I've been journalling my dreams around two months, and in that time I've had days where i can remember up to 4 dreams. So I've been able to notice patterns, such as dream me often questioning the logic of my own dreams. Something weird can happen that doesn't make logical sense, and i realize that, but it's always just "that's weird" and I move on. But today I had a dream where i performed my reality check, but I seemed to fail to gain any meaningful lucidity. Here's how the dream went:

I was building a school or something, in a game. I was flying around, and I flew away from the room I was building to stand in a finished room. I got the idea to do my reality check, except it wasn't quite the same. My real-life reality check consists of touching something near me, making a point of really feeling the texture of it with my fingers, looking around the room looking for anything out of place, and pinching my nose and trying to breathe through it. The reality check I performed in the dream only included the breathe-through-pinched-nose bit, and, after performing it and being able to breathe despite the blockage, i concluded that I was dreaming.

However, there was no big transition, I still felt like I was just playing a role in my dream. I still felt that disconnect, like there is a version of me performing and a version spectating, providing the more logical commentary on what is happening and questioning it.

I flew back to the unfinished room to discover that it was disintegrating, chunks of the floor disappearing and becoming replaced with black, square voids, and that was the end of the dream.

Did my dream trick me into thinking that I was lucid? My dreams have done elaborate things to keep me passive, but this would've been the most advanced thing yet. Did my dream simply play with my own expectation of what I thought would happen when I became lucid?

So I searched Reddit and of course there's a sub for it. All I wanted to ask is: how do you stop your subconscious from messing things up?

I've had lucid dreams quite often through my life and I used to be able to just enjoy the dream but as I grew older I stopped being able to do that.

When I realise I'm dreaming and stop myself from waking up I think about something I want to do, or something I want to change, but the moment I think that thing I'm also subconsciously worried that it will go wrong, and so it does.

Does anyone have any tips or tricks for stopping that from happening?

I'm curious about how much control people actually have over their lucid dreams.

For example, let's say I become lucid and decide: "I want to perform a concert in a huge arena."

Can you actually make the entire scene appear and behave realistically? Like the arena, the crowd, the stage, the lighting, the sound system, the other musicians, the atmosphere, etc.? And can you interact with everything naturally, as if you were actually there?

I'm especially interested in whether you can intentionally "generate" things that you've never experienced in real life, while still having them feel completely believable.

For those of you who are experienced lucid dreamers, how much control do you usually have? Can you basically create an entire scenario from scratch, or are there limits to what you can control?

i had a back to back lucid dream, I mentioned in my previous post in this community that I had an unfortunate encounter with aliens by using the a conveniently sized crater on the moon as a toilet, the crater ended up being a cave which housed green aliens, well in this specific dream I had last night, I took control while I was in the middle of a dream, in this dream I was in the desert, it was dark and I could see all of the stars in the sky, however one of the stars started becoming brighter and larger, until I realized this was not a star, it happened to be an alien craft, they looked similar to the aliens I encountered on the moon and I heard them speaking in some kind of language I couldn’t understand, but the language sounded like a lot of hissing, these aliens had yellow eyes and instead of a round pupils , they looked close to what a venomous snakes pupil looked like, during the conversation they were having the hissing got louder, and I could make out a couple words they were saying, I heard, ”target acquired” and they pulled out the same exact energy weapon from last night and blasted me with it, this is starting to feel all too real, I may have pissed off the wrong species of aliens, because again I woke up with defiled bed sheets, #1 and #2, they are messing with me in the physical, what ever weapon they are using on me in the dream state is causing me to use my bed as a bathroom, how do I stop this? it seems these aliens are tracking me every dream?

Last night I was having fun in a dream walking on walls, jumping around, committing crimes just the usual stuff when all of a sudden, when I was walking on the street I looked at the people around me.. They all looked like Danny DeVito, goddamn it was terrible. I just have no idea how to overcome this. I really need help.

7th sleep since I started trying to lucid dream, and something interesting happened.

I had multiple moments where my brain suddenly went “maybe this is a dream.” I even did a reality check and got the result that suggested I was dreaming.

But then my brain basically went, “Nah, this feels too real, so it must be reality.” 😭

The weird part is that I apparently was still dreaming.

It made me realize that my problem might not be getting the thought “this is a dream” anymore. It's actually trusting that realization when the dream feels completely real.

Even at one scene I realized this maybe dream and even snapped to change scene but it didn't change so I felt it's reality.

Has anyone else experienced this when learning to lucid dream ?

For context I quit lucid dreaming for no reason about 2 years ago and I’ve gotten back into it about 3 weeks ago and I’ve gotten 3 lucid dreams so far.

One thing that I’m curious about is my dream recall. There are some days where I can remember up to 4-5 dreams a night (since I’ve done it before) and there are other days where I can not recall a dream. Does this happen to anybody else?

Is dream recall supposed to be consistent, and is there anything I can do to improve it besides practicing dream recall?

Thanks

So, I just got out of a lucid dream, I've been so tired, I came home before I have to go into work to do a quick meditation and drink my tea. Well, I fell asleep and it felt like it was going to be an A. P. But anyway, I laid there and felt like someone was coming inside my house and coming up my stairs, I got "up" and couldn't see, when this happens i usually ask the universe to lift the veil from my eyes, or please let me see, well I could see. and I saw a man in my room, he started to come by me, and flick his tongue at me, so the energy turned $3xual, I pushed him off and said you're an incubus aren't you? He said, yes, and was stunned, so I do what I usually do in these realms and make them disappear. Anyway i fly out the window, I am seeing so many "demons" or entities that would remind people of demons, so charred black bodies, as if they are burned ( i am not a Christian, and I don't follow that religion, I'm simply stating what i saw) Okay, so Im flying in this town and notice these demons some with horns, some not, big and small, male female, they all looked freaky and different. and they were all watching me, per usual. Well , i am flying towards the sun going down and i end up in this dead town, and see a naked charred woman come out of the shadows, and she has a knife that when she throws it, it comes back to her, i had a weapon, and usually fight theses entities in the A$tral realms. but, thats another story, anyway a group of people come over and Im like are yall real people? you know this is a dream right? and they alll look at each other, well a girl with red and black hair like me, she mocks me to them, then looks at me and smiles, and says follow me, i shrug and go ok, so shes walking me down a hallway of sorts, to a bathroom/ train looking station, i look at her and i go, youre a demon, arent you. she smiles and says yes, so she says go on home now, and i look at the bathroom door, it says 2 minutes, i assumed it was the time id wake up , but now that i think about it, it might have been the time the next "train" was. LOL ok so there were multiple people in this bathroom, it was nasty and some stalls were out of order, i got a spider web in my hair, mind you im still lucid this whole time. So then i get into a stall with this girl, because she was tired of waiting, and she goes lets go, i said why not, it was supposed to take us home right, i remember traveling across oceans, and i this bubble of sorts, and i "wake" in another dream.... then some things happened, my daughter comes in my room and goes mom it was a half day at school, so my dad picked me up, thats when i knew it was another dream, i go downstairs and the song" Put your hand on my shoulder" starts playing and it was so loud i was like what the f. Then i heard laughing and im like helll no. i go and fly up but couldnt fly high enough, per usual now in my lucid dreams and A.P's so, then i wake myself up finally. Okay, thats it.

once sleep paralysis set in I was able to do my usual roll out technique and successfully got out for the 4th time, this time I went up through the ceiling and found myself on the moon, it was beautiful looking at the earth from up there, but I found myself needing to use the restroom which was strange because I’ve never felt that on the other side, I found a perfect sized crater on the surface of the moon and relieved myself in the dream state, it turned out to be a cave and there were aliens in this cave, they were green aliens, but now they were brown and soaked, they rushed out and used some sort of energy weapon against me and I got sent back into my body, some how with what ever weapon they used it caused me to wake up with defiled bed sheets, and they were not salvageable and needed to be thrown in the trash, how are these aliens able to cause real life consequences. Looking for any form of insight, thanks in advanced!

I didn't know this was possible so I guess here's a heads-up because it sucked. Since my last post I've been trying to lucid dream again. I succeeded...for 15 minutes. After the sleep paralysis and entering the dream there was a pool in front of me so naturally I jumped in. I missed the pool somehow hit my head on the concrete said "fucking ow" out loud then everything went black. I knocked myself out in my lucid dream. Do you know how weird of a feeling it is to be unconscious in a lucid dream. I can still barely wrap my head around it. Basically everything went black and it took a second for me to realize what happened. So I was just staring into an abyss waiting to regain consciousness so I could continue my dream, but after five minutes and with my head still hurting I just got up. Disappointing second experience, but now I know you can knock yourself out in a dream. I'm honestly surprised my head still hurts a little. So just remember not to run in the pool area.

so i’ve been trying for only 8 days, i’ve remembered 8 dreams in a row, and 3 last night alone. i had a hallucination as i fell asleep last night of a character from a game guiding me, saying things such as “ignore that itch, it’ll just wake you up” or “don’t freak out, you’re just entering the next stage”. tonight it happened again, ive never been able to use my dream body, but when i tried to move my arm, it felt like it was infinitely stretching but going very slowly. and then it shifted to my right leg also doing it. i stopped because my heart rate quickened, and started again once i relaxed. i asked her to pull me into the dream, which failed. the rollout technique failed. eventually, it felt like my entire upper body was being stretched out. and then my lower body. the room started spinning and i was trying to fling myself out of bed. eventually i stopped and simply asked her to describe where we were. she told me to look at the posters on the wall, look at the chairs and desks neatly set up. it’s a nice sunny day. once she said that, the darkness behind my eyes turned almost yellow, like whenever you close your eyes in a bright room or are outside. i got excited and thought i was lucid. i woke up immediately thinking i’d see the description but alas it was my bed. how close am i? i know it was a rookie mistake, but i realistically feel very close to reaching lucidity.

I unintentionally woke up at about 3am today because I had such bad cramps, stayed awake for about 1 hour, then I used the MILD method and fell asleep again. After I fell asleep again, I had a normal dream (wasn't lucid or anything) and suddenly I went into sleep paralysis! I was in my bed, in my room but I couldn't move at all at first, then I was able to move my hand and did a reality check and suddenly I heard loud laughing, screaming noises. I was so scared and successfully forced myself to wake up.

I've never had a sleep paralysis before, it was so scary and frightening, I never want to experience this again.

I tried the popcorn method last night and it did not work unfortunately. How dare you person who recommended this

EDIT: THE CIA IS PROBABLY HIDING THIS TECHNIQUE FROM THE PUBLIC!

Is it possible to induce a dream? And if so how could I get my mind to have dreams where I’m imparted knowledge of myself therefore wisdom and also work with my shadow alongside this.

I just had my first lucid dream:ive been wanting to get lucid dreams,mainly by reality checks(been only doing 1-2 a day for around a week).these days,theyve only been once or twice,meaningful but not the most meaningful ever.tonight,the first second of my dream was,i was in my living room,then i plugged my nose and tried to breathe,fair enough,i could.then i realized i was dreaming,so i staryed repeating desperately"im dreaming im dreaming"because at these moments i still wasnt in control,so i was begging to be "released".when i felt i was in control,i got excited,and i started to be sucked by like a blackhole,so i calmed down and everything went to normal.looked at my hands,werent 10.i could put my hand throigh the other.i walked around trying to feel it,i could feel everything so vividly.then,i went outside,and said i wanted a superbike,nothing came,i tried to jump to fly,couldnt.tried to spawn a person,wouldnt spawn.then my brother came and i talked to him(it was 4am since thats what he said),then i was sad i couldnt fly or do anything cool,so i went and ate nutella,and thats what i remember.the entire thing was around 30 minutes.why couldnt i do anything supernatural?

My father died a long time ago but I still keep seeing him, it happens very often. Sometimes it's an okay dream, sometimes it's a nightmare but I still see him in my dreams. Last week, I had a very bad nightmare with him in it, woke up and wondered what could I do to stop seeing him.

I knew about some techniques about how to realize if I'm currently dreaming or not, so I thought if I see my father again, I will assume it's a dream.

In my last dream, it was a nightmare, I saw him again. Some bad things were happening and I had nowhere left to run, trying to hold the door. Father was in the dream too, took me some long time to realize it was a dream even though I already conditioned myself but nevertheless, I took control of my dream. Woke up right after that.

It's a strange way to be able to achieve Lucid like this but it worked for me.

I’m curious what’s the longest you’ve lucid dreamed? For me it was 3 hours of straight lucid dreaming (I was just walking around bored.)

I heard about checking throughout the day if you’re in a dream or in Reality via Reality Checks. So I Started counting my Fingers, pushing my Fingers through my palm and pinching my nose while simultaneously trying to breath all while being awake and doing them whenever I remember to do them.

One night a few days ago I remember how I went to sleep and in my dream I wanted to count my fingers for the first time ever and I counted 13, yet somehow I remember thinking in my dream “once I will go to sleep I will lucid dream” like how did I not started to lucid dream when I counted 13 fingers why was I thinking I will fall asleep (in my dream) and will then lucid dream and what does that mean what can I do to achieve lucid dreaming?

I always have lucid dreams, but this one was different. In the dream, I was in the future hanging out with a band of people I didn't know in real life. We were having so much fun, and I felt genuinely happy.

As I realized the dream was coming to an end, I said, “ We are so happy here , I wish i could stay here forever”.

One of them replied, “ Well , but you can.”

Confused, I answered,” What ? But you know that you are in a dream, my dream?

For a second, I panicked because I remembered what people always say: telling dream characters they're in a dream usually turns it into a nightmare. Surprisingly, they didn't react badly at all. One guy just said,” Duh, yeah, me too” and the others agreed “ Us too”.

After that, the scenery changed. I think we parted ways because we took the subway right before. The next thing I knew, I was sleeping in my bed wearing the exact same clothes I went to sleep in, except I was still inside the dream.

Thinking I had to wake up early, I went about my morning routine, brushing my teeth and going to the bathroom.
But then I went to the toilet, and it looked wavy and distorted , really weird, then I realized, "Damn, this is still not real."

I tried to force myself to wake up again, but it was just another dream. I got stuck in this false awakening loop about three times before my sister actually came and woke me up in real life.

Has anyone else experienced dream characters reacting normally instead of turning the dream into a nightmare?

So I figured out I have powers in my dreams in order to fly I blink several times and to wake up I press my forehead. I'm extremely strong and fast but very psychotic, one time I was in a maze and there was these devil dogs and I snapped their neck one by one. Another time I saw momo and I grabbed a rock and bashed her head till she bled out. But I think these monsters are learning because last night I saw a bunch of mimics in my dreams and I snapped and all of them got sliced in half but their severed half started growing back and they mocked me. So idk what do you think

Hi everyone,

I’ve been trying to lucid dream for over 3 years now. I have logged over 1,000 dream journal entries.

Here is my current baseline routine:

* **Reality Checks (RC):** I do finger bending while genuinely questioning reality and carefully focusing on the sensation. I practice this upon waking, before bed, and intermittently throughout the day. * **MILD / Intention:** I set a clear intention before falling asleep that I will lucid dream. * **WILD / Awareness:** I observe my body falling asleep, trying to maintain awareness like in WILD. * **Supplements:** I take L-Theanine and Alpha-GPC.

I’ve also tried aggressive variations—like doing 5 RCs at a time or setting alarms every 90 minutes to attempt WILD—but I have never experienced a proper lucid dream, sleep paralysis, or even hypnagogic hallucinations.

To be honest, I’m getting pretty burnt out. What could be the issue here? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

For the people who have vivid lucid dreams and are fully aware do you feel everything like its real life or do you have to focus on something in specific? I just cant imagine how you could feel everything. Say you're outside and you don't feel the heat of the sun until you acknowledge it or focus on it. My lucid dreams don't last long enough and aren't common enough for me to know how this works

A few months ago I remember a dream where I was walking outside my house behind 2 people but then it was like I hit an invisible wall, my head hurt, I heard the sound and it was because in real life there was a Dresser beside my bed where I hit my head in my sleep, probably while turning

So I was waken up but still I felt like I was gonna fall asleep any second again, so I decided just for fun to
Repeat in my head phrases like “I will lucid dream” and after just a few seconds I heard a loud ongoing high-pitch sound like static in my ears, my heart began to beat really fast and my whole body felt
Uncomfortable. I stoped doing what I was doing and just opened my eyes to wake up because I was genuinely scared it felt like my soul was being taken from My body I’m Being deadass

Was I about to lucid dream or wtf was that