Have you all seen those videos saying: Don't do this in lucid dreaming otherwise you'll sell your soul to the demons and be trapped in an alternative dimension for the rest of your life!!!! (Well not exactly but y'all get the point)

I tried every single one here's my experience.

1. Time and Dates: I asked a person and they just told me non-real time like 7N0pm 57th August. It didn't turn scary or into a nightmare. Yk why? Cuz I don't believe in that sh

2. Looking in a mirror: even in normal dreams if I look into a mirror I js see myself. Not Satan himself or some dark magic things. Yk why? Cuz I don't believe in that sh

3. Saying 'you don't exist': ironically my first ever lucid dream was looking at my friend and saying "you're not real". And what happened? Nothing. I just did what I wanted and made a portal to a fantasy world. You know why nothing happend.

4. Asking 'are we in a dream': did that and they replied "tomatoes are my favourite fruit." And... Just that honestly nothing scary or supernatural.

5. Closing eyes: that's true you wake up lol. But nothing paranormal.

6. Ask their ages: they'll just tell you random age.

Conclusion: All of those videos are b^llshit. They only happen if YOU BELIEV THEM. There's no rules in lucid dreaming. Lucid dreams operate entirely on expectation and suggestion.

What made you finally lucid dream? I'm new to lucid dreaming and the only times I've lucid dreamt was by accident..

I know about and tried some of the popular lucid dreaming methods, but unfortunately they haven't worked for me yet. I actually often lucid dream because of my Narcolepsy at night or when I take my stimulants at 7 a.m but decide to go back to sleep. But that's always accidental and never intentional.

So what clicked in your brain, when you've finally realized how to lucid dream on command? What works for you every time?

And most curious I'm about your lucid dreaming hacks/methods that aren't popular, but should be?

Would love if someone helped me out here :)

Hi! I wanted to share these! I thought I was the only one doing this.

I have 3 persistent realms with their own rules and logic. The characters are independent, there is a narrative coherence. It's like here.

Do others have this?

What are some good ideas for persistent realms? I'm talking about media that would be fun to be in

Like a war or a cool and fun world

Hello, so I just found out about this and I’m really interested in trying it out, seems very interesting.
If you guys have any tips or techniques, I would really appreciate it. One thing you should know about me is that for the last years, I barely remember any dreams, maximum 2-3 I could say, in the last year I’m pretty sure I never dreamed (that’s what it felt like). I mean I’m just going to sleep and… BOOM, it’s daytime, feels like I’m disappearing for 8 hours. Anyways, if anyone is willing to help I would really appreciate it, thanks!

Here to share my experience so far. In the last month I’ve been able to two times. What I changed was starting to ask myself if I’m dreaming more often through the day which seemed to work. My first one a few weeks ago i don’t have any recall before the moment I became lucid. i was standing in front of a yellowish beige building when i realized i was dreaming and there was a feeling that everything was unstable. I tried to fly and i really just floated upwards and started to flip when i woke up. My second one was last night. The same thing happened where i don’t remember anything else happening before i became lucid. I knew i was dreaming but also questioned it because i could feel my cpap mask on my face as i was dreaming. This dream also felt unstable, im not sure what about the dreams give me the feeling of instability but thats the feeling ive been getting so far. I was standing in a plain that didn’t have any grass or dirt or any plants really, it was just a brown color. The sky was a dark void with no stars and almost appeared to have a texture to it. In an attempt to change something I turned the plains that I was standing on into a field of flowers. The entire ground become a colorful field of flowers but it felt like the flowers weren’t actually there, rather just covering up what was actually there. The black void was still there and I started to become uneasy so I tried to get myself to wake up but had a false awakening in my bedroom. My son came in and I attempted to get up and then had a moment of sleep paralysis but it was interesting because I wasn’t scared during this sleep paralysis like I usually am but after a moment of struggling I finally woke up. Thanks for reading!

So i went to sleep at two am and my cat woke me up at around five. I fed him and i went back to bed and i had no intentions to try it, just crossed my mind. I usually dont sleep on my back because i never found it comfortable but i did this time.

I was sitting on the sidewalk with two of my college friends who live in different cities. There was this beautiful sunset and one of them was talking about nostalgia and a tiktok she saw. But i felt out of place randomly in the dream and i cut her off and said “im sorry i just gained consciousness i dont know what we’re doing here i might be dreaming” and the third friend was missing so i also ask about her and then slowly close my eyes in the dream and thats where my vision gets first person. I open my eyes and it is clear but still a bit blurry. You know how they depict people’s vision when they get possessed? It was just like that. I could only think of flying so i started floating around, looking at their faces and saying “im dreaming! Im dreaming!” in a distorted voice. Of course they were confused as hell but what confuses me also is the distorted voice.

Afterwards i notice that my heart is beating REALLY fast, almost like a sleep paralysis so i slowly close my eyes and try to calm myself down but after i hear a sound coming from my home i get distracted and wake up eventually.

Honestly it was a unique experience though it lasted really short! But i cant say i understand how it works now. It just felt like the perfect dream to randomly gain consciousness in! I wish i hadn’t fucked it up like that though

I’ve been having trouble lucid dreaming, so I wanted to talk about my first horror lucid dream to remind myself that I can lucid dream since I’ve done it before.
I’m a yapper so grab some chips and sit down. I was getting a massage by a masseuse, and the masseuse was someone I knew, but more of an acquaintance and not a friend. This person was also someone I met in a time of distress. I was getting my massage and then all of a sudden everything became more vivid and more clear and I thought to myself “wow this is so weird.” “Why the hell am I here right now” and I stood up and went closer to the wall by the mirror and I thought to myself “this is weird.” Then I said “is this a dream” out loud and the masseuse got really angry and this person went up to me and was almost pressing on me and said “no no no” they were very angry all of a sudden. And then I did a reality check and the reality check did not work. I tried to put my finger through my palm, but it did not go through, but for some reason, intuitively, I knew that this was a dream. I immediately said “no, this is a dream.” And this is the part where it gets scary and I’ve never had a lucid dream like this before, but it’s also worth mentioning that I’ve never mentioned it was dreaming to a dream character until this moment. The dream person got very very angry and was pressing me into the wall, and I looked at them and said “what’s wrong.” “Why are you doing this?” I immediately turned to push them away and ran. I’m not totally sure what happened, but I ended up in the woods, somehow dark woods, woods like the woods in Harry Potter. As I was running, they were all these trees and branches growing out of nowhere and I’m running running running running running for some reason I’m barefoot too and as I’m feeling all this disgustingness as I’m running the person who is chasing me, turned from one person to a crowd of people who are also mostly kids for some reason, but I was still terrified and I kept running running and running and all of a sudden they caught up to me and I felt all of them grabbing me in the next thing. It was like a bunch of hands eating me alive. I HATE physical touch so this was genuinely the most disgusting thing. I can still remember their hands crawling on me. I legit am about to vomit thinking about it. Anyways, after that I was screaming and then ended up in Gotham city. It looked more like my city, Chicago, for some reason. Anyhow I was exploring the city and next thing I knew I fell into the sidewalk and ended up as a marine doing drills on a ladder. Everyone was wearing masks and it was so scary. Afterwards I woke up in house and I legit thought it was all REAL LIFE. It felt so much more real and vivid there then any lucid dream I’ve ever had I swear. After I rewoke up somehow and was back here to this crummy place. Anyways, hopefully this story time will motivate me enough to lucid dream again. I usually lucid dream once a month but for some reason I haven’t had a lucid dream in two months.

Does anyone else get tangled in or annoyed by street wires when they fly in lucid dreams? Is there a way to avoid them? I try to fly above them but then a taller one will pop up and it's very annoying.

I have OCD in real life so sometimes I think my intrusive thoughts also occur in my lucid dreams and get manifested.

Any advice is highly appreciated! I have this entire detailed world in my head that I would like to 'wake up' in whenever I dream. How do I accomplish this and keep it consistent to where I can pick up where I left off whenever I sleep?

I would love to hear advice from anyone who has been successful at this, or even people who haven't but have ideas! You don't have to read the rest but I added some info on what my dreams are typically like:

I have vivid dreams almost every night, some lucid, some not. Even when they are lucid, I'm not always able to control them, and when I can it's usually only partially. I can choose to change the scenery or summon characters, but it usually ends up being off if that makes sense. My dreams are usually very random, and they change plots quickly. One minute I can be shopping somewhere and the next I'm at a beach seeing sea monsters in the ocean. I am very creative and have had some pretty awesome dreams, the only problem is I only have a fun dream maybe 1/5 of the time. The rest are either nightmares or just random stuff that doesn't make sense. I'm working on learning to become lucid easier by doing reality checks during the day and visualizing before I go to sleep. My most recent lucid dream, I was at work and I questioned if I was dreaming and I became aware and started exploring elsewhere. I was able to open up portals but they never took me where I intended to go. Characters in my dream would be out of character, and not look or act right. Usually I end up at random houses or gross places. I love having this gift of being able to have and remember such detailed dreams, I just don't want to waste my potential by having shitty dreams the majority of the time.

Thank you again for reading! :)

I have some questions
(Never lucid dreamed before, never tried to yet)
1. Is there any other method to lucid dream where you don’t have to set any alarms?
2. I don’t remember my dreams, at all. I don’t think I remember any dreams from the last years
3. Does the time I go to sleep matter? I usually sleep at 3-4am
4. Are there any risks in lucid dreaming?

If anyone could answer any of these questions, would really help me, thanks a lot!

So! I'm still trying to visualize a prehistoric island.

​I settle in and put on ambient sound. I start to relax a bit. I observe the blackness behind my eyelids, then the sound of wind in my head. My goal is to stop focusing on the body. It works because I can see small shapes through my eyelids. I observe them passively.

​At one point, I try to imagine myself as a point of consciousness, and then (to let go) I imagine falling into the center of my heart. There... I feel that I'm letting go completely (my body suddenly becomes heavy and I feel like I me falling), accompanied by a sudden drop/churning in my stomach. I continue my passive observation (and it works, I'm no longer afraid).

​I set the intention to visit the island and visualize being there (the atmosphere). ​And at one point, I feel a weight on me. As if an animal were climbing up my leg! Right then, out of surprise, I open my eyes and everything stops

tried to visualize then did mantra (on some parts I stopped visualizing during mantra and on some I visualized) after a few minutes I stopped because my eyes felt a bit heavy, and then a few minutes later my body just tingled. I stopped and opened my eyes because my body was itching, took a 30 sec rest and went back at it, same routine as the first try and sang a few songs. But this time, my body was shaking, like an earthquake I could even see the shaking from my closed eyes. after a few minutes I stopped and will try again tomorrow or next night (Used MILD method, did this for 40 minutes). any tips?

I used to lucid dream a couple years ago when I was 16 almost every night until something made me stop. I would think about waking up so I would get out of the dream and I would open my eyes in my bed, but something in my room would be in the wrong place or something would feel off. There was a monster type thing that would always attack me when I noticed I wasn’t waking up in reality. It was a loop of waking up in a dream that would happen over 8 times every time I would lucid dream. Has anyone else ever been caught in a loop of waking up in your dream? This made me stop lucid dreaming because I would lose control of the dream and be attacked by my parents, dog, and other entities I didn’t know in my dreams.

I used the vild technique and induced a lucid scene strongly focusing on it, first person view of the scene. I did this at bedtime and did not see normal eye shadows but I saw a bright star light across my eyes and obviously woke up from excitement. I didn't fully enter the dream but is this a sign of success? For reference I did this at 10pm bedtime so I don't know. What was this? It was a single bright light spec that went across my eyes and disappeared. Please help me understand this so I know for next time. Thanks.

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Ultimamente sto avendo dei sogni lucidi, capita quasi casualmente dato che la tecnica che sto provando cioè la WILD, (so che non è propriamente una tecnica però dico così per far capire brevemente di cosa sto parlando), non ha ancora funzionato mentre invece durante alcuni sogni ad un certo punto mi rendo conto di star sognando, mi conto le dita e quindi so che è un sogno, tuttavia, una volta che mi sveglio non mi sembra che in quel momento fossi lucido come da sveglio e infatti anche il ricordo del sogno è un po' strano.

Questo pomeriggio mi sono addormentato e so di aver fatto un sogno lucido, tra l'altro durato tantissimo solo che dopo essermi svegliato da quello mi sono riaddormentato quindi non lo ricordo molto bene. Durante questo sogno ricordo di aver pensato cose che realmente penserei nella realtà dato che riguardano cose che ho visto da sveglio però quando lo ricordo ho ancora l'impressione che non fossi davvero cosciente come da sveglio.

Anche a voi succede?

E poi fare un sogno lucido attraverso la WILD può aiutare ina questo dato che letteralmente entri direttamente in un sogno mentre sei ancora cosciente?

Modificato: inizialmente ignoravo questo problema pensando, "ma si non ero completamente lucido", solo che dopo questo pomeriggio sono sicuro al 100% che io fossi molto cosciente, solo che lo sono solo perché ricordo alcune azioni o alcuni pensieri che ho fatto, ma se dovessi basarmi solo sul ricordo del sogno o su quest'ultimo in sé non saprei distinguerlo da uno normale qualsiasi. Per questo ho questo dubbio.

Today I had the most absurd sleep experience of my life and I need to know if this was actual lucid dreaming or not.

I'm not really sure I have ever had actual lucid dreams before. Usually my dreams are hazy and I can control some things. For example, in a lot of my dreams, I just kind of know I'm in a dream, and I can just fly around no problem when I want to, but other things are mostly out of my control. This time was completely different.

These were dreams that felt hyper realistic. Not just visually, but in how intensely I could feel things. And the wild part was I had full (TOTAL) control. I could imagine exactly what I wanted to happen next, and it would just... happen. Not vaguely either, it responded instantly, like the dream was reading my mind in real time.

At some point it got so real that it actually scared me. Like a "wait, this isn't right" kind of fear. So I woke myself up on purpose.

I got curious and closed my eyes again and I was instantly back again dreaming. Same thing, total control, insane intensity. I got scared again, woke up again. Did this a total of three times. Each time, eyes closed, and boom, right back in.

I don't remember the fine details. But in one, I "spawned" in the middle of the sky. So I thought: "I need a helicopter", and one came to me. When grabbling the controls I was surprised how I could actually feel them. I started flying it and got curious: "I want and entire black hole to appear at the horizon", lo and behold, there it was, a perfect black hole. It was almost indistinguishable from real life, so I got too scared of the experience and woke up.

The last time I finally pulled myself out for good, and in doing so, I saw something strange in the middle of my vision as I was coming out of it, shapes, almost like flower petals spiraling and being plucked one by one, just hanging there for a second before fading out completely. I can't recall exactly but there was also something colorful/rainbow-like in the peripheral vision.

My biggest fear was being trapped in this state forever. But honestly, I kind of want to go back.

Has anyone else experienced this?

So, I have discovered that I have the ability to re-enter dreams. Specifically, I can re-enter a dream using Hypnagogia (suddenly returning to the dream), so the AI told me that I could use the WILD technique and it would work.

Do you have any advice on how to use WILD, or any other advice or things I can do?

I keep a dream journal, but not very often. Sometimes I memorize my dreams in my head, but I don't write them down much. As for reality checks, I always forget to do them and have never succeeded at them at all.

Thanks! :)

To sum everything up: I’ve been dream journaling for over a month and remember my dreams most of nights. I do about 10-15 RCs/day, and once in a dream a month ago I realized that I was in a dream but couldn’t control it and I woke up pretty fast. I am also trying MILD + WBTB most nights currently.

And last night I pinched my nose and breathed through it and I thought « oh so yes air does go through when you pinch your nose in dreams ». But I wasn’t conscious at all I didn’t think that since I was in a dream I could do whatever I wanted or anything.

So I guess I am on the right track? What now?

Hello, I'm kinda new to this of lucid dreaming, I've been trying WILD with the counting method, I start counting from 1... I'm dreaming, 2... I'm dreaming. After a while, I feel like I lose consciousness for a couple of seconds and lose my counting, but when I start counting again, my whole body feels numb and I start to feel a tingling sensation, start seeing like lights with my eyes closed and my heart starts to race, but after some seconds all of this sensations are gone. Any tips of what sould I do when I reach that stage? Or it is just practice?

Hi. (Sorry if my English sounds strange, it's not my first language.) I've been trying to have lucid dreams for a few months now; I started trying in mid-2025, but stopped after a while and recently started trying again. I've had a few terrible lucid dreams after a lot of training and dedication, but the main reason I'm thinking of giving up again is because... it's simply difficult to learn anything related to the subject. Many say it's easy, but others say it's difficult, and that's okay. There are dozens of different tutorials for the same technique I'm trying to learn, with many people telling me to do this and others telling me not to do that, which makes learning anything confusing. Just when I feel like I'm making progress, someone comes along and says I'm doing it wrong, and another person says I'm doing it right. It's simply very confusing. Sometimes I wonder if lucid dreaming really exists, because all the information seems to contradict each other.

Hi I'm a frequent lucid dreamer I don't use a technique but I'll tell you VERY easy tips

1. Make sure your dream is STABLE. This is the most important part. A stable dream is one that doesn't change frequently or at all. For example if you see a red car and you go near it t suddenly becomes purple it means the dream is unstable. This is very important because once you try to make changes it may/will not work. If you tell to yourself you're dreaming and see something glitch or change it means the dream is unstable. It's best to not try to lucid in unstable dreams because it'll not work.

2. Make sure you remember most of your dreams and see PATTERNS. This sounds compliance but it's very easy I promise. What is something that keeps recurring in your dreams? It doesn't have to be something very specific it can just be a door, a road, a building that you see in most of your dreams. Tell yourself before you sleep "if I see _ I'll know I'm dreaming'. The easiest way to do this is to keep a dream journal and remove: you don't need highly detailed description, just the main points to help you remember.

3. Set intention. This is so easy yet something I'm sure y'all overlook. My 'technique' is literally just me counting to 100 saying I'll lucid dream with every number. Example: 1-I'll lucid dream, 2-I'll lucid dream and so on. It works every time!!!

4. Even if you fail try again. When you have a normal dream and wake up, I found out that sleeping right after has a higher chance of lucid dreaming.

5. Be calm. When you're thinking of horror obviously you're gonna have a nightmare. Be calm to keep the dream stable and successful.

So many people overlook this, but in reality you don't need a special technique you just need the right steps.