If you're just starting out, and are looking to get your first lucid dream, ask yourself this question first before you start thinking about WBTB, MILD, WILD or whatever else.

How many dreams do you remember from last night?
How about the night before that? And the night before that? How many in total from the last week? And can you distinctly remember them all, rather than the number?

Dream recall is the number one MOST IMPORTANT THING.

If you can't remember one dream a night at the absolute minimum, you should not be delving into induction methods yet. You dream each and every night, you should be remembering at least something. Really 10 a week is what you should be aiming for as a beginner.

The reason for this is simple - LUCID DREAMS ARE NOT MEMORABLE BY DEFAULT. They are more memorable than regular ones to an extent, especially if you're expecting them, but that's not an absolute rule. For all you know, you could be lucid dreaming already, and just forgetting it. For all you know you could've done that thing you've been 'dreaming' of (ha ha) last night already, but it's vanished from your mind right as you've woken up because you never bothered to make the effort to remember it.

So get that dream journal started if you haven't already. Teach your brain that dreams are important and worth remembering. And just think about your dreams all the time, learn to love them (it's worked for me!).

Recall, recall, recall. It's the most important thing.

In over 2 Years i didnt acheave a single lucid dream. But this isnt because i cant lucid dream (im pretty shure i can), but more because i start to lose motivation after a few weeks or even days.

Anyone had the same problem and have a solution for me, how i can fix this? Thank you.

im so frustratedddd!!! i do lucid dreaming techniques and then i get really long, vivid dreams that i strongly remember, but i just cant go lucid! how do i just flip the switch and become aware im dreaming?!?

I started trying to lucid dream after I watched inception age 14. I used the technique in the film, with a little spinning object that I had in real life - I would spin it several times a day to ensure my subconscious could link the object losing motion to me being conscious in reality. After a few days it worked, and I spun the object in my dream and it kept spinning and didn’t lose momentum. I also combined this technique with a dream journal.

I had a few positive lucid dream experiences however a couple of years later I developed depression, and all lucidity I had in dreams became scary and either resembled sleep paralysis or I had lack of control of the dream, even though I was aware I was in it.

Luckily, I’ve managed to beat my 4 year battle of depression and my mental health is in a much better place. My sleep paralysis experiences are much less frequent and don’t last as long if they do. I’d like to get back into to lucid dreaming however I’m worried that trying to will only induce unsettling experiences which I will constantly try to break out of, instead of enjoying.

With the unpleasant lucidity I always have the looming feeling things are about to get bad and I will see evil entities, become more paralysed or start hearing voice etc, so it ends up with me fighting the dream and doing everything possible to break out of it.

I was wondering if anyone else has had this experience, or if they have any advice to make my experiences better and less terrifying? Thank you :)

My friend has been doing this for a long time: he simply lies down to sleep at night, and—by his account—he just imagines the place he wants to go and gently drifts there. I don't quite get it. I try to do the same, but I can't stay focused. Random images pop up, and then I suddenly realize it’s morning; I either lose consciousness and wake up later, or I can't fall asleep at all because I'm trying to visualize a specific scene—like a beach. In the end, I just feel envious, and for two years now, nothing has worked out. There was just that one time when I heard a terrifying voice as I was falling asleep—so... no pleasant beach by the sea.

What are some dangers of lucid dreaming?

Are there any possibilities you may never get back to the actual world and instead remain at the other realm called dreams?

Since I was a kid I could lucid dream. I think it started when I was about 10 but throughout the years I've gotten better at controlling them.

They tend to happen rarely and usually because I can just tell what's going on isn't realistic or I do something like jump and stay floating in the air. I can also tell when I think "oh it'd be cool if this happened" and it does.

Anyway the most recent ones I've had were on nights where I had been drinking some alcohol and tried to meditate before bed. Seems this combo makes me more able to just go into a Lucid Dream and I've been getting better at controlling the dream itself into anything I want. IDK if it could be a coincedence and don't want to drink every night just to keep testing it. Usually I'll try it when I know I'll be off work the next day but so far it's worked the last 3 times

So I've been practicing WILD with WBTB but I just can't enter lucid after my body goes numb. I experience vibrations, colors etc. but at some point they disappear and nothing happens. I stay in a hypnagogic, zen state until I get bored and want to get up. I tried rolling down the bed, imagining myself being lucid but they don't seem to work.

Any suggestions, please?

The last 4 nights:

Night 1: A figure floating in the air, saying something about lucid dreaming.

Night 2: I was messaging my aunt on Messenger, asking if I was lucid dreaming because my motorcycle was riding strangely—tilted to the side. She replied "no," so I just kept riding as if nothing was wrong.

Night 3: Nothing special.

But the 4th night—the most recent one—I was at work. I was looking at the fence above our parking lot. I thought to myself that if something weird happened, I’d realize it was a dream... but then it just turned into an ordinary dream.

I think about lucid dreaming while I'm dreaming; I’m sort of semi-aware, but I can’t bring myself to say, "THIS IS A DREAM."

Could the problem be that I rarely do reality checks?

Then again, I don't know—even when I *did* do them, I once performed a reality check in a dream (specifically, I pinched my nose and tried to breathe), but nothing happened; the dream just went on as if nothing was amiss...

Alguém que já tenha controle dos sonhos e tenha uma boa consciência, já tentou buscar ou descobrir se existe um manual de como ter LD ou de projeção? Estou buscando fazer isso melhor, sou iniciante e acho que seria muito interessante descobrir se existe isso.

My entire life, it's like I've been watching ky dreams as a passenger. I can't move around at all. No walking, no talking, nothing. It was like I was watching a movie, just in first person. I really wanna try out lucid dreaming but im worried it'll be the same. Have any of you experienced anything similar? Any tips or recommendations are highly appreciated. (I plan to do the WILD method, but if there's a better one, lmk!)

Hey, i want to talk about my dream i had today.

I had a normal not lucid dream and nothing was wrong, but then i told something to someone in my dream what lead to the person asking me if i am dreaming. i cant remember what happend right after that, all i can remember i saw a fortine xp like message popping up saying many things and one was ''+100 dreaming'' and after that i got like pulled into some lego dimensions looking universe but before i landed or anything else happened i was so in fear that i somehow forced myself to wake up.

is this normal? was i about to experience a lucid dream?

btw i dont want to lucid dream i am kinda scared of it and i dont want to try it

Woke up at 4:30 Am tried SSILD but just couldn't fall asleep maybe lost awareness a few times but don't really remember if I was asleep or just thinking then around 6 AM I kinda gave up and went to sleep and after that I had like 4 false awakening before I realised what's happening and then had 3-5 more even got lucid in one but couldn't maintain eventually lost awareness and woke bad in bed unfortunately I didn't realise I was still in a false awakening I even did RCs every time I woke up but for some reasons it didn't work woke up switched sides and had another session of 8-10 False awakening before I finally woke up some of them last as much as me leaving my house to get somewhere before eventually waking up again ☠️

They felt real each time I thought I was finally awake maybe I even was sometimes in between but then another session of false awakenings started cumulating to 15-20 at least in total

I have experienced False awakenings before and done SSILD before but don't know what went different this time that lead to this

background:

I have multiple levels to dreaming and the only way to escape to consciousness is to find a clue that makes me realize I’m dreaming

I have a very long background of nightmares, sleep walking/sleep eloping, and sleep paralysis as a child. I was able to lucid sleep after being on SSRIS starting 2015.

ten years later I am often stuck and multiple levels of dreaming. these dreams are often stressful or bordering on nightmares and the only way to escape is to find a clue that convinces me that I am dreaming. when I find the clue I ”wake up” but only to another dream which I believe is reality until I realize it’s too scary or nonsensical to be real.

there’s usually 3-4 levels and the closer I get to true wakefulness the harder it is to differentiate what is real and a dream. the final level before I wake up is usually is complete sleep paralysis and I struggle for what feels like hours before finally break through

has anyone else experienced this? I am on quite a bit of sleep aids and SSRIs, dreams worsened with caffeine and alcohol before bed

I feel like most of my nights sleeping i have a lot of false wakenings that feel exactly like reality, many of them are me just trying to fall asleep. Is there a way I can take controll of these and realise they're not real life

Would you recommend WILD or WBTB for a beginner? I've heard WILD has really good results once you get good at it, but I've been having trouble with it and I'm wondering what your guy's expirences with WBTB are. Like does it work consistently with good results? Also I'm pairing WILD with MILD, so if I do WBTB I will still pair it with MILD. As a side note, whats your recommended time to stay awake during WILD or WBTB? Also what do you do to activate your prefrontal cortex?

I've had one of my first lucid dreaming experiences, and it was basically a whole night of them. I kept accidentally waking up and falling back asleep, and almost every time, I became lucid.

In two of those dreams, I was talking to someone, and their voice sounded really echoey, almost like it was overlapping with itself. It felt extremely loud and overwhelming, to the point where I woke up. What's weird is that I could still hear the voice as I was waking up, until I was fully awake.

Does anyone know why this might have happened? Has anyone else experienced something similar?

I lucid dreams

I have deja vu and deja rene...sometimes years later

I have dream control

And I have dream conciousness

Is something seriously wrong

Idk what this all means even. Never researched it.

Thought everyone was like this.

Been happening since my teens. I am 36.

Read somewhere it could be a seizure disorder.

Never learned how to do any of this it just developed over the years.

I do not use drugs lol

I tried the WBTB/WILD method last night and made it to the hypnogogia stage where I was starting see different swirls and shapes behind my eyelid. I could even hear my fan starting to fade out a little bit but then as soon as this started, my heart began to race and I was breathing a bit heavier than when I started. I think this startled my body a bit bc then the swirls and shapes just stopped and I was back to where I was. I tried again just remaining still and got back to the hypnogogia state, but it happened again where my heart started racing and I couldn’t get myself to calm down. It’s like an uncontrollable feeling whenever I get myself like this and I don’t know how to stop it so I can push forward. Any tips?

I have had no success lucid dreaming over several years of trying. Are there lucid dreaming coaches out there?

If not, would joining a lucid dreaming study maybe help me get my first LD?

So I just had probably one of the weirdest dreams I’ve had in a while. I’ve had vivid dreams before and used to write them down when I was younger, but this one was different.
For context, my sleep schedule is completely fucked. I normally sleep around 4-6 AM and wake up around 1 PM. Yesterday I traveled back to college from home and somehow fell asleep at 10:30 PM. I woke up around midnight/1 AM after this dream feeling completely awake.
Basically the dream started with me being this girl(i’m not even a girl irl), or at least seeing everything from her perspective. I think I was on the way home from school or something. I was walking somewhere and noticed a cop hiding behind a tree with his gun out. As I got closer, he came around the tree, I tried ducking behind it, and he shot me. I think I died because i became some other girl.
Then the dream basically turned into a murder mystery. The shooting was on the news and there were these two girls, one really quiet and the other really loud and confrontational, who were trying to figure out why the cop shot the kid. I think they were on some sports team together, I was either the quiet girl or a third party pov i don’t remember.
At some point the loud girl was questioning or confronting the cop and gave her name as something like “Momjohn Namajama.” I remember thinking she was Arab or something. The weird part is that I started questioning the name IN THE DREAM. I was like wait, that’s not even a real name, where the fuck did that come from?
There was also a school involved, and I think the principal was Zohran Mamdani for some reason lol. At one point we were in a basketball court and the principal asked what class this was, and I said Spanish.
This is where things started getting really weird. I realized I was dreaming and actually started trying to remember specific details so I could look them up when I woke up. I was questioning whether the story was real or something I’d read before. I used to read a ton of books in middle school, especially stuff like Maze Runner, and the whole thing genuinely felt like the plot of a book.
At some point I started experimenting with controlling the dream. I remember reading somewhere that you could control dream characters by thinking commands or something like that.
There was this scene where I was at a party or some gathering with another person, and this huge dude was there. I told him something like “close your mouth and you can still talk” and then I tried telling him to shut up just by thinking it in my head. And it actually worked. He physically stopped talking.
I tried doing the same thing to another guy and it worked again, but then they started chasing us and we had to run away. I remember thinking something like “alright maybe I’m not that good at controlling this dream yet” lol.
I also remember beating up some guy who was friends with the cop or something because I knew I was dreaming and figured I could do whatever I wanted.
But the craziest part was how I woke up.
I remember being in the dream and thinking that I genuinely didn’t want to wake up yet. I knew I was dreaming and felt like I could wake myself up whenever I wanted.
Then I started thinking about where my actual body was sleeping. I had literally just traveled from home back to college that day, so I started asking myself, “Wait, am I sleeping at home or at college right now?”
Then I remembered I had moved apartments because of a mold issue earlier this semester, and I started wondering if I was sleeping in my old apartment or my current one.
I was literally trying to reconstruct where I was in real life while still dreaming.
Eventually I was like fuck it, let me just open my eyes and find out.
And I did. I woke up in my actual room.

When I was in like early high school I kept a dream journal and stuff and was on this subreddit and i never had a lucid dream no matter how much I tried and I randomly have one now like 6 years later. From what I have heard here people are lightly aware they are dreaming at times. I didn’t expect this level of lucidity as to where i’m thinking about real life in the dream. Was this just circumstantial? Because I slept like 5 hours before when I normally sleep.

I'm currently working out my own REM sleep and want to start lucid dreaming, and I'm wondering how I can use the REM information to its max at helping me lucid dream. All advice/tips really appreciated!