Beginner Questions Welcome!

My beginners question is (get ready for this), iv been ld for about 20 years iv had 100+ ld ( lost count about 15 years ago) and i thought i was the only one ,i don't do any techniques or practice, and recently found out that im what u call , A natural. ?????? WHAT IS GOING ON!!!please help

So Yesterday I decided to try out for the first time Lucid Dreaming. It worked. I looked at my hands, wich where blurry, and shouted "I'M DREAMING". The moment I said that, everything disappeared, in other words, I got over excited. So that lasted for about 5 seconds? I need help on how to keep this feeling calm, and what also bothers me, is the fact that once awake, I felt my brain working at millions of Synpasis and then this buzzing on the ear and "heavy brain/head". Is this normal for begginers?

Please Excuse my English

I'M PANICKING wrote: So Yesterday I decided to try out for the first time Lucid Dreaming. It worked. I looked at my hands, wich where blurry, and shouted "I'M DREAMING". The moment I said that, everything disappeared, in other words, I got over excited. So that lasted for about 5 seconds? I need help on how to keep this feeling calm, and what also bothers me, is the fact that once awake, I felt my brain working at millions of Synpasis and then this buzzing on the ear and "heavy brain/head". Is this normal for begginers?

Please Excuse my English

First of all, you tried one day and got a lucid dream? if yes that's just amazing!

Second, it's common that in the first lucid dreams you get excited and wake up, I had it too.

Next time you realize you are dreaming, breath and don't run around and scream and tell every dream character that.

Try to rub your hands, touch dream surroundings, shout ''clarity now'', maybe spin around.

It will help you, good luck.

Hello! First of all, I've kept a dream diary for at least 3 weeks, recording 1-2 dreams each night. I perform mindfully reality checks, on average about 5 a day. Every night I try MILD, and the day before yesterday something weird happened. In my dream I realized that I could actually be dreaming, so I was going to do the finger-into-palm check, but I stopped and reminded myself to take it slowly and really ask 'am I dreaming?'. So I did that, and then my finger pushed straight into the palm, I was beginning to get excited, and ta-daa! Nothing happens. So I tried many other RCs, shouted 'I'm dreaming!' with absolutely no success. I woke up because I was so disappointed... The exact same thing happened yesterday, so it can't be an odd one out, or an anomaly. Why did this happen? Please help me. Thank you, Centroid

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This night i had this dream, where i was walking in a shop with beds. I ended the room at a water bed where i saw my fathers head on the pillow. I recognised this as a dream sign, since my father is dead.

I realized i was dreaming, "I am dreaming!, im dreaming!", i thought. Then i sayd to myself: "Stay in the dream, dont wake up, dont wake up".

The dream blackened out, and nothing happened.. kept sleeping briefly and after a short while i woke up.

I recognised a dream sign, realized i was dreaming, and kept fairly calm. Why did nothing happen, something i missed?

Thanks

MentalePower wrote: This night i had this dream, where i was walking in a shop with beds. I ended the room at a water bed where i saw my fathers head on the pillow. I recognised this as a dream sign, since my father is dead.

I realized i was dreaming, "I am dreaming!, im dreaming!", i thought. Then i sayd to myself: "Stay in the dream, dont wake up, dont wake up".

The dream blackened out, and nothing happened.. kept sleeping briefly and after a short while i woke up.

I recognised a dream sign, realized i was dreaming, and kept fairly calm. Why did nothing happen, something i missed?

Thanks

I could understand this if you are a beginner, because this happens frequently in your first couple of lucid dreams.

What you need to do is learn to "stabilize the dream". It isn't enough, at least when a beginner to stabilize the dream through pure willpower. Different things work for different people, but I find a very consistent method to do this is to repeat reality checks and spin. However, it really does depend on the person and you will need to do some experimentation. Another thing that may help is looking at your feet and walking, or touching your arms whilst looking at them. Good luck, and happy dreaming!

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Jackson wrote: I could understand this if you are a beginner, because this happens frequently in your first couple of lucid dreams.

What you need to do is learn to "stabilize the dream". It isn't enough, at least when a beginner to stabilize the dream through pure willpower. Different things work for different people, but I find a very consistent method to do this is to repeat reality checks and spin. However, it really does depend on the person and you will need to do some experimentation. Another thing that may help is looking at your feet and walking, or touching your arms whilst looking at them. Good luck, and happy dreaming!

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First of all, thanks for the quick reply!

Second, the moment i started realizing i was dreaming, the dream already blackened out and there was no dream basicly left, to do any reality check.

I was having some expectation that (perhaps false or wrong), from what i have read, that all is to become very vivid and clear. Instead there was no dream anymore, confusing to say the least.

Witch makes me wonder, am i on the edge of becoming lucid dreaming?

MentalePower wrote:

Jackson wrote:I could understand this if you are a beginner, because this happens frequently in your first couple of lucid dreams.

What you need to do is learn to "stabilize the dream". It isn't enough, at least when a beginner to stabilize the dream through pure willpower. Different things work for different people, but I find a very consistent method to do this is to repeat reality checks and spin. However, it really does depend on the person and you will need to do some experimentation. Another thing that may help is looking at your feet and walking, or touching your arms whilst looking at them. Good luck, and happy dreaming!

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First of all, thanks for the quick reply!

Second, the moment i started realizing i was dreaming, the dream already blackened out and there was no dream basicly left, to do any reality check.

I was having some expectation that (perhaps false or wrong), from what i have read, that all is to become very vivid and clear. Instead there was no dream anymore, confusing to say the least.

Witch makes me wonder, am i on the edge of becoming lucid dreaming?

If you realized you were dreaming then that most certainly was a lucid dream :)

But I am afraid I will need you to explain the final moments and what happened after with as much detail as possible because I am not sure I understand clearly enough. But from what I understand, what you should do the next you notice this is latch onto that detail on focus on that detail of your father's head, ( or whatever makes you lucid) and speak to yourself saying things like "Wow, it is so real" "That hair colour is so accurate" and "I could probably walk up to there and count every hair on his head!" What I am trying to say here is just find one detail in the dream and focus on it is as best as you can, because focus helps a lot.

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I've been dedicated to getting this lucid dreaming down for about 3 weeks now, and I need a little advice. My main problem is meditation. I meditate daily but I'm not sure what the best technique for meditation is. I meditate two different ways: 1. On my back in a resting position, perform total relaxation, look for hypnagogic imagery (which I always fail at doing so), and just experience "being" in my head. 2. Sit in a lotus position with my back straight and focus on my breathing and clearing my mind and relaxation. What is the best way to meditate for someone who has intentions of lucid dreaming? Also I've tried brainwave entrainment (and I love it) but I'm not sure what brainwave tracks I should be listening to. So basically how should I meditate, when, how often, and what brainwave tracks should I use accordingly with my meditation?

Colorado wrote: I've been dedicated to getting this lucid dreaming down for about 3 weeks now, and I need a little advice. My main problem is meditation. I meditate daily but I'm not sure what the best technique for meditation is. I meditate two different ways: 1. On my back in a resting position, perform total relaxation, look for hypnagogic imagery (which I always fail at doing so), and just experience "being" in my head. 2. Sit in a lotus position with my back straight and focus on my breathing and clearing my mind and relaxation. What is the best way to meditate for someone who has intentions of lucid dreaming? Also I've tried brainwave entrainment (and I love it) but I'm not sure what brainwave tracks I should be listening to. So basically how should I meditate, when, how often, and what brainwave tracks should I use accordingly with my meditation?

As to your first question, I would suggest doing the lotus position and clearing your mind in the morning. It actually doesn't have to be the lotus position, and indeed if that is uncomfortable for you don't do it. Just sit so that you are not slouching and being lazy, because that way it will be easy to fall asleep. And then when you go to bed, do the hypnagogic imagery meditation.

To address your last question, I recommend listening to this MP3 file

http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&p=41978#p41978

It is not only a brainwave track but also has subliminal messages for you to lucid dream. It includes biurnal beats and I think isochronic tones. Listen to that while going to sleep and meditating, and once in the middle of the day. An effective method you can implememnt here for a dream goal is to visualize with as much clarity as you can what you would like to do in a lucid dream. Sometimes, I can do this so vividly while falling asleep, I go directly into an LD!

Finally, for your early morning meditation, I really don't think it matters, just anything that can calm you down will be fine. Happy dreaming!

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What time should I meditate at? How long should should I meditate for?

Necrox wrote: What time should I meditate at? How long should should I meditate for?

Just read the reply before yours.

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Hello! Does being on the computer throughout most of the day effect your lucid dreaming ability? For instance I do reality checks whilst I'm using it but does this hinder the ability to lucid dream at all? I did try looking around on the internet for the answer to this but I couldn't really find one?

I have some questions :

1. I am doing reality checks everyday(15-20 / day) and I have 7 dreams in my journal ( not very detaliated ). When I remember my dream in the morning or when I wake up in the night I write it and I realize in dreamworld I just forget to do RCs . What's the problem? Am I doing reality checks wrong or I should wait and continue to do this until I will succeed ?

2. Is it possible to not dream when you go to sleep in a bad mood? Yesterday I was in a pretty bad mood and I woke up in the night only one time without remember any dream and in the morning too .

3. Did you can to tell me some tips to make my reality checks more efficiently ?

4. For three days I recalled no dream, What could be the cause?

Ps : Sorry for my bad English.

Thank you very much.

I had my first somewhat lucid dream. I was in my bed vibrating ( But I read somewhere else that it means an OBE) I got up from my bed and went into the bathroom and my face was disfigured in the mirror( But I wasn't scared I don't know why)I left the bathroom and into my living room and saw a model and stood next to her for like 5 seconds then the dream faded away and I woke up. I also felt limited during the dream.

So what exactly was this? and OBE or a lucid dream?

Does being on the computer throughout most of the day effect your lucid dreaming ability? For instance I do reality checks whilst I'm using it but does this hinder the ability to lucid dream at all? I did try looking around on the internet for the answer to this but I couldn't really find one?

I find that it lessens my chance for an LD just because it takes a lot of my attention away from the rest of the world during the day, so I'm not as aware during the night.

It could be different for others though.

No, I spend up to 8 hours a day at a computer and up to 3 hours of that between 1am and 4 am and no issues.

Its a extremely strong belief that makes the difference

I'm fairly new to actually gaining control in my LD dreams even though I've been having them years, and I've only just found this website and been trying some techniques, But about the actual DC's .. I can Interact with them without talking.. But usually any verbal exchange leads to them waking me up, say for instance last night a guy stabbed me in the thumb with a knife cos I asked him a question.. and woke up feeling pain in thumb, and then in another dream wen I asked a girl her name and she replied.. You don't belong here.. then yelled at me in the face WAKE UP!@!@! , and I did :( I did have a helpful DC called John who popped up in a few separate dreams last night and explained to me that he was there to help.. but he didn't do much of that lol :lol:

So I don't understand some terminology. What are people representing as dream characters? I've never conversed with the actors I have in my dreams other than in some subliminal dialogue that's scripted by me. Is this an attempt to allow the subliminal mind to express itself as in normal dreams? If so it could be fun! Long time since I didn't control everything. Actually it might be hard not to control things now. :? What else do/ could DC's represent for people?

i was trying to enter paralysis and lucid dreaming for one of the first times tonight,using a roll signal technique and dream triggers i felt the paralysis come on my spine and my eyes felt glued,pause breathing interrupted sleep breathing and muscle twitching was not helping so i did up and down eye movements,this helped the darkness in my closed eyes was getting blacker and deeper and then suddenly a quite scary face appeared in the darkness saying "you're going to regret this" i was startled and open my eyes ruining the state and scaring myself... any helpful tips?

Last night was my first night hearing about, and attempting lucid dreaming. I laid in my bed for an hour just breathing and thinking about breathing, but other than feeling like I was spinning for about a minute, I felt nothing, and when I fell asleep I didnt dream. Is there any specific way I should sleep in order to lucid dream? Should I sleep on my back? Do I have to be really tired?

Quote: suddenly a quite scary face appeared in the darkness saying "you're going to regret this" i was startled and open my eyes ruining the state and scaring myself... any helpful tips? End quote:

The only advice I would give is just to try again, and don't dwell on the face too much. You can do an immunity to shock training so that you don't have a reaction to the sudden scary face, or you can learn how to further control your thoughts and just prevent the scary face idea from ever forming, but both of those things take time and patience to do.

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How I can improve my Reality Checks?

Hi there! I'm pretty new to lucid dreaming and I've been experiencing a mildly frustrating hurdle here. I've read and started a dream journal, and in the past 2 weeks, have gotten my dream recall to 3-4 dreams a night. Sometimes 5 or 6, others 1 or zero. Anyway, the past week or so, I've been trying to become lucid. What is really convenient is my wife's work schedule. She wakes up at 4am to get ready for work. I wake up with her, read a little or do something physical (like take garbage out), and then go back to sleep. While falling asleep (both at the beginning at end of the night) I affirm that I am dreaming and that I will become lucid. I've done each step that I've read from every source. I am also aware that this kind of lucid dream is WILD. I've yet to realize i'm dreaming before i wake up at 4am, no matter how much I affirm and try. I am still trying, though. Now, my problem...

When I dream in the early morning, I usually realize that I am dreaming. Excellent, time to become lucid. I've read from multiple sources that a very good way to become lucid is to inspect your hand so that all the detail will pop out. So, every time I attempt to become lucid (and this has happened at least 7 or 8 times in the last week, sometimes 2 or 3 times a night/morning)...I stare at my hand...and there is an intense pressure in my forehead, face, and eyes. It's almost painful, but more so, distracting. I break my focus which leaves me in a state that I would call semi lucid. I'm aware that I am dreaming, but everything is still hazy and dreamlike with cuts in continuity and lapse in consciousness.

What is this pressure? Why am I experiencing it? What can I do to rid myself of it? Is this common? Is this just sleep paralysis that I feel the exact same way, every time?

Thanks in advance..

So I had my first lucid dream after about three nights of trying, but it was strange. I woke up immediately after the lucid dream ended, and it lasted about 30 seconds or so. The strange part though, was how I felt in the dream. I felt separated and disconnected. it seemed that I only had a sense of the parts of my body I was thinking about. For instance i could only feel my hands when I rubbed them together and dunked them into a swimming pool, and my feet only seemed to appear when I was walking. Also in trying to recall the dream I can only recall it in small parts. I'm fairly certain it was lucid but I'm also not too sure I was completely aware in the dream that it was lucid, or if I did not for very long. Anyway though I didn't expect to have one this early in trying and my dream recall is poor, so i'm just wondering if these problems are related to me not grounding myself to the dream properly, poor dream recall, semi lucidness, or a combination so if anyone with more experience can relate that would be appreciated. Thanks!

I felt separated and disconnected. it seemed that I only had a sense of the parts of my body I was thinking about. For instance i could only feel my hands when I rubbed them together and dunked them into a swimming pool, and my feet only seemed to appear when I was walking.

If you want a body you pretty much have to focus on the whole body for it to form. When you have some spare time in real life, just take a moment and focus on all the parts of your body and try to see how long you can focus on all of them. Doing this will help you build your awareness of the body and make it easier to form it easier in dreams.

Im still trying to lucid dream and its been around 2 weeks. i only started my dream journal 2 days ago and its only a few sheets of paper, do i need an actual journal? i have been trying the mild method and reality checks but i am yet to do one in my dream. Is there any tips for doing it in my dream? also i have trouble keeping to the 'i am going to be aware of my dreams' thought. i easily get side tracked. i also have trouble releasing tension. the only time i ever felt completely relaxed was in a drama meditation thing we did at school. the teacher started off by telling us to stretch one of our toes as far and as hard as we could. she then made us do it for each toe, then all of them together, than she started with the other foot doing the same thing. by the end we stretched our whole body at the same time. it just doesn't work the same when i try it. anyway during this meditation thing, i imagined myself floating out my body, i believed it, i think i was slipping into a dream consciously, the world around me changed only a little bit colours and stuff, but i think if i had the time i could have done it. but the class had to move on and the noise distracted me. i want to know how i can relax myself like that again, without my thoughts wondering away and distracting me. also this is a random thought. but can you lucid dream and have a wet dream at the same time.

haz4dreamer wrote: also this is a random thought. but can you lucid dream and have a wet dream at the same time.

I respond knowing there is a risk of this slipping into sexual topics so I'll keep it clean and the details few. But at least in my case I had this happen exactly once. (Interesting that in my case I've had several novel experiences that seem to have lasted their durations precisely because they were new and took me by surprise. I can never seem to willfully duplicate them, as if wishing and anticipation was a preventative measure.)

I can't say that I was in control when it happened, but I was definitely lucid. In fact I wasn't sure if I was asleep or awake! Either way the phenomenon defied explanation.

Basically, this happened when I was 15 or so. After waking up one morning I just lay there outstretched, relaxing, not intending to fall back asleep. But then I seemed to suddenly enter a sort of trance, like I entered another dimension, becoming slightly heavier, that sort of thing, but no fear at all. My mind was racing the whole time analyzing the condition I was in, certain that I was still awake. I wasn't sure if I was paralyzed or not but didn't dare try to move, thinking that if I did that I might and it would end the intriguing event. Eventually this condition caused my heart to suddenly start pounding faster and harder, as if scared or running, like a jolt of adrenaline, so it made no sense. I felt waves of energy emanating from my chest.

All of this culminated with - keeping this as clinical and mature as possible - sensing my physical state change to one of full tumescence, all with no visual, dream or other stimuli or knowable reason, further followed automatically by the series of pulsations associated with such nocturnal emissions. I opened my eyes. It really happened.

So, I know it is anecdotal, but it happened to me! And I think I've read elsewhere of people claiming to lucidly cause wet dreams. I don't think I can, and the one time it did I must repeat that I was not in control, just an observer of my body involuntarily supplying me with sensations and a physical reaction.

The issue is stranger than that, though, because obviously one of the activities one may elect to attempt in a lucid state is the enactment of fantasies, sexual and otherwise. But, I don't know what makes the difference between it being JUST an erotic dream vs. a physical emission. A similar condition exists when you dream of urinating but in reality do not - except, of course, for those times people confess that unfortunately such a dream can actually result in a real accident. I suppose step one is control your lucidity and dream content. I have a hard time doing that voluntarily. So step two - making your body physically respond to the dream content - is another issue. Perhaps there is no way to guarantee step two, but step two can't happen* without first providing it with the lucid state of step one.

*Well, even that is not true since obviously one can experience non-lucid garden-variety nocturnal emissions.

I am surprised that I haven't read the so-called incubus/succubus connection. Historically I read that these mischievous beings were responsible BOTH for sleep paralysis AND wet dreams. But other than the legend and fact that they both occur in REM sleep, I don't know if there is any real connection, or even the statistics that if you regularly experience one phenomenon that you are more likely to also experience the other (or perhaps vice-versa).

What are some easy ways to improve dream recall? It has improved since I started my dream journal but it could still use some help.

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Hi everyone! I'm new to LD and new to this forum! I just seem to have some trouble with dream recall, and hope that someone could help me out. I started reading about lucid dreaming about a week ago, I've always had some interest in the dream world anyway. after the first night of trying to become lucid, or trying to recall call my dream I could remember a very vivid dream in all detail. The next day went even better, I could recall 2 dreams. But after that I can't seem to remember anything at all! I have a dream journal, I do 10 reality check every day and the last thought I have before snoozing away is either 'I will become lucid' or 'I will remember my dreams'. I also started waking up 6 hours after I fall asleep so I could target the REM cycle. Any suggestions as to why I can't remember my dreams?

Hey, I´m beginner in lucid dreaming and new to this forum, so sory if this question was anwsered many times, I just couldn´t find it anywhere.

1. I want to know if lucid dreams can affect real life?

I started writting a book and i came to a block in my head so i know about 40% story in a book, but because this block I´m stuck and dont know how to continue... Can I find answers in lucid dream?

Or somthing like that, you love some girl and girl don´t love you back in real life, but in lucid dreams you two can be together. Can you "send the waves" to her in real life so she can love you, like she does in lucid. Or can you get some anwsers on how to do it in real life?

2. Can you reprogram your subconscious mind to attract things in real life?

ex. In lucid dream, you make your own life like you want it in reality. Can you find your guide in lucid dreams and help you to make it work in real life? Can this guide or whatever you call it show you the steps on how to achieve your goals in real life?

I hope you guys understand my questions :D And thank you for anwsers

I don't know if any of that is true. Honestly, I don't really care that much. My reasons are purely for nostalgia and experimentation. I don't know if I'd call them "cool" exactly because they were so scary, but part of me feels like I escaped some fear and would like to see how I'd react if I encountered it again. Part of me thinks because I'm so much older now that it will never be as scary or terrifyingly inescapable, but who knows. I'm just hoping I can get to that place again, which I always stumbled on so easily and accidentally.

If I were to hope that it held some higher significance and make my life better in some other way then I'd be putting too many expectations on it. I don't want to be so let down if it doesn't happen.

Hello i am new to here. I don't know if it is a normal or not(it may be unrelated). I remember my dreams almost everyday(or a part of it). Is this normal?. And if i think(or see) about something or someone(or a topic discussed between friends) they usually come in my dream(irrespective of how much time i spend the time on that and i think it has these grab my attention) on the same day. Is this normally what everybody experience? can you please tell me about this? Thanks in advance..

anything with a bit of emotional strength seems to bleed in. I have a range of around 2 days to get it to come through but also a lot of of the time it will be there the evening after some strong event that day

Whatever is normal to you is your normal - all good

I'm new to LD'ing as my question will verify. Is it possible for a LD'er to cause another dreamer to become lucid? Tango

OK, so I have been trying to lucid dream for over 4 months now but still have not succeeded. I have kept a dream journal the whole time and done reality checks 4 to 5 times a day and I have had no LDs yet. Could anyone give me some advice?

Here's the deal, I'm new to lucid dreaming, I've had two lucid dreams, but they were short and around 2 weeks apart. I have been keeping a dream journal, but for some reason I stopped remembering several dreams a night, and now I only remember one or maybe two. I do reality checks daily, but for some reason I don't remember to do them in my dreams no matter how crazy my dreams are. Any advice on how to start remembering more dreams and how to go lucid more often would be greatly appreciated.

interestingly enough, it was my more normal dreams that made me go lucid. I can be in the middle of no where with complete strangers doing weird things, and it doesn't trigger anything, but the two dreams that caused lucidity were dreams where I was hanging out with my friends in my dorm.

1. Before looking into lucid dreaming I had nice vivid dreams but during this week, with use of the mild technique, It's been so hard to get a vivid dream, what can I do? and why is this happening?
2. Is it okay to meditate on the bus?
3. How do I stop falling asleep when meditating? :P

So... I have insomnia. In this case, that means it takes me at least an hour and sometimes more than that, to fall asleep at night, no matter how tired I am. There have been cases where I haven't gone to sleep for over four hours. I have begun to fix this by doing the obvious things: Going to sleep/waking up at around the same time every day. Going to bed at a decent hour. Turning off electronics two hours to an hour before bed and just reading so I'm relaxed. (The exception this is when I go look at the subliminal messages videos on this site to induce lucid dreaming.) These things have made it a lot easier to go to sleep, but it STILL takes me an hour to over an hour to fall asleep.

Because of this, I feel that MILD and WBTB will never work, because they require you to be able to go to sleep fairly quickly. Anytime I attempt MILD and start getting to that point where I'm drifting off, I gently ask myself if I'm dreaming even though I know I'm awake, but then suddenly I'm dead asleep with no remembrance of me doing the MILD in the first place. And then I'm dreaming non-lucidly and it doesn't click. And with WBTB, you have to get up so your conscious brain is awake, and then go back to sleep, still feeling tired. Yeah, that doesn't work when it takes me so long to go to sleep...

So what do I do? Just pray to God that I have a DILD? I mean, I've been keeping a dream journal and doing reality checks and reading/learning/talking about lucid dreaming, etc. But without the ability to even practice MILD, the best I can hope for is a DILD. How often do those occur?

My question is a bit long, but here is the link:

http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16220

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Hello I've been improving my ability to lucid dream for a few years now, not really actively, its more just after I got used to the topic I started noticing changes in the way my dreams would unfold. At first it was simply having longer, more detailed experiences that I had a much easier time remembering when I finally woke up. I kind of just started to call these experiences "long dreams" because it almost felt like time had very little meaning within them and I'd often get swept up into many different dreams that were starting to become vaguely connected. Really the next step was when I started to notice a common reacquiring feature in my "long dreams" I began being able to sort of fly by striding in the air and flapping my wings, sort of like I was for lack for a better term "double jumping" while pushing air underneath myself with my arms, sort of like you do when you tread water while swimming. Almost immediately after, that in itself, became a sure fire sign I was in a dream, its still my go to ability when I dream, and the thing I can reproduce most often. Here's where it gets weird though based on what I have read before this is when you should begin to change things within your dream. However for months the only thing that changed was a sense of knowing that I was in a dream while still being pulled along, whether I was traveling somewhere, in high school again, or whatever I'd feel like I had that knowledge but it didn't really matter, I could fly, but I was still the "me" of this dream world, everything was real there and the non dream self was sort of a backseat to the experience. So instead of lucid dreaming I more had a over the shoulder viewing experience of my dreams as they unfolded with a heightened ability to remember things.

During the past month things have changed dramatically and I believe I have made a major breakthrough. Sometimes I used to have problems with nightmares, and its always a struggle while dreaming to not let myself fully become part of the dream, because if I do that there is often no going back and I'm stuck in that dream/nightmare until I wake up. The past few nights I have been having "near nightmares" the most recent and vivid was last night when I was a part of a rural community, an unnamed trailer park that was also filled with sheet metal shacks, it was somewhere in a wooded mountain area. There was a wall of trailers between me and the noises but I could hear chanting that didn't sound like any language I knew and I could see strange light beyond the trailers like an aura. I don't remember it being like actual light that was hitting the trees or anything it was more like a color that I felt coming from that direction. I felt sick and I knew somehow that if i stayed there the people there would find me and I'd be pulled into a nightmare.

What was different and whats been changing along with these feelings that let me sense specifically when a nightmare is about to happen is I actually have been able to simply fly away and ignore the nightmare. It hasn't even been a sense of "I'm a person living here and I don't want to be scared by being hunted by villagers or whatever" its actually in dream been "Hey this is a nightmare I could probably just avoid it if I want to".

I'd like to start gaining control over how to actually change my surroundings when I dream. I feel like if I can even change one thing that's a rule of whatever dream I am in it will open the floodgates and I'll take another big step.

Any suggestions are welcome and I'm sorry for the wall of text with my first post here.

Concerning WBTB, is it better to do the wake up ritual a little later if I wake up later on weekends or is it better to have the same schedule every night? I WBTB at 4:30 on weekdays and 6 on weekends.

Fira wrote: So... I have insomnia. In this case, that means it takes me at least an hour and sometimes more than that, to fall asleep at night, no matter how tired I am. There have been cases where I haven't gone to sleep for over four hours. I have begun to fix this by doing the obvious things: Going to sleep/waking up at around the same time every day. Going to bed at a decent hour. Turning off electronics two hours to an hour before bed and just reading so I'm relaxed. (The exception this is when I go look at the subliminal messages videos on this site to induce lucid dreaming.) These things have made it a lot easier to go to sleep, but it STILL takes me an hour to over an hour to fall asleep.

Because of this, I feel that MILD and WBTB will never work, because they require you to be able to go to sleep fairly quickly. Anytime I attempt MILD and start getting to that point where I'm drifting off, I gently ask myself if I'm dreaming even though I know I'm awake, but then suddenly I'm dead asleep with no remembrance of me doing the MILD in the first place. And then I'm dreaming non-lucidly and it doesn't click. And with WBTB, you have to get up so your conscious brain is awake, and then go back to sleep, still feeling tired. Yeah, that doesn't work when it takes me so long to go to sleep...

So what do I do? Just pray to God that I have a DILD? I mean, I've been keeping a dream journal and doing reality checks and reading/learning/talking about lucid dreaming, etc. But without the ability to even practice MILD, the best I can hope for is a DILD. How often do those occur?

I have the same problem. In fact, my attempts to do anything lucid I believe has CAUSED my recent insomnia which only now I am getting over. All the meds that help with lucid dreams seem to also be able to trigger insomnia, so it seems like we are screwed until someone comes up with an insomnia-proof method or drug to help induce LD. I guess only people who already naturally LD easily or have no other sleep issues or problems falling asleep can do this stuff.

so i can lucid dream, sometimes it happens in the middle of my sleep and ill tell myself im dreaming, but they are not clear, i try and say clarity now, but it doesnt work its always fuzzy, never like real life and i lose focus and lose the lucid dream. idk what to do but i write down my dreams and i always remember them, yet im becoming lucid less and less every week. what will help me?

Anggethan, I would reccomend rubbing your hands together while you are lucid and focusing on one object and try to make it clearer

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Thanks. i'm young and i'm trying to lucid dream and unlike most people i suspect on this forum i didn't lucid dream as a child and now because i didn't keep a dream journal i hardley recall any dreams the last dream i remember was last month. please help.

So start writing in a dream journal, it's not too late

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Hi,

I'm new here. Been a lucid dreamer for three weeks now since I watch a video on youtube. I might be lucky because I can easily get myself aware that I'm in a dream. One of my best techniques is looking at the mirror, since I'm carrying it always on my bag. My reflection is distorted and that gives me a clue that I'm on dream.

http://luciddreamtips.com/

hey which do you have and which do you think is better?? real dream journal where u can draw symbols or a mobile app which has some nice features to it and u take it with you everywhere. :ugeek: thanx

Hello!

I'm new to Lucid Dreaming and have a question that's been bothering me for some time now. I'm Bilingual (fully fluent in both English and Turkish). I'm curious if one language would be stronger than the other.

I speak Turkish daily but do all my research and readings in English (my thinking is 50/50 I guess)

Would techniques like M.I.L.D. be affected by this?

Many thanks!

Sincerely

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Yo! I'm new here so let me know if I'm doing anything wrong... I'd like advice on lucid dreaming:

I tried when I first found out about it every day for about 3 weeks, it didn't work out so I stopped for two weeks and I've carried on since. 2 weeks later I think I had one lucid dream but I got too excited and woke up immediately after, I'm not sure if I was just imagining it though. My dream recall is pretty good and I remember a couple of dreams every night and even though I've tried MILD,WILD and WBTB methods, I just can't seem to lucid dream! I often forget but usually get at least a couple RC's daily.....anybody got any advice other than to just keep going at it?

@TheRealDJZ- I'm right there with you-- I've managed one lucid dream in a couple of weeks and it's discouraging that it's not automatically happening all the time! My subconscious seems to be BEGGING me to become lucid though-- last night I dreamed I was looking through my Instagram feed and the pictures I was seeing were settings where previous dreams had taken place and I was thinking "Wow, I've seen these places in my dreams!" (HELLOOOOOO lucidity cue!!! Wanted to smack myself for not picking up on that one!) There are loads of great articles on this site about becoming lucid. Click through there and see what's interesting. There are lots of great tips and methods. You probably need to do more reality checks (you said you get "at least a couple.") From what I've read on here, they need to be happening around 10 times a day. Here's hoping we both see more dreams soon!

Is it normal when you are on the road to lucid dreaming to feel like everything is pressing on you when you try to change the secene. I was able to change the secene in a dream I had last night and it slipped away. I was only able to change some elements. Not others. And well perhaps I have broken one barrier. One must make sure their energies are stable. A key I think is the confidence to be calm with the dream around you. You feel the dream, you know that you are dreaming and be calm. Is this the truth?

uraszz wrote: Hello!

I'm new to Lucid Dreaming and have a question that's been bothering me for some time now. I'm Bilingual (fully fluent in both English and Turkish). I'm curious if one language would be stronger than the other.

I speak Turkish daily but do all my research and readings in English (my thinking is 50/50 I guess)

Would techniques like M.I.L.D. be affected by this?

Many thanks!

I don't think it would effect it too much. I'm kinda bilingual myself (fluent in both English and ASL), and have had dreams in both languages. If your thinking is 50/50, with regular use of both languages, then you should be able to use either language (or even a combination of them) with the MILD technique, and get positive results.

I would be interested to hear how experimenting with this goes for you. Cheers! 8-)

Hiyah, i'm new to this whole lucid dreaming thing however i have experienced sleep paralysis before a couple of times. The sleep paralysis does come with scary hallucinations but i am now aware of it just being in the mind. I get sleep paralysis 100% of the times when i am sleeping on my back so i thought it would be easiest to lucid dream after receiving the paralysis. I haven't got the lucid dreaming as of yet because i am currently struggling to get into the phase. I lay on my back for 10-20 minutes and become completely relaxed. I feel my body falling asleep and yet i am still able to think. However when i get to the REM stage my eyes start to move uncontrollably and extremely fast. This causes my heart rate to rise and then i struggle to keep my eyes closed. It then causes me to open my eyes which then i lose all progress. How would i ease the movement of my eyes, keep my eyes shut and keep my heart rate low. And also what should i do when i start to feel it kicking in (i'm not sure what is kicking in, whether it be lucid dreaming or sleep paralysis)

Many Thanks

Hello! I'm 25 and new here . I would like to know how can I get LD in a short time ? Are galantamine and choline good for this purpose ? How can I sue them ? I'm very keen about LD but impatient..

Ok so here's what happened. I was having a dream then it went all black. I was like "hey, I'm dreaming." Then I started spinning around. Then I woke up. :/ What happened and did I have a 5 second lucid dream?

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Hey,

So, I've been trying to LD for a while now, & I haven't had an actual LD in a few months...every time I DO LD, though, I can't seem to remember to increase my clarity or anything like that. :roll: I don't remember to do anything. What should I do now?

Hello friends, i am new here.. I want to get knowledge about dream analysis. Just going to browse forum.

TotallyLegit wrote: I was lucid I'm a dream, but the finger threw hand reality check didn't work. Any ideas why my finger couldn't go threw my pan?

I did experience that. Try to be more focused and aware while you do reality checks and mix 3 of them together. I usually count my fingers, jump to see if I can float and try to remeber what I did before. Focus while you do them and try to be more present in the moment. Hope it helps.

Nico wrote: At first I'm 13 years old. I've found that lucid dreaming is very interesting. I only like WILD method for LD. But I have some problems. At first, I don't like waking up at 5 am because my alarm clock sounds a lot and sometimes it wakes my parents or sometimes I don't remember I have to wake up at this time to induce an LD and I sleep normally. It's also scary for me having a WILD at 5 am because of the sleep paralysis, so I normally try WILDs while taking a nap. My dad also finds this very interesting and he sometimes sleep in my room so I don't freak out. Ok, normally when I try WILD I watch the LD subliminal video (http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/videos/lucid-dreaming-subliminal-video.html) , then I go to my bedroom, turn on my ipod to listen to binaural beats for LDs and try to relax. The neariest experience I had to LD (I think so) is that after seeing those figures (hypnagogic) I started to see flashes, but as I was taking a nap and binaural beats stopped, I stopped focusing because of the noise that my brother was making and I "woke up". Was Iclose to LD? The last thing is that I also try WILD at 10pm. Could that work?

PD: Sorry for my English, and I tried to explain as far as I could

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It’s easier at the beginning with DILD. Do 10-15 reality checks a day and be mindful. Those daily habits will soon show also in your dream state. And read books about lucid dreaming. Start with La Berge. Have fun!

i tried for my first time last night using the wake to bed method and everything seemed like it was goin well. i got myself into sleep paralysis and was fully aware of it and of my intentions but i couldn't cross the gap from random hallucinations to an actual dream. i felt like i was getting close but i started hearing my dad who's been in the hospital for awhile from the hallway so i jolted out of bed and ended up just going back to sleep afterwards. basically what i'm asking is how do i get from the sleep paralysis stage to an actual lucid dream. thanks for any tips.

Hey there. I don't think this would classify as a lucid dream, that's why I didn't want to start a thread about it. It just seemed this is the best place to ask. I experienced something weird this morning. I woke up, but because I could tell it's quite early, I tried going back to sleep. Now, I've been dreaming tonight, and the dream was right before I woke up. So, when I failed to go back to sleep, I just started thinking about the dream. It started feeling like a proper dream again, though I could control bits of it, most of it was pretty autonomous. The thing is, while the 'dream' just picked up from where it finished when I woke up, I knew I didn't fall back asleep. I was fully aware of my surroundings and could move or open my eyes whenever I wanted to. So how did this 'dream' feel like a proper dream, even though I wasn't sleeping? Anyone could please comment on that? Also sorry for repeating the word 'dream' a lot lol