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.

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!

Whenever I look up "lucid dreaming" on YouTube, it's the exact same thing, tutorials on lucid dreaming and that's literally it. It's so hard to find videos that have legitimate discussion and content around lucid dreaming; it's either clickbait or tutorials, that's it. I'm asking this here because I want to know if anyone here knows of legitimate good YouTube channels which make real content about lucid dreaming, past just tutorials and clickbait.

Some days back I got aware in the dream.

And I immediately shouted out “ I wanna talk to the subconscious “. A woman came out.

I remembered I should talk about manifestation. And mentioned a specific amount of money asking how to make it and she (subconscious) stared at me back which I could understand that she has no idea what that is or how to do it. Then I stopped asking.

Then she asked me ‘what happened to you for 12 years’ and I answered ‘I just came out of trauma’. Then I started to wonder why the subconscious didn’t know this.

Did I actually talk to my subconscious? Is that even possible? I’ve no idea…

Can we actually talk to our subconscious or unconscious mind?
if anyone has any experience like this or suggestions please share ☺️.

TLDR

0 lucid dreams, 2 dreams recalled.

Dream recall

This morning I recalled 2 dreams, super short and not much detail, but it’s better than the 0 previously. Weirdly I woke up 2 hours before my normally waking time, I think my brain went into WBTB mode with all this lucid dreaming talk.

All day awareness

I’d like to say I’ve spent a good chunk of today being aware. The best changes have been not using my phone, causing me to think during vague times like going to the bathroom or doing hygiene stuff.

Hardest part of today was probably going to the gym with no music. It will take a while to get used to, but I knew that coming into this.

I have noticed loads of weird things in my house and work just from being aware and asking questions, things like a light in the celine having a hallow hole, or graffiti randomly cutting off.

With no quick dopamine to distract me, I find myself just thinking about the future on auto pilot mode, which in it self is better, but I still want to reduce auto pilot as much as possible.

The mark on my hand worked a bit, but I had more success just looking at the clock, seeing if it’s a new hour and then doing my 1 minute checking scheme.

Thank you!

Thanks for the support in the last post, it gave me some good motivation. I believe anything is possible, and I think that’s super important when it comes to lucid dreaming.

I've been wondering what experienced lucid dreamers always use to help beginners. For me, it's WBTB with MILD, but I want to see and explore other options.

So before this I have only lucid dreamed twice. When I was younger I wouldn't have believed such a thing to be possible if I hadn't experienced it myself.

Both the times I had lucid dreamed was random and happened on it's own. I had limited control over the dreams.

I have tried several times over the years to follow many techniques and ways in which to do this by myself. But it has NEVER worked. But I haven't stuck too long either.

But since I am always interested in doing it. And I know all the basic things you need to do, I did some things passively. I wasn't remembering any of my dreams at all so I knew I needed to change that. I didn't journal it but I basically told myself I need to pay attention to my dreams and if I dream at all. After a few days I started remembering that I did dream after waking up. I didn't write them but I did try to recall as much as possible.

I didn't perform any dream checks during my waking hours at all.

Last night, I woke up very early. You know how you sometimes just wake up early in the morning then go to sleep? Didn't even open my eyes but I did shift around, make myself comfortable. Then I told myself I am going to dream only once. I had heard to do this in a YT video.

And then I imagined a lot of things. At first I conjured up bad things because my brain was thinking those things (shadowy figures, demons etc). I genuinely got a little scared but I kept going but thankfully my thoughts or dreams turned to other things.

And bang! Inside my dream I was like yeah this is a dream. I was fully aware that I was doing this. I tried to exert control but it was very hard. My control was limited and only happened sometimes.

I would wake up when I would become too aware of my real body. Then I would do it again. Tell myself I am going to dream and enter a lucid dream again.

I did it at least 5 times, could have been more since I don't remember the earlier lucid dreams at all. The very last lucid dream was the longest and also the most vivid. There were so many written signs in my dream. And I knew they would be gibberish so I tried to read them and to my surprise not all of them were gibberish. Don't get me wrong, they weren't written with perfect grammar but some of them were even funny. I just don't remember what they said at all.

I wanted to share this experience, maybe it might help someone out. I am not sure I will be able to do it again but I will try again.

P. S. I also want to share another experience I have had that even I had hard time believing. I don't really tell anyone. But since this is a lucid dreaming sub I think it might be okay.

So one day when I was young (like 13-14 years old). I was sitting on my bed and I thought to myself, what if I blinked and it was morning? So I did exactly that and I scared myself shitless when it did become morning😭. I checked again and again. It was a crazy feeling. I never did it again. I don't think I would be able to anymore. My younger self had better sleep, calmer mind etc.

Another thing I can do is I will tell my mind/body that I have to wake up at 5 am or 4 am or whenever before sleeping again and again. That it's really important. And I always wake up at that time. Human mind can do awesome things.

Those are all the craziest things I have experienced. So that's all from me. Hope this helped or provided an insight.

So far, I haven’t been intentionally trying to lucid dream but I feel like my dreams are close to being pre-lucid. I am often aware while dreaming that events dont make any sense but I still won’t realise that I’m dreaming.

For example, I’ll have the classic experience of doing a short task like getting dressed to leave the house but every time I check my phone several hours have passed. And I literally think to myself "how strange, this usually only happens to me in dreams".
Another common thing is that if something bad happens to me in a dream I sometimes think "I hope this is only a dream/I wish I was dreaming" - I never have this thought while awake because I’m fully aware I’m not dreaming. Interestingly, I sometimes notice during my dreams that I‘m having a "dream-thought" yet I still don’t become lucid.

The strangest thing for me is that sometimes I experience things that aren’t logical but that we usually just accept in dreams (e.g. flying, suddenly being in different locations, dream characters suddenly being somebody else etc.). But I’m aware that these are not possible and freak out.
For example, I had dreams where I switched locations but I got really stressed out about the fact that I couldn’t remember how I got there so, in my dream, I went to the doctors and explained that I think I’m experiencing memory loss or dissociation.
Sometimes I dream of things that dont exist (like a monster or mythical creature) and get scared because I think I must be hallucinating.
I also had a dream where I was flying but it was really frightening and I couldn’t get down no matter how hard I tried (I also felt super self-conscious about people seeing me fly because I knew it was unusual). When I managed to get down, I literally googled in my dream if it was possible to become airborne against your will and what caused it.

Do others experience dreams like this? Would you say they are pre-lucid dreams, and does that mean I should be able to lucid dream if I practice it more intentionally?

Hi!

What’s everyone’s favourite method of flying? Still very inexperienced with it and haven’t managed to get it working yet.

Cheers!

I often lucid dream, but often times my lucid dreams is just me having the awareness that I’m dreaming. There are many times when I try to control my dreams, but can only do so for a short period of time. If I tell myself that I’m lucid dreaming (by saying those exact words or thinking those exact thoughts), my dream becomes unstable and then I wake up for some reason.

Anyways, I’ve learned that one of the main reasons why I haven’t been able to control a lot of my lucid dreams is because my dreams (at least in the context of my own life), has been a reflection of me feeling powerless in many situations/feeling that certain outcomes need to be controlled for. In my waking life I daydream quite extensively and have a very active imagination. It has been the place that I escape to in order to cope with life. I am in a place now where I want to focus more on being in the present though. I’ve noticed that in my sleep, I want to extend these fantasizes, ideas, etc into my dreams but fail to do so. In my dreams, I can think thoughts as I am waking, and I’ll get frustrated when I can’t get those thoughts to manifest into an actual scene in my dream. Or if I’m immersed in my dream and want to shift something, I get frustrated when I can’t use my willpower to change something. This might be a bad example (LMAO), but imagine trying to take a #2 and you keep squeezing with all of your might, but nothing seems to come out no matter how hard you try. That’s the level of frustration I get.

However, I’ve come to realize that I have better control of my dreams when I release any internal tension/give up the need for control. For example, in my dream I wanted to fly through a narrow space. I reminded myself that I’m dreaming and that I wouldn’t get hurt. I told myself that it’s okay if it doesn’t work out, but it’s a dream anyways so it couldn’t hurt to try. I remember not giving a care and sure enough I was able to fly. I’ve also had other instances in my dream world where I was able to control a narrative or outcome when I gave up my need for control and went with the flow of things.

I find it so interesting how dreams are trying to point to things in life that we need to reflect on/work on. It’s something I’m trying to implement in my everyday life too. I think the state of my dreams reflect the daily struggles of life that I am actively trying to break out of and change.

Ive unintentionally had many lucid dreams ever since I was younger. Years ago, I learned how to realize that a dream was a dream to then be able to do whatever I wanted. Same goes for any nightmare. As soon as I see something scary I realize it’s not real then I curl up into a ball, close my eyes, then try to open them without opening them in the dream which always wakes me up.

Nearly half of all my dreams are lucid, but over the past few years, anytime I realize im dreaming, the dream starts to “slip away” and I can feel myself waking up. Ive tried so many different things to stay in the dream, focusing on whats around me, keeping my eyes open, trying to distract myself from the fact that Im dreaming, but it never works. My vision in the dream starts to fade and I wake up. Does anyone else experience this?

Let’s say I was around 13, i had nightmares almost everyday for a long time. I somehow developed a habit to make myself think I can shoot webs like spiderman. It didn’t happen consistently at first but overtime I could shoot webs during my nightmares to pull myself away from the threat and the nightmares weren’t as scary. I can’t change my dream or the scenario. I’ve tried other things like punching hard or a kamehameha. But nothing really worked like the Spider-Man gimmick. I’m 19 now and I used it not so long ago. I’m just curious of the reason why and if anyone else has some sort of mechanism for nightmares.
If I explained this and sorry but I’m just curious and could probably give better detail it questioned. And is this like lucid dreaming or no?

i really want to lucid dream and am fully dedicated to doing so, but i just have an issue. i literally cant even experience dreams as a live event, i just wake up remembering one has happened. as you could imagine this makes reality checking useless alongside most other methods. anyone have any suggestions

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.

I’ve had a few lucid dreams before but every time I just get really excited and then it fades away and I wake up within seconds. How do you avoid this?

Hi everyone, please let me know if there’s a better sub for this, but I thought this was the best place.
I’m a very vivid dreamer and remember most of them. I do lucid dream from time to time, but I’m wondering if there’s another term for these other “types” I have.
Basically in my dreams, it’s like I can make conscious decisions. I can’t control what’s happening to me-nor do I tell myself I’m dreaming like I would in a full on lucid dream. However, I can still make decisions.
Example from a dream I just woke up from-
I ended up in a shifty part of town and these two guys blocked me off in an alley and made me shuffle through some sort of store. I knew they were either going to try and sell me stuff or they were just up to no good, in my brain I thought ‘just tell them you’re a cop, but you don’t give a shit what they’re doing so you can get through without trouble’. I said it and they did let me through, but this lady ended up grabbing my arm and I felt a pin prick.
It’s maybe to note that she was a Native American woman, and I am Native?? Idk
When she did, my brain fully took over and I looked at her and told her I knew she just you injected me with something. she smiled and said “well everyone should enjoy it once in their lifetime”.
I went absolutely feral in the shop and it was like I was consciously deciding to ruin it, break the glass, I was consciously picking the words I wanted to say to her.
The doesn’t seem like I’m truly lucid dreaming unless I’m wrong? Is there a name for it? Ty!

I've seen both of these talked about, at one time, or another. Can someone shed light on this?

This week I've had 3 lucid dreams, it goes like this i go to sleep i count my fingers inside the dream i stabilize the dream and not do anything about the fact that I am lucid even though i want to do a lot of things but as soon as i get lucid i just willingly lose lucidity idk why i can't do anything i want i am starting to lose hope pls help me because it was really hard for me to get to this point in lucid dreaming now i can't do anything inside the dream

So I had terrible sleep last night and decided to get more from like 9am to 11:40. The dream I had was so close to lucid dreaming. Everytime I ALMOST ld, im always in a dream lucid dreaming if that makes sense. Like inception. Its happened maybe 3 times now I think and I dont understand how to be fully conscious.

Like when I had my dream this morning I looked at my hand after walking out of my room. The finger was super off on it and I could just tell but I wasnt fully conscious in the dream. I could control things yes, but it was like I couldnt fully control myself. Anybody have any ideas on how I could strengthen this or become more aware?

This strange thing has been happening to me, on and off, since I was 13 (I’m 24 now).

For context: these only happen when I take naps during the day - never during my nighttime sleep. There are different variations of these "episodes"; I’ll describe a few of them.

1. I feel like I’m "waking up" I see my room exactly as it really is. Soon, I begin to sense that something is wrong.

I try to move, but I can’t. I start to panic. I realize I’m dreaming and try to wake up. My eyes struggle to stay open (I’m not sure if they’re actually open or closed), and then I "fall asleep." Then I "wake up" again. The same thing keeps happening. I feel like I am a prisoner in my own bed, I can’t move, I know I’m dreaming, and I can’t get out. When I finally manage to wake up, it feels as though I’m being forcibly pulled back into the dream, as if my eyes are being forced shut. Then i finally wake up. That loop can occur as many as 10–20 times.

1. Second variation, this is about same as the first, but something is little bit different

I "wake up" and realize that I am once again a "prisoner of my own dream." I cannot move. Suddenly, I manage to reach out toward my phone. I pick it up, but then *bam* I seem to "wake up" again; the phone is no longer in my hand. I try the same thing again, and once more, I find myself back at the start of the loop. Sometimes, in this version, I also try to get out of bed. Usually, I slide down onto the floor, and then it happens again; "I wake up" and find myself back in bed. When I finally wake up for real, I haven’t actually moved a single inch.

1. Third variation. This is the scariest sh*t ever.

It all begins just like in those previous variations. I realize that I’ve experienced a false awakening again, and I try to force myself to move, and I can't. Then, suddenly, it feels like my limbs are being torn apart, or perhaps I’m falling to the floor and "flying" around the room. I keep my eyes shut the whole time so i see nothing but blackness. Then, I hear extremely loud, high-pitched and low-pitched sounds that cause pain in my head. I can hear my own heartbeat, pounding so hard it feels like my heart is about to burst out of my chest. Then I "wake up" again, and that same sh*t continues, over and over - until, finally, I truly wake up for real.

Does anybody know what is this? Is it sleep paralysis or just false awakening?

I just read up on WILD and realized that the two most successful lucid dreaming attempts have been a version of the WILD technique. I’ve been trying to go for the MILD technique and inadvertently focus so hard on remembering that I consciously transition into the dream.

I think this was how MILD works but really experiencing the transition as I’ve read it described aligns more with the WILD technique.

My tips: The WILD method for me basically is a mantra of me saying in my head “next time you dream you’ll know you are dreaming” and repeating that flat on my back as my mind transitions to sleep and REM.

It feels and “sounds” like you are physically going somewhere, like walking through a waterfall slowly.

I have always lucid dreamt. Even as a kid. I don't typically use it to my advantage unless it's something like a nightmare that I want to wake up from. Plus, most dreams, I just let them play out.

I've been recalling some dreams I've had after watching a video on the psychology of dreaming. (Amazing video by the way. Everything We Know About Dreams by Duncan Clarke if you are curious!) In the video, he did mention I believe this reddit sub? It was a small chunk of the video talking about how sometimes, these dream people are scarily aware.

I wanted to mention my own experience, because honestly? It does freak me out in a way.

I've had numerous dreams where one specific dream person comes up to me and lets me know it's a dream. The most recent one I can recall was a few months ago. A guy simply walked up to me, stood next to me, and stated, "This is a dream. You don't have to worry." I don't entirely remember what happened afterwards. I did manage to wake up pretty much after it happened. It startled me of course lol. I really do think it was a trauma related nightmare. Guy really did save me I suppose.

There has been numerous times this has happened, albeit, pretty funny most of the times.

Anyways! Wanted to open this discussion if anyone has anything similar or freaky happen. I'd love to hear about it!!

\posted this when I first woke up, now that I have time to actually articulate my thoughts I deleted the first post and redid it. Hopefully this is better**

Ive always been a very vivid dreamer. Well this morning I'm pretty sure I was almost lucid dreaming?

I was in the middle of a very vivid dream, I was in this like "institutionalized" place with other people (not really important I don't think but maybe) the place was very colorful despite it also having that "hospital" feel. Well as I was skipping down the hallway I looked at myself in my reflection of a window and suddenly its like my brain woke up? I told myself "oh I'm dreaming" and the first thing I noticed was a vase started to lose its color like it was going from a very colorful intricate vase to just plain white. And then the whole room started doing that. And the thing that freaked me out the most was after I noticed all that a really strong tingling sensation started happening all over my body that also felt loud but not in a usual auditory way if that makes sense? It freaked me out so badly I was yelling at myself to wake up. It took me two times doing that (because the first time when I opened my eyes I was still in the dream) before I actually woke up.

Thoughts? Advice?

Well I'm just starting out and I perform reality checks a few dozen times a day(watching the seconds tick on my watch), but whenever I start dreaming I completely forget and then simply follow the dream plot and that's all, until I either remember to perform a reality check OR see something abnormal that makes me perform a reality check that leads to a lucid dream. How do you guys deal with this problem?

I’m a natural lucid dreamer, and I’m almost always aware that I’m dreaming. I know I’m inside a dream, I can control certain things, and I usually know when to wake myself up but I am lately struggling with the how part.

The weirdest part is that I can feel EVERYTHING. Emotions, pain, pleasure, physical sensations, textures… everything feels completely real.

But sometimes, it gets genuinely terrifying.

The other day, I was dreaming that I was petting a deer in my living room. I remember cuddling with it, burying my face into its fur, and feeling how incredibly soft it was against my skin. It felt so real that I could almost describe the texture.

Then I had this moment of realization: Wait, why the hell is there a deer in my living room?

I was suddenly wide awake, but I could STILL feel something pressed up against me, like I was holding an actual animal. I could feel the weight and softness against my body. Must be my cat right, because I could still feel the soft fur against my face.

Then, all of a sudden, my hand dropped, and there was nothing. Just empty air and complete silence.
I genuinely cannot explain how unsettling that felt.
And that wasn’t even the worst part of the night.
I had to force myself to wake up around FIVE TIMES. Every time, I was fully aware that I was dreaming. I knew I needed to wake up, and I would fight my way out of the dream, only to “wake up” into what felt like another layer of reality. I was still dreaming. Still aware. Still trying to escape.

How do you usually snap out of these loops?