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.

I make a list of the best things to do in a Lucid Dream!

1. Flying: One of the best dream stabilizations for me is this, it felt so amazing.

2. S3x: But tbh there's more things better to do than this🫩. Yea it's amazing but yea don't aim for this yet or you risk waking up because of the excitement.

3. Having a super power: Dream people just act the way they do irl or how you expect them, so if you show something like telekenesis or etc, they will be shocked.

4. Adventure: I love this, like this what i mean here is like going into places you cannot go in real life and i do this often because i get to role-play as a knight in the medieval era, a soldier in wars etc etc.

5. Dating your crush or celebrity crush: Yes, you can do this too in the LD, but one thing, dont aim for this yet when you are a newbie, its fine if you are well experienced but yea avoid this when you are new.

You guys can also put down what you love to do when you LD or what you want to do if you finally became lucid.

So last night I was reading a guide on lucid dreaming on this subreddit and decided you know what? why not!
So i decided to do it
First of all I'm 24 years old and I've been trying to it since I was 15 years old I tried so many methods and so many guides, audio stimulations and beta waves and etc.
But tonight I finally did it on purpose and I did It just 12 minutes ago!
So the method I tried to use was Wake Induced Lucid Dream (WILD) but I didn't success but something funny happened during the fermi phase (the one your mind tricks you to find out if you're awake I was feeling bugs are crawling on my legs and it was so scary.

I didn't give up, then I felt bugs are crawling on my BALLS this one was super scary and i was so itchy and i didn't give up again!

The last one was the big boss... since i live in Iran and U.S bombs our cities during early mornings like 3:00 AM I heard a really loud explosion and I thought it was real and this time I jumped out of bed and guess what I fell for it, it wasn't real ... so fast forward I gave up and went to bed and as of now it's 3:20 PM and 20 minutes ago I had a dream It was midnight and a uber driver dropped me off at my destination but something was wrong the destination wasn't my home it was a parking lot near it I still didn't find out and thought ok maybe it's just a little further to my home but it wasn't.

So after walking around and climbing multiple times I gave up and said you know what? I'm gonna check my location on google maps and boom I was waaaaaaay further away to my home and I called uber customer service and reported the driver.

Then I said wtf? you know what this must be a dream wtf am i doing here actually and I did a reality check and I became lucid!
I decided to fly but i didn't have a control on it but since I'm a gamer I used my fingers to control the flying and it somehow worked! I tried to make a portal like doctor strange but I couldn't make it work sparks it appear but the portal didn't work
I was just floating in the air and something that was weird when i closed my eyes I could feel my real life eyelids glued and beginning to open and i was scared to wake up and excited and that's when I woke up
So I have a question, how do i have more control over it next time and how do I stop waking myself.

It all started about a week ago. I was lying down on my stomach, trying to fall asleep, just having random thoughts. I was still fully awake when suddenly, I got pulled straight into a dream. I was conscious the whole time, completely aware of what was happening. I do not remember all the details clearly now, but I know the dream was linked to my real life, and I even remember talking to my sister inside it.

​It felt like it lasted for a good 15 minutes. I tried really hard to control the dream and turn it into a lucid dream, but something kept stopping me. I do not even remember why, but I started crying. Then, I felt this totally dark, creature like figure on my chest, trying to touch me and nodding its head. Just as it felt like it was getting too intense, I felt a touch on my armpits, and that physical jolt finally brought me back to reality.

​Then, exactly a week later, it happened to me all over again, just a moment ago, actually. And this time, it lasted even longer, probably around 25 minutes or more.

​The way it started was just like the first time: strange events happening all around me while I knew I was fully conscious and witnessing it all inside a dream. My body was completely paralyzed, bound, and freezing. But this time, I did not see any creature. Instead, it was different. It felt like I was lying paralyzed on my bed while something was trying to force me to sleep. I started hearing sounds like my mother, it sounded like she was lying right beside me, whispering, chand sojao.

​After that moment, I do not know if I dozed off or what, but I woke up inside the dream again. I saw myself explaining that previous dream to a girl sitting right in front of me. I can still remember her face clearly, even though I have never seen her in real life. I was trying to tell her about it, but she kept interrupting me for no reason at all.

​Suddenly, my conscious state shifted its vision to a completely different scenario. I caught myself lying on my back again, falling asleep in that backward position. I thought to myself, I need to run and wake up. I heard some instant noises, and I saw my old pet dog, the exact same puppy I bought 8 years ago before I ended up gifting him to someone. He was sitting on the very same couch right beside my bed.

​I looked him straight in the eye. He got up from his spot and started walking around. Then I felt like I had rescued him from some demonic presence that was lurking right behind him. I picked him up and started looking all over the room, and I saw someone peeking over the front of the door. I realized I needed to get out of there and wake up.

​I started struggling with everything I had to wake up and get back to reality. I was screaming, but because my brain and body were completely locked down, all I could manage to push out was a slight, squeaky whisper. I kept rushing, screaming, and whispering, desperately trying to escape.

​Then I saw my mother and father walk into my room to wake me up while I was still trapped in the paralysis. My father was mocking me and my mother, saying, look at him, this is just another excuse not to wake up. In my mind, I was trying with all my might to yell, just let me scream and get me out of here. But it was all in vain. I watched them both walk away, leaving me behind with the thought, he is just sleeping, let him sleep.

​The exact moment they started walking away, I screamed like hell. It was terrifying and horrifying all at once. Finally, I snapped awake, sat straight up, and saw my mother actually walking toward me. I was terrified and crying, and I pulled her into a hug because the whole thing felt so horrific.

​Except, the strange part is, I was still in a dream.

​I was completely done screaming, thinking, it is not working, this is the end of me. But in a split second, the scenarios shifted again. I saw myself lying on my back once more, with the exact same situation happening all around me, lights off, my vision blurry. That same girl I was narrating my dream to earlier? I saw her gently nudging my nose with her fingertip. Yes, it sounds weird, but I actually saw her doing it. The moment I looked at her, I completely froze out as I watched her eyes turn totally black.

​And then, boom, I actually woke up.

(These events are narrated by a friend and are absolutely true)

Hi everyone!

This morning, I entered a lucid dream using the WILD technique (I think). When I woke up, I imagined a scene and let myself be "absorbed" into it. The dream continued to unfold.

I was aware of both bodies.

However, despite the lucidity, the vividness was dreamlike.

Do you have any tips for increasing it ?

I’m 32 years old. And I’ve never had a dream where I’ve become completely aware that I’m dreaming and start controlling my own actions…until last night. I’ll spare the full details of the dream, but basically I was in my car and grabbed my iPhone and realized the screen had cracked. I flipped the phone around and saw the glass shards everywhere and that’s when I thought “wait, I’m in a dream right now”. And the first thing I did in the dream after that was smile and I tried to touch my thumbs to the phone screen, immediately after that I got booted out of the dream and woke up. The second after I woke up was the strangest feeling ever. It literally felt like getting kicked out of a GTA 5 server and being sent back to the lobby. I know this is a common thing with LDing but I’m curious to hear anyone else’s thoughts or stories they’d like to share that’s had experience with this happening

this happened about 3 weeks ago now and i haven’t really been able to make any sense of it and was wondering if anyone had had a similar experience or could tell me what we experienced.

me f20 was going to sleep spooning with my boyfriend while falling asleep. as i was falling asleep and was kinda in a that in between state of being aware of my surroundings but still in a dream like state. i was dreaming that i had a conversation with my boyfriend (completely in my mind not out loud) about the way we where laying then i said something in response to him of the conversation we where having in my head and it made zero sense to me and i was confused on what i said (still not out loud) and immediately after he responded out loud “what” so i jumped awake and so did he and i asked him what he was saying what to and he proceeded to tell me what i just said to him in his dream didn’t make sense and we came to the conclusion that we where heading the same conversation with each other separately in our dream.. if anyone has has similar experience or know what this is please lmk!
(sorry in advance i suck at explaining)

Hi, yesterday I tried to dream about a specific person and imagined various scenarios with them before falling asleep—in addition to doing reality checks and listening to lucid dream induction playlists—but it didn't work, though that was to be expected. When you guys tried this, how long did it take to succeed?

Just a bit of background:

I'm a 32-year-old guy, and I've been interested in lucid dreaming since I was about 18. Back then I actively tried to induce lucid dreams by doing reality checks, keeping a dream journal, and all the usual stuff. After about two years without any success, I eventually gave up.

About two years ago, though, something strange started happening.

It always begins the same way, so I'll keep it short:

I'm lying in bed, trying to fall asleep. Suddenly, it feels like everything around me gets really loud. Then I can't move, but I still feel awake. I realize my eyes are closed, but when I try to open them, I can't. My first thought is always, "I'm dreaming."

The first time it happened, I got so excited because I thought I had finally achieved lucid dreaming that the whole experience ended almost immediately. I basically got so excited that I "woke myself up."

A few months later, it happened again. This time I kept telling myself to stay calm. I looked at my fingers (reality check) and noticed they were long, thin, and black. Then I looked around. The "world" I was in was basically empty, and everything was in black and white.

My first thought was, "Try flying." I pushed myself off the ground and started floating a little. On my second attempt, I managed to hover a few meters through the air. That's about all I remember.

Then, about a week ago, it happened for the third time. Again, I found myself in a black-and-white world, but this time it was a city. I wanted to see how people would react if I told them I was dreaming and that they weren't "real," so I walked up to a guy and told him exactly that. He looked at me like I was crazy, then just kept walking.

After that, I tried flying again because it felt amazing the first time.

My questions are:

Is this the beginning of my lucid dreaming journey?

Does this actually sound like lucid dreaming?

And if so, how can I stay in that state for longer?

The first couple of moments, it always feels weird because I can somehow "feel" how I try to open my eyes again, but once I tell myself that I'm dreaming, it gets ... idk... different?

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 :)

Now I have been researching lucid dreams for like a year and a half and I have always heard that lucid dreaming is all about your thoughts and I have always been wondering can I actually larp it because I am pretty sure that there was a lucid dreaming technique where you had to gaslight yourself and it kinda worked but then cuz of personal issues I had to quit but now I am back

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

I'm not a native English speaker. So, sorry if I make any mistakes.

Alr so I have been following all the basic steps for LD'ing. I have been dream journaling, doing reality checks and regularly practicing WBTB. Now I have gone from not being able to recall my dreams from last night. To recalling multiple dreams every night. However, I'm still nowhere near being Lucid. It just keeps getting more vivid. But I still can't achieve an ounce of lucidity. Does anyone have any tips or smth I can do to achieve Lucidity?

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!

According to my smartwatch, when I fall asleep after minimum ten minutes and maximum 35-40 minutes my body goes straight to REM sleep. Could I use this to do techniques that usually require waking up in the middle of the night (for example: FILD WILD, maybe even MILD)? Would that work because that "ability" to go straight to REM sleep is way more consistent then my other REM sleep times throughout the night.

Basically summed up I was superrrr sleep deprived. Running on a couple hours for a long day with a lot of travelling. Got home and had to go to bed straight away to get anything close to 8 hours for the next day (today). So I went to sleep woke up around 2am and had a few hours till I had to get up so I needed to get back to sleep. Even though I was extremely sleep deprived It was hard getting back to sleep. I struggle getting to sleep.

So I put on a sleep podcast, and 1 of two things happen when I do. I lose focus on the podcast and it works to drift asleep or I lose focus and start maladaptive daydreaming/overthinking/can't sleep. Both are like getting distracted in thoughts but only one of them leads to sleep Idk, sleep podcast is either horrible or extremely effective. Anyway I just kept trying until eventually I started drifting asleep to them patterns / nostalgic images that appear in my head before falling asleep.

So this is what happened.

I started saying that I will lucid dream. Repeated. Couldn't get to sleep at all. I think I started feeling like I was drifitng off so thats why I started saying it? Seemingly randomly I decided to sit up, count from like ten backwards when I fell back to the bed.

In those ten/three seconds whatever it was I started sinking into the bed. I started falling through the bed and into a black abyss. I felt my muscles go from tight and painful to completely relaxed. It was instant, once I sunk into the bed and fell through into this black abyss my muscles I didn't even realize were tensed suddenly went completely relaxed. (Tensing and untensing military sleep strategy does not work on me at all, wanted to mention.) It was pure bliss ngl. I woke back up almost instantly and did the same thing again. This time I fell further and started falling through the fucking universe.

I think it has something to do with me trying to lucid dream? It was more like a fuck ton of lsd or something then a dream. Not the first time I have had a cycle of death and falling into my bed in a dream before where I experienced ego death and I can't go into it, a whole story for that dream. But still it was cool as hell.

Has anybody experienced this before? And can it be replicated? Imo its so much cooler then a lucid dream. But I only have the experiences when I am extremely sleep deprived and like once a year or less. I am always sleep deprived but I mean, dreams like this only happen while extremely sleep deprived like 3-zero hours of sleep, and even then its still rare. I can't force them by pulling all nighters. wb2b works for lucid dreaming. This technically was wb2b so maybe it would work for these dreams? idk.

Maybe, when I sat up in my bed I was already asleep so when I laid back down to fall asleep it was inside of a a---" projection dream and led to a hypnotic one I think they are called? I wouldn't have a clue its just my theory.

I also watched trippy videos on youtube while high occasionally in the last two months and before falling through the universe I was falling through them fractal patterns from the videos. Which made it feel more like a crazy ton of lsd.

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!

These was my first time trying wbtb, I had intented I actually was trying wbtb and waking up at 4 am, kinda didnt work.

I had woken up naturally, due to intending.

I wasnt sleepy and was awake for 15 minutes like the method but then I tried the method laying on my back on the bed, feeling all three senses, for awhile nothing happen then it felt like my body was floating, my thoughts drifting elsewhere I had many itches to move to side, rolling, itch ear hair etc I didnt move.

Then for a while the feeling of floating increased, then something happened my breathing rushed and i was like panicking then it stopped somehow, and I went back to the normal feeling.

Thing is it felt like my body was panicking then me, I tried to clam it but it got it further i breathed heavily more and woke up. 0

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

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.

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! :)

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!

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?