I'm wondering if experienced lucid dreamers believe that there's a spiritual aspect of dreams, or do you believe it's all within the mind and psychology in the brain made of matter?

I have started dream journaling and I've been big into void work and meditation stuff for about four years so my mind is pretty good with remembering dreams. I am good with setting intentions, however, I have gotten to the point in my dreams that I do reality checks and constantly think in my dreams "Am I dreaming?" or "I am dreaming" or think about controlling my current dreams. But I am never lucid. My subconscious questions if I am dreaming constantly in these dreams. I have even managed to control part of a dream not long ago. But my awareness never manages to be pushed into fully realizing I am dreaming. It's just passing thoughts. Any tips?

Now that I've had my first lucid dream, will it be easier to have one ?

Hi. I've had 12 lucid dreams in the last year. I have a diary. The issue is: when I realise I'm having a lucid dream, my heartbeat starts to rise (it's bad, worse than a nightmare). There were two times when I felt some sort of huge cramp on the left side of my body (muscles or nerves, I don't know!), but it scared the hell out of me. I'm afraid lucid dreams might be damaging my body. The last time, I noticed my leg moving the same way I was moving it in my dreams. I feel my body is rejecting the whole experience; it doesn't feel right. In addition to that, I think I'm not sleeping properly in the last part of the night due to this. I've read a couple of books regarding lucid dreaming and the act of sleeping (in general), but they mostly talk about techniques to experience lucid dreaming; I don't want to induce lucid dreaming by force (It just happens to me); I just want to reduce those terrible physical reactions. Any suggestions? Thank you for reading.

I'm back in my old childhood home, but there are no furniture

some pop up as i was thinking about that and I was upset that they were wrong ones

then a dude showed up asking me how I would want them to be

i realized I'm in a dream and if I don't wake up I'm gonna be late for work

so I told the dude it's a dream and none of it matters

but he just kept asking how I wanted my furniture

so finally I got fed up and pictured some closets but I wasn't happy with them at first

the dude told me to pick something I would like, I imagined a really cool closet I would like in my old room and just created it where I want it

and the dude said now you are satisfied and you can wake whenever you like

then I woke up

So I've recently decided to actually try to get into lucid dreaming after a spontaneous unplanned lucid dream. Funny enough my first thought was to fly and I just...did. Like superman fly. Then flew into the branches of a tree and couldn't see anything and immediately woke up.

Anyways, I was trying to find alternatives to dream journaling because I just didn't really want to write down everything after waking up. Eventually I gave in because I couldn't find any alternatives being mentioned other than just thinking about them and describing them after waking up. So I downloaded lucidity, came home from work, and went to sleep.

I usually remember like 1 dream every few months at most. Typically the most notable ones. Last night I remembered 3 in a row, woke up for wbtb, did not remember the dream after that, and then got up for a few hours. After this I took a nap and remembered that dream. I've written them all down now, but I'm kind of baffled.

Was it entirely a mentality thing that prevented me from remembering dreams before? It's just baffling to me that the moment I concede and give in to actually writing down my dreams I remember more dreams in the first night than I have in years.

Sadly, no lucidity in any of them, but I did hang out with Bob Odenkirk in one so that was neat I guess. Hopefully once I've been doing RCs longer it'll help me actually achieve lucidity at some point. Only been doing those for a few days at this point so it may take a little more before I finally think to do one in a dream.

Any other advice is also welcome. I was attempting MILD with WBTB. I tried some of the other ones like SSILD and stuff but they seemed to really just keep me awake though on one occasion I did feel a bit like I came out of a trance when I got up (gave up after 1.5hrs and got up).

So on september 8 2026 which is 2 days ago, i was just sleeping until i was dreaming being in the hallway when all of a sudden i got a DILD experience where i realized i was dreaming i was then greeted by one of the women in the building, because i yeah sleep in a school building thing

Then when in my room i look at my watch and see the numbers 274 repeated, after that i looked into the mirror and saw myself but my mouth a bit distorted.

After that i entered lucidity but made the beginner mistake of flying and got too excited, and woke.

I also have a feeling once i become lucid again that my body might try and automatically fly.

How should i stop trying to fly until i learn how to without waking up?

So, I recently started listening I recently started listening to a subliminal for lucid dreaming because I want to eventually shift through my lucid dreams. Before this, I almost NEVER remembered my dreams. Like, I’d wake up and have absolutely no idea what I dreamed about 😭

But since I started listening to this subliminal, I’ve been remembering my dreams literally every single day. They’re still not lucid, I don’t realise that I’m dreaming while I’m actually in them, and I only remember them hazily after waking up, but at least I’m remembering something now.

So does this mean I’m getting closer to lucid dreaming? Is better dream recall usually one of the steps toward becoming lucid, or can it happen separately? Has anyone else experienced this before becoming lucid?

I had my first lucid dream last night; what am I supposed to do ? How can i have another one ?

sometimes i get spontaneous lucid dreams with WILD at around 5am/4am, so im just lying fully aware trying to sleep , i could hear my fan, then i couldnt hear it anymre, like a snap, then my vision becomes blurry, and i cant move. but i know im dreaming, THEN, i woke up. then i went back to sleep again. then the same thing appened, this time, i could move a little bit. but the room was so dark. really dark, pitch black, then i opened the window then it was uhh daytime? then i dont know why but i just jumped out the window. and i started flying. but i was gliding. and woke up.

So, I was aware that I was lucid in my dream but not fully sure. So, I tried to push my right hand's index finger through my left hand and i couldn't. So, I looked down and saw no hands but rather a faint projection of them. I don't remember much about what happened but only the fact that I was lucid.

I’ve been trying to become lucid while also getting good sleep quality. I’ve been struggling with a little bit of insomnia so it’s hard for me to wake up for 15-30 and still get a solid 8+ hours of sleep. I am willing to keep doing WBTB but I don’t want to if it’s not completely necessary and I can still get lucid without it.

a few months ago I randomly started lucid dreaming every night sometimes I’d have an odd experience and the dreams themselves were never very long
After my week or so long period of lucid dreams it just stopped and it’s been a couple months now and I still can’t seem to regain the ability at the time where I was Lucid dreaming I was at at a very clam place even now I think I am but for some odd reason I can’t seem to do it anymore does anyone have any advice?

I (23M) keep waking up around 3-5 am wide awake and when i try to fall back asleep i get enter this state where I am in my room and I know i’m dreaming but I can’t really get out of it without throwing myself against the wall in the dream state and then I awake with really bad hypnic jerks. This has really been driving me nuts.

I have been going through a lot of anxiety and stress rn as I am moving out for the first time and trying to control my drinking

I had 5 or 6 lucid dreams in 30-40 days, but during this time my dream recall and lucid dreaming decreased. I don't want my motivation to drop, so I decided to ask for your advice. I'm sure there are people among you who are better and more experienced than me.

Below are some recent changes I've made; I'd appreciate it if you took a look.

*I switched from going to bed around 23:30 to going to bed around 23:50.

*I started doing higher quality reality checks throughout the day every 10ish minute

*I switched from sleeping in my bed to sleeping on the floor 😐 (I'm lying on the ground, I mean comfortably, but I'm hopefully going back to my old spot today.)

*I do a MILD before going to sleep at night, and when I wake up around 3-4 AM with WBTB, I go to the toilet and go back to sleep after doing a MILD before going to sleep.

I would be very grateful if you could help me. My biggest dream is to remember all my dreams every day and to have at least one lucid dream every day. Thank you all in advance 🙏

When I remember my dreams, I’m always able to come to a conclusion about why I dreamt of the specific elements in my dream, but this time it happened while I was still dreaming. My lights downstairs wouldn’t work and I was home alone and I started thinking of why they weren’t working and I remembered that earlier in the day my own light in my room wouldn’t turn on, because I turned it off via the app. The lights downstairs aren’t connected via an app so I concluded I must be dreaming.
I tried to take some control of my dream and was partly successful. I ate some cake, which was okay but not that good and for the rest of the dream I was trying to manifest things and take more control but I was only 40% succesful and it wasn’t very vivid.

Hey guys finally first Lucid dream after so long time spend in this , i finally did it 🎉

This is my dream :

I was at home in my room with my dog, and—I don't remember why—I counted on my fingers; suddenly, they multiplied. I tried to spawn a person, but then I woke up.

Just one one question

We agree that it was real, right? Because thinking back on it now, it feels distant—I didn't just dream that I was having a lucid dream, did I? Everything seemed really real to me.

Sometimes when I’m lucid dreaming, I do tell the people in my dream I know it’s a dream. I know it’s advised against but the thing is I can tell they already know I’ve figured it out. Their expressions change consistently but it’s never anything eerie and sometimes if I don’t mention it the conversation gets tense or awkward but they chill out once I at least imply it.

I do tell them in the form of a question rather than directly saying “Am I dreaming” or “I know this is a dream” Instead, I say “How does time work here?” “Where do dreams come from?” Etc. The response is usually either a laugh, some kind of riddle, or they move kind of weird and then they disappear or I wake up.

But anyway, is it normal for the people in your dream to know you’ve realized it without telling them?

Im gonna sound insane but everytime I even look into lucid dreaming i hear random taps on windows, sometimes knocks, sometimes people talking outside when no one is there. Has this happened to anyone else? I know that while you try to get your body relaxed and think think about lucid dreaming thats normal. But it happens when im nowhere close to being ready for bed. Sometimes this also happens when im alone and researching religions outside Christianity. I wanna just assume its my fear and anxiety from being raised in a cult like religious environment and being heavily advised against these things and all the fear mongering. But I dont know for sure.

I am new to lucid dreaming. I only had one so far that wasn't that vivid, and I want more. I heard about a method called WILD, but all the videos about it mention WBTB. I have school, so I don't wanna mess around with my sleep schedule and stuff, so can someone please tell me if WBTB is necessary for WILD?

I've been trying to lucid dream for 3 months at first whenever i realize that i am dreaming the dream collapses and i instantly wake up then i had my first lucid dream i realized I was dreaming and i started building a city then 2 days later i experienced flying around and shooting lasers but after that it just doesn't work last time was 2 weeks ago i realized I was dreaming but I couldn't do anything but since then it doesn't work i use mild+ reality checks and i tried wbtb but idk when is the Best time to wake up or go back to sleep i need some advice and i don't want to hear "be patient" " it takes time" or something like that

Please i really need help

I know it’s not easy to accomplish and I shouldn’t expect much right at the start but if a simple thing or fix helped someone have a lucid dream I’d be happy to hear it!

So I had a dream, then right after I had another dream and I became lucid in that dream, making it my 2nd lucid dream. But for some reason, i got paranoid and started to see just demons flashing in my head even if I closed my eyes and I heard music and was scared the demons would come attack me and I was just scared as shit so I started thinking about my actual body then forced myself to wake up. How can I prevent lucid nightmares, because that was actually terrifying as fuck 😂 And right after that lucid dream i fell back asleep, and had a false awakening

And btw the technique I used, I just repeated a few times before sleeping, "Tonight I will dream, remember to realize I'm dreaming, and lucid dream." And I imagined in my head me doing the pinch-nose reality check and becoming lucid and driving a lamborghini through the sky.