主题:I Need The Help Of All This Lucid Dreamers HereWell 3 Questions
1-Is Lucid Dreaming really that great,because I've heard a lot of lucid dreamers say that its a curse and they would rather dream normally since it gives them headaches all the time or something along those lines and apparently makes them very tired as if they didn't sleep at all
2-What exactly can you do in a Lucid Dream,do you have FULL control over the dream and can change your environment for example and create people or change your form or something like that
3-So how DO you Lucid Dream,ill admit I'm fairly new to the subreddit but I haven't seen any "tutorial-like" posts around,and I've always wanted to experience a Lucid Dream once at least
TL;DR:
1-Is Lucid Dreaming really that great?
2-What EXACTLY can you do in a Lucid Dream?
3-How do you Lucid Dream?
1) I have never met someone saying that its bad. Yes, you can indeed get night mares, but its totally worth it for a Lucid dream! :)
Lucid dream is removing the limit in real life.
2) That depends on your level of lucidity, higher level = more consciousness thus more vividness.
Everything you just said, is possible.
3) There is indeed many techniques to induce a lucid dream, check the bar >>>>>>> Or check out: WILD, FILD, DILD, MILD, SSILD. Those are the ones mostly used and best.
For item 1, most people hardly induce enough LDs so saying LDs make them tired is completely nonsense. Maybe it's the process of "trying" to induce LDs (and often without success) that makes them tired.
Thanks a lot,one more thing that just makes Lucid Dreaming a big nope for me is the possibility of developing sleep paralysis which just terrifies me
Maybe...but then there's the headaches thing and they say they're tired because their brain was "working" all night as in controlling the dream,also is sleep paralysis a possibility if i try to lucid dream
Nothing will happend to you, if you do not want to. *IF* you do get sleep paralysis, you can directly enter a lucid dream. So its not really a big nope, but a YOPE!!
When you are lucid, it means you are AWARE. You do still dream normally, and your brain is still 'working' all night. Lucid or non lucid, doesnt matter.
Again, most people won't have this kind of problem. Lucid dreams are not frequent and usually short. It CAN get tiring if you try to chain the dreams and awakenings to prolong your experience, but it's not something you do all the time.
Well how can I conquer and defeat the sleep paralysis and enter a lucid dream instead (idk if its even explainable)
I meant that the brain is "working" more than usual,since you control and think of everything around you
So wait,are lucid dreams intentional,or can they be intentional or do they just happen randomly
1: Yes its that great, I don't lucid dream all the time, so I still have plenty of normal dreams, I have been lucid dreaming for 10 years or so. I don't experience any bad side effects. Lucid dreams don't make me feel tired after, but may make me wake up sometimes.
2: You can do almost anything in a lucid dream, it tends to be realistic, and yes you can change your environment, create people, and id assume change your form, but I have never tried that last one.
You can fly, go into space, summon cute girls, make lighting storms, make fireballs, fight a dragon, and have a gun fight with neo from the matrix. You can talk to people who died, with your mind projecting what you want their personality to be like, or allowing them to fill in the blanks with your subconscious mechanism that helps keep the dream logic and form stable, giving it some creative power In how DC's act.
3: How to lucid dream: You must find a way to realize your dreaming, and stay in it once you do. Or fall asleep conscious.
Sleep paralysis is always a possibility when falling asleep. Trying to have a lucid dream, many tactics to do so involving needing to go through and use SP.
They can of course be triggered intentionally
Close your eyes, while in sleep paralysis, imagine the desired dream...an suddenly poof, you're there.
The thing is,sleep paralysis just terrifies me so i might not try to lucid dream if ill have to go through SP,all the movies and documentaries just make it seem terrifying as shit
Oh wow....ill try and give it a chance but i hope its that easy
Ok thanks a lot man,i really appreciate the help,any useful ways for #3
You can avoid SP, by attempting to become lucid in dream, a very common method.
Sleep paralysis is a natural process the body uses to freeze you when you sleep, to avoid sleep walking and acting out your dreams, I suspect.
Well terrifying to the young and those who don't know what they are, as long as you know that its "normal" for your body to do this, and none of the hallucinations or sounds you experience are real, and your body is just going into sleep mode, it is not that scary. And if you are deliberately trying to go into SP, id imagine you would be prepared, and thus it would not be scary at all.
I sure have some scary experiences with SP even now, and much more so as a child, but none of this involved an intentional SP / WILD situation, thus they were unexpected and unwelcomed at the time. I am prone to getting SP easily, and when it comes unexpectedly it can be scary/bad time/annoying.
When I want SP, and I get it, I get excited, and look forward to the ride. Some people experience scary visions of "shadow men", and things like that. I get it could be scary, but just remember it is not real, and I think you will be just fine.
Otherwise, most of my lucid dreams involved becoming lucid within the dream, and thus does not require falling asleep conscious, and thus does not require SP to do.
Get used to questioning if things are a dream, get used to doing reality checks when odd things happen, just to make 100% sure you know if its a dream or not. Get used to recognizing and questioning if you are in a dream, in the waking world, and remind yourself to do that in a dream as you go to sleep.
When you get suspicious you may be in a dream, something really odd happens, things don't seem quite right, do a reality check. Plug your nose, breath in, if you can breath, then you are dreaming. You cant stop inhaling if you plug your dream nose, your real nose will still breath.
You will realize you are dreaming.
Then keep calm, realize this is all just a dream, you are now in control of it, stay calm, look around, take in the world, stabilize your dream by looking at and rubbing/touching your hands, to try to keep connected with your dream self and keep your senses honed on the dream.
Then do what you want, you have the ability to do almost anything you could imagine. The key to controlling the dream, is to believe you can do it, and just will it, make it done, just think to yourself it will be done, and believe it will be done, see it in your minds eye, allow your subconscious to do the work you, as it senses your conscious will to effect the world around you, convince yourself that something is possible and just know it will happen. With some time and practice, you can do almost anything.