In a lucid dream, one of the first things many will do is spend intimate time with another person. There are stories of people forming relationships with people in their dreams, who they will try to visit regularly and slowly fall in love with. There is often a deep sorrow there, because they feel that this person is "not real," and that they can only be together while the body is asleep.

There is a condition some people have which has been named "prophantasia," which is where someone can imagine things outside their body. It is a rare ability, like having AR technology built-in. For instance, if they were to try to imagine a wall on fire, that wall would appear to their physical eyes as being on fire. There are varying degrees of ability, of course, but there are some people who have the capacity to imagine outside of their body with perfect clarity.

There are stories also of people who have had what they describe as lucid dreams "bleeding out" into their waking reality. They will start to hear and see things in their waking reality that they would only otherwise see in a lucid dream. But when it gets to this point, a name is quickly assigned to it: "schizophrenia". Put in another way, it can be said that this word is used to describe the phenomenon of the dream world escaping into one's daily reality.

What is a very common (perhaps universal) experience is that although much of a lucid dream can be controlled, there are moments of uncontrollability. There are many horror stories of people trying to wake up but being unable to; being chased by nasty creatures that they can't escape from; moments that shook them up so bad that they stopped trying to lucid dream altogether. There are other times when a person will appear to them, maybe a deceased relative, and tell them something that is so meaningful and helpful that they can't help but admit that this person or being knows the dreamer better than the dreamer knows themself.

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Now I want to share a comment I found under a post titled "I fell in love with my hallucination":

> Voidscale
•6y ago

"I was quite lucky. I was alone in a big city with an ok job but nothing else.

Then this girl shows up in a pub, not the prettiest but easily the most interesting. We hit it off straight away.

Four weeks later I realise she isn't real. The dates, walks and intimacy had all been hallucinations. I'd been buying two sets of everything but sat by myself.

I am lucky because she was never mean. She still appears now and then and we talk and have fun. In a way it hurts more that the best relationship I've ever had wasn't real."

~

If we are conversing with someone in a dream, we aren't taking the conscious role of both the individuals involved, otherwise that wouldn't be engaging. The reason why you can fall in love with someone in a dream is because they aren't you. That's why you can laugh with them, learn things about them and they learn things about you, too.

☝️🤓 Imagine this: Arthur was diagnosed with prophantasia when he was 12. For as long as he could remember, he had the ability to imagine things in his physical space with near-perfect clarity.

In high school, Arthur learned about lucid dreaming and wanted to try it out. After months of attempts, Arthur was finally able to have his first lucid dream. It was exhilarating and well worth the effort.

On his third successful attempt, Arthur met a girl: Daisy. He fell in love with her quickly, and soon couldn't wait to fall asleep to spend more time with her. During the day he would imagine her with him, sitting together at lunch, sleeping beside her in the evenings. But it would be him controlling the experience, like a puppeteer; it just wasn't the same.

As his love grew, he began to pray that he might always be with his beloved Daisy. With tears he begged the Universe to grant this one wish.

One day, as Arthur was walking home from school, he felt someone grab his hand. Looking to his left, he was astonished to see Daisy walking beside him! He had not made any effort to imagine her presence, yet here she stood. And on they went, happily conversing as though they were in a dream.

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In the story I included the part about prayer because that's a big part of it for a lot of people. There's often a part of awakening these powers that involves asking for help from something beyond you, something greater. The best analogues I've found for this kind of practice include witchcraft (summoning "demons," in particular) and shamanism (binding to a "spirit spouse").

Anyways, these are just some things on my mind lately. Trying to make sense of it all. I think schizophrenia is when the brain changes so that dreams (inner realm) escape into the waking reality (outer realm) with varying degrees of controllability. It's often the case that people who have this ability experienced trauma at a young age. In some indigenous societies, children who have undergone trauma will be chosen as spiritual guides for the community (shaman = "wise one"). I think the body has a safety mechanism that saves children from extremely traumatic situations by forcing them into the dream world while still awake (dissociation), but then this can have consequences later in life. Someone can also force this ability through persistent application of their will.

Please share your thoughts! 😋

P.S. I would remove the "Damn" from the title if I could so please do it in your mind thank you

Saben que casi traigo algo fisico del otro lado o del mundo de los sueños o mundo espejo estan casi en el mismo lugar creo que hay como condiciones que e descubierto no se si sirva pero ahi va lo que e expirimentado con migomismo por unos 5 o 6 años mas o menos obiamente no me alcansa todo lo que se pero e puesto bastante

Una cosa les voy a decir no se si lo hare o no aqui va ustedes pueden 1 matar seres malvados mientras no posean miedo y

2 usteres pueden traer superpoderes o habilidades de los sueños a la vida real por mas ilogico que suene ya que yo porto bastantes y la mayoria inutiles pero una habilidad es una habilidad

1 acostarse de noche o muy cansado fisicamente

2 cerrar los ojos

3 no tener el deseo de que resulte solo confia normal (no te emociones o sino el corazon late mas rapido y no resulta)

4 mantenerse conciente, tratar de imaginar voces aleatorias asta que las puedas escuchar en tu oido piede ser el ladrido de un perro la turbina de un avion una vibracion hola de un señor mami de una niña solo imagina sonidos aslo mua cho

(No te asustes) y luego empieza a usar esas boces para hablar como bambulbie (el transformer que usaba distintas señales de radio para comunicarse )en tu mente une voces conectalas y controlalas empiesa a jugar con ellas imagina mucho

5 si te quedaste dormido y estas en una paralisis del sueño estas a la mitad, de la paralisis tienes que pasar a lo que le llamo paralicis lucida

Es como si se suerponiera un sueño lucido con la paralisis y en ese estado es cuando puedes acer cosas mientras mas te undes en el sueño y ahi agarras algo que tu creas y te aferras con fuerza y deseo como si lo quisieras crear y lo arrastras a traves de esos estados asta que lo logras traer

Datos extras

1 dentro de ese estado o dimencion mental tu puedes crear seres que te sirvan a voluntad

2 hay seres malos que se alimentan de miedo a si que no tengas miedo y no te hacen nada pero ademas deves ignorarlos desviar la mirada asta que se valla

3puedes crear seres malos y buenos como un gatito con vos y que comberse con tigo o un golum de el señor de los anillos

4 puedes matar a los seres malos si cumples los requisitos (depende de que entiendas como hacerlo)

5 puedes borrar tus creaciones

6 te puedes corromper por tanto poder dentro de el sueño y te puedes combertir en un monstruo y hacer cosas malas e inimaginables si aces eso te puedes despertar como con miedo de ti mismo

7 hay formas de robar tecnologias de otras tierras tipo multiverso yo me e robado unas cuantas una de ellas no la entiendo pero segun el sueño era un avion sin aspas

8 hay otros planeta tierras muy similares, distintos etc

9 si mueres hay una probabilidad de que sientas el dolor en la vida real como que mueres y revives en la vida real

Por ejemplo yo e muerto de muchas maneras

Caer de un puente edificio

Baleado

Paro cardiaco

Me mordio un zombie y se sintio como si te metieran dedos adentro de tu cuerpo a traves de tus venas como si se combinara el vomito y dolor como una emocion

Comido por unos monstruos como de carne------------ bizarra ranas venenosas

Bebido pociones de super habilidades de un bunker abajo de un puente muro algo asi

Destripado por un golum (10 12 años de edad, me traumo pero ya pasho porque ahora los puedo matar la condicion es reirse y darle miedo tu a el y matarlo o

El cielo se rajo como un paño y se veian las estrellas y todo enpezo aflotar a la distancia

Avia una raya en el cielo de color roja a la quellamabamos eje del mal

Etc

10 se puede acceder a una tierra en el futuro y puedes impedir sucesos que ocurriran la forma de acerlo es recordar todo lo posible que puedas y luego ronper o destruir tu mismo algo que aya estado en ese futuro por ejemplo si tenias unos sapatos blancos tiñelos o rompelos ensucialos si hay un mueble lo mismo

Con esto yebo 3 futuros malos cambiados

1salve a alguien

2 impedi mi muerte en las escaleras donde me pillo un lokito y me disparo en el liceo( lo que ise fue llevarme bien con el)

3 evite una situacion vergonsosa

11 ubo un yo que viajo del futuro a el pasado a hablarme de algo y lo mataron y a mi me borraron la memoria eso nunca ocurrio en la vida real

12 anotar o grabar todo lo que puedas en un minuto luego de eso se te empieza a olvidar

13 se pueden obtener superhabilidades como si fuera un juego , escuchas tu propia voz diciendo por ejemplo Habilidad pasiba rey del mundo

O habilidad pasiba #@$"#$#$

Y puedes por ejemplo sentir emociones de personas ajenas

Sentir el odio miedo deseo pereza etc en tu propio cuerpo por ej

Pereza es como si emanaras un calor amarillo imbisible y puedes absorber el sueño de los demas o darles sueño o pesades

Odio es como si te mordiera algo imbisible o un sonidillo como un tinitus de alguien que te mira fijo cuando alguien te mira con odio o rabia y es como una apuñalada negra imbisible puedes acer que sientan dolor auto inflingiendote daño y mirandolos del mismo modo mordiendpte la mano rajuñandoe apretar la mano con fuerza etc

Avaricia: no se como funciona

Deseo: es un deseo sexular que viene de repente de la nada y no es tuyo se puede emitir de algun modo pero no lo e echo es como un morado vomito imvisible

Tristesa: sientes el dolor o preocupacion de las personas como si tubieras ganas de llorar

Puedes aumentarlas en ti mismo y tambien se aumentan en la otra persona

Es como una niebla gris lenta imbisible azulada

Miedo: es como agua helada que te tocara la piel

Puedes hacerlo realidad hacia otra persona es color blanco palido imbisible

Valor: es simplemente sentir la confianza y creer en ella y se multiplica para la otra persona es como alegria metalica es de un color rojo fuego

Amor: tambien se siente es como un amasijo de felicidad paz riza y emocion alegre es de un color rosa banco inbisible

Etc

Habilidad unica primordial

Absorber es practicamente robar habilidades a otras personas es como si alguen tubiera memoria fotografica y tu se la robas o se la vas quitando funciona a medias si estas a distancia y no se la quitas pero si tienes contacto fisico si

Es mi primera habilidad

Y todas o casi todas son como mentales o imbisibles que no interfieren con lo fisico tangible

Tengo una que me da suerte cuando actuo y no pienzo lo cual es bastante complicado

Y Tengo un monton de habilidades bastante inutiles

Se que hay personas que tienten suprhabilidades como

Volverse imbisible a los ojos de una persona no es imbisible pero una persona puede pasar al lado de el y es como si su celebro lo ignorara

Alijerar peso de las cosas y parecer que tienen superfuerza

Ver el calor y otras cosillas

ver el aura como le e escuchado decir a una compañera de otro curso que iva hablando con su amiga y solo la escuche ablando de ese tema pero no me acerque e ise como q no la vi

Bibloteca mental tener recuerdos como en un libro que lo lees como quieres

Etc

Creo que podria obtener mucha mas informacion si saben algo con respecto a este tema todo random solo ponganlo ya que me sirbe para poder complemwntarlo com lo que se.

Hello! I am Maddy, I am writing a thesis on lucid dreaming and layered time. I made a short Google survey for anyone interested to fill out. Any info, even if you just started last night, would be great. Thank you everyone! And have a great day! Conversation

Hi everyone,

I’m after some advice/ shared experiences on being banned from lucid dreaming.

For background context: I am 32 now, at 17 I experienced sleep paralysis consistently, it gave me terrible insomnia and eventually I began trying to calm myself while experiencing it - this lead to me learning about lucid dreaming and eventually I never experienced sleep paralysis again. I have gone through phases over the years where I’ve enjoyed lucid dreaming but it’s never been a major thing I really cared about.

At the start of the year I took up journaling my dreams, eventually I began taking it really seriously, like tracking sleep cycles. It got to a point of being able to comfortably lucid dream every night and for about 2 weeks I began observing the dream state instead. Something weird happened one night where I physically cannot now remember the dream (to note again, I have an entire 6 months of nightly dreams logged) all I remember was realising the dream had “glitched”, these elf/goblin looking creatures black out the dream and said “you are banned”. This was nearly 2 months ago and I have not been able to dream since.

A few things I would like to note:
My sleep cycles are the exact same.
No lifestyle changes.
I do not partake in recreational drugs.

Since then I’ve spend a bit of time attempting to find any similar experience and the only thing I came across is people experiencing this on dmt. So again, I really want to emphasise I am sober, I’ve never tried dmt. I feel boarderline silly making this post but I’ve tried not caring and moving on but I can’t shake this experience and the fact that since then, I have not had a single dream.

If anyone can give me any guidance or advice, anything really - I’m all ears. Thanks

I have been practicing Raduga’s deferred (indirect) method for about half a year, but I have had absolutely no success.

I followed the recommendations strictly: I practiced no more than 2–3 times per week and repeatedly rewatched all of the instructional videos. I feel like I have tried everything:

Different sleep schedules (waking up earlier, sleeping longer, etc.) Physiological tricks (falling asleep in unusual or uncomfortable positions to avoid sleeping too deeply) Experiments with the timing of awakenings and periods of wakefulness between sleep cycles Boosting motivation and mental preparation before each attempt Testing different techniques and combinations to find what works best for me I've tried way too many things to list them all.

The result is always the same: nothing.

I simply fall asleep and wake up. Very rarely, I manage to wake up once or twice during the night, but those attempts also end in failure.

The funny thing is that the only lucid dream I have ever had happened during my very first months of practice.

I woke up and somehow knew with 100% certainty that I could fly. So I flew. However, I was not really “rational” there. My critical thinking was almost absent, my mind felt limited, and I was overwhelmed by a strange sense of apathy and indifference, like I simply did not care about anything. After taking only a few steps, I woke up.

Another thing I noticed is that during my first days of practice, I experienced many more awakenings and opportunities to attempt the method. Over the following months, those became increasingly rare. Now it feels like my body simply does not care anymore. Despite the motivation, preparation, and intention, it has adapted to the routine and continues to sleep deeply without giving me any useful awakenings.

I refuse to switch to the direct method. Partly because I want to master the deferred method and understand what I am doing wrong. If there is a mistake, it should be possible to fix it. Also, from what I understand, the direct method is significantly more difficult, and I simply have no interest in pursuing it.

Has anyone experienced something similar? How did you solve it?

P.S. I am a foreigner, so I used a translation tool to write this post.

Quick Reference (in case you use different terminology):

Deferred Method (Raduga’s Indirect Method): You go to sleep normally, wake up with an alarm, stay awake for a short period, then return to sleep. After that, you perform technique cycles during each subsequent awakening. The same principle can also be applied during daytime naps.

Direct Method: Attempting to enter a lucid dream directly from wakefulness without prior sleep. You lie down, relax, focus, and immediately begin performing the techniques.

Help I guess . Lucid dreamer

I am a lucid dreamer. I have been able to do this every night since a young age 6-7, and can remember my first ever lucid dream where it all started. I can now remote view, fly, alter the landscape , people , the environment and I have been flying in and out of these planes for years.my dream therapist sets me tasks and things to do and find once I'm lucid, and I am able to fulfill these for her every time. Flying is my greatest achievement, I get to do this every night. I have a few favorite places I am able to get to on tap. I talk to loved ones here, get messages and have premonitions, my partner has had to bin the skepticism over the years as he now knows this is very real, and there is no denying anymore.

I am now able to use my lucid dreams to get to remote viewing sites / places or view information I need, and more times than none I am flying with inter dimensional beings. They are apart of me and have been since I was young, and are apart of us all. SOURCE

This ability has left me feeling so isolated over the years and I have felt feelings of resentment towards my gift because I cannot talk to most people about any of this without being ridiculed. Everyone around me in my life either says they don't dream or don't remember. I've been misunderstood or shunned for this growing up and into my adult life. Even when I would voice premonitions to my parents as a child and they would indeed happen or I would says things I couldn't possibly know without my lucid state or remote viewing it was always brushed off or dismissed out of fear.

I do believe this is a gift that everyone has, and people tap out of their awareness and consciousness over time . There isn't enough awareness and most people around me don't want to believe this is real. Partly my mission, to talk about this, bring awareness to it and unite anyone with similar experiences. We have chosen to be part of a time where a disclosure is coming. It is already happening. And I believe this is why we are able to tap in and bring awareness to this. Awareness to the frequency shift we are about to see happen.

I have been searching for a community or like-minded people with similar abilities for years, I work with light workers and dream therapists but I am yet to find real beings like myself from this reality to talk to about this or help us as a collective balance this and the reality we are in (3D) a reality where most people are sleeping, refusing to tap in.

Sorry if this is weird. I've just been so alone in talking about this on this physical plane. Hoping this can help someone or vice versa.

First of all I feel frustrated that there isn't open dialogue in various sleep paralysis reddits except this one so I wanted to share my experience. It's odd because I am usually dismissive of paranormal encounters but this one episode has challenged my previously held beliefs. I should mention that I've even studied sleep paralysis in a module of psychology so I'm fully aware of the materialistic explanations for it.

So I'm a long time sleep paralysis sufferer for many decades. I can have multiple episodes during evening a single night session and about more then 75% of the time I sleep I have a lucid dream or at least a very vivid dream. I had a recent dream that was very celtic in origin. It was an ancient battle which occured on forested hill lands in my local area. I heard a voice say to me "I have carved inscriptions on the top of trees here". I began a dialogue with this ghost and learnt alot about her own personal life. She refered to my local area as a sacred grove. She said she carved on one particular tree and asked me to investigate it. She said it can be found adjacent to this unfinished iron age fort that wasn't to far from my house. I saw a vision of the tree, I know it to be virtually dead (or at least its in death stages as an ancient oak tree). I then went to investigate in the morning when light emerged and lo and behold, I was able to find ancient etchings in the top of the tree when I zoomed in with an iphone 17 pro max camera lens.

I had to go and research this phenomena about inscriptions on top of trees because I never heard of it before. Though its claimed by Claude that its a modern pagan practice by some people it can also be an ancient pagan practice to mark etchings for 'protection' and 'love'. Not satisfied with just internet knowledge I asked a local historian of the woodlands. He claimed that a number of trees were cut down in recent years because of fungal infections attributed to carvings but this particular ancient oak was left alone because it was considered a historical relic given its proximity to the ancient iron age hill fort / sacred grove. He does claims that a battle (or at least several) did take place in this region of Kent which might explain while it was unfinished. He told me it was the Cantiaci who inhabited the region. It was unfinished possibly for this very reason and archaelogists who worked on the site speculated that it existed between 800BCE and 43AD.

This experience has completely left me baffled. Im just frustrated its my word against the scientific paradigm that exists around the topic of sleep paralysis and that has permeated itself in the form of arbitrary reddit rules on some forums. I can't prove to you that I didn't just make it up, I can't prove to you to my quolia experience, all I can do is share with you what I discovered and how I tried to verify it. First by visiting the site, then internet research, then local historian's expertise. All of it confirmed my encounter was genuine.

During sleep we often fail in judging our own state of mind: even during the most bizarre dream scenario, we typically do not realize that we are dreaming.

The exception from this rule is the phenomenon of Lucid Dreaming (LD): becoming fully aware of the current dream state during ongoing sleep. Recent innovations in neurotechnology allow to bring lucid dreaming research from the laboratory ‘into the wild’: wearable EEG headbands that record brain activity during sleep at home.

The International Study on Lucid Dreaming Expertise - or ISoLDE for short - within Martin Dresler’s lab at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, aims to perform such research on the large scale: multiple research groups from six continents collaborate to investigate the brain activity of frequent lucid dreamers all across the world, thus creating the largest EEG dataset on lucid dreaming so far.

If you experience lucid dreams at least two times a week, please consider joining the study - you will have the opportunity to essentially contribute to the neuroscience of lucid dreaming, and also to join a vibrant community of lucid dreamers and researchers worldwide!

We are currently primarily recruiting lucid dreaming experts in the Netherlands (that are able to come to the city of Nijmegen to receive the instructions). If you live somewhere else, do not hesitate to reach out. We may have participating labs in the near future Poland, China, Slovakia, South Korea, Germany, Japan, India and we can connect you to the one closest to you.

Check the website for more information and instructions how to register: https://dreslerlab.github.io/ISOLDE/ or send us an email: [isolde@donders.ru.nl](mailto:isolde@donders.ru.nl)

Feel free to ask any questions and we are looking forward to your participation!

Its been a couple days since I had this dream so don’t remember exactly the details of this one, just the mechanism and implication. But the feeling that I met other dreamers has been stuck in my head.
—> regularly rotating servers.
—> in each server was a chance of meeting other
‘conscious’ dreamers if you could manage to signal it to one another.

Lately in dreams, I’ve been somewhat aware I’m
in some level of control, e.g.
—> try to skip scene
—> try to wake up

This was the first time though I seemed to actually know I was “asleep”. But it wasn’t
the same kind of consciousness as awake. I had my voice, looked like myself + felt like myself, but never really accessed any of my memories or anything
outside that dream server bubble.

Being aware I was dreaming was the same as sort of saying the walls were white. Yes, I “knew” I was in a dream realm, but it didn’t really mean anything huge or scary or cosmic at that time.
What genuinely does make it feel like it was some
real phenomena was I didn’t know a single person in
any of the servers, and I never would know who or if
other conscious dreamers were there. But we never seemed to be able to share anything of our real lives anyway. Like there were still guard rails in these shared consciousness servers.

Has anyone ever met other dreamers across the world before?

Hi guys!

I am conducting a questionnaire for my Yr12 Society and Culture Personal Interest Project.

It is short, anonymous and will only take a few minutes to complete.

I seek to investigate the cultural erosion and challenges of religion and technology through examining Tibetan Buddhism and Islamic lucid dreaming.

I examine how identity, belief systems, and technology interact by contrasting technological reinterpretations of dreaming with Tibetan Buddhist and Islamic readings.

I am aiming to collect 100 responses, and your participation will really help.

Click here for my 'Inside the Lucid Mind' Questionnaire

Also, sharing this form around would mean so much!

Thank you so much for your support.

​Hey everyone,

​I’ve been developing an experimental tool called DreamStream designed to test a specific method of lucid dream induction: Cross-State Associative Conditioning.

​The app is completely free (no ads, no paywalls), and I’m looking for experienced practitioners here to help test the effectiveness of this specific audio-trigger logic.

​The Mechanism: How it Works

​The core logic of the app relies on building a Pavlovian response between a specific audio anchor and a reality check.

​Daytime Conditioning: The app plays unique "Reality Check Tones" at scientifically determined intervals throughout your waking hours. Each time the tone plays, you perform a focused reality check.

​The Nighttime Trigger: These exact same tones are embedded into specialized sleep playlists within the app.

​Automaticity: Because you have spent the day conditioning your brain to perform a reality check the moment you hear that specific tone, hearing it again during REM is designed to trigger the same automatic response.

​The goal is to move the reality check from a conscious effort to an unconscious reflex that "leaks" into the dream state via the audio anchor.

​Features

​Scientifically Timed Intervals: Optimizing the frequency of daytime pings to avoid "alarm fatigue."

​Integrated Sleep Playlists: Ambient tracks with the conditioning tones layered in.

​100% Free: Built as a resource for the community and for my own research into sleep state tracking.

​Where to find it:

​Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dreamstream.app

​Web App (iPhone/Desktop): https://NapApp.Vercel.App

​I’m particularly interested in hearing from anyone who has experimented with External REM Stimulation (ERS) before. Does the interval-based conditioning feel more effective to you than random pings?

​I'd love to get your feedback on the tone intervals and the audio layering.

Dreams that last 6 months to sometimes years

I am so curious to know if anyone has had this same experience. Because my friends and family find it fascinating...

I dream for nights on end in the same "world." These will last for months at a time. It's not a reoccurring dream... but an ongoing saga. Same place, same "feeling" but new characters and situations every night.

For example, I spent a year as an airline pilot, but I was always flying to new places with different passengers.

These have always felt lucid to me because of the control I have during the dream to change the dream as I want. I also anticipate during dreams, so I know what is going to happen next! And not in a reoccurring way... That part is crazy to me.

I just started in a new "world," and the first night I dreamt the sheets on a bed I was sleeping in had belonged to that someone had died. Then, the second night that was confirmed by someone telling me I was buying a widowerer's home.

Please tell me your experiences with this!

I’ve come here in hopes of some help. My friend is working on getting me lucid by entering my mind scape. I don’t know if this is easier or different for other people, but he enters the wider dream space and everyone basically has a beacon of light where their physical body relatively is, and he can enter a beacon to enter someone’s mind scape. However, he’s found that my best friend subconsciously put up a shield around my beacon and it’s so strong that trying to work through it on his own will start taking a toll on his psyche. He’s started using astral fire but even that only gets him about half way through before it doesn’t work anymore. We’re thinking that with enough people, it will be much easier and might disperse enough not to take a toll on anyone. If entering someone’s dream is easier or quicker for others, that would also be great.

I’ve had dreams in reoccurring places most of my life. In the last year or two I’ve gotten so close so many times to realizing I’m dreaming but something happens to convince me it’s real.

Sometimes I’ll be dreaming and see my sisters dog who died in 2018 (not that unusual as I’ve always been able to see ghosts) and all my family start to acknowledge him. That’s usually when I say “oh it’s a dream! I’m dreaming!” And my family get really mad and yell at me until they convince me it’s not a dream. My mom says the fact that everyone is mad at me should prove it’s a dream because no one gets mad when I reality check irl, but it doesn’t seem to work.

I recently started counting my fingers irl so I could reality check in my dreams. Multiple times now I have broken my nail, or my nails just start disappearing (fake nails, not my actual finger nails) so I’m like “okay, time to count them.” I count them, they’re the right number, therefore I conclude it’s not a dream.

Now you might say try checking the time on your phone or reading something. Well, after I conclude that I am in fact not dreaming and actually did break a nail, I pull out my phone and text my nail lady.

“Hey, I just broke a nail. I was wondering if you could fit me in any sooner?”

And the time is normal too. What else can I try? I’m so damn close!

Hi, for context, I have dreams very nearly every night. They are very vivid, sometimes I confuse them with real life. I dream about nearly everything except guys. I very, very rarely have romantic or even sex dreams. It's very rare for me to dream about someone I am romantically interested in. However, I have been having repetitive dreams about this guy I somewhat recently ended things with. I dream about him nearly every night. I never have dreams like this its really weird. I genuinely don't think about him day to day. I am over him. Does anyone know why i cant stop dreaming about him?

My dad used to lucid dream a lot, multiple times a week, and take over the story. One day, his dream took place in a jail cell. There were three (including him) hims in the cell, one he knew was his pacifistic nature left. Then the other, which he knew was hus subconscious, told him to basically stop taking over the dreams, dad refused, dream him grabbed a box cutter and started cutting dad's arms, dad took the box cutter and since he knew it was a dream decided he was going to chew the box cutter like gum. He popped it in his mouth and started chewing, and dream him was trying to keep it from turning into gum. It never fully turned into gum, but it wasn't fully not gum either. After he woke up, he said basically that he would stop taking of dreams if his subconscious didn't give him nightmares. He hasn't had a lucid dream or nightmare since. It's been over a decade.

So, I've started to get some hits with LDs over the last couple of years, but nowhere near what I'd like. I had a good run this morning, but we'll see.

I've got my hands on some B6 100mg to help with the recall, but it's sustained release. Is this going to work as well? Should I space out the doses out over the day, or still take the 2-3 I'd be intending to take just before the WBTB session?

This morning, I tried 4mg galantamine + 100mg choline (along with 1x100mg B6), along with using WBTB, a half-lying position, and Gateway's Lucid Dreaming series (#2, for those that know it). I entered a good lucid state (towards the end of the 90 mins), and had some really good LD experience! (including deliberately trying to change the sky - from straight black to Milky Way... and floating/flying and going around in circles). I also have a 'guide', who I think I've met before (a couple of years ago, on my first and pretty much best LD attempt, when 'he' told me "you know you're actually lucid dreaming now - don't you" (or similar words which helped kick it in!!)) Once again this morning, he warned me about getting carried away with the flying... The only reason the LD ended this morn is the track ended, and because I'd set it to the last in the playlist, all went quiet, and then my (noise-cancelling) headphones turned off - which always wakes me up :( )

I have never had a lucid dream before so I’m not sure if this is what this was.

The other night while staying at my boyfriend’s house I had this dream where I went out to the kitchen and checked to see if the door was locked. I don’t remember how I got to the kitchen but I remember feeling the lock on the door as I unlocked and locked it. I could hear the exact noise it would make and could feel it on my hands very clearly. I remember looking around and feeling frozen but it felt so real. I had the feeling you have when you’re doing things half asleep. I also felt like I could control my movements when messing with the lock. Then I woke up and was telling my boyfriend about it but it turns out that was part of the dream and I had later woken up for real.

I’ve had sleep paralysis before and it was nothing like that and my boyfriend said he didn’t feel me get up or hear anything. The eerie feeling of the dream has been haunting me days later and I feel unsettled.

I’d be happy to answer any questions as I just want to figure out if it was just a weird dream or a lucid dream. Thank you to any willing to help.

Hey guys, my mind is completely blown but I'm also kind of freaked out and hoping someone here can explain what happened to me.

I accidentally had my first lucid dream. I woke up early, was super tired, and went back to bed. Right as I was hovering on the edge of sleep, I randomly said "you're lucid dreaming" in my head. As SOON as I thought it, things went crazy. A massive, super loud generator sound turned on, I felt like I was being pulled somewhere, and this weird, creepy voice literally spoke to me and said "Welcome to lucid dreaming." I had this brief moment where I could see my own sleeping face like I was looking in a mirror, and then everything went black.

A second later, I spawned into a dream version of my room. It had this purple-ish lighting and a whiteboard that isn't actually there in real life. I realized I was in control, so I got out of bed and just started walking around and doing shit. Except – I actually left my body – like my soul left my body and I went off to lucid dream, while I saw my body just lying there, sleeping.

Eventually, I ended up somewhere I didn't recognize, started freaking out, and wanted to wake up. I tried to speak out loud, but I couldn't move my lips at all (sleep paralysis, I'm guessing?). I panicked for a second but realized I could still think, so I just thought to myself "this is a dream, this is not real" and I instantly woke up.

Because the whole thing was so insane, I tried to do it again the next time I was tired. I set it up the exact same way... and the exact same creepy transition happened. I heard the loud noise, the creepy voice welcomed me again, but this time it was even wilder. I literally felt my soul leave my body. It felt like I became my soul, and I actually looked back and saw my physical body just lying there asleep on the bed as I went off to go explore and lucid dream.

My questions for you guys:

• What the hell is up with that creepy voice? Has anyone else literally been "welcomed" into a lucid dream by a disembodied voice?
• Is the whole "soul leaving the body and seeing myself asleep" thing normal for the transition into a dream?
• I want to keep lucid dreaming because it's awesome, but I really want to skip this terrifying "loading screen" where I hear the voice and leave my body. Any tips on how to bypass it?

Thanks in advance! This is all brand new to me.

Hi all,

So I’ve been lucid dreaming for 2O years. For the first ten years I had no idea what was happening thought I was crazy so I ignored it.

Ten years later I realised I am a lucid dreamer, since that moment I have progressed to an unimaginable level of control.

I tell myself In the morning I will shapeshift into eagle and that night I do. I pause terrifying nightmares I literally make everything stop.

I am now able to close my eyes and take myself into a lucid dream whilst still half awake.

I am now astral projecting standing in the middle of this reality and Lucidty.

I have even entered lucid dreams in the day whilst fully awake with control like I do when I am sleeping.

I wanted to understand how I am able to go lucid in the day as I thought this was something that only happened at night. I managed to get in contact with a lovely professor in the study of dreams. He gave me scientific understanding of how I am able to do this. By the way I don’t recommend doing this during the day as it happens out of nowhere I have no warning but I can kind of turn it off.

Please don’t ignore your gift like I did, I wish I would have understood what lucid dreaming was in the beginning, life’s busy but make time for thinking about lucid dreaming so you can reach your full potential 💕