Hi there. I came upon the concept of lucid dreaming a couple months ago, and it got me very interested. So, I was wondering, has anyone here ever had a lucid dream? If so, did you do anything special to make it happen or prepare for the dream? I'd appreciate some tips if you have any. And thanks for sharing!
i haven't realized i was dreaming during a dream. well i probably have once but it wasn't like i had any kind of control. or maybe those dreams were just significant dreams, idk. i got interested in lucid dreaming but the most that came from it was a lil more significant dreams. i mean significant like u can remember them. tip is to keep a dream journal and really remember your dreams and think about them a lot. cuz u cant start lucid dreaming if you dont actually have dreams. and also during the day, frequently ask yourself "am i dreaming?" and question your surroundings
you have to train yourself to notice things in your dream that make you realize that you are dreaming, and then you have to take control. it's harder than it sounds. often times dreams go by like movies and you just observe yourself going through motions. in a lucid dream, you interrupt this and you actively participate. an easy way to get familiar with your own dreams is to keep a dream diary, this way you can identify things in your dream with more ease, as you are constantly logging anything 'weird' that happens. most times these weird things happen throughout all dreams. a common thing to help tip you off is to read a digital clock or try flipping on a lightswitch. small mechanical things often don't work in dreams as they do in real life. a clock will display random lines and make no sense, and a lightswitch won't turn on lights and may even cause a breeze or something completely unrelated. in my first and only TRUE lucid dream i became fully lucid after turning on a lightswitch and having nothing happen. i became very confused until i realized i was dreaming.
I have become somewhat a master of lucid dreaming, It had just come naturally, I remember when I was real young I would have the scariest dreams of wandering around my house, to find my mother on the ground and when I get close, she would instantly sit up and stare into my eyes with her big black ones. Another I specifically remember was sitting at the end of this hallway in my old house I grew up in, and I would be singing... Back at this house my mothers room was straight down the hall, and when I sang she would sit up and yell at me to shut up and then start running at me. Finally the most traumatizing one would be the SAME dream of me looking into a mirror and I would hear whispers saying stuff like "she's back!" or something along those lines, and when I heard them my eyes would turn blue and black and my hair would turn black and long, same with my mouth and I would just hear this screeching as it happened. All of these happened when I was really young around 4-6 years old. After many nights waking up in sweat, incredibly frightened of my own mother (my only parental figure) was so tough on me as a kid. After a while however I started noticing that I was dreaming and I would either wake myself up through the thought of teleporting to the "real world," or change the entire dream instantaneously. Once in a dream I faced my mother and told her she couldn't hurt me because I could teleport away, she laughed and started walking towards me, and I turned my head and would instantly be in a hot air balloon flying over mountains, oceans etc. Nowadays I never have nightmares and have incredibly vivid lucid dreams maybe 4-5 times per week. So in a way I would say that lucid dreaming was the result of years of mental conditioning.
I've been having lucid dreams for quite some time now. It got to the point where reoccuring nightmares that were lucid were so life like that my doctor offered to give me medication so that I wouldn't dream anymore. I was really confused, I had no idea there was such a thing as medication that could do that. But I guess they have medication for everything nowadays..almost. Anyways, you learn to control them alot better as time goes by. Once you have that control lucid dreaming can actually be quite a pleasant experience. Last night however I couldn't decifer whether or not it was a dream because the things I was doing were so mundane and casual. There's a really interesting movie called "waking life" that you should check out. In it they say to tell if you're dreaming or not, walk over to the light switch if you can turn the light on and off you're not dreaming. Check it out it's honestly one of my favourites. " The worst thing you can do in life is think you're living but really you're just asleep in life's waiting room "
Actually lucid dreaming is what got me started on drugs.. Actually it was a mixture of dreams and ping pong balls. Lol I heard that you could hallucinate with ping pong balls on your eyes. So I tried it and I was like running through a forest and I could see it on the back of my eye lids.. So then I read about how healthy weed was, tried it a few times.. And now I have read up on like every drug Lol and tried most of them. My first encounter with lucid dreaming was stumbling on a website about it, and I tried and tried and just actually did it last night lol first time too
But its true you really gotta try hard. I actually best learned from tripping on diphenhydramine. Maybe look into diphenhydramine experiences? You actually have lucid dreams every time you close your eyes when you are tripping on that. at least I did and it looks like other people have too. Just do it a couple times, maybe pop 14 pills of benadryl.. I explained this on alot of other lucid dreaming posts because diph really is what taught me.. It takes awhile though and you really have to try.. Hell what will probably help you the most is too keep a journal of your dreams just write them down as soon as you wake up.. Don't rush it though.. It takes time and once you accept that it will just happen one day randomly.. Also just read your journal before you fall asleep I heard that helps.. Start reading too. It helped me Lol if you read alot during the day maybe you will try to read during your dream? If you read in your dream you will know. The letters will be all upside down and there will be numbers and symbols.. Just. You will know. And thats all I really got lol hope it helps!!
MisterMudz- weeeiirdddd........i had the same dreams at the same age. they led to me having more control in my dreams as well. in mine, she would actually bite me like a monster or something and i'd wake up sweating. my mother was described as manic depressive and codependent, so it probably had something to do with that.
it's still a matter of definician and eye of the beholder kind of thing, but pretty much almost all of my dreams are particapatory, though to varying degrees. they're sufficiently reallistic to all senses too, that the only way to be sure which universe i'm in, is by which way physics works in it. there's none of that not being able to read clocks or text or see images in mirrors or dulling of any of the senses. the only really obvious thing is teleportation and levitation and a couple of little things like that, that are as or more common in that universe then/as walking and driving/riding vehicules is in this one.
Ive sort of experienced lucid dreaming a few times. The first time I was about 8 years old and captain hook threw me off his ship, I realised I was dreaming when i was in the water and woke up. Another time I realised I was dreaming was when I was about 10 and was sinking in quick sand, I again woke up very shortly after realising. Third time was last night, i am now 20. I saw hundreds of shooting stars in a matter of seconds, it was as if there was a huge explosion in Space. I experienced a very similar dream last year. Anyways, I remember in the dream asking myself whether it was real or not, and i was convinced it was and now I know I was wrong. I have a strong feeling that very soon I will be able to lucid dream properly and have some control in my dreams.
