I could use some advice from those of you who can do it, intentionally or unintentionally.
For several months now, I’ve been trying to achieve lucid dreaming. So far, all I’ve managed to achieve is a decently high level of dream recalling. The closest I’ve come is getting to a waking state while retaining the dream when my alarm goes off. I’ve found myself capable of editing my dreams at that time, but I have to wake up then, so not much use.
I’m considering setting an alarm in 1 or 2 in the morning. The sound might be enough to wake up my consciousness, but not break the dream itself. That being said, I don’t know if it’ll work.
Those of you who can lucid dream, how do you pull it off? Is there any way to guarantee it or at least increase the odds?
For me, i only have dreams when sleeping on my back. Most of the times i lucid dream are when i fall asleep after waking up in the middle of the night, and then the dream ends as soon as i figure it’s a dream.
I have like a bunch of alarms all sequentially set like an hour apart from each other, and since I turn them off so quickly and then like immediately fall back asleep (ts is a problem 99% of the time) I can rarely continue a dream (since I don’t even really move out of bed at all, just my arm to shut up the alarm) after having already partially woken up to acknowledge that i was dreaming
As for if any of it is lucid? Idk
Also usually if I dream about anything arcane odyssey related I wake up a few seconds after noticing anything inaccurate to the game
most of my lucid dreaming are nightmare of sorts too lol, i mean granted i did have them while stressed as fuck and woke up with sleep paralysis later so it isnt surprising
I wonder if the importance of stress is actually keeping your brain awake? Perhaps constantly worrying so much makes your sleep that much more shallow?
