I have lucid dreams almost literally every single night, and I just wish I didn’t. I am cursed with both struggling to fall asleep, and also struggling to wake up in the morning, so I certainly don’t also need a phenomenon where I’m practically awake while watching a movie in my brain, because I wake up tired as a result
So you are cursed with lucidity. You see too much.
I would have thought it be a blessing.
Normally, I sleep too deeply to remember my dreams. I only remember them if I wake during them. However, if I don’t completely awaken, sometimes I can go right back into the dream, but I have some autonomy now and some control over the narrative. Like, I know it’s a TV show and I can change the script. I’ve always been able to do it, I feel like it’s a trade off for nearly never remembering my dreams.
This is pretty normal. You dream a lot in one night. And only tend to recall the last one (primacy/recency) and attribute that memory to the belief it was the one dream you spent the entire sleep in when in reality, you likely had a dozen of them and the last, which probably lasted a few minutes, is the one fresh in your mind.
If you’re consistently remembering dreams or if they are very vivid and graphic (not necessarily lewd or obscene but rather extremely impactful), you are likely suffering from chronic stress (and maybe other disorders) as a well rested sleep should leave you refreshed and with a clean memory.
I can also do that! Absolutely nothing is as good as waking up in the middle of a dream and slipping right back into it except with the ability to direct it somewhat.
Interestingly I also only very rarely remember my dreams.
It happened to me, but I only thought I had returned to the prior dream. I was imposing the old identities and situations to new images. Weird.
Only managed to do it once. Took me a few months of trying. Just wanted to see what it’s all about.
Excellent. What did you do to make it happen?
Just listened to the instructions of my prof at the time. He said to fall asleep thinking about what you want the dream to be. So I spent the next month falling asleep with the idea that I would fly (used to have lots of dreams about falling).
About a month in, I was at a campfire with a bunch of people, stood up, realized where I was, and just lifted off. It wasn’t like I was superman, more like Neo trying to learn my powers, but got the hang of it after a few tries and was just soaring around the clearing for a bit.
Kind of a rush and I remember the feeling of accomplishment being much more than the actual events of the dream. Which makes sense because if you think about it, it’s just you in a dream. It’s not like you have access to a true blue holodeck.
Same story here. I dream journaled religiously for a couple months, it happened once during that time, and then I gave up, lol.
I was able to lucid dream for about 6 months when I had a good environment for it.
I lived in a foreign city, and had a very well insulated high rise bedroom with climate control and a professional blackout curtains installation. As a result I slept very deeply.
I also did regular reality checks 5-10 times per day and spent time remembering every dream I had right when I woke up, a dream journal-like exercise but lazier.
Unfortunately, lucid dreaming sometimes triggered sleep paralysis for me. Its very unpleasant.
I don’t lucid dream anymore but I have retained the instinct to recognize a bad dream and snap out of it to this day.
No, but I can consistently hit the abort button and wake up if my dreams are becoming nightmares or if it’s getting uncomfortably metaphysical. So there’s some sort of lucidity there. Pretty convenient
I have this too! if things are too scary, I realise it’s a dream and get the heck out of there.
When I practice I can pretty reliably. Frequent reality checks while awake and dream journaling is the trick for me. I get pretty annoying sleep paralysis nearly every time I wake up from a lucid dream so it’s not something I try to do much anymore.
You wouldn’t happen to sleep on your back, would you? I used to get that often until one year it got really bad when I was sleeping on a couch on my back. I moved to the bed after putting 2 and 2 together. Haven’t had one since.
Yes! In fact the only way I have any dreams at all are when I sleep on my back. Side or stomach = no dreams, lucid or otherwise
There were a few months in my life where I was remembering my dreams and where I was able to start realizing i was dreaming and then I would start flying like Neo in the matrix.
But I don’t really remember my dreams 99/100 nights and it’s been that way most of my life. If you can’t actually experience the dream you can’t even start to lucid dream.
You just reminded me that this I also used to be able to fly in my lucid dreams as a kid! I haven’t had one like that in a long time.
That’s my experience too.
I do vipassana meditation. Which makes me remember dreams and then, as that ramps up, lucid.
Only if I have a red bull during the day. Otherwise no.
No, It’s a blank slate when I wake up usually. Only occasionally do I have deja vu dreams. I’m not sure I want to be completely lucid for my dreams.
When reality automatically lines up with your preferences like that, that’s a sign of something for sure.
I almost had one as a teenager, but I woke up as soon as I tried to have sex
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P.S. happened with me too ;)
I wish i could. I can identify the dream being a dream when it’s happening, even have other people agree that “this is a dream” but nothing usually comes of it
I just thought I had insanely vivid dreams and that everyone had them. A lot of times I can influence the narrative or willingly change things. About half the time I can wake up from one and go back to sleep and continue the dream.
Sort of, but usually just to say to myself “This is a stupid dream” or “Better quit dreaming about going to the bathroom and really wake up and do it!”
There was a time where I could to some degree. I had a good bed I guess.
There was one dream where I didn’t like it and decided to both check if it’s a dream and to wake up. So I pinched myself… It didn’t work. The cartoons have been lying to us!
Some training is necessary, but it is doable. Basically you have to follow some of the methods to get used to it.
- Set an alarm in the middle of the night (don’t overdo, sleep is important)
- keep some easy abit to check if you are dreaming during the day.
- Start a dream journal
Personally i had a couple of lucid dreams years ago, couple weeks after i’ve started a journal, and all in all was a fun experience, a bit like having an admin access to your world.
more info.
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/dreams/lucid-dreams
https://www.healthline.com/health/healthy-sleep/how-to-lucid-dream#how-to-lucid-dream
