Did you have one spontaneously? Randomly read about it online? Are you one of those lucky people that have had them since childhood?
This is so cool I don’t think I’ve ever had a lucid dream but it would be cool to have one
It’s a skill that can be trained! Hopefully with a little time we can start posting guides, tips and answering questions. For now I’d say a good start is trying to remember your dreams. Keeping a dream journal helps greatly (write the dreams in whatever level of detail you find comfortable).
I think I’d had a at least one or two when I was younger, but without realizing what it was or its potential. It was only after watching Waking Life that it occurred to me that lucid dreaming was a thing. I then had a short one or two after that and then googled it, finding a forum. No turning back after that :) This was around the end of 2007.
Was seeing Waking Life for me also that introduced me to the topic. Still not able to do it voluntarily, but fun to read about.
That scene where they talk about it was so weird for me. It was a mixture of “never heard about this” and “well, of course this is a thing!”
I was a psychedelic-inclined teenager at the time - and it was during the first Salvia boom where I’d had a few chemically-induced of body experiences at far too young an age. I was so excited by it, like “People can just trigger this and do it whenever!?!” Unfortunately none of the tricks really seemed to work for me, falling asleep is the end of my ability to control what’s up. But I do occasionally have very vivid dreams where I feel conscious of my decisions and even occasionally aware that I’m dreaming.
Still hilarious to me that it’s also the first place I saw and heard about Alex Jones.
Interesting experiences :) I know right? I remember years later, when I had already heard of him, thinking “Wait a minute, is he the crazy yelling guy in Waking Life?”
I used to have nightmares when I was a kid, back in grade school in the late 80s
At some point it occurred to me that I was just dreaming and could take control, so I didSame for me, but instead of taking control I just used the lucidity to wake me up from the nightmare.
How easy is it for you to lucid dream now a days? Does it just come naturally to you or do you still have to put in some effort? I knew a guy from a forum years ago that also started lucid dreaming because of childhood nightmares and he said that most, if not all, of his dreams were lucid.
I think the first time I had a lucid dream, it just happened. After that it became easier to think about it while falling asleep, and started happening more regularly.
One of my strategies is to think about pinching myself in my dreams before I fall asleep, then when I’m dreaming, I’ll remember to pinch myself, and I start lucid dreaming.
I have a very vivid dream life, and I’m really happy to find this community and learn about others’ experiences.
It’s sooo nice to have a vivid dream life. I sometimes think that being able to enjoy any kind of dream experience is the first step to becoming a good lucid dreamer, in the long run. Yeah, I’ve never created or modded any community, so let’s see how it goes. I just thought that kbin needed one :)
I just have random lucid dreams and then found a community of lucid dreamers on youtube. I find it quite difficult to develop though as I suffer from insomnia, so all the wake back to sleep methods are a no go. I always mean to do waking tests and keep a dream journal but always forget!
I had a few lucid dreams growing up but my constant nightmares really kicked me into lucid dreaming every night. One night I just got sick of how scared I was and stated fighting back with whatever power I could manage. Now I can control most things fairly easily.
I was following a youtuber that talked about magic trick, and I found an old video of him that talked about LD, and I started researching about it, last year I had two dreams. Two weeks I started trying again, but i couldn’t have one so far (except the ones i had last year). Would appreciate some help ;) .
Cool! How is your dream recall? Usually the first step is trying to remember your dreams better.
Yeah, I’m actually pretty bad at that, when i write something on my dream journal, its just the last moment of the last dream of the night. I hope that by writings things down I’ll be able to remember more and to have more vivid dreams in the future. I’m watching Beluga (Eplore Lucid Dreaming) guides, do you think his tutorials are good?
I haven’t seen those tutorials, so I can’t say.
But dream recall is a skill, you’ll get better at it. I recommend writing in as much detail as you can, even if it’s a short fragment. And if you don’t remember anything just write “didn’t remember anything” or something.
Some auto-suggestion before sleep can also help: “I will remember my dreams tonight” or “next time I wake up I will immediately remember my dreams”.
Another thing that has been helping me is trying to be more mindful during the day, and going through my day in my head when I go to bed. Try to recall your day before sleep and your dreams after sleep :)
(Feel free to create a thread if you have more specific questions, this magazine could use some more content!)
Thanks for the advice, I’d love to make some content for this community and for this federation!
Awesome! Great to have you on-board :)
