Have you all had any success with lucid dreaming? If so, how did you achieve it?

I've had a lot of lucid dreams before, they kinda happen at random. Some are cool, some feel more "real" than others.

But i always felt a weird feeling when i realize that I'm inside a dream... The worst times they turned into full-on lucid nightmares, but that's probably because of my anxiety baka

>>40679295 (OP)
I was practicing levitation last night in a lucid dream. The mental articulation was distinct, and I wanted to ensure I remembered it upon waking. A difficult technique for me to sustain, but practice helps.

The mental state of dreaming is distinct, and the process of waking can be analyzed to get more familiar with it. I do this every morning and it helps.

Draw a circle on the palm of your hand. Every time you notice that circle throughout the day ask yourself "am I dreaming?" Eventually it will happen in a dream. It's a start.

>>40679295 (OP)
Stop smoking weed

>>40679633
weed withdrawal dreams are good, but you want real crazy dreams? Wear a nicotine patch while you sleep. It's a trip.

Practice mindfulness.
You cant expect to be aware in your dreams if you are not even aware of yourself when you are awake.
Practice being conscious of ever action, every moment, of every second. Once it becomes a habit it will transfer over to your dreams and you will start lucid dreaming automatically with zero effort.
Dont allow yourself to be in autopilot in your life.

>>40679295 (OP)
Play theta/delta waves while you masturbate. Make sure you are picturing what you want. Go ahead and laugh.

>>40679295 (OP)
Never. I've never once been able to think "I am dreaming" while in a dream. I never feel in control of dreams. I've had very weird dreams but never have I felt like I was consciously making choices in them.

Had three that i remember where i was in full control, in afternoon naps. Try sleeping during the day if you get a lil bit tired, like being bored tired or just ate a lot tired.

It will happen.

And for me, control was like if i were directing a movie. You don't feel your body so movement happens thru orders. I was aware that i was dreaming and could have thoughts, and the shit i thought about would happen. "Fly over a town" and my PoV did so. "Hot goth chick will suck my dick" and it happened, but that was too exciting and woke me up instantly.

I've only lucid dreamed once, and it was after eating about 3 grams of a amanita muscaria chocolate bar. I've used amanita muscaria a bunch of times besides that and it makes me sleepy and gives me good dreams but not lucid dream.

I've actually had one scenario where I had a legit lucid dream and how to achieve it is not really a simple explanation in the sense because I am not a person who usually delves onto /x/ but It was my first month in my first apartment years ago I spent all day watching the sopranos so naturally I got tired with the day at some point and I didnt lay down on my bed but I was pressed up against my wall laying on my bed (box spring and mattress on the floor)and I remember just sitting there with my eyes closed and eventually I someone transitioned to the sleep phase while being unaware but I remember I was on a submarine afloat a body of water with no land in sight but above me there were two dots in the sky that I was watching in my tired stupor I assumed were airplanes and I remember standing there thinking how crazy it would be to see them crash into each other and then out of nowhere I begin to think of the pattern the planes should do it in and I realized right then and there I was lucid dreaming. I began to walk around the ship after realizing this phenomenon and I remember walking to a door and opening it and James Gandolfini was there in character of Tony telling me about how important it is to maintain my cash and maintain a low profile. At this point in the dream I began to drift off into a deeper state of sleep and I felt myself lose control of the dream and ultimately pass out. It was an experience that I feel you cant just find but have to accidently have happen to you. Just lay there and do not move with your eyes shut and maybe it'll happen again for me

>>40679295 (OP)
Andrew Holecek's 2 books.

>>40679295 (OP)
When it's time to fall asleep, make sure your body is very tired and that it's the best time in your sleep cycle. Lie comfortably in bed on your back, don't move, keep your eyes open, and try not to fall asleep. Keep your mind open and alert, but your body relaxed. You must fight sleep with your mind ONLY. At some point, sleep will come to your body, but your mind will remain awake. It may not work the first time, but practice it little by little.
>>40679604
This is also a good advice.

I have become aware 2-3 times while dreaming, every time at those instances the dream just goes away and I am awake inside dream, nothing else happens, I'm back to my room in the dream which is projected almost 1:1, then I get intense fear and vibrations and buzzing (like that scene from 2001: space Odyssey) and I wake up relieved. What's this phenomenon, i think it's something to do with astral projection since I am aware I'm in the room where I sleep but I close my inner eyes inside my dream and don't want to see or experience. Hope this makes sense.

>>40681823

That happened to me a lot!
The only times i got to be fully conscious inside those dreams I've never got that buzzing effect, the times i did i just end up not resisting to it and waking up.

>>40681823
Some kind of mild sleep paralysis, I'm prone to lucidity, and paralysis but I've learned over the years how to mitigate that so I rarely get it anymore, and I've had similar experiences notably the room being recreated when I know my eyes are closed. You may be getting excited that you realize you're dreaming and start waking up, similar to how a scary dream becoming very scary can make you awake suddenly, so you end up in a inbetween state.

I lucid dream pretty often. The most common way is to meditate to train focus. Then this focus is used in the middle of the night after waking up, simply observe darkness behind your eyes various forms and shapes will start appearing be patient. Either you get oobe or lucid dream next. Don’t sign any papers during dream. I made this mistake

>>40683471
>Don’t sign any papers during dream. I made this mistake
Huh?

>>40679295 (OP)
i have lucid dreams whenever i decide to take my meds (seroquel) which, isnt most of the time.
If i take some whilst fully awake ill fall into half-awake-half-asleep hypnogia state , its really uncomfotable but i can AP from there.

>>40679295 (OP)
It gives me a heart attack every time I successfully do it like a jumpscare. That's just how I sleep

>>40679295 (OP)
Oh yeah I remember the most recent ones now,
first was that I woke up in my room with gay porn on my pc second was several dreams were I was walking in the light as animals and logos appeared around me calling a me a god telling me to return to light and a lot of dreams have me seeing a blue light wrapped in its context and my imagery like project blue beam

>>40679295 (OP)
I had success with the dream journal method. After a few days I had my first lucid dream (only lasted like 1 second though). But the constant sleep paralysis and terror wasn't worth it. It got to the point where I was afraid of going to bed. So I started sleeping on my side, and eventually the paralysis went away.

>>40679295 (OP)
Go to bed with a zyn pouch in your mouth.

>lucid dreaming thread
I have problems waking up suddenly when interacting with a character. it has happened twice, could you tell me how to avoid this?

>>40679678
this is it. it is known as All Day Awareness
easier said than done though
>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RIyzWDF7e1dIFqsh7Gbox5_JWn5p_WyMAdqbaJatD6Y/edit?tab=t.0 [i am not the author]

when I was doing it (having moments of presence every hour or so) I LDd more.

though contrived methods e.g MILD work as well.

>>40679295 (OP)
After watching the movie "Waking Life" I had a string of lucid dreams. The first one was so fun I almost dropped out of college from sleeping in trying to have more.
I've had a few since then. Sleeping excessively isn't healthy but I found it easier to purposely trigger one if I went back to sleep for a few more hours after waking up. However note: I also experienced sleep paralysis many times doing this, in fact the most lucid dreams I had were right after falling back asleep from paralyses.

The best way to explore your mind IMO better than any drug I've taken. Feels like how when movies oversell characters "tripping", but with more power over what visuals you see.
The main issue for me is that once I realize I'm lucid my heart picks up too much and I wake up. Flying through dreamscapes is too exciting!
Sex too.
I haven't had one in awhile, when I was obsessed with LD I found a few companies that are offering drugs you can take to induce it but never tried any. Wearing a sleep mask also helps, there was a kickstarter for one that would detect REM cycles and flash lights to wake you up a little at the right time.

Oh yeah also I stopped LD after I started smoking pot. Weed kills it completely.

Galantamine and huperzine A help a lot combined with wake and back to bed method.

>>40679295 (OP)
The method I used is that any time I saw a key, I would remember to think about if I'm lucid dreaming, and to use the key to open a door.
>>40679321
This guy's right that lucid dreaming is mostly random, but most of the time it happens towards the end of the dream. If it happens for a long dream, then usually I still lack the power to control the dream. I think frequency of lucid dreaming has something to do with how introspective someone is.
If you want to control a lucid dream something like the key trick will work. When I realized I was lucid dreaming I remembered the key, which allowed me to open a door to go anywhere.

>>40679295 (OP)
Cycle small dosages of weed. When you are off cycle you have the most intense vivid lucid dreams.

>>40686478
meditation helps too,
Diet helps,
Hemi-sync audio,
Honestly there are a lot of methods for lucid dreaming.
Some additive, some negative, some experimental. I think you need to train or find what it is that works for you.

Blue Lotus tea also works. The egyptians used this

>>40679295 (OP)
I haven't. I want to, but I've been unable to.

Fighting and killing are my favorite things to do in lucid dreams.

I use to lucid dream once a week in average.

My technique is take one and a half hour to two hours nap every day in early afternoon. Then, after I wake up from a dream, I use the indirect technique.
> https://www.remspace.net/files/the_phase.pdf

To dream while naping (rem sleep) it is necessary to sleep at least 90 minutes. Less than this, it will only be dreamless sleep.

My sleep schedule is biphasic (6 hours night sleep + afternoon nap), which makes easier and also helps me to take long naps in the day.

>>40688012
>Blue Lotus
Any reputable sellers?

>Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have investigated the authenticity of blue lotus (Nymphaea caerulea) flowers sold on online marketplaces like Etsy. The research involved comparing the alkaloid content of flowers purchased online with that of verified Nymphaea caerulea specimens cultivated at the UC Botanical Garden’s Virginia Haldan Tropical House. The analysis revealed that the authentic Egyptian blue lotus contained significantly higher levels of nuciferine, a psychoactive compound, than the Etsy-sourced samples.

>>40686476
You're the only Anon that sounds like they know what they are talking about. Instead of a key, I've taught myself to question anything that appears unbelievable and then try to fly. I'm not sure how much sense that makes. But it works really well for me, if shit looks fake then I think ok can i fly around? If I can then I know Im in a dream. I'm still working on having more control though because if I'm lucid dreaming, then in most cases, I'm about to wake up and I don't really have a lot of control.

Bump

>>40679295 (OP)
Xannax and fernet Branca

>>40679295 (OP)
This morning I became lucid in a dream and immediately went for a boob grab

>>40695900
Rookie stuff. I bet you woke up 2 seconds after also.

>>40679295 (OP)
Blue Eisenhower November assists with lucid dreaming.

Wake up in the middle of a REM cycle, or at the end of it.
Remember Blue Eisenhower November , then go back to sleep with the goal of lucid dreaming, when you get there.

Far more likely to happen.

Trick is trapping yourself on the other side and kys in your main body, forever dream

Js 1 time, I remember I said something “ik this is a dream” and everything js got out of control after I said that, and since something js follow me to my dreams, when im trying to sleep I feel like something sit on my back and try to kill me and I start to hear a static, I got a bible in my room open but it’s not helping.

>>40679321
>But i always felt a weird feeling when i realize that I'm inside a dream... The worst times they turned into full-on lucid nightmares, but that's probably because of my anxiety baka
Reminds me of the last one I had. I became lucid and spent some time flying around a fantastical night city landscape, messing around, high speed smashing through walls unfazed and so on, but then I came across some people in the city and there was a party or gathering of some sort in a building. I was curious so I went in, and suddenly this beautiful woman comes up to me smiling, asks me if I want to dance with her. Panic suddenly sets in (I can't dance, and besides beautiful women shouldn't want to dance with me so they're probably trying to make a fool of me or do something to me) and get this, since I'm lucid I actually will myself to wake up and ruin the dream. I'm honestly still fucking reeling from this.

>>40696080
>Blue Eisenhower November
Do I need just that or the whole sequence of the others that I forgot?

>>40679295 (OP)
>>40679321
I don’t know how to explain mine. I get lucid dreams. But then I can’t do anything.
I give you examples
>noticed i am sitting in passenger and car is driving yet I can do shit
>get scared then figure it must be some sort of dream but don’t want to risk it yet
>road turns and car with and I realize it’s really a dream
>still not able to change anything or do anything. Just roll with the car until I woke up or faded etc
Another one that happened a lot
>in a room
>sometimes with family friends sometime alone
>realize dreaming
>immediately try to do shit, change location, change anything, fly etc
>nope
>it’s as rigid as real life, yet I still know it’s a dream.
>so In my desperation to cling to the dream, and make it more real , I try to touch walls and ground etc, to ground myself, in hope of making dream more realistic and be able to change it
>nope
>as I touch stuff I slowly lose control and finally fades
This scenarios happened over and over again, and yet I never been able to break through and do shit in my dreams
What gives?
>>40686476
>lacks the power to control my dream
Like you are aware and you can’t do shit? Or you just not become aware?

>>40697059
>Like you are aware and you can’t do shit? Or you just not become aware?
Not that anon but I also find that in longer dreams if I am lucid at all, I'm only semi-lucid (or just "along for the ride", much as you describe yours) at best.
>>40679295 (OP)
I doubt there is a fully cut and paste method that applies to everyone equally, but as some other anons have also mentioned the most surefire method seems to involve inducing sleep paralysis. In my case I wasn't trying to do induce it initially, it was just something that started happening regularly and brought me great discomfort. Much like >>40684179 I actually started to fear it, but during one instance of it happening it was like something snapped in me and I learned to conquer it. After that I started to experience paralysis much less frequently and also sometimes I would just randomly have a lucid dream, but generally still in the same time frame that paralysis would occur (after waking early and then going back to sleep). I have also done a little dream journaling at times and feel it can definitely be helpful if you want to have more lucid dreams, but I also find it kind of exhausting to lucid dream so I don't really try to force it.

>>40697327
So you think “aware but can’t break out of the dream scenes” means semi lucidity?
Oh and about sleep paralysis.
It does seem to be the perfect way, as I experienced it before, but it really shook me.
At this point I actually know when I enter paralysis zone, as in I can pinpoint when hallucinations gonna start.
Maybe it’s different for everyone but for me, is that all sounds around me gets muffled. Like my fan, radio etc gets muffled. It’s as if I suddenly submerged my head in water and now sounds are different.
But I actively avoid it, like the moment I get there i shook myself awake cause my hallucinations scare me.
Examples
>sleeping
>notice that muffled sound change
>right then my bed start to violently shake, like earthquake. Only for me to get up and see it didn’t move
Another
>sleeping
>same sensation
>all of a sudden I hear a banshee like screen directly into my ear which shook me awake
Another
>sleeping
>felt the sensation
>I hear whispers in my ears telling me stuff
These things and many others makes me avoid it
I think I can easily, in theory, become lucid if I just stay put snd let it pass, but I am too scared

>>40693475
>if shit looks fake then I think ok can i fly around?
I do this but grab a girl's butt nearby.
The time it wasn't a dream she didn't even turn around to see what was it, turns out the overreaction you see from women being very offended by it are a movie thing, in real life you may need to shake their shoulder and yell "hey!" to get their attention.

>>40679295 (OP)
One trick that seems to somewhat consistently produce results for me is having a meal in the evening, preferably something with a decent amount of cheese and dairy. Even if I don't have a lucid dream after that, it often results in a vivid kind of dream at least.
Maybe its also my diet in general, I typically don't tend to have any evening meal (just OMAD lunch) so the sudden shock of adding an extra meal does something as well.

>>40701983
Just take some lion's mane or 5htp before bed. It'll work way better than cheese.

>>40679678
the point of learning to lucid dream is i don't want to be present in my life

Lucidicity is the action of being awake both subconsciously and conscientiously.
It requires training the forefront of the mind and the back of the mind to be in likeness to eachOTHER.
Solfeggio frequencies in the 528-548 hz have helped me assess my para-dimensional self and access a version of sleepingness where I could escape MIT's dream hacking/dream advertisement and travel virtually anywhere and bend physics to my whim.

I trained myself to pinch myself in the dream-state because in that instance, you cannot feel pain the same way and this allowed me to begin dream-alteration. Keep in mind that lucid dreaming frequently will wear on the "awake" body.
8-12HZ is what the body vibrates at when at rest

Start by making your dream recall better. The more awareness and focus you out into your dreams the more likely you are to become more aware while dreaming, and influence the nature if the dream with your willpower or intent.

Only thrice in my life. It's fun, but doesn't seem to last very long once the jig is up.

I'm more interested in not having a really frustrating kind of dream where I'm late going somewhere or meeting someone and things keep happening to make it take longer. I'm trying to get out of school and get to my father's car to go home, but the hallways become an endless labyrinth and he must be getting more and more worried as I fail to find the way out. I need to call someone I know, but I keep misdialing their number, or can't remember it at all. Last night it was just about meeting my mother for Christmas, but I had to shut down my computer first, and the menu kept changing into completely unrelated options so I couldn't. Then I had to find a new coat because the one I was wearing turned into a bird. I don't understand why I have these kinds of dreams so often. They're incredibly anxious experiences.

>>40679295 (OP)
I'm at the point where I can cast light from my hand