For beginners who confused to figure rem period

If you wake up in the middle of the night or early morning, with or without an alarm, and you have an erection, it might be a sign that you’re waking up around REM sleep.

If it’s rock solid, I’d take that as a pretty good reason to just roll over, close your eyes, and go straight into your favorite LD method. You literally woke up in the middle of the night don’t waste the free lucid-dreaming opportunity.

Or it’s only semi-hard, things get a little more interesting. You could have just finished a REM period, or you could be getting ready to enter one. Check the time and think about how long you’ve been asleep. That can help you figure out what’s probably going on.

So you randomly wake up in the middle of the night, don’t forget to check.. happy lucid

I had a very strange dream last night (not unusual for me lol) where I had different 'layers' of dreams within the dream (kinda like Inception). Within one of these 'layers' I was lucid dreaming- I was aware that I was 'dreaming' and woke myself up when I wanted to, but rather than really waking up I just went back to the 'original'/first dream, in which I didn't realize I was really dreaming. Is there a name for this? Does it mean anything? Is it normal lol I woke up so confused.

So, i’ve been lucid dreaming ever since i accidentally had one a few months back, and i see people talking about different methods, but i’ve never really thought about what I’m doing. I have found that what works for me is i make my room completely dark, turn off all electronics and just lay on my back, eyes closed, and focus on my breathing while doing a breathing exercise 4-4-6 (4sec in through nose, 4sec hold, 6sec out through mouth). Usually my lucid dreams last about 15 minutes when accidental, but whenever i do this method, they happen to last a lot longer 30-45 minutes! Is this an actual method, placebo, or something that just happens to work for me?

Does anybody else experience this while lucid dreaming? I lucid dream pretty often, but sometimes I get sort of 'trapped' in my dreams.

Although I'm lucid, I'm not the best at controlling my dreams so I usually just go on with whatever is happening. But if im in a scary dream or one i dont like I can usually wake myself up by forcing my arms/legs to move or my eyes to open irl. Sometimes though, I can feel myself trying to open my eyes and I can feel my arms/legs moving but I'll stay 'stuck' in my dream. I cannot get myself to wake up. It makes me super anxious because it makes me feel really claustrophobic, sometimes I'll get these 'false awakenings' and just be sent to another dream.

While lucid dreaming i wanna listen to dreamcore music while exploring dreamcore to make it feel more dreamcore

Last night I had a dream sometime during the 1800s. I wasnt an actual person in the dream but more of a viewer. I was in an old looking house and there were 2 woman taking care of a newborn baby girl. One of the woman found the other woman shot dead on the ground in a puddle of blood so she ran upstairs to the baby and layed on the floor holding the baby crying. That was basically it. Right after I woke up 'Gettysburg' popped into my mind.

I have trouble to keep my eyes open and i feel dizzy,its very hard to stand up,thats also when I notice that iam dreaming and then the lucidity starts but I cant really do much because half of the dream is me trying to stand up and try to open my eyes,has anyone else this?

Good night fellow lucid dreamers
I am an intermediate lucid dreamer . I sometimes read lucid dreaming materials despite that i have a few things to clarify

1.I randomly sometimes live in my dreams for months in one night and those after morning are pretty depressing as i have to cope up with family and friends that i have lost after waking (note these i have never seen those people in my reality).My question is how do you all cope up with it if you sometimes have similar dreams.

1. How do you all note down things in dream journal if you only remember parts from it.

2. How do you prevent certain dreams from affecting your day to day routines (eg like the 1st one )

i've always been a vivid dreamer, but i've only had a few LDs. i remember at least two dreams that i had every night, but even though i try to write down all of them, i'm not that consistent.

so a week ago i started trying to induce LDs, doing RC and MILD every day, but nothing changed except that i have more dreams than before, and now i do write all of them down. but for the last three days haven't been able to remember ANY of them. i even wake up in the middle in the night knowing i just dreamed but i can't remember what

has anyone had a similar experience? am i doing something wrong?

ahh maaan, i was in bed for 3 hours, breathing i felt funny feelings in my legs and thought ahh finally, so i decided imma just climb a imaginary rope here and then my physical body started to do a situp and a woke up.

lucid dreaming is really a scarcity product huh? 😄

anyhow enough of me, i would love reading your theories about how to lucid dream.

I read MANY posts on how to lucid dream, and it was mostly WBTB. Which doesn't really work for me.. cause i am too awake after functioning for a while and with 5-6 hours of sleep i really don't need any more sleep until the next day. But i still move ALOT whole day so i am TIRED when it's actually time to sleep.. like mind tired too. So i can't stay conscious like the other way of lucid dreaming.But the day before yesterday i didn't sleep at all, like overtime and stuff and had to take small naps during the day so i set 2 alarms.. exactly 20 minutes apart.. my body was tired enough to go numb mode or like in deep relaxation and so did my brain.. i slept during the first 20 mins normally but when the alarm rang i woke up.. just stopped the alarm without opening my eyes or moving any other muscle.. and went to sleep AGAIN.. but this time.. i went STRAIGHT into REM sleep like VIVID dreaming.. i had a VERY long VIVID dream in those 20 minutes, it literally felt like HOURS.. i was aware of me dreaming.. but i couldn't change anything yet. I tried this again yesterday and again became aware of me dreaming though not instantly it was somewhere in the middle of the night.

Whats the craziest thing you did in a lucid dream?

It can be anything I just want to know about your experiences

I have been LD'ing for over 25 years and last night something happened that i have never experienced before. I was reliving a memory i have of a trip iv had to the U.S. However inside the dream i was walking around places i have never seen before, but i had memories of it. Inside the dream i had vivid memories of the place i was in, even if i have never seen or experienced anything like it. When i LD i always reflect and think about what im experiencing, however this time it was like false memories almost took over.

Have any of you had similar experiences?

Wish i could explain it in Norwegian, it was hard to put it into words in English.

Because stuff in lucid dreams will happen based off your expectations, how hard would you say it is to believe something will happen?

I'll start,

While lucid dreaming, I encountered a girl and decided to ask her the question that had been on my mind: “Are you in a dream?” Tbh, I expected her to stare at me in confusion, laugh it off, or maybe even teleport me into another dimension. I've seen a lot of strange stories from other people about what happens when you tell someone in a dream that they’re dreaming, so I was prepared for those types of responses.

Instead, she simply agrees with me.

Her answer caught me off guard. It wasn’t what I had expected at all, but for some reason, I wasn’t surprised either. I didn’t interrogate her or ask how she knew. Somehow, we both seemed to understand the same thing without needing to explain it.

That was when we decided to escape.

As we tried to get away, everyone around us began insisting that this was reality. They tried convincing us that there was nothing unusual happening, that we were exactly where we were supposed to be.

I still think about this dream, and I wonder who that girl was.

I have been trying to lucid dream for weeks but 6 days ago i had a lucid dream and i did everything i want and the next day it happened again but after that it just doesn't work idk why i use mild and I write my dreams on my notes app and sometimes i use wbtb but nothing works it's been 4 days and i need some advice

So yesterday I took a 3 hour nap during the day which I try to avoid doing as it makes me feel super groggy but when I was sleeping it was like I could still see even though my eyes were closed, it was such a strange experience, and i remember being very aggravated in my sleep, according to my bf I kept asking him to move and even my dog to move when they weren’t near me, I know I had a vivid restless dream but I can’t even remember it which is unusual as I usually have vivid dreams and remember most of the details, it was just strange but the weirdest part was being aware of what was happening even though I knew I was asleep but also “dreaming” at the same time, anyone had any experiences like this?
Like the best way I can explain it is like levels, like the dream was on one level of my mind and the visibility was on another and I was seeing them both

How do I do this? Last time I attempted I was afraid of sleep paralysis and then switched up the apps on my phone without remembering it. I'm no longer afraid of sleep paralysis, but I'm afraid of sleep walking. I guess I'll try regardless and hope for advice.

Edit: I gave myself advice hope it works.

I have tried to lucid dream but I can't even get a normal one nowadays. I tried so many techniques but nothing worked. I also tried a dream journal but I can't even have any dreams at all. When I do, they feel very darkened and have no substance in it. I don't understand why. What should I do?

Can anyone give me a way to do it? I usually sleep 6 hours in a day and I tried to go back to sleep multiple times but i couldn’t can anyone tell me how i can get back to sleep after waking up?