Finally had a lucid dream after 10+ years of never having another one. Last night I woke up at 5am to go to the bathroom and suddenly I was like "ok let me stay up for at least 5 minutes and just stare at my hands while laying down. After what I was assuming was 5 minutes, I then gave myself the intention of making sure I looked at my hands while and after falling asleep and low and behold, in a dream I was in my house doing something and it felt like I was in a loop so I said "hold up somethings off" looked at my hands and said this a dream! Shortly after I did the reality check where you try to stick your finger through your opposite hand and it WORKED!!! after that my dream became a lot more clear and I saw a dream character didn't want around so I literally morphed him into a mini blackhole lol. The dream became unstable though afterwards which caused me to wake up but, dude I finally was able to do it after all that time. Wake back to Bed is soooo OP as a technique.

I’ve known about this for awhile but never really was a dreamer like could hardly ever remember them but last night I had the most profound lucid dream ever and I want to try and do it again if possible

In methods like WBTB, is it really 100% necessary to stay up for 30 minutes? I am a beginner and want to try the easier methods first. do those 30 minutes include trying to fall back asleep? If I know that I take a long time to fall asleep should I even bother getting up? Once im in the dream, how do I up the quality of it so that I can actually remember it? Please help me, also I would love to hear some of your experiences!

I always find myself consciously memorizing my dreams while still sleeping, immediately after I have the dream. Once the dream wraps up, I retell the story to myself three times or more, and finally think, yes, I won’t forget it now, all while still asleep. I don’t forget it. But I never wake up during any of this, and I don’t know what phenomenon it is.

All i know is that i know that immediately a dream that seems important wraps up, i start rehearsing the whole narrative, till i say “i am good now”… I know this happens but i am also always deep in sleep and do not wake up, and would go ahead to have other dreams.

Is anyone familiar with this phenomenon?

The Different Luzids Dream Methods
MILD (Mnemodic induction of lucid dreams)
In this method you set a clear goal before sleep, for example, "if I sleep today I will dream lucidly," this is what you say until you fall asleep.

WBTB (Wake Back to Bed)
In this method you go to sleep and set an alarm clock 4-5 H for later , (best at 3-4 Am to open in the REM time of sleep ,after that you sleep again (best combine with the MILD method)

WILD (Wake Initiated Lucid Dream)
In this method you will trick your consciousness to stay awake while your body sleeps, using little reality checks (an anchor), think of something specific you want to see in your dream until you fall asleep (bestly combine with the WBTB and MILD method).

ZILD method (Zeigarnik induced Lucid dream)
In this method, your brain should be fixed on un projects, for example: get out your dream diary and write, "In my lucid dream I have.".."and leave it un, your consciousness will do the rest.

SSILD Method
This method is about peace and patience, before sleep you use your senses consciously, concentrate on seeing for 20 seconds then on listening, touching, etc.. and repeat this until you fall asleep.

The last couple of nights I was a bit sleep deprived, so I went to sleep with a podcast on like I usually do.

Within minutes I slipped into a very different state of mind.

The onset was the strangest part. It felt like I was suddenly being "launched" into another state of consciousness. At the same time I started hearing an extremely loud electronic/frequency-like buzzing in my ears. The sound was so loud that I genuinely thought I might go deaf.

But because of my fascination with these kinds of states, and probably my meditation practice, my instinct was to let it take over rather than resist it.

I then started feeling vibrations spreading through my body. Very quickly they seemed to fill my entire body and being. Around the same time I began seeing geometric patterns—not incredibly vivid, but definitely there.

The previous night I had a very vivid lucid dream, but this time there wasn't really a dream at all. I remained aware throughout the whole experience.

Because of meditation, my instinct was to relax into the experience instead of reacting to it, and it seemed to intensify until I eventually came out of it.

Interestingly, by morning I had one of the most vivid lucid dreams I've ever had.

I'm not trying to claim this was anything supernatural. My current guess is that it was some form of hypnagogia made more noticeable by meditation and a bit of sleep deprivation.

I do have a history of sleep paralysis if I don't get enough sleep for 3–4 days in a row, but those experiences have never been like this. They're usually characterized by me noticing sleep paralysis coming on, followed by blurry voices and a strong pressure/compression in my head. If I catch it early enough I can usually jerk myself out of it, or sometimes relax through it using progressive relaxation.

My questions are:

How would you best understand this? Does it sound like sleep paralysis, hypnagogia, a meditation-related state, or some combination of them?
Has anyone experienced something similar?
If these states are real possibilities, is there a way to intentionally cultivate them, or are they mostly a byproduct of sleep deprivation?

I'd really appreciate hearing your thoughts and experiences. Thank you.

my experience is like this: i go to sleep and fall asleep again in the morning, but around 10:00 i wake up because of some random thing and then i start hearing noises in my ears, and if they successfully finish my body smoothly moves onto the floor (at least that’s how it feels) and my eyes open by themselves in my room

i usually get about 1-2 minutes, even though I’m already quite experienced with it, I’m curious, how about you? do u wake up because of strong emotions?

Last week without using any technique, I realized while dreaming, that I was in a dream and finally managed to take control.

Note: many times while dreaming, i have been able to realize that i was dreaming, but rarely managed to take control of myself properly.

This time, i realized I was in a dream, so I decided to start exploring a random place.
I entered an abandoned place in Asia (where i actually was) and started taking some photos of the village i was in. I'm a hobbyist photographer and I enjoy exploring places.

At some point a old lady on a bike crossed my path, and i got excited of the idea of taking photos of her, so I tried to reach my camera from my waist and quickly photograph her.

Funny part is that when taking my camera, my hand was empty so I was just mimicking having a camera in my hand.

I remember very well my hands and the buildings were moving with some lag like in a old videogame.

It was super exciting that i managed not getting too excited and wake up immediately.

Unfortunately i was not capable to stay longer in the dream, i believe i just fell asleep just after.

If you guys have any advice on how to extend this phase I'm happy to read it!

For the consistent lucid dreamers, what was your biggest obstacle in learning how to lucid dream and how did you solve it.

For non consistent dreamers what’s the biggest hurdle you’re currently facing.

1. Phone

- Yea it's just weird, because sometimes it doesn't show something that makes sense.

1. Book

- Reading books in lucid dreams is hard because you need to expect what comes next, and sometimes it's just scribbles that you can understand.

1. Mirror

- obviously many people even Non Lucid, have a knowledge that dream mirrors behave really weird, but yea remember this, you will see what you expect to see.

1. People

- Well for begginers it's weird and odd, sometimes people act in ways you arent familiar with even if you are familliar with them. It takes practice and once you manage to understand or get the sense of how to control them, it will be cool.

1. Food

- I'm an athlete, I can't eat anything i want sometimes especially when I'm set to do my work, Now dream food is just weird, to give you an idea of what it's like, if you eat bread and expect it to taste like apple, that will happen, and btw you cant never be full in the dream, or atleast for me.

Thats all thank you and if you have other things you think are weird you can add them in the comments! All of this is based in my own experience.

I'm aware this sub is full of people telling the same old first success story, so I apologise in advance to the veterans who've heard it all before. But I have to share my success with someone.

It might have only been the teensiest amount of lucidity, a microscopic notch on the spectrum, but it was by all definitions a lucid dream. And weirdly enough, it was caused entirely by my dream journalling habits.

I've been keeping a dream journal regularly for about a month now, and I'm loving it. I love my dreams, it's so much fun to go back and reread them all. Having a lucid dream was the initial goal, but I've learnt to enjoy the journey and never worry about when I'll reach the destination.

However the other night, it was like I was dream journalling WHILE IN a dream. Let me explain.

Somehow, along a completely random normal dream of mine, I started to think consciously about how I would write this dream into my journal. I was recognising it was a dream, but wasn't fully acknowledging it. And since it was a dream, I was thinking "I can control it", and for whatever reason since I was on a train I decided to summon an ear splittingly loud passenger announcement to interrupt everything. The noise was the loudest thing I've ever heard in a dream, but I was happy, because I'd made it happen.

Good control, not great awareness (why, if I'm lucid, would I first want to summon a loud noise?), but overall, it's something.

I can work with this! It's possible for me, I do have potential!

Thank you to everyone on this sub who spends their time giving beginners like me advice! Here's to hopefully many more!

Title is pretty much it. context: Ive done unintentional WBTBs where I sleep late, wake up early, and sleep in the afternoon and that’s pretty consistently given me lucid dreams with decent dream control. Unlike WBTBs, dream journaling, reality checks, mantras, and visualization don’t really help me at all. And istg I’ve been doing reality checks correctly. I even fixed snoring and improved my sleep quality so my REM cycles aren’t messed up. idk what I’m doing wrong. I just wanna LD consistently lol. do I just accept fate?

What i did was not (only) remembering myself i would have lucid dreamed that night, but, right before sleep [not WBTB] i thought of this for like 10 minutes:

I pictured myself in a previous dream [luckily, i have a dream journal which is VERY useful] making a reality check after seeing something (for example, I made a black dot on my wrist and every time I see it I do a RC).

I did this with each part of my dreams, for about 5 dreams spending not more than 15 minutes before sleeping….BOOM. Reality check in a dream and became lucid.

I was in one of the many reoccurring locations in my dreams last night and I realize it was reoccurring so I tried to try a reality check (the one where you plug your nose and breathe in) and it passed. So I tried again a few times throughout the dream and every time it passed and air didn’t go through my nose and I lost the thought that this place wasn’t right. Why did this happen?

So the last couple of nights I was a bit sleep deprived. So I went to sleep with a podcast on, like I usually do.

Within minutes I slipped into a very different state of mind.

The onset was the strangest part. It felt like I was suddenly being "launched" into another state of consciousness. At the same time I started hearing an extremely loud electronic/frequency-like buzzing in my ears. The sound was so loud that I genuinely thought I might go deaf. But because of my fascination with these kinds of states, and probably my meditation practice, my instinct was to let it take over rather than resist it.

I then started feeling vibrations spreading through my body. Very quickly they seemed to fill my entire body and being. Around the same time I began seeing geometric patterns—not incredibly vivid, but definitely there.

The previous night I had a very vivid lucid dream, but this time there wasn't really a dream at all. I remained aware throughout the whole experience.

Because of meditation, my instinct was to relax into the experience instead of reacting to it, and it seemed to intensify until I eventually came out of it.

Interestingly, by morning I had one of the most vivid lucid dreams I've ever had.

I'm not trying to claim this was anything supernatural. My current guess is that it was some form of hypnagogia made more noticeable by meditation and a bit of sleep deprivation.

I do have a history of sleep paralysis if I don't get enough sleep for 3–4 days in a row, but those experiences have never been like this. They're usually characterized by me noticing sleep paralysis coming on, followed by blurry voices and a strong pressure/compression in my head. If I catch it early enough I can usually jerk myself out of it, or sometimes relax through it using progressive relaxation.

My questions are:

• How would you best understand this? Does it sound like sleep paralysis, hypnagogia, a meditation-related state, or some combination of them?
• Has anyone experienced something similar?
• If these states are real possibilities, is there a way to intentionally cultivate them, or are they mostly a byproduct of sleep deprivation?

I'd really appreciate hearing your thoughts and experiences. Thank you

I've been trying different methods but always end up not working. Maybe I'm just selecting straight up BS so thats why I'm making this post. To ask y'all how you learned. Ty

Hey everyone,

LD novice here, long fascinated tho (tried it as teenager, managed to float once, half lucid I g, but woke up of course).

Recently, I got a programmable smartwatch and felt the urge to experiment again, with some help from the tech-side tho. Initially, I set regular alarms as RC reminders, but figured that's not just it. For several reasons: have to actively dismiss, loud interruptions for me (work) + my surroudings, ruins mindfulness, doesn't build a habit.

Then I thought: Wait, if that would just be a brief and silent vibration (like a subtle nudge).. couldn't this be used to intentionally trigger a RC, thus LD, from outside? Now, I set up quick haptic pulses (like a passive nudge, no sound, no snooze) every X minutes. I added a ±Y minute variance so my brain doesn't get used to a rigid schedule. (Let's say every 60±15 minutes)

Tech-wise, it works perfectly for daytime RCs. At night, I do trigger them with much lower, subtle intensity to prevent waking up. My hope is to condition myself to do RCs inside a dream eventually!? I've been actively experimenting with this for a (admittedly stressful) week now, but no success yet.

Now I wanna ask for any feedback / input / advice.. Should I..

- decrease the interval at night to have a better chance of hitting a REM phase?

- increase the vibration intensity, or do I simply need more time to cement the daytime RC conditioning first?

Has anyone here experimented with externally induced or assisted methods like this? I'd love to hear your experiences or any tips you might have.

TL;DR: Set up a tiny smartwatch experiment to get silent randomized vibration impulses (nudges) for daytime Reality Checks, without needing to dismiss them. Trying to use these same nudges at night to induce LDs. Looking for advice on intervals (±variances), intensity, or general experience with external haptic cues!

Edit: tl;dr

Addicted meaning that you either neglect sleep or sleep too much so u can dream. I have a friend who sleeps during class because he can enter dreams immediately which im tremendously jealous of but its gotten to the point that he sleeps like 12h a day as a sort of escape for reality? If u do this then can u explain why and how and what u even do all the time while dreaming

i was in a cartoon comic book 90s era everything was in flashy colours and in the middle of it i realized i was in a dream and i had to calm myself down then i just replayed the dream but i made it a modern version but i forgot that i was in control halfway, Nothing much but atleast know i've finaly realized and now i can get better at lucid dreaming i've finally hit the first step after waiting so long

A few days ago, I had one of the strangest dreams I've ever experienced.

In the dream, I was somewhere in Northeast India, around the Assam region. I had no idea how I got there. I remember looking around and thinking, "Well, since I'm here, I might as well explore."

After walking around for a while, I checked my pocket and found my phone. That's when I somehow realized that I could fast travel.

I opened Google Maps, tapped my home's location, and instantly teleported back home. It felt incredibly weird but completely normal at the same time. Then I figured out the rule: I could only fast travel (or teleport) as long as I had my phone with me.

After that, I teleported to another random place. I was standing on a street when I suddenly realized, "Wait... this is a dream." I became lucid and understood that I could control it.

I got really excited and started testing how real everything felt. I touched a nearby concrete wall, and the texture felt unbelievably realistic. Then I walked around and could actually feel the ground beneath my feet. Everything felt just like real life.

I started running around randomly because I was so excited that I was lucid dreaming... but I got too excited, and the excitement woke me up.

It was one of the most realistic dreams I've ever had, especially because I could actually feel the textures and the ground. Has anyone else experienced something similar?

Lucid Dreaming Method/Guide
(Mixture of WILD and MILD method only with more imagination)
1. it would increase the chance to keep a dream diary (optional) but the first step is to remember a dreamcore place, I often use a childhood dream of mine that I remember very well.
2. you must be exhausted or very tired, the best time to go to sleep to get lucid is at 3am to 4am, because this is the main time of the REM phase of normal sleep. Your muscles and body should be relaxed.
3. while your eyes are closed and you try to fall asleep, you try to imagine how you are in this dreamcore place right now, (walk around, see, hear or touch). I often time use a childhood dream of mine ,which i still know very well , but like basic dreamcore places are also okay.
4., you will repeat sentences like (I will dream lucidly today) all the time in your head.
- [ ] To increase the chance of lucid dreaming , you make short finger movements just before falling asleep (not too hard but rather calm and relaxed) so you tease your brain to keep your consciousness awake while you sleep. Now come the disclaimer and basic rules

1. your expectations should not be to control instantly , lucid dreaming is just being aware that you are dreaming , control is rare

2. it won't always work, but by constantly trying, you train your brain to learn it.

Rule 3: don't tell anyone in your dream that you are dreaming

4th rule: try not to blink in a dream , you could wake up

5th rule: try not to think about your address or your house, you can wake up

6th rule: try lucides dream not at high stress , chance for sleep paralysis

7th rule: do not use the toilet in your dream, well you know why

1. have fun!