lets discuss lucid dreaming in here, i'll start
i found a theory about telling people in dreams that they are in a dream, what are your experiences with this?

>>40747308 (OP)
>i'll start

go ahead

>>40747308 (OP)
i'm more interested in the game than the story. I guess my lucid dream is when I realize I'm having a nightmare and I just hate it. I know I can't get out of it because I haven't awoken yet, but it always stops before it gets to be too much.

I tried when I was younger but found it very difficult to stay in the dream. When I become conscious, this huge rush of energy goes towards the back of my head and wakes me up. May be time to revisit the concept.

>>40747406
i did, i was asking about what are people's experiences with telling the people/beings in their dreams that they are in a dream
i have been seeing mixed results as i read online, there also seems to be some correlation with how you word it with the reaction

>>40747992
there are numerous tricks that you can use to wake up if you dislike the dream
i had one bad dream where i was getting chased by a pedo and even flying wouldnt keep him away from me, so i used old reliable
i began to scream "WAKE UP!" until i woke up

>>40748073
>may be time to revisit the concept
i agree anon, i feel like your problem may be that you get excited when you realize you became lucid, i had that problem too a few times i think the key is getting used to the novelty effect of being lucid

>>40747308 (OP)
Recently had a dream where I suspected I was dreaming, but couldn’t convince myself because the dream felt like reality. So I looked in a mirror and that’s somehow when it clicked. Immediately the dream surroundings disappeared and I was locked into the intense sleep paralysis buzz in what appeared to be a white chamber. I tried to consciously visualize things I wanted to see and lucid dream but everything just kind of fizzled out. I was stuck in the same white unpleasant chamber. So finally I told myself in my dream to wake up, which I did on the spot.

>>40748091
Sometimes, if I get really scared in a dream, I just get really, really concerned, and that wakes me up. It's kind of anti-climactic. I just get really, really concerned and I'm like, "This can't be real; it isn't, actually." And I'm like Nah. And I snap out of it. I think other people could try this

>>40748140
>sleep paralysis buzz
can you describe what this was like?
when you were in the chamber i assume you were restrained

>>40748152
Sure, I get sleep paralysis pretty frequently and it starts with an intense buzz that gets more intense the more you try to wake up. For some reason when I become conscious in dreams it tends to happen too, but I’m not undergoing “sleep paralysis”. It’s just the same effect.
I wasn’t restrained in the chamber it was just like my inner world stopped populating on its own and I would have to do it all myself. But when I tried it was more like imagining things irl than tangibly producing effects. Then I woke up by choice.

>>40748149
the way you describe it sounds similar to my method but it sounds like the application is different since it requires you to be uncomfortable mentally speaking which could be a big part of what wakes you up

>>40748176
is the buzzing just a noise, or is it a physical sensation? btw try breaking out of the chamber next time maybe that is the key to gaining control of your dreams?

>>40748304
Yeah it’s a noise, like static. But there’s also an intense inner feeling that accompanies it, like when you’re next to a plane about to go off. It’s not just a noise, it signals something. In sleep paralysis when it gets more intense as you try to wake up it seems to be signaling that you’re going to “tear” something or in some way damage yourself, so you retreat the louder it gets back into yourself, half awake, and just try to “snap out of it”. In my dreams when I’m conscious and I hear it, it’s more like it’s signaling “You’re not supposed to be here.” But it’s more ambient than in sleep paralysis.

>>40748365
that almost makes it sound like its an internal danger alarm, kinda like the terror radius in dbd or dbz breakers