I recently quit THC after using it for the past 2–3 years, and the dreams have been wild.

To give some context, I moved back to my home country after spending the last 10 years living that nonstop hustle life in the USA. THC isn’t as easy to get here, so I was like, fuck it, I’ll quit it.

Before quitting, I’d done some reading about THC and REM sleep, so I expected more vivid dreams as my sleep adjusted. I also figured I might experience sleep paralysis again, which I’ve had before, and hopefully some lucid dreams eventually.

Well, sure enough. I stopped completely about two weeks ago, and four days ago I had the MOST vivid, detailed dream I can remember having in my entire life.

I was in the penthouse of this massive hotel, dealing with some dangerous people. One guy was about to kill me, and I remember feeling like I’d already accepted my fate. Then he made this awkward move, and I saw my chance. I grabbed the gun and blew his brains out. Somehow, nobody else in the penthouse even noticed what had happened.

The whole thing unfolded like a movie, with different scenes, conversations, familiar faces, and this woman (my ex girlfriend actually) who felt like my partner in crime.

As soon as I woke up, I wrote everything down. I was honestly amazed at how much I remembered.

When I went back to sleep around 8 am, I tried to reenter that same “world.” I couldn’t, but I ended up having another really interesting dream instead. Apparently, my brain had another movie queued up lol.

Long story short, I’ve had four solid dreams in about three days that I’ve actually been able to remember. That never happened when I was using THC.

Now I’ve started reading about lucid dreaming, and I’m excited to practice some techniques. Some sound similar to things I’ve done in dreams without consciously trying, but now I can approach them more intentionally.

My missing piece is recognizing that I’m dreaming while I’m still in it. Right now, I just accept whatever crazy shit is happening and go with the flow.

Somehow, though, I’ve managed to turn nightmares into intense action sequences where I fight back. Pretty consistent with my personality. Even in my dreams, I won’t give up lol.

Did anyone else experience something similar after quitting THC? And how did you go from going along with the dream to realizing, “Wait a second… I’m dreaming”?

Sweet dreams! 🌙💤

31M - Chile

I was dreaming I was going uphill in the dark to get something when I saw a figure that was almost invisible, but I could kinda see its silhouette. I thought I was seeing things, then I heard a voice say something like “there’s something in that and it’s coming for me.”

When the figure got me, my upper abs suddenly spasmed all at once for about one second. I was awake with my eyes closed when the spasm happened.

I also get creepy hallucinations pretty often, but only when waking up. Has anyone experienced anything similar?

I woke up in my dream, and everything was blurry. I was looking around, wondering where I was, and then I started to realize that I might be dreaming. I did a reality check by pinching my nose and trying to breathe through it. I could still breathe, and that’s when I realized I was dreaming!
I remembered hearing that rubbing your hands together can make everything in a lucid dream more vivid, so I tried it, and everything became clearer. However, when I tried to move, I couldn’t. I kept trying to move while imagining in my mind that I would be able to, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t move. Eventually, I woke up.
This was my first lucid dreaming experience!

So last night I tried lucid dreaming using the MILD method, and I woke up a few times throughout the night. At one point I was struggling to get back to sleep, just tossing and turning.
As I was finally starting to fall asleep, I remember imagining myself standing in a car park from a bird’s-eye view, with around 10 people around me.
Then I kind of imagined taking my consciousness, almost like my soul, out of my body and putting it into someone else’s.
And as soon as I did that, my actual body started vibrating loads, I felt really warm, and my heart started racing. It was such a weird feeling, and I think I got a bit too excited and ended up waking up.
I’ve recently been getting back into lucid dreaming, so I’m not really sure what happened or whether I was close to becoming lucid.
Has anyone else experienced this before? Was I potentially about to enter a lucid dream, or is this just a normal thing when falling asleep?

So, I don't actively practice lucid dreaming (as in trying to induce lucid dreams) as I've had them for quite a while, but when i do i always have little to no control over them.

Ive also had issues with recurring lucid nightmares for a long time but they've started to flair back up again, they usually consist of me realising im in a dream, trying to wake up, and getting stuck in a cycle of false awakening loops as things pursue me throughout it (anyone i care about or trust is generally a common theme for monsters in my dreams, always has been :) )

It's just this over and over with me desperately trying to get out, usually attempting a bunch of different stuff that just ends with me being in even more upsetting positions like throwing myself out a window to escape, closing my eyes which ends in the dream becoming audio only but still just as scary, or intentionally aggravating the monster to get it to kill me faster and end the dream, usually works as far as "end the dream faster" as i just end up with another false awakening

Anyone have any tips or something, cuz i just dont wanna deal with these dreams anymore, like im too scared to go back to sleep after cuz i feel like they'll come back and i dont wanna get stuck in another loop while monsterous versions of my friends and family mock me and hurt me

TLDR

0 lucid dreams, 2 dreams recalled.

Dream recall

This morning I recalled 2 dreams, super short and not much detail, but it’s better than the 0 previously. Weirdly I woke up 2 hours before my normally waking time, I think my brain went into WBTB mode with all this lucid dreaming talk.

All day awareness

I’d like to say I’ve spent a good chunk of today being aware. The best changes have been not using my phone, causing me to think during vague times like going to the bathroom or doing hygiene stuff.

Hardest part of today was probably going to the gym with no music. It will take a while to get used to, but I knew that coming into this.

I have noticed loads of weird things in my house and work just from being aware and asking questions, things like a light in the celine having a hallow hole, or graffiti randomly cutting off.

With no quick dopamine to distract me, I find myself just thinking about the future on auto pilot mode, which in it self is better, but I still want to reduce auto pilot as much as possible.

The mark on my hand worked a bit, but I had more success just looking at the clock, seeing if it’s a new hour and then doing my 1 minute checking scheme.

Thank you!

Thanks for the support in the last post, it gave me some good motivation. I believe anything is possible, and I think that’s super important when it comes to lucid dreaming.

i have tried every method but cannot grasp the lucidity ive had moments when i went "huh this isnt real" but brushed it off i have tried journaling reality checks everything the ONLY lucid dream i ever had was under the effects of clonidine a medicine prescribed to me that gave me vivid crazy dreams

i still have the medication but i am currently taking guanfacine so it wouldnt have the best effect on me

is there any other easy method to lucidity?

Back story: For the past few weeks I’ve been running overnight audio sessions that play an audible recognizable cue (or lucid signal that I learn to recognize while I'm awake) at times that I expect to be in REM, mostly in the later part of the night.

What I’ve noticed so far (even though it's just my own experience so far):

-On nights that I got a cue during a likely REM window, I recalled a dream more often than on nights without one.

-I’ve had a few dreams where I noticed the cue’s sound or the environment in the dream itself. I can’t tell whether the cue caused that or whether I was already primed to notice.

-I haven’t been able to separate the cue from the general effect of thinking about lucidity before bed.

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What I'm trying to find out: I’d like to hear from people who’ve tried anything similar: did timing matter for you, or did consistency matter more? Does the signal need to be specific or just something you recognize? Most of my lucid moments come from the help of audio so I'm exhausting the avenue lol.

dream i had today

a women hanged herself on my fan. the entire layout of the room was same but the only difference was that there was no furniture only a fan and windows without curtains. it looked like the first time i entered this room. in the corner was a shadow figure standing, facing the corner, his arms to his side and about the height of a 12yr old. i could hear muffled crying as he stood there emotionless. i couldnt make out any features of the boy. the body of the women hanging from the fan was a weird colour of yellow, as if there was no blood in her body. her face was covered in curly hair and it appeared as if her neck had snapped due to the rope. the room was dark, the only light source was my window providing ambient lighting across the room. i was standing at the entrance and couldnt move.

the women was wearing worn out clothes and was like hanging 5 feet above the floor ig scaling doesnt make sense cuz my ceiling not that high but its a dream so yah

the kid was standing in a corner of my room right across the entrance. ive had another dream where i was standing in THIS EXACT CORNER and i could see MYSELF SLEEPING ON MY BED which i find mind blowing cuz the details were exactly the same. sooo im kinda freaked out now

when i woke up my eyes were filled with tears and i was drenched in sweat and my heartbeat was high (i freaked out my dreams are very realistic the lady looked VERY REAL)

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I had a weird dream. I fell asleep while doing emails work from home(on a break- about a 30 minute nap clocked in a hour before) and drempt I was at work, but they reorganized my office and it was now like a big shared cubicle, all my wall art and personal items where still there but there was like 3 big tables with people at them talking loudly, so I decided to move my desk and try to read emails. I try to read them but their all out of whack, like I sent a reply that looked like:

Jdj ;jk and snxmwijd m

I felt very tired and sloppy, almost drunk. Slow. Bordering on becoming a nightmare.

And I was like what's wrong with my typing and as im moving along the office is so weird and im like wait a sec they wouldnt randomly do this. And this looks nothing like work im dreaming cool.

So i try to fly, I jump up and nothing happens and someone looks over the cubicle at me really weird. I then try to push my finger through my hand and that doesnt work either. I say okay whatever and leave into the hall and I see someone really attractive. I said yolo and walked up to them with the intent of having sex and immediately woke up.

So i basically had 0 power in the dream outside of realizing it was a dream, but it was still really cool!

I’ve had a few lucid dreams before but every time I just get really excited and then it fades away and I wake up within seconds. How do you avoid this?

Ive had many lucid dreams, and i wonder if i crack somebody then it wont last that long cuz i will get a nightfall,

Is it true that when you crack you get a nightfall? (In lucid dreams)

Tell your stories too

Whenever I look up "lucid dreaming" on YouTube, it's the exact same thing, tutorials on lucid dreaming and that's literally it. It's so hard to find videos that have legitimate discussion and content around lucid dreaming; it's either clickbait or tutorials, that's it. I'm asking this here because I want to know if anyone here knows of legitimate good YouTube channels which make real content about lucid dreaming, past just tutorials and clickbait.

This changed everything I know abt lucid dreaming reality checks... Basically do a reality check every 10 minutes every day for a week it will work.. And please without a timer and you can either do it mindless or mindfulness... And Also after stopping you can still get lucid dreams

When i did it it was mindlessly and bad and it worked after 5 days for me even the timing was super bad like I wasn't able to remember when to do it..

How to make the technique more powerful:#1use prospective memory... Remind yourself after 10 mins you will do a reality check properly... The way I used it i count 1 2 3 4 5 i will remember to do a reality check after 10 mins.. Or you can use anything to remind yourself but without a timer.. This is super important tk relay heavily on you memory to remember to do it in the dream... If you don't do it it won't work even after a month...

So hope the best for yall.

I've seen both of these talked about, at one time, or another. Can someone shed light on this?

Hi!

What’s everyone’s favourite method of flying? Still very inexperienced with it and haven’t managed to get it working yet.

Cheers!

This week I've had 3 lucid dreams, it goes like this i go to sleep i count my fingers inside the dream i stabilize the dream and not do anything about the fact that I am lucid even though i want to do a lot of things but as soon as i get lucid i just willingly lose lucidity idk why i can't do anything i want i am starting to lose hope pls help me because it was really hard for me to get to this point in lucid dreaming now i can't do anything inside the dream

So I had terrible sleep last night and decided to get more from like 9am to 11:40. The dream I had was so close to lucid dreaming. Everytime I ALMOST ld, im always in a dream lucid dreaming if that makes sense. Like inception. Its happened maybe 3 times now I think and I dont understand how to be fully conscious.

Like when I had my dream this morning I looked at my hand after walking out of my room. The finger was super off on it and I could just tell but I wasnt fully conscious in the dream. I could control things yes, but it was like I couldnt fully control myself. Anybody have any ideas on how I could strengthen this or become more aware?

So far, I haven’t been intentionally trying to lucid dream but I feel like my dreams are close to being pre-lucid. I am often aware while dreaming that events dont make any sense but I still won’t realise that I’m dreaming.

For example, I’ll have the classic experience of doing a short task like getting dressed to leave the house but every time I check my phone several hours have passed. And I literally think to myself "how strange, this usually only happens to me in dreams".
Another common thing is that if something bad happens to me in a dream I sometimes think "I hope this is only a dream/I wish I was dreaming" - I never have this thought while awake because I’m fully aware I’m not dreaming. Interestingly, I sometimes notice during my dreams that I‘m having a "dream-thought" yet I still don’t become lucid.

The strangest thing for me is that sometimes I experience things that aren’t logical but that we usually just accept in dreams (e.g. flying, suddenly being in different locations, dream characters suddenly being somebody else etc.). But I’m aware that these are not possible and freak out.
For example, I had dreams where I switched locations but I got really stressed out about the fact that I couldn’t remember how I got there so, in my dream, I went to the doctors and explained that I think I’m experiencing memory loss or dissociation.
Sometimes I dream of things that dont exist (like a monster or mythical creature) and get scared because I think I must be hallucinating.
I also had a dream where I was flying but it was really frightening and I couldn’t get down no matter how hard I tried (I also felt super self-conscious about people seeing me fly because I knew it was unusual). When I managed to get down, I literally googled in my dream if it was possible to become airborne against your will and what caused it.

Do others experience dreams like this? Would you say they are pre-lucid dreams, and does that mean I should be able to lucid dream if I practice it more intentionally?

This strange thing has been happening to me, on and off, since I was 13 (I’m 24 now).

For context: these only happen when I take naps during the day - never during my nighttime sleep. There are different variations of these "episodes"; I’ll describe a few of them.

1. I feel like I’m "waking up" I see my room exactly as it really is. Soon, I begin to sense that something is wrong.

I try to move, but I can’t. I start to panic. I realize I’m dreaming and try to wake up. My eyes struggle to stay open (I’m not sure if they’re actually open or closed), and then I "fall asleep." Then I "wake up" again. The same thing keeps happening. I feel like I am a prisoner in my own bed, I can’t move, I know I’m dreaming, and I can’t get out. When I finally manage to wake up, it feels as though I’m being forcibly pulled back into the dream, as if my eyes are being forced shut. Then i finally wake up. That loop can occur as many as 10–20 times.

1. Second variation, this is about same as the first, but something is little bit different

I "wake up" and realize that I am once again a "prisoner of my own dream." I cannot move. Suddenly, I manage to reach out toward my phone. I pick it up, but then *bam* I seem to "wake up" again; the phone is no longer in my hand. I try the same thing again, and once more, I find myself back at the start of the loop. Sometimes, in this version, I also try to get out of bed. Usually, I slide down onto the floor, and then it happens again; "I wake up" and find myself back in bed. When I finally wake up for real, I haven’t actually moved a single inch.

1. Third variation. This is the scariest sh*t ever.

It all begins just like in those previous variations. I realize that I’ve experienced a false awakening again, and I try to force myself to move, and I can't. Then, suddenly, it feels like my limbs are being torn apart, or perhaps I’m falling to the floor and "flying" around the room. I keep my eyes shut the whole time so i see nothing but blackness. Then, I hear extremely loud, high-pitched and low-pitched sounds that cause pain in my head. I can hear my own heartbeat, pounding so hard it feels like my heart is about to burst out of my chest. Then I "wake up" again, and that same sh*t continues, over and over - until, finally, I truly wake up for real.

Does anybody know what is this? Is it sleep paralysis or just false awakening?

I just read up on WILD and realized that the two most successful lucid dreaming attempts have been a version of the WILD technique. I’ve been trying to go for the MILD technique and inadvertently focus so hard on remembering that I consciously transition into the dream.

I think this was how MILD works but really experiencing the transition as I’ve read it described aligns more with the WILD technique.

My tips: The WILD method for me basically is a mantra of me saying in my head “next time you dream you’ll know you are dreaming” and repeating that flat on my back as my mind transitions to sleep and REM.

It feels and “sounds” like you are physically going somewhere, like walking through a waterfall slowly.

\posted this when I first woke up, now that I have time to actually articulate my thoughts I deleted the first post and redid it. Hopefully this is better**

Ive always been a very vivid dreamer. Well this morning I'm pretty sure I was almost lucid dreaming?

I was in the middle of a very vivid dream, I was in this like "institutionalized" place with other people (not really important I don't think but maybe) the place was very colorful despite it also having that "hospital" feel. Well as I was skipping down the hallway I looked at myself in my reflection of a window and suddenly its like my brain woke up? I told myself "oh I'm dreaming" and the first thing I noticed was a vase started to lose its color like it was going from a very colorful intricate vase to just plain white. And then the whole room started doing that. And the thing that freaked me out the most was after I noticed all that a really strong tingling sensation started happening all over my body that also felt loud but not in a usual auditory way if that makes sense? It freaked me out so badly I was yelling at myself to wake up. It took me two times doing that (because the first time when I opened my eyes I was still in the dream) before I actually woke up.

Thoughts? Advice?