7 Steps to Start Lucid Dreaming

August 25 by | 126 comments | Featured, Lifestyle |

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Lucid Dreaming is consciously being aware within your dream. When you are dreaming and you become conscious that you are dreaming you can start to control your dreams and the direction they go in.

Lucid dreaming can help with recurring nightmares, solving creative problems, speaking with loved ones who have passed on, anxiety, and problem solving. It can be an exhilarating experience and the feeling of euphoria after your first few lucid dreams can last for days. <!–more–>

7 Steps to Start Lucid Dreaming

1. Remember your ordinary dreams.

A lot of people say ‘I don’t dream’, everybody dreams, whilst you may not remember them you still dream. To start remembering your dreams try this simple technique.

Each night before drifting off to sleep repeat the phrase ‘I will remember my dreams as soon as I wake up’. Say this phrase over and over until you fall asleep, after a few days you will start to remember your ordinary dreams.

2. Keep a dream journal

This can be tedious but it’s well worth the effort. Even writing a few short sentences about your dream is enough. This will get you into the habit of remembering your ordinary dreams and to start looking for dream signs within your dreams. It can also be a tool to analyze your thought processes.

3. Pick out dream signs

A lot of your ordinary dreams will have objects or people in them that could act as a cue to you waking up in your dreams. For example if you regularly talk to ‘Elvis’ in your ordinary dreams this is an obvious dream sign and can be used to ask yourself if you are dreaming because you know Elvis is dead.

4. Notice your waking world

To be conscious in your dream world means you have to be conscious in your waking world. That might sound crazy, as you are conscious when you are awake. However what I mean is ‘consciously focused’ . For example you are consciously focused when learning a new task, you are thinking about every action you are taking to get the right steps. When you have learned the new task you no longer have to focus as intently as you did when learning it. Being consciously focused means looking around you and saying what you see, feel, hear, smell and touch and voicing it. This has the added benefit of being in the moment and can help you to inner calmness, it’s almost zen like.

If you start to consciously focus on the world around you, you will carry this over into the dream world.

5. Ask yourself; ‘Am I dreaming?’

Ask yourself just now ‘Am I dreaming?’. Your obvious answer is to say no, of course you are not dreaming. How do you know? Don’t just say; because I know, try and think about why you are not dreaming. For example you could say if I was dreaming I would be able to fly. When you are dreaming you cannot read text for longer than a few seconds, so try reading text to prove to yourself you are not dreaming.

This again will carry over into your dreaming world and you will start asking the same questions in your dreams which can turn into a lucid dream.

6. Your first lucid dream

Many people have their first lucid dream simply by reading about it. You might find that you become over-excited and lose the lucid dream however, you first lucid dream will be remembered for years to come.

7. Staying lucid

I have used different techniques to stay within a dream however by far the best one is calming myself down with self talk and dream spinning. If you find that you are losing your lucidity you can talk to yourself to calm yourself down and just start noticing the things around you in your dream.

Dream spinning is when you feel you are losing control of your dream you mentally spin like a tornado to stay within your dream. This is focusing the mind on staying lucid.

Have you ever had a lucid dream? If you have why not tell us about it by leaving a comment.

Steven Aitchison has been writing for a personal development blog, Change Your Thoughts for 3 years. he has a BSc in Psychology and currently works as an addiction worker within the alcohol and drug field. His interests are in thought processes, belief formation and the dreaming mind.

  • http://www.refocuser.com Mike Torres

    Fun post. I especially like the dream spinning which I’ve never tried. I use lucid dreaming to get better at things, for example: martial arts techniques. I’ve found it works quite well (when my daughter doesn’t wake me up screaming) to use this state to “practice”:

    http://www.refocuser.com/2009/07/5-steps-to-use-lucid-dreaming-to-improve-any-skill/

  • Keith_Indy

    I’ve always had a very high ability to change the conditions in my dreams.

    For instance, if I have a dream of war, or aliens invading, I can instantly dream up the weapon I need.

    I used to have very vivid dreams, and they would often continue from night to night. Not as much anymore though.

  • ben nguyen

    I notice a dramatic increase in the amount and intensity of my dreams when I sleep with the electric blanket on.

  • Seth

    I’ve never tried self talk to stay inside a lucid dream before, usually what I do is rub my hands together in my dream. Focusing on what my hands are feeling always keeps me in the dream. The problem with that, is if I stop then I tend to lose control of the dream and wake myself up.

  • http://www.prayerthegate.com Erin

    Dreams are such a fascinating subject. Interesting post. Thanks.

  • Andrew

    I’ve had one that I an remember. I was VERY young.. maybe 8 or 9 years old.. But i remember it vividly to this day…. that was about 18 years ago.

    There were giant bugs after me,, i tripped and fell. When I got up, I just said to myself.. “wait a minute, this is a drum.” I didn’t have complete control yet, but i knew what it was.

    With enough effort, I was able to grow my body to be large enough to stomp the bugs. I woke up not long after that. I didn’t have enough time to do anything else once I was safe. I’ve been trying to lucid dream again every since.

  • Frank

    Whenever I find myself in a lucid dream, I immediately start to fly. Because I know its a dream, and that’s the only way I’ll ever fly without a machine helping, I try to enjoy it as long as possible (normally, only for a minute or so), then I loose lucidity or wake up happy that I was able to fly again.

  • matt

    I have lucid dreams on a regular basis. One side effect that I notice is that some of the dream events tend to insert themselves into my memory in a way that I had been convinced that an event had happened when it never actually did.

  • pril

    that question are you dreaming. should be asked everyone hour in your waking time. that way you won’t forget to ask this when your dreaming you need to have something on a regular basis.
    and if you can read for a time frame if you look back it wont’ be the same as well!

  • Domi Lontano

    Being on a consistent sleep schedule really helps ease the process of developing lucidity.

    A few other tricks I’ve learned are doing “reality checks” similar to the “Am I dreaming?” question. For example, every time you look at your feet, go through a door, or flip a light switch, pause and do a “reality check”. Once you learn your dream symbols (for me it’s seeing open or running water), then you can adjust your reality checks to coincide with your dream symbols. This is a GREAT way to jolt yourself into lucidity! :D

    Have you ever had the dream where you’re trying to run, but your legs feel heavy or weak? That and other recurring dreams are good reality checkpoints as well. I agree with Frank, in that I love dream flying, especially after the heavy-legs recurring dream.

    As a sidenote, a cool movie about dreaming is called “Waking Life”, by director Richard Linklater.

  • http://www.stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog Steven Aitchison

    @Keith – We kind of lose the ability and inclination to remember our dreams as we get older, but with practice we can get it back.

    @ben – That’s a strange one, maybe akin to having a fever or something like that.

    @Seth – I think focus of any kind would help as in dream spinning you have to really focus for that and same goes with rubbing your hands.

    @Erin – Thanks for you comments, I appreciate it.

    @Andrew – Lucid dreaming is an aamzing way to get rid of recurring nightmares. I always dreamt of witches or invisible entitities chasing me and shooting through my body, very strange. When I was lucid in one of these dreams and I was being chased and scared out of my wits, I was running strangely as if I was floating a little and knew I was dreaming. I stopped running and turned to face this entity and it turned out to be a young boy looking very sad and scared – the nightmares stopped…….

    @Frank – I love the flying dreams, it always leaves me with a euphoric feeling after I wake up and throughout the day. The way to get over losing luciduty is to dream spin. Imagine yourself spinning like a tornado up into the outer edges of it until you can fly again.

    @Matt – Never had that except for something called false awakenings when you dream you get up and go about your normal routine, not quite a lucid dream but very vivid.

    @pril – If you are serious about lucid dreaming I would say to do what you are suggesting, it definitely works.

    @dome – That’s a great technique as well and one I’ve used when first starting out. Never had the heavy legs feeling and waking life was a great movie, strange but great if you’re into Lucid Dreaming.

  • Barbara

    Many, many lucid dreams! the first that I remember, probably 30 years ago.
    The flying is the most fun.
    Going to talk with my dead father, another.
    Thank you for posting this.
    bb

  • http://www.zencollegelife.com Ibrahim | ZenCollegeLife.com

    A neuroscience friend and I have been exploring the idea of lucid dreams. It turns out that if you habitually test to see if you are dreaming while awake, you’ll continue to test it in your dream. Our idea was to try and fly. So a couple of times throughout the day (while I’m alone of course), I try to just jump into the air and fly away. Supposedly sooner or later I should try it in my dream and I’ll just float away.

    That is usually a clear sign that you are dreaming, and you can ‘wake up’ within the dream, taking full control. Pretty cool stuff!

  • Suzen

    I have had lucid dreams, every night, since I was about 5. Always believed it meant I was crazy until my college professor explained to me what it was.

    @Matt – I have the exact same side effect. They feel like real memories. I often have trouble distinguishing certain interaction in dreams from those in real life.

  • http://nonokisses.blogspot.com Mh

    I’ve only been lucid once in a dream. I have two roommates and I was walking down an alley with one of them. I was feeling kind of pissed off because he was drunk and belligerent. However, one of the times I looked back at him, he turned into my other roommate and I noticed this, so I thought “Am I dreaming?”
    At this point, I saw a puddle and decided to test if I was dreaming by sitting in it. So I sat down in the puddle and when I didn’t wake up I started panicking like “Oh my God, I’m sitting in a puddle and I’m not dreaming! What am I going to do?!”
    And that’s when I woke up, kind of startled.

  • http://lifehack jacob

    Ben – I’ve found the exact same thing.

  • http://www.jetsetcitizen.com John Bardos – JetSetCitizen

    Interesting post.

    My lucid dreams are triggered by an interesting idea or problem that keeps me in a semi-sleep state. I have had all kinds of weird dreams. They have helped me find items I lost, solved problems I have been having, and many other interesting things.

    I have even come up with several detailed plots for horror movies. I hope that doesn’t mean I am crazy. :-)

  • http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/ Richard X. Thripp

    At the start of the year I was questioning reality constantly, so I had many lucid dreams. It became a force of habit: in my dream world I would try pinching myself or reading signs to see if everything acted the same as in the real world. If the result was false, I would then be dreaming lucidly.

    Up until I moved into a travel trailer in the back of my parents’ yard last month, most of my dreams, lucid or not, would begin with me waking up in my bedroom, putting on my jeans, and walking around the house. Often my Dad would be on the computer just as he is in real life and I’d tell him I’m going for a walk. Then I might go outside, where my yard looked almost the same as in real life. The houses close by looked the same, but when I’d walk down the street, everything would be different. I suppose that is because those locations are less ingrained in my consciousness.

    Now, my dreams are all over the place. Different locations, unknown locations, different people. I haven’t had a lucid dream in a month, and it was in my house again. I couldn’t control the environment which was very disconcerting. Toward the end of my previous lucid dreaming period, I could float through the air. It is a nice sensation which feels different from swimming. I also didn’t have to get dressed, because I could just snap my fingers, blink my eyes, and intend it with my thoughts Then I would be wearing good clothes. That isn’t working for me now.

    Whenever a lucid dream starts ending, I get tunnel vision and my hearing fades away, just as it does when I’m falling asleep. If I want to prolong the dream, I start spinning in circles like a little kid while touching my tongue to the roof of my mouth. Always works, though I can’t prolong my stay in the virtual reality for more than a few minutes.

    Sometimes after the dream ends and I awaken, I keep my eyes closed and don’t move a muscle. I feel my eyeballs continuing to vibrate and I’m over-heated, as if my body can’t regulate it’s temperature. Am I still in REM mode? Once, I went back into a lucid dream, but normally it just ends after a few minutes of being still, and I get up.

  • http://www.trucklocator.co.uk usedtrucks

    i have dreams where bad things are happening and i know i’m dreaming but i cant make myself wake up. this is often combined with sleep paralysis, and its really scary :(

  • patrick

    to say that the way to maintain lucidity is to dream spin, and that in dreams you can only read text for a few seconds is shortsighted, just as the notion from “waking life” that flipping a light switch and having nothing happen is always a dream symbol. i have found it to be more often than not, and i often have trouble reading text or digital readout in dreams, but each persons individual experiences are entirely their own. for me i usually can recognize i am dreaming if a tornado or a wild bear appears in my dreams, but to say that is the case for everyone would be silly.

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  • Moira

    I’ve “woken up” more than once, but I always want to continue with mY dream. They’re so interesting.

  • http://www.personal-development-is-fun.com Meghashyam Chirravoori

    One thing that really struck me was – asking myself – am i dreaming? How do I prove it? And I realised that for a few seconds I was actually in doubt whether I was dreaming or not! By seeing that I could not pass my finger through my laptop screen do what I might I concluded I was not dreaming. This technique is simply awesome.

  • Vincey

    I recently quit smoking with the nicottine patch method.
    About 10 times during the 2 months it took to quit I had
    incredible control of my lucid dreams. Come to find it
    actually has a warning right on the box in the side effects
    area. Has anyone else had this experience. I DO NOT recommend this to non smokers. It will prorbaly make you vomit, or worse actually make you a nicotine addict.

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  • http://dreamstudies.org Ryan

    Steven, this is a great nuts and bolts article about lucid dreaming. I particularly like your call to “notice the waking world” which is often the step that is missed. Because if we aren’t lucid in our waking life, we won’t be in our dreams either! My favorite reality check is to notice I’m aware everytime I go through a doorway. Now I try to notice it everytime I go through a “threshold” too such as a break in the trees, or through a tunnel when driving. It’s been very effective for lucidity as a dreamsign.

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  • Terry

    Many people mention that as they get older, they lose the ability to be lucid in dreams. I noticed that problem at 55 along with difficulty falling asleep. I started taking Melatonin and now I fall asleep easily and have VIVID lucid dreams regularly…At 60, I’m again flying at night!

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  • Anastasia

    I’m only 13, and I usually remember my dreams as soon as I wake up. I have been attempting to have a lucid dream for a month now, (maybe I was just trying a little too hard), and I had one just last night. I was flying, and it was so amazing! But I didn’t really feel like I had total control of MYSELF! I didn’t feel that concious, or really there. Is this normal?

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  • Mystic Tuba

    I had my first lucid dream in a very long time last night. I recently was tested for pyroluria and started treatment; one of the symptoms of pyroluria is an inability to remember dreams. I hadn’t remembered dreams for years. If you don’t remember your dreams even with the proper focus, google pyroluria and see if you fit the profile. It is fairly common but not well known, and it won’t be found via a blood test. The test is a very delicate urine test, and must be done by an expert lab.

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  • http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com World of Lucid Dreaming

    This is an excellent overview of lucid dreaming – well done! Help spread the word http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com – dream control is within everyone’s reach :)

  • CEEBEE

    My experience has been similar though I never knew about lucid dreaming until I read this post. My lucid dreams have been about being able to breathe underwater when swimming, instead of flying. After the first one I kind of thought I could still breathe underwater when I was awake, remembering the method I used. The dream reoccurs now and then, and if I think about it all, it really seems that at some point I have definately taken a breath under water when wide awake!! So the memories from the dreams are firmly embedded and entwined in reality for me. I wish!!

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  • wethecom

    Lucid dreaming is somthing i have tryed to do for years..trying to control my dreams..
    i finally achieved it and seems now i cant sleep properly without medication..
    because i stay conscious in my dreams and i never get any rest…half awake half asleep..be careful what you wish for

  • http://watdebaizzes-tout.com Some person

    Sometimes I am aware I am dreaming.I can dream up guns but they have limited ammo. I have no idea how to fix this. Sometimes I NEED to dream up a weapon fast but nothing works. I can dream up a bazooka but fires very slowly but is very hard to dodge for some reason lol.

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  • Adam

    Amazing! I don’t know if it was just the fact that I was reading this post and all of the comments RIGHT before I went to bed last night, but I had my first (intended) lucid dream last night! I went to bed with intentions of having one and I did.

    I remember (because I wrote it down) EXACTLY how I realized I was dreaming and took control. I was trying to make a phone call to my girlfriend and my phone started laughing at me and making strange noises… I though to myself, “This cannot be happening; I’ve GOT to be dreaming.” I don’t remember the transition, but I then remember flying! Not arms-flapping flying, but like a jet. Weird. haha. Awesome! Hopefully I’ll be able to do it again, but STAY in the lucid state.

  • dreamer

    Like the Tips! I’ve had lucid dreams most of my life, and fortunately early-on realized you can somewhat control. So Interesting, an altered reality only limited by our imagination. And sometimes you see things you didn’t think you imagined, fascinating :: Evernote.com is great for cataloging, you can keyword and group, track. Or for reoccurrings. Also, foods before bed increase potential, popcorn, spicies, foods w/effects (,of course). ::

  • Jochen

    Our daughter died a few weeks ago, at almost 8 months of age. I’ll keep an eye on my dreams now for the future, thanks!

  • lucid dreamer

    I don’t have a lucid dream often, just about once or twice a month.

    i heart JB

  • http://www.lucidadvice.com Robert

    Great article! Another way of becoming lucid involves the Castaneda technique of finding your hands in the dream state. That is how I started on the path of lucid dreaming. You can read the basic technique at http://dreaminglucid.com/fivetechniques.html

  • Zach

    Last time I had one was a year and a half ago. I make myself a car, and then tried to wake myself up within the dream (stupid me). Now I know how rare these dreams are, and am hoping to have another soon.

  • tywon bowe

    Well, I’m 14 now and when i was 13 I remember me being in a dream right in front of my lawn and I simply said “Wait, I’m dreaming” And I tried to fly and i couldn’t unfortunately i was so excited i started to act in… wich is to play along with the dream… But I think it was an astral projection because i remember reading that when u first astral project u can’t go far… but idk

  • George

    My first lucid dream involved a battle of a recurring dream: falling. As I was falling, I tensed my face and closed my eyes and “summoned” an enormous pillow to softly catch me. At that point I was flying around on it, and was able to summon anything or anyone at will with the same method: tensing my face and closing my eyes, and thinking of it.

  • Bianca

    I had a lot of them but they are always so weird. Like once I had a Harry Potter theme but I was riding a broom in the middle of a bamboo forrest then all of a sudden I wish the bambbo would go away cuzz I can’t see where I am flying and they sart to burn. Now I am in a cavern huge circle like with cracks. And on top of the cavern is a Castle a costomised hogwards with stone dragons. And I’m standing on a giant chess board talking to a warewolf….LOL weird.

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  • Willubs

    Your mind is subconsciously viewing time as slower than it should be. Somewhere in your mind you think it’d be cooler to shoot a bazooka in slow motion, so you do. Guns aren’t terribly cool in slow motion because there’s no climax, explosion, etc. The reason they’re low on ammo is because your mind is conflicting with how it views time passing; it’s saying to itself, “these guns should have a clip that lasts this long, because no gun fires for a mintue straight” (unless chain fed, obviously).

  • Harry

    I used to have lucid dreams almost regularly as a child. For example, walking down a street I would realize I was in a dream and go into a toy store and take all the toys I want. Another example was jumping off a huge roller-coaster and fly in the air because I knew it was a dream, jumping off of high buildings and mountain cliffs and flying in the air.

    I’m now 30 and when I remember these dreams…they are absolutely incredible and I will never forget them. Of course as a kid I did not know of the phenomena called Lucid dreaming…I just had them.

    I would love so much to experience them again…..Also an important question I have is why did I have these lucid dreams as a kid?? I have this feeling that as a kid you are so mentally relaxed and free with an incredible imagination that for some reason you are capable of lucid dreaming.

  • for all those non-thinkers.

    He didn’t say it was definite. Maybe you should stop trying to play devil’s advocate and actually ThInK some more. It’s typical in dreams…not everybody HAS to experience this….

  • Anon

    I find that when writing in a dream journal it’s best to write it in present tense…
    It should be the first thing you do when waking up and written as it comes to you as if it’s happening right then.
    This helps you recall more of your dreams as well as to create lengthier, more vivid dream recollections when practiced on a regular basis.

  • Anon

    I find that when writing in a dream journal it’s best to write it in present tense…
    It should be the first thing you do when waking up and written as it comes to you as if it’s happening right then.
    This helps you recall more of your dreams as well as to create lengthier, more vivid dream recollections when practiced on a regular basis.

  • SummerLynn

    I was driving a pick-up truck and I realized, no-one has a pick-up like this. Thats when I noticed I was dreaming, so then, I decided to change where I was going. I went to this beautiful house on a hill, and I had children there (i decided) and my boyfriend was there. It was a huge house, and I was playing a game by changing where the doors were in the house. Thats as deep into it as I became.

  • Bethany Wilson

     I once had a lucid dream when I was 10 and I knew right from the start of my dream that it was a dream. I practically forced  myself into the dream. It was really easy, and I actually remember every single little detail, even when I was starting to fall asleep! It was an amazing experience. In my dream, I was in a water park pool and over top of the pool was plastic covering like to keep the sun out. It was full of leaves and bugs but when I went under water (which is what I had entered the dream for) I could breathe the water as oxygen! Shortly after that, it was hard to stay so I eventually woke up, but found it extremely easy to enter the dream consciously again just by concentrating on it. So I re-entered the dream and the water was clear this time. I also find it easier to get back into a dream immediately after waking up. That happened three or four times in a row. I’m now 13 and I remember it as clear as day, but I just can’t remember how I did it, because it’s not working the same anymore. But it might be just because my mind has grown and it isn’t the same. I suggest using different techniques almost every night so that your mind doesn’t change from that state and it takes you forever just to get back in there. The surprise was that I have never heard of it before, it was as easy as pie, AND that it was my first time trying that EVER. I hadn’t even practiced. And I’m NOT joking. Wish you all good luck with your practices/trip things. :)

  • Damon

    i never forget my lucid dreams, i always make my dreams lucid however i ALMOST NEVER dream anymore… and i actually believe god or just my brain do not want to allow me to do it anymore

  • Frizzellcameron

    I had a lucid dream not to long ago. Atleast I think it was. Im 13.
    In my dream I was sitting in class and I was telling myself I’m dreaming like I new it was happenening. So me and my 13 year old mind the first thing I did was but short shorts on this chick and make her ass perfect. I know it seems perverted but, I’ll never forget my first somewhat controlled dream. Btw before I went to sleep I was reeling my self to lucid dream so. Idk if that helped or not.

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  • Rose

    I lucid drem all the time now that i think of it one was where i was naked in my front yard and someone was trying to shoot me but i hid behind a barrel he was naked too but he shot him self in the D****

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  • JImmyBob

    I assume this can work with any Pepsi vending machine that can be programmed to say the certain things in the small screen. Getting into the debug menu is as simple as pressing buttons. Some random person hanging around with friends can accidently

  • Aidan G

    I had my first Lucid Dream last night and it was AMAZING although I got too excited and felt everything start to fade away so it started to spin but it was too late and I woke up :(

  • Dakilla96

    Well yesterday I had a dream where I had powers and I really don’t remember all of it but I had powers and I needed like a thunder power so I found it and I grabbed it and I was trying to pull it out but then I realised I woke up and I was grabbing my brothers pillow lol I was doing things on real life while dreaming.

  • Rolf21897@yahoo.com

    Actually I unintentionally had one where I could fly I started thinking in the dream that I wish I could fly then suddenly I jumped really high then I flew.., I doubt I could do it again though to be honest

  • Yahoo

    Sorry, there seems to be a lot of people here confusing dream control with lucid dreams.

  • FuzzyDarkShadow

    This is a lucid dream right here, right now…but your not in control

  • 3nice

    this is bed advise

    • Faisal

      How is this bad advice?

  • ShadowJKL

    It’s so strange… My lucid dreams feel so realistic (Even the one while flying in the air) I can sense everything around, I can smell them and I can feel them.

    I can never tell when I’m dreaming, no matter how crazy it is… but when I do have these amazing dreams I can never forget them.Ugh! I wish I could just flip a switch that forces me to have a lucid dream >_> 

  • Johncastillo408

      I have had a few lucid dreams that were extremely vivid but one stands out in my mind. I dreamed I was a DBZ character and I was immensely powerful and I could fly and was very quick and could shoot ki blast and I was never fatigued. I felt omnipotent and it was very cool. I think I was in the third grade. That was the most intense thing ever experienced and I would probably do a lot to have it again. I was watching myself in the third person and controlling myself in the third person IT WAS INSANE!

  • Johncastillo408

    Sorry watching myself in the third person and controlling myself in the first person

  • Mrzod01

    Im 13 and i had a dream i got laid by a sexy babe

    • Anonymous

      yea & thats y it will only happen in ur dreams!

  • Faisal

    Every time I Lucid dream I subconsciously run on all four, I go as fast as a car sometimes if I feel like it! It’s AWESOME!!

    • Anonymous

      I have yet to try lucid dreaming but  I came onto this post by accident when trying to figure out why it is that in all my dreams where I am running, whether it is being chased or I just need to get somewhere, I start off running with my feet but then bend over and run on all fours.  I make huge leaps and sometimes grab walls or poles to propel myself forward even more .  What are signs that I am already lucid dreaming ? All my dreams are soo vivid and real and I can often use all of my senses.  I remember how I feel, the temperature, sound, sight, and sometimes taste and smell.  I tend to remember most of my dreams and when I wake up I’ll make my bf who is very sleepy listen to everything that just happened in my dream lol.  My dreams are soo vivid that often times I can’t tell if I am dreaming and I think everything is just completely real until I wake up. Other times I may wake up from my dream and think I am awake only to actually still be dreaming.  I’ve had all of these types of dreams for as long as I can remember.  Any one have any input ? 

    • hakeem abdella

      Thats really weird lol, because I do the same thing. It feels smoother when you run on all four, and its much faster. I wonder what that’d be like if I tried it in real life with shoes to protect my hands

  • ♓ ♒ ♑ ♐ ♏ ♎ ♍ ♌ ♊ ♉ ♈ ♋

    I’m only 13, but I used to always have Lucid Dreams. Well, that’s mainly why I’m looking things up like this. I stopped remembering my dreams awhile ago. Which is sad to say. I used to like Dreaming. I haven’t even had a /NIGHTMARE/ in years! I only rarely remember my Dreams now. And when I do dream, I find myself unable to control my actions, or the things around me. Only ONCE in my life have I ever gained the ability to fly in one of my Dreams, but once I took my feet off the ground, my eyes shot open. And that was maybe when I was 8. Still actively Dreaming…Anyways, I brought myself into this search for better Dreaming after watching that Anime Movie, “Paprika.” It’s about Dreaming, and I just thought it would be so amazing, Falling asleep, and awaking in a Dream, where you’re someone else, and everything around you is just…another world. Oh, how I miss Dreaming….

    • Britton DeJong

      eat cheese and cherries before you go to bed or take vitamin b6 before you go to bed and question if you are actually in reality, eating before bed awakes your mind and usually lets you remember your dreams

  • Duskabsol

    cool story bro

  • TJ

    i had two lucid dreams within each other. i woke up and was in my living room and had a conversation with my roommates(which were at work during this time) then i walked in to the kitchen an made some food shortly after i went back to laying down on the couch to take a nap and i awoke again on the couch this time someone was trying to break my sliding glass door… I laid there for about a minute and then i stood up and looked at him and it was some demon looking guy and i immediately knew i was dreaming. Then I hit him through the glass with what could be described as an invisible chi blast and he went flying then i walked through my front or without opening it and walked around out front of my house for a few minutes then returned to the couch laid back down and woke up for real .

    • Chris

      Luception!!!

  • http://www.lucid-dreaming-how-to-induce.com/how-to-lucid-dream David

    like you advise on keeping the lucid dream going. I struggle some times to maintain lucidity of the dream. As you suggest as well its important to also engage your dream environment. If you see things look at the detail (as you say notice them). Pick them up look at them. Speak to dream characters arround you. If you see a tree hug the tree. etc.

  • Uboat

    one day i thought i was going to dream when i decided to go to sleep, when i finally did i found myself in a dream were i knew i was dreaming. For some reason in the middle of this short dream i panicked knowing i wasn’t awake, panicking more and more i struggled but managed to wake myself up. Freaked me out at first and my heart was pacing, was this a lucid dream and the over-excitement you wrote about?

  • Cwbabis

    Lol!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CFPKMBMTX47OXPGPKSJGLOZXYA Dane

    I’ve had signs of Lucid dreaming signs for years, but I always woke up when I saw that I was dreaming. However, the past couple weeks i researched what controlling your dreams was called.. found out that it was called “lucid dreaming”. I read a few techniques and a few nights later I had my first Lucid Dream. I was on a beach with two random people and we were surfing, and all the sudden it hit me… “this is a dream”.. as soon as that thought came to my head the background started to morph and everything was collapsing and soon enough I was in an enormous room. to my left was a replication of myself that was violently spinning out of control, and I said to myself “its okay it is only a dream” as soon as I said this, everything was stil and I was free to walk around the room. Knowing that I was in control of everything, the first thing I wanted to do was talk to my subconscious as I read on the Internet you can do. Sure enough as I thought of this, at the end of a hallway out of a doorway, walked a replication of myself. I knew this was my subconscious instantly, and I walked over to myself and gave myself a hug. We then proceeded to walk through the house where I got to ask myself some serious questions I wanted to know about myself. This was so unique and it made me feel really good about myself afterwards. Also my subconscious showed me a TV screen ehich was playing a frightful motion picture on it. I asked my subconscious what this was, and he replied saying… “this is a dream you have been having every night since you were a child”… several minutes passed and I got to do some great things while Lucid… but its been almost a week, and I have not been able to make myself Lucid dream since, cant wait til my next time though!

    • http://www.facebook.com/deaunce.steveson DeAunce Steveson

      i dont think you can “Make”  yourself do it. Just go along with the flow and expect it to happen you know. I meditate and try to become aware to the fact that as I sit criss crossed on my pillow people all across the world are moving. Jets are flying dolphins are swimming lions are chasing prey, babies are born, people are dying and then, just to know that your the only you. Everytime i do this I lucid dream about 7 lucid dreams in a row my friend

  • robert rodriguez

    4 sum odd reason i can tell when im dreaming i can see and all that but i cant hear or smell 
    (atleast i dont remember hearing or smelling)  but my biggest problem is that i cant move my body (i actually think i do but i dont remember moving when i wake up) moves on its own as if it panicked about something another thing if sum 1 can help me with this is that when i go to sleep i want to dream but i cant i just remember every thing black im thinking be cuz of my eyes closed can any1 help??? 

  • http://twitter.com/theexecuter10 Anonymous

    I had quite a few lucid dreams before but i couldnt seem to control it properly. As soon as I realized that it was simply a dream, I felt more energetic and I only had a few seconds to think or do what I want(wake up). Well you see, I have this habit of biting or peeling my nails and I notice that I dont seem to have them in my dreams. That was my way of notifying myself that I’m dreaming.

  • http://twitter.com/meandean19 Dean Ruane

    I’m 14 and a few days ago i was introduced to the wrold of lucid dreaming. i wanted to try it for my self. so, throughout the day i kept saying to myself “am i dreaming” that night nothing happened apart from a normal dream and wrote it down. Next day, i said the same thing but looking at my watch, nothing happened and wrote it down. I will try the techniques but can anyone give some advice please for a novice. And one last thing, if these techniques do work, would i need to do them every time i wanted to enter a lucid dream or what? thanks

    • Anonymous

      have you started lucid dreaming yet?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VBIEUTRR3WVW5MPX2CBB2T3MOE Jose

    ive had my first lucid dream before i even knew it was even called that. the thing that worries me is that when i had it, near the end i looked in the mirror and suddenly my mind started changing my appearance like i almost couldnt control it anymore. my eyes turned black and i started opening my mouth yelling like a demon almost. It felt very weird..

  • Anonymous

    okkk, so i just had this dream in which i was at a hardware store with my cousin, it was a very small store, and the owner of the store was the cashier, and when my cousin was paying whatever she bought, the owner told me, are you stupid or what? and i was like whats wrong with you, and my cousin pointed out there was a 400 dollars coin haha, on a rack,and the owner said i had to pick it up. so i was like no u pick it up, then he called me dumb and other names, haha i got so mad,my cousin grabbed  the coin and we started running.. we noticed that this guy was following us, and i told my cousin , come onnn keep running, we were tired. soo we kept running and we got to this elementary school, and we didnt know which way to go, and there were two guys  standing there, so one of them said to the other one, heyy isnt that jenny , and so i heard that and me and my cousin stopped,he was asking me, do you remember me? i said no i don’t know you, and he said i went to elementary school with u, then all of a sudden i woke up in the dream and said, oh this is a dream, and maybe i remember this guy, yeahh we went to shcool together then like i got back in the dream   and the guy told us ok you have to go this way, and you are gonna get to a bridge, be careful, because its a dangerous bridge, and he offered himself to go with us, so we told him yeahh we would rather go with someone… so we got to the bridge and i realized that somehow i knew that guy liked me and so when we got to the bridge, there was no bridge at all, it was like a small swamp or something like that , it was green and there were hungry crocodiles, and so i found myself sitting  on a staircase and this guy was hugging me from behind and told me, give me a kiss, and i was like noooo,,, and then he stole a kiss from me, i told him why did you do that and i laughed , and he told me now we are gonna swim to get across, i was like are yoou crazy, those crocodiles are gonna eat us, and he said nooo, we will swim faster ,by that time my cousin had disappear from the dream and i was thinking why am i dreaming this? and then i appeared in a room in which there was a men shirt and shoes, and that guy was getting dressed for something special, and i said yeahh this dream must be real because i know those shoes and that shirt and i have them in my house and i noticed the dream was collapsing and i said , i dont want to wake up because i wanted to find out more about this weird dream butttt   i woke up ,, i went to the  kitchen, grabbed something to drink, walked around the house, looked out the window, i was totally awake, and i got back to my bed, fell asleep again, and kept dreaming …. its all weird to me, because its not the first time that happens…. please if you have any explanation feel free to comment!!! thanks!!!! sorry i know its a lot to read!! :)

  • Anonymous

    okkk, so i just had this dream in which i was at a hardware store with my cousin, it was a very small store, and the owner of the store was the cashier, and when my cousin was paying whatever she bought, the owner told me, are you stupid or what? and i was like whats wrong with you, and my cousin pointed out there was a 400 dollars coin haha, on a rack,and the owner said i had to pick it up. so i was like no u pick it up, then he called me dumb and other names, haha i got so mad,my cousin grabbed  the coin and we started running.. we noticed that this guy was following us, and i told my cousin , come onnn keep running, we were tired. soo we kept running and we got to this elementary school, and we didnt know which way to go, and there were two guys  standing there, so one of them said to the other one, heyy isnt that jenny , and so i heard that and me and my cousin stopped,he was asking me, do you remember me? i said no i don’t know you, and he said i went to elementary school with u, then all of a sudden i woke up in the dream and said, oh this is a dream, and maybe i remember this guy, yeahh we went to shcool together then like i got back in the dream   and the guy told us ok you have to go this way, and you are gonna get to a bridge, be careful, because its a dangerous bridge, and he offered himself to go with us, so we told him yeahh we would rather go with someone… so we got to the bridge and i realized that somehow i knew that guy liked me and so when we got to the bridge, there was no bridge at all, it was like a small swamp or something like that , it was green and there were hungry crocodiles, and so i found myself sitting  on a staircase and this guy was hugging me from behind and told me, give me a kiss, and i was like noooo,,, and then he stole a kiss from me, i told him why did you do that and i laughed , and he told me now we are gonna swim to get across, i was like are yoou crazy, those crocodiles are gonna eat us, and he said nooo, we will swim faster ,by that time my cousin had disappear from the dream and i was thinking why am i dreaming this? and then i appeared in a room in which there was a men shirt and shoes, and that guy was getting dressed for something special, and i said yeahh this dream must be real because i know those shoes and that shirt and i have them in my house and i noticed the dream was collapsing and i said , i dont want to wake up because i wanted to find out more about this weird dream butttt   i woke up ,, i went to the  kitchen, grabbed something to drink, walked around the house, looked out the window, i was totally awake, and i got back to my bed, fell asleep again, and kept dreaming …. its all weird to me, because its not the first time that happens…. please if you have any explanation feel free to comment!!! thanks!!!! sorry i know its a lot to read!! :)

  • Anonymous

    okkk, so i just had this dream in which i was at a hardware store with my cousin, it was a very small store, and the owner of the store was the cashier, and when my cousin was paying whatever she bought, the owner told me, are you stupid or what? and i was like whats wrong with you, and my cousin pointed out there was a 400 dollars coin haha, on a rack,and the owner said i had to pick it up. so i was like no u pick it up, then he called me dumb and other names, haha i got so mad,my cousin grabbed  the coin and we started running.. we noticed that this guy was following us, and i told my cousin , come onnn keep running, we were tired. soo we kept running and we got to this elementary school, and we didnt know which way to go, and there were two guys  standing there, so one of them said to the other one, heyy isnt that jenny , and so i heard that and me and my cousin stopped,he was asking me, do you remember me? i said no i don’t know you, and he said i went to elementary school with u, then all of a sudden i woke up in the dream and said, oh this is a dream, and maybe i remember this guy, yeahh we went to shcool together then like i got back in the dream   and the guy told us ok you have to go this way, and you are gonna get to a bridge, be careful, because its a dangerous bridge, and he offered himself to go with us, so we told him yeahh we would rather go with someone… so we got to the bridge and i realized that somehow i knew that guy liked me and so when we got to the bridge, there was no bridge at all, it was like a small swamp or something like that , it was green and there were hungry crocodiles, and so i found myself sitting  on a staircase and this guy was hugging me from behind and told me, give me a kiss, and i was like noooo,,, and then he stole a kiss from me, i told him why did you do that and i laughed , and he told me now we are gonna swim to get across, i was like are yoou crazy, those crocodiles are gonna eat us, and he said nooo, we will swim faster ,by that time my cousin had disappear from the dream and i was thinking why am i dreaming this? and then i appeared in a room in which there was a men shirt and shoes, and that guy was getting dressed for something special, and i said yeahh this dream must be real because i know those shoes and that shirt and i have them in my house and i noticed the dream was collapsing and i said , i dont want to wake up because i wanted to find out more about this weird dream butttt   i woke up ,, i went to the  kitchen, grabbed something to drink, walked around the house, looked out the window, i was totally awake, and i got back to my bed, fell asleep again, and kept dreaming …. its all weird to me, because its not the first time that happens…. please if you have any explanation feel free to comment!!! thanks!!!! sorry i know its a lot to read!! :)

  • Anonymous

    okkk, so i just had this dream in which i was at a hardware store with my cousin, it was a very small store, and the owner of the store was the cashier, and when my cousin was paying whatever she bought, the owner told me, are you stupid or what? and i was like whats wrong with you, and my cousin pointed out there was a 400 dollars coin haha, on a rack,and the owner said i had to pick it up. so i was like no u pick it up, then he called me dumb and other names, haha i got so mad,my cousin grabbed  the coin and we started running.. we noticed that this guy was following us, and i told my cousin , come onnn keep running, we were tired. soo we kept running and we got to this elementary school, and we didnt know which way to go, and there were two guys  standing there, so one of them said to the other one, heyy isnt that jenny , and so i heard that and me and my cousin stopped,he was asking me, do you remember me? i said no i don’t know you, and he said i went to elementary school with u, then all of a sudden i woke up in the dream and said, oh this is a dream, and maybe i remember this guy, yeahh we went to shcool together then like i got back in the dream   and the guy told us ok you have to go this way, and you are gonna get to a bridge, be careful, because its a dangerous bridge, and he offered himself to go with us, so we told him yeahh we would rather go with someone… so we got to the bridge and i realized that somehow i knew that guy liked me and so when we got to the bridge, there was no bridge at all, it was like a small swamp or something like that , it was green and there were hungry crocodiles, and so i found myself sitting  on a staircase and this guy was hugging me from behind and told me, give me a kiss, and i was like noooo,,, and then he stole a kiss from me, i told him why did you do that and i laughed , and he told me now we are gonna swim to get across, i was like are yoou crazy, those crocodiles are gonna eat us, and he said nooo, we will swim faster ,by that time my cousin had disappear from the dream and i was thinking why am i dreaming this? and then i appeared in a room in which there was a men shirt and shoes, and that guy was getting dressed for something special, and i said yeahh this dream must be real because i know those shoes and that shirt and i have them in my house and i noticed the dream was collapsing and i said , i dont want to wake up because i wanted to find out more about this weird dream butttt   i woke up ,, i went to the  kitchen, grabbed something to drink, walked around the house, looked out the window, i was totally awake, and i got back to my bed, fell asleep again, and kept dreaming …. its all weird to me, because its not the first time that happens…. please if you have any explanation feel free to comment!!! thanks!!!! sorry i know its a lot to read!! :)

  • Anonymous

    okkk, so i just had this dream in which i was at a hardware store with my cousin, it was a very small store, and the owner of the store was the cashier, and when my cousin was paying whatever she bought, the owner told me, are you stupid or what? and i was like whats wrong with you, and my cousin pointed out there was a 400 dollars coin haha, on a rack,and the owner said i had to pick it up. so i was like no u pick it up, then he called me dumb and other names, haha i got so mad,my cousin grabbed  the coin and we started running.. we noticed that this guy was following us, and i told my cousin , come onnn keep running, we were tired. soo we kept running and we got to this elementary school, and we didnt know which way to go, and there were two guys  standing there, so one of them said to the other one, heyy isnt that jenny , and so i heard that and me and my cousin stopped,he was asking me, do you remember me? i said no i don’t know you, and he said i went to elementary school with u, then all of a sudden i woke up in the dream and said, oh this is a dream, and maybe i remember this guy, yeahh we went to shcool together then like i got back in the dream   and the guy told us ok you have to go this way, and you are gonna get to a bridge, be careful, because its a dangerous bridge, and he offered himself to go with us, so we told him yeahh we would rather go with someone… so we got to the bridge and i realized that somehow i knew that guy liked me and so when we got to the bridge, there was no bridge at all, it was like a small swamp or something like that , it was green and there were hungry crocodiles, and so i found myself sitting  on a staircase and this guy was hugging me from behind and told me, give me a kiss, and i was like noooo,,, and then he stole a kiss from me, i told him why did you do that and i laughed , and he told me now we are gonna swim to get across, i was like are yoou crazy, those crocodiles are gonna eat us, and he said nooo, we will swim faster ,by that time my cousin had disappear from the dream and i was thinking why am i dreaming this? and then i appeared in a room in which there was a men shirt and shoes, and that guy was getting dressed for something special, and i said yeahh this dream must be real because i know those shoes and that shirt and i have them in my house and i noticed the dream was collapsing and i said , i dont want to wake up because i wanted to find out more about this weird dream butttt   i woke up ,, i went to the  kitchen, grabbed something to drink, walked around the house, looked out the window, i was totally awake, and i got back to my bed, fell asleep again, and kept dreaming …. its all weird to me, because its not the first time that happens…. please if you have any explanation feel free to comment!!! thanks!!!! sorry i know its a lot to read!! :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Barnes/100002304057183 Jonathan Barnes

    I am new to lucid dreaming. I had my first lucid dream a few months ago. It was amazing because my brain instantly for some reason knew that I was dreaming like it snapped right into my thoughts. I instantly began to actually have a nightmare lucid dream as I was in my old high school cafeteria and it was filled with students as if it were a normal school day. The moment I had the revelation that i was dreaming I began to notice everyone in the room staring at me as if there were looking at me like I figure out the secret that I was dreaming and they turned on me. I instantly got excited and got up to walk but I stumbled and fell to my hands and knees and at that instant I began to melt into the floor. As I was disolving into the floor I began to notice the detailed patterns in the floor just as it was in the real world. In that last few seconds the world around me began to melt with me and I awoke with that dream burned into my brain as if it were a real life situation. It was a breath taking and a revolutionary experience for me. However I did not give it much thought because I figured that I would never be able to experience and control my dreams. Now however, I am starting to research it and am now starting to take the steps necessary to control my dreams. I feel that lucid dreaming will be the key for me to unlock parts of my consciousness that I never thought possible. I am determined to control my dreams now. Wish me luck!!!

  • http://twitter.com/KyuhEla_1303 Angela Chang

    Does it take many days to experience lucid dreams?

  • Anonymous

    Having lucid and very vivid dreams has been a real life “nightmare” for me. I can smell and feel in my dreams. I wish it would stop because it goes on all night for me. When I get scared I wake myself up by opening my eyes wide in my dream but when I fall back asleep I’m in the same dream. I can usually turn it into a less frightening dream but it goes on and on. I miss the days when I can fall asleep everything goes black and I wake up in the morning feeling refreshed and ready to go. Now I never get a restful night sleep because I never feel like I’m sleeping. I always wake up tired. I don’t know why anyone would want to start lucid dreaming. Too much dream sleep is actually not good for you, I am missing out on my much needed delta sleep. I wish I could go back to not remembering my dreams.

  • Anonymous

    I lucid dream all the time!!! & remember my dreams very vividly.. I always wake up scared or confused or sad crying or hurt!! Last night i had a dream i was like part of a labyrynth trying to get home & a lot of time i knew i was dreaming but ican easily forget & than remind myself no Jackie ur dreaming just wakeup !!! & than ill fall back into dream state and say omg im so far from home how will i get back & than realize well in a dream u can do anything so i put my hands over my face & picture home & im there  & wake up!! IT happens also when a dream is soooo scary like almost every single dream i am getting attacked by an animal, cat or dog, alligator,snake,cooger, & wen im about to die i make myself wake up and sometimes wen i do die i wake up instantly. What if lucid dreams just make u believe u can do what u want ???

    • Zain Awan

      well just dream you are ur favorite super hero or fighter and then magically solve your problems, that’s what i did when i was (p.s i was a super saiyen)  

  • Anonymous

    i havent had a lucid dream yet but im hoping to have one any tips?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/CD2UGIHGBBVFGMBCNHUZDZFKDM EvanW

    I’ve had probably over a dozen lucid dreams since about the age of 14 and I’ve always been fascinated by their power and what potential they may possess.  I have, since about 3 or 4 dreams ago made the resolve to actively focus on what can be achieved within them and I want to start discovering more possibilities, including the solution to some enduring problems I’ve had academically and intellectually throughout my life.  I have no idea whether or not this is possible or if much can actually be achieved with them.  Ever since making the resolve, though, I have managed with varying degrees of effectiveness to stay in them and concentrate on doing particular things in terms of manipulating my surroundings or flying from one place to another.  Whatever I try or do is entirely conscious, but the forms of it are not necessarily the best for unlocking the power of lucid dreaming.  I notice what is said about “reading” in lucid dreams,… I have not necessarily “read,” at all, but there seems to be something about the practical inclinations one has when in the waking world that simply are not possible within a lucid dream.  I have been known to be fascinated by the surroundings I know to be artificial when consciously dreaming so that I will attempt looking closely at an object or a wall.  This seems to be counter-productive.  Looking too “closely” at things with spatial proximity just seems to risk collapsing the entire world of the dream.  “Focusing” on something “up close” simply limits ones field of vision and produces an effect similar to what one sees when they get too close to a TV screen or monitor,… one is trying to view the texture of an object and instead gets pixels, … for lucid dreaming there is no apt parallel, but one finds they are definitely searching for something that is not there.
    I believe if I want to realize the actual potential of these dreams in the most profound terms they can offer for betterment I need to get past my immediate inclination to look at them like a befuddled scientist “within” a new world, and instead focus my energies on something far deeper like one another reader stated,… such as “talking” to my subconscious, if that’s one way of putting something without being presumptuous about the constitution of mind, body and soul.  I don’t want to “talk” to my subconscious, per say, but I definitely do want to probe deeper into a practice within the dreaming that may show me from inside the experience itself WHAT exactly the potential is and HOW it can be used, and if it is practical to use something like this at all in the first place.  I believe the first goal is to actively trigger lucid dreaming, instead of finding myself within them that once in a while time when my sleep schedule is off kilter or some other irregularity has disrupted my normal sleeping patterns.  To make lucid dreaming a normal occurrence alone would be one way to increase the amount of practice I could have.   

          

  • Zain Awan

    i had a lucid dream wen i was 7….but i couldnt focus enough to fly correctly………..

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000153918199 Ian Whittington

    Lucid Dreaming is sleep paralysis. It is also connected to OBE. People actually suffer sleep paralysis and cant wake up they know there dreaming in the middle of a catastrophic terrorizing nightmare. These figures you see in sleep paraylsis (Lucid Dreaming) are not hallucinations these are “Shadows” just like connected to astral projection and these “Shadows” try to enter or posses your body to take control. This leads to dementia and mental serious issues. These are staged and trapped evil spirits. Attempt with warning!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000857931557 Dorothy Nirvana

    Unfortunately, I haven’t…yet. I hope I will have one soon. The problem is that I can’t find my dream sign – while I’m dreaming can’t become lucid. I started to write my dreams down in my dream journal from March 7th. I read somewhere that Binaural Beats help if you want to expirience a lucid dream, but I didn’t find them helpful. I also downloaded a podcast which is like 10 minutes and it says only “The next time I’m dreaming I will be alised that I’m dreaming…Am I dreaming? Is this a dream?”. When I listened to those things I couldn’t remember my dreams, so I stopped. Today was the first day since I stoped listening and I couldn’t remember much of my dream, I remember only the last dream perhaps. I hope to expirience lucid dream soon :)

  • http://twitter.com/ohiampam pamela pajarillo

    I know someone who experienced lucid dream, he told me twas just this morning around 2:30am(Philippines time), he forced himself to sleep and then it just started he saw his body sleeping, he said. Well, while typing this I was confused if it is really the lucid dream or the OBE(out of the body experience) thing?

  • fredrik thomsson

    Hello. I learned about lucid dreaming for 3 days ago, i had my first lucid dream within 48 hours but i got way to excited and woke myself up. And ive read that i can experience very scary obe’s from lucid dreams. Such as i will experience that i will see demons and gost and stuffs and that i will be parylized while this is going on. Do anyone know if this will happen to me if i keep having lucid dreams because that s**t realy freaks me out. Answer as soon as possible please :) Thanks

  • http://www.facebook.com/nikk98 Nick Mireles

    i think i have been lucid dreaming for years but idk how to figure out like i feel i can control it
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/nikk98 Nick Mireles

    i think i have been lucid dreaming for years but idk how to figure out like i feel i can control it
     

  • Anonymous

    “Hello Dr Gboco! You were my last hope and after all the spellcasters I tried before, you were my last chance, and you kept your promise! My wife wrote me such a touching letter last week! She wants to live with me and the kids again! I really feel I’m living again! Thank you for making all this possible!”  gbocotemple@yahoo.com

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/GK6D2K7Y4GOTFFVJVSD6XNS52U Alejandro Vera

    i did but i was trying to bring a hot girl in my dream but i couldn’t. why?

  • Anonymous

    I had a dream once. I was in Tokyo sleeping on my futon. I dreamed I was in Toronto on Avenue Rd. I was with some men younger than I was. We wanted to eat in a restaurant. But which one? We started to argue about which one.

    Suddenly, I realized it was a dream. I said to them: “Wait! This is a dream. I’m not in Toronto. I’m in Tokyo sleeping on the tatami mat right now. All of you are a figment of my sleeping imagination!”

    At this point, one of them said to me: “Is that so? Well I’m in Chicago, dreaming I’m in Toronto, talking to YOU.”

    I looked at him aghast. He was regarding me cooly. He was taller than me, with shoulder length hair, unshaven, and a long dark wool coat.

    Then I woke up.

  • Anonymous

    I had a dream once. I was in Tokyo sleeping on my futon. I dreamed I was in Toronto on Avenue Rd. I was with some men younger than I was. We wanted to eat in a restaurant. But which one? We started to argue about which one.Suddenly, I realized it was a dream. I said to them: “Wait! This is a dream. I’m not in Toronto. I’m in Tokyo sleeping on the tatami mat right now. All of you are a figment of my sleeping imagination!”At this point, one of them said to me: “Is that so? Well I’m in Chicago, dreaming I’m in Toronto, talking to YOU.”I looked at him aghast. He was regarding me cooly. He was taller than me, with shoulder length hair, unshaven, and a long dark wool coat.Then I woke up.

  • Anonymous

    I had a dream I was going on a trip or something with a male friend and a female was there that I could not see her face. We were standing in line at the airport and there was a fish tank full of snakes and frogs. It was a pet shop of sorts. I like snakes and so does my male friend. I chose two small ones that seemed to be entwined. It was strange because when they started to seem like they were getting irritated i was able to turn them into a kitten. but that did not work and while i was holding them they both bit me. I thought I was fine but my hand started to swell and I started to bleed a little. I was getting dizzy and confused as well. My male friend kept trying to help me but could not. We tried to find the snakes but they had disappear either back in the tank or hidden somewhere. What does this mean?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/V2AVRTQBUI4PUTRKNCCS2ZARVM Megumi

    I kind of figured out how to do this on my own as a kid. I think I was watching Blues Clues with my brother and they were talking about how you could have complete control over your dreams. I don’t actively practice but I’ve developed the ability to keep myself from having nightmares.

    Whenever I know the dream is about to get scary, I literally see a pause sign and then the rewind sign, the dream rewinds and I think, “No it’s not happening this way, it’s going to happen this way.” Then the dream goes onto a more pleasant topic. If this doesn’t work I’ll stop and think, I don’t want to dream about this- then I wake myself up.

    Which is a huge blessing because I used to have horrible nightmares that left me sleeping in my room with all the lights on. I think it would be a valuable thing to teach kids who have nightmares that if they do it right they have the power to nip the nightmare at the bud.

    I do have a very vivid imagination and have always have had a wild imagination. So maybe I’m just naturally gifted in controlling my subconscious?

  • Colin Weinstein

    Im 14 and ive only barely lucid dreamed. I would be dreaming, wake up, go to bed again and sorta influence the dream, but Ive never really done anything fancy. My mom or my alarm would wake me up and they were barely lucid. Id always try to see if i was in a dream, and itd fade into awakeness with me reading something or Id realize im dreaming and try to make things happen and id always awaken. tonight is the first night im goign to straight up try to lucid dream.

  • http://www.facebook.com/deaunce.steveson DeAunce Steveson

    I hope someone reads this because this had to be one of the most amazing things that has ever happened to me. I literrally woke up the next day feeling God like. Well I’m in this strange dream world (to trippy to describe) but I find myself standing on two feet and then I realize !!! I’m dreaming aren’t I… then i say “Swag!” which is something that I would do in the actual world… which means that i was lucid. So anyways I instantly imagine myself flying and WAHLAH as if i were on some sort of tight wire i go up. Then look out onto this world which could only be described as a mixture between day and night and a forest a jungle a beach and a mantion/ freeway. Off pure will power I began to sore through my sky, and saw a big pool of water, which had the water of a lake but the shape of a pool. I then flew down into the pool splashing the beautiful black women sitting next to it :| I then woke up.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/KVR6DW7I3H3IKXGU7ALAGH2ZW4 Alyssa Harmeir

    I have those un-consically for ex. last night I was walking throughout my house and i went through my sisters room and eneded up in a parrallel area between my and her room but for some reason the lights in the rooms wouldnt turn on and i remember I walked down the stair case and oicked up my fone and it said 2:32 it was sooo weird and in another dream i knw i was dreaming there was a beach with a gate at the end and i tried to call my firnd (its weird if you ever have had your fone in your dream and you try and anc call somone and nothing happens) but i can read text my fathers mother was able to make preminitions idk if i can but my cousin megan thinks i can lol and anyway I yeah. Now that im thinking so hard trying to remember these things i can but i drream in color ppl think its rare if you do but ive always thought everone did lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001926717181 Christian Martin

    I am 15 and i have heard people say they are a regular lucid dreamer, or they experience lucid dreams. I had no clue what that meant so i looked it up and found details on it, to find out that I may have touched up with a lucid dream and i didnt even know it..

    My grandfather passed away a few years ago and i remember having a dream that i was talking to him about a situation that was actually happening  at the time in real life. It wasnt very long and not very detailed but i think it was a brush with a lucid dream that if i had known how to enter a lucid dream i could of at the time.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/LXCJAM2MXCVSBV7ASMGAAGGX2Q Martin

    I had one lucid dream before a few months ago, I realised i was dreaming and stood on the table. i jumped and tried to fly, but I sort of moved forward while in the air at like 1mph! I then got too exited and woke up :(

  • Arae1

    I have been able to lucid dream as far back as I can remember. The earliest age I could remember was 6 and I was at my grandmothers jumping on the trampoline and I asked her what time it was and I said oh I have to wake up so I can watch my cartoons lmao. Ever since then I always knew when I was dreaming and I could wake myself up from the dream. I am 25 years old now and I had a lucid dream last night. I had just got done flying and I was talking with my spirit guide in my dream and I said I wish I could fly in the real world like in here. My spirit guide laughed and said I’m sure many others would like that to. But that is my story ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺