| ▲ | jesse_dot_id 6 hours ago |
| Lucid dreaming is a cool concept but I've never been able to pull it off. I still try, though! |
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| ▲ | coppsilgold 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| Training yourself to remember dreams by writing them down before they fade away is paramount, it's not enough to just think about them - they still somehow fade away along with your thoughts about them. Then read what you wrote before going to sleep again. If you want to achieve lucid dreaming consistently you also have to develop a habit of doing reality checks. The most effective one is to pinch your nose and try to breath through it, in your dreams it will almost always work and the surprise is major. Lucid dreaming even works for people with aphantasia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia>. |
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| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It sort of just happened to me a few years ago. It’s neat—flying is fun. (As is the opposite, when it just doesn’t work and I wake up sort of laughing at myself for having spent, presumably, hours jumping around in my dream.) But at least for me, the price was dreams, the moment I go lucid, ceasing to be self directed. I get that I’m in a movie, and I have to always create the next step. Nothing surprises or horrifies anymore. (If I’m lucid.) I have to kind of create my own magic, which isn’t particularly restful. |
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| ▲ | karmakurtisaani 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yep, same. The dream gets incredibly boring after you get control of it. | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | > dream gets incredibly boring after you get control of it Wouldn’t go that far. But you have to consciously make it interesting by creating the weirdness. | |
| ▲ | kbrkbr 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Not if you are an aphantast. | |
| ▲ | chrz 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | but but, you can do whatever you want? | | |
| ▲ | djeastm 16 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Well, yeah. But it's what you want in the moment which can be very unpredictable even when you're "guiding" the dream. The subconscious is still in the driver's seat there and can go to some weird, wacky places. | |
| ▲ | bnreed 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I've had limited experience (n~20) but no... that's not how it worked for me, interested in others' experiences. "flying" was limited. I didn't have full control and sometimes felt dynamically pinned to the top of a 2D scrolling video game as if there were driver incompatabilities. drifting off to sleep in a session, it was very disturbing- i felt like i was being dragged by my ankle across the bed before lucid dreaming began, "here it comes..." Sometimes there would be ominious sounds/visuals that I could not influence that scared me so much I was glad I could wake up because it felt like a nightmare was approaching. Two big tells I'm lucid dreaming: I'm with a group of people who can't answer a very obvious question ("why is the sky blue?") or, I look at my hand - as if it were LLM it absolutely does not render well... like a tree trunk with a bunch of branches. | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > I'm with a group of people who can't answer a very obvious question ("why is the sky blue?") Super interesting, because I have the same thing. Also none of my technology works. I usually try to do something on my phone a few times, fail because the UI is putty, and then remember that smartphones don’t work in my dreams. |
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| ▲ | mynameisash 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | My wife and I were just talking about this the other day. She lucid dreams very regularly, and she says she spends a lot of that time flying. I, on the other hand, never lucid dreamed, so a few years ago, I spent a lot of time journaling and doing wakefulness tests to see if I could learn to do it. One night, I did -- I was dreaming and then had an 'awakening' in which I realized I was asleep. Finally, a lucid dream! Naturally, the first thing I did was start to fly. About five seconds in, I told myself, "Wait a sec... People can't fly." That took the wind out of my sails, so to speak, and I couldn't fly again in the dream. I believe I woke shortly after, too. I keep wanting to get back to it and try it out, but I'd love a more efficient way to get there instead of constant wakefulness checks and first-thing-in-the-morning journaling. | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross an hour ago | parent [-] | | > Wait a sec... People can't fly." That took the wind out of my sails, so to speak, and I couldn't fly again in the dream There is a Peter Pan tendency, at least to my dreams. You know you can’t fly. But then you remember you have, and believing it’s true makes it happens. That’s what I was getting at with the film-script effect. I’ll be in a bind and then realize that there “must” be a solution in a particular form, otherwise the dream wouldn’t make sense, and that sort of conjures that thing into existence. Maybe fortunately, maybe sadly, the one thing I’ve not been able to do is conjure up lost loved ones. I’ll get a bunch of puppies who know my dog, but he just couldn’t show up, or I’ll get strangers or living loved ones who know my grandmother or best friend; they’re just constantly indisposed. |
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| ▲ | satvikpendem 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Keep a dream journal. There any many methods for achieving it but if you keep a dream journal long enough you'll start getting consistent lucid dreams. |
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| ▲ | macrolime 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Most consistent way of achieving it I've managed is use a watch with an alarm that vibrates and is trivial to turn off or turns off by itself, then set it to go off after sleeping 5-6 hours. When waking up, don't move and focus on the black behind the eyes, then after a few seconds it may turn into a dream and you go straight from waking into a lucid dream. |
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| ▲ | stldev 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I was fortunate to be taught by my father when I was younger. It may be an age/luck-of-the-draw thing, but check out "MILD"; it's the name for the simple technique that worked for me. |
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| ▲ | zeta0134 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My tell is to recognize any room with a piano in it. I naturally want to sit down and play this piano, but the keys are totally wrong. No problem, I'll look around and, lo and behold, dozens more pianos all... with the keys in the wrong places. I can't play anything. "Oh, this again. I must be dreaming. How frustrating." |
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| ▲ | microtonal 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | A very regularly occuring dream is that I'm in a train and realize that I don't have a ticket (never happened IRL), so I want to buy an e-ticket, but the ticketing app does not work. The text changes all the time, the buttons move around, weird errors, and then I realize 'yep I'm in a dream again'. The nicer lucid dreams are those were you can fly or make spectacular light and colors, but I find that it's usually a difficult balance to avoid waking up. |
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| ▲ | magiclaw 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I was really into it in my early 20's. One way to tell if you are mentally in the state to lucid dream is if you no longer feel tired. One night, after a grueling hike, I was completely exhausted when I went to bed. I closed my eyes, and moments later all my exhaustion just vanished, and I began to explore the space. |
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| ▲ | galleywest200 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Another way is to try to see what the clock faces say in your dream. Also, see if the light switches behave as you would expect. |
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| ▲ | bryanrasmussen 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| maybe you just got to get scared enough!
https://medium.com/luminasticity/beating-up-sadako-82c5fb3f0... |
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| ▲ | typeish 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| there's a wearable dropping this year that's supposed to make it easier to lucid dream: https://www.prophetic.com/ |
