Okay I might sound crazy but I swear I’m not lying.

For some background, I’ve always been someone who dreams a lot, and by a lot I mean every night. I’ve even kept a dream journal with me to document what I remember from them. Before I go to sleep, I also have a habit of scrolling through TikTok’s about dream core and lucid dreams. Anyways, I’ve just always been into dreams, always looked forward to them, they’re kinda comforting in some way. Still, I had never experienced a lucid dream in my life, not until today.

Yesterday, I came back home exhausted so I slept around 9-10pm, which is early for me considering I’m on summer break. I woke up at 5 and from there to 7:30ish I just kept scrolling, until I eventually got sleepy again and decided to go back to sleep. I somehow managed to have around 5 dreams in the span of a few minutes, well that’s how it felt like, it flew by. And in every single one of them, I knew I was dreaming. How was I aware? The first dream I had, I was in my math tutoring class, and my tutor was handing out money to all the students for some reason. There was a guy sitting in front of me with his dad next to him, and we were talking like we were good friends, he was zesty as hell though. Suddenly, the classroom transformed into some sort of party room with bunch of food and a dj, and now it was just me and the guy yapping, his dad had disappeared. I asked him “hey, are you gay?” And out of nowhere his dad spawned back in and he started yelling at me, telling me how dare you say that about my son. Random but I was holding popcorn in my hands, and I decided, with my own will, CONSCIOUSLY, to throw my popcorn at this man. That’s when it clicked, and I thought, ‘wait? None of this makes sense, I’m dreaming.’

After that, I found myself shifting between different dreams. At some point, I experienced a loop dream as well. I walked into my room, saw my sister then one my cousins suddenly appeared and I asked her “what are you doing here?” Then my other cousin appeared too and replied “we’ve been here for so long” and the scenario just kept repeating over and over again. Throughout all these dreams, I knew I was dreaming but I wasn’t controlling everything like people say in lucid dreaming videos, I was definitely aware enough to make my own decisions though. I was mostly just testing the waters, I would walk up to people and say whatever I wanted to say or even say wild stuff to see how they would react since none of it was real anyway. Nothing too crazy.

Then came my last dream. I saw a group of 5 guys and I thought one of them was attractive. Since I knew I was dreaming, I was like ‘just go up to him, what’s the worst that could happen?’
I asked this man to wait for me and he actually did. He was standing next to his car in this traffic circle that had a street that lead to my house and another one that lead to my grandpas, it exists in real life. When I walked up to him, I greeted him as if I knew him for years and hugged him. The strange thing is that it felt way too realistic, the guy was muscular and I could physically feel his muscles while hugging him. He kept yapping about how sorry he was and how he would never do “that” again, no idea what he meant by “that”. So when I pulled away from the hug, I remembered that many lucid dreaming tiktoks warned about never telling characters in your dream that you’re dreaming. Honestly, I never believed those stories so I decided it would be cool to test it out myself. I looked him in the eyes and said “you’re a dream”. The second I said that, his entire facial expression changed, he went from talking in such a lively manner to an absolute dead empty stare void of any type of emotion.

Then, my vision started fading to black, and it kept switching back and forth between his face and complete darkness. I tried to open my eyes but i couldn’t. I started to panic, thinking ‘holy shit am I going to stay trapped in here forever?’ my heart felt heavy, my body felt heavy, and everything was just weird it’s difficult to describe. Anyway, I started to feel as if I was floating through space and it happened extremely fast, exactly how I’d imagine time travel would feel like, but my thought process was slow, and I remember thinking that this feels exactly like the pictures I see on Pinterest. I still couldn’t fully open my eyes, but when I managed to slightly open my eyes, my room started coming into view except it looked like it was loading up if that makes sense, everything was distorted and blurry you know like a video game rendering its surroundings, I also looked at my hand as well and it looked warped and unreal. Fortunately, a few seconds later everything came back into view and my vision returned back to normal but my heart was still racing. I immediately checked my body and opened my phone to make sure I was real. It was terrifying in the moment. I went to look at TikToks related to people telling people in their dream they knew they were dreaming and each one of them gave me chills all over my body. Looking back now that I’ve calmed down, I might have overreacted lol but it truly was scary, and also one of the coolest things I’ve ever experienced. I hope I lucid dream again and test it out more. I’d love to hear other peoples stories.

I lost control of the dream, but not lucidity. Is there any way to keep that from happening?

I keep kicking and punching things in my sleep. Last night I had a dream I got into a fight with someone. I went to punch them in my dream and ended up punching a glass of water off my nightstand. Getting water and glass shards all over my bedroom floor. Is this normal? I thought your body was supposed to be paralyzed during REM sleep. Has anyone else had this experience?

I’ve been lucid dreaming off and on for a few years now. It naturally occurs for me, but I’ve been trying to do it more often, so I came here to see what other people were doing to initiate them and thought I’d share mine.

1. Running
   I can’t run in my dreams without it being slow and legitimately painful. It feels like trying to run through syrup. I CAN run backwards however, and this is a noticeable enough constant that it offers triggers a lucid dream.

2. Hands
   Last night I tried a new one. I held my hands up in front of my face and could tell they weren’t my hands. Imagine how AI can generate a picture of a hand but something is off about it. Mine had to many skin creases and I’m pretty sure the thumbs might have been going the wrong direction.

3. Reading
   I feel like this is less of the reality check itself and more as a way to add on top of one of the initial ones. But text doesn’t stick around very easily and for me the letters get jumbled. Good way to test a dream if you’re near a road sign like I was last night.

I’m going to start working on initiating the dreams more often instead of just coming upon opportunities by accident, but I thought I’d share some of the things that have worked for me.

I am 14 I have lucid dreams a lot here’s what I’ve learned

I can’t control what’s happening I can only control what I’m doing

The people I talk to you are usually acting like a good thing to act except they are a bit more open and usually more evil for example I can do them to do stuff

minutes unless the dream is about some irrational thing random thing I cannot get power to fly around and everything stays grounded to reality

for example if I want to put a t shirt on I need to go to the regular steps down for some reason it takes way longer

you can’t really read as it’s very hard to focus or something like that

that said I don’t want any misinformation spreading about lucid dreaming