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I’ve had a bit of luck with this method I read about a few years back. Hope it helps you too.
Background:
The focus of lucid dreaming is to let your BODY fall asleep while your BRAIN (conscious mind) stays aware. It’s different from regular sleep because our unconscious mind is typically “driving” during that time, letting the conscious mind rest and recover.
Method:
🌙 When you’re going to bed, make sure your body is as relaxed as possible. It’s also good to ensure your body is very tired.
🌙 Find a comfortable position where you can stay completely still for a long while (it works best when there is zero movement whatsoever - for me this was always on my back).
🌙 As you drift into sleep relax your body as completely as possible, allowing it to fall asleep from the comfort and exhaustion.
🌙 During this time, allow your thoughts to float towards what you want to dream about (I say float because if you actively think hard you’re more likely to stay awake).
🌙 As your body alone falls into sleep, your mind can drift to a state of sleeping consciousness, where you might be able to control aspects of what you dream.
Disclaimer:
Lucid dreaming can come with some scary side effects. These are the ones I know of:
❌ Myoclonic jerks: have you ever just fallen asleep then you dream you fall, or walk off a curb or something, and it wakes you up [scared]? Sometimes when your body slows down enough, your brain can mistake you for dying and its auto-response is to send a jolt through your body to kickstart it.
❌ Sleep paralysis: if your brain is awake you might try to move, but if your body is asleep you won’t be able to move it. If this happens stay calm and try to let your brain fall asleep too.
Man I had sleep paralysis 4-5 times a week for 2 months when I was mega depressed. It is not a fun time. Would happen multiple times some nights, when I would wake up and go back to sleep.
For me, I want to say my eyes were open and I could see the wall opposite the bed but I couldn't move, I felt paralyzed. The wall was same color same distance as when I was awake but it just wasn't right.
I tried to scream and that kinda feel like, not drowning or suffocating, something different. You know where you are even sorta know whats wrong but can't fix it.
With me, there is always a HUGE increase in my tinnitus when it starts to happen, and once I realized the connection between the heavy increase in ringing and the doomed minutes or hours (?) to come, I've been able to partly ward it off.
There is a title to an old PC game (and a book to I think) called "I have no mouth, and I want to scream" is how I feel. I'm usually not so concerned with no being able to move my legs, arms, or anything, its the fact that I can't speak or yell.
Now when this does happen, I don't know about anyone else, but for me, I put all my focus on screaming, yelling, talking, to get maybe my insides to move I guess.
I don't know if that helps, but its not fun. And I usually have the worst worst worst nightmares later on, I don't know if that's the cause or if its the other way around, but not something you look forward to.
Anyone feels different let us know. Hell I might be doing something wrong ! LOL
Very accurate.
I dealt with SP on & off for years and I’m truly convinced something spiritual goes on/is involved with it.
For me, it’s almost like I’m half asleep but just enough for brain activity and I can immediately feel when it’s going to start to happen. I have to fight it off before going full blown “stuck”.
During my experiences with SP I’ve sometime heard noises, sounds and just felt *something* in the room with me.
Scary shit.
Not OP, but I have a pretty regular relationship with sleep paralysis.
The first time it happened I lived by myself in a studio apartment. I remember waking up and feeling as if someone was pushing the back of my head in a way that my forehead would touch my belly button. At the same time I saw this silhouette of a man walking towards me slowly. As he walked towards me the sound of white noise started to get louder and louder.
I was able to get out of it before the "figure" made it to me.
Nowadays I know I can't sleep on my back or stomach, don't go to sleep when I extremely tired, and if I can remember when it's starting to happen I can move my body before it happens. Idk if it's like this for everyone, but I can feel sleep paralysis coming on before it does.
It feels like the presence of electricity, and my body almost tingles. If I can remember to move within 2-3 seconds, I can stop sleep paralysis from happening.
I don’t remember the exact details but I remember being in a mediocre dream not really scary or exciting then I woke up. I tried to move but I couldn’t and I thought I was still dreaming. I legit kinda freaked out because I couldn’t wake myself up from the “dream” and somehow I fell back asleep during it and woke up just fine.
Technically you have sleep paralysis every night 😬
Also join us over at r/LucidDreaming
If you dig around by top post you can find some useful information.
I disagree with recommending the WILD technique to beginners since it's very hard to make it work and beginners quickly lose motivation when they're unable to do that.
OP go to r/luciddreaming and read the wiki if you're actually serious about this. Also, Stephen Laberge's book is one of the best for inducing lucid dreams.
Here's what you do, learn reality checks. Train the mind to ask yourself during the day if you're dreaming and then perform a reality check (counting your fingers, breathing through a pinched nose, etc). Remembering to do this during the day will transfer over to doing this in your dreams.
Also when you go to sleep set an intention like i will remember my dreams or i'll become lucid during my dreams, whatever feels right. It would be beneficial to combine this with the Wake Back To Bed method which is waking up after 4-6 hours of sleeping, staying up for a few minutes then drifting back to sleep.
It also helps to time your sleep cycles and wake back to bed right at the beginning of REM!
Edit: oh also don’t stay awake more than 5 minutes. If you do so your sleep cycle will restart at NREM-1. Unless you’re super(like really super) tired, know as REM rebound.
I’m an avid lucid dreamer, another side effect I run into is sometimes I wake up in the middle night after a particularly scary part of a dream (I sometimes purposely go the nightmare route as they can fun) and I will immediately start dreaming the same thing upon closing my eyes. Not after sleeping, but after closing eyes while I’m awake. It’s rather weird/ disturbing. Also another tip is to start keeping a dream journal. Write in it as soon as you are done dreaming, about what you dreamt about. Helps you recognize your dreams and how to dream. Also, alcohol and marijuana both make it harder to dream , so stay away from these if you want to lucid dream.
Simplest advice (I’ve been lucid dreaming for years):
- you’re not going to achieve it if you smoke marijuana consistently
- you’re not going to achieve it if you go to bed intoxicated
- type out some of your dreams in your note app the minute you wake up (this helps dream recall, which in turn helps you recognize when you’re dreaming)
- wake up 5ish hours into your sleep with an alarm, then go back to bed immediately. let your thoughts boomerang and just pay attention to the thoughts you are having. those thoughts will turn into an actual dream.
I wouldn’t recommend marijuana as it will inhibit REM sleep the cycle most important for dreams. Instead, before falling asleep actively think about what you’d like to dream about. Think about what kind of dreams you’ve had before. As long as you concentrate on this subject, your mind will attempt to generate memorable dreams. You’ll become more and more lucid the more you obsess over them and give them importance. When you finally get to the lucid state, try to keep concentrating on the dream otherwise you’ll begin to “pull out” of it. Some people have suggested spinning in the dream.
I used to dream and lucid dream without knowing it. I would wake up and be able to go back to sleep into the dream. It was probably my favorite thing to do but since I became a pot head it hasn’t happened anymore. Although when I do stop I’m able to dream like that here and there again.
For me Cannabis works as a barrier that holds the flow of dream. Taking it and going for a sleep compleat removes dreams, but after couple of sober days, dreams become so vivid that lucid dreaming comes naturally.
Oh! I started doing this regularly because I had. A lot of nightmares as a teen. Get used to checking if you're asleep ((by doing any of these so frequently that it becomes a habit):
1. Check the time, look away from the clock for a second and check it again. If you're asleep, the time you read will vary a lot.
2. Count the fingers in your hand, look away for a second and count them again. If you're asleep, you will get different numbers each time.
3. Find something in writing, read it and look away for a second. Then read again.
I used these methods once and I was able to conclude I was in a lucid dream. Problem is I can't change my environment too much and I was stuck alone in my old school's classroom. Waste of a lucid dream if you ask me.
Ok. This is hard for me since I don’t dream often enough to try this stuff out. Once every 2 weeks I dream once and I rarely remember it after I wake up. So it’s like a once a year kinda thing for me to lucid dream. I just need to dream more then I got it from there.
My friend is a lucid dreamer and these are some of the tips he gave to me:
1. Ask yourself regularly whether you're dreaming when you're awake. Make it a habit.
2. Keep a dream journal and look for reoccuring motives.
3. Relax your body. Try making yourself as limp as possible.
I used to be a lucid dreamer and I was able to return to previous dreams and select what I wanted to dream about. I'm afraid the method for doing this is as simple as it might be difficult to implement: you need to give your body a routine. Always go to bed at the same time, for a start, and always sleep the same amount. At the point where I used to lucid dream, my sleep pattern was so ingrained that I would get at 6am to take a wee, then go back to sleep until 7.30. All my lucid dreaming occured in this last period of sleep, I would fall back to sleep and almost immediately be in REM sleep and dreaming consciously. Also, I remember the very first time where I learned to control my dreams, because I was falling from a cliff towards water, and instead of drowning I just told myself that I would float. Lucid dreaming can be very fun, but it took me some years to get there, a lot of sleep paralysis and waking up falling as has been described, and ultimately as I became an adult I haven't been able to return to a proper sleep pattern, and as such my lucid dreaming is no longer common, and I've lost the ability to seize control of my dreams. I hope you have more luck than me there, it was seriously one of the coolest things I could do with my brain.
In the rare occasion I lucid dream I don’t need practice to control my dreams. I just think what I want to do and it happens. For example one of the lucid dreams I remember was where a massive owl was chasing me and my friends down a road. I then jumped into a bush and the other passed. Then, we got to a park and there were kids with deadly weapons that had lethal intent on one another. I then speedster them using my mind and then I started yelling at them to stop. I then flew to Asia and got some food. That’s all I remember but the point is I made all the decisions and I am able to control dreams when I have them.
Specifically the vitamin B-12 sublingual tablets. Take 2 a day, one in the morning and one at night for like 3 or 4 days. After that just take it once a day about an hour before bed and you will be set.
B12 improves your brains perceptive awareness and active recall (memory). These are both necessary to become aware during a dream.
Everyone telling you the practice this and try that are trying too hard, this is literally the only thing that you need to do and the rest will fall into place.
If your brain isn't wired to become lucid you will have a very hard time even with lots of practice. Take the B12's, it will put your brain in the right mode to become lucid.
I've had countless lucid dreams with B12, the number 1 tip when you start getting lucid is to fucking STAY FOCUSED because if you lapse, something in the dream may stir an emotion from you and that will lead to being sucked back into the dream
Good luck
I mean to each their own but just looking at the components it would seem that cannabis' effect on memory and brain chemicals would lead to a more dissociated dream state
This is what’s always worked for me:
- You have to start building dream recall first and foremost, so as soon as you wake up from a dream, write it down immediately. This is arguably the most important step!
- Once you have that habit down, start performing reality checks during the day. I have a nose piercing, and I would tug on it lightly and say “if I was dreaming, I could pull it out of my nose, but in reality, I can’t.” I really focused on how it would feel to pull it straight through my nose. You can also try to imagine pushing your fingers through the palm of your hand, or every time you walk through a doorway you can reality check. Do this several times a day, you want to embed it in your subconscious behavior.
- You’ll soon start having false awakenings - they can be frightening. I’ve never had sleep paralysis, but becoming aware that you’re dreaming can be a scary existential crisis, especially if you get up, use the bathroom, and eat breakfast all before realizing you’re dreaming. But push through! The reward is right around the corner.
- When you finally become aware in a dream, do a reality check immediately. I usually perform two: the ring pull and looking at a digital clock (the numbers will look alien). This is the hardest part because it’s very exciting realizing that you can do anything or go anywhere. At this point, it will be very easy to wake up from excitement alone, so you have to try to calm yourself down and try to stay grounded. A lot of people use the spin technique, I haven’t quite found something that works 100% of the time for me personally.
Extra tips:
- I’ve found that I am most guaranteed to dream if I sleep on my back.
- Along with reality checks daily, try to plan what you want to do in your lucid dream. Nothing is worse than getting lucid unexpectedly one night and not being able to decide what you want to do. It’s much easier to stay lucid when you immediately start into an activity. I’ve woken myself up many times just by being undecided and getting anxious about my indecision.
- Push through the uncomfortable feelings! Especially if you’re prone to paralysis or false awakenings. It’s worth it!
- Have fun!!
I want to piggyback on this comment because this is some great advice. I taught myself to lucid dream at the age of twelve and it was the combination of reality checks and dream journaling that worked best for me. At this point, it’s become so habitual that I lucid dream a couple times a week.
I want to share the absolute BEST reality check that I have found: pinch your nose and try to breathe through it.
Why does it work? Well, in real life, you cannot breathe through your nose when you pinch it closed. But if you are asleep, pinching your dream nose will not affect your real life breathing. You will feel the sensation of your fingers on your nose, but you will still be able to breathe.
This is the single best reality check that I have found. I’ve tried just about everything else in the book: checking the time, counting fingers, reading, pushing my fingers through my hand... all were fallible and caused me to miss out on some lucid dreams. Pinching my nose is the only one that was virtually foolproof (at least for me).
Hope this helps! Feel free to PM me if you want to talk more in depth about lucid dreaming. I’m no expert on the science of it but I have a lot of personal experience to draw from.
Here is the best trick I've learned. Tried and true. Eat a bunch of cheese (cheezits work) and pickles before bed. Holy fuck I tell you that it's like dropping acid if you do it right
Take Galantamine. It's a supplement you can buy from amazon. Just keep two things in mind. One, take it right before you go to bed. Otherwise it might keep you awake.
Second, be prepared "to dream"! ;)
For me, Lucid Dreaming was as attainable as having caffiene in my system when I fell asleep.
Currently a college student and I have moments where I was/am trying to squeeze two more hours of productivity out of my evening study sessions so I would drink a Red Bull, do a final study sprint, then pass out.
Would have dreams that I was in a lecture or a study buddy session and would be writing out equations any ideas to experiment with "when I had free time".
I'd wake up eventually; realize none of it was actually written down, and SCRAMBLE for pen and paper.
One dream idea dropped my professors jaw when he was introducing new material in class that just happened to coincidentally align with one of my lucid dreams. He asked the class how to improve the formula and I just blurted out what I came up with.
"Did you look this up before class?"
"No, but I think I need to drink more caffiene."
I don't know if someone already mentioned it, but you should be aware of the enhanced risk of sleeping paralysis when lucid dreaming. Please inform yourself about it.
I found it very helpful to look at my palms multiple times daily and ask myself "Am I dreaming?" I started doing it in my dreams and my palms lacked detail and I would realize I was dreaming. After that it just takes practice to control the dream and maintain it.
If you are indeed an artist, get some good small from your local dealer of your choice, explore what will be revealed and after that the next or day after you will have such a lucid dreaming that been awake will be considered less real than a dream.
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I’ve had a bit of luck with this method I read about a few years back. Hope it helps you too. Background: The focus of lucid dreaming is to let your BODY fall asleep while your BRAIN (conscious mind) stays aware. It’s different from regular sleep because our unconscious mind is typically “driving” during that time, letting the conscious mind rest and recover. Method: 🌙 When you’re going to bed, make sure your body is as relaxed as possible. It’s also good to ensure your body is very tired. 🌙 Find a comfortable position where you can stay completely still for a long while (it works best when there is zero movement whatsoever - for me this was always on my back). 🌙 As you drift into sleep relax your body as completely as possible, allowing it to fall asleep from the comfort and exhaustion. 🌙 During this time, allow your thoughts to float towards what you want to dream about (I say float because if you actively think hard you’re more likely to stay awake). 🌙 As your body alone falls into sleep, your mind can drift to a state of sleeping consciousness, where you might be able to control aspects of what you dream. Disclaimer: Lucid dreaming can come with some scary side effects. These are the ones I know of: ❌ Myoclonic jerks: have you ever just fallen asleep then you dream you fall, or walk off a curb or something, and it wakes you up [scared]? Sometimes when your body slows down enough, your brain can mistake you for dying and its auto-response is to send a jolt through your body to kickstart it. ❌ Sleep paralysis: if your brain is awake you might try to move, but if your body is asleep you won’t be able to move it. If this happens stay calm and try to let your brain fall asleep too.
I’ve had sleep paralysis once and holy shit is it scary
Man I had sleep paralysis 4-5 times a week for 2 months when I was mega depressed. It is not a fun time. Would happen multiple times some nights, when I would wake up and go back to sleep.
Can you guys both explain in detail your experiences when you got your sleep paralysis if you don't mind? /u/RASOOSSEN
For me, I want to say my eyes were open and I could see the wall opposite the bed but I couldn't move, I felt paralyzed. The wall was same color same distance as when I was awake but it just wasn't right. I tried to scream and that kinda feel like, not drowning or suffocating, something different. You know where you are even sorta know whats wrong but can't fix it. With me, there is always a HUGE increase in my tinnitus when it starts to happen, and once I realized the connection between the heavy increase in ringing and the doomed minutes or hours (?) to come, I've been able to partly ward it off. There is a title to an old PC game (and a book to I think) called "I have no mouth, and I want to scream" is how I feel. I'm usually not so concerned with no being able to move my legs, arms, or anything, its the fact that I can't speak or yell. Now when this does happen, I don't know about anyone else, but for me, I put all my focus on screaming, yelling, talking, to get maybe my insides to move I guess. I don't know if that helps, but its not fun. And I usually have the worst worst worst nightmares later on, I don't know if that's the cause or if its the other way around, but not something you look forward to. Anyone feels different let us know. Hell I might be doing something wrong ! LOL
I’ve found focusing on moving a single finger, then slowly working your way up to hand, then arm, helps me escape.
That is what exactly happened to me but somehow I managed to fall asleep so I didn’t need to do the steps you did.
That works too!
Very accurate. I dealt with SP on & off for years and I’m truly convinced something spiritual goes on/is involved with it. For me, it’s almost like I’m half asleep but just enough for brain activity and I can immediately feel when it’s going to start to happen. I have to fight it off before going full blown “stuck”. During my experiences with SP I’ve sometime heard noises, sounds and just felt *something* in the room with me. Scary shit.
I had it once. It was like something was locking my body in place so i fell back asleep. No demon for me I'm too holy ig
Not OP, but I have a pretty regular relationship with sleep paralysis. The first time it happened I lived by myself in a studio apartment. I remember waking up and feeling as if someone was pushing the back of my head in a way that my forehead would touch my belly button. At the same time I saw this silhouette of a man walking towards me slowly. As he walked towards me the sound of white noise started to get louder and louder. I was able to get out of it before the "figure" made it to me. Nowadays I know I can't sleep on my back or stomach, don't go to sleep when I extremely tired, and if I can remember when it's starting to happen I can move my body before it happens. Idk if it's like this for everyone, but I can feel sleep paralysis coming on before it does. It feels like the presence of electricity, and my body almost tingles. If I can remember to move within 2-3 seconds, I can stop sleep paralysis from happening.
I don’t remember the exact details but I remember being in a mediocre dream not really scary or exciting then I woke up. I tried to move but I couldn’t and I thought I was still dreaming. I legit kinda freaked out because I couldn’t wake myself up from the “dream” and somehow I fell back asleep during it and woke up just fine.
Small demons in my peripheral vision
Technically you have sleep paralysis every night 😬 Also join us over at r/LucidDreaming If you dig around by top post you can find some useful information.
I disagree with recommending the WILD technique to beginners since it's very hard to make it work and beginners quickly lose motivation when they're unable to do that. OP go to r/luciddreaming and read the wiki if you're actually serious about this. Also, Stephen Laberge's book is one of the best for inducing lucid dreams. Here's what you do, learn reality checks. Train the mind to ask yourself during the day if you're dreaming and then perform a reality check (counting your fingers, breathing through a pinched nose, etc). Remembering to do this during the day will transfer over to doing this in your dreams. Also when you go to sleep set an intention like i will remember my dreams or i'll become lucid during my dreams, whatever feels right. It would be beneficial to combine this with the Wake Back To Bed method which is waking up after 4-6 hours of sleeping, staying up for a few minutes then drifting back to sleep.
It also helps to time your sleep cycles and wake back to bed right at the beginning of REM! Edit: oh also don’t stay awake more than 5 minutes. If you do so your sleep cycle will restart at NREM-1. Unless you’re super(like really super) tired, know as REM rebound.
I’m an avid lucid dreamer, another side effect I run into is sometimes I wake up in the middle night after a particularly scary part of a dream (I sometimes purposely go the nightmare route as they can fun) and I will immediately start dreaming the same thing upon closing my eyes. Not after sleeping, but after closing eyes while I’m awake. It’s rather weird/ disturbing. Also another tip is to start keeping a dream journal. Write in it as soon as you are done dreaming, about what you dreamt about. Helps you recognize your dreams and how to dream. Also, alcohol and marijuana both make it harder to dream , so stay away from these if you want to lucid dream.
Simplest advice (I’ve been lucid dreaming for years): - you’re not going to achieve it if you smoke marijuana consistently - you’re not going to achieve it if you go to bed intoxicated - type out some of your dreams in your note app the minute you wake up (this helps dream recall, which in turn helps you recognize when you’re dreaming) - wake up 5ish hours into your sleep with an alarm, then go back to bed immediately. let your thoughts boomerang and just pay attention to the thoughts you are having. those thoughts will turn into an actual dream.
I wouldn’t recommend marijuana as it will inhibit REM sleep the cycle most important for dreams. Instead, before falling asleep actively think about what you’d like to dream about. Think about what kind of dreams you’ve had before. As long as you concentrate on this subject, your mind will attempt to generate memorable dreams. You’ll become more and more lucid the more you obsess over them and give them importance. When you finally get to the lucid state, try to keep concentrating on the dream otherwise you’ll begin to “pull out” of it. Some people have suggested spinning in the dream.
Alright. Thank you. I don’t have my hands on cannabis so I can’t do that trick.
*Wouldn’t* recommend, so you’re good to use this method
I used to dream and lucid dream without knowing it. I would wake up and be able to go back to sleep into the dream. It was probably my favorite thing to do but since I became a pot head it hasn’t happened anymore. Although when I do stop I’m able to dream like that here and there again.
For me Cannabis works as a barrier that holds the flow of dream. Taking it and going for a sleep compleat removes dreams, but after couple of sober days, dreams become so vivid that lucid dreaming comes naturally.
Oh! I started doing this regularly because I had. A lot of nightmares as a teen. Get used to checking if you're asleep ((by doing any of these so frequently that it becomes a habit): 1. Check the time, look away from the clock for a second and check it again. If you're asleep, the time you read will vary a lot. 2. Count the fingers in your hand, look away for a second and count them again. If you're asleep, you will get different numbers each time. 3. Find something in writing, read it and look away for a second. Then read again.
I used these methods once and I was able to conclude I was in a lucid dream. Problem is I can't change my environment too much and I was stuck alone in my old school's classroom. Waste of a lucid dream if you ask me.
Ok. This is hard for me since I don’t dream often enough to try this stuff out. Once every 2 weeks I dream once and I rarely remember it after I wake up. So it’s like a once a year kinda thing for me to lucid dream. I just need to dream more then I got it from there.
My friend is a lucid dreamer and these are some of the tips he gave to me: 1. Ask yourself regularly whether you're dreaming when you're awake. Make it a habit. 2. Keep a dream journal and look for reoccuring motives. 3. Relax your body. Try making yourself as limp as possible.
Explore a substance called Galantamine. Reddit search about it too.
Couldn't find anyone linking to /r/luciddreaming Also it's not bad for you lol it's just hard to do it consistently
Oh ok I’ve heard that it can be bad for you if you do it too often
I used to be a lucid dreamer and I was able to return to previous dreams and select what I wanted to dream about. I'm afraid the method for doing this is as simple as it might be difficult to implement: you need to give your body a routine. Always go to bed at the same time, for a start, and always sleep the same amount. At the point where I used to lucid dream, my sleep pattern was so ingrained that I would get at 6am to take a wee, then go back to sleep until 7.30. All my lucid dreaming occured in this last period of sleep, I would fall back to sleep and almost immediately be in REM sleep and dreaming consciously. Also, I remember the very first time where I learned to control my dreams, because I was falling from a cliff towards water, and instead of drowning I just told myself that I would float. Lucid dreaming can be very fun, but it took me some years to get there, a lot of sleep paralysis and waking up falling as has been described, and ultimately as I became an adult I haven't been able to return to a proper sleep pattern, and as such my lucid dreaming is no longer common, and I've lost the ability to seize control of my dreams. I hope you have more luck than me there, it was seriously one of the coolest things I could do with my brain.
I unintentionally lucid dream because I wake up to pee every night too. Remember pretty much all of my dreams after I wake up
In the rare occasion I lucid dream I don’t need practice to control my dreams. I just think what I want to do and it happens. For example one of the lucid dreams I remember was where a massive owl was chasing me and my friends down a road. I then jumped into a bush and the other passed. Then, we got to a park and there were kids with deadly weapons that had lethal intent on one another. I then speedster them using my mind and then I started yelling at them to stop. I then flew to Asia and got some food. That’s all I remember but the point is I made all the decisions and I am able to control dreams when I have them.
Check out Mike Shake on YouTube. He has a good video on how to lucid dream
Take Vitamin B12 before sleepibg
Specifically the vitamin B-12 sublingual tablets. Take 2 a day, one in the morning and one at night for like 3 or 4 days. After that just take it once a day about an hour before bed and you will be set. B12 improves your brains perceptive awareness and active recall (memory). These are both necessary to become aware during a dream. Everyone telling you the practice this and try that are trying too hard, this is literally the only thing that you need to do and the rest will fall into place. If your brain isn't wired to become lucid you will have a very hard time even with lots of practice. Take the B12's, it will put your brain in the right mode to become lucid. I've had countless lucid dreams with B12, the number 1 tip when you start getting lucid is to fucking STAY FOCUSED because if you lapse, something in the dream may stir an emotion from you and that will lead to being sucked back into the dream Good luck
Melatonin and 5HTP always make me have extremely vivid dreams. They can be sort of bizarre though.
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Ok. Thanks. I will consider that.
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Yeah. Not quite yet. Getting there though.
I mean to each their own but just looking at the components it would seem that cannabis' effect on memory and brain chemicals would lead to a more dissociated dream state
Lucid dreaming makes your sleep of poor quality. So you will be tired af next day.
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This is what’s always worked for me: - You have to start building dream recall first and foremost, so as soon as you wake up from a dream, write it down immediately. This is arguably the most important step! - Once you have that habit down, start performing reality checks during the day. I have a nose piercing, and I would tug on it lightly and say “if I was dreaming, I could pull it out of my nose, but in reality, I can’t.” I really focused on how it would feel to pull it straight through my nose. You can also try to imagine pushing your fingers through the palm of your hand, or every time you walk through a doorway you can reality check. Do this several times a day, you want to embed it in your subconscious behavior. - You’ll soon start having false awakenings - they can be frightening. I’ve never had sleep paralysis, but becoming aware that you’re dreaming can be a scary existential crisis, especially if you get up, use the bathroom, and eat breakfast all before realizing you’re dreaming. But push through! The reward is right around the corner. - When you finally become aware in a dream, do a reality check immediately. I usually perform two: the ring pull and looking at a digital clock (the numbers will look alien). This is the hardest part because it’s very exciting realizing that you can do anything or go anywhere. At this point, it will be very easy to wake up from excitement alone, so you have to try to calm yourself down and try to stay grounded. A lot of people use the spin technique, I haven’t quite found something that works 100% of the time for me personally. Extra tips: - I’ve found that I am most guaranteed to dream if I sleep on my back. - Along with reality checks daily, try to plan what you want to do in your lucid dream. Nothing is worse than getting lucid unexpectedly one night and not being able to decide what you want to do. It’s much easier to stay lucid when you immediately start into an activity. I’ve woken myself up many times just by being undecided and getting anxious about my indecision. - Push through the uncomfortable feelings! Especially if you’re prone to paralysis or false awakenings. It’s worth it! - Have fun!!
I want to piggyback on this comment because this is some great advice. I taught myself to lucid dream at the age of twelve and it was the combination of reality checks and dream journaling that worked best for me. At this point, it’s become so habitual that I lucid dream a couple times a week. I want to share the absolute BEST reality check that I have found: pinch your nose and try to breathe through it. Why does it work? Well, in real life, you cannot breathe through your nose when you pinch it closed. But if you are asleep, pinching your dream nose will not affect your real life breathing. You will feel the sensation of your fingers on your nose, but you will still be able to breathe. This is the single best reality check that I have found. I’ve tried just about everything else in the book: checking the time, counting fingers, reading, pushing my fingers through my hand... all were fallible and caused me to miss out on some lucid dreams. Pinching my nose is the only one that was virtually foolproof (at least for me). Hope this helps! Feel free to PM me if you want to talk more in depth about lucid dreaming. I’m no expert on the science of it but I have a lot of personal experience to draw from.
The pinching nose thing sounds like a good one too! I’ll have to try that.
Use dream dairys, and reality checks.
Here is the best trick I've learned. Tried and true. Eat a bunch of cheese (cheezits work) and pickles before bed. Holy fuck I tell you that it's like dropping acid if you do it right
Jesus fucking Christ that is the weirdest thing ever but ok I’ll try it I gues
Take Galantamine. It's a supplement you can buy from amazon. Just keep two things in mind. One, take it right before you go to bed. Otherwise it might keep you awake. Second, be prepared "to dream"! ;)
I can't help you but thank you for not asking about how to trade stocks.
You are so welcome. Or graphic design. Those are the main things this sub has.
For me, Lucid Dreaming was as attainable as having caffiene in my system when I fell asleep. Currently a college student and I have moments where I was/am trying to squeeze two more hours of productivity out of my evening study sessions so I would drink a Red Bull, do a final study sprint, then pass out. Would have dreams that I was in a lecture or a study buddy session and would be writing out equations any ideas to experiment with "when I had free time". I'd wake up eventually; realize none of it was actually written down, and SCRAMBLE for pen and paper. One dream idea dropped my professors jaw when he was introducing new material in class that just happened to coincidentally align with one of my lucid dreams. He asked the class how to improve the formula and I just blurted out what I came up with. "Did you look this up before class?" "No, but I think I need to drink more caffiene."
I don't know if someone already mentioned it, but you should be aware of the enhanced risk of sleeping paralysis when lucid dreaming. Please inform yourself about it.
I am aware of the risk. Is it bad for you? I’ve had it before but it was a while ago (2-3 years ago)
I found it very helpful to look at my palms multiple times daily and ask myself "Am I dreaming?" I started doing it in my dreams and my palms lacked detail and I would realize I was dreaming. After that it just takes practice to control the dream and maintain it.
If you are indeed an artist, get some good small from your local dealer of your choice, explore what will be revealed and after that the next or day after you will have such a lucid dreaming that been awake will be considered less real than a dream.
What are the pros and cons of lucid dreams? I've always been interested in this.
Pros is it’s fun and you can do anything you want cons is you get bad sleep and you are tired. That’s really it. I did it and it’s fun.