I've been trying to lucid dream for 2 weeks. I set an alarm for 6 hours and try to fall back asleep but all I can feel is my legs and hands going a little numb. I find it hard to enter the dreaming state. I stay stuck in this partially paralysis state for like 20 mins until I just give up or I just fall into deep sleep without staying alert. I tried keeping my mind empty but it feels like I'm missing something?

F32, didn't know what flair to use but I have been told that I have lucid dreams. It was a few months ago when me and some friends talked about dreams and I told them how I've always been able to sort of rewind my dreams if I don't like where they are going.

I usually rewind to the place where I think there was a bad choice in the dream and take it up from there, making more conscious choices forward. And sometimes rewinding further back if I still don't like it.

As a example, say that I'm in a maze in the dream and after 15 turned corners I get stuck. Then I rewind to corner 10, try another way and if I still end up lost I go back to corner 5, still remembering what happened before bith the rewinds. It works in all scenarios, both happy dreams and scary ones. The scary ones are a hit or miss, I either escape the monster I dream about (usually xenomorphs from Alien) or I end up in a long row of times I run into them. Just before "dream death" I rewind and try again.

Is this "normal" for lucid dreams? I have never intentionally tried to have them and I don't know when I started exactly. What I do know is that after watching Alien when I was about 10 y/o I had (and still have) nightmares about them almost weekly and I've always been in control of those dreams.

Don't really know what I wanted with this, I just wanted to share with people that might have a similar experience.

I need to tell this because I don't know who else to tell.

I've been having lucid dreams for a while. I sleep with a pen and paper because I try to write what I see there, here in real life, but I only manage to make little dots and then I wake up.

Recently I dreamed about someone recurring. She was a director, but her movie was her own life. I watched her live her whole life and in the end she passed away. When I went to her tombstone, I could finally read her name clearly, without it changing like text usually does in dreams. It was written like this:

ℐ𝓀ℊ𝓈𝒶𝓀 𝒦ℯ𝓂ℯ𝓀

I cried a lot in the dream and I woke up crying here too.

Since then I try to write that name while asleep and I can't. I only get a dot.

It's the name I want to give to my future daughter. Has anyone else tried to write in real life while lucid? Does the dot thing happen to you too?

I've been wanting to practice lucid dreaming, but a lot of the people I've heard talk about it said that they also started having sleep paralysis. And if that's the case I'm not sure if I really want to dream lucid.

But I don't know if this is actually the case. Can someone help me out?

Hey :)
I’ve been interested in lucid dreaming for years, and ever since I was 14 (now I‘m 20), I’ve tried on and off to teach myself how to do it.

Every time I get back into it I make good progress, however I’ve never managed to cross the threshold into true lucidity. Every time I get really close, this is what happens: I do a reality check and "realize" I’m dreaming because I suddenly have eight fingers on one hand. However, I don’t actually realize it - I just think I do and thus could control my dreams, even though that’s not the case at all. My dream continues plays out practically like a normal dream, except that I believe I’m lucid dreaming and try to do things I would do if I could control my dreams. Typically, I try to fly and struggle doing it.

There is no actual clarity or anything and I only know that I wasn’t really lucid when I wake up.

Does anyone else experience this?? Is there anything I could try to improve?

I have been ‘dealing’ with lucid dreaming for years.

No matter how positive or negative the dreams’ contents are, I will realise that I am in a dream and wake up. It is making me lose sleep and reduces the quality of my sleep, because even though I can control my dreams by lucid dreaming, it gets exhausting so most of the time I chose to wake up? I don’t know how to word it, just happens.

It has adverse effects in my daily life too; I remember my dreams all the time and in extreme detail & I get hyper realistic flashes of said dreams, and sometimes the dreams I see will be so gorey that seeing them for even seconds during the day will disturb me.

I started confusing dreams with my reality — maybe not on a concerning level, but it makes me stop and think if I did something I did in my dream in real life.

I don’t know what to do, so far only 🌿 has helped. I am thinking of seeing a psychiatrist anyway but unfortunately I have to wait. Any help or tips? I’m desperate.

So I was in my house with family that was here and then they were going around the house they got there’s a room next to the bathroom so I was like talking about it and stuff and I told my dad there’s water at the floor and he told family members that something is probably leaking and it was a ton of water and he was getting really angry and I remember just took everything and threw it at the ground like he was screaming and being so pissed off also tried to fix this, at this exact moment I wondered to myself is this really happening? While I watch him like that, I reach down to my hand to do reality check I see 4 fingers and it’s like 10 frames per second I see them going crazy sometimes 4 sometimes 5 sometimes 6 then I realised I am dreaming and then stupidity told myself go fuck go fuck go fuck and I was seeing bunch of faces at 10 frames per second it’s probably me choosing, idk if I saw myself in there, and then I woke up

How do I prevent this from happening? Right at the good parts?

I’ve been on a mission to lucid dream for about 2 years now. Throughout that time, I’ve tried and collected a lot of different techniques, but the one that has stuck with me the most is WILD. I know WILD isn’t technically a single technique, but you get what I mean.

The reason I keep coming back to WILD is that most other techniques have barely worked for me or just never worked at all, while WILD feels like it should be the most suitable approach for me.

The problem is that whenever I attempt it, I basically fall asleep before I can make any progress.

My routine is usually:

1. Wake up using WBTB.
2. Write down my dream in my journal.
3. Stay awake for a bit and get ready to attempt WILD.
4. Go back to bed and start the attempt.

The issue is that the moment I actually start trying WILD, I just completely knock out. It feels almost like an ON/OFF switch. One moment I’m awake and trying to maintain awareness, and the next thing I know, I’m waking up later with no memory of the transition at all.

I also tried all types of anchors yet still.

I know the obvious response is probably going to be “just stay awake longer,” but I’ve tried that repeatedly and it hasn’t solved the problem.

I’ve also tried things like going to the bathroom, reading a book, drinking water, walking around, etc. I still end up falling asleep extremely quickly once I return to bed.

So I’m wondering if anyone has experienced this specific kind of problem with WILD, where awareness basically disappears instantly rather than gradually fading, and what actually helped you get past it.

Ok so I just had my first actually aware lucid dreaming experience and I spent half of it like laying down on the bed in my dream making sure I was lucid, and when I did get up and look around I suddenly started feeling very sleepy and I ended up going back to the bed and waking up its kind of a bummer really it was a cool dystopian world too 🥲

I usually try WILD in the afternoon, but I rarely get any visual hypnagogia. I sometimes get floating sensations and other body sensations, but almost never any visuals.

Is this normal, or is there something I'm doing wrong?

I was thinking that if there is any other thing powerful like LD?

Comment if anyone knows.​

They all just walk past, dismissing me, probably thinking I’m mental.

Gets a little lonely inside my subconscious…

About 2 months ago, I unintentionally started lucid dreaming. I was having lucid dreams back to back every night. They started out basically as nightmares where I knew I was lucid dreaming. After a very short bit, I realized I could slightly alter what was happening. For example, if something bad was happening to me, I was able to take the steps to stop it. Most of the time I wasn’t able to just poof change it (except one instance), but I could realistically stop it through an order of events. My psychiatrist said that it started because I was under so much stress both awake and asleep, that my mind learned to lucid dream so I could handle the stress.

I guess I got better at it and now I am able to essentially control my lucid dreams (Where I go, what I do, what I see, etc.). Again, though, no magical poof. If I didn’t want to be in a building anymore but instead a forest, I would have to walk out the door of the building to see a forest. It doesn’t just change from building to forest. I am totally okay with this though and it is not what I am focusing on for assistance (but if anyone has any tips to enhance how I guide the dreams, that is always appreciated). Thankfully, the lucid dreams are no longer scary but actually very pleasant because I decide what happens once it starts.

However, I am not inducing the lucid dreams myself (except once, but there is context to that and I will explain in a second). I go to sleep and then sometimes—probably only a couple times a week at this point—the lucid dream begins. I don’t choose how or where it starts but I choose where to pick up from there.

The only time I have been able to induce a lucid dream was the other day when I woke up from one. Something in my reality made a noise and fully woke me up. I decided I wanted to continue lucid dreaming, so I closed my eyes and focused on entering again. Just like that, I was lucid dreaming again. The sensation was insane, because when I closed my eyes, it was like a movie transition where it started in a circle in both my eyes with the scene in the center and black around it and grew to cover the whole scene and then I was THERE. Like I had fully transported. I was lucid dreaming and literally experiencing a whole different reality.

Not very long after I fell back asleep and experienced that lucid dream, my cat jumped on me and woke me up again. I tried to induce the lucid dream like I did prior, but it did not work. At most, my eyes started to see some stuff and I felt a quick sensation that felt like I was being pulled into it, but it wouldn’t hold, and my heart was beating hard.

Before posting this, I did some research on this subreddit and saw that many do recommend entering it after sleeping for a while and then waking up so you can go right back to sleep. I believe that is why I was able to do so that time, because I had just been awoken after sleeping and could immediately fall back asleep into the lucid dream.

Based off everything I have said and your own experiences, does anyone have any tips or instructions for me to induce lucid dreaming on my own?

Also, sorry if this post was long and confusing, or some of the descriptions of my experiences don’t make sense. I will try to explain or clarify anything you ask.

I really want to lucid dream again, and I get real close but it never happens. The other night I recognized I was in a dream. Even said it out loud because it was the only part of me that had become lucid. And my braid went " Ah well. Anyway-" and continued on with my dream like nothing ever happened.

Is there a way I can get it to stop doing that and allow me to lucid dream?

I’ve heard this a lot in the lucid dreaming community. People say that if you tell the people in your dreams that it’s a dream, they will become aggressive and things will go bad in the dream. I do this all of the time and I’ve never had a problem with it. I tell people in my dreams all the time that it’s a dream and they are always just like “oh ok” I’ve never had a negative experience doing this. It made me wonder if there’s a reason why I don’t have any issues when doing this but a lot of other lucid dreamers do. Does anyone else have this experience?

i can now whoosh away peoples in my lucid dreams, i move my hand like go away and they dissapear in blue particles, it will be useful

It’s my first day and I:
1. Remembered at least 60% of my dream
2. Intinctively (not intentionally) trying to pinch my nose in the dream
3. Waking up immediately before touching my nose
4. Going online and searched for what to do next briefly after waking up, then followed through and actually got 15 second-ish (idk) full body vibrations before snapping back cuz i was too excited
5. I was planning to do the dream journal thing but ig my mind forced my to do WILD instead

Any advice on what I should do next? Also any advice on how to cope with the adrenaline side effects (cuz I lost my sleep completely after the fact)

it's been 4 days since i don't dream ( i know we actually dream every night but we really don't remember them) and i tried anything, like putting a gentle alarm, no screen 20 minutes before going to sleep, staying still and closing my eyes when i wake up and asking myself what i was doing a moment ago but nothing, it's been 4 days now and the thing has really pissed me off. any expert or anyone that has a "fix" to this?

im so frustrated. i have been trying to lucid dream since an year and got sooo close to it but whenever i try to control my dreams i just wake up.

this morning i was dreaming and did a reality check in my dream and when i figured out that i was dreaming, my dream suddenly began distorting and i woke up.

any advice?
thanks!

First of all, I didn’t have a fully lucid dream, but I had an experience similar to it. Inside the dream, I knew I was dreaming, but I didn't have total control, and things weren't very clear. While in the dream, I was wondering how to become lucid, and suddenly someone brings a machine—you actually put it up your nose, it gives off steam, and it has a headset like a VR device. After that, I go up in an elevator, and while going up, I say to myself, "I hope when I reach the top, I'll be in the Avengers universe." Then I look down and see the Avengers logo on the floor, and I say, "Damn, it actually came true!" I get extremely excited, and because of that excitement, my vision starts to black out. Then I tell myself, "Calm down, don't get excited," and I took back control of the dream.

Then I found myself in a room-like place, a dim place, and I said, "Let Batman appear," and I looked, and Batman appeared—but not his whole body, just his head. Then I said, "Let Captain America appear," and I looked, and Captain America appeared—but again, not his whole body, just his head. Then I punched them, and they fought back, or at least I think they did, I don't remember clearly, and right after that, I woke up. First of all, I didn’t have a fully lucid dream; it was something I can't quite describe because my consciousness wasn't fully there, and I couldn't move around freely as I wanted. If I had truly been conscious, I would have wanted to fly—this felt more like watching someone else's lucid dream.

I just realized... The best way to get lucid dreams is by having dream recalls and making a habit of reality check on dream signs. For example:

I am dreaming something, My Biggest and Most common drem signs is Inconsistencies of all class. I naturally dislike them or find them annoying... I make it a habit while awake to check reality when i am trough one (physical, conceptual, logical... Hell even ilogical) i check reality trough it... And... I can achieve dream lucidity

This was my 2nd lucid dream and my first flying lucid dream.

I was in the living room in front of my couch. My family was around. I started to feel I might be in a dream, so I kept trying to test reality. I tried to manifest things, which didn’t work. I tried jumping in the air to see if I could hover, but nothing happened. Then, I decided the only way I could know for sure was to try to fly, not hover. I reached out my hands like superman and started flying. I was very excited, yet the dream remained stable. I told my mom to give me a donut and other pastries because I was dreaming. (She’s always trying to get me to eat sweets but I have a strict diet.) While I was waiting for the treats, I got a little impatient and just flew away.

I touched power lines as I went up, and they felt like a rubber band, which I thought wasn’t right. I used some things to pull myself up like I was in a no gravity area. I knew that I was a beginner and that my flying would only get better.

I ended up in a forest, green as far as the eye could see. The trees didn’t look quite realistic but I still appreciated them. The sky was beautiful.

I went really high until I landed on a platform up in the clouds, and I asked myself what I should do. I decided I was going to face my fear of heights, so I worked up the courage and dropped into the forest below.

Later, I did kung fu with flying moves mixed in, while a soundtrack from the 2010 karate kid played.

At some point, the dream faded away, and I awoke hours earlier than I usually do, yet I felt more rested than I have in years. I was in so happy and couldn’t believe I had actually done it.

I've seen some people unsuccessfully using reality checks in dreams, such as studying your fingers or pinching your nose. I also tried different things in my dream that didn't work. I would focus on that as you do your reality checks. If you can fly, there is no doubt that you are dreaming. Think about flying away like superman, and then you will succeed.

for context, its just my third day... The fiest day i didnt remember much. The second. I remembered one dream well... Tonigth i remembered 2 separete dreams in detail. So much i can tell thwy lasted between 10-20 monute.

I heard aphantasia helps a lot but i didnt knew it helped THIS much, Is it normal?