Fine line between lucid dreaming and "night terrors"...
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105 not really. Lucid dreaming is just being aware you’re dreaming while you’re dreaming. I don’t see what’s so scary about that.
Bump. I’m curious, for anyone interested in LDing, who thinks a dream journal thread would be neat? That way you’re committed to writing down your dreams in the morning which is often the hardest habit to start with Lucid Dreaming. You wouldn’t have to post the whole dream, just enough that you can remember it later and as much as you feel comfortable putting down. Would anyone be interested?
Jan 23, 2025
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#105
APersonWhoYoyos wrote:
Bump. I’m curious, for anyone interested in LDing, who thinks a dream journal thread would be neat? That way you’re committed to writing down your dreams in the morning which is often the hardest habit to start with Lucid Dreaming. You wouldn’t have to post the whole dream, just enough that you can remember it later and as much as you feel comfortable putting down. Would anyone be interested?
Thanks for making it!
I’ve been trying to lucid dream for years. Do any of you know a really good technique to actually lucid dream? I’ve tried Back to Bed, FILD, and I’ve tried reality checks (counting fingers, reading, etc.)
The only time I was close to lucid dreaming was dreaming about lucid dreaming lol.
Jan 23, 2025
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I also haven't had an actual real LD but from what I've heard and what Will told me in DMs you should have a dream journal. There you just write down all the dreams you remember right after waking up.
#111 I’ll try that and see if it works. Thanks!
Jan 23, 2025
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And, to summarize the 100 posts here: Basically, MILD is good. Anything where you wake yourself up in the middle of REM isn't good for your health.
Jan 23, 2025
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APersonWhoYoyos wrote:
19 For a before bed approach, use MILD, which is basically reimagining a previous dream you had EXCEPT you became lucid after noticing something weird that happened. Also dream journal in the mornings if nothing else. I’ve had them literally just from dream journaling before. Plus, dream journaling consistently makes your dreams more vivid too which is an added benefit
Read through this.
The ability was apparently gained by a kind of mantra: by asking oneself “Am I awake or am I dreaming?”… every hour, every day, every week, for eight or so weeks …
Needles to say I forgot all about it after a morning.
Now I find myself on a cusp -perhaps- of frequent but unpredictable- lucid dreaming.
A number of factors may be involved but none of them is the repetition of that question .
In no particular order of importance, the factors seem to include:
age/ loss/ diet/ maturity/ self acceptance/ grief/ solitude/ music/ pharmaceuticals/ tobacco/ adhoc-THC/ tinnitus/ chastity/ abstinence/ honesty/ charity/ courage…
And perhaps a chronic but benign pituitary tumour.
When the factors combine or whatever sort of magic is happening, the dreaming is very lucid & I’m in the driver’s seat!!