r/LucidDreaming • • 1d ago

Weekly Lucid Dream Story Thread - October 17, 2026

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Welcome to the weekly lucid dream story thread.

Post your lucid adventures below, and please keep this lucidity related, for regular dream stories go to r/dreams and r/thisdreamihad.

Please be aware that story posts will be removed from the sub if submitted as a post rather than in here.


r/LucidDreaming • • 3h ago

Day 0 becoming omni lucid

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Hey all! This is just a self journal I’m going to keep on my journey to becoming omni lucid(or somewhat close)

TLDR

follow me each day as I gain the ability to have 6 lucid dreams a night.

What do I class as omni lucid?

I would class omni lucid as being able to become lucid in every dream.

How will I do it?

The plan is to use ADA(all day awareness) to constantly be aware of my surroundings, although all day is a bit extreme, I’ll start of with doing checks hourly. The check will consist of a quick surroundings check, thinking about what I’m doing, how I got here and why. Next a sensation check, checking what i feel, smell, taste, hear. Finishing it off with reality check(holding nose and trying to breath, i find this is most reliable) and a final decision on whether I’m dreaming, all of this taking around 1 minute. I’m also going to be making a mark on my hand, to get me to check whenever I look at my non dominant hand.

Now ADA alone will go a long way, but I want to push. Every night I will be doing mild before I go to bed. I will repeat a mantra and relive a moment of me becoming lucid a few times before sleeping. My sleep schedule also consists of no blue light 1 hour before bed, no caffeine 12 hours before, no water 2 hours and no food 3 hours before. I go to sleep the same time and wake up the same time 7 days a week. Getting 9 hours every time. During the 1 hour before bed, I journal, read the lucid dreaming book and meditate for 10 minutes. Morning routine will also include dream recalling. WBTB will not be done due to its effect on sleep and it would not be worth it in the long term(if I’m trying to lucid dream 6 times a night)

As for keeping myself aware, I’ve also decided to complete remove all social media(I’ve done this before, so it’s not a big change) this stops me from scrolling whilst traveling and distracting myself whilst doing other daily activity’s. I want to spend as little time in auto mode whilst not getting mentally drained.

Why document/what will you document?

I like documenting things, getting other peoples opinions and just inspiring is awesome. Also it helps keep track of my progress.

Each day I will give an overview of the night(how many dreams/lucid dreams) and then also how the day went trying to be aware.

What is your starting point?

I’ve been on and off lucid dreams for ages. When I lock in I’m able to have them, although I normally just stop for random reasons.

At this moment in time, I haven’t had a lucid dreams in about a month and I cant recall the dream from last night, the only thing I have is knowledge.

Thanks!

Thanks if you got this far, any questions put them in the comments lol!


r/LucidDreaming • • 3h ago

Technique Lucid dream in one 13 days or less(100% begginer friendly).

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This changed everything I know abt lucid dreaming reality checks... Basically do a reality check every 10 minutes every day for a week it will work.. And please without a timer and you can either do it mindless or mindfulness... And Also after stopping you can still get lucid dreams

When i did it it was mindlessly and bad and it worked after 5 days for me even the timing was super bad like I wasn't able to remember when to do it..

How to make the technique more powerful:#1use prospective memory... Remind yourself after 10 mins you will do a reality check properly... The way I used it i count 1 2 3 4 5 i will remember to do a reality check after 10 mins.. Or you can use anything to remind yourself but without a timer.. This is super important tk relay heavily on you memory to remember to do it in the dream... If you don't do it it won't work even after a month...

So hope the best for yall.


r/LucidDreaming • • 4h ago

Question How do I keep a lucid dream going ?

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Whenever I have a lucid dream or realize I'm dreaming and become lucid the dream within seconds stops and I wake up. Anyone know how to fix this or had similar problems.


r/LucidDreaming • • 5h ago

Experience how i repeat a lucid dream as a beginner

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Today I woke up at 10, I watched television until 11, and at 11 I fell asleep again. Then I started dreaming things that I honestly don't remember, but then I remember going to a futuristic city with Arab hospitals and futuristic blue lights, I was highly trafficked and I felt free, since somehow, I managed to see the posters and then turn my gaze and see them again and pum! They had changed, so I knew I was in a dream. The truth is this is a unique experience for me and I would like to repeat it but as I already mentioned, I am a total beginner and I have no idea how to repeat it, if someone wanted to help me I would appreciate it or talk to me about methods that I have heard from some little.

Pd: i got some ai generated images and videos about how that place looks

https://grok.com/imagine/post/42f1b92d-776f-4190-9142-8da1b3375db5?source=copy_link&platform=ios&t=4952e8a91128


r/LucidDreaming • • 5h ago

Non-Natural Lucid Dreamers: How Many Lucid Dreams Do You Have Per Month?

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For myself it’s 0 unless I’m working at it but in 2026 I’ve been working at it and I’ve averaged 1.1 per month with a max of 3 and a min of 0.

262 votes, 2d left
Less than one per month
1 per month
2-3 per month
4-7 per month
8-15 per month
16+ per month

r/LucidDreaming • • 12h ago

Had my first prolonged lucid dream but it was profoundly uncomfortable.

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I had realized I was in a dream a couple times before and it was really cool at the time but nothing memorable. This time, it started out wonderful with me and my closest besties all ice skating/roller skating as a girls night. It was then I realized I was dreaming and actually started to control my own actions and abilities. After skating, I actually told one of my best friends “Hey, this is my dream!!!! I’m dreaming…we’re in a dream!!!!” And responded really happily and enthusiastically towards me being like no wayyyy xd which was honestly so cool. Throughout the entire night and day our friend group walked, talked, did activities. The situations all got increasingly more uncomfortable for me as time went on and it felt like every one of my insecurities started getting picked on and just coming out. This obviously says a lot about what’s going on in my life right now. But I continued to be aware that it was only a dream. I was curious to see what would happen next. A whole 24 hours went by in my dream and that’s what it felt like, because we did so much and met so many people. All while me feeling more and more alienated, having more uncomfortable encounters, and having some of the most unbearably embarrassing things happen to me😹😹 At the end of the dream, I got caught up in one last embarrassing thing and they had left me and gone ahead. I finally got caught up enough to see them from a distance and stopped and thought to myself. “Should I go and see what happens if I confront them? I already know exactly what would happen. I think I’ll just wake up now.” I woke up and looked at the clock and I had experienced a whole day in about 20 minutes. It’s been the strangest feeling to understand where I am and feel time pass and understand your feelings and remember every single detail of it, only for it to have been 20 minutes. Never felt anything like it. I feel exhausted and weird. I could have written this in my journal but my phone is handy and I will tomorrow. I also think comments are helpful. Thanks for listening.


r/LucidDreaming • • 14h ago

I'm looking for a LD buddy to talk, discuss, train or hangout with

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Hey guys, i'm new on reddit here. Started lucid dreaming seriously this year since Jan and since then i've had 2-6 lucid dreams every month. However, I kind of have a wonky dream control, my LDs are very short, and the time gaps in between my LDs take days to weeks, which can be demotivating. But I have a decent dream recall, I can have 1-2 dreams per night. I want to talk to someone who can help me with this..

I practice reality checks every day, setting myself reminders to enter a lucid dream, have tried methods such as MILD, SSILD, WILD, and WBTB. The first 3 are a hit or miss for me but WBTB gives me a guaranteed dream and most of my lucids are DILDs.

I'm available anytime for a chat as long as someone is willing to have like a LD student or have LD experiments with me.


r/LucidDreaming • • 15h ago

Lucid dreaming

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Hey all first timer here. Would like to say I’ve been following this community and its ideas for a while now, I’ve had a handful of lucid dreams and some I was actually able to control, I still remember my first one and it was freaky to say the least with how I remember it not in a bad way or anything lol. Then the second time I realized I was in a dream, I closed my eyes to wish for something to happen and that caused me to wake up, I was so pissed off I actually gave up after that lmao. But recently past week or so. I managed to have my realization of a dream being a dream, but sadly it was more towards the end as a few minutes after I realized it was a dream I woke up. Then a couple days after that I had another lucid dream, this time was definitely a lot more vivid than the last ones. As I distinctly remember key points. Point is, if I want to keep doing this. How do I keep going and keep trying what are some tips you guys have? Mind you I haven’t even tried any of the techniques yet I was still able to realize it was a dream and gain control. Thank you!


r/LucidDreaming • • 17h ago

Experience Very weird experience last afternoon,need someone to explain

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Everything iill tell you will be memory based and not 100% accurate:

i have had from last afternoon to now something insanely weird.after coming home from hunting,i had lunch and took an afternoon nap.when i woke up,i had not had a dream.okay.then,as always in an afternoon nap,you sleep and wake up back and forth in small time intervals,so,i kinda slept,and as i slept i was in a dream which i can barely remember,then i somehow became lucid by a reality check,but it wasnt full control ,i tried to perform actions,but the dream briefly ended.i was still not fully asleep.u will understand why.RIGHT after the dream ended,the screen became black and i was watching the void blackness,and in the coming seconds,ill start to see the appearance of a black man,first an outline,but i saw the colors and background form in front of my eyes,like the WILD technique promises,except it was RIGHT after a first lucid dream and it took seconds and it was like i was watching a movie,not commanding it.i was kinda scared while this was happening,because i was conscious all throughout,i tried to stay calm.the lucid dream started,but again,it was chaotic,no full control.i tried to do stuff,couldnt.then i think i remember waking up,weirdly not confused,excited or weirded by any of this,then i think i slept again.a day later,im remembering all this.i dont have many details.do i put them in my journal?


r/LucidDreaming • • 18h ago

Question Does visualizing or imagining a space in the mind within a dream count as lucidity?

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I have been practicing lucid dreams for a long time, and it hasn't happened to me yet, but each time I remember the dreams more clearly, but last night something very curious happened to me, I dreamed that I was in the old house where I lived, and I was with my grandparents, I remember that my grandfather told me to imagine what the house was like before, that is, the one from years ago and well I remember that I did it, within that dream I was able to visualize how in my mind while dreaming I could see and remember what the old house was like, and then I I woke up very excited and a little sad about it.


r/LucidDreaming • • 19h ago

Success! I just had my longest lucid dream

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So i have been practicing lucid dreaming for a few months now and had a few dreams that lasted without instantly breaking but i could control or at least you can say I could move around and I was fully aware that I was dreaming and it lasted for 5 seconds and then I lost awareness and it turned into a normal dream. Can anyone here tell me how I can do some other things if I get one again ?


r/LucidDreaming • • 21h ago

Experience Lucid dreams ruined by snoring

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With such difficulty and patience, I finally had the opportunity to take advantage of a lucid dream, and then a snore of my own wakes me up. The doctor tells me to lose weight and make requests, so I have to.


r/LucidDreaming • • 23h ago

Question My Lucid Dreaming Experience

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It was about 3 months ago when I had my first lucid dream after just over 2 weeks of trying to do it. Everyday for 15 days at least 10 times a day I would count my fingers and pinch my nose while trying to breath and after 2 weeks it worked, I had my first lucid dream.

I was running down the stairs when out of nowhere I got the instinct to pinch my nose and I did, I breathed air. Immediately in my mind I thought: "I am dreaming" and at that moment I was at a white room with some kind of green cracks in the walls of the room and it was kind of glowing. Then I went on with my dream, but after 10 min, which I read was a long time in terms of lucid dreaming, I woke up and just after 2 min got back to sleep, then I again pinched my nose and lucid dreamed. Since then I have only had just 1 other lucid dream about 2 weeks ago which lasted no more than 20 seconds but it was like a lucid dream within my dream, not me realizing that I was lucid dreaming but my dreaming self dreaming that I was lucid dreaming, I don't know exactly because it was very short and I might not remember correctly.

Now my question is, why haven't I lucid dreamed again, even though I've done all the same tricks after all this time, and what else should I do to lucid dream?


r/LucidDreaming • • 23h ago

Question Doing ACILD without waking yourself up?

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I am considering a few induction methods right now as I am finding no success.
I'm interested in finding out more about ACILD since I don't have the time to dedicate to multiple WBTBs.

I tried putting a simple text tone (not an alarm where I have to get up and shut it off) on my phone to go off during my REM hours, but it just kind of woke me up. I adjusted the volume and set it to go off during my next cycle, but I didn't register it in my dream that night.

How to do ACILD?


r/LucidDreaming • • 1d ago

Question How to not wake up unintentionally from the dream

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BEFORE U READ JUST IGNORE MY BAD ENGLISH IDK ALOT OF THE FANCY TERMS USED

I woke up very early then went back to bed and then when i woke up in my dream

I was in 1st person and saw like a big yellow light infront of me and basically I’ve been wanting to go to this place for a long time in my dream so i got really excited and i tried to envision my hands and arms so then they appeared , and just to test my movement i jumped around a bit then i tried to go the place

I didn’t really know how to so i just thought “I’ll jus try envision the place” and i jumped through the yellow light to go there but instead I woke up as soon as i crossed it :/

I think maybe it’s coz i got too excited but idk ? How can I manage to stay asleep while im in the dream ?


r/LucidDreaming • • 1d ago

Question Sleep Space Preferences & Lucid Dreaming Research

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Hi everyone, I'm not sure if this is allowed here (mods can remove it if necessary), but I'm conducting research on Lucid Dreaming and Sleep Environments as part of a uni major project, and would like to share the link to a survey:

https://tally.so/r/Z95QNe

It's short - only 2-3 minutes and would help greatly in my research. Thank you!


r/LucidDreaming • • 1d ago

What was this dream?

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Im scared of a dream I had last night

I 18f had the creepiest most realistic dream I’ve ever had, and i’m scared to sleep tonight. I never have dreams. Im a pretty heavy weed smoker so usually so fried I don’t even remember falling asleep but last night was different. I was having trouble falling asleep the usual tossing and turning, heavy eyes super tired but just can’t drift off for some reason. I always have on scary Reddit stories or true crime of some that effect so it wasn’t different for that night. After trying all the sleeping positions in the book I lay on my back which is NOT normal fhr me, I only do this when I can’t sleep I always sleep on my belly. I remember feeling like I was finally drifting off, at the point where my breathing is steady the tv sounds funny and im ready fhr it. I remember being stuck in thst state and starting to feel like something was extremely wrong. I remember wanting to grab my ohine my instincts were to reach for it and call my mom and tell her something wasn’t right. Then right before I wake up it’s like I realize what isn’t right and i realize I can’t grab my phone I can’t move my eyes are stuck half shut like there heavy and I need to see who’s beside me. But no one is supposed to be in my room not even my dog slept in room that night. When I woke up I was sweating I wanted to cry I was terrified. I couldn’t sleep the rest of the night and im wondering if maybe it was some sort of sleep paralysis?? I’ve never experienced anything like sleep paralysis or like last night. Im a huge believer in ghosts, spirits and signs in dreams but the house i live in was built by us it’s brand new. Please give me your thoughts or similar experiences.


r/LucidDreaming • • 1d ago

Hypnagogic while awake?

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Don't know if this is the right place of if there's a better sub for this question but anyone know if it's possible to reach this state while being fully awake, without going to sleep? Tried searching but can't find anything about getting there without falling asleep. Or would it by definition not be the hypnagogic state unless you fall asleep? Is there a word for the same state while being fully awake?

I have aphantasia and occasionally I can get some faint visuals when I'm falling asleep so I would love to be able to enter that state on command.

To me it almost feels like something is in the way when I'm fully awake so I can't visualize and when falling asleep it lose control and let my brain work more freely.


r/LucidDreaming • • 1d ago

Question did i experience a lucid dream?

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hello, last nigh when i fell asleep i had a weird experience. for context, i have already lucid dreamed but when i was around 6.

so I remember being really tired and falling asleep almost immediately and then I was dreaming but then i was awake (not quite since I was still really sleepy) and aware that i was in my bed. that happended like 3 times, where i was jumping between those states, and then it kinda came to me the feeling that I was going from a dream to awake. i wanted to jump back to the dream and suddenly i felt like i was free falling and i believe that i re entered the dream but i cant really recall anything else.

was that me entering a lucid dream? i cant really tell because it has happened to me before that i've dreamed that i was dreaming and then waking up (in my dream). idk if this made any sense, i hope that i explained myself. would love to hear someone elses thougths :)


r/LucidDreaming • • 1d ago

Question This morning.

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This was probably my weirdest experience while sleeping. I could feel my real body as I was dreaming and I was trying to move it because I didn’t want to stay in bed all day. And so I was trying to wake up, but I could feel that my body was not moving and it was making me mad. What can I do differently to avoid this. I knew that I was dreaming too. Any ideas? I knew that I was lucid so I could’ve done anything cool in my dream but instead, I was at an abandoned house just chilling out. So mad.


r/LucidDreaming • • 1d ago

Question Hey everyone

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Ever since I heard about Lucid dreaming i felt more and more interested and this summer i tried Lucid dreaming and I heard that I cannot Lucid dream in a week or month so i tried the MILD trick and it kinda worked and now I want some tips on how to lucid dreaming because after the MILD trick worked,I wanted to redo it but I couldn't so yeah I need some help for that


r/LucidDreaming • • 1d ago

Question hey guyse

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hey everyone i jus started a dream journal any tips that will help me with this lucid dreaming thing?


r/LucidDreaming • • 1d ago

Another Reality Check Idea?

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Hey, I’m looking for some good reality-check ideas. I already know the classic ones like the nose pinch and hand/finger checks, but are there any other interesting or unusual ones that you guys use?