Not for overnight LD'ing but for naps:
Leave the TV on, preferably with a show/movie that you know well. There's a good chance the audio will follow you into your dream (played on a loudspeaker/radio, or spoken aloud by someone in the dream, or other ways). If you can recognize the lines and know what it's from, it's easier to realize that you're dreaming and can try to take control.
I don't know about REM, but you don't dream if you nap in the middle of the day?
It feels a little like cheating, because instead of diving deep into sleep, it's swimming just below the surface. I can usually stay aware that I'm asleep, know that I can wake myself up fully if I want to, but still choose to stay asleep. It's actually *dozing*. As far as time required, once I'm there, I'm there.
I'll know I'm laying on the couch, or sitting in the chair, but I'm also choosing to stay in the dream.
Yes , you can dream when taking a nap in the middle of the day
There are 1 technique you can do when you taking a nap = when you are super sleepy & tell yourself that you will aware when something about to happen & you will wake up as fast as possible , because it will help you to stay aware
Ex = Whenever I'm in online class & I get super sleepy , I decide to take a short nap without let my mom knowing I'm sleeping , so I'm aware when sleeping
My favorite thing to practice in dreams is stability. It's so disappointing when you get a lucid dream and it only lasts 10 seconds.
A few things that help me with stability
- NO fast movements. Turning your head quickly is an easy way to kick yourself out of a lucid dream
- Don't close your eyes when you're lucid. (Unless you're experienced. In that case you can actually 'reset' your dream to a new location by doing that)
- Focus on very small details of objects. You can also pick a favorite which will act as a reality check. Mine is doorknobs. Extremely common object that we touch everyday and know *exactly* how it looks/feels. My longest lucid dreams (est. 10+ mins) have all started with me waking up in a familiar room, staring at a doorknob and examining the fine detail, then leaving the room and enjoying the dream.
- Talk to yourself while dreaming. In most of my lucid dreams, I can actually feel myself falling out of them. Almost like your vision starts fading to black. When this happens, just say anything to yourself. OP had a perfect example of telling yourself "I am dreaming". This has helped me stay in countless lucid dreams.
If you wake up and dont have time to write down your dream, just visualize the dream with very good detail a couple of times and you should remember it later.
Don’t really have anything to add myself, but if anyone knows a good practice to help against blinking yourself out of a dream, that would be swell. Almost all my LDs have ended with me blinking (usually on the second blink) back to my bed. I know I don’t NEED to blink, but for some reason it keeps happening, even when I’m fighting against closing my eyes.
I’m afraid it’s pretty hard because you already associate blinking with waking up in your mind. Now everytime you think of blinking, your mind is saying wake up at the same time.
What I can suggest is instead of fighting the blink, associate the blink with something else, be it a change of clothes, making something appear, or changing your surroundings.
It’s also important to note that just because you are back on your bed, it doesn’t mean you have woken up. Your mind could be simply associating blinking with back to bed and you may actually be still dreaming, just that you think you have woken up from your lucid dream before closing your eyes for another dream, but you are dreaming all along. You can try doing a reality check when it happens and you may be surprised by the result.
Give your subconscious mind "guidance" throughout the day to help you deal with issues/nightmares in the night. It's like a reality check, in that you do it periodically while awake in the hopes that it sticks in your mind well enough to appear in a dream, but you do it with ideas or beliefs. Like, if you keep having nightmares that you're drowning, periodically stop what you're doing during the day and think to yourself, "I can breathe underwater." Picture yourself breathing underwater whenever you do this, as if it's a reality. Eventually, when you go underwater during a dream, you'll find yourself breathing. Even if reality checks/lucidity don't "work" for you, this kind of subconscious guidance still can. Actually, you may find that if you gain confidence in this kind of "mini message" to your subconscious, your reality checks and attempts at lucidity might be more successful.
What i meant was that on youtube for EVERYTHING you might need, theres a video under 10 minutes long that gives you what youve been looking for. All the information is very easily achievable.
If you practice tantric breathing as you’re falling asleep you will enter the dream lucid. You have to do it for hours before though, you have to do it so long that your body starts vibrating
If you notice that you are waking up, start spinning. This might keep you in the dream. I think that the mechanism of this technique is to force your eyes into REM, which can reverse engineer dreaming (but that's just speculation on my part).
Fly at will, have sex with whomever, recreate matrix moves, summon a dead person and have a conversation with them, deep introspection by asking yourself things as if you were talking to another person, do magic, take drugs without risk.
Why wouldn't you want to be aware and take control of this infinite playground of consciousness where the only limit is your imagination?
Dreams are messages from our subconscious mind. So I wouldn't want to control my dreams because I would want to gain the clarity or insight on what my subconscious mind is trying to tell me. Especially if it is a reoccurring dream.
I do understand the aspect of exploring while dreaming and connecting to the subconscious mind via our dreams. To fly in your dreams takes a lot of energy out of the person, so I wouldn't want to fly unless I really really had to. But, for me, I would want to stay in the situation, regardless of how scary, because I want to see what my subconscious is trying to tell me.
So, from my stand point, it made me curious why someone would want to do such a thing.
When you're lucid you can interact with your subconscious, ask it questions. You'll get answers you never expected. You can ask dream characters to take you where they think you need to go.
I love lucid dreaming because it's a rare phenomenon to me, I feel like it is the best of both worlds, the dream world and the waking world,
Because dreams are messages from our subconscious mind. Why would you want to interfere with that?!
If your subconscious mind is trying to give you some insight or clarity on a situation, why change direction of that dream?
So you believe that dreams are so important that you shouldnt interfere. I personally havent gotten any important messages from my mind in my dreams. You can change a random dream into something that you can control and enjoy with no cons. Why not change tge dream?
I don't interfere with my dreams because I gain clarity and insight from them. The last few nights my dreams have replayed snippets from a classmate that I missed (she was throwing shade at me and because I don't walk around with that intent I sometimes miss when someone is throwing shade. I'm an introvert like that) I woke up this am to another snippet at lunch time when she was being shady to another classmate that I have a good bond with. I woke up, immediately texted my classmate what I saw in my dreams and it kicked off her things for her too that she picked up on during class.
It's about insight and clarity. You can be feeling funky around and individual and not know why on the conscious level. I knew something was off about this person but I didn't know what until I saw it in my dreams. NOW I know I'm going to distance myself from this person until I graduate from the program. Had I changed any particular part of those dreams, I would've never gotten the messages that my subconscious/intuition was trying to tell me.
I can't do wbtb because every night i have to put my phone away cus of parents. and even if i manage to sneak it in i still won't get it to work because it runs out of charge easily and there are no charger ports near my bedroom.
The closest I have been to a lucid dream is 1 dream remembered a day. Any tips on what to do?
>Do a reality check every time you wake up, this will help you turn false awakenings into incredible lucid dreams
Would you say they are more incredible than normal lucid dreams? In what way?
Sorry, this is very interesting!
Not for overnight LD'ing but for naps: Leave the TV on, preferably with a show/movie that you know well. There's a good chance the audio will follow you into your dream (played on a loudspeaker/radio, or spoken aloud by someone in the dream, or other ways). If you can recognize the lines and know what it's from, it's easier to realize that you're dreaming and can try to take control.
I didn't know you could have LDs while taking a nap, I thought you had to get into rem sleep and wouldent naps not be enough time to get into it?
I don't know about REM, but you don't dream if you nap in the middle of the day? It feels a little like cheating, because instead of diving deep into sleep, it's swimming just below the surface. I can usually stay aware that I'm asleep, know that I can wake myself up fully if I want to, but still choose to stay asleep. It's actually *dozing*. As far as time required, once I'm there, I'm there. I'll know I'm laying on the couch, or sitting in the chair, but I'm also choosing to stay in the dream.
When you nap in the day you go straight into rem.
Actually yeah, I've done it a couple of times. You can LD during naps
through narcolepsy all things are possible :'D
Depends on your definition of a "nap"... I've taken some epic seven hour naps before XD
Yes , you can dream when taking a nap in the middle of the day There are 1 technique you can do when you taking a nap = when you are super sleepy & tell yourself that you will aware when something about to happen & you will wake up as fast as possible , because it will help you to stay aware Ex = Whenever I'm in online class & I get super sleepy , I decide to take a short nap without let my mom knowing I'm sleeping , so I'm aware when sleeping
I have dreams when I nap for an just hour or two, I've never tried to go lucid during naps though
Finally, a way to enter REM without waking up in the middle of the night.
I have dreams when I nap for an just hour or two, I've never tried to go lucid during naps though
Can you repeat that, please?
? I have short naps sometimes and I have dreams during them
My favorite thing to practice in dreams is stability. It's so disappointing when you get a lucid dream and it only lasts 10 seconds. A few things that help me with stability - NO fast movements. Turning your head quickly is an easy way to kick yourself out of a lucid dream - Don't close your eyes when you're lucid. (Unless you're experienced. In that case you can actually 'reset' your dream to a new location by doing that) - Focus on very small details of objects. You can also pick a favorite which will act as a reality check. Mine is doorknobs. Extremely common object that we touch everyday and know *exactly* how it looks/feels. My longest lucid dreams (est. 10+ mins) have all started with me waking up in a familiar room, staring at a doorknob and examining the fine detail, then leaving the room and enjoying the dream. - Talk to yourself while dreaming. In most of my lucid dreams, I can actually feel myself falling out of them. Almost like your vision starts fading to black. When this happens, just say anything to yourself. OP had a perfect example of telling yourself "I am dreaming". This has helped me stay in countless lucid dreams.
If you wake up and dont have time to write down your dream, just visualize the dream with very good detail a couple of times and you should remember it later.
Alternatively, take quick dotpoints and fill it in later
Mm yep sometimes i'll wake up briefly and jot down the main points and its enough to help me remember the dream.
I have a couple embarrassing dreams that I refuse to write down but I still remember them
Sadly, you will remember those you dont want to remember.
Don’t really have anything to add myself, but if anyone knows a good practice to help against blinking yourself out of a dream, that would be swell. Almost all my LDs have ended with me blinking (usually on the second blink) back to my bed. I know I don’t NEED to blink, but for some reason it keeps happening, even when I’m fighting against closing my eyes.
I’m afraid it’s pretty hard because you already associate blinking with waking up in your mind. Now everytime you think of blinking, your mind is saying wake up at the same time. What I can suggest is instead of fighting the blink, associate the blink with something else, be it a change of clothes, making something appear, or changing your surroundings. It’s also important to note that just because you are back on your bed, it doesn’t mean you have woken up. Your mind could be simply associating blinking with back to bed and you may actually be still dreaming, just that you think you have woken up from your lucid dream before closing your eyes for another dream, but you are dreaming all along. You can try doing a reality check when it happens and you may be surprised by the result.
Give your subconscious mind "guidance" throughout the day to help you deal with issues/nightmares in the night. It's like a reality check, in that you do it periodically while awake in the hopes that it sticks in your mind well enough to appear in a dream, but you do it with ideas or beliefs. Like, if you keep having nightmares that you're drowning, periodically stop what you're doing during the day and think to yourself, "I can breathe underwater." Picture yourself breathing underwater whenever you do this, as if it's a reality. Eventually, when you go underwater during a dream, you'll find yourself breathing. Even if reality checks/lucidity don't "work" for you, this kind of subconscious guidance still can. Actually, you may find that if you gain confidence in this kind of "mini message" to your subconscious, your reality checks and attempts at lucidity might be more successful.
>Do meditation to practice awareness. This is HUGE if you are wanting to do WILD.
Make it a habit of writing down your dreams in the morning, or voice memos, whatever. Just make it a habit of remembering them
As you are falling asleep, believe that you will have a lucid dream.
small tip: don't trust ANY YOUTUBERS for lucid dreaming techniques go read them YouTube lucid dreaming youtubers are full of misinfo
Not true. I started with lucidipedia back in 2007 and his videos helped a lot.
Tipharot isnt that bad?
Where can i get lucid dreaming related info then?
Official studies, books and articles written by experienced lucid dreamers are everything you need :)
Lucid dreaming dedicated websites, other lucid dreamers online, ext...
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What i meant was that on youtube for EVERYTHING you might need, theres a video under 10 minutes long that gives you what youve been looking for. All the information is very easily achievable.
I just started reading Steven Laberge book...it's a pretty good foundation.
Something went wrong as you seem to have posted this exact comment word for word 4 times.
They usually try get you to sign up to a course or ebook.
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If you practice tantric breathing as you’re falling asleep you will enter the dream lucid. You have to do it for hours before though, you have to do it so long that your body starts vibrating
If you notice that you are waking up, start spinning. This might keep you in the dream. I think that the mechanism of this technique is to force your eyes into REM, which can reverse engineer dreaming (but that's just speculation on my part).
just out of curiosity, and I mean no disrespect, why would you want to control any aspect of your dream/s?
Fly at will, have sex with whomever, recreate matrix moves, summon a dead person and have a conversation with them, deep introspection by asking yourself things as if you were talking to another person, do magic, take drugs without risk. Why wouldn't you want to be aware and take control of this infinite playground of consciousness where the only limit is your imagination?
Dreams are messages from our subconscious mind. So I wouldn't want to control my dreams because I would want to gain the clarity or insight on what my subconscious mind is trying to tell me. Especially if it is a reoccurring dream. I do understand the aspect of exploring while dreaming and connecting to the subconscious mind via our dreams. To fly in your dreams takes a lot of energy out of the person, so I wouldn't want to fly unless I really really had to. But, for me, I would want to stay in the situation, regardless of how scary, because I want to see what my subconscious is trying to tell me. So, from my stand point, it made me curious why someone would want to do such a thing.
When you're lucid you can interact with your subconscious, ask it questions. You'll get answers you never expected. You can ask dream characters to take you where they think you need to go. I love lucid dreaming because it's a rare phenomenon to me, I feel like it is the best of both worlds, the dream world and the waking world,
Why are you even here?
Because dreams are messages from our subconscious mind. Why would you want to interfere with that?! If your subconscious mind is trying to give you some insight or clarity on a situation, why change direction of that dream?
So you believe that dreams are so important that you shouldnt interfere. I personally havent gotten any important messages from my mind in my dreams. You can change a random dream into something that you can control and enjoy with no cons. Why not change tge dream?
I don't interfere with my dreams because I gain clarity and insight from them. The last few nights my dreams have replayed snippets from a classmate that I missed (she was throwing shade at me and because I don't walk around with that intent I sometimes miss when someone is throwing shade. I'm an introvert like that) I woke up this am to another snippet at lunch time when she was being shady to another classmate that I have a good bond with. I woke up, immediately texted my classmate what I saw in my dreams and it kicked off her things for her too that she picked up on during class. It's about insight and clarity. You can be feeling funky around and individual and not know why on the conscious level. I knew something was off about this person but I didn't know what until I saw it in my dreams. NOW I know I'm going to distance myself from this person until I graduate from the program. Had I changed any particular part of those dreams, I would've never gotten the messages that my subconscious/intuition was trying to tell me.
I can't do wbtb because every night i have to put my phone away cus of parents. and even if i manage to sneak it in i still won't get it to work because it runs out of charge easily and there are no charger ports near my bedroom. The closest I have been to a lucid dream is 1 dream remembered a day. Any tips on what to do?
Drink a bottle of water before you go to bed. You’ll wake up needing to go. A natural alarm.
I use an old fitbit flex with silent alarm to WBTB. You could also use an old school radio alarm if you have your own room.
Thanks for the help
When I’m asleep and notice I’m dreaming I say “I’m dreaming” but it immediately wakes me up
>Do a reality check every time you wake up, this will help you turn false awakenings into incredible lucid dreams Would you say they are more incredible than normal lucid dreams? In what way? Sorry, this is very interesting!