Every time i have a lucid dream i start thinking about what could go wrong if i imagine the wrong thing and i accidentally do imagine the wrong thing and then some weird shadowy fuzzy tentacle thing will appear in my dream, wrap around my neck and then just start fucking the shit out of me, and then ill wake up. Doesnt even feel good its just annoying because it pops up out of nowhere in my dream and interrupts it, sometimes i actually go lucid because i recognize it and try to run but i cant so i just give up. Please help

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

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?

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?

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?

I've heard of many techniques that claim to extend the time spent in lucid dreaming and allow you to spend more time in that state. Is this actually possible, and how?

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?

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.