i taught myself to lucid dream pretty young (~8) and subsequently took advantage. lucid dreaming is kind of like focusing, like you know the feeling you get when you just get to work after you’ve commuted when you’re finally conscious again after you zoned out in your commute, that’s kinda the feeling when you start lucid dreaming. anyway, so i was in this dream when i was probably 15 and it was a chipmunk war of some sort except i was a chipmunk (the details aren’t really important) but i was like ok time to start having agency but my body wouldn’t let me. like i literally could not force my body to do something. it was the most surreal experience bc i could think and i knew i was in a dream but i literally could not control my body and i couldn’t wake up and when i finally did i almost started crying it was so fucking insane and odd. it hasn’t happened since and i can’t really find anyone else who has had a similar experience online. anyway something devious happens that night.
Jul 12, 2024
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I used to lucid dream a lot, not by my own volition most of the time, just kind of happened. But last night it happened out of nowhere and my favorite thing to do is FLY. I wonder what that says about my reality and the dreams I want to achieve..
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so when I was a kid I tried to lucid dream and (in my experience) it's really easy to practice and achieve intentionally. but I had my first one in years, first time unintentionally, the other night and it was med induced x~x there's pros and cons to it.
so first of all, my first experiences... I've never had a lot of dreams in general, but I started keeping a dream journal and it instantly made them skyrocket in vividness. and at the time it was really appalling because it was really a lot, and felt exhausting mentally. but I recently found out I don't go into "deep sleep" as much as I should and bounce between light and REM sleep more. so if you sleep "typically" it probably won't be as jarring. but I do wonder if it affects your deep sleep state. but anyway, I woke up exhausted everyday and just barely reached lucidity. and at that point the pros outweighed the cons. so be warned it could be taxing if your body isn't naturally leaning into it.
but I accidentally achieved lucid dreaming the other day, after med changes have been giving me more dreams without journaling or any kind of pre-bed practice. and it was surprisingly great - I slept really well through it and woke up rested. but the entire time I felt like I could control where I went in my dream, what I was doing, recalling events - even having dreams of different memories. it was just really trippy.
my current working theory is that I was going too fast with my previous attempt. when it happened on accident, my mind was already used to dreaming regularly, and eased into it by itself. so it is possible to "force", but you likely won't need to. I recommend maybe just thinking about lucid dreaming in a positive light as you're dosing off to increase the chances of it happening. I think if you're also prone to nightmares that it might be best to not try to train yourself into lucid dreaming, that might've been part of the reason my super vivid younger dreams were too intense, even though they weren't nightmares.
it's not really super wild though like people say, at least for me. like it's not really creative mode in your dreams. maybe if you train your brain to get that way but idk. sleep is really important to get the rest of your day on track and if there's too much REM it could get annoying! so maybe approach it like a cool thing that can happen but more of a circumstance than something you need to work hard to achieve each night, unless that's fun for you.
but I am not a sleep doctor I'm just some guy
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