r/LucidDreams

So a lot of time I enter a hotel/casino in MW I have a room I need to check into.

Once I get my key card from front desk I’m told to go to an elevator. I ride the elevator with sometimes weird encounters but what gets me is once I’m on my floor all the paths turn dark so I sometimes get scared and change the scene in my dream sometimes I’m brave and walk in the darkness but it usually deals with me encountering some dark beings/entities.

It’s like someone turned the lights off on purpose.

When I was younger, I used to play this weird little “game” in my room for fun. I’d close my eyes, open them again, and pretend I had randomly “spawned” there. Then I’d look around and genuinely question things like:

“Wait, how did I get here?”
“When did I end up here?”
“Why does this suddenly feel unfamiliar?”

I’d intentionally try to feel that strange confusion/disconnection, almost like I became aware of myself inside the moment instead of just going along with it automatically.

Looking back, I think I was accidentally practicing the exact kind of awareness involved in DILD lucid dreaming not just noticing details, but questioning my experience itself and becoming self-aware in the moment.

What’s interesting is that I naturally had a couple lucid dreams as a kid before I even knew what lucid dreaming was.

Do you think practicing this kind of “awareness shift” in waking life could actually help trigger lucidity in dreams?

This elevator you have to go through this amusement park climbing stair into a busy restaurant and hospital ward. The only option is to go down

Subterranean floor.

Once there it’s a dark cyberpunk feeling parking garage. Either u have developed skills to break into a car or you are manically trying to find ur car.

Once in the car you drive to a desert for what seems like miles you drive off a cliff and land somewhere that feels like the Netherlands?

In the arcade field. Have you guys witnessed a spacecraft simulation game? There’s only two in this room and if you use one it transforms into a real spacecraft. When you realize you are operating a real machine at the fore front you will see the mechanical walls French door style open and you can see the real night sky. You fumble with the keys and shifter but you manage to get in the air. After a while you are able to break through the toposphere and are flying through the cosmos.

I have had almost daily lucid dreams for as long as i can remember, in fact they are so vivid i remember almost every ssingle one of them i have ever had. I remember details and if it werent for the almost sick feeling i have in my stomach im not sure i would even know if i was dreaming.

I’ve noticed a huge improvement in my dream recall lately and I’m honestly really proud of it.

I can now remember multiple dreams in one night, and not just tiny fragments either. I remember them vividly enough to write down detailed scenes, conversations, emotions, locations, and weird dream logic moments. Sometimes I can even sketch scenes from my dreams because the visuals stay in my mind so clearly after waking up.

I also noticed I’ve started becoming more aware inside dreams too, like questioning weird things or noticing when something feels off. I’m still working toward lucid dreaming, but my recall progress alone already feels really motivating.

For anyone struggling with dream recall: journaling consistently really does help. Paying attention to your dreams makes a massive difference over time.

Hi,

I have recently begun having lucid dreams.

This is not a deliberate thing on my part - but a development after having suffered a bereavement last year.

My question is what type of entities do we meet in dreams?

Sometimes there are people around in my dreams, but the interaction is basically mundane.

But last night I had a dream in which I was exiting a store onto a street and came face to face with an elderly man (who was a complete stranger to me).

I didn't get a bad feeling, just a general sense that there seemed to be something more to him consciousness-wise.

We locked eyes and I had an understanding that he was indicating for me to go ahead of him in walking down the street.

Then as I was walking in front of him he touched the back of my head with his fingertip, in what felt like some sort of deliberate motion or a pattern.

I was not unsettled or alarmed by it at all and just thought 'oh he's touching my head - I wonder why?'.

I didn't think about wanting him to touch my head, so I assume he did this on his own volition.

Has anyone experienced anything like this? Or can offer any type of info about who or what he might have been?

Thanks x