How to Do Anything in Your Dreams 

Somehow at some point, learned how to pee in my dreams but not in my bed. I have ascended

Whatever you do, don’t pee in your dream. It’s a trap.

I'm not sure if I've ever actually lucid dreamed, but i remember one time in a dream, i realized i was dreaming, and randomly yelled "This is a dream!", and then I woke up. But the weird part is I felt the process of waking up and remembered it.

One thing I recommend people do in their lucid dreams is talk to themselves one on one. Imagine yourself sitting right infront of you and ask them what you want and you will always get an honest answer since it’s your brain that you’re talking to.

Me: _whoa im in a dream_ Brain: *lol* lets wake this dude up

The only side-effect is waking up & realizing how f cking miserable reality is.

I am 20 years old and an engineering student. I have chronic back pain so it’s hard for me to sit down and study for long periods of time. I have somehow learned how to lucid dream and write physics problems and the different possibilities the nights before exams. I then end up doing well on the exam. It’s crazy

When I was younger I repeatedly experienced dreams in which I died, like getting shot in the head or fall to my death, even weird contraptions that would crush me. Although it may sound quite horrible, I've never experienced these dreams as a nightmare and rather saw them as an interesting one. The reason for that is what happened after I died. For some reason I felt the shock of death, like someone giving you a big scare, something that would normally wake someone up and thank the gods it was just a dream. For me, however, I stayed asleep and experienced myself floating in empty darkness for sometimes the feeling of hours. The calmth and just sheer nothingness of it all felt relaxing, as if someone were to continuously tell you that "It's all okey now; It's all over; You can relax". Even today (about 6 years since my last one) I still wish to experience it once more, once more to just feel the calm embrace of darkness, the calm embrace of feeling save, complete and finished.

I once lucid dreamed being a goldfish in a fancy aquarium. All I did was float, did the *bloop* *bloop* and said to myself *"this is nice"*

I’ve had what I’d call semi-lucid dreams. I was aware I was dreaming and could control my own actions but never could control the environment

the first times you lucid dream, dont have s"x. You will 99% of the time wake up because your not experienced enough to keep urself calm. Most people wake up the second after they realize they are dreaming, because they get so excited and confused that the brain gets super active to figure out whats happening

I did this when I was in a coma. I could listen to what was going on around me, or change the landscape to fit my wants. It came and went, and I've since described it as being awake in the coma and being asleep. It was surreal to say the least. I can't remember much of it now, but I do remember knowing I was doing it, knowing I was in a coma, even shouting replies up at the sky to people in the room where I lay.

I had a lucid dream and when i was aware i was actually dreaming i turned myself into a blue whale in the ocean, i was swimming in the vast sea and i could see everything, i could see the fish, the coral reef, turtles, it was freaking amazing.

The only time I achieved a lucid dream, the second I realized it was lucid i got too excited and woke up immediately 😭

I one time had a dream that I got in a fight with an entire group of people. I took out a good number, but was still outnumbered, so I ran, and jumped off the balcony knowing exactly the time my alarm clock would go off, taking me to safety.

I experimented with controlling my dreams in the early 90's while writing an essay on the subject for a college class. One of the books I read gave real specific instructions for this. First realize you are dreaming by looking at words on anything, look away from it, and then look back at it. It will have changed or even appear to change while you are still looking at it. Once you realize your dreaming the first step is to try and float, then spin your dream environment, and then finally fly. Once you can fly you are in complete control of the dream, and can go anywhere and do anything. I was able to accomplish all of this within a few days or weeks. Haven't used it much throughout the rest of my life, but it still seems very useful.

I've been practicing this for probably 15 years now. I was never into instruments but I was always playing guitar while lucid dreaming. Turns out I'm pretty decent at it. Pretty insane to think about. Never played it before other than in my dreams and I picked it up in a few hours. Our mind in a amazing thing.

Albert Einstein: Yeah I had a dream about the theory of relativity once My brain: I LiKE gIrLSs tHEy ArE PrETty

I usually seek out mirrors when I'm lucid dreaming to look at my dream self. It's usually me from different times in my life and I just find that fascinating. Sometimes I just explore the world I'm in and other times I use my consciousness to overcome whatever is chasing me in said dream.

I self taught myself lucid dreaming years ago and used this to cure myself of sleep paralysis. It worked.

I had lucid dreams a few times when I was about 7. One time, I just happened to realize I was in a dream, and told some of the made-up people in my head that they were a part of my dream. Of course they refused to believe it, and I strangely felt sorry for them.

For everyone that has problems with waking up soon after realizing you're dreaming, rub your hands together once you realize you are dreaming and start to wake up. It stabilizes you in your dream.

"you don't believe it?" I don't only believe it, I at one point, was able to I "trained" unconsciously to lucid dream At first I was able to control like a few seconds but after months I was able to control hours upon hours of dreams It was the best thing of my life, the feeling of all powerness is amazing After one year or so of this I started not even remembering my dreams anymore It's meen almost 5 years till last time I remembered a dream, but I'm starting again

I’ve only lucid dreamt once in my life.. it was the weirdest and coolest thing ever. And when I realised I was dreaming I asked the people in the dream if I’m dreaming and suddenly everyone around said no and shook their head but I figured it out.. best dream of my life

"writing songs in his sleep" Wow, that brings a whole new meaning to "Because a vision softly creeping left it's seeds while I was sleeping"

Problem with lucid dreaming and why it's so difficult to do is whenever you do achieve it you get excited and therefore wake up.

I used to use a mouth tobacco called snus that you place under your left or right for lip. (If you have seen Swedish hockey players, you know what I mean.) Anyhow, I used to fall asleep sometimes with tobacco still under the lip and at the time I used a CPAP breathing mask against sleep apnea that made the tobacco dryer and uncomfortable under the lip. So, I used to walk around in my dream trying to spit out the tobacco by I never managed to do it. (There was always more of the tobacco under my lip.) I try everything in the dream and usually around the time when I literally have the water tap in the mouth trying to flush the snuff and it doesn't work, I will realize that I am dreaming. That's amazing and I usually take a look around to discover where I am, looking out the window and so on. There usually also other people present and as I was standing there talking to three of them, I told them that I was having a dream and that therefore they couldn't be real. They looked shocked and didn't seem to like what I just told them. I could see that they felt bad about it and that they weren’t aware about it just as I wasn't aware about that I was dreaming only moments before. Some good advice?! Don't give in to the astonishment (as Terence McKenna would have said) and get to overwhelmed or to excited over things because it can get you to slowly wake up in steps turning the lucid dream into an ordinary daydream that can't be forced to continue. This has happened to me when I finally found and fell in love with "the girl of my dreams" or when in a not so noble cause as above are trying to have more than innocent kisses with someone, I find hot. I had to laugh at myself when I at one time woke up while giving my dry old pillow a big lick with my tongue. I also have experienced totally different kind of lucid dreams that are as real as this reality. The only way I know that I am dreaming is that my father and sister are still alive in the dream. That's how I know in which reality am currently in. (It would be impossible for me to distinguish between them in any other way.) I knew they both died so I understand that it can't be base reality. I accept it and that way I get to talk to them and to cheat death by spending some more time with my loved ones.

This is awesome. I've been lucid dreaming since I was 5 years old. Except for times when I am just exhausted, I lucid dream almost nightly. What I have learned is, if I am lucid dreaming and there is something I can't "direct", I really need to pay close attention to it and write that in my journal.

I remember becoming self aware in my sleep and for some reason I thought, "Wow I can do anything, I could probably even wake myself up right now." Then I woke up and was pissed that I did that.

Whenever I have lucid dreams, I literally go “oh i’m dreaming…I guess I’ll see what happens” and then proceed to keep going in the dream like I didn’t know it was a dream. Honestly a cool feeling.

Someone I know had two unexplainable dreams. I’m just going to call them… well, “them” to keep it anonymous. Once they kept having the same dream of a person in a car at a park driving down a road crashing and dying. That came true. Another time it felt like they were fighting something telling some sort of presence that this person that they had a crush on in 2nd grade was *not* going to die. They actually felt physically tired for the rest of the week. They ended up telling their mother that she would see something in the news that following month. And, sometime that month, their previous crush was in a terrible car crash. Their brother was nearby and pulled the person out of the car, barely before it exploded. If either of them had been a smidge closer, they would have died. That’s my story.

I taught myself how to lucid dream to battle my nightmares when I was still a child. Now I have build up my own "dream island" and i visit it every single night, for nearly 10 years now, every dream happens on that same island. I love it. For me personally, I don't even now what it's like to not dream or not remember.

Me in a lucid dream: Cool I'm about to hook up with a hot girl. Damn is this a dream? Yep it's a dream. I hope i don't wake up. Damn i woke up.

15:00 is when he starts explaining

The surrealism movement in art is also based un dreams, actually, the painters used to fell asleep with a spoon in their hand, and a dish under it, so when they fell asleep, it would drop, making a loud sound that would wake them up, and from that short dream they had, they would develop their paintings.

I'll never forget this one dream I had where, without sharing too many personal details, I had something I really desired for a long time. I was having a blast of a time and it was all absolutely perfect until I realised I was seeing myself from a third person perspective and decided to ask "Wait how come I can see myself like tha..." and then I woke up.

"Holy shit, I'm dreaming." *begins no-clipping through walls

The night before playing guitar at my cousin's wedding, I dreamed that I was playing the songs perfectly all night. The next day, I played them perfectly! Thanks dreams!

Woow thank you for the explanation… I have always wanted to keep a diary of my dreams… now I have a second reason why I should

I once had a lucid dream that I was falling down stairs that looked like the keys of a piano, when I woke up I still heard the same song I played, I played it on piano and now I have my own song

People: Woah! How’d you get so strong? Me: I imagined myself lifting weights.

Lol I remember a lucid dream from when I was 12 or so. I literally transformed into a duck and flew through Venice, Italy. It was honestly so real, like I could feel the air moving my feathers lol

Not to brag but I have been successfully lucid dreaming for the last 14 years. It is absolutely wonderful and it makes the act of going to sleep an absolutely exciting one... anytime I have a stressful dream there is a point where I become aware and take control if it's a good dream I totally have absolute control. Flying and taking up to the air is fantastic, I always start flying and wonder why cant everyone else can't figure this out, it all seems so easy( in my dreams of course). It kind of feels like in my dreams when I fly I know the secret of life and cant understand why we can't all figure it out. Idk it's fucking amazing

I am and have always been a lucid dreamer! I always remember my dreams but that makes it hard for me in every day to day life, because it’s hard for me to remember what actually happened in real life, or if it was just a dream. I also normally go back to places in my dreams that I have dreamt of like over 5 to 10 years ago which is amazing to me. I can tell you what all those places look like, inside and out. But seeing as how they are all made up I could never tell you where it’s located lol Most of the things that I do dream end up happening, or they are just complete and total utter nonsense and an adventure… it wasn’t until you made this video that I actually realized what I have been doing! I always knew I was a Lucid dreamer, and could control somethings, but I never knew I could control my dreams 100%!! That’s amazing!

"Most lucid dreams are used for sexual desiers" I just want to lucid dream to hug someone. That's it.

Holy crap, im lucid dreaming! I can play gta in real life but in my dream! The news: 13 people found dead with their cars stolen

I have had 1 lucid dream when I was about 11ish. I have never slept well all my life, my body clock is tilted so I get tired around 3-5 am . I spent a lot of time at school asleep on my desk, I don't think I missed much! Anyway I'd had very little sleep one night before school and my mum came in telling me to get up. I remember going through the process of getting dressed, the frustration of reluctantly throwing back the warm duvet and feeling the cold cutting my skin to goosebumps. Sliding on my trousers that felt like they had been kept in a fridge over night, hearing the familiar sound of the loose belt jangling as I pulled them up, the crispness of my white shirt and even the smell of my school jumper as I pulled it over my head. Then I woke up still lying in bed with my mum screaming at me that I was going to be late! Not the most eventful lucid story of all time granted, and I have had better dreams I promise, but none that felt as real as that. The difference being so vast is the reason I can confidently point to that being legit lucid. I have tried, admittedly half arsed, to lucid dream around 10 years ago with no success but with such a fragile body clock I have always gotta be careful in case it flips 180 degrees and I'm awake all night and asleep all day until I can flip it back, making work life a living nightmare! I do want to try again now after watching this vid.... and no, get your heads out the gutter, it's not because of the sexual things he mentions... not only that anyway 😏

one time I dreamt I was in my school with all of my classmates, surprisingly I remember it well. I realized I was dreaming as I went to get up from the desk in the language arts classroom for next period, I just fell like a price of paper. I had never lucid dreamt before so I thought it was amazing! As my class was in the halls getting things from our lockers (for next period) I saw my friend and went to their locker and had a brief discussion about whether or not math was the best subject. After that, I made eye contact with the friend and said “I know I’m dreaming.” I thought it’d be funny at the time to see what my brain would come up as a reaction for that. But, to my surprise, the friend looked at me grimly, then glaring like some horror movie character. She locked her eyes with mine and suddenly I felt extremely uncomfortable, like that strange numbness when you get physically hurt in dreams. I started to walk away awkwardly, to the next period, as my goal for that was to break a window for fun in my dream, but as I went behind her for the door to science, the friend turned her head like an owl with the same expression. I was freaked out so I threw a book at them and ran away. Then when I got to my desk group in science, we talked about our supposed previous assignment, then a boy broke the conversation by saying “I know you’re dreaming.” In the same sing-song voice I used with the friend. All the other desk mates stopped talking and looked at me, With the same emotionless stare. I felt sudden control over the situation, and ran out of the classroom and outside the school, I tried to ignore it when I went down town near my school, then everybody on the street, about 200 people stopped their walking and window shopping, and just stared. At me. It was horrifying as they all fell limp to the ground at the same time, then then sky turned a strange color I can’t quite describe, sort of a purplish, brown tint. It started thundering, then the buildings started to fall and then I woke up. Never forgot it and I’m still really freaked out.

what really sucks is the girl still turns me down even in my dreams -

This is a simplified and more realistic answer to what is lucid dreaming and how it works, from someone who actually experienced it. 1 When you will experience lucid dreaming for the first time, you will wake up in your dream, you will see the actual dream in which u are and wonder (wow, this is amazing), but everything will slowly disappear in front of your eyes, and slowly u will wake up and after that, u will shed a little tear for how amazing that experience was :) 2 Most likely for many of us, this will be very rare, and the maximum of what we will experience from lucid dreaming. 3 If you experience lucid dreaming you will find out that staying in the dream is a very difficult thing to do, not even mentioning controlling the dream. Is not "a dor" you open and walk-in like Alice in wonderland and do whatever you want, as long as u want... Everything happens fast in reality, and from the moment you realize you're dreaming till you wake up will probably pass no more than 10s. 4 While you'll be lucid in some of your dreams, (it takes a couple good dreams) you will probably even "involuntary" change the action of the dream 5 To voluntarily change the dream as you please (or something close to that) is a very tricky thing to do, bcs you can't use logical thinking to do it, you will wake up if you do that. The only way to change and shape the dream is through emotions and desire (at least in my case). You can't just imagine things and they will appear there, you must desire them. The dream will modify and change based upon your feelings and desires, you just desire and the brain will do the rest of it, he will modify everything to match your desires and you will simply find yourself in the middle of the action :)

i used to lucid dream a lot when i first stopped smoking and at points i’d realize i was dreaming and say it out loud the one time i did everyone around me in the dream stopped and looked at me then i woke up it was the most horrifying shit ever after that i went back out to smoke wasn’t having it 😭😭

I've had lucid dreams before . I remembered a place and I chose one path in the first dream to explore and I took the other route the next time. My thing in lucid dreams is jumping all high it's almost like flying. After having MS , these dreams are alot harder to come by. I guess physical and mental stresses are limiting it. But I find if I drink alot of water or tea before bed my sleep gets interrupted. So then u wake up, do what's needed , have a smoke n relax then lie down again n drift back into my dreams. If lucidity fails atleast the dreams are wild and vivid. Lol, tbh ,dreams kind of Became who I am I have "The Dreamer " inked on me😊😅

"wake up after 5-6 hours of sleep and then go back to bed" Me who barely sleeps 6 hours: 👁👄👁

1 tip for anyone who wants to try lucid dreaming: never trust a toilet

I've been dreaming about the same situation for years now. It's kinda scary. It's like this,i wake up at the middle of the night and go to drink some water at the kitchen. The moment i turn my back to see the balcony,i see someone watching me,like a thief or something, i never really can see his face,it's very dark but the moment i see him i freeze and i try to scream but it looks like my voice its gone and also my body paralizes. The same dream all over again for many years,i don't know what it means but i really wanted to share it with you guys. Stay safe,peace and love.

I tend to lucid dream quite often. It is like waking up in a dream just like he said. The strangest part is that the "camera angle" shifts like a role playing game. Instead of looking through my eyes as in waking life it goes to a "camera 2" mode or third person perspective. So I'm watching myself, as myself, directing that scene while I kind of create a set. Like a movie. I can move around the set, add characters, take them away, etc...I have noticed though that I only have a limited control over the other characters. They seem to have enough free will in the dreamscape until it gets weird and then I kind of silence them or leave. I can remember the dreams for days, months and years later with extreme clarity. Sometimes I can even go back to a particular "set" and revisit it with shocking detail. One thing I can say is that quite often the shape of the dreams are disoriented or misshapen like the gravity is too heavy and it's hard to walk. Or the characters look at me like I don't belong there or I'm an alien for lack of a better term. Maybe intruder is better. It can be way more tiring than being awake. I'd prefer just black silence from time to time. This isn't something I ever intended to do. I'm 40 and this has been happening for a long time. I am left handed and I think certain parts of my brain may function differently than right handed folk but i'm no scientist... Happy dreaming ya'll

“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.” - Zhuangzi

Whenever i try lucid dreaming i slowly fall to sleep while screaming in my own head "PLEASE, LUCID DREAM LETS GO, I AM CONSCIOUS, I CAN DO THIS!" and then wake up hours later highly disappointed

Ive had a repetitive lucid dream when I was young (50 years ago). That I can't change. I was riding down my suburban street. At the end of the street is a corner shop. I'm riding a scooter with pump-up tyres. 10" pneumatic, white tyres, rubber grip mat. I got to the corner. I think the tyre went flat then suddenly it's night . instantly I'm alert knowing it was only a dream. but it felt so real. Had it several times through my adolescence. I couldn't change it. Now it's in my memory.

I lucid dream most nights. What usually helps me is waking up because of pain from a car wreck and I go to sleep with headphones on so my mind doesn’t race. It’s like watching a movie to go to sleep but I have to have it on my entire night sleep or else I’ll wake up. I usually listen to Comics Explained Full Stories in RU-vid so my dreams are more super hero themed. But I am able to integrate those themes and powers into my lucid dreams. It’s mostly flight and having to concentrate harder to fly higher and farther. Or just to stay asleep so I can stay dream to have more fun. Love the channel. If you know of any studies where they take advanced lucid dreamers let me know. I’d love to try my abilities under a microscope.

I dreamed once that I made a "burger" with pulled pork, salad, bacon, cheese, fries and bearnaise sauce. Made it when I woke up, was legendary👌🏻🤩

90% of lucid men dreaming. 2min later needing to change boxers.

I had a dream about this boy and older woman once. I was on a school bus at this particular part of the dream, and the boy touched my glasses (idk why, I forget). I woke up to my glasses, which I had lost many months prior, on the floor. Well, half a year later and this boy is in my class. Didn't even realize it till half of the semester, but knew he looked familiar. Ended up writing a little story about the dream and how he was in my class now, and i plan to make it an actual book and publish it eventually.

The first two times i was terrified. Didnt know what to do and immediately woke up upon recognizing ng it was a dream. I started journaling and remembering dreams better even without journaling. Then i started having the same dream. On my third lucid try, i had a repeat dream. I knew what was going to happen and my dream self started focusing on herself. Then out if nowhere everything became a little brighter and clearer and i knew i was dreaming and DIDNT WAKE UPPPP it was too cool. I ended up building a bridge out of nothing and then jumping off of it, which is where i learned how to fly. The best thing ive ever done in life. Ive only been able to fly again maybe twice but i still lucid dream and just go with the flow while knowing im dreaming. One of the most exciting times of my life 😌

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Here's my experience with lucid dreams... When I was 14 my older brother passed away after a car bad accident. For the next year or so I started to experience sleep paralysis most nights (likely due to the traumatic event). At first these episodes were horrific but as time went on I developed a system to wake up my body by focusing on moving one finger. Once I could move that finger I could shake myself awake. After learning how wake my body out of sleep paralysis I was no longer afraid of it. So what I started doing during the mentally conscious, but physically paralyzed, state is NOT wake my body up and intentionally stay in limbo. If I stayed in this state I would begin to lucidly dream. These dreams were the most amazing experiences I have ever had. Unfortunately, my sleep paralysis faded away and took my ability to have lucid dreams with it.

I have had alot of lucid dreams till the point that i can create anything from changing the environment to making blackholes in my hand(usually i destroy every thing when im having a nightmare or i turn my nightmares into allies). The weirdest dream i had was telling a random frog it was a dream and the frog told me that i wasnt supposed to tell him that, so the frog started to take human form and told me it was gona take control of my consciousness so it started a battle of who was in control of the dream changing stuff until i managed to wake me up.

As a physics student, there were times when I was trying very hard to solve some problem, I would have dreams where I was actually finding the solution, but things looked blurry and I couldn't figure out what I was doing in the dream after waking up.

Me: about to wake up Brain: wait its all a dream? My concousness: ALWAYS HAS BEEN.

"The limitless potential of the human mind" *Says the human brain*

I am 19 and till now i have done lucid dreaming twice. It was amazing😍. I did it as i was very sleepy and when i knew i was about to sleep.. I started thinking and imagining of some place and the next moment i am in that place and can do anything.. Of course it didnt work all the time as i told you it only worked twice for me but its worth a try ❤️

This video is amazing! It's more relatable than anything I've seen about dreams, especially the beginning. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who had dreams influence their life in some way or another. A year or two ago I've started writing sort of a book based off a dream I had, and I keep adding content to it based off other similiar dreams.

So when I was in middle school I actually achieved lucid dreaming, but then I questioned myself. Am I actually realizing that I am in a dream or am I dreaming that I believe I realize I was dreaming.

I use to practice lucid dreaming years ago, and in one of them, my grandma appeared (she died 3~4 month before the lucid dream, and I couldnt say anything to her), well... In the dream we hug and I woke up feeling joy and happyness.

Every day there is a brief moment that I remember dreaming about the night before. It’s so weird but I can literally remember dreaming about that exact moment the night before.

The best vision I ever had while sleeping was seeing my 1980s Gobot's chest could be opened and contained a cavity in which things could be stashed - something I had never, ever known. I promptly awoke, took the toy off the shelf and used all the might my young self could muster to actually indeed prove that my dream was true. Still one of the weirdest things I've had happen in my 40 years. But I'm convinced a greater truth will eventually be handed to me in the same manner 🤓

I've been lucid dreaming for close to 35 years. It started when I was 11, and I didn't even know lucid dreaming existed or that there was even a name for it. I had a crush on a classmate, and one night I had a dream where she was in it. It was not romantic or anything, we were just hanging out. But I woke up extremely enthusiastic and feeling great. And it made me wonder if dreams were somehow manipulated by certain actions, events, sights, and/or sounds at certain times of the day. And I wondered if I could find the right formula to have that same sort of dream every night. So I began experimenting. I eventually gave up on trying to dream about my crush. And focused on seeing if it were possible to be conscious during a dream. What my 11 year-old-self decided to do was to repeat to myself in bed, out loud, "Remember it's a dream" and repeat it 100 times. I did that for about two weeks. One night, I was having a dream where I was riding my bike with some local kids and I got that feeling that you get when you feel like you had forgotten something. Or rather, that you should be remembering something important. And then it immediately hit me: I remembered that it was a dream. It was like blinders being taken off of my eyes. I was so excited, I told one of the other kids in my dream (that current lucid dreamers refer to as "Dream Actors") that they weren't real and that this was all a dream. He didn't like that, and took out television remote control, clicked it, and I began getting sucked into the pavement as if it were quicksand. So I quickly relented and said he wasn't a dream. And then I immediately woke up. I've learned it's not uncommon for first timers to wake up shortly after a lucid event. But I was jazzed. My experiment had yielded results! So I continued to push forward. Lucid dreaming, I also learned, is a lot like practicing any skill: The more you do it, the better you get at it and the more easy and natural it becomes. I haven't had to repeat any phrases to myself since I was that young boy. Now it's just second nature to instinctively know when I am dreaming or not. Unlike a lot of the more hardcore lucid dreamers, these days I don't really go for 100% lucidity all the time. I personally like to sit back and enjoy the rides in my dreams. Essentially I go with the flow, but can instantly go 100% lucid when I don't like how a dream is going and I want to change it. (Affecting dreams, like manifesting objects or defying other natural laws of physics within dreams was much harder to master but it is possible... it just takes an incredible amount of willpower to blatantly defy your dream's reality) It's something I am glad that others know about and have named. I am glad it was also proven, as it's not something I could ever prove. But I can say that anyone can do it. There are other tips people have that are likely better than what I did. Good luck to any future lucid dreamers out there!

I have been able to realize I'm dreaming since I was about 12. I learned to fly, become invisible and go through walls and other objects (including people) in my dreams❤️ flying is the best though.

Dying in a dream and not waking up, i experienced it once. It's like a normal dream at first. I was just eating then i felt heat from my neck up to my head and my heart felt like it was being crushed. I died and i guess it was a heart attack. I went into nothingness. I am conscious but i cant feel anything physically. I dont know whether it's dark or bright, can't see anything. i cant smell anything. I don't feel any heat but it's not cold either. It's just relaxing. It felt like hours or even days went by. When i woke up, i was just asleep for 30mins.

This makes so much sense about how I was able to have lucid dreams before! Back when I was in like 2nd grade or younger I had a lot of lucid dreams, and that was because of this one episode of gravity falls. They were in Stan’s head when he was asleep, and in it, they realized they can do whatever they want because they are in the human mind. This made me think about that one time as I was falling asleep, and when I started dreaming, I realized it was a dream. Then I remebered the gravity falls episode. Now 7-8 year old me didn’t think about doing it with a goddess, no I just flew. A lot.

I've been cultivating my lucid dreams for several years. I've created a dreamscape that I go back to frequently. I hope others find the same path.

In my dreams when i become lucid i just go to bed to sleep.

I have lucid dreams very often. Sometimes 2 nights in a row. The more I started to have them the longer I am able to be aware in my dreams increased. The reason people wake up quickly when they realize they are dreaming is because they get too excited. I would wake up quickly in my early lucid dream days or just forget I was dreaming and go back to a normal dream. When you learn to control your excitement then you can start controlling your dream. At first the only way for me to change my environment in my dreams was by finding a door and opening it and walking into the environment I want and if I wanted people to appear I would do the same thing. Now I have moments where I can just make things happen without the doors. I’ve traveled to different countries and went into space once to see planets. Iv’e flown a bunch of times. The trick I found to be useful for me is to just believe what you want to happen and it will happen. Don’t bother telling people you’re dreaming lol I was at work in a dream when I realized the sky was strangely close and the stars were everywhere. I told my co-worker hey I’m dreaming, you’re part of my dream, you don’t really exist rt now. His reaction was straight fear and his whole existence questioned. I felt bad about that. I’ll never forget the fear on his face.

I had to start forcing myself to not control my dreams about 15 years ago. It was causing me to not function properly (I had several other more significant issues at the time. So this was just adding to them). I really needed to get the best sleep possible at the time and I wasn't getting that when I would be too busy living my Hugh Hefner/Superman lifestyle I had grown accustomed to while sleeping. Every once in a while I will allow myself to live it up in dream land but only if I have absolutely nothing important to do the next day. That's extremely rare. I'm constantly catching myself in my dreams, telling myself to let it just play out and not go flying around. Flying is my second favorite thing to do in a dream. 😜

For those wondering how to easily manipulate your environment while lucid: try closing your eyes in dream and visualizing where you want to be, or what you want to appear. It seems to always work for me, and is less of a shock to my brain when it happens, if I close my eyes before trying.

One time I realized that I was dreaming, and I kept saying to everyone in my dream that I was dreaming. But than god said that I wasn't dreaming, and that I actually died while sleeping, and then I started crying and I really starded to believe that I died and that it wasn't a dream.

I picked up lucid dreaming at the age of 14 on my own without any prior knowledge of what it was due to nightmares. I kept having nightmares every night for a while to the point where I started saying "I am going to sleep, whatever happened it's just a dream" before I go to bed. Soon enough, as I was having a horrifying nightmare, I said it! " I am in dream right now because I remember going to bed! How did I get here? this must be a dream and I am going to wake up soon". Fortunate, I did wake up realizing that it was something incredible. Today, I am completely aware of myself being in a dream to the point where it feels like reality. Sometimes, I cannot wait to go to sleep just to be in that experience. However, the whole thing still freaks me out, it just unbelievable. I am now 27 but still not able to control and change my surroundings at will. I am assuming it takes lifetime of practice. Everyone should try it! it's a biological metaverse within you. You could reach the 4th or even the 5th dimension.

I used to be very experienced at lucid dreaming, I read a ton of articles about them, and became extremely powerful, a god. One night I had a lucid dream that I couldn't wake up from, except it was a nightmare. The "antagonist" could counter my powers and I kept seeing horrible images... So yeah I stopped after that, but it was over a year ago now, and I'm ready to try again, and I can confirm that every technique he mentioned works.

Im gonna control my dreams tonight. Wakes up: damn it

"hey 42 here" gets me every time.

I lucid dream quite a lot and have learned a few pointers should anyone be interested. Before sleep, if have experienced uncomfortable situations in your lucid dream before, like confrontations or anything unpleasant, which often wakes you from the dream, tell yourself that there is 'no' confrontation and that 'you' can change any situation and also, have no fear!! - Most of the other characters in our dreams are most likely created by ourselves and often may be psychological or part of who we are and reference sometimes to normal awake experiences. For example, if there is pounding and authoritative characters in the dream it may represent a parent or a boss or even a foe etc. - You can eliminate these uncomfortable situations by telling yourself before sleep that next time, you will handle it just fine, which for me worked. It can happen to the best of us so just because those uncomfortable situations happen may only be something that requires a little practice and a touch of discipline. That said, it truly is amazing when you know you can break known physical laws and fly high or low and go just about anywhere. Even other planets etc. - I have found whilst wondering streets in towns or cities, the street or road signs saying names of things look incorrectly spelt and unintelligible. Wonder if this is the same for others and also if there is a way to focus it better ?! - My last lucid dream could be made into a film !! :)

I once fell asleep with my hands locked behind my head and starved my visual cortex of blood for 3 hours. When I woke I couldn't see for a few minutes. Ever since then, if I fall asleep with my head back, I can lucid dream. True story. BTW if you find yourself lucid dreaming, just steer it, don't try to repaint it. The stuff your brain comes up with itself is way better than anything you make up... With the exception of flying, which always rocks and never gets boring.

Once i had a lucid dream where I met another person also able to lucid dream just like me. No matter how much I tried was i still unable to affect him like I affected the rest of my dream. This made me question reality. Matrix vibes 🤪

"When you poop in your dreams, you poop for real." - Peter Griffin / Family Guy

In Most of my dreams I know I'm dreaming but as soon I know something good is about to happen or something I want there are always obstacles that never let me get the pleasures I want in my dreams. While I'm in my dreaming state I'm aware of the obstacles barriers that don't let me get the pleasure I want, I try really hard to get through the obstacles, but I can't never make it. I know I'm going to wake up while dreaming, I never get the pleasures I want and I realise the dream is going to end and I'm going to wake up. After waking up I can only remember the dream for 15 minutes and then forget about it, but sometimes I remember after some hours I had a dream but can only remember some parts of the dream and sometimes I start to remember my dream in parts starting from the last part and going to the parts before that and after some hours the memory of the dreams I had fade way. I have only logged one dream on my phone within the 15 minutes after waking up from a dream.

I'm not sure how I learned to lucid dream but recall that I began as a child of 8 or 9 years of age. I had been having bad dreams a lot before this and after I stopped having bad dreams or recognized bad dreams as dreams and therefore could step away and be third person perspective and see the bad dream as like a TV show or something similar. Many times I can create wonderful situations such as flying or being a hero. I never thought of using lucid dreaming as a training tool. The only time I cannot control my dreams is if I took cold medicine before bed. Especially ephedrine or its derivatives. Then my bad dreams aren't really nightmares but repeatedly stressful things from work either past or mostly meeting deadlines.

One trick I learned early on is to read things in dreams twice - posters, headlines, TV screens - any words in a row. 99% of the time, if I'm dreaming, the words will be different the second time. If the words change, I know I'm dreaming, and can take over the dream.

I had a lucid dream where I realized I was dreaming and promptly flew up to and through the clouds at will. One of the coolest experiences I have had

Takes me back when i was 15 or so, I was pretty much obsessed with lucid dreaming & the techniques to acquire lucid dream states. The first time i successfully had one & decided to try flying, was one of the most amazing things i had ever experienced. Everything felt incredibly real! There was another time when i achieved a lucid dream state & transported myself to a beach. It was like i was in a real beach & i could feel the sand and the water ripples through my fingers. Man, what i'd give to be able to lucid dream again..

True I've been doing it since I was a kid, controlling my dreams, even if I had a nightmare I can change my self to a different character like super strength, flight etc... that can deal with my nightmares. For me it's an alternate world where I can made anything possible, a creator of my dream world, an escape to reality, but when I'm awake, I need to face my reality. I've also experience having a very long dream like been in the dream world for a week but after awoken from my sleep, I notice that it's just an half an hour time has passed when I look at the clock, like in my dream the concept of time is different, it can be a week, a month in the dream world but it only takes an hour of my sleep, that's why I really enjoyed sleeping and dreaming