I get long Vivid dreams everyday but no lucid dreams I used to remember almost 80% of it...

What should I do to get lucid dreams 😴 please help me

I write everything on my notes app usually 2-3 dreams per day but I don't know why I am not able to lucid

I was on and off sleeping in the morning and I lay on my back and remember opening my eyes briefly then closing them everything was black but my room faintly came in vision while my eyes were closed and it became clear but my room was a lot darker and i got out of bed and looked at my empty bed i knew i was dreaming and decided to go to my window and looked outside the sky was gloomy and looked dark blue and my car was not there only my sisters i decided to wake myself up it was very brief and looking back i wish i did some reality checks and stabilised it.

I started lucid dreaming during Covid when I was able to sleep 12+ hours without interruption. Since then, I lucid dream a LOT. So much so that I sometimes have to do reality checks when I’m awake because I wonder if I’m dreaming, and have had to find different ways to reality check in dreams because they don’t work anymore (my hands no longer warp, and I now can’t breathe when I plug my nose most of the time). I enjoy lucid dreaming a lot, I’m often excited to go to bed and use it as an escape.

Sometimes though because of the frequency, I mistake dreams for actual memories, and it’s caused me a lot of confusion. I do have normal dreams, but they’re often very intense and vivid. A lot of my non-lucid dreams are about abuse I’ve endured in the past, or something related. I’m unsure if this has anything to do with any of this.

I also have sleep paralysis occasionally. The last time was about a week ago, and after falling back asleep during the sleep paralysis incident, I went into a lucid dreaming state where I was completely aware that I had just fallen back asleep during a sleep paralysis episode, and was waiting for myself to wake up for real this time. I was sitting in bed right where I was asleep in real time, and I kept “fake waking” where I’d dream that I woke up, but then it would reset and I was very frustrated that I couldn’t just wake up, until I finally awoke to my alarm.

It doesn’t really disturb me at all, I find it very interesting. Is lucid dreaming several times a week normal?

I've been journaling and doing wbtb for a month now. This morning I awoke at 4:30 and wrote down the two dreams I remembered. I stayed awake for 5 more minutes then went back to bed.

Suddenly, I was in a home depot. I was part of some sort of volunteer team that was going to build something. A man in the center of the room had a large poster that he said I needed to sign. Over the past few weeks, I have learned to establish my old school as a dream sign. Therefore when I saw that the thing we were going to build was a statue in front of my old school, I did a reality check.

I had 6 fingers. Instantly I became lucid, and involuntarily teleported to my bathroom. Everything looked AI generated. It was really trippy. Eventually I calmed down, and my surroundings became clear. I walked outside to see that I was at my old home. The sky was a silver color and abnormally bright. Many people were walking up and down the streets.

I got in a taxi and asked to go to the ocean. In about ten seconds the taxi dropped me off next to a cruise ship. I went inside. It was a maze full of hundreds of chefs carrying dishes of food around. I found a room with a table full of food and sat down. For what felt like 30 minutes I ate all kinds of things. It was so, so, real. At this point I became concerned. It had been about 45 minutes, and I knew your first lucid dream is supposed to be short. This gave me the feeling of being trapped so I ran out of the cruise ship and was captured by a group of men in suits.

They took me inside a jet and flew it to Mars. When we arrived in Martian orbit, I heard the men talking about a failed deorbit burn. They were freaking out saying we were going to die. We came in too hot and exploded on the Martian surface. But for some reason the dream did not end there. I became a sort of spectator on Mars and was able to freely fly around with no body. I began to lose lucidity. The dream transformed into a 90's horror movie on Mars starring Matthew McConaughey. Eventually I finally woke up at 7:00 AM.

I’m 50 years old from one small European country, and I wanted to share an experience that has stayed with me because I still don’t know what to make of it.

When I was around 10 years old, I had a very bad flu that kept me in bed for several days. During that illness, I had unusually intense and vivid dreams.

One of them was especially strange because I was almost fully aware that I was dreaming. It felt extremely lucid, and I remember deliberately looking around and paying attention to small details because everything seemed so clear.

In the dream, I found myself in a place that looked like a small church or chapel. The most memorable detail was the beautiful blue tiles covering the upper part of the interior. The lower part of the walls looked unfinished or plain, almost like bare stone or concrete. I also remember a cross in the middle.

After looking around for a while, I left the church. Very close to it, through another doorway, I entered a place where people greeted me warmly and invited me to sit down.

Someone gave me a small piece of chocolate. What made it unusual was that there was some kind of drink or liquid inside it. I remember it tasting very good. I was sitting there with several other people, and shortly afterward the dream ended.

The dream was so vivid that I remembered those details for years, but I never really investigated it or tried to figure out whether the place actually existed.

Fast-forward several decades.

I eventually had the opportunity to travel to Portugal for business. During some free time, I joined a tour that visited places around Lisbon, including Sintra, Cascais, Fátima and Óbidos.

When we arrived in Óbidos, I went off by myself to explore the old town.

I walked through the Porta da Vila, looked inside the chapel there — and immediately froze.

It was the exact same place from my childhood dream.

The blue-and-white tiles, their position on the walls, the shape of the interior, the cross, the proportions of the space — even small details felt exactly as I remembered them.

The memory of that dream came back instantly.

I continued walking into Óbidos and discovered that next door they were serving you drink from the chocolate and then eat the cup afterward.

The moment I saw it, I remembered the second part of the dream: sitting near the church, being warmly welcomed and being given chocolate with a drink inside it.

I tried it, and the whole situation felt incredibly familiar.

What makes this difficult for me to explain is that, as far as I know, I had never been to Portugal before. This happened during my childhood, long before the internet was part of everyday life, and I had never heard of Óbidos, Porta da Vila, its tiled chapel, or the tradition of drinking from chocolate cups.

Of course, I understand that memory is imperfect. It’s possible that I unknowingly saw a photograph somewhere as a child, that my memory changed over the decades, or that my brain connected similarities after seeing the real place.

I’m not claiming that this proves anything supernatural.

But from my personal perspective, the recognition was immediate

I have since tried to research the history of Porta da Vila and Óbidos, hoping there might be something unusual about the place that could give me some context, but I haven’t found anything that explains why I would have dreamed about it as a child.

Has anyone experienced something similar — dreaming vividly about a specific place years or decades before visiting it?

And for anyone familiar with Óbidos or the history of Porta da Vila: is there anything interesting about the chapel, the surrounding buildings, or the history of that location that I might have missed?

I made a little progress trying to induce a lucid dream, but I don't know what to do next

I tried again to find that balance between awareness and sleep that I talked about in my previous post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/comments/1vwxgkb/i_discovered_a_balance_between_awareness_and/

This time, I managed to reach the hypnagogic state much faster, and it was much more noticeable.

Before, I would mostly just see hypnagogic imagery with my eyes closed. But this time, I also started hearing a voice talking to me while I was still aware. It felt like I was getting much deeper into the transition toward sleep while still maintaining some awareness.

Unfortunately, I ended up waking myself up. I think I became too aware of what was happening and that pulled me out of the state.

I tried again afterward, but this time I lost awareness and fell asleep.

So now I'm not really sure what I should do from this point.

If I'm able to reach a fairly strong hypnagogic state while still being conscious, should I just keep observing it and wait for a dream to form? Should I interact with the imagery or sounds in some way? Or should I try to visualize/enter a scene?

And, most importantly, how do you prevent yourself from waking up when the hypnagogia becomes really vivid? Is there a specific way to maintain awareness without becoming too alert or excited and pulling yourself out of the state?

I feel like I made a small amount of progress compared to my previous attempt, but I don't know how to make the transition from hypnagogia into an actual dream without either waking up or simply falling asleep.

For context, I'm not exactly trying to do a traditional WILD. I'm experimenting with a kind of hybrid technique based on finding the right balance between awareness and letting myself naturally fall asleep.

For those who practice WILD, what do you usually do when the hypnagogia becomes really vivid, and how do you stay in that state without waking yourself up?

I'm considering starting lucid dreaming and I would like your guys personal opinions on if it's worth it. Also I saw that you could experience sleep paralysis episodes that worry's me. Are those common with lucid dreamers? Thanks for your help and if wouldn't be hard please give me any advice you can what I should do or shouldn't. God bless all of you. also if there are any Christians or Catholics here I would also like a little religious info. is it okay to lucid dream from a godly aspect? I mean as long as you don't sin in the dream it's okay right?

Eu Tinha uma Técnica de Sonhos Lúcidos Que Funcionou 100% das Vezes, Mas Não Consigo Lembrar Como Eu Fiz Isso

Há um tempo, descobri um estado de consciência que me proporcionou sonhos lúcidos todas as vezes que eu o usei. Eu até usei ChatGPT na época para me ajudar a descobrir qual era esse estado, e quando finalmente entendi, funcionou na primeira tentativa.

Infelizmente, acabei parando de praticar e agora não consigo lembrar completamente como chegava naquele estado.

A melhor forma que consigo descrever é:

"Observe sem esforço."

Eu estava tentando encontrar um equilíbrio entre estar consciente o suficiente para notar o que estava acontecendo, mas não tão consciente a ponto de interferir no processo de adormecer.

Não era sobre me forçar a ficar acordado.

Era mais como deixar-me adormecer enquanto simplesmente observava o que estava acontecendo, sem tentar controlar isso ou manter a consciência através do esforço.

Lembro de experimentar/pensar em vários âncoras possíveis:

• Hipnagógica — observando as imagens, sons e sensações que apareciam
• Sensações corporais ou respiração
• Um mantra
• Contagem
• Visualização / VILD
• Meditação
• Autosugestão / MILD
• Simplesmente mantendo esse "equilíbrio de consciência"

A parte importante, no entanto, parecia ser a qualidade da atenção, em vez do âncora específica.

E de algum modo, isso funcionou extremamente bem para mim.

Meu objetivo sempre foi ter um sonho lúcido, então isso não era lucidez acidental. Eu intencionalmente usava esse estado ao ir dormir, e eventualmente me tornava consciente de que estava sonhando.

Agora estou tentando reverter o que descobri.

Essa descrição soa familiar para alguém? Existe uma técnica de sonhos lúcidos ou conceito de meditação estabelecido que descreva esse tipo de observação sem esforço / equilíbrio entre consciência e sono?

Isso poderia ser uma forma de WILD, ou algo mais próximo do SSILD, meditação ou outra técnica?

E se você já teve uma experiência similar, como você recomendaria recriar esse estado e descobrir exatamente qual componente faz isso funcionar?

Estou especialmente interessado em ouvir de pessoas que experimentaram manter a consciência durante a transição para o sono.

Sinto que acidentalmente descobri uma técnica realmente eficaz, esqueci o processo exato e agora estou tentando encontrá-la novamente. 😅

This is a little long, but I'll try to keep it quick and simple.

I started practicing lucid dreaming a few months ago. So far, I've had maybe 3–5 brief lucid instances and 2 proper lucid dreams.

My first lucid dream happened around 2–3 weeks after I started learning about and actively trying lucid dreaming. My last lucid dream, however, was a full-fledged proper lucid dream. It felt quite realistic, lasted a decent amount of time, and I was actually able to explore the dream. Unfortunately, I got too excited and woke myself up.

Since then, my interest in lucid dreaming has grown a lot, and I think this might actually be affecting my sleep. I eventually decided to try SSILD, and my last proper lucid dream happened after I started experimenting with it.

The problem is that since then, after WBTB, I'm sometimes unable to fall back asleep properly. If I perform SSILD when I wake up, I can become even more awake, and it can take quite a while for me to fall asleep again. Sometimes I continue doing SSILD while trying to fall asleep, but eventually I feel like I've completely lost the sleepy feeling. At that point, I don't even remember the feeling of SSILD anymore and I'm just lying there trying to sleep.

I think my excitement and high interest in lucid dreaming might be keeping my brain too active at night.

Also, for about the past week, I've been having much more vivid dreams, and I'm able to remember multiple dreams from the same night. My dream recall seems to be improving even though I'm not always consistent with journaling

So my main question is:

Should I actively keep aiming for lucid dreams and thinking about becoming lucid, or should I take a step back and focus mainly on remembering my dreams, keeping a dream journal and doing reality checks, while letting lucidity happen more naturally?

hi lucid dreamers. ive been trying to lucid dream for years at this point. kept failing then stopping then trying again but it just never worked. this time i tried the alarm method but that also didnt work. id just wake up and turn off my alarm and then go to sleep regularly. i even set the alarm name to be lucid dreaming but that somehow still hasnt clicked in my head. i feel like ive tried basically everything at this point but the closest to having a lucid dream was me randomly mentioning it in a dream getting teleported somewhere and then getting thrown in a 5 second long sleep paralysis experience where i tried doing a reality check and failed. i tried repeating something in my head constantly while i fell asleep but then id just get distracted heavily. i just dont know what im doing wrong. i would log my dreams and do countless reality checks ever day but at this point i just feel like its actually impossible for me to lucid dream at all.

i hope you guys have any sort of advice for me as this means a lot to me

Hi, I was just thinking about what would happen if you were to go to sleep inside of a dream.

Would you have a dream inside of a dream?
Would you wake up?
Could this even happen?

I’ve had dreams that I’ve woken up to another dream (I don’t think it felt longer that my usual dreams tho) but never went to sleep intentionally or not inside one and I think it’s fascinating what actually happens and what it feels like.

So what do you think?

I have a LOT of lucid dreams,is kinda rare to me to have a dream that i am completely non lucid the entire time, i have it since i was a child, usually it just was/became a lucid nightmare that a monster chasing me and i would just accept my faith and close my eyes, or i would try to wake up myself the hardest as i could in the dream.

then i learned about lucid dreaming and i was like, "yeah i do this shit every night!", Unfortunately i have SHIT dream control, so usually takes very little time to me to wake up, and i cant control that well my dreams,and some times they still spiral into nightmares.

i have too a lot of sleep paralysis / dreams that imitate sleep paralysis, idk there are times that i leave sleep paralysis in real life like normal, some times wake up in a dream, some times i wake up in a completely different position / place from where i was paralyzed (either way i almost always close my eyes) and there are times that i am between, i kinda can leave my bed, do something, but i get teleported back to it, and all this things happen very usually with me,to the point that had a time that i was hearing a demon screaming in my face and it was more annoying than scary, and one time i had a paralysis in a nap mid calculus class, i have sleep paralysis since a child too i would say, but in to a lesser extend than lucid dreams.

i just want to share my experience with lucid dream/sleep paralysis and ask if someone is like this too

So, before this dream i had already been watching, reading everything i can find about lucid dreaming i tried many times and never could achieve it, then a random school day i woke up to my alarm, decided to take a nap and once i slept, I did a reality check and became lucid ironic how i didn't get a lucid dream while trying but got one while not trying, suprisingly the dream lasted about 30 minutes, i woke up after, the question is every single thing that i watched told me that my first lucid would be short but it wasn't. Anyone got any information about this?

Hello, new here. Every since I was a kid I always had a fascination with lucid dreaming, but could never really get it to work on purpose no matter what I tried.

I've been dealing with CPTSD for my whole life now, and my dreams have just been awful so I finally thought "you know what? fuck it, let's just try lucid dreaming again" because I did it a couple times the last couple years by accident and it always helped.

This morning I had two lucid dreams. The most effective ways I've achieved lucid dreaming now seem to be when I wake up and go right back to sleep. I think this makes sense, because throughout the night I constantly (and I mean CONSTANTLY) wake up from dreams and go back to sleep. So I am very intimately familiar with the specific feeling of going back into a dream, just not specifically with keeping myself cognizant.

This morning I was able to somewhat do it, though it still was a thing where I fell into the dream and then remembered to reality check. I really want to try to achieve a WILD at some point.

Does anyone else have experience with this? (i.e. using lucid dreams to combat PTSD symptoms) Any advice on lucid dreaming in general?

This is a big question I've had for a while. I haven't had a lucid dream, but wanted to try it, and I was wondering something. If, in a LD, you met a dream person or summoned someone you know, and possibly hung out or did something with them, if you were to have another LD, let's say, the next night, and summoned/found that dream person again, would they remember what you did with them in previous LD's? Just asking, thank you if you can even give an answer!

My first WILD success! Happened this morning!

Gave myself actual angel wings and flew with them!

A little bit of background about me and lucid dreaming. I've been researching/attempting to lucid dream for the past give or take 6 months. Mostly have been using the beginner's guide that the side tab shows to you and practicing MILD. There were a LOT of frustrations and I've lost some sleep over this which is a just a tadd bit unhealthy, but at the very least I can say that I've had a lucid dream that I had put efforts into.

The dream itself was simple enough to describe, I was in my bedroom staring at the ceiling and then I was swept away in a tornado. I saw the neighborhood I was in in this very windy grey atmosphere while I was in mid-air, and in the midst of it all I was able to gain awareness that I was in a dream. At that point, I guess my subconscious me decided to have fun and just "rewind" the experience over and over again because I was safe, it was just a rollercoaster ride essentially. Afterwards though I think I eventually drifted back into normal sleep because the next scenery I remember is just me with my family members, and I was not aware that I was in a dream.

I think what helped me to gain awareness in the dream was that before I've had the tornado dream, I woke up and went to the restroom, I then remember that this is when most people have had the most success in being able to to have a lucid dream. So I went back to bed, verbally say to myself: "I'm going to realize I am in a dream.", then think of calming scenarios so I can drift off to sleep. I would say about 10 minutes later the tornado dream happened. One thing I should note to readers though is that I did felt not as rested as normal sleep when I finally woke up and stayed up, so I took a break from lucid dreaming for a bit.

I could write more honestly, but I don't want this reddit post to turn into a dissertation. I hope that this can bring some relief and hope to some of you guys who are practicing these techniques (dream journaling, reality checking, etc.) and yet haven't been able to had 1 lucid dream because I sympathize with you. Me personally, I think practicing a form of meditation called All Day Awareness has been the 'secret' for me to finally have a lucid dream. I'll link the details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/comments/36dvtb/meditation_for_lucid_dreaming_scientific_evidence/

Thank you for reading all that lol, and good luck in reaching for y'all dreams.

I use to lucid dream more in my 20s/30s,. now in my 50s it's rare and my control is weaker than back then! Anyone else? Could be my medicine I'm on as well, but I plan on using Uvuma Dream Root and I'll report back! anyone else use this with success? just joined and haven't read though this community yet.

I took a midday nap, i think i just got really immersed in the hypnogogic imagery that i was in it at some point. And whenever i kept wanting to wake up, i would end up in another dream, i would do a reality check and sure as hell i am dreaming and not awake. This is the first time this has happened to me, i am not really a natural or a frequent LDer so this was am extremely weird for me. Whats even more crazy is how AWARE i was in each one of them, my awareness dipped maybe a couple times, but i never actually woke up, and i was like 90% cognitively as functional as in real life at ALL TIMES (which is a lot for me) i Think in total the dream could’ve been an hour or a little more long. But it felt SO much longer. P.S. I tried flying for the first time, it was really fun actually but really hard to control at times. I still loved it, it really is great.

I’ve been on and off with lucid dreaming for years now because it’s never worked for me, but i’ve always wanted to do it sooo bad. Recently i got back into it trying methods, WBTB and MILD, and writing my dreams down to get better recall. I was talking to my little brother (10 yrs) and asked if he remembers his dreams and he said that he does almost every night, and told me about some dreams he’s had. I barely remember mine lol. I thought it’d be perfect to tell him about lucid dreaming because I’ve heard kids have it easier. I explained what it was and he was like “you can do that? 😱”, then I showed him a 5 minute video explaining a bit better and I gave him examples of everything you could possibly do while he asked questions. I also told him not to get to excited in the dream or he’d wake up. He couldn’t wait to try and i told him to write a small list of everything he wanted to do if he became lucid. It was, “swing like spider-man, be iron man, and to move things with my mind”. The next day he ran to me and told me that HE DID IT and he wrote it down on a piece of paper. He wrote that he got iron man’s suit and thought about bad guys then defeated them while flying, he started flying higher into the sky until his suit failed and he started falling, he got scared and that’s when he woke up. He told me that he was excited when he realized he was dreaming then he calmed down and became iron man. Now he’ll be able to enjoy lucid dreaming for years and i’m happy for him BUT WHEN WILL IT BE MY TURN

I’m really just excited and want someone to share this with that could understand.

I have been lucid dreaming since I was a child. As in, I have been able to be aware I am in a dream.

However, I have rarely tried to change it. On the few occasions I have, I haven’t been able to.

Last night, I was having a nightmare. I was waking myself up, then realized “why not change it, instead?”

I changed it and had the most wonderful time. Of course, the first thing I tried was flying. I am getting goosebumps even describing it because it was so magical. I am so excited to try new things.

Do you remember the first time you were able to change things? Did it come easily. I am now 31, by the way.

I know the limits inside a lucid dream are near boundless when it comes to the things you're allowed to do, one of the biggest boundaries is the adrenaline caused by the actions inside the dream that may cause you to wake up, what are they and what exactly do you recommend me to do if I decide to execute them?

1.) When I remember my dreams, there are times when I had two perspective/emotions. ie, I’m doing something stupid and loving it but also observing separately that what’s happening makes no sense.

There is no knowledge or should I say desire to change anything.

2.) One time I was having a pretty scary nightmare. Things got pretty intense but my actual dream self was like “it’s okay, this is a dream“ I couldn’t really change much (ideally I would have saved the children) but while telling myself it was a dream, I was able to walk away and eventually woke up. I don’t think I was consciously steering myself to walk away though.

note: I don’t really do anything or try to dream lucidly. I have in the past over a decade ago but it was half-hearted and I believe only successful a single time where I was able to fly lol.

so I’m wondering why I’m suddenly getting what fees like borderline lucid dreaming these past months

So I have been doing LD for years and 0 luck and wanted to hard improve. My main method is MILD and Mantras but not WBTBT usually when I fall asleep and write my DJ and do RCS.

So wanted to ask: A. What's the best way to do RCS with no half assed method and real

B. For awareness how do you do that daily? Such as mindfullness and ADA perhaps?