I wanted a lucid dream for a while now, but I’m overwhelmed on where to start….. I have horrible insomnia and I’m pretty much nocturnal so I don’t know if that would affect things, I’ve had sleep paralysis a few times before in the past…. And I will be starting trazadone for sleep soon I’m already on melatonin…….. I’m also on a shit ton of other meds and I don’t know if that affects things.

I’m very sickly and can’t do much in life and I’m hoping I was able to lucid dreams should be able to do things and function like a normal person, is that how lucid dreaming works?

I have bad ADHD so it’s really hard for me to sort through where to start or what would be best?

What are your best ideas of things to do? Other than flying and stuff. Once I realized I’m lucid dreaming I kinda get stressed feeling like I have to figure out something to do quick. And then I often end up flying for example. But then I get so excited and my heart starts beating, and because of that I wake up so fast 😞

TLDR

0 lucid dreams, 2 dreams recalled last night.

0 lucid dreams, 19 dreams recalled total.

Sickness is finally gone 🥳

Dream recall

2 solid dreams last night, i think there was more but i was still recovering, i feel completely fine now.

All day awareness

20 minutes a day is nice for meditation, morning and night so its like a full loop. Im digging deep into my dreams, for some reason im always fine with whats happening and my brain connects some story to make it make sense. For example, last night my friend threw a frisbe so fast it caught on fire, so he could light his birthday candles on fire. Now my brain connected the fact it could happen and just went with it. SSILD Still being used over MILD, but nothing happening yet....

Thank you!

Week 2, here we come...

Does anyone have advice on how to successfully lucid dream tonight on command? I’m currently dealing with an incredibly heavy, unbearable situation in my waking life and desperately need to connect with my spirit guides for some guidance and answers. Since it’s a high-stakes night for me, I also want to experiment with lucid sex if I can successfully stabilize the dream. I'm planning on trying the WBTB (Wake Back to Bed) method paired with MILD, but I really need the most reliable, fast-acting tips or grounding techniques to make sure I actually get lucid and don't immediately wake up from the excitement or stress. Any advice on how to anchor myself and manifest both of these specific intentions in one night?"

Now this is the strangest thing that has ever happened to me. tbh im in a bad mental state its prob why i can't sleep.

i took 2 advil pm to try to sleep. but when i closed my eyes i was able to generate pictures in my mind pretty clearly. even videos too. and voices. this is where i start to question if i am having a schizo ep or not.

but then i realized. everytime i open my eyes all of that disappears. so i decided you know what ima let it ride. and i met people. one notable one was my mom was right infront of my face smiling creepy, then ask me "wanna have some fun?" i told her "no i want to go to sleep" but like the entire simulation started to crumble and then i opened my eyes again right away CUS FUCK THAT SHIT

Now this is the part where i realized, wait a second i just communicated with her. and that i was lucid dreaming.

so i was like ok ok, what if i decided to imagine some gameplay right now, hmmm what should i pick. i decided DEAD AS DISCO goated game btw. its a beat em up arena and you beat to the music. and thats the funny part i decided to play the games music in my head. but i wasnt really accurate because it was my mind trying to remake it. and also like 50% of the gameplay looked like dead as disco the rest is just random filler. prob because my brain can't quite remember it right. for any of the fans curious i was fighting Arora and i was like ehhh cut to the last stage of her battle and it worked lul.

it sucks tho because the lucid dreams would get too weird and i open my eyes. just to have to generate another scenario again.

at least i feel less tired and better memory now, still wished i actually went to sleep. i kinda wonder of the combination of me being up for like 30 hours and the DPH on that advil pm is what caused that.

truly i am not the only one that has encountered this right? i really do hope i can get some actual sleep soon tho. i guess another note my first lucid dream was a month ago. although that time i went to bed normally and only had one scenario or whatever how do i turn lucid dreaming off lmao and just go back to normal dreaming in the middle of the lucid dream?

It’s happened for the last couple days and I don’t like it.

For context, I work very overstimulating job in an event/game center. Lots of music, kids screaming, talking, etc. I also have GAD and ADHD, so sometimes my mind gets frazzled, anxious and overstimulated. I really don’t like these things I’m feeling as I fall asleep and they really make me
Anxious. Any ideas?

My first lucid dream, I was just exploring an abandoned city and it was so cool, I wanna do it again, when I was sleeping yesterday, all I had in mind was "please lucid dream, please lucid dream" I even had my fingers and toes crossed but I didn't, I feel like I can't do it again and it makes me sad :(

Last night I feel like I had a moment of going to bed and entering straight into a lucid dream. Went to bed, did my checks through the day then as I went to bed stayed focused in my mind and in the process of doing that over months I feel I start to recognize thoughts in my head and actual hallucinations that I’m seeing with my eyes closed. Mainly just little colors and textures to little dots of light and last night in doing that I went from watching some dots of light dance around to a song that I was thinking to suddenly flying a fighter jet fighting aliens. Side note I also figured out a way to fly in this dream as well so double points. Has anyone else had that experience? I’m 98% sure I entered right into a lucid dream because I did wake up after the dream about 30 minutes later from things going on in my room.

I've been trying to lucid dream the past few days. And anytime I'm starting to realize I'm dreaming, I become half-awake and I remember thinking "Well, I can't lucid dream now because then that's just day dreaming," then I'd drift back to sleep. Why is that happening and how can I stop it?

I had woken up for a little bit and started to fall back to sleep cuz i was still tired. I kept hearing static or something idk how to explain it. But the more I heard it the more I felt heavier. I kinda scared myself out of it a couple of times. On the way of doing whatever I was doing I think I dreamt? Im not sure but then the first time it felt like i was spinning but I wasnt which I then scared myself out of it. I started to do it again. I imagined myself entering portals like im going further into whatever I was doing. Then my mind turned blank. No thoughts no nothing. My body started to feel like static and fuzzy. My eyes and face were twitching as I had my head laying on my hand. I could feel my body get like tingles and goosebumps. I could still think and stuff. And then I also scared myself out of it. And sorry for the grammar as im still tried right now. Do yall know what this was? I searched on Google and googled said sleep paralysis. But Idk if thats what the was. What do u guys think?

Between May and August I used to have LDs frequently, and for years I have also gotten lucid dreams occasionally, and I never really put effort into them. However since like last month I have been unable to get LDs (well, it has been difficult for me to sleep in general, even when not trying to LD). I have tried to do FILD, MILD, SSILD, and sometimes WBTB (I usually don't really think much about LDs when waking at midnight, but I sometimes do). Considering I have tried all the methods I actually understand, I'm not entirely sure what to do know. I'm not sure if I should keep trying all these methods, or if I should exclusively try a single method (maybe combined with WBTB?) for a period of time and do that for the others if that doesn't work. I don't know if I'm being too desperate about this.

I'm not sure if this changes anything but in that dream I could affect objects just by deciding to affect them for the first time (although in one moment I couldn't do anything anymore so I decided to wake up). I'm not entirely sure if I'm just not realizing my more recent LDs, or if I'm actually not having them.

So i have always had intense, vividly detailed dreams every night for as long as I can remember (I'm in my 30s), but I have never been able to control things quite like other vivid dreamers seem able to do based on what ive read from the community 🤔

I have "internal thoughts" in my dreams, have told certain characters that "I thought I was dreaming or something!" In interactions, and I've even referenced past dreams I've had to dream characters 😵‍💫

But even though it's an intense, vivid, hours/days-long experience in my brain every night, I always am operating under the conditions of the dream (if that makes sense) and have never been able to affect the surrounding environment/situation.

I regularly experience physical sensations while dreaming; a recurring example is a small bird landing on my shoulder, & I can feel the small but firm grip of its talons, hear the gentle rustling of its feathers, and notice the way its presence slightly distorts my hearing on the side it's sitting on.

Does this all count as "lucid dreaming"? Or am I supposed to have more agency? It always feels kind of like "going with the flow" and rolling with the punches so to speak.

I've read about/tried (albeit casually) the techniques that are supposed to help, like the reality-checking light switch stuff, but i still feel at the mercy of my dream scenarios, and they can get quite disturbing and harrowing.

Anyways, just wondering if this sounds familiar to anyone else & if this is indeed "lucid dreaming"?

Thanks for whoever takes the time to read and/or respond! 🙏🏻

I have been trying to LD for more than a year and was finally making progress. Within the past couple months I even had three LD (of varying lucidity/control/stability) within the span of a few weeks. None exactly the high-control high-lucidity consistent ideal LD, but one was close, being fairly long and consistent and allowing me to fly around but not quite control the scene.

But I've hit a wall again and it is again with dream recall. At this point I'm not sure what to do to get past it.

If I wake up overnight (naturally, not with an alarm) I can usually recall a tiny bit of a dream. But come morning, I really struggle. I struggle with waking up in the morning in general and have to set back to back alarms every 5-10 minutes, and it can take up to half an hour of alarms for me to be able to get out of bed. I fall back asleep between the alarms and I wonder if I am losing my dream recall as I fall back asleep.

Lately I have been trying MILD, and sometimes phase 1 works--in fact I seem to wake up and remember a tiny bit of a dream right after my first sleep cycle--but I have no idea if phase 2 works because I cannot remember any more dreams after falling back asleep.

Does anyone have any tips for getting past this? I do dream journal, and when I can get away with it I lay in bed for a moment recalling my dreams before getting up, but it is risky because I might just fall back asleep in that brief time.

I own a eye mask that had built in speakers and can auto turn off after 1 or 2 hours so im wondering if there is anything good that i can listen to on Spotify to help induce lucid dreams that can be turned off after a few hours but tbh can it be classed as a podcast because i dont wont my wrapped to be filled with lucid dreaming stuff as my top songs

Hey guys I once saw lucid dream without realising and I want to do it again tonight, can anyone tell a way to lucid dream without wblb and without waking up again? Or just tell a tip for using the DILD pls

I once woke up after a ~5 hours sleep, checked my phone, drunk water but before I went back to sleep I wanted to lucid dream.

I laid down, I repeated in my head "Mind awake, Body asleep." And closed my eyes, then I felt this energy around my body, it felt like it was my soul coming out, I didn't know what was happening but I felt like I was elevating, I was so scared and I jolted my eyes open and moved and it stopped.

What was it? Was it a near successful try to lucid dream that I ruined?

I don't know why. Last night, I went to sleep as usual, but while falling asleep I felt something heavy over me. It was in my mind and I knew it, but it was there, and it followed me as I fell asleep.

Then, next thing I know, I am in the dream, and I become very much aware of it. I go around, do my things, obviously, as a beginner, I woke up a couple of times during it, but I went back to sleep immediately after, and the next dreams were lucid as well. My sleep quality was terrible, but hey, at least I had some fun!

Today, I decided to take a nap. No heavy feeling this time, just... Me randomly becoming aware. Unfortunately I also woke up soon afterwards, because all I got was a black tea and a walk through the city during winter.

They are incredibly vivid - I was surprised by the intensity of the flavours! The tea was incredibly rich, with a hint of lemon and spices to it.

Years ago, I used to practice, having a dream journal and all that, with very little success. Today I had four lucid dreams in under 24 hours.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? What could be the cause?

Usually when the dream is slipping away, my vision starts to fade away to black, but this time there was just enough blur left from my dream that I was able to just focus on it as hard as I could, and I also put so much brain power into really trying to make it feel like my body was as present as I could in the scene, and then the transition to being back into lucidity was such a vibrant colorful explosion and it just felt so euphoric.

i've never tried to induce a lucid dream or looked much into them, so to my surprise, i found myself semi aware that i was in a dream. i decided to actually touch the environment around me, pictures on walls, even tried to read a magazine which was almost English but not really a language at all which i understand is to be expected. i'm very curious about how one might gain more awareness in such a situation if i ever find myself there again. is there something i can do? and how can i pull that knowledge from my brain in the moment like i did when i realized i was dreaming? i am worried if i ever happens again i'll forget anything i've learned. i will be reading through this sub and other sources to learn more. there's reading about a topic and then there is actually experiencing it first hand.

Before going to sleep, visualize or think about something you would like to see in your dream—it could be a place or even a simple object. This is a very powerful exercise, and with consistent practice, you can become more conscious within your dreams.

Hi all. I have no interest in lucid dreaming.

A solid 95% percent of the time I don't dream, which is perfectly fine because my dreams are almost exclusively nightmares and even the "good" ones are extremely disorienting (I'll remember a conversation that never happened, think someone dead/alive is the other way, make up school assignments that don't exist, and panic when I can't find pets or people I knew in the dream).

When I do dream, it's usually only kind of lucid. I become aware of the dream and can recall going to bed the night before. I go "oh, it's a dream" and do things a little differently because I know they don't matter anymore, and I generally have free will, but I can't wake up and I can't stop the content of the nightmare (to, for example, replace it with something pleasant). I can't wake up unless the dream is "complete," if that makes sense. I have to save someone, or do scary tasks, and if I try to stop the dream through a variety of methods the antagonist either says something along the lines of "you can't wake up yet" or just starts "killing" me by ripping my abdomen open or something like that until I play along again.

In my most recent dream, which I just woke up from (its 1am and I am angry), when I decided I didn't want to dream anymore and tried to stop "playing" (curl up on the ground and say "I'm waking up" and stuff like that, just quitting the game) the character/body i was in was just eviscerated and I was left spectating, aware, and completely out of control because I wasn't anyone or anything anymore.

How do I stop this. I either want to stop dreaming/lucid-ish dreaming or have full control so I can fix things. What do I do from here? I'm just at a loss, and it's getting to a point where I dread going to sleep at night because there's a chance I'll dream.

Please help me

Until I was talking with good friend the other night.

I dream pretty much every night and usually several dreams.

My whole life these dreams have started like I’m dropped into the scene like fortnight lol.

I have full control over my body but not the surroundings. It’s been like this since I was a child. I’m M38

Yesterday I had a dream where I unlocked a door to a garden high in the sky.

I felt like the space around me was stable and I could explore and see it in detail.

I could turn my head and observe the garden around me.

I then saw a big balcony with a great view.

I consciously decided to go there and check it out.

I observed the view from many angles.

I then thought to myself like you know this is a dream so you can do whatever you want.

So I jumped.

I couldn't believe I jumped but at the same time I knew it was a dream and I could do whatever I want inside it.

What stands out is the fact that I could freely explore the surroundings, the area around me remained stable during the whole encounter and the entire lucid phase lasted for more about 15 seconds.

I have had other lively dreams before.

One where I fly between stars and galaxies while cosmic music is playing , one where I woke up in a dream within a dream convinced it was real life only to wake up later very very confused.

I also have dreams where I understand I am in a dream and can end them if it is a nightmare or change the outcome of something bad , like a bad crash or a death.

But yesterday's dream was the first time the area around me remained stable for so long and I could freely explore it for such a long time!

Am I really having lucid dreams?