r/LucidDreams

So I listened sub and I dreamed lucid but it was soo fricking problematic I wanted to shift so I tried door method and nothing happen and then I tried to make a portal ....and I fricking forgot where to go....yep so I have to name my another Dr...but the portal went crazy and started showing a middle of jungle etc random places ......what's the problem guyzz??

I am telling you all that for the first time in my life I have had a false awakening. It was very surprising to me. I got out of my bed, took my red dream journal and wrote down the actual dream I just had. I was surprised to see some other words and scribbles I had written down earlier. I dismissed them, wrote it down and went back to bed, closing my eyes. (I was trying DEILD). I re-opened them, everything looked the same besides for the lighting in the room. I reopened my journal and my writing was gone! It seems I forgot to do a reality check. This must be a good sign towards better LDs (especially considering the fact that I had one of the clearest lucid dreams I have ever experienced shortly after) and also for me to be more careful when waking up! Haha.

How long have you been lucid dreaming for, and how well can you do it? Do you often feel tired after days of only lucid dreaming and confused on what was real and what was in your sleep?

I have been lucid dreaming since I was around 6 years old. I can still remember my first two dreams that were lucid, and they both became lucid dreams because I had a sort of lightbulb moment at one point during both.

My first lucid dreams:

I can never remember which dream came first, so here’s both. In one, the dream had been going on for a while as normal, then as I was taking photos of a family on a beach a shark jumped out of the water and ate them. It getting almost too gore-y when I realized I could just rewind time and get Spider-Man to save them. Duh! In the other one, I was in a really long line to a single stand selling ice cream (with the sort of backdrop in “Courage the Cowardly Dog” when he goes outside and it’s desolate) with my family and my sister’s friend. I wanted to be just like my big sister a lot growing up and would hang around her and her friends a lot. In the dream I was doing the same sort of thing, and she got pissed and grabbed me and threw me in the air. As I fell back down I got that falling feeling you get in dreams and I bounced off the ground like a basket ball. I thought it felt cool, and I love the feeling of a roller coaster, so I purposely pushed her buttons until she did it again. Unfortunately, the second time made me wake up.

My dreams now:

I am in my early twenties now, and I have yet to meet very many people with the intensity and frequency of lucid dreams that I’ve had. I also often experience insomnia, déjà vu and reve, headaches, and I tend to meditate and daydream in my free time.

Assuming I went to bed in what I see as the sort of bare minimum conditions for good sleep (sober, no eating or watching screens within a reasonable time of sleep, don’t have to use the bathroom) my dream recall is significantly sharper than most people I ask about it, among other things. My baseline of lucidity on an average night with REM sleep, from what I can tell, is being cognitively aware of and often emotionally responsive in some conscious way to the dream. Under good sleeping conditions, I rarely find myself waking up without being able to remember at least something if not being able to fully recount many aspects and events of the dream. I can often recall dreams, even ones that didn’t quite stick out or feel important, days after, if not longer if I actively try to remember it. I will also, every now and then, accidentally wake myself up from talking in my sleep, and I did sleepwalk once or twice as a child.

Most excitingly, with some effort, I can put myself into what feels like a trance that leads me to lucid dreaming automatically, with a full sense of consciousness as I fall asleep. It feels a bit like I’m both hypnotizing myself and becoming extremely relaxed, as if I just had a massage and my body is all limp and goopy. My body becomes noticeably heavy as I focus on the way it feels so nice to simply lay there and breathe as I rest. I often use similar grounding and breathing techniques as I do during meditation. However, it can be tricky because I often get stuck by my body, which is a sensation I’ll explain.

I get to a point where I feel like my body is asleep but my mind is still awake and I can’t fall asleep further than that without letting go of active consciousness. I believe I’ve heard this sort of thing described before by other people as well. I wonder, how do other people feel when they realize they’re stuck at this point too? Is it easy to get past or does it all just fade away until you realize you’re dreaming? If so, maybe this will help getting past that for people who find themselves relating:

It’s a little hard to describe how I can now work past that when I really want to and fall into the dream, consciously as myself specifically. Granted, I’m also not always completely able to do that, and not always with great ease. The first way I started doing it was when I would write fanfic in middle school, and I would maladaptive daydream a lot at the time. At night as I was falling asleep, I would be doing the same sort of daydreaming and creating stories until I literally fell into a dream as I was thinking. The characters became dream versions of themselves like actors and I became the director. As I got used to how this felt to do, I began to insert myself into the story or daydream scenario, or a projected version of myself to imagine in the dream scape. One method that I saw somewhere that has helped me most recently has been to imagine myself in a car or some sort of moving thing like a train or ambulance idk I like to get creative sometimes honestly. I typically picture my first person perspective in the dream space, not a third person point of view like how I used to with separate characters. This has made it easier to slowly imagine what the environment I’m in is like and then going on with the dream consciously from there. It sort of makes me feel like I’m being snuck into the dream lol.

As I say how I experience the mental transition into fully lucid sleep, please note that this is my own unique, conscious experience and I am by no means claiming this to be universal, and none of this has been clinically observed for some sort of scientific clarity lmao. I also want to make it clear that this amount of intense, repetitive lucid dreaming can be an actual chore to live with, for me at least. I have struggled with insomnia for as long as I can remember, and lucid dreaming has helped me with that in many ways. However, for me I can get carried away with the amount of effort I am putting into staying in control of the dream and I wake up feeling mentally drained because of how hard I was using my brain to dream instead of idk heal my organs in my sleep I’m not a scientist I just know that when I put a lot of energy into this it can make me feel like I didn’t even sleep at all. Get good sleep, y’all, it’s seriously important!

I am not looking for any sort of analysis on what issues my brain might have as far as mental and behavioral wellbeing, I am very aware of them and how to function lol (dissociation gang we are gonna ground ourselves into healing fr). Please feel free to share your thoughts and experiences related to this topic though and any sort of fun facts or nuggets of wisdom you may have :]

Problem/Goal: I’ve been having nightmares occasionally. How do I know if I should ask for help na and where or to whom?

Context: I’ve been having nightmares or bangungot. Very random lang sya nangyayare. Sometimes magkasunod na tulog or minsan di naman. Di ko talaga matandaan masyado nangyayare pero once I know na nananaginip ako I try to wake up. When I think nagising na ko I find myself still at bed. Can’t move, talk or anything. I feel like I can open my eyes but I don’t cause ayaw ko makita ung nasa paligid ko somehow. Then it just repeat I try to wake up and find myself on the same scenario. But once magising na ko sisigaw na ko malakas.

Attempts: I’m now trying to take melatonin to help me get a better sleep

So I’ve been wanting to lucid dream for the past year and a half now. I was very motivated at first but slowly started forgetting about it. I used to have a journal of my dreams (I still have it) and would sometimes start using it again, but I didn’t do anything the past months.

Just today I had a sleep paralysis. I had a weird dream, noticed that it was a dream and then suddenly „woke up“ but I didn’t actually wake up. I tried very hard to move my hands but I couldn’t. It also felt like I was extremely tired and I had to fight against falling a sleep (I did end up „falling asleep“, which woke me up)

I now want to get back into lucid dreaming. Is this dream a good sign that shows it’s very much possible to start lucid dreaming or is this just another random dream?

Yesterday I had a dream though I don't really remember much of the things that happened but I remember feeling that I am aware of that being a dream and I did a reality check too by looking at my hands and it looked weird but when I woke up I was confused if it was a lucid dream or a dream about lucid dreaming. Can anyone tell ?

I have been attempting to lucid dream for about a month now. I have had a couple of experiences that tell me that I’m on the right path and getting closer but there’s always something that stops me from actually lucid dreaming. This is a long read ⚠️

Some of my experiences include ‼️: -feeling a rocking sensation while drifting into sleep -seeing colors/outlines/dream scenes forming in my eyelids -hearing creepy noises while drifting into sleep -feeling my body get heavier into the mattress -remembering my dreams way better

There was one night that I actually became lucid for about 4 seconds before my brain bumped me into the next dream scene and I was back to being an observer. When I dream, I always dream in 3rd person. It’s like I’m watching myself through a movie screen and I’m doing whatever in my dream world. I am always an observer. The night that I became lucid, I dreamed that I was at my grandmas house and me n my sister were sitting on the stairs talking. I remember thinking while in my dream, “this is weird that we’re talking so casually🤔” bc in real life, me n my sister don’t get along. As soon as I had questioned my dream, I jumped from 3rd person view into 1st person view and my dream had became way brighter and clearer. While lucid, I had also noticed that there was carpet on the stairs even thought we had replaced it w wood months ago; another sign I was in a dream. Then my sisters face started to morph. I didn’t get scared n I don’t think I was excited but I just got to the next dream scene and I was back in 3rd person view and unable to control or question my dream again.

Anyways, I feel like it’s super hard for me to even stop and question things in my dream even though I had done it once for a very short period. I feel my best chance to lucid dream would be the WILD method.

One night, I woke up around 3am bc my fan had went off and I was hot so I got up to turn it back on. While I was up, I felt super groggy and tired and I knew it would be the best time to attempt any methods to lucid dream. I decided I was gonna do the WILD method. I layed really still in a comfortable position and was super relaxed and letting my mind wander into anything lucid dream related. I started to sense that my body was feeling like I was sinking into my mattress and felt like I was getting close to falling asleep while staying aware. THEN I started hearing a creepy noise like really heavy and scary breathing 😭 I have experienced sleep paralysis at least 20+ times so I was not that scared. I remained still but I feel like hearing the creepy noise was enough to wake my brain up and become more alert and ruined my progress. I stayed still for about 20 minutes after to still attempt to lucid dream but I just couldn’t get my progress back and ended up staying up all night.

So, IN CONCLUSION ‼️ my questions would be 👇🏼: -How do I stop to question weird things in my dream instead of being so passive? -How do I remain calm or not focus on the creepy noises ? -What other methods should I try? -How do I perform genuine reality checks that don’t seem so mechanical and that actually cause me to question my surroundings? -What should I be thinking/doing while I drift into sleep? -Are there any beginner mistakes that slowed your progress? -Does anyone else dream in 3rd person and if so, did that make it harder to lucid dream?

PLEASE share some experiences/advice/tips and if you reply to any of my questions, PLEASE BE SPECIFIC 😩 thank you ‼️😁

Setting a conscious intention before sleep is something we come back to over and over - it's simple, but the results people report are consistently surprising. This is the art of dream incubation within the lucid dreaming practice. Have you ever gone into a lucid dream with a specific question and actually received something useful on the other side?

After doing a random guided meditation on YouTube, I felt very sleepy and fell asleep.

During my sleep, I had a very vivid experience. I was traveling in space with someone. In the dream, I knew who the person was and felt their presence clearly, but I couldn’t actually see them — and after waking up, I don’t remember who they were.

At some point, we stopped and were floating in front of a black hole.
The black hole felt extremely intimidating, and I became very scared while staring at it. During that moment, I said to the person who was with me, ‘’and they say Hell doesn’t exist.”

The fear felt intense, and after that, I woke up.

After I woke up, I still felt a bit scared. Later, while I was doing my work, I opened the washing machine and the inside looked very dark, almost like the black hole from my dream. For a moment, I felt really scared again. I know it was just a dream, but I’m confused about why I reacted that way.

I’m trying to understand how to interpret this:

Was this most likely just a vivid dream influenced by meditation?

Or do some people interpret experiences like this as astral travel?

In either case, how is the presence of another “person” usually explained? I mean who was that person with me

I’m open to psychological, neurological, and spiritual perspectives.

My boyfriend had a dream of us together but he saw a third person that he didn’t know who it was and didn’t see it’s face and no gender ,I want to know was it an Angel or something else

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I have been having a regularly reoccurring dream recently. As a child I dreamt very vividly, for example feeling like I was truly living out the dreams. As I’ve gotten older my dreams have occurred less, yet still as just as easy to “control” my dream selves actions. The dream that won’t stop occurring recently is one of my phone breaking while I’m just holding it/the phone falling apart into pieces/half. I’ve had the almost identical dream 3 times now. I always wake up anxious and panicked/scared. This isn’t typical for me when it comes to my dreams. I can snap myself “out” of them normally. Yet these ones are different I cannot stop the phone from breaking nor can I tell myself “it’s a dream I need to to wake up.” Does anyone know what this might mean? Thank you for taking the time to read this!

I start this by saying I was a big time skeptic who was always interested in the occult/unexplained/conspiracies, until I started dating my current wife. I am now a semi believer due to various (I believe) paranormal things happening to me and her since ever been together. Although I still always have that air of lil doubt, that no matter how unlikely there’s an explanation.

Well the place we’ve been living at for around 7 months has been a huge reason in flipping me from a skeptic. I’ve had various weird things happen (even hearing an audible laugh that my wife also heard). Well yesterday this new phenomenon started, it happened with me first: I closed my eyes and what I was seeing was something my brain wasn’t producing. It was like I was watching a movie only my eyes were closed. My experience was it looked like drawings a kid would make over white lined paper. The background was white it was 2d and the things were all blocky and poorly drawn like a little child would draw. It was a slideshow only it was showing weird and horrific things. Like it showed how 1 group of people would conquer another then show what they would devolve into (like crazy ritualistic/sexual/serial killer like things). Then another group would come and conquer them and then a couple slideshows of victory normal life then right back into crazy shit. Some of the things I remember were there was this religion based around childbirth where women were hung upside down pumped with blood and other bodily fluids and the birth excess was drank when the child was born. The women were hung upside down their whole lives. I also remember one was based around cannibalism and fetish sex with it. Along with a couple others. I couldn’t remember all the crazy stuff as most of it was the people rising up than conquering than like a king sitting on a throne bored.

Now as this was happening I told my wife she was lying in bed next to me. My wife has crazy crazy lucid dreaming dreams where she meets entities in masks that make her recreate the exact scenario they want (I had one of theses dreams as a kid and was stuck in it for what felt like years trying to figure out what they wanted me to do. They wouldn’t speak only progressive torture including making me relive the worst moments of my life.). She has they frequently and she tells me. Now today while I was at work she called me up saying she had like the same thing I had only when she closed her eyes it was like a real world documentary and they were filming the religion about the women birthing like I saw in mine last night. I didn’t tell her about the weird birthing religion as I gave her a general synopsis and that was only a small part.

We think something or someone is making us see this. Whether it’s some kind of voice 2 skull gangs talking programmed to kill type of situation to make us crazy or an entity sending us these visions. We don’t know we aren’t bugging out about it as weird stuff happens in our house all the time and like We don’t want people to think we’re Nuts. But what we both saw our brains did not create. We weren’t thinking this up, this was shown to us.

Just throwing this out there to see maybe if anyone has any information. Will probably cross post. I keep seeing astral projectors and psychics say the “veil is thinning” so maybe hormones like me are getting things I wouldn’t usually. Just hoping to see if anyone experienced anything similar

So a few weeks ago I was asleep and the craziest thing happened to me. So basically I woke up in an almost exact replica of my bedroom but I felt a creepy vibe. Also, for some odd reason I had extreme anxiety. I heard voices and also felt wind blowing into my ear and out. When I checked my phone there was a big notification that said “you will be watched”. After that I stood up to go to the living room and then I stopped, looked to my left, and saw that my closet which is usually tall but not that wide turned wide as hell. So then i realized I was dreaming and spun around. It was crazy to me. But I’ve never had any lucid dreams before so that was my first.

I have told so many people about this dream, and I always kind of get a little scared they think I'm crazy lol. It was around two years ago, but I still remember it so vividly. I was in a house with other people, and all I knew is that we were supposed to hide. It was like a game of hide and seek. I hid in a closet. I don't remember who told us this, but the dream just kind of started with me knowing someone had told me to. She then found me (the owner of the house). I guess I had been told that when you are found, the lady would kill you. So when she found me, I started begging for my life, "please don't kill me, they told me to hide in here I didn't know what else to do." She spared me. Then it was kind of like a montage of us becoming friends, just us laughing, then going on a walk, etc (I can't remember that well). Then all the sudden, I realized I was in a dream, and I got really sad, because I knew when the dream ended I wouldn't see her again. I basically said something like "Aww I'm so sad I don't want to never see you again, I just realized that this is a dream". She then said something that I don't remember, and then I asked her a question, "how do dreams work?". She told me that there is basically a world of dreams, and that the dream workers are assigned to people's dreams to help teach them lessons. I don't think I was scared in the dream, but when I woke up I felt really eerie (maybe just because I've never really had a lucid dream before).

Any input would be greatly appreciated!!! Thank you ❤️