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)

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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

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!

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?

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)

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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?

\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?

Well I'm just starting out and I perform reality checks a few dozen times a day(watching the seconds tick on my watch), but whenever I start dreaming I completely forget and then simply follow the dream plot and that's all, until I either remember to perform a reality check OR see something abnormal that makes me perform a reality check that leads to a lucid dream. How do you guys deal with this problem?

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?

Hi!

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

Cheers!

Ive unintentionally had many lucid dreams ever since I was younger. Years ago, I learned how to realize that a dream was a dream to then be able to do whatever I wanted. Same goes for any nightmare. As soon as I see something scary I realize it’s not real then I curl up into a ball, close my eyes, then try to open them without opening them in the dream which always wakes me up.

Nearly half of all my dreams are lucid, but over the past few years, anytime I realize im dreaming, the dream starts to “slip away” and I can feel myself waking up. Ive tried so many different things to stay in the dream, focusing on whats around me, keeping my eyes open, trying to distract myself from the fact that Im dreaming, but it never works. My vision in the dream starts to fade and I wake up. Does anyone else experience this?

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.

Hi everyone, please let me know if there’s a better sub for this, but I thought this was the best place.
I’m a very vivid dreamer and remember most of them. I do lucid dream from time to time, but I’m wondering if there’s another term for these other “types” I have.
Basically in my dreams, it’s like I can make conscious decisions. I can’t control what’s happening to me-nor do I tell myself I’m dreaming like I would in a full on lucid dream. However, I can still make decisions.
Example from a dream I just woke up from-
I ended up in a shifty part of town and these two guys blocked me off in an alley and made me shuffle through some sort of store. I knew they were either going to try and sell me stuff or they were just up to no good, in my brain I thought ‘just tell them you’re a cop, but you don’t give a shit what they’re doing so you can get through without trouble’. I said it and they did let me through, but this lady ended up grabbing my arm and I felt a pin prick.
It’s maybe to note that she was a Native American woman, and I am Native?? Idk
When she did, my brain fully took over and I looked at her and told her I knew she just you injected me with something. she smiled and said “well everyone should enjoy it once in their lifetime”.
I went absolutely feral in the shop and it was like I was consciously deciding to ruin it, break the glass, I was consciously picking the words I wanted to say to her.
The doesn’t seem like I’m truly lucid dreaming unless I’m wrong? Is there a name for it? Ty!

I’m a natural lucid dreamer, and I’m almost always aware that I’m dreaming. I know I’m inside a dream, I can control certain things, and I usually know when to wake myself up but I am lately struggling with the how part.

The weirdest part is that I can feel EVERYTHING. Emotions, pain, pleasure, physical sensations, textures… everything feels completely real.

But sometimes, it gets genuinely terrifying.

The other day, I was dreaming that I was petting a deer in my living room. I remember cuddling with it, burying my face into its fur, and feeling how incredibly soft it was against my skin. It felt so real that I could almost describe the texture.

Then I had this moment of realization: Wait, why the hell is there a deer in my living room?

I was suddenly wide awake, but I could STILL feel something pressed up against me, like I was holding an actual animal. I could feel the weight and softness against my body. Must be my cat right, because I could still feel the soft fur against my face.

Then, all of a sudden, my hand dropped, and there was nothing. Just empty air and complete silence.
I genuinely cannot explain how unsettling that felt.
And that wasn’t even the worst part of the night.
I had to force myself to wake up around FIVE TIMES. Every time, I was fully aware that I was dreaming. I knew I needed to wake up, and I would fight my way out of the dream, only to “wake up” into what felt like another layer of reality. I was still dreaming. Still aware. Still trying to escape.

How do you usually snap out of these loops?

So before this I have only lucid dreamed twice. When I was younger I wouldn't have believed such a thing to be possible if I hadn't experienced it myself.

Both the times I had lucid dreamed was random and happened on it's own. I had limited control over the dreams.

I have tried several times over the years to follow many techniques and ways in which to do this by myself. But it has NEVER worked. But I haven't stuck too long either.

But since I am always interested in doing it. And I know all the basic things you need to do, I did some things passively. I wasn't remembering any of my dreams at all so I knew I needed to change that. I didn't journal it but I basically told myself I need to pay attention to my dreams and if I dream at all. After a few days I started remembering that I did dream after waking up. I didn't write them but I did try to recall as much as possible.

I didn't perform any dream checks during my waking hours at all.

Last night, I woke up very early. You know how you sometimes just wake up early in the morning then go to sleep? Didn't even open my eyes but I did shift around, make myself comfortable. Then I told myself I am going to dream only once. I had heard to do this in a YT video.

And then I imagined a lot of things. At first I conjured up bad things because my brain was thinking those things (shadowy figures, demons etc). I genuinely got a little scared but I kept going but thankfully my thoughts or dreams turned to other things.

And bang! Inside my dream I was like yeah this is a dream. I was fully aware that I was doing this. I tried to exert control but it was very hard. My control was limited and only happened sometimes.

I would wake up when I would become too aware of my real body. Then I would do it again. Tell myself I am going to dream and enter a lucid dream again.

I did it at least 5 times, could have been more since I don't remember the earlier lucid dreams at all. The very last lucid dream was the longest and also the most vivid. There were so many written signs in my dream. And I knew they would be gibberish so I tried to read them and to my surprise not all of them were gibberish. Don't get me wrong, they weren't written with perfect grammar but some of them were even funny. I just don't remember what they said at all.

I wanted to share this experience, maybe it might help someone out. I am not sure I will be able to do it again but I will try again.

P. S. I also want to share another experience I have had that even I had hard time believing. I don't really tell anyone. But since this is a lucid dreaming sub I think it might be okay.

So one day when I was young (like 13-14 years old). I was sitting on my bed and I thought to myself, what if I blinked and it was morning? So I did exactly that and I scared myself shitless when it did become morning😭. I checked again and again. It was a crazy feeling. I never did it again. I don't think I would be able to anymore. My younger self had better sleep, calmer mind etc.

Another thing I can do is I will tell my mind/body that I have to wake up at 5 am or 4 am or whenever before sleeping again and again. That it's really important. And I always wake up at that time. Human mind can do awesome things.

Those are all the craziest things I have experienced. So that's all from me. Hope this helped or provided an insight.

Let’s say I was around 13, i had nightmares almost everyday for a long time. I somehow developed a habit to make myself think I can shoot webs like spiderman. It didn’t happen consistently at first but overtime I could shoot webs during my nightmares to pull myself away from the threat and the nightmares weren’t as scary. I can’t change my dream or the scenario. I’ve tried other things like punching hard or a kamehameha. But nothing really worked like the Spider-Man gimmick. I’m 19 now and I used it not so long ago. I’m just curious of the reason why and if anyone else has some sort of mechanism for nightmares.
If I explained this and sorry but I’m just curious and could probably give better detail it questioned. And is this like lucid dreaming or no?

I've been wondering what experienced lucid dreamers always use to help beginners. For me, it's WBTB with MILD, but I want to see and explore other options.