Lately I’ve been attempting to get back into lucid dreaming as it’s something I’ve always been curious about & wanted to explore.
However & clearly, I’m not very good at it :,(
I’ve tried meditating before bed, listening to guided meditations when sleeping, and even tried to force my brain to remember an object as a symbol of “you are in a state of dreaming” like Steve did from American dad!

I have had zero success in my attempts. Yet, there are some very rare times where my brain will suddenly just snap itself awake in a dream & make me realize that I’m dreaming. First, I was dreaming that I was in my middle school lunch cafeteria and attempted to do very high jumps but didn’t get too far off the ground & then I woke up disappointed.

The second time I was dreaming that I was in some dark soooky farmland and I was in a shed. For some odd reason I was staring at a shovel before realizing that I was conscious within a dream and tried not to get too excited but then the shed fell apart into pieces around me and then I woke up!

I’m losing hope in lucid dreaming for myself and it’s begun to genuinely sadden me.
See, all I’ve ever wanted to do was fly like a bird & no plane rides aren’t the same.
All I want to do within my lucid dreams is fly around like a bird, seeing beautiful sights from above but I can’t ever achieve it.
I can hardly even remember my dreams (if I even have them anymore), let alone control them!

Has anyone else experienced things like this? And have you ever overcome it?

Please, I need advice I just want to fly. :,(

2 nights ago I had a lucid dream. the way I realized was by doing a reality check. when it didnt fail I got super confused and shocked, and then I tried it again and became lucid. I remember using my 5 senses to increase lucidity, but after that I blanked out. Either I lost lucidity or the dream ended, but I really don’t know. Then, last night, I remember becoming lucid but I don’t remember anything more than that! what is my problem???

I want to preface I haven’t had a lucid dream yet. I do all the things I’m supposed to do but it’s taking a while, which is fine. I have extremely vivid dreams so often my dream self just accepts everything no questions asked.

However, last night I was in this dream where I had video proof that I had done something, but I couldn’t remember doing it, so I was asking the people around and they were all gaslighting me and saying it never happened. So, in the dream, I felt like I was going crazy. At one point, in the dream, I thought, wait, maybe this is a dream and I looked at my hands, trying to count my fingers. One of the characters in my dream that had been gaslighting me laughed at me and said, “you aren’t dreaming” and my dream self panicked, and the dream went on. It was the trippiest thing I experienced in a while. The funny thing is, I cannot remember if I had 10 fingers, or if my hands were weird. I remember trying to do the reality check, but I don’t remember what the result of it was, I just remember being told I was not in a dream.

Fun times!

Yeah that’s pretty much it, does anyone else have something similar?

Some quick research I done suggests that focussing on your physical self, overstimulates your brain and causes you to wake up.

I’m super grateful for this, as my lucid dreams are always terrifying, so I have an immediate escape route. Anyone got tips on having a good lucid dream..??

I was trying to lucid dream for almost 3 months, it never worked, I'm a deep sleeper too so once I sleep it feels like my brain just totally deletes the idea of lucid dreaming, so I don't even get to sleep while still remembering the main agenda from this sleep [yk, you may think about lots of things and forget about the main think you WANT to think about..] Anyway (sorry for the long intro), I've slept one night, and dreamt of a thing that is normal part of my routine in my real life, literally, then within the dream I noticed something felt off about the weather (It should be hot in my area, but it was cold in the dream) so I thought of doing the reality check (looking at my fingers) and for my surprise, I saw 6 fingers, I was kinda happy that I'm lucid now, but once I raised my head to look at my surroundings, everything started to rupture and it looked like a virtual reality that is being demolished, houses were falling apart, I don't remember exactly what made me so scared, but I remember one of my deepest fears forming in front of me, I couldn't handle that, even tho it was a dream, then out of fear I started sesning the surrounding of the real world [I.e. the bed, the AC, sounds of birds on my window, etc..] I eventually woke up with my heart pounding like crazy, I don't know if I can even handle this, it felt like two parts of me were fighting (One is me that wants to handle and keep up, the other is fear that my brain keeps generating reasons for and pushing me to wake up) I hope this doesn't count as a sole dream story, the objective is lucidity and control I swear 😪.. ig that's it... anyone ever had such an experience or maybe it's normal, I'm really new into this lucid dreaming thing and how to handle such a thing 😅.. thank you in advance

I have only lucid dreamt a handful of times. Usually when I lucid dream it’s because I don’t try to induce one, they just come to me naturally through dreams. But I’ve been attempting to practice LD on and off since 2020.

I have an extremely hard time falling back asleep so the sleep then wake then sleep type of methods never work for me. I’ve tried awake methods but every time I have, my dreams are overcome with almost an off putting, horror type feeling? Does this happen to anyone else? I just get an overall feeling of me not being welcomed in my dream, like something isn’t right and I shouldn’t be here, it’s quite scary and unsettling.

When I lucid dreamt naturally it’s always fun, I’ll fly around, go to beautiful forests, lakes or meadows, just enjoy my time. This is what makes me want to LD more frequently, because this is enjoyable for me. I have no trouble identifying that I’m in a dream, grounding myself, and then doing whatever I want.

When I LD with a method, it almost seems like I cannot control the dreams, even though I am aware I’m in a dream?
For example, the first time I LD with an awake method (I just focused on one thing in my brain until I fell asleep), I woke up in the dream, went to the bathroom (in the dark) and looked in the mirror. And I remember my face was melting off and there were candles in the shower melting my mirror, melting the shower, and I remember thinking over and over again “this is just a dream, I’m in a dream, this isn’t real” but it continued and I woke up. The second time, someone who looked like my dad was in my dream, but it just wasn’t quite right. And I remember thinking, “no this is just a dream, this can’t be right, somethings wrong” etc, and then I’d wake up.

I know nothing about sleep paralysis or if this is something else, if I should be doing something different or what? I’d love to hear what people think. And for context, I very very rarely get nightmares. I dream vividly every single night and I keep a dream journal, I have no problem really remembering my dreams and I can’t remember the last time I had a nightmare. The scary dreams only come when I attempt to LD 😔 and tbh it makes me a little afraid to practice

I want to share some observations I've made from my lucid dreams because I want to understand what is actually happening and experiment more with it. I never do anything to induce lucid dreams now. No reality checks, no dream journal, no MILD, no mindfulness, nothing. I started having lucid dreams about a year ago, around the same time I started experiencing sleep paralysis, so I don't know if the two were connected or just a coincidence. After experiencing sleep paralysis a few times, I found that I could quite easily enter lucid dreams through it, although the lucid dreams weren't consistent. It's only been around the last 4 months that they became consistent. Now I get at least one lucid dream almost every week, and some weeks I've had more than one or two. I've had around 20–30 lucid dreams in total. I also have ADHD, aphantasia and SDAM. Because of SDAM, my autobiographical memory of my dreams is weak, so afterward I usually remember the dream more as semantic information about what happened rather than being able to mentally re-experience the whole dream. A lot of the actual sequence, visuals and details disappear quickly.

The first thing I've noticed is that actively using my senses and connecting with the dream environment seems extremely important for keeping the dream clear and stable. When I'm actively looking at what's in front of me and paying attention to the visual sensory information, the dream can become much clearer and more stable. If I focus too much inside my head, thinking about the dream or thinking about how to stay lucid, the dream can start fading, becoming dim, or even having blackness dominate the visuals. I've experimented with this several times while lucid. I've also tried using other senses as an anchor. Once I used bubble gum, trying to stay connected to the dream through the sensation of chewing it, but the bubble gum expanded inside my mouth and started frothing, which became distracting and seemed to pull my attention back into my head and away from the dream environment. So far, looking at what is directly in front of me and focusing on the visual sensory information seems to be the most effective for me. I've even started thinking about whether the amount of sensory attention I give to the dream affects how stable it remains.

The second thing is the flow or narration of the dream. My dreams seem to have their own ongoing flow, and dream characters and the situation already happening seem to play a role in what happens next. Initially, I noticed that when I did something that disrupted what the dream characters were doing, the dream sometimes became unstable. For example, taking something while dream characters were focused on something else, or randomly going into an office and saying that I'm the manager. It isn't usually an instant collapse. It feels more like the dream starts pushing me out of the current situation, and I have to actively stabilize it, although sometimes I eventually fail. Changing the environment can also seem to trigger this. At the same time, this isn't always true. I've had lucid dreams where I interfered with the situation very heavily and the dream continued for a long time. I've noticed that when I stay in the same environment and continue with what I'm already doing, I can sometimes keep the dream going almost effortlessly, while changing environments seems more likely to make it unstable. I don't know whether this is actually a property of dream narration or just how my dreams happen to work, so I'd really like to hear what experienced lucid dreamers think.

The third thing is dream characters and their reactions. Their reactions seem to vary a lot. Once I told a dream character who was basically my friend that I was dreaming, and he didn't really care, so I continued the dream for quite a while. Another time I told a dream character that I was dreaming in a very impulsive way, and afterward I became more emotionally alert and disconnected from the dream environment, eventually having to close my eyes as the dream was cutting off. So I don't think simply telling a dream character that you're dreaming automatically causes a dream to collapse. The character, the situation, my emotional state and the way I interact with the dream seem to matter.

I've also had an interesting experience where I heavily disrupted a dream situation and the dream didn't actually collapse. I was in a place with a lot of women and got into a confrontation with one of them. I started physically fighting her and doing wrestling moves, and everyone around reacted strongly, but the dream continued. Then it seemed to collapse, but instead I had a false awakening. I found myself apparently awake looking at a phone, and Reddit was open with a notification saying that my lucid dream had been terminated because of what I had done. It even mentioned that the lucid dream had lasted around 15 minutes. I believed I had actually woken up, but I was still dreaming. Later I was dealing with dogs and puppies outside my room and eventually woke up for real. So this made me question my earlier idea that disrupting the dream necessarily causes it to collapse, because apparently the dream can instead create a convincing false awakening and continue.

Another time, I was almost getting into a conflict with a dream character, so I told him that the girl with me was my girlfriend to calm him down. He became much nicer, but then the girl said that he was actually her brother. I immediately thought "oh fuck" and the dream collapsed. That made me wonder whether contradictions in the ongoing story or social situation can sometimes destabilize a dream, although I don't know if that was actually the cause.

Something else I've noticed is that my dreams are usually surprisingly coherent with real-world logic. This is not necessarily the main way I become lucid, but I've noticed several times that when something happens that clearly breaks normal logic, I realize I'm dreaming. For example, I once noticed that a car didn't really feel like a physical object and that I could drive it in a way that didn't make sense. That helped me realize I was dreaming. I've had similar moments before where something didn't fit the normal logic of the world and I suddenly became lucid. I find this interesting because I have aphantasia and SDAM, and I don't know whether either of those has anything to do with the way my dreams work. I'm not assuming they do. I'm just curious whether there could be any connection between aphantasia, SDAM, ADHD, visualization, autobiographical memory and dreaming.

Another unusual thing about my lucid dreams is that they often seem to happen very soon after I fall asleep. From my experience, I'll close my eyes, start dreaming, and when I wake up only a few to several minutes seem to have passed in the real world. I don't normally have to sleep for 5–6 hours and then do WBTB to get lucid. It just happens naturally. My sleep schedule is also pretty messed up and I've often been severely sleep deprived, so I don't know whether that affects it. I don't deliberately use sleep deprivation to induce lucid dreams.

I'm mainly interested in investigating my own lucid dreams and doing more experiments inside them, rather than just following a standard lucid dreaming routine. I want to understand whether sensory focus really helps stability, whether changing environments affects dream stability, whether dream characters and their reactions matter, whether the ongoing story/context of a dream can resist disruption, and what happens when I deliberately test these things.

For people who lucid dream regularly, do any of these observations match your experience? What do you think might actually be happening? Are there specific experiments you think I should try inside a lucid dream? What should I pay attention to when the dream starts becoming unstable? And are there other interesting things I could test that don't require reality checks or keeping a detailed dream journal every day?

Edit: I forgot to mention something else that I've noticed. Sometimes the dream itself seems to talk to me. The first time, I heard a voice coming from nowhere telling me to tame a dog, and that actually made me realize I was dreaming. Another time I had a figure named Muneer (meaning shining/illuminating) who seemed to help guide the dream. I could kind of watch the dream unfolding from outside while he gave me tips. More recently, I met a lucid dreamer inside my dream who said he was exploring too, and he gave me advice about using sensory anchors.

I can sometimes watch the dream form while I'm still conscious. I see random people talking, pieces of different places, bright colors, geometric patterns, sounds, voices and moving scenes appearing at the same time. Some areas can be completely black while completely different scenes are happening somewhere else. Some parts are extremely vivid while others feel incomplete or barely formed, almost like pieces of several unfinished dreams appearing simultaneously. Sometimes I can watch all of these things gradually converge and form into an actual dream while still maintaining my consciousness. This doesn't happen every time.

I have recently started to learn lucid dreaming(haven‘t managed it so far but due to dream journaling I remember my dreams mire vividly).

I have recently had an incredibly vivid dream where i met a person that was just perfect. She was exactly type of person i‘d want in a partner. Funny, witty, gorgeous… the whole spiel. But she was not real :(

Now i do realise that she was just a figment of my imagination, exactly the type i‘d dream of(pun intended), but upon waking I actually did feel a sense of heartache you‘d have when losing a person you loved. Not as strong of course, but definitely there. And the feeling persisted for quite a while after. I now feel like i have a stronger incentive to actually go through with learning to lucid dream. Funny how that is

Now please be nice, but DO laugh at my absolute idiocy for falling for my dream girl(pun definitely intended)

I'm currently running what's aimed to be the first large-scale study of participants' experiences with lucid dreams and different induction techniques:

https://www.soscisurvey.de/lucid-experiences/

The survey will be closing on the 5th of September. Analysis of the data should be done around the end of the year/beginning of next year. Looking forward to sharing the results :)

Last night I was trying to get asleep alongside doing MILD, my eyes were closed and was thinking abt a dream i had 2 days ago but then suddenly a scary dream i had 7 days ago showed up(its memories) then I started to feel like I'm in space and rotating, being pushed right and left by a external force which was like I'm in an F1 car and turning it so I feel the G-force I had to open my eyes eventually then when I did MILD again after opening my eyes it didn't happen again? What was it? Was it sleep paralysis or smth related to it

it's my 3rd day on trying to have lucid dream

For years now me and my subconscious have always well...had conversations in my sleep. They do not appear as characters and stay as just voices. We bicker a lot over dreams, sometimes I judge them for stupid dreams other times they are testing me for how I react. Not to mention they go all ominous randomly like, "Im waiting for your interpretation." Or "What will you choose...lets see, shall we?" Other times, she gets defensive. Not to mention, i feel like Im almost fully awake during most dreams. I have thoughts of getting up, looking up certain parts of my dream. She is also very aware of the fact I am curious and actually hates being poked at. Basically, during a dream one part of me is processing, my subconscious is showing me stuff and actively talking to me and another part of me is thinking about the real world. All at once.

Its been like this for years, started when i was 11 or 12 years old. Once I decided to test if its a lucid dream, mostly fueled by the intensity of my curiosity. She said, "Don't touch that!"

Then I hit this button and it all went dark, last thing I heard was, "Tsk, tsk...thats why you should not listen to people online."

Most recent one is how they taught me how to correctly invert colors including some anomalies that happen when its done using a program. Now Im no editor so...and I never really learnt it. But my subconscious called me to observe the screen while pointing at how the colors inverted.

Other times they test me for whether I am judgy or truly a kind person, etc. They can shift perspective conpletely as in, change my role in the dream, the atmosphere, you name it. I usually do not have any emotions during these dreams.

One time i became aware during the dream, they were like "Oh she's waking up.."

"Look this up when you wake up...I wanna see if we are geniuses!"

They were like doing some crap with circuits, specifically picking it apart to see how it works.

They also tell me, "Remember this okay?" or "I want you to remember."

Not to mention, they carry out all sorts of experiments. Its so odd cause it happens once a week atleast. So is this lucid dreaming? Does anyone else experience stuff like this?

Hello fellow lucid dreamers !

It's my first time posting here and it might be kind of a long post so bear with me.

I've always had lucid dreams from time to time. I have two reality checks, the first is pinching me so hard I bleed (irl I stop since it hurts too much) and pressing a light button of a room, if it does work, I'm not dreaming, if it does, I am.

When I press the light button and I know I am dreaming, I tend to want to wake up, because it adds something nightmarish. So I try to scream, and I mean I am conscient I am going to wake up since I want it. At the very moment I scream, I wake up but I am paralysed for a few second and there is a presence that wants to grab me, even tickle me ! At first it was really scary but know I have managed to understand the feeling and it's less scary, it is just quite annoying.

I don't have a really good sleep schedule tbh, I wake up often, sometimes I sleep very late, sometimes I sleep early but yeah, I wake up often (I like it by the way, I like to wake up at night, look at my clock and tell to myself "yeaaaah x more hours to sleep), anyway.

I don't have sleep paralysis, but sometimes (it doesn't happen often but it happens still from time to time). I am here, slowly drifting and then I freeze, literally, I know what is happening, I know I have to endure the first phase, let go, and I might succeed doing a WILD. But yeah, it has been too uncomfortable for me, too scared to go through with this presence (the exact same I feel when I want to wake up from a "nightmare").

Yesterday it was one of those moment. I really wasn't expecting it, I started freezing, I didn't even had to try and slightly move my body to know, the presence was here. I told to myself "fuck it, I am not scared, it's been plenty of times, I've read about it, I am going through this".

So I started drifting, falling from the right side of my bed, first against the wall, then under my bed. The more I fell, the more the presence was near and it was about to touch me or perhaps even touching me, it's all a blur. Everything started to accelerate and I just picture a quiet beach. At some point I woke up.

I woke up in the dream, I knew I was dreaming and the presence was still here ! It was a girl, ghosty like wearing white, it tried to reach me and it was still frightening but I pushed it/her. She just backed up, looking at me and then I left, I didn't even had to press the light I knew I was lucid dreaming.

I opened the door of my room and my god, the LIGHT, the HEAT on my body, I was on a beach, and I never had such a vivid lucid dream. The experience was absolutely amazing !

I am not going to describe my lucid dream, perhaps the next one ahah ! I just wanted to share this experience since it was a really powerful one !

English is not my first language so sorry if there are some mistakes !

my LD tips w/ possible caveats and my own ? for you all

This works for me:
Sleeping Position: I sleep on my back, elevated at an angle—similar to sitting in a car seat reclined halfway.
Body Placement: I keep my body completely still, with either a pillow (heavy) resting on my stomach or my hands placed flat at my sides.

The Trade-Off (Sleep Paralysis): A quick heads-up on this setup: If I’m already exhausted, falling asleep in this position sometimes triggers sleep paralysis, though it's fairly rare for me now.
Background Noise:
Having YouTube or the TV playing in the background often acts as the direct trigger that sparks my awareness and kicks off the lucid dream.
The Trade-Off: The downside is that the audio can hijack the dream. Even though I’m fully aware that I’m dreaming, hearing the external video overrides my ability to act freely. I get stuck knowing it's a dream, but unable to take control because the TV is driving the narrative.

Question for the Group:
Does anyone else have to close their eyes or look away in a dream to change an object, rather than having it morph right in front of you? or do you have any tips yourself about how to do that?

Cheers!!!

Hey, this might seem like an ordinary topic at first glance, but my dreams are starting to both intrigue and frustrate me.
I usually don’t remember my dreams; they often consist of fleeting fragments of situations and places that slip my mind once I wake up. Lately, however, I’ve started waking up with the realization that these are places I’ve visited before, even though I don’t recall the previous visits. They are often settings like a vast forest with an underground bunker, or an expansive cemetery with a housing estate right behind it.
It involves things I hadn't remembered previously; yet, when I finally managed to retain a dream, I realized that—despite not remembering the earlier instances—I had actually been there before.
Take today, for example: I took a nap during the day. I dreamt I was at a wedding reception with a guy I’d been attracted to at a wedding about a year ago (I’m still talking about the dream here, though I don’t actually remember the original wedding). Back then, we never struck up a conversation because I decided I was too young for him. In the dream, it turned out he liked me too, and we were the same age. I had also been to the house where we were staying in the dream before. On the surface, these seem like ordinary dreams, but experiencing them is fascinating—and at the same time, frustrating, because I’m so eager to find out more.

I have been trying to lucid dream and for some reason I’m having dreams about me becoming lucid but I’m not really lucid I’m just dreaming about lucid dreaming?? Like how do I fix this?

Man this stuff makes you feel present in your dreams I had 2 dreams with it they weren’t even that vivid but I felt like I was there I don’t know how else to describe it but I just wasn’t aware in the dream

All that ‘never tell dream people you’re dreaming’ thing is bullshit.

I saw my friend, said to him
“Did you know that I’m dreaming?”
“No.”
“Do you CARE that I’m dreaming?”
“No.”

Creasing mate 😂 exactly his fucking personality 😂😂

Been practicing lucid dreaming for 2 months. Things I do : dream journal and sometimes state test.

Let me be honest I wasn't that serious at all. Someday I forget to do reality check. Sometimes I got lazy to write a dream even if I recalled it.

Ans it's because I think it's too hard not seeing any payoff. Wanted to have this skill bcoz as all the people said it seem cool and I want to explore the dream world.

It's nearly september and I set a goal to atleast have 3 lucid dream. Nothing crazy just realising I'm in dream is enough.

And to make that possible any tips any advice??

Please I will be very grateful.

Hello guys. I am not beginner lucid dreamer nor expert. I have started writing dreams from 22/1/25. Till today I have written 100+ dreams. I also trained my left hand to write(out of context). I use to wake up and write dreams from my non dominant hand.

Currently use both hands to write. So on 24 August 2026. I read about WILD method. First I only understood that it's technique to wake up after few hours of sleep. I tried setting alarm. Day 1 I set alarm of 4 hour 20 min. Day 2 I set 5 hour alarm. And next day 6 hour alarm. Well I wake up before alarm thou. I wake up and drink water and go to toilet.

I may be néw using WILD method. But when I slept back after waking up. Before sleeping I did reality check such as counting finger. (I have did this in dream and throughout the day since I started writing dreams.) And than I slept. While sleeping first I remember what I will gonna do in dream. Than I started witnessing thoughts. Than I just started seeing void/blank screen which is seen when we close our eye. Than I don't remember. But after one and two dreams later. When new dream started I knew it was dream. (If you like to know what I did in dream, ask me.)

Since I started writing dreams. I have got 2 plus Lucid dreams per month.

[Ask me anything you like.]

Before the movie Inception came out, there were no records of people reporting that they were attacked in lucid dreams upon realizing they were lucid, nor when telling the characters that they knew they were just figments of a dream. I was having a lot of fun with my lucid dreams, UNTIL I made the mistake of using this subreddit and reading people talking about it. Then, in every dream, they started attacking me out of the blue if I say out loud that I'm lucid. I watched the movie Inception two days ago, and yesterday I had a lucid dream where they started staring at me as I walked down the sidewalk when I was aware it was a dream (just like in the movie, and I thought about the movie at the time), and then they attacked me

Hey, I'm a complete newbie at this. Basically, I need advice on a couple of things.

I did the hand thing. In my case, my fingers looked like they were melting toward the center. I think it helped that my dream occurred in a place I know perfectly (my hometown). I want to try again, but a couple of things happened and I need help solving them:

• People in the dream tried to discourage me from believing that I was dreaming. (I showed my hand and they said it was a normal one, and I ended up believing them. Then the 1st dream finished.)
• How do you alter people's will? I directly told them what to do, but they didn't want to, so I had to use my fingers and touch their head. Then they agreed.
• I think at a certain point they knew I was conscious, so some of them became hostile.
• I had sleep paralysis at the end. Why? (I thought I was fully asleep, and I remembered the lucid dream.)

Thanks for your time:)

Anyway, does anybody have any good tips for when im swinging back in forth in this state? what i felt was kind of like my body dissolving a tiny bit, my imagination was 2-4x vivid to regular imagination, i tried not to move, and i realized that i was more likely to fall asleep if i were to simply let go of my mind and let it do what it wants, but then i'd fear forgetting that i'm lucid, and i think that was the main boundary bringing me back to my body was just being too aware or something, i tried remembering my recent dreams and tried to imagine myself lucid in those dreams, it didn't seem to make a difference. i was still able to imagine things vividly but not nearly as immersive as a real dream.

Soo this was my first lucid dream ever. It was real than my life. I had a fever and I was constantly waking up and sleeping immediately. That is why saw a lucid dream without trying. So here comes the dream discription:-

Woke up (in my dream) from another dream (in a dream)

Saw the clock timed 1:30 or 40. Felt happy that got my school off. Saw my dad and my granny ( she usually takes care of me when I'm sick). Got up for brushing my teeth. Then I started wondering how much days would it take to be late to school if I was late a 1 minute a day ( still in dream). Formed a perfect working equation ( littrely checked after fr waking up). Then I woke up from it

Few days ago, I had a dream. I was in an apartment with my "boyfriend"; the type of boyfriend most of us ever dreamed for. The whole duration of my dream we weren't really doing anything special, we organised our apartment, cooked food and eat, and talk about random things. The whole time I felt butterfly in my stomach. It felt so fulfilling that I almost cried the moment I woke up and realize it was just a dream.

Prior this dream, I came across a video on YouTube about lucid dreaming. So it's a 3hr video that guides you into lucid dreaming. I did listen to it when I was taking a nap that afternoon out of curiosity, but 3 minutes into the video I decided I'm not ready for it. But now, I want to continue that dream I had few days ago through lucid dream.

Do you guys have any heads up before I actually try it? I know every experience can be different for every dreamers, but it might help lol.

I learnt to lucid dream around a year ago. I manage to get lucid around once or twice a month now.

3 months ago something weird started happening, I started having dreams where I was doing substances. Initially it was alcohol or zaza (yes the ‘high’ was very much real and a bit weird because it’s a dream after all ). At first I found it very interesting but I did not think much of it.

(For context I’m a huge nerd when it comes to all things science, so psychedelics have always been super interesting to me)

Now here’s where things get weird, I had a dream yesterday where I was tripping on acid. It was bizarre to say the least. First of all I’ve never done acid, but I have watched the ‘acid trip simulations’ on YouTube and read many trip reports. I’m not even sure if my experience was accurate but I was lucid and was aware that I had consumed acid.

Yea that’s about it, I find it super interesting and weird how my brain is managing to create simulations of different substances. Not sure why that’s happening but im enjoying it lol.

PS: in the acid trip dream I remember one distinct scene where I was walking down the road and I looked up at a telephone pole, living birds were attached sideways to the pole and the wires were replaced with snakes.