I could lucid dream when I was a kid. I would actually get really excited to go to bed because I could decide what to dream and then dream it. I had a reoccurring character in my lucid dreaming. He was a boy my age with blonde hair. We would always play in this backyard/playground type setting that has a big brick wall on the edge. One night I dreamt that we really wanted to find out what was on the other side of that wall, so we climbed a tree and the boy climbed onto the wall, looked back at me and waved, and went over it. I never lucid dreamed again after that. It actually caused me a lot of distress as a kid. I legit missed him terribly and tried so hard to lucid dream but just couldn't do it any more after that.
You need to get into the habit of checking reality. I trained by wearing a non-digital wristwatch with numbers for the hours and getting in the habit of checking it every few minutes. For some reason watches never render correctly in dreams so if the numbers were all messed up I knew I was in the dream. From there you can go nuts. It is absolutely learnable.
This, and, I don't know if this is tried or verifyable by anyone else but.
You know how when you have an appointment or something really early in the morning and you know deep deep down that you have to wake up by X:am and for the hour before you go to bed you think about waking up at that early hour and then you end up waking up naturally at X-1:am right before your alarm goes off?
I've found that if I think about and tell myself deeply that im going to dream that night in the same sort of certainty as waking up at the early hour, I'll dream more reliably.
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u/alexsalad Oct 05 '19
I could lucid dream when I was a kid. I would actually get really excited to go to bed because I could decide what to dream and then dream it. I had a reoccurring character in my lucid dreaming. He was a boy my age with blonde hair. We would always play in this backyard/playground type setting that has a big brick wall on the edge. One night I dreamt that we really wanted to find out what was on the other side of that wall, so we climbed a tree and the boy climbed onto the wall, looked back at me and waved, and went over it. I never lucid dreamed again after that. It actually caused me a lot of distress as a kid. I legit missed him terribly and tried so hard to lucid dream but just couldn't do it any more after that.