Lucid Dreaming Tricks, Complications And Related

[TheEvilTruth]

Ok first of all i read the other posts on the subject as they were suggested as soon as i started typing... There's still a need to write this.

The wild technique kinda does work but the depth of the dream isn't good enough and as sleep intensifies i soon lose lucidity or as soon as i becomed lucid i get Snapped out of it so i dropped that technique, i just use it to perfom black magick and flying around and meditation etc.

My best lucid dreaming techniques are reality check based and it's usually inside a nice deep sleep. These are my usual exit points:

1. I have noticed that some of my dreams involve running  and yet i hardly ever run in my real life. So i've taught myself to question running and though I'm usually too distracted (there's usually something or someone chasing me) i have had some lucid dreams come from it.

2. I see my late brother and father in dreams a lot. This one is the most difficult exit point because in my dreams it's usually like the good old times (It is always like they never passed away) so i only realise when i wake up that i just missed a good LD opportunity. Also if i exit here they usually dissappear and it seems they don't like me to use it as my exit point. Sometimes no matter how hard i try it just can't happen because sometimes i think it to myself and then i look at them and i realise they are actually real so i just end up asking them about death and staff and then I'll just wake up before they answered. But yes the most difficult thing about this one is that in the majority of the dreams it will just be like we are in the times before they passed away and it never hits my mind that these people are no longer with us.

3. Now this is my favourite exit point and one that the majority of my dreams have come from: THE UNUSUAL STAFF THAT HAPPENS IN DREAMS ONLY. Sometimes I'll be driving a car and then i stop and all of a sudden the car can't start. If i keep tryina start it something funny will happen like the steering wheel will just fall off or something and i become frustrated tryina put it back and then something else will happen, like the car will start but the my legs don't reach the pedal or something ... There's countless scenarios that can happen. One of my most recurring scenarios is I'm at school and there's usually an exam and it's started already but I'll be going up and down steps and just not finding the venue and the time is running out and i get so worried i get this dream a lot and to this day i don't understand it's significance until i figured out it's one of my best exit points from a dream. I've used it a lot to exit the dream and it works all the time. Also recurring mysterious locations that in the dream it feels like i know where i am and i've been there before and yet it's only when i wake up i realise i never been there i don't even know what the name of the place is. I'll have onother dream in that very same place again, a good exit point but it's difficult because in the dream it's like i know where i am.


I could share more scenarios but the thread has become too long now...


In my experience these help a lot with keeping the dreams vivid (and therefore exitable):
1. Drinking water before sleep. If you wake up and pee during the night, make sure you refill before you go back to sleep.
2. Do not eat too much but don't go to sleep on an empty stomach (you'll need the energy from food to keep the dream vivid).
3. If you're tired then the dream will be too deep, very difficult to exit (or even recall). But it makes the WILD technique much easier, i just don't like WILD.
4. Sometimes you notice something unusual and then when you try to exit [i usually do a lot of evil staff (black magick) post exiting a dream] there's someone watching and the dream feels too real so i keep tryina decide if I'm really dreaming or not and that part becomes very difficult. You look at your fingers nothing is off, look at the phone screen or whatever and nothing is off and then boom there's a distraction within the dream and just like that you lose lucidity. So i've realised one of the best tricks is to recall the events leading to that moment, that one will always reveal the dream as you'll remember going to sleep.
5. KNOW WHAT YOU GONA DO AFTER GAINING LUCIDITY. VERY IMPORTANT, TO AVOID LOSING LUCIDITY RIGHT AFTER GAINING IT.


Anyway i wrote this because gaining lucidity is very difficult and i want you to share some of your most realiable tricks as i find this one subject very fascinating and mysterious!


I apologise for the length of the post or if this stuff isn't the right subject for the forum but I'm a SS and i believe we're all attracted to similar staff.

Hail!

 

[SomewhatCoherent]

Huge fan of lucid dreaming, at the same time sometimes the random unconscious dreams are nice too. Those techniques will help with lucidly which is good for both.

I found spinning around when a lucid dreams starts to fade usually prolongs the experience to render a new scene. Wake back to sleep method works good with random alarm beeps that go off to partially wake you up.

5. KNOW WHAT YOU GONA DO AFTER GAINING LUCIDITY. VERY IMPORTANT, TO AVOID LOSING LUCIDITY RIGHT AFTER GAINING IT.

^^This. Its hard to remember everything from real life. Sometime I get fake memories of the real world when lucid dreaming making it hard to focus on a task.

 

[Pertra]

Oh I LOVE lucid dreaming! One of my favourite things is simply figuring out the workings/mechanics of the dreams, whether in a lucid dream or after waking, reading back older sleep journal entries and such.

Interestingly, WILD never really worked for me, I guess because I generally don’t fall asleep quickly/easily. One time I laid motionless, preparing for WILD, and I mean really motionless. Once I was sure that 30 minutes passed and not feeling any closer to sleeping, I checked the clock, and it was more than an hour later. Maybe I entered a light slumber, but it didn’t feel that way, just felt more tired. (I also don’t remember ever having sleep paralysis, maybe that has to do something with it?)

Though many times I wake up from a dream, usually towards the morning, and I still feel sleepy, aka the REM state got interrupted, I can easily slip back into it. I find it highly effective, not just continuing the dream, but keeping lucidity as I fall asleep (as in the WILD technique).

A tip for entering a dream and/or dream stabilization (when you feel the dream starts to fade away): sensory stimulation. When you feel yourself soon falling asleep and maybe images lightning up behind your eyes, try to concentrate on one thing and imagine yourself touching it with your hands, try to feel it, visualize. Soon you feel your physical body lying in the bed less and less, sense of direction, what is up and down, slowly dissolving. (At least in my experience, it’d be interesting to see if it’s the same for others too or not.) If I feel I’ll wake up, I find the closest surface, floor, gravelly road, some object, and feel it with my hands, smell it, etc.

I found spinning around when a lucid dreams starts to fade usually prolongs the experience to render a new scene.

I also found that spinning is useful when the dream starts to fade out. I read that it’s because when you dream it’s in the REM state, which stands for Rapid Eye Movement. And when you do the spinning, your eyes start to move more, pulling yourself back to the REM state. Contrary, I tried a few times in a lucid dream to intensely look at one point, not moving my eyes, and the dream started to fade away.

So the methods I found effective for dream stabilization:
- spinning, darting your eyes around (as explained above)
- rubbing your hands together (or other sensory stimulations, as above)
- shouting into the dreamscape “Clarify!” or “Stabilize!” etc. Aka asking the dream itself.

Asking the dream is a fun thing to experience with. Ask to show you something beautiful, something funny or important. Or ask the dream characters.

A thing I observed in my lucid dreams: the dream, or the subconscious, slowly develops immunity to my methods and techniques. It’s like when you slowly lose your love to your favourite song, or meditations losing effectiveness. The solution is of course to change things up, but I’d like to share some of my observations.

1. Asking the dream things, like clarity (as mentioned above) or showing you stuff. Maybe that’s the one that got stale the fastest. The alternative of asking dream characters to help me, that I found more effective.

2. Reality checks. THIS. Is so. Annoying. I’ve been into lucid dreaming almost 10 years now, and only recently I started to experience the failure of reality checks. Like, when I gain lucidity in a dream, I check that it’s really a dream before I do something that would be stupid in real life, like jumping off a cliff to fly or things like that. And the knowledge that I was so sure of, that my dreams can’t reproduce a realistic hand with the correct amount of fingers, is no more. Of course, there’s the alternative of counting toes or the other hand that you don’t count the fingers on usually, but I’ve lost a few opportunities to lucid dreaming to this problem.

3. Waking up methods. Now, you don’t normally want to wake up from a lucid dream, but when it turns into a lucid nightmare and I just can’t bear it anymore, I jump off something high so when I’d crash to the ground, I wake up. My dreams got immune to it too recently, and it can be very annoying and makes me feel trapped, but at least it forces me to not give up and solve the situation.

Uhh, there’s just so much to write about this topic, I think I’ll leave it as it is now and come back later to share some more things

 

[V12-POWER]

I’ve had 2 or 3 lucid dreams lately but not 100% controlable. It’s like i realize im dreaming but still can’t quite control the environment and it fades out to a normal dream afterwards.

Peak lucidity in a dream I achieved only once when I was 15 or so. Still remember that dream as if it was yesterday.

Reality checks never worked for me, people said clocks never show realistic hours, that hands could have more than 5 fingers, but this never happened to me.

It seems one has to ask for it to happen at will before bed, regularly, to make the mind aware, but well everyone is different