty red, and you could see the bright red sky pretty clearly from inside. we were walking around inside and outside the factory, searching for whoever knows, and all of a sudden i just feel "ok stuff i gotta get out of here"

i started trying to think to myself stuff like 'wake up this is a loving dream' and started to panic. i ran outside the factory through one of the many massive holes in the walls, and just got onto my knees and started doing that thing where you splash water on your face. except instead of water, it was gravel, but i didn't really feel any pain at all from it. after like 3 or 5 seconds of doing this, i managed to wake up.

i dont get why i had that sudden feeling/urge but i think it was still a neat/odd experience in lucid dreaming

i also had a couple other dreams but i've got sort of bare details i may talk about later