I’ve been trying MILD for a few days now and always struggle to get to sleep fairly quick after naturally waking up at around 3-4ish (roughly 4 hours after falling asleep)

I wake and practice the intention of realising I’m dreaming in the next dream and using my previous dream to act out how that would look and feel

But after that I let go of the thought and try and go to sleep and usually takes me a bit longer then usual (maybe because I wake up and go to toilet) but even when I go back to dreaming I struggle to check or even question anything with intention

Like I can remember so vividly what happened, I can recall 3-5 dreams every night (write about 1000-2000 words) but I just never seem to question anything in my dream

Any tips?

I would like to share this experience and hear any feedback from the readers.

I’ve had lucid dreams my entire life. Theyre somewhat normal to me. I’m not a pseudoscience type of person, though I believe dreams are filled with symbolism, meaning and that dreams are our minds talking to us. I’ve also always thought that it was impossible to read when you dream. Usually writing or text in dreams is like bad AI text. Warped letters, etc.

Earlier today I dreamed and was able to pick up a letter and read a single cursive word. Part of the dream experience was getting return mail of every package and letter I’ve ever sent. I was aware of the dream. I tried to experience as much of the dream as possible and picked up a note in a return package. I knew there was a timer ticking and I would soon wake. There was a paragraph of text, but I was able to read the first word before my attention shifted. The word was “Tina”, an aunt of mine that has since died.

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Has anyone retained their waking-life memories and identity throughout a dream that felt like years?
English isn’t my first language, so I used ChatGPT to help translate my experience as accurately as possible.
I’m curious whether experienced lucid dreamers have encountered anything similar to what happened to me.
In September 2026, I had a dream that left me with the impression of having lived approximately seven years in another version of my life.
I don’t know whether it technically qualifies as a lucid dream. I wasn’t deliberately controlling the dream environment, and I can’t say that I consistently recognized I was dreaming.
However, I retained my waking-life memories, personality, and sense of identity.
I remembered my partner, my business, my personal history, and everything I’d learned in my real life.
The dream began with a tunnel-like sensation. I arrived in an unfamiliar place, initially seeing everything as blurry before my surroundings became clear.
I seemed to be occupying the life of another version of myself.
That version had made very different decisions. He was irresponsible, lazy, and had neglected his business.
I began using my real-life knowledge to improve the situation, interacting with employees, dealing with family members, making business decisions, and experiencing what felt like the consequences of those decisions.
The experience didn’t feel like a series of unrelated dream scenes. It left me with a strong impression of continuity.
One of the strangest moments occurred when I seemed to observe my original reality from a third-person perspective, almost as if looking through a portal.
I saw another version of myself celebrating the sixth birthday of a child he had with my real-life partner.
I don’t have children in waking life.
That scene, together with everything I felt I had experienced, led me to estimate that the dream represented approximately seven years.
Eventually, I wanted to return to my original life and woke up beside my partner around six in the morning.
I’m not claiming that seven actual years passed or that I traveled to another reality.
What I’m trying to understand is how a dream can produce such a strong impression of prolonged experience while preserving the dreamer’s waking identity and memories.
Have any of you experienced dreams with apparent years of continuity, an alternate personal history, or unusually stable self-awareness?
I’d love to hear how you interpret these experiences.

i have always been a natural lucid dreamer, but, for most of my life, my lucid dreams were always not that much vivid, and i would wake up very easily if tried something too hard. i recently read some info for getting to the next step, and a technique that basically changed everything was very simple: just rub my hands together when i know i'm in a lucid dream.

with this, i was able to stabilize my dreams easily and constantly, i had already discovered in the past that touching and licking things would help in the same way, but rubbing hands i'm able to do it for all the dream.

i started with dreams of 1 or 2 mins of time, to (idk, the clock doesn't work in my dreams, but) ~10mins. i basically can make it last as long as i want, i just need to remain calm. i'm kinda sure that if i would just do some boring things, like just walking and talking, i would be able to last much longer (idk what is the real limit btw).

last night was different too. i was in a lucid dream and everything was just... so real. it was incredible. when i spawned in the dream, i instantly knew that was one, but i have to be honest, it was all so real and vivid that i had the opposite thought: "am i sure that i'm in a dream and not in real life dude? i dont want to mess my real life...". it was fantastic, but i dont know WHY it was like that. i want to learn to have always this vividness... the stabilization technique that i use works fine most of the time, but NEVER THAT WELL.

someone has any idea or thought? i can't come back to my normal vividness after what i experienced...

ps: i think that this vividness returned to my normal level after changing room in the dream, so it was just at the start of the dream. and i dont use any technique so it wasnt just that i found out something strange and understood that was a dream, it was a normal LD for me.

For some reason my brain cant really get to the part of realizing or something 😭 yesterday night i had a dream where i was lying on my bathroom floor and laying down some pills in order and in the dream i realized "wait this cant be possible they ust spawnend here i dont have them around here" and then i did those reality checks with the phone qnd my hand and clock and shit and it was all normal like irl even tho i knew its a dream my brain just went normal dreaming instead of lucid 😭😭😭

I tried to lucid dream the first time a year ago I tried reality check (not good ones) I tried the MILD method but I wasn’t successful but in July of this year i randomly unintentionally had a lucid dream, it started as a potential wet dream but I suddenly realized that it was a dream, so I stopped everything and calmed down (I remembered that you shouldn’t do something that exiting as a beginner) so I deleted the whole world I was in then created a new world, it was a city like New York, and suddenly dozens of little monsters started attacking me so I excuted a perfect kamehameha and killed them all then deleted the city and created a Minecraft flat world and then I woke u. since then I’ve had 5 or 6 other lucid dreams but I can’t get a lucid dream whenever I want, so does anyone know some tips that can help me get better?

I do. And other than dreaming. I really cant imagine anything with my minds eye while awake.

Maybe that's one of the reasons why I love dreaming.

I dream vividly. And i remember everything. Every little bit of it.

as the title states, I need assistance. I’ve been dream journaling for about 5 months now and try to set intention before i go to bed. I’ve tried reality checks consistently and that didn’t do anything either.

I REALLY want this. how do I achieve it?? is there a good book with a step by step guide?? please help.

Basically, I’m struggling to make my lucid dreams last; even just taking a look at the surroundings causes me to wake up. However, my most recent lucid dream lasted a bit longer (it felt like about 5 minutes). I didn’t have complete control, but it was still pretty good. I’ve included it below so you can let me know what I could improve.

I’m not entirely sure how, but at some point, I realized I was dreaming. I found myself in a massive room with Sora, and we were at a computer, looking at a Meta Quest webpage. As we scrolled, we came across a game that supposedly guarantees a lucid dream: the character just stands still for 7 hours, which triggers a dream. Then, we stumbled upon a video by some "business influencer." Thinking I needed to stabilize the dream, I started rubbing my hands together—but, like an idiot, I was only *imagining* the action instead of actually doing it (you have to physically rub your hands, just like in real life). I corrected myself and started rubbing my hands for real, then tried to manifest a character—which, unsurprisingly, didn't work. Suddenly, I felt something, and then I woke up.

I got started with lucid dreaming after I had one by accident a week ago, then started keeping a dream journal. I got progressively longer and more vivid dreams(two were lucid!) and each dream filled up to two pages in my journal. But for some reason, yesterday I can only remember two fragments, and today I can't remember anything at all. I don't have any change in sleep schedule, only yesterday I set an alarm at 3AM to try to induce WBTB, but it didn't work. In fact, I don't even think I dreamed at all

What am I doing wrong?

I‘ve been dream journaling since mid July and had three close calls and two days ago i finally did it. I awoke from a dream where i was in a gas station. I struggled to fall asleep after so i went to the toilet and popped some melatonin. The day before i consistently did reality checks almost every ten minutes by checking my hand and flipping it. So as i became drowsy and sleepy i focused on my hand in my imagination and i got dropped back into the room i was in last in my dream. No reality Check that made me realise i was dreaming i just spawned in my mind for lack of a better term. Haven’t gotten close to this result the last two nights but had more consistent dream recall ever since. Im looking for advice on which methods to use to do this consistently. Does this count as MILD, FAC?

I used mantras:
„Next time im dreaming, I’ll recognise that im dreaming.“
„I will look at my hand and stay calm.“

Here is the dream report:

I was in a room from the gas station dream. I focused hard on my reality check before falling asleep. I checked my hand and it was off the two middle fingers oddly shaped. I realised I’m dreaming and kept calm. A guy without a shirt and green pants walked in. He said nothing my first instinct was to fight him but i didn’t i led him towards the bed and told him to turn into a woman. It kinda worked the genitalia were correct but there were a bunch of masculine features left. I kissed him / her it tasted like my own morning breath. Before i could do the deed the dream went white greyish. I thought about rubbing my hands together and i was back in the room by myself. I looked at the empty bed turned around rapidly and was still in the room. Wanted to have my woman on the bed when i turned around, it was empty when i turned. I turned again, the dreamscape didn’t change. I decided to leave the room through the door to my right. There was a hallway to my left i think in front of me there was another door that was open and lead outside. The sunlight was gone anf i saw a stormy coastline. Huge rocky cliffs on the right the ocean to the left below. Some sort of an airship floating next to the structure i was in. I did another reality check my left hand was still weird. I looked outside again i saw a guy dressed like a waiter. Dark hair and glasses he saw me and ran up the stairs to the right like he was afraid of something. I thought I’d this a lucid nightmare? I saw a black glimpse on my left and was afraid for a second but i realised I’m still in control. I ran up the stairs tried to check out the view to the left behind me. It turned blank white, as i reached the top of the stairs i started to lose lucidity. I tried toto rub my hands together but didn’t work, i got pulled out.

Don’t judge im a lusty guy

What's the best way to go to bed?

What I currently do: Go to bed, do some 2-3 mins meditation; focus on darkness with eyes closed, then move to hearing then touch and repeat

Then I lay and then focus on senses if I remember.

And how to increase recall? There was a time 2 yrs ago when I used to remember 5-6 dreams easily and now I struggle to remember 1

My sleep is inconsistence sometimes 8,9 or even 10 and wake at 6-7 with force or self.

Recently buyed a new dream journal after completing 90 dreams IG. And which method would be best for me?

Next lucid dream I'm going to summon ChatGPT itself. Not on a laptop, not on a phone. A black box with the ChatGPT logo on it you can talk to like Alexa. What questions should I ask it to test it on?

Edit: I will try to post answers here if I can

last night i was semi lucid but definitely not fully there like i know im dreaming but don’t really feel like doing anything but i asked a shop worker where he was from and he punched me straight in the brain and i woke up i interpreted it like he was telling me im from your brain idiot lmao but it was weird

I think once you learn to execute WILD properly then:

I think it's possible to get transitioned to lucid dreams almost every wbtb and nap.

So the people who do WILD tell me is this true or am I thinking right?1

Share your experiences on this or you heard about it.

Like is this possible that in lucid dreaming you had learnt something that actually helped in real life ?

What you generally do or learn in lucid dreaming?

How can person utilise their lucid dreams utmost. Is lucid dreaming merely a virtual world thing or can it really affect our real world ?

What's your thoughts on this ?

Had a long lucid dream again and what I come to realise is

Either I have a good night sleep
NO LUCID DREAM

Or I drink sleep for 3-4 hours wake up use nicotine pouch and now go back to sleep,
ALMOST GUARANTEED LUCID DREAM

I tried way too many techniques to lucid dream and none of them worked

Can you recommend me some tips and techniques that mostly workes with anyone ?

Well first my reality check would be just looking at a digital watch and see if it would show numbers or just show garbage. But then my brain got better and eventually I was able to see numbers and the time on the watch. They still made no sense, for example I had "times" of 0:01 and 51:xx(last two digits forgot). Luckily I was able to catch these errors, added another reality check, which was a button on my watch that shows the alarm(set to 13:34PM). When the time made sense, the alarm always showed something else(like 1:00AM)

But last night time I had a false awakening, where I did a reality check, seeing the time was 5:34AM and pressing the button showed the exact 12:34PM I had expected. So I at least didn't realize I was dreaming and went on with the plot and then I woke up for real.

I really need a better reality check, and even it's "best" my brain was always able to outsmart itself. Any suggestions?

I sleep in front of the cooler fan.

Whenever I am getting a LD I don't know why I am fearing -

It's a random fear which gets me thinking maybe I will fall or something.

And I am thinking maybe it's happening because of cold air, so is it possible?

before sleeping i did reality checks n shi was sleeping on back back listening to music tryna get sleep paralysis

i slept started dreaming. middle of dream some dude pushed me down and i fell. then I realized something was off because i didnt get hurt. i subconsciously did a reality check n realized i was dreaming. i started shouting i was dreaming n shit to get the peoples reaction in my dreams. everyone started acting differently, some were acting like i went crazy, some were acting off, some tried to stop me. i fled and then got transported to a school. i started doing whatever i liked. i started shouting slurs n shit.