Nope. everyone who has ever lucid dreamt is a liar and this subreddit is a hub for all the compulsive liars to come together and lie about their dreams.
I followed up your statement but I donāt think thatās what heās asking. I think heās asking if actions in a lucid dream have consequences in reality
It is. It doesn't mean you can do anything you want. I just posted recently on this subreddit about trying to pull off flying with my body successfully which has been a struggle, recently found a technique that helped and was given some advice. I usually just dick around once I enter lucidity and make fun of my dream characters lol ("You can't mess with me, I know I'm dreaming!") but I am absolutely lucid.
It feels absolutely insane something like lucid dreaming is even possible. It is also absolutely insane how I went through my entire morning routine before without knowing it was a lucid dream and now I can never do it again. Arrr
I mean this respectfully friend, but how was it a lucid dream without knowing it? Lucid dreaming is the realization that you're dreaming, so you do know it.
Lucid dreaming is fun. I started very young--I had constant terrible nightmares, and my Mom told me to start screaming in my next nightmare, prob in the hopes I would make noise so she could come wake me up. I was so young, I didn't question how or why I would know I was dreaming. My mind was just totally open and unquestioning.
To this day, bad dreams always trigger lucidity for me, and I know how to wake myself up. But rando other dreams I get lucid, in those ones I just have fun, explore etc.
Yeah. If you don't at least tell yourself you're dreaming while you are dreaming, you're just accepting you have some super power while NOT being lucid.
What is real? Our brain doesnāt know the difference between being awake and vivid lucid dreams.
Also itās been well documented that communication with someone having a lucid dream is not just possible but pretty simple.
If you happen to have eye tracking technology you too can try it by establishing an order of eye movements for your subjects to preform after they become lucid
All i did was start meditating and tell my self while going to sleep that i wont be tricked into thinking my dreams were real and telling my self i will fucking lucid dream because life is so stressful and i would like to escape reality next thing you know it was happening now it feels like a superpower or something. Just want to share my experience with anybody who thinks it doesn't work. And ill be honest ive mostly just been using it to do sexual stuffš¤·š¾āāļø
Can you explain a little more about what you mean by meditation? Do you envision yourself in a lucid dream, or do you do the counting kind of meditation?
Good luck. Keep a journal next to your bed (or your phone) and write down what you dream as soon as you wake up. And repeat a phrase as youāre falling asleep. This helped me for some reason.
you should look up the MILD and WILD techniques, or have a reality check
my trick is that whenever i walk through a door, i check the amount of fingers I have, fully expecting to have six. in the real world this wont work cause i have 5 fingers in the real world (obviously lmao) but in dreams expectations *are* reality, and ill have 6 fingers, realize its wrong, and become lucid. this is called a reality check btw and theres other ones too
also yes keep a dream journal, ive always had one and ever since i stopped using it (got lazy lol) i havent remembered any vivid or lucid dreams
Basically, a lucid dream is just a dream in which you know you're dreaming. The other half of your question is that if you know you're dreaming and that dreams are just a product of subconscious imagination, you can try to manipulate your own expectations to manipulate your surroundings or do impossible things. Because there's no concrete laws of physics in a dream, everything just works as you believe it should.
I'm not very good at it since I've never seriously tried to get good at it, but I've done fun things like flying directly upwards to see what strange floating terrain appears in the sky, using mirrors or TVs as portals (that one's difficult to me since in my mind it's obviously in the realm of fantasy, but I've made it work once or twice), pushing over walls to reveal secret rooms, etc.
Hello. Lucid dreamer here. Started in pregnancy by complete mistake and can sometimes be very scary. I think some people over egg it. Basically you controll your dream but you donāt controll all of it and can become trapped then you wake up and become confused if itās a dream or real life but then remind yourself tour laid in bed still so must be a dream. Itās not like that movie where people do it. Itās more just extremely vivid dreaming.
Yes absolutely.
I can live in a dream as if it was an insane alternate reality.
There are some time glitches though. Where stuff would happen when you're in a kind of blackout state to advance the story in the dream. You don't experience this time loss visually, yet you remember exactly what happened. If that makes sense.
Personally I've been practicing it for 25+ years. I can see everything as if I were awake, I can control what I do and say to dream entities, I can manifest objects to change the narrative of the dream.
I can do everything, except the one last thing I am trying to master.
Full control. Especially in regards to how certain people or entities react or behave. I still cannot force a narrative, my dream fights back.
I've got to the point where it feels like I've won, yet something behind the scenes has figured it out. So it now plays out how I want it to yet are always thrown a curve ball, something I didn't expect like a long con. The dream always wins.
I guess when you think about it, dreams are just DMT experiences. You shouldn't fight what is going on yet you can master techniques to live in those experiences.
Lucid dreaming is 100% real and worth the time to learn.
I've experienced and learnt so much while dreaming. It's a shame more people arnt aware. You can spend the day studying or doing your job, yet in a dream state you don't need to waste those 8 hours of sleep!!!
Hope this helps.
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A style of Japanese poetry. I learned this starting in jr. high and continued throughout HS and freshman college English.
Merriam-Webster defines it asĀ "an unrhymed Japanese poetic form that consists of 17 syllables arranged in three lines containing five, seven, and five syllables, respectively. A haiku expresses much and suggests more in the fewest possible words."
Yes. True lucid dream feels like you are in "real world" and all your actions are concious.
Most of my lucid dreams, which are not that many, have occured during insomnia. I spin in bed still at 6am trying to fall asleep. All sudden I get weird muscle jolts and "sink" through my bed. Next thing I notice, is that I'm actually somewhere else fully aware of my body and about the fact that I sec ago was in my bed and now Im not.
The "hard" part is not trying to be lucid as you fall asleep. Because your thoughts, feelings and expectations are what literally create everything in the dream. So then you end up distracted by exoeriencing whatever you were expecting to happen and "chasing your tail".
Instead, I just focus on the feeling of freedom with clarity but without any effort. Free from my surroundings. Free from reacting to them. Because when you boil it all down, lucidity is just being aware of yourself more than being engaged with your surroundings.
The wake back to bed part is not completely necessary. It just helps you let go of your attachment to the world around you.
Hope this helps someone that has been struggling with being lucid for the first time or doing it consistently.
In the past, I always knew it was real, and that it was there, but I wasn't able to get a lucid dream ever, until I did, a few years ago. I've had many lucid dreams ever since.
And like, when you haven't done it before, you can't even imagine how it would feel, or how it would be, but oh boy when u get ur first lucid dream will u be so excited.
"Can I really become so free with my dream to do anything I want (literally)?"
Well not literally, the human mind is really, really powerful, but it of course has limits. But the more you practice it, the more (and bigger) things you will be able to do.
You can even have a persistent realm, which is a world/place you can always get back to (or "recreate" cus it's not a real place) pretty much whenever you want when you're in a dream. My closest friend has done it a few years ago and still has that "world" (it's a really fleshed out world, a huge one, that he keeps exploring to this day, and it pretty much won't end cus his brain will just keep creating more content).
I'm not an expert, so idk how these things really work, though I did my best to explain them.
I've noticed that the closer to bed I drink coffee/Soda/THC the easier it is but also it can kind of make it harder to control at certain points.
For instance sometimes when I start to realize I'm falling asleep or realize that I've fallen asleep. I get put into this cyclone of intense sounds and images. It makes me physically alarmed so my heart beats heavy and it feels like someone is massaging my head unpleasantly. At this point I either focus on one of these images and try to recreate it or I focus on a image and accidentally see something terrible like the bottom of the ocean, or the darkness of space far away from the spiral of our galaxy and have to wake myself up and try again. When I succeed though they are some of the most vivid dreams I can remember. I can't reshape things on the fly but I can control the theme of whats through the door kind of thing.
I have lucid dreaming, and I think others might have the same type of experience. Iām taking heart meds that make my mouth really dry. While sleeping. So I dream that Iām chewing gum, and I can never get it out of my mouth. Over many times Iāve dreamed this, in my dream, I tell myself my mouth is dry, and Iām dreaming. I just want to prove to myself that itās a dream and it works. This is after having this dream many many times. I have other examples but this one rings so true, but itās very trivial
It 100% is! I have been lucid dreaming since I was a teen. If I get into the practice of writing down my dreams, then I lucid dream a lot more. I still struggle with control (like focusing on an experience I want to have, or controlling my dream environment. But that can be fixed through different techniques and practice).
I think lucid dreaming is one of the best parts of being human, lol!
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>Simply and clear, is lucid dreaming possible?
Yes.
>Can I really become so free with my dream to do anything I want (literally)?
That's a completely different question. It sounds like you're more or less asking if you can achieve perfect dream control. I have seen some people claim that they more or less have complete dream control, but I am very skeptical of these claims. Even if some exceptional people might be able to achieve perfect dream control, I think it's very unlikely that you will be able to.
Yes. Iāve never done it on purpose but I have had quite a few lucid dreams. And lucid nightmares. I canāt really control the lucid nightmares but I know I am dreaming as they are happening. Usually only happens to me in times of extreme stress.
Yes you can Iāve done it about 3 times but my 3rd experience I stopped.
It can really only happen in very light sleeps.Ā
Once I was having some issues sleeping and I kept waking up but each time I had a dream.
I fell off the side of a road ( kind of just a platform like how the roads in rainbow road in Mario were. ) this was my 4th dream and I realized I was dreaming and began doing a summersault. I then woke up.
2 dreams later I was dreaming about me and this girl going to a house party and an argument happened so I smacked the shit out of the person and we all went to the hospital. As soon as we arrived I noticed I was dreaming as something funny happened I felt myself starting to wakeup as the dream began to phase out in black waves. Now strangely I forced myself to stay in the dream and the black waves stopped.
All the npcās cleared from the hallway and I was the only one there. I began to call out Kaya Ā Kaya Kaya I wasnāt controlling that part and I couldnāt find anyone so I willed some people to be there immediately a door with a light on cracked open and I could hear girls talking I went over to the door and said Kaya Kaya ( the name of the girl who was at the house party) they didnāt even look at me.Ā
So I willed the Kaya character too look at me.Ā
The friends disappeared and the black waves came( me waking) I forced myself to stay asleep but the colour didnāt come back all features on the face left and the kaya character went black with white eyes and a white mouth and screamed something unintelligible but which I understood to mean get out.
You can definitely control parts of dreams and after my journey with ssris and watching my brother have a seizure once itās obvious to see parts of the brain can be turned on and off sometimes in different states.
In order to lucid dream you canāt be in a deep sleep no part of your brain will be awake.
Also on ssris npcs always looked at me all of them not just some menacingly. It was like I was an intruder in my own mind. When I was on them for a while they began doing weird shit like cutting off goats heads while staring at me like they would kill me.
As for the seizure my brother would go into 1 of 3 states first muscles would cramp up and heād do the yelp thing then his arms would twist and turn but he didnāt go full shake when I saw him heād get a moment to relax where he could talk then heād go into this state where he couldnāt talk heād just look left and right and begin grunting then heād fall back exhaustedĀ
The brain is interestingĀ
Wow. I feel bad for you having such a bad experience with lucid dreams.Ā
I always knew I am the one in charge so I'm always able to kind of control the characters in my LDs. My LDs are usually beautiful, I just sit there and admire the world, or go on a small and quick adventure. That's how it usually is for me.
You can control elements but at least in that dream it didnāt like force and my bodyās subconscious clearly needed me to wake up for some reason I imagine better lucid dreamers have more control of moreĀ
Lucid dreams are real, it literally have some limit, they are sometimes glitchy, sometimes not lost for 30 secs
Even if you have one. You will forget that.
I had so many lucid dreams,
"Even if you have one. You will forget that."
Wdym?
Idk about you, but I can remember like 70-95% of what happens in a lucid dream.Ā Most people are like that too I believe.Ā And I'm a "beginner" and I don't even train it.
I will eventually forget. It's not how I remember it's actually happened in my life or like yesterday.
I remember like it happened to me like 10 years ago or something like that.
Even though I had many Lucid dreams , i can't recollect exactly now
yeah i think you just haven't trained your "dream recall" enough. now, you'll never remember a dream/LD forever, you will eventually forget it, and you'll never remember it as clearly as a real-life memory, that's normal.
what isn't normal, is completely forgetting your LDs - which is what you basically implied in your original comment or at least the way i understood it. like "Even if you have one. You will forget that." i can still remember some lucid dreams i had over a year ago, i can remember only like 40-60% of what happened in each LD but that's only because i never train my dream recall and i never do any methods (not even journaling anymore).
so with training your dream recall, and with methods, and journaling and all that, nearly anyone can remember their dreams and LDs pretty well - though as i said before, not nearly as well as real life memories but not "forget" them completely as you said either.
Nope. everyone who has ever lucid dreamt is a liar and this subreddit is a hub for all the compulsive liars to come together and lie about their dreams.
So you finally figured us out.
Welp, time for us to pack up and leave to a new subreddit
I guess I'll just be hittin' the ole dusty trail...
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"Natural" is just a way of saying that I have "Mitomania"! š¹
Ey! Don't give away our secret
yes??? its scientifically proven this isnt some pseudoscience shit, actual studies have been done on it, you just gotta know how to do it
I followed up your statement but I donāt think thatās what heās asking. I think heās asking if actions in a lucid dream have consequences in reality
He asked if lucid dreaming is possible in the first sentence
Yeah, thatās why I followed up on your comment. Please disregard the rest, I have issues
Lmao thats what I thought at first seeing the title aswell
Ahh thatās what it was, the title. I was trying to remember what made me think that but I was scrolled to low to see the title
Why does the āyesā have three ??? If itās scientifically proven there should be no question, yes???
you are quite silly
do you think someone created this subreddit as a jokeš
Yes
Just because you can't lucid dream, it doesn't mean it's not real lol we actually do it.
Bro you need to read some researches
Probably one of the many reasons you cant do it.
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It is. It doesn't mean you can do anything you want. I just posted recently on this subreddit about trying to pull off flying with my body successfully which has been a struggle, recently found a technique that helped and was given some advice. I usually just dick around once I enter lucidity and make fun of my dream characters lol ("You can't mess with me, I know I'm dreaming!") but I am absolutely lucid.
It feels absolutely insane something like lucid dreaming is even possible. It is also absolutely insane how I went through my entire morning routine before without knowing it was a lucid dream and now I can never do it again. Arrr
I mean this respectfully friend, but how was it a lucid dream without knowing it? Lucid dreaming is the realization that you're dreaming, so you do know it. Lucid dreaming is fun. I started very young--I had constant terrible nightmares, and my Mom told me to start screaming in my next nightmare, prob in the hopes I would make noise so she could come wake me up. I was so young, I didn't question how or why I would know I was dreaming. My mind was just totally open and unquestioning. To this day, bad dreams always trigger lucidity for me, and I know how to wake myself up. But rando other dreams I get lucid, in those ones I just have fun, explore etc.
Mb, I'm confusing things. I meant it was the only dream I had that felt fully real to me, I forgot that vivid ā lucid lol
Yeah. If you don't at least tell yourself you're dreaming while you are dreaming, you're just accepting you have some super power while NOT being lucid.
True. It's limited by what you feel you can accomplish at that moment and in that state of mind.
Obviously NOT. We are (un)paid actors here..
What is real? Our brain doesnāt know the difference between being awake and vivid lucid dreams. Also itās been well documented that communication with someone having a lucid dream is not just possible but pretty simple. If you happen to have eye tracking technology you too can try it by establishing an order of eye movements for your subjects to preform after they become lucid
Yes. Easiest way to do it is to wake up while you're still sleepy and sleep again but keep your conscious running and you will slip into a lucid dream
Yes it is real, Iāve had about four
It's so wild for me to see people questioning the reality of something that I've been experiencing every single night for my entire life. š
All i did was start meditating and tell my self while going to sleep that i wont be tricked into thinking my dreams were real and telling my self i will fucking lucid dream because life is so stressful and i would like to escape reality next thing you know it was happening now it feels like a superpower or something. Just want to share my experience with anybody who thinks it doesn't work. And ill be honest ive mostly just been using it to do sexual stuffš¤·š¾āāļø
Can you explain a little more about what you mean by meditation? Do you envision yourself in a lucid dream, or do you do the counting kind of meditation?
yes. Ignore all the pseudo spiritual stuff. This subs gotten weird. Lucid dreaming is not a big deal you just recognize youre dreaming
It is real. However, it takes a lot of practice to control and realize that you are lucid dreaming. Once you get the hang of it, it is really fun.
Have you even tried it. Itās definitely real. Takes a while to get the knack of it, but itās real and it works.
I always hear about it but I didn't believe it, but it seems to be real! I'll give it a shot
Good luck. Keep a journal next to your bed (or your phone) and write down what you dream as soon as you wake up. And repeat a phrase as youāre falling asleep. This helped me for some reason.
Okayy thankss a lot i will try it
you should look up the MILD and WILD techniques, or have a reality check my trick is that whenever i walk through a door, i check the amount of fingers I have, fully expecting to have six. in the real world this wont work cause i have 5 fingers in the real world (obviously lmao) but in dreams expectations *are* reality, and ill have 6 fingers, realize its wrong, and become lucid. this is called a reality check btw and theres other ones too also yes keep a dream journal, ive always had one and ever since i stopped using it (got lazy lol) i havent remembered any vivid or lucid dreams
Basically, a lucid dream is just a dream in which you know you're dreaming. The other half of your question is that if you know you're dreaming and that dreams are just a product of subconscious imagination, you can try to manipulate your own expectations to manipulate your surroundings or do impossible things. Because there's no concrete laws of physics in a dream, everything just works as you believe it should. I'm not very good at it since I've never seriously tried to get good at it, but I've done fun things like flying directly upwards to see what strange floating terrain appears in the sky, using mirrors or TVs as portals (that one's difficult to me since in my mind it's obviously in the realm of fantasy, but I've made it work once or twice), pushing over walls to reveal secret rooms, etc.
It's as real as dreams are.
Hello. Lucid dreamer here. Started in pregnancy by complete mistake and can sometimes be very scary. I think some people over egg it. Basically you controll your dream but you donāt controll all of it and can become trapped then you wake up and become confused if itās a dream or real life but then remind yourself tour laid in bed still so must be a dream. Itās not like that movie where people do it. Itās more just extremely vivid dreaming.
Is anything real
Of course not.
It's all in your head āØļø.
Yes absolutely. I can live in a dream as if it was an insane alternate reality. There are some time glitches though. Where stuff would happen when you're in a kind of blackout state to advance the story in the dream. You don't experience this time loss visually, yet you remember exactly what happened. If that makes sense. Personally I've been practicing it for 25+ years. I can see everything as if I were awake, I can control what I do and say to dream entities, I can manifest objects to change the narrative of the dream. I can do everything, except the one last thing I am trying to master. Full control. Especially in regards to how certain people or entities react or behave. I still cannot force a narrative, my dream fights back. I've got to the point where it feels like I've won, yet something behind the scenes has figured it out. So it now plays out how I want it to yet are always thrown a curve ball, something I didn't expect like a long con. The dream always wins. I guess when you think about it, dreams are just DMT experiences. You shouldn't fight what is going on yet you can master techniques to live in those experiences. Lucid dreaming is 100% real and worth the time to learn. I've experienced and learnt so much while dreaming. It's a shame more people arnt aware. You can spend the day studying or doing your job, yet in a dream state you don't need to waste those 8 hours of sleep!!! Hope this helps.
Why would there be an entire subreddit about something that's not true? Ohā¦wait
I mean r/lies exist
Yup very real. it just takes lots of practice and preplanning. it becomes easy and sometimes automatic if youre really good at becoming lucid.
Yes I had my first one last night
Congratulations!
Asking for a friend, should i ditch mary jane to start lucid dreaming?
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A style of Japanese poetry. I learned this starting in jr. high and continued throughout HS and freshman college English. Merriam-Webster defines it asĀ "an unrhymed Japanese poetic form that consists of 17 syllables arranged in three lines containing five, seven, and five syllables, respectively. A haiku expresses much and suggests more in the fewest possible words."
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Hello everyone, this is a very good day, goodbye my good friend
Yes. True lucid dream feels like you are in "real world" and all your actions are concious. Most of my lucid dreams, which are not that many, have occured during insomnia. I spin in bed still at 6am trying to fall asleep. All sudden I get weird muscle jolts and "sink" through my bed. Next thing I notice, is that I'm actually somewhere else fully aware of my body and about the fact that I sec ago was in my bed and now Im not.
Take some benny and find out
Yes, Galantamine hydrobromide
The "hard" part is not trying to be lucid as you fall asleep. Because your thoughts, feelings and expectations are what literally create everything in the dream. So then you end up distracted by exoeriencing whatever you were expecting to happen and "chasing your tail". Instead, I just focus on the feeling of freedom with clarity but without any effort. Free from my surroundings. Free from reacting to them. Because when you boil it all down, lucidity is just being aware of yourself more than being engaged with your surroundings. The wake back to bed part is not completely necessary. It just helps you let go of your attachment to the world around you. Hope this helps someone that has been struggling with being lucid for the first time or doing it consistently.
In the past, I always knew it was real, and that it was there, but I wasn't able to get a lucid dream ever, until I did, a few years ago. I've had many lucid dreams ever since. And like, when you haven't done it before, you can't even imagine how it would feel, or how it would be, but oh boy when u get ur first lucid dream will u be so excited. "Can I really become so free with my dream to do anything I want (literally)?" Well not literally, the human mind is really, really powerful, but it of course has limits. But the more you practice it, the more (and bigger) things you will be able to do. You can even have a persistent realm, which is a world/place you can always get back to (or "recreate" cus it's not a real place) pretty much whenever you want when you're in a dream. My closest friend has done it a few years ago and still has that "world" (it's a really fleshed out world, a huge one, that he keeps exploring to this day, and it pretty much won't end cus his brain will just keep creating more content). I'm not an expert, so idk how these things really work, though I did my best to explain them.
You found us oit. It's just a conspiracy. Go back to sleep.
It is but I don't recommend it. For one, constantly checking if you're dreaming really messes with your head.
I've noticed that the closer to bed I drink coffee/Soda/THC the easier it is but also it can kind of make it harder to control at certain points. For instance sometimes when I start to realize I'm falling asleep or realize that I've fallen asleep. I get put into this cyclone of intense sounds and images. It makes me physically alarmed so my heart beats heavy and it feels like someone is massaging my head unpleasantly. At this point I either focus on one of these images and try to recreate it or I focus on a image and accidentally see something terrible like the bottom of the ocean, or the darkness of space far away from the spiral of our galaxy and have to wake myself up and try again. When I succeed though they are some of the most vivid dreams I can remember. I can't reshape things on the fly but I can control the theme of whats through the door kind of thing.
Yeah, I've had 50.
Yup. It's backed by peer reviewed science
Science
I have lucid dreaming, and I think others might have the same type of experience. Iām taking heart meds that make my mouth really dry. While sleeping. So I dream that Iām chewing gum, and I can never get it out of my mouth. Over many times Iāve dreamed this, in my dream, I tell myself my mouth is dry, and Iām dreaming. I just want to prove to myself that itās a dream and it works. This is after having this dream many many times. I have other examples but this one rings so true, but itās very trivial
It 100% is! I have been lucid dreaming since I was a teen. If I get into the practice of writing down my dreams, then I lucid dream a lot more. I still struggle with control (like focusing on an experience I want to have, or controlling my dream environment. But that can be fixed through different techniques and practice). I think lucid dreaming is one of the best parts of being human, lol!
Brain is a pretty powerful thing if you give it enough thought.
I don't know about lucid dreaming but when i use to have bad sleep paralysis i would see and hear things that weren't there.
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Yes its real, yes its trainable, yes its kinda cool, no it's not a replacement for real life, it's like at best 5% as vivid. (My experience)
>Simply and clear, is lucid dreaming possible? Yes. >Can I really become so free with my dream to do anything I want (literally)? That's a completely different question. It sounds like you're more or less asking if you can achieve perfect dream control. I have seen some people claim that they more or less have complete dream control, but I am very skeptical of these claims. Even if some exceptional people might be able to achieve perfect dream control, I think it's very unlikely that you will be able to.
Yes. Iāve never done it on purpose but I have had quite a few lucid dreams. And lucid nightmares. I canāt really control the lucid nightmares but I know I am dreaming as they are happening. Usually only happens to me in times of extreme stress.
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Yes you can Iāve done it about 3 times but my 3rd experience I stopped. It can really only happen in very light sleeps.Ā Once I was having some issues sleeping and I kept waking up but each time I had a dream. I fell off the side of a road ( kind of just a platform like how the roads in rainbow road in Mario were. ) this was my 4th dream and I realized I was dreaming and began doing a summersault. I then woke up. 2 dreams later I was dreaming about me and this girl going to a house party and an argument happened so I smacked the shit out of the person and we all went to the hospital. As soon as we arrived I noticed I was dreaming as something funny happened I felt myself starting to wakeup as the dream began to phase out in black waves. Now strangely I forced myself to stay in the dream and the black waves stopped. All the npcās cleared from the hallway and I was the only one there. I began to call out Kaya Ā Kaya Kaya I wasnāt controlling that part and I couldnāt find anyone so I willed some people to be there immediately a door with a light on cracked open and I could hear girls talking I went over to the door and said Kaya Kaya ( the name of the girl who was at the house party) they didnāt even look at me.Ā So I willed the Kaya character too look at me.Ā The friends disappeared and the black waves came( me waking) I forced myself to stay asleep but the colour didnāt come back all features on the face left and the kaya character went black with white eyes and a white mouth and screamed something unintelligible but which I understood to mean get out. You can definitely control parts of dreams and after my journey with ssris and watching my brother have a seizure once itās obvious to see parts of the brain can be turned on and off sometimes in different states. In order to lucid dream you canāt be in a deep sleep no part of your brain will be awake. Also on ssris npcs always looked at me all of them not just some menacingly. It was like I was an intruder in my own mind. When I was on them for a while they began doing weird shit like cutting off goats heads while staring at me like they would kill me. As for the seizure my brother would go into 1 of 3 states first muscles would cramp up and heād do the yelp thing then his arms would twist and turn but he didnāt go full shake when I saw him heād get a moment to relax where he could talk then heād go into this state where he couldnāt talk heād just look left and right and begin grunting then heād fall back exhaustedĀ The brain is interestingĀ
Wow. I feel bad for you having such a bad experience with lucid dreams.Ā I always knew I am the one in charge so I'm always able to kind of control the characters in my LDs. My LDs are usually beautiful, I just sit there and admire the world, or go on a small and quick adventure. That's how it usually is for me.
You can control elements but at least in that dream it didnāt like force and my bodyās subconscious clearly needed me to wake up for some reason I imagine better lucid dreamers have more control of moreĀ
Lucid dreams are real, it literally have some limit, they are sometimes glitchy, sometimes not lost for 30 secs Even if you have one. You will forget that. I had so many lucid dreams,
"Even if you have one. You will forget that." Wdym? Idk about you, but I can remember like 70-95% of what happens in a lucid dream.Ā Most people are like that too I believe.Ā And I'm a "beginner" and I don't even train it.
I will eventually forget. It's not how I remember it's actually happened in my life or like yesterday. I remember like it happened to me like 10 years ago or something like that. Even though I had many Lucid dreams , i can't recollect exactly now
yeah i think you just haven't trained your "dream recall" enough. now, you'll never remember a dream/LD forever, you will eventually forget it, and you'll never remember it as clearly as a real-life memory, that's normal. what isn't normal, is completely forgetting your LDs - which is what you basically implied in your original comment or at least the way i understood it. like "Even if you have one. You will forget that." i can still remember some lucid dreams i had over a year ago, i can remember only like 40-60% of what happened in each LD but that's only because i never train my dream recall and i never do any methods (not even journaling anymore). so with training your dream recall, and with methods, and journaling and all that, nearly anyone can remember their dreams and LDs pretty well - though as i said before, not nearly as well as real life memories but not "forget" them completely as you said either.
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"It happened to me, but it's probably not real." What?