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?
There’s no magic way to have lucid dreams, even though some internet guru will tell you there is. Biologically, we’re not even sure what dreams are, let alone being able to control them.
Generally, while we sleep, our prefrontal cortex normally has lower neural activity, which means you literally stop being yourself partially. That’s why you tend to do strange things in dreams that you wouldn’t do in real life.
Lucid dreams usually occur when there’s a subtle glitch and you don’t actually have very low PFC activity.
Besides, lucid dreams aren’t magical like people say they are. You can control VERY little of the dream, because what really controls the dream isn’t just what you want, but numerous brain regions working together. Even being lucid doesn’t mean you’ll be able to fly or do silly things.
Waking up in the middle of the night is not a guarantee of having lucid dreams, and in fact it leads to lower sleep quality, which would worsen your chances of having a lucid dream. In most cases, it can even contribute to sleep paralysis, where trying to stay conscious for too long while trying to sleep means your body shuts down but you’re still “switched on.”
Want to have lucid dreams? Try to have the healthiest sleep routine possible; that will increase your chances, but nothing is guaranteed.
yea same, the most extreme things i can do is bend windows and shits lol
granted i feel like i might just piss myself if i try flying so i never actually tried that out, only manipulation mainly, at best maybe try teleporting iirc
