r/LucidDreaming

When I was 20 I vividly remember I had this weird dream or outer body experience where I was laying on my bed at night had my eyes closed and I floated out of my body

I was in my room but there was no color just everything black and white and I could see my body on the bed I had this weird feeling like this is wrong and I shouldn’t be doing this

I started exploring my room and I found three little boys ages maybe 4-9 years old huddled u together I couldn’t see their faces but they all had dark black hair and bowl cuts and with everything being black and white their shirts were the only things with color they each had colored striped t shirts

I remember I got scared and I tried going back into my body and it was difficult my real body was fighting it and it felt like I was having a mini earthquake just trying to go back into it

I’m 28 and I still think about this

I’ve been a long time lucid dreamer but flying is something I’ve always struggled with.

I could get myself floating but then usually end up stuck on a glass ceiling or something and could never get myself to move.

I’d just be floating and trying to “swim” through the air not getting anywhere.

But last night something clicked and by the end of the dream I was running an obstacle course in the clouds teaching others to fly.

I’ll share but all of this is my opinion of course and your mileage may vary.

To float or get off the ground or catch yourself falling is a lot controlling that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach on a roller coaster in real life.

In your dream find/feel that sensation and then move it up or down. I would suspect real life energy work helps your dream self learn to do this.

Moving forward was still the hardest bit for me and I realized the issue was fear.

In waking life I am not great with heights and I realized seeing where I could go made me afraid.

So it close my eyes and roll over on my back (like a back stroke in water) but I keep my arms tight across my chest and instantly I’m moving at high speed in whichever direction I point my head.

Turns out you don’t have to worry about bonking your head on anything because you will just pass through it.

After that realization I could start to open my eyes and roll over into the typical flying position.

Lifting things is still not easy for me though. At one point some of my “students” who were having a hard time getting off the ground wanted me to pick them up but they were just “too heavy” for me to lift.

I told myself I was just going to start small and just progressively add more weight to my pockets to build up my strength.

Hope this helps a fellow oneironaut!

I wonder if anyone here can help me with this. I've had constant nightmares for years, they make have an awful time throughout the night and no amount of therapy has helped to make them go away.

While not every single dream is a nightmare, I've always remembered my dreams a lot, so I can vividly remember 2-3 every night which statistically gives me at least like 3 nightmares a week.

I have lucid dreamed spontaneously before so I'm a bit familiar with it. I *have* used it to wake up from nightmares but it's very rare, I'll usually get them with milder dreams only. The only "technique" I've ever known is when an ex taught me to look at my hand during the day so I would get used to it and do it in my dreams also. It worked often for a while back them but it's been a long time since I've remembered to do it in a dream.

I'm aware there's multiple techniques with different acronyms discussed here, but is there any that would be easier to begin with, or maybe more suitable for my particular case?

While I said I've been able to wake up on command before, I would rather be able to control and redirect the dream if possible, because I already wake up a lot throughout the night and I don't wanna lose even more sleep. If it's of any relevance I have both violent nightmares (zombie invasion is a common one for some reason) and more psychological ones where people bully or harrass me.

Thank you if you read til here ;w;

TL;DR: best beginner lucid technique for managing nightmares? i already always remember many dreams

ever since like a year ago I've been a fan of stuff like magic eye images and crosseye viewing stuff around me so I have learned to cross my eyes without things becoming blurry and was wondering if that could be used as a reality check or more specifically if it's possible to cross your vision in lucid dreams

I’ve been trying to have lucid dreams and enter the void for 7 years, and I’m starting to lose my patience. I don’t understand—I’m doing the same things as people who have 100 lucid dreams in a year, but my results are always disappointing. Tonight, I even turned off my alarm for WBTB and fell back asleep. Instead of waking up to a morning like this, I’d rather not wake up at all.

I haven't lucid dream before but I wonder if you can go in cartoons, like look in the pov in the same artstyle, also would it be possible for your brain to make new characters you've never seen before?

I've been interested in my dreams/lucid dreaming for maybe the past 6 months I think. and I've had 5 or 6 all up (though I'm definitely not trying my hardest 100% of the time, not really the point anyways)..

I think in about half of these dreams where I become lucid - I'm so aware that it's a dream, and do multiple reality checks which show it's not reality, but I'm still paranoid that it is real? ... like I have the thought that oh this is a dream i can jump of this balcony & be fine - but then I freak myself out because everything looks so real, & everything feels so real that I get worried that it might not be a dream & I'm in psychosis or something & I'll actually accidentally kill myself trying to jump off the building.

my most recent lucid dream was induced by accidentally doing WILD, I was waking up a lot in the night & falling back asleep, & in one of them I was aware I was falling asleep & I felt my body drift to the right & my gut like sink or something & I knew I had fallen asleep and I was in a dream instantly - but everything looked the same as my room & I started to think about what I wanted to do & how I should get out of bed & explore but I freaked myself out so much that it all looked so real & felt so real that maybe it wasn't actually a dream & I'm just stupid & I rolled over in my dream to grab onto my boyfriend who was sleeping next to me because I was panicking & he comforted me while half asleep, but I freaked out so much I woke myself up - except I was on my stomach facing away from my boyfriend in the position I fell asleep in & my boyfriend was dead to world unconcious - so it definitely was a dream...

anyways lol I'm just curious if anyone else experiences this? because it kinda ruins the dream, & I can't really explore or control things when my mind is convinced that it is possibly my real life & not a dream.

Hey guys i wanted to know if having a dream journal helps (ik it does) but w a twist in that dream journal every dream i have i analyse and find its source and also i write my thoughts and analyse them i wanna know if this will help ill try doing RCs and LD techs but i wanna know how long it will take until i lucid dream like 3 times a week i also had a lucid dream on accident thats why i got into it the first place but it was short and peaceful i wanna feel like that again to live without the restrictions put on me by this world

So recently i’ve been seeing A LOT of lucid dreaming videos and It says you get sleep paralysis to enter it or wtv so I never tried it. But I randomly had a lucid dream last night, it was insane I was SOO conscious I was like holy shit. But honestly the thing I only really remember is that there was a green monster and it had really sharp teeth and i grabbed it by its head and like held it by its jaw and told it “shut up” and the teeth went to normal teeth. that’s all I really remember. maybe I should start lucid dreaming more..

what does this dream mean, do dreams have meaning?

I also felt like I knew exactly how to control the dream after the monster.

I won't go too deeply into the content of the dream but It was exhilarating when I woke up. I could never imagine being that "present" while in a dream. I was absolutely certain that I was awake. I had a coherent train of thought and an actionable plan, which is a far cry from the dreams I usually have where I'm anxiously dragged from one place to another for reasons I don't understand.

However, after a few weeks. I started to feel a bit stranger about the experience. I was thinking about what it actually "felt" like to be in the dream, I remember seeing color very vividly and possessing the ability to think ahead.

All the same, I strongly feel that there is a part of me that's "present" right now that was "present" in the dream, & here's the kicker: I also feel like a part of me was absent in the dream. like a baseline hum of awareness. My dream self woke up in a strange rearranged version of my apartment and didn't think twice about it. But the baseline hum in me would have immediately recognized that something was wrong, were I awake.

Additionally, when I remember the dream in my head, it now has a strange black outline around it. I remember my field of vision being full in the dream, but when I think back on it, it's like an oval surrounded by blackness.

Does anybody have any experience with this? I don't even know what to make of it, this happened to me randomly.

And would that mean the sensation of physical pain could potentially be heightened as well?

So I’ve had a couple dreams recently the past few days where I’ve been aware that I’m dreaming, but I guess I haven’t been lucid enough to control it? It’s like I know that I’m dreaming, but the thought to try and control it isn’t there? How do I get my mind to remember that it’s more than just recognizing I’m dreaming; it’s also about trying to control the dream?

I have never been able to lucid dream. I was only able to realize I was in a dream once but I wasn’t fast enough to control it.

I struggle with remembering dreams nowadays but I’m used to it. I wanna lucid dream for the first time and in one go, no waking up, no reality checks, and no laying on my back and trying to stay mentally conscious. I tried to lay on my back but it never worked and I wasted 30 minutes of my night.

Help.

I have attempted lucid dreams before and have a few short lucid dreams. One thing I dont really like is noting down my dreams because it really annoying for me, quit after a month of trying. Now I want to get back but I dont really note down my dream, is it really important?

Can I set rules that stay active throughout the dream?

Like, create a specific character whose only purpose is to hold the rules I want applied in the dream.

Example rules:

- Nothing I imagine happens unless I say it out loud and snap my fingers

- Characters in the dream have independent personalities that I can't control unless I snap my fingers and command them

Can these things actually be applied?

Just last night I remembered about lucid dreaming before I went to sleep and I watched a video, however I was way too scared to do it. I have quite a lot more info now like don't kill anybody, not recommended to get some cheeks and don't tell people in the dream that you are dreaming anyways I will list a lot of questions.

1. How to avoid getting that sleep paralysis thing where you can't move and see a figure in your room.

2. How to avoid nightmares and how to not get into one

3. How to know that I am in a lucid dream

4. How does it feel like to teleport and since I know my local town a lot could I just think about it and suddenly in a second just teleport anywhere around the world that I have been irl and know how it looks like.

5. Would it be possible to spawn in my dad who is dead or is it not good to try and spawn dead people like my dad as he died in 2022 and it would be amazing for me to speak to him as I never really had a good conversation with him.

6. How long do lucid dreams feel like? hours or less.

7. Is it easy to wake up from a lucid dream.

8. Does the brain just generate a random generic looking city or place at all or chances of me "spawning" somewhere scary?

9. Is it really risky as someone who gets scared easily or is it really worth it?

10. How many times does it take to master lucid dreaming and do it easily.

11. Any tips on how to safely get into a lucid dream for the first time without accidently getting into that sleep paralysis thing where you can't move and see a figure approaching me as I've accidently done that once and I was absolutely terrified.

Thank you for whoever can answer these questions!

Does any one has galantamine to induce lucidity in dreams

Yesterday I while I was asleep I was dreaming, it was a lucid dream in which I did wake up multiple times in between, and I’m sure that the dream continued even after the times I woke up.

It was quite disturbing, it was about a demon worship scenario, I do not do demon worship, I only offer prayers to Hecate and Kali.

This was a male deity, and the dream began with me apparently visiting the temple of this entity wo Knowledge of it being a temple, infact apparently it was a god’s temple which was overtaken by this negative entity, even in my dream I could feel a strong negative presence. And the entity did lure in members that I knew and possessed them into doing negative things which would give them a physical form, as apparently the more negative offerings made to them gives them power to take a human form and I remember the entity coming in search of me once they had a human form in my dream. All this happened while I was napping w my cat. I was genuinely terrified through out the day.