(Frustration warning, i say the word 'dream' a lot here.) Okay so i just read a comment on a video explaining dreams on youtube that told the commenter's strange lucid dream experience, which then helped me remember something similar that happened to me a while back. Now I'm going to write about it in the hopes of it reaching someone that knows why this happened.

So, this happened a while ago, and it left me freaked out to be honest with you. I really enjoy lucid dreaming but this was weird af. I remember being in my dream and then suddenly realising that i was dreaming. I then experienced a strong urge to run up someone inside the dream and tell them that "I'm dreaming! This isn't actually real! I'm dreaming" with so much enthusiasm too. However, i didn't quite get the response i was exactly expecting. I'll always remember the blank stare that this person gave me. Which then led to them almost frustratingly looking down at the ground and sigh while they proceeded to say "you aren't supposed to know that" in an annoyed voice. I remember waking up immediately after i heard it come out of their mouth and felt creeped the hell out.

Anyone know why this is? I'm super curious about this!!

I did something horrible in a lucid dream that I would never do irl just to feel how it is. I've been feeling regret over what I did and I know it's just a dream but still. What do u guys think about doing horrible things in a lucid dream?

I used to be a lucid dreamer. Funny, but I was in my 30s before I learned that not all people were lucid dreamers and it made me sad. I was in my mid-40s when, after 24 years of marriage, my husband died of cancer. One way that the grief hit me was I immediately quit remembering my dreams. I always assumed that it was temporary, but it’s been 25 years now and I still never remember any dreams when I wake up. I really miss it, and I especially miss my lucid dreams. I still miss my husband, but I worked through the worst of my grief a long time ago.

Has this happened to anyone else? I would give anything to dream again.

i've done it plenty of times and most of the time it's just me slightly distorted but 1 time i was in swimming pool and i look at my self in the mirror while swimming in a pool full of people and i was an 8 year old chubby asian boy isn't that fascinating and i've lucid dreamed in places that felt familiar can it be from a past life like different person same consciousness that's why i keep seeing familiar places and walk though them as if they're my houses. Has anyone ever looked in the mirror and looked wildly different, and what do you think about that theory

Dear people,

I’m stuck with something and would really appreciate your help and thoughts. I’ve been practicing lucid dreaming for years and have gotten quite good at it. Recently, I started incorporating galantamine into my practice, and with it, I’ve had a 100% success rate. Since I can easily transition from waking to dreaming simply by staying still after waking up, galantamine truly makes this transition seamless and incredibly smooth.

However, the issue is that it’s almost impossible for me to form a clear visual image of the dream. I’ve tried every technique that usually works when I don’t use galantamine—methods that quickly bring about dream imagery and that I’ve mastered over time—but with galantamine, it’s extremely difficult. The tactile sensation is perfect; I can easily feel the contours of the dream, as if I’m ‘touching’ them. But when it comes to forming visual imagery, it’s very hard. Even when I manage to get a visual, the image is incredibly vivid, but it fades very quickly.

For reference, I take 8mg of galantamine, sometimes combined with Alpha-GPC. Perhaps I should reduce the dosage to 4mg? Or maybe I should pair it with regular choline instead? Any advice would be greatly appreciated—thank you so much.

Basically Iv been dream journaling for about 200 days now, up until around 150 I was having 2-3 lucid dreams a month just by actively thinking about it and the occasional reality check. The problem is for the past 50 days Iv had a lot going on in my life so whilst Iv been dream journaling habitually i haven’t been thinking about lucid dreaming, as a result I’m remembering about one dream a night (compared to 3 plus in the past). Now I want to get back into it. Pretty much all just want to know if you guys think it’s worth quitting dream journaling for about a month (to kind of do a reset) and then starting again with full force. Do you think it’s worth the reset or is there something else I could do? Thanks for any help

Have anyone tried this? What are your experiences?

Whenever i do this im able to gain more awareness and also have a feeling more like being out of my body and experience more deep "places"

Basically I was in my bed but positioned 180 degrees to how I usually sleep (opposite side of the bed). I woke up in the middle of the night in my dream and attempted SSILD in the dream for what felt like hours. I wasn't lucid but it felt like I was in real life, and it was 100 % non distinguishable from reality. Anyway, thought it was interesting

So Ive been trying to lucid dream for a month or two now and Im just a little bit confused. I heard the dreams are really crisp and clear, but am i like in 3rd person watching myself from above like my usual blurry dreams or am I like living the moment in 1st person like in real life where I am just in the moment and doing things. Its hard to put into words but what I am basically asking is how does it compare to real life when it comes to perspective like am I watching myself or am I living in the moment.

I have lucid dreams nightly. Almost nightly, when my brain isn’t too tired to make up a dream. I’ve always liked the idea. So I started trying to learn. After my car accident I stopped trying and they got so much more frequent.

Almost 50% of the time they feel like alternate realities. It’s the same reality something either major or small is changed. But then my cat climbs on me or my brain will simply get tired of the dream and it’ll change into the weird fever dreams you have when you’re sick, but they’re still lucid.

And these aren’t dreams where you know you’re in one just by your surroundings once you’ve realized you have lucid dreamt. I have had such realistic dreams that I’ve forgotten the one rule (never tell someone you’re in a dream) and the person didn’t even get weird. It was my mom, who I usually trust with that sort of thing irl, and she convinced me I was awake. But I could feel myself sitting on my couch downstairs, she looked the exact same as she did the day before. Whenever I wake up I have to check my surroundings because I end up back in bed in my dream.

Had anyone ever experienced this? Please let me know if you get disturbing, reality accurate lucid dreams.

I’m not going to be saying that I can’t lucid dream at all — because I can — I’m just going to share a story that can hopefully make you laugh or feel better about any progress slumps.

So like many people, I’ve experienced lucid dreams before knowing about what they are/how to induce them. My recent technique has been basically just pausing whatever I’ve been dreaming about and saying, “Wait, this can’t be possible. I must be dreaming.” I’ve had success with this, but also some pretty ironic failures.

Last night, my dream started off like this: I was at a beach with my friends. It wasn’t a shore but it was almost like a sandbar without any land near us. Basically a shallow part in the middle of the ocean. On the sandbar were giant power lines (??) which we were kind of playing around with by swinging on them. Next, our same group kind of appeared at a water park. So we’re at the water park on slides etc. I forgot my exact “moment of clarity”, which is what I call my “Wait, I’m dreaming” moment, but instead of the usual immediate snap into realization, I was slowly fading into it. As this was happening, I was transported back to my living room with my parents on the couch. My vision was slowly getting less blurry as my clarity became greater. I remember my mom saying, “You look different right now,” and I replied, “It’s because I’m not all here yet.”

So by now I’m fully lucid, I go into my room and I look in my mirror. I remember seeing a backrooms video that warned not to look into your reflection, it will stay there forever. Naturally, I tested this out. My reflection did not stay there, it followed me. So now I’m feeling successful and I head into my living room once again to see what kind of trouble I can get into, but then I see my parents calling me in an odd way. I walk towards them and my mom kind of hits my dad lightly on the leg and says, “If you call her like that, she won’t come.” This makes me kind of back away. I’m confused, until my mom started calling me - by my cat’s name! Mind you I was still actively thinking the way I would now: I remember thinking, “If this is how my cat feels when we call her, I feel terrible for her.” But yeah, that was a little lucid dream fail for anybody reading. If anybody knows why I sometimes can’t seem to control my dreams while lucid, please lmk!

Are there any methods? If you‘re good at it can you do it every day and drive around in sickass cars?

Welcome to my lucid dreaming journeys series:

{Day 2 recap} : I spent the day doing reality checks and practicing all day awareness and read some posts and then went to sleep at maybe 12 am so I wasn't able to do ssild and woke up without any dreams

{Day 3}: today , I woke up at 6 am and went for cycling and after coming back , I did the usual morning routine.

And then , at around 10 am , I did some meditation and felt sleepy at around 12:30 pm

So I decided to take a nap , so before sleeping I listened to a lucid dreaming subliminal for a few times and then slept .

[The dream] : In the dream , somehow I got ended up getting chased by dogs (don't ask me how) , though it sounds cartoonish , but due to the fear of the dogs behind me while running , I got lucid and suddenly jumped around two meters on a buildings window's slab like surface above the window to save myself from the dogs . As soon as I looked down , the slab I was sitting on , was invincible and my dream ended and I woke up .

The dream was very blurry and I couldn't recall most of it . But it was amazing experience overall . Though The lucidity lasted only around like a few seconds.🙂👍

So this was my today's experience.

Though, I have a question about how to improve my timing of my lucidity

I rarely have lucid dreams, like once a year and it happens naturally. But usually I take advantage of it and start doing weird shit. Last night I had a super scary and very long dystopian dream and towards the end I noticed the name “Skynet” then I turned to my brother: Me: I know this name Him: yeah, it’s from Terminator Me (realizing I’m dreaming): wait, is this me? Is my brain doing this shit? Everything comes to halt in the dream include my brother stop responding Me (looking around and talking to my brain): can you stop? Then I woke up, and felt stupid right after for not having more fun

Hello, hope you are all doing well. I was wondering if there are any of you in a similar situation. I would like to introduce lucid dreaming to my daily life. Unfortunately, my schedule makes it quite difficult. I wake up really early and I wouldn’t have time to journal my dreams. Go to sleep early you might say. Well that would mean I spent less time with my family, which I already don’t have much. The only solution I can think of is to take a nap during the day so I can wake up a little bit earlier to journal my dreams. But in any case, my nights would be shorter, which would have a negative impact on my lucid dreaming journey… Any of you in the same situation? How are you doing it? Thank you!

In my dream, Triggering from President Trump's Trade Wars. markets crash and humankind got plunged into war. Don't ask but it is my dream. I am not politically aligned.

Basically USA annexed Panama, Greenland, Iceland and Canada into THE GREAT AMERICAN EMPIRE

Looking how resourceful that is, Aussies got NZ and other island countries there like Papua new Guinea etc. onboard and created OCEANIA

China took over Taiwan and at same time with Pakistan, Mongolia and Afghanistan they created GREATER UNIFIED CHINA. India got roughed up by unite China and got eastern part and Kashmir taken.

Sri-Lanka however joined India at end. At same time Russia was not kidding and they got RUSSIAN EMPIRE back. North Korea went nuts and unified South and got PEOPLES KOREA back together.

Muslim world and some northern African countries around Sahara desert got together and made MUSLIM FEDERATION. Israel for security reasons was made special territory of American Empire. Strangely there was no war there and and Palestinians were relocated to vast lands in Muslin Union and given lots of grants. IDK again all in my dream.

South Africa proposed and somehow convinced lower portion of African continent to join and make AFRICAN UNION.

Europe and Scandinavian countries made EUROPEAN UNION (welcome back UK) and NORTHERN UNION respectively.

I forgot to highlight but Mexico with all South American continent became SOUTH AMERICAN UNION.

South east Asian countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand joined to make SOUTH ASIA UNION.

Some of these unions were based on rise of trade wars, Imperialist type of leaders, countries trying to get with like minded countries to preserve the economies and ways of life. Some of it was straight up wars, long drawn conventional wars. No one dared firing a nuke. Sadly causalities were over 1 Billion but then there was 1000 years of peace as countries were handful with large areas and had plenty resources. Climate change, poverty etc. were better fought this way somehow in the dream.

Four weeks ago, we started a challenge.
Some of us just wanted to fly.
Some wanted to stop nightmares.
Some were chasing something they couldn’t quite name.

And now here we are.
Day 28.

We didn’t just explore dreams.
We explored the mind behind them.
The fears that shape our stories.
The questions we never asked while awake.

🔄 Week 4 Recap – Meeting the Unknown

🧠 Day 22 – We asked our dreams questions, and for the first time, they answered.
👤 Day 23 – We faced the parts of ourselves we hide from—the shadow, the suppressed, the unspoken.
⏳ Day 24 – We bent time, lived longer inside than the hours outside.
🪞 Day 25 – We looked into mirrors… and didn’t always see ourselves.
🧘‍♂️ Day 26 – We practiced lucid surrender—not controlling the dream, but letting it teach us.
🌌 Day 27 – And then we let go completely. Identity, memory, ego. Gone.
What remained was awareness itself.

Yeah, Week 4 got cosmic.

🏆 Hall of Fame – 30-Day Challenge Legends

To everyone who dared to ask, "Am I dreaming?"—this is for you.
Every glitch, every failed RC, every second of lucidity—it all counted.
Here’s to the dreamers who made this month unforgettable:

🌟 u/presentnonexistence
• Week 1: Spotted a real-life object in their dream + found dream signs.
• Week 2: Pulled off a WILD and had 3 semi-lucids in one night.
• Week 3: Had TWO full lucids in one night—flew and breathed underwater like Aquaman.
🧠 Built a lucid habit from the ground up. Insane progress.

🌟 u/PootisPowered99
• Week 1: Saw a ladybug out of nowhere—dream signs are kicking in.
• Week 2: Grinding FILD nightly and chasing sleep paralysis like a champ.
⚙️ All about persistence. Lucidity is inevitable.

🌟 u/Kestis_Bridger
• Week 2: Did a reality check, counted 6–7 fingers, still didn’t get lucid.
😅 Classic dream logic betrayal. You’re right on the edge.

🌟 u/Complex-Odd
• Week 1: Time froze during a reality check—same minute showed twice.
⏳ Literal glitch in the matrix.

🌟 u/pesky_Deinonychus
• Week 1: Recurring dreams of being stuck in boring convos and foreign languages.
🧬 Rare dream moments.

🌟 u/northernRock7
• Week 2: Had 3 lucid dreams in a row after years of struggle.
🚀 Something finally clicked. That breakthrough moment hit.

🌟 u/N0rmChell
• Week 3: Reality check confirmed a dream, text changed… but didn’t go lucid.
👁 Awareness is there. Next time, you’re breaking through.

🌟 u/Unlucky_Debate3809
• Week 4: First lucid in a long time after 7 nights of SSILD.
🙏 Short but real—and full of gratitude. This one meant something.

🌟 u/Mad_Croissant
• Week 4: Yelled to meet their dream guide—got a rumble so intense they sat down and apologized 😂
💀 The dream world talks back. Round two coming soon.

🌟 u/JunkensteinsMonster
• Week 4: Said a quarter of their lucid dreams happened during this challenge.
❤️ Pure appreciation. You made it count.

🌟 Honorable Mentions

Everyone who didn’t get lucid but still showed up, logged dreams, questioned reality, and pushed themselves—your time is coming. Stay in the game.

and sorry for advance if i miss some names, I've tried very hard to not miss any lol

🌟 u/dreamshinobi
• Had a few lucid dreams through WILD and SSILD—short, but meaningful.
• Learned a lot just by trying, but even more while sharing along the way.
• Made some good friends and memories.
🙏 Just grateful to have been part of this journey with all of you.

💬 Comment:

• What was your biggest “whoa” moment in Week 4?
• Have your dreams changed outside the challenge? Are you different in waking life now?

🛠 Let’s Troubleshoot (One Last Time)

Q: I didn’t get lucid at all this week. Am I failing?
A: Nope. If you noticed more weirdness, remembered more dreams, or asked deeper questions—you progressed. This week was never about getting lucid. It was about getting real.

Q: Why were my dreams more intense? Emotional? Disturbing?
A: You opened the basement door. You peeked into your own subconscious. Of course it got real. That’s a good thing. Dreams show us what we’re ready to see.

Q: What if I’m scared to keep going?
A: Then you’re exactly where you should be. Growth always feels like standing at the edge of something too big to understand. Keep standing there.

We’ve got two days left.
Two more steps before the curtain falls—
Or lifts.
(Depending on how you look at it.)

See you tomorrow, dreamers.
Let’s reflect, recalibrate, and prepare for the endgame.

I have been trying to have a lucid dream, and I would like to know how to make people in a lucid dream.

I was dreaming, became lucid, I flew as I always do when i'm lucid. Then a few minutes later I "woke up" in my bed next to my girlfriend and told her about my lucid dream, very excited. After that I woke up again, this time for real, and told my girlfriend again. I feel confused because this makes me feel that it was not an actual lucid dream but a dream where I was dreaming about it being lucid. Hmm....

Has this ever happened to you? What does it means? Am I doing something wrong? Sometimes I become lucid during a dream, but I wake up right away because I don't know how to control it after becoming aware that I'm in a dream

Hey guys . For a couple nights now I've been having weird, somewhat lucid dreams where I'm aware that I'm dreaming but I am not in control. I remember three or four of the dreams from the same night every night and they all end the same.

I dream that I meet a beautiful blond women with blue eyes and green patches of makeup around her eyes... she's always exactly the same in every dream I've had. So im dreaming, I'm aware of it, all of a sudden my jaw gets stuck wide open and extreme pain is shooting through me, my teeth feel like they're getting pulled back towards my throat and I feel physical cracking and chips of teeth getting thrown around my mouth, in the moment that happens in them dreams, for some reason, I know what too do too wake up. So I run too a bathroom mirror(still in my dream)and see myself with my jaw stuck open and cracked teeth getting ripped out. Truly the worst pain I've ever felt, it felt so real, it was the worst pain I've ever felt even compared too real life and I've broken things before. I woke up scared and upset and unsure why this is happening. With some research they say stress or anxiety but I am unsure of that. I've been drinking green teas and taking Ltheonine tablets too chill me out a little but it's not helping. IAM SCARED TOO SLEEP PLEASE HELP.

I usually realize that it's a dream by the differences in the environment, because I'm used to looking at the same places several times in real life

Lately my lucidity has been incredible. One time the people in the dream didn't want to do what I wanted and I said "this is my dream, you have to do what I say" and they did it. The other time I told a family I met in the dream that I wanted to meet them again and they replied apologizing and saying that they only exist in my mind

I've already given my contact details to the people in the dream to try to get them to send me a message in real life. I've already dreamed about a cousin of mine and asked if it was really him there dreaming at the same time, sending me a message in the morning, and several other situations

The details of the environments are perfect. I look at my hand and I can even see the details of the skin looking closely (that thing where the hands get blurry is fake lol). I also tell the people in my dream that it's a dream in the most natural way. I learned to walk through walls (I just imagine myself walking through them when I touch them and it happens) also flying too, but I use the air as if it were very dense, and I have to hold on to stay in, maybe because of realism

I also learned to change the shape of my body parts when I want lol

I even learned to sing songs while exploring the environment fully consciously and afraid of waking up, I know I'm sleeping, and I try to keep my mind on the dream so as not to lose focus and wake up

I've bought clothes with my mother in a dream and I told her something like "I'm sad that when I wake up I won't take anything"

I also watched a video where a guy said it was impossible to write in dreams, that same night I took a piece of paper in the dream and wrote normally, he had to practice for weeks, writing in real life for example to get used to it

I have the impression that only the environment and the things within it are beyond my control, the rest is as if I can do whatever I want, when I feel like getting out of the "trance" of following the dream script, usually when it's boring

I love reading other people's lucid dream experiences, but most lucid dreaming books are "how-to's". Charlie Morely's book Dreams of Awakening has a short section of his experiences, but not enough in my opinion. Any good books to just read other people lucid dream experiences? Kind of like reading someone's lucid dream diary? TIA

Ive tried everything, all techniques and everything. I even have a dream journal. I just cant go lucid. I have dreams somewhat consistently. Ive been trying for so long😭.

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And what are some basic mistakes that reduce chances significantly?