We tried lucid dreaming for a month. It was... hard
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Several months ago (way before quarantine), Jack and I tried lucid dreaming. Sharing this video with you all definitely feels...scary? The actual dreams are REALLY weird, and the way we discuss them is pretty unguarded, and all of that feels more vulnerable than sharing a song. Anyhoo, lucid dreaming is really trippy, so PLEASE share your trippy lucid dreaming stories if you have any.
I’m taking this so I edit later when I have a good dream story lol
My weirdest dream involves climbing over elephants...
Lucid dreaming is pretty cool, but you probably gotta be ready for some of that weird shit everyone buries in the back of their minds
I gave up on lucid dreaming. You guys have made me want to try again! I'm going to start tonight. 👀
Can I use your music in my twitch streams?
The simplicity of honest conversations with your spouse about issues that are taboo in conventional American society was so refreshing. I saw zero judgement. That felt good. 25 years of marriage and you two teach me how much I still have to learn. And I came here for the music. 😎
I was thinking about this too. My relationship is still young but these two look like what soulmates look like in my head.
Why am I having this feeling of watching a Vsauce episode?
It's the beard. Also, when have you ever seen Michael and Jack in the same room?
Let's put it like this... It's not a coincidence that Jack Conte, translated to English, is Michael Stevens...
It’s because this is an amazing video
Or is it?
@@Johnny19Cai *music plays*
I've never heard of this joke before...
I once met a friend I hadn't seen in long time in a lucid dream, and he asked how I was going. I told him "Great! I'm in in a lucid dream, none of this is real and I can do whatever I want!" and proceeded to tell him all the things i'd been doing.
As i was leaving he turned to his friends and said "You know, I thought he was doing ok, but now i'm not so sure"
Damn him, he was making me question my own sanity in my own dream......
Lol 😂 😂😂😂😂
It would genuinely be funny as hell if it wasn't a lucid dream.
I've been lucid dreaming since I was very young, about 4 or 5 years old. I'm 30 with kids now, so I don't lucid dream hardly at all anymore, I just focus on getting a good night of sleep. But my childhood and teenage years were full of lucid dreaming, along with all sorts of other sleep phenomena, nested dreams, night terrors, sleep paralysis, sleep walking, you name it, I experienced it.
I of course had all of the typical teenage boy lucid dreams. Lots of fights where I win easily. Lots of sex. Lots of jumping off of buildings and landing on the ground just fine. Lots of flying superman style. Lots of driving super cars. Lots of flying airplanes.
But to me the funniest and most memorable lucid dream is actually the first one I ever had. As a young child, I had this recurring dream where I would be laying in bed awake at night staring at the ceiling. I would hear a noise on the roof like people walking, and some scary/freaky monsters would poke their heads through the ceiling and terrorize me as I was trying to lay in bed. This went on for quite a while. I lost count of how many times I had that dream. This was right around the time I had started speaking fluently, so I was around 4 to 5 years old.
The dream persisted, and I was consistently terrified of sleeping because I was afraid I would have the dream. Then one day I thought to myself before going to sleep, that I would scold those monsters for scaring me. So in my sleep that night, I had the dream. I heard them walking on the roof and then they stuck theirs heads through and started to make monster noises, etc. I got out of bed, teleported to the roof, and saw a bunch of monsters with their heads stuck through the roof, on all fours with their butts up in the air. So I went around to each and every single one of them and gave them a good hard spanking.
I never had that dream again.
That was my first lucid dream. It took me a couple years to really hone my lucid dreaming to where I could do it every night, and of course I had no help because how does a small child of 6 or 7 explain lucid dreaming to his parents? But I eventually figured out most of the tricks to doing it on my own. My key was that I would look at a reflective surface and instead of my face, I would see either a blur, a very disfigured/distorted face, or nothing at all. My other key was that all writing was gibberish, it was not even of any written language, it was all just like cartoon scribbles.
I also eventually learned a wakeup response. I would often have nightmares and/or sleep paralysis with all of the associated visions/presences/discomforts. So I learned to wakeup out of a "stuck" dream by closing my eyes, reaching my hands up to my eyelids, and forcefully peeling my eyelids open with my fingers. This had a near 100% success rate of waking me up out of almost all "stuck" dreams. For sleep paralysis I would simply try my best to go back to sleep, and as soon as I was back asleep and dreaming I would do the wakeup trick and I wouldn't be paralyzed anymore. The only times it didn't work was with nested dreams/nightmares. I would do the wakeup trick, and I would wakeup from a dream. Only to find myself in a more fucked up or scary dream almost immediately. Those would never really go well and I would only get out of them by killing myself or allowing myself to be killed by what ever was happening in the dream. Those nights/mornings were never fun, but they were thankfully infrequent.
Anyways, I'm just a dude on the internet sharing a little bit of his experience with lucid dreaming and other sleep phenomena.
Thanks for sharing that! LD is sooo fascinating and I've always found it especially fascinating that most kids do it naturally due to their imaginative nature, but that most adults struggle to LD. My logic to it is that as adults we have so many thoughts, anxieties, and concerns that our brain fights to keep us unaware and sleeping through each dream to cleanse or "reboot" our day. Simillarly, our mind is so much more "rational" that even when lucid dreaming, our brain goes "whelp that doesn't make sense" and we wake up.
Anywho thanks for the share I'm super fascinated by this topic and love hearing other's experience with it!
Simillar to you, I had constant lucid dreams as a kid but for some reason forgot about it growing up. It was only when i instinctively got into lucid dreaming that I realized "woah this feeling is familiar" and the past experiences came back.
My brain used the ceiling too. It was not a concious idea. I was trying to lucid dream, but got too excited and woke myself up.
So, I start dreaming about looking at ceilings a lot. Not exciting in the least. One day (or night) I realized it wasn't my ceiling I was looking at, and I was in. I never did LD that much though. Basically concluded that, yes, it is possible.
@@Alexanderrayman That's basically where I'm at in life right now. I'll journal for a couple weeks, have a lucid dream or two, then stop. Almost like checking that I still can, haha. Ultimately my laziness takes over, I stop journaling and slowly stop recalling my dreams. Then a year later I begin wondering if I can still lucid dream.
That’s funny because that’s how I get out of sleep paralysis too. Nothing to do but just try and go back to sleep.
@@darkwood_8224 "well, nothing to do about the SATANIC DEMON WAITING TO CLAIM MY SOUL IN THE CORNER OF MY ROOM..... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Might as well sleep another 20 minutes...."
Jack, describing his scary lucid dream: "Parasites are all over me, eating my body."
Sudden interrupting commercial: "Whatever life throws at you, work your magic with OxyClean Revive!"
You just triggered memories i never thought I had
I went from parasites to Taco Bell
It went to Aspen Dental for me. Make sure to take care of your teeth, kids.
I had Tyson chicken nuggets
OMG LOL!
I had lucid dreams all the time as a kid and many times about romantic connections or friends or whenever I was stressed when I got older.
NOW I use meditation with the same effects.
It's more convenient because it's more or less on demand whereas the dreams have always been spontaneous.
LOVED THIS .
You two are unbelievably and seriously CUTE in all the ways possible. 😉
The way this is filmed & put together really reads as a weird horror film, lol.
I had the sabe idea hahaha
Pretty much!
The power of framing w music!
It’s been a hot sec since I’ve watched a Pomplemoose video and I have to say, I forgot how cute they we’re together! Like you can tell that they have a very healthy relationship with each other! It’s nice. It makes you feel cozy.
Yeah , at 21:40 is when it all goes fk up
Fun times. In my lucid dreams i sometimes encounter characters who know they are in a dream and who claim they know from a past life. One of them is the mentor. He told me I was part of a druid group that developed a way to maintain in contact across lifetimes through the Dreaming. He showed me impossible things, like a 4-dimensional object. Impossible to describe. He once tore away the dream environment like it was paper, to show me what the naked subconscious is like. Again impossible to describe. Every attempt to do so is distorted by the limitation of language. We travel to bizarre dimensions , locations that are that location but then multiplied in many alternate timelines, each slightly different from the last and if you know how you can move between them, or my childhood imagination. Once i was able to fully consciously move between waking and dreaming state. There is a noticeable switch. You lie in your bed, your body consciousness is switched off and you get a falling or floating sensation, then your dream consciousness takes over, you hear noise from the dream and then you open your dream eyes and you look around in your dream. The reverse is the same. You close your dream eyes, get the floating sensation, then become aware of your body again and you open your real eyes. I went through some very hard years the past ten years and haven't practiced lucid dreaming in a while, I needed my sleep to heal, but I'll pick it up again one day. Whether the mentor figure is part of my own consciousness like an archetype, or whether I take him on his word he definitely knows more than me about consciousness and the dream world and acts as an initiator and a teacher. I still have so many questions. We'll meet again ..
I've had this happen all my life against my will. The worst thing that even happened (best thing?) I lived a full life in a dream. Had children, happy wife, grandchildren. I remembered their names and special events for a long time. But, waking up and know that it didn't happen and that I didn't have a family hurt more than any nightmare. Or... maybe in a weird sense, it was real. I just remember being upset for a very long time.
damn
Ditto. I have the burning building filled with memories as rooms dream, filled with lives I haven't had yet. I force the void these days, not the worse thing; nothing.
I had a dream daughter for a while. She grew up over the years from dream to dream, she remembered the other times we'd met in my dreams and was aware she was in my dream. When she was old enough she told me she was ready to lead her own life, I said I understood and we said farewell. I never saw her again.
2 minutes and I'm convinced of trying this. I really didn't expect this content in your channel, but i like it :)
It's worth it and if you don't see results right away don't worry because it takes time concentration and practice but its all worth it
It took me a very long time to get into it as well.
Well, I actually naturally taught it to myself as a kid to get out of nightmares by walking myself up. So what made it hard was I was so used to using lucid dreams to wake myself that everytime I became lucid in a normal dream I would wake up. It took a lot of discipline to dial it back.
But then I figured out how to do it from waking and that was a whole new thing and it made things really exciting.
Music is a really big trigger for me to vitalize or lucid dream so I was also surprised but it made sense
same
but don't force yourself to do that. I have had lucid dreams since I was little and when I control them too much, I wake up with a headache, and it's hard not to be in control.
Also, if you don't train well, you will wake up extremely tired as if you haven't even slept, as occurred in the video.
This video was amazing. Everything about it from how much you were willing to share, the anecdotes, the tips, the information and the presentation, plus ending it with a beautiful song written in a dream. This is a brilliant video through and through, thank you for making this! I tried lucid dreaming when I was younger but never got very far, but sometimes these days when I remember my dreams, I do notice that maybe ⅓ of them, I am lucid, but they’re really unstable. I think with the tips you guys gave, ill be able to make them more stable from now on. Don’t worry about not being able to force lucid dreams, I think the only key you need is to understand them and how to keep them going, because simply knowing they exist will let you experience it whenever you can. Maybe it’s like y’all said, if you expect it to be there in a dream, it’ll be there.
Let's take a moment to appreciate that 360-degree camera shot at 2:44 ... we've all seen countless vlogs on planes, but I've NEVER seen anything that immersive or creative. Bravo!
A true artist's view :)
Ya but did they buy the middle seat for their dog?
These 2 are incredible artists. And that plane shot was cool!
My guess is that it was done with a Insta360 One X with selfie stick. You can see Jack holding something in his right hand, but the stick is digitally removed in the software. Very cool effect.
Yeah, sleep deprivation is never a good idea.
I've had lots of lucid dreams, specially when I was younger...
Natalie, is not a failure. You're trying to do something that you said you never done before, in just a few weeks. Do not focus in "I have to dream", but to relax yourself, and then if you have the mindset it'll happen organically
Jack, it's all about the mind, your hands will be in the right position only after you know where is that position.
The dream about the dog... if I had to guess, you were thinking about the previous dog that you dreamed before, even if it is not the same one... The bugs are probably the stress caused by the sleep deprivation
Don't rely too much in what happens during the dream, sometimes the mind makes us go places we don't want
It had to start happening in feb 9th... that's my birthday!
Yes absolutely!!!! My birthday too!!!!!
What the heck??? I just posted about how she had her first lucid dream on my birthday too! February 9th! Strange how we all share this band, lucid dreaming, AND the same birthday in common. But then again, we Aquarians are known for being strange 😂😂
My worst nightmare was in my first lucid dream. When I have it again, I just relax end fell asleep again.
Natile, don't get down on yourself. I suffered, unknowingly, with sleep apnea for over 25 years. I had lucid dreams all the time. I solved some of the toughest issues I worked on in my sleep. After I got proper deep sleep, the dreams stopped.
I'd like to have the ability to solve issues in my sleep, but I'll take a good night's sleep any time now because when I don't get it everyone suffers.
I'm having lucid dreams "out of the box", but some troubles getting proper sleep, so this probably be so for some people
Thanks Jeff, all the best!
So proud of more and more people being aware of lucid dreams. I have them since long ago, maybe it started when I was 14, 15 years old and now I'm 31. Really great to see such talented musicians being open to that whole experience. Because of our narrow-minded society, it's much more difficult to open up for misticism, holistic views, spiritualism rather than embracing our inner music, which for me it is all the same. I mean, everything just ends up being energy, right... So, we are responsible for every single particle of energy we move, create, build and rebuild... We are the real and only change for this planet. Having lucid dreams is a truly blessed journey into ourselves and that's the place where we should start change.
Woooah Awesome! I have been lucid dreaming almost all my life in most of my dreams since childhood. I thought it is normal for all people to dream that way. When I was 19 years old I started practicing lucid dreaming to intensify it, to use it more effectively and targeted. It went so far, that I felt that the dreams are more realistic then reality. It was so real, that I felt like traveling in the wake state becomes obsolete. ... But one day I decided to use lucid dreams to heal past trauma. I was not ready for what happened. It just opened doors, it pushed them open and what I experienced was so shocking that I wanted to stop lucid dreaming for months. It took me years to get back to lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is extremely powerful. It is really important to use it wisely and in a positive way.
I really appreciate and respect y'all even more now for releasing this song and this video. I've been a fan for years and lucid dreaming is important to me, it helped me overcome intense PTSD nightmares after a sexual assault at 19. I stopped working on it for a long time after finding the ability to regain the peaceful sleep I was initially looking for, but several months ago I decided to start dream journaling again, with the intention to work towards lucid dreaming again. Spotify recommended this song to me so I immediately googled it and found this video. I felt like it was a sign I should keep working at this. Come to find out, this video further confirmed that feeling for me, because Nataly's first LD occured on my birthday, according to the date that came up on screen. That's a mighty CRAZY synchronicity, to me. So yeah, BIG thanks for sharing all this. I totally get how vulnerable it must feel to have posted it.
It's really fun. I have legit written music in my dream, it always sounds so epic in the dream, the hard part is remembering it. Try to stay still with your eyes closed after you wake up, that helps with transferring dream memories to real life 😀 love you guys!
Me too!!!!
interesting video! The production value was incredible, you could have just made it into a vlog with groggy ramblings but you put the effort in to make it more of a documentary, AND we get a soundtrack out of it!? amazing.
I absolutely agree! I had not expected such a captivating and personal video
Agreed. This was really cool and original. You should pick some more experiments and do more of these types of videos. Thanks for the great story and soundtrack!!
Couldn't agree more
I don't think you're really surprised. The production quality of these folks videos only goes from strength to strength. So impressive.
I kept a dream journal when I was in my teens, and I had so many recurring dreams... most of which were about high school or meeting God. I think I've always had lucid dream time, because I wake up frequently several hours before I'm supposed to wake up. When that happens, I think about what I want to dream before closing my eyes again. Eventually, I got to the point where I could actually control what's happening in my dreams control who I'm with and where I'm going, say the things inside my dream that didn't come out in reality. I'm 50 now and it's just second nature to me. I didn't really know what these "awake dreams" were called until I saw your video though, so thank you, it's nice to know I'm not alone out here.
Says she dreams about death.
"Let's start our day! :)"
Love it.
Thank you for sharing this, guys. In a time when a lot of people seem to be pulling into themselves, it is really heartwarming to feel this connection with you, virtual and remote though it is. You have brightened the world of at least one person today for sure, and in so doing, you make the world a better place.
This is fascinating! Thank you for being so vulnerable, I know how tough that can be when you're talking about your brain. Also, love the airy-ness and openness of that song. You guys are the best
My last lucid dream freaked me out too much, so I stopped trying to have them. Everything I was expecting was happening. Too much so. Nothing was new, strange or surprising. Even the last terrifying words I heard in the dream, I knew deep down they came from my own thoughts. “This is what it’s like when it ends. There is only you.” Sorry if that sounded a little Donnie Darko...
That's legitimately chilling
I think it's beautiful
I think this is what I'm intuitively afraid of when it comes to lucid dreaming. I don't think absolute freedom is a good thing.
I have accidental lucid dreams sometimes, but it's never the kind where I have full control. My only 'power' is to use checkpoints. For example, I'll make a terrible mistake and think 'Oh this is bad! But since I'm in a dream, I can just turn back time". Then the same scene plays out differently and I'm again acting as if it is just as serious as real life.
Having terrifying experiences is part of it though plus it can be fun sometimes. I've had outright traumatizing dreams but that dont stop me from wanting to go further into lucid dreaming. Or it could be where i just enjoy nightmares
I'm only halfway in, but I was really struck by how fucking cool it is to hear a couple I've been following online for over 10 years talking about sexuality so openly and honestly. My social circles are pretty progressive, but it struck me that this is no small thing for a couple with this platform to be talking about so candidly. All about this, did not go into this expecting to be genuinely proud of them
CandleFlameFilms You could ask about the lawsuit Jack’s company just lost if you want real, brutal honesty on their part.
This is exactly me this moment! I paused the video halfway through because of how much I appreciate the honesty and freedom with which they talk about how they think about sex in the dreams. It makes me love them so much more!
Andrea Marteru They have got to be my favorite youtubers now, I am 100% with you on this
This was so cool to watch. Thank you so much for being vulnerable enough to share it, and for putting in the work to document it for us.
I love how your videos (and this one especially) are so well produced, so thought out. Like you have a team working on every detail.
Hats off you guys!
And yes - really unexpected content, but at the same time so fitting for your channel. Love it!
I hope to have a relationship like Jack and Natalie one day. And to be honest, I think I would really like to know Jack and Natalie one day too.
I was doing this on my own since I was a kid, without knowing what it was. I just called it "taking control" :)
Thank you for sharing this beautifully made video. I love getting to watch you guys communicate with each other and also with yourselves, and how direct and vulnerable you are here. Such a treat and a pleasure.
I love this video, I love you guys and i LOVE the random music you use in your videos too
I tried for a couple years really seriously, kept a diary, did habitual reality checks, and I had some success... But I had a recurring problem with waking up the moment I became lucid, usually in a very unpleasant fashion (eg/ one time I experienced something like being struck by lightning)
It's been over a decade since then, and in the meantime I've been diagnosed with sleep apnea. It seems like the disrupted sleep made it a bit easier to access this level of lucidity, but also made it very fragile and prone to ending as quick as it started.
I wonder how I would fare if I started trying again, now that the condition is (somewhat) treated...
I wanted to add the reason I was drawn to it in the first place - I wanted to fly in my dreams again, like I could recall from when I was very young. I managed to levitate about a foot off the floor once, but that was as close as I got... Maybe someday.
That's exactly how I started, levitation, and then it just took off. Sleep on your left side and keep trying. The reason you wake up at such extremes in your dreamscape is honestly lack of control and a little bit of fear. Fear is not bad in your #dreamscape and if you can learn from it, face it, challenge your fears...#dreamskills
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series has characters that can enter the world of dreams. So many elements you describe for lucid dreaming are remarkably similar. Such a cool concept for sure.
This was so cool, you are both so genuine.
This was outstanding! Thanks for being so vulnerable and...quantum creative.
I’ve only had one lucid dream, and that was within the past year and completely unintentional. In the dream I was hiking somewhere out west at dusk and I found a huge cavern with large multi-hued crystalline outcrops glowing in the roof (not stalactites). There were many people in hooded cloaks milling around the floor of the cavern. Suddenly, ethereal music started reverberating through the air, shaking the ground. This is when I suddenly realized I was in a dream. We all started floating in the air, circling the cavern & rising toward the ceiling (like the scene in “Logan’s Run,” but without the explosions). I had an incredible sense of power and rush of euphoria. As I reached up to touch the crystals, my alarm interrupted the dream. It was a truly other-worldly sensation that I would love to experience again. I’ve never shared this experience with anyone, and had never heard of lucid dreaming until your video. I’ve added the field guide to my reading list. On another note, I’ve noticed my dreams tend to be much more vivid & memorable when I take melatonin to help me sleep.
p.s. I’m a huge fan of your music
You won't regret it. I've been into it over a year, and it. Is. Mindblowing. Still.
This is a new category of musical content. Is a mix of “the story of how a song was born”, an inside look of the private life of the composers, a mini documentary/tutorial about the subject that inspired the song, some fiction tales related to the theme, the song itself, a music video and the behind the scenes, all that while being in the company of two talented, honest, inspiring and sensitive persons. This is something big. Thanks!! And well done!! 🙌🏻
You took the words out of my head, 100% agree. I felt both kind of identified and close to the hole story, absolutely rethinking the way I share my own music.
That was beautiful and inspiring! Thank you for making this!
I am SO grateful for this post. I have been lucid dreaming most of my life and so much of what you guys explained....I already do. This was comforting!!!!!
I've had lucid dreams since I was a kid. I used to call it continuing stories. I feel you kind of train yourself to be able to continue the "story" even if you wake up. I still lucid dream all of the time and recently have had more due to the odd lives we are all living due to the covid pandemic. It can also be very scary if you lose the ability to control what is happening because you're too immersed and afraid but It's easy to wake yourself. My lucid dreams always have my mother in them (in a good way). When I was little, she would tell me to wake up if I was afraid.
If y'all are curious, Charlie Kaufman's films are similar to lucid dreams (or at least, it's similar to mine). Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was really great. But like, less intense (but can still be quite intense), but it really had its moments.
Was just thinking of exploring this. Thank you so much for sharing your experience!
Loving you guys making that kind of content, please continue!
I'm almost always aware when I'm dreaming. But the moment I try to deviate from whatever "script" I know the dream is supposed to be following, I immediately wake up. Because of this, I almost never have nightmares: If I don't like what's happening, I can always just choose to wake up. But I also never get to direct my dreams where I want them to go.
I'm the exact same.
I occasionally realize I'm dreaming and want to wake up because the situation is frightening or frustrating. Sometimes I wake up to find myself in another dream, and got through several layers of this until I finally actually wake up in real life.
Same!
Through years of lucid dreaming i’ve pondered if all dreams actually exist in one plain of consciousness..
In many lucid dreams I’ve encountered things which resemble the same experience of DMT. Now I believe with proper mental preparation and opening your mind beyond the typical ideas of dreams you can access a space of immense realism. I’ve had layered lucid dreams, these can be extremely real and carbon copies of reality itself, you need to be very good at noticing a slight difference to finally wake up. Now for years my lucid dreams tended to have a haze imagery to them, like filter on a lens. Now recently this haze has been completely replaced by a very clear , sharp replication of the ‘real world’.. a few months ago i almost believed i had some how achieved the ability to dimension jump or time travel through my dreams..
Another weird thing about lucid dreams that has changed for me is .. this - in majority of my dreams I encounter people I don’t know, never seen them before.. in dreams if i ask their name i’d get no response but lately i’ve gotten names , locations, even possible phone numbers.
Also a few years ago i swear to god an individual from a lucid dream , was then a few days later at a store i was shopping at, when i saw them which was a few feet away I became paralyzed.. or in shock.
The experiences in lucid dreams that I continue to have and just the ridiculous realism makes me question which reality is this one..
I panicked when the details became too real.
Dude, are not you scared of developing schizophrenia?
Daniel Death - All I eat is beats and lemons!
@Luke M I'm not sure how to tell the difference at this point. My dreams vary in complexity and clarity. I recently had a dream which was beyond clear as day and very stable. Stable as, in most dreams I can sense when it's going to collapse or end or transition. Yet, in this recent dream it seemed way to stable and clear, I was there for days it seemed. I was able to freely move about, go outside.. yet most of the people I didn't know.
I love this video. Your music gave me chills. Thank you.
drawings and typography in this are really amazing, thank you, this is awesome
I've been lucid dreaming since I was a kid. I remember having extreme nightmares as a child (Seriously, I would wake up screaming and sometimes even vomiting) and developing my own technique to wake up. Turns up, if you start blinking very fast in your dream, your body reacts and your eyes open in "real life", so you wake up. Later I realised that I could get the same result shaking my head or my arms.
Then I saw something about controlling your dreams in a cartoon (it was Johnny Bravo
, yeah, random) and I thought "Wait a minute, if I know I have to blink very fast to wake up, then I know I'm dreaming... I should try controlling my dream". It was harder than I thought, though, cuz I always panicked and started blinking before even thinking about it. Finally I had a badass moment in a dream: I realised I was dreaming and tried making a fire ball with my hands (something like that) and I threw it to the monster. It worked! And that's it, I started lucid dreaming.
Nowadays I either lucid dream or don't remember the dream at all. And if things go out of control (dreams can get scary real fast) I use the blinking technique to wake up.
10:04 "there's no mess" Well... When you're a dude you usually leave a mess in your underwear after dream sex. And I think for dudes, sex is kind of a gateway to lucid dreaming. When I talk about lucid dreaming to my male friends, they usually say: Oh, I remember I was making out with a chick and I was like "C'mon! Let's fuck before I wake up!".
2:44 btw! Fancy camera work!
lol, I relate so much with the way Jack closes one eye when he doesn't have his glasses on
Really cool video. Thanks for sharing and also thanks for morning waterbug! Such a lovely song.
I appreciate and love this candid and well-told story that y’all have shared with us here. Thank you!
IMDB: "The Good Night". Movie about a man learning to lucid dream. And "Waking Life", classic.
I remember I used to practice lucid dreaming every night when I was creating music. It was the coolest thing cause I'd sometimes get full melodies and progressions composed that normally would take months to produce. Other times I'd have lyrics in its entirety or almost 80% done.
But I stopped. Because like Nataly I suffered from not having enough rest and was ruining my sleep cycle health.
I don't think I can have lucid dreams anymore though. (or rather I forgot how to)
I've loved your music for such a long time and I love this change in format a lot!
This was unexpected. Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed watching this.
Figuring out lucid dreaming is the first step towards the Inception tech that i want to see an mmo built on
Yes, maybe Elon Musk is up to something like this with his Neuralink, or at least open the door for it.
Lucid Dreaming huh. I suffer from sleep paralysis so it comes naturally every other night, and has always been an intrusive force. The problem is the amount of focus that goes into keeping the dreamstate within the borders of what you are comfortable with. Any stray thought can and will manipulate the dreamstate. A sudden fear of some creature (real or imagined) will spawn said creature somewhere in the world, which will inevitably come and find you as long as you continue thinking of it. It is a fun experience to try when one is willing, but there comes a time when you want it to stop -- have a simple night's rest. Overall, I'd say it isn't worth it. Just sleep. Sleep is sweet and comes sparingly to many.
But if anyone really wants to try, I highly recommend learning to meditate alongside. Yoga is fine (stick to the non-religious aspects of the practice and you will be fine).
I posted a message in this comment section to pomplamoose, I hope they read it. Upon reading your reply I feel compelled to talk about my lucid dreams in the hope that it widens the talking point you have mentioned - the downsides of lucid dreaming - which Pomplamoose did not cover at all in their glamorising video on this topic.
In my experience, lucid dreaming is usually benign in terms of positive or adverse affects on me - but for a few years I have lucid dreams that were based in the cityI was living in at the time. They ranged from hanging out with friends to a long episode of dreams where over years of my life (not dream life, I mean my real timeline) my dreams consisted of floating up into the air when I jumped. In the dreams I loved doing it but it progressed to the point where I could not control when I floated into the air and I would be in fear in my dream of it as at the end of every dream I would get lost in the clouds and my next dream would start in my city somewhere, refreshing the fear of floating into the air again. I would be pushing into thunderstorms, it was loud, wet, cold for hours and I couldn't see.
I knew it was a dream when I was dreaming, and when I awoke I remembered the dream (and like any memory, I remembered most of my dreams I had had years ago).
Fast forward a few years after those dreams stopped and different ones started that aren't relevant to this story. You know that feeling of deja vu? I always had deja vu, but it became more frequent (idk why) - and it would happen and I would remember bits of my past (in the city where I had the floating dreams). It had been about 4 years since I left that city so my memory of the dreams and my real experiences were both kinda fuzzy... but since many of them were so familiar and the deja vu so frequent I found it difficult to distinguish which was which - but who cares, they were benign anyway, benign at least until the deja vu moments led me to feeling this kind of urgency, a kind of fear.. for a while I didn't know what it was. Over a few months (I'm not sure when it started exactly) I knew that when I experienced deja vu, the fear I experienced was of floating up into the air.
Fast forward 2 years and we are in the present. I know for a FACT that I cannot float up into the air, I know for a FACT I was dreaming about floating. But the fear I felt when I was dreaming, the fear of knowing (while awake) that when I go to sleep I am going to start rising into the air in my dream and be stuck floating around in the sky for hours... that was real fear. When I was awake in that city, I was genuinely afraid of dreaming because I knew the experience was going to be bad.
The Deja Vu I feel now is of that time, the very real fear that I might be subject to a prison in my own dream, unable to control my surroundings night after night.
Dreams are harmless. Lucid dreams are harmless. Remembering your lucid dreams is not harmless.
@@pickles974 What you said at the end: "remembering your lucid dreams is not harmless." I 100% agree, I have had so many lucid dreams where after I come out of the dream I am wrecked emotionally. Or I can't see somebody for a few days because they did something in a dream that overwhelmed me. I can feel physical sensations in my dreams as well which contributes to the confusion. Having such active dreams is draining, you live a whole day and then you live more at night, and your brain never actually rests. Sometimes dreaming is fun but most of the time my lucid dreams are whack and I would rather just sleep peacefully.
Thank you for this video. I have always wanted to lucid dream. I know it’s a lot of work which discouraged me greatly. But, after watching this I’m motivated to try again.
Very cool. I love the illustrations to help us visualize your experiences. Love how the song is a product of the effort.
brains are so COOL
I definitely get the "rejected from the party" dream all the time. I'm not cool enough to do well in dreams haha
I've watched you guys since 10 years ago and I Introduce your music to my friends and students as the first RUclips artistes I loved and followed :) Thank you for showing us a part of your life and your growth. You truly inspire and you inspired me in a very different way with this video. Gratitude.
Also the production is top notch :D
Love the song! It's stuck in my head already. So beautiful!
Those are some crazy dreams! I feel I should record my thoughts now. Ah. Cool.
I know i can enter this state immediately when i sleep into a particular positio. The problem is there is this creepy thingy that stops me from moving, at first I speak a word to get out of it and I can get out of it immediately when i say that word. So i have escape plan, i tried to fight it, i tried punch it but i cant punch it, my punch is really slow. Anyone who knows how to control that fear?
Try going in with the knowledge that you’ve already dealt with that thing. Focusing on how to deal with it just puts focus on it. Focusing on already having done it might get you past it.
i thinks thats a different thing called sleep paralysis
That’s sleep paralysis. Not lucid dreaming.
It happened to me a few times. Definitely sleep paralysis, it's really frightening. You can try to make it become a lucid dream or a simple dream, by thinking about a nice place or landscape where you would like to be. It actually can works. But the easier way to get out of this is (for me) counting in my head like "3..2..1.." and at 0 trying to move my entire body.
The worst thing that can happen is believe you actually woke up but in fact you didn't. It is pretty scary, but nothing you can't handle 😁
That's why the first solution is better and way more fun, just remember that you're in a half way between lucidity and sleep. You "just" have to bring your mind to an enjoying dreaming state and then your body will follow 😊
@@lenaororke4046 Okay thanks for this tip, I'll try this. Last night I was so close to moving in that dream state. But the dream shakes up and I woke up. I tried remembering a person you know to bring a person to my dream to help me. Didn't work LOLS. I was really afraid I cant stop thinking of bad stuffs when I'm in that state..
what a cool journey, thank you for taking us along. this video is such a treat! 💜
You're so genuine and brave Nat and Jack! I had a good time watching this and am looking forward to more dreamy music from youuu :3
Every time I do wake to bed, I get sleep paralysis, so I don't do it anymore.
Same
You can break sleep paralysis. It takes a lot of effort, but you can. You'll wake up though.
Robin I get that often. It’s super weird.
I say the lord's prayer and paralysis breaks instantly, then I can pick back up in the dream
Yup. I am never able to lucid dream on purpose, whenever it happens it rarely lasts and instead I get horrible sleep paralysis and scream irl. It's the worst
At 9:04 when you said "his son was dead-" i was like "OH NO WAIT WHAT?" But then you said "-asleep" so I chilled out. 😂
You guys, what an intruiging journey! Thank you for sharing it!!!
i really really liked these content in your channel and i didn't imagine that i will enjoy this long almost 30 min video
This is going to sound boring, but whenever I realize that I'm dreaming I just choose stop participating in whatever is happening. Waking hours have enough problems and stress for the day, so when I realize that the problems I'm trying to solve or the people I'm talking to don't exist, I just sit down on the floor and appreciate that the outcome of whatever I'm dreaming is happening won't matter when I wake up, so I don't have to do anything. "Sorry guys. You're not real, and I want to rest, so y'all can keep doing whatever's happening here, but I'll save my energy for the real stuff."
I feel that. Life is hard enough without stressing over things that don't require it.
that's means your far from understanding lucid dream concept,your not even close knowledge of it to distinguish between just dreaming or lucid dreams
These days you can't even go to sleep without running into a gate keeper.
@@OozoTheClown maybe it doesn't effect on you cos your tooo much stress with your whole life routines, this lucid dream requires calm mind and balance your body and soul then it could work but it's useless cos your already have strong overminded that this activity is BS so no wonder..... 🍻
I likey 😎✌
HE STOLE MY DREAM JOURNAL.
mr electric send him to the principles office and have him expelled
This is very inspiring. Thank you for sharing this magic!
Everything you do is so appealing to me. Sometimes is not near perfect, but I always feel a good connection with the thoughts and ideas. I did a dream journal myself and got really scared with the things I learned from it. It takes time to know yourself. But it leads to understanding and forgiveness. Thanks for the glimpse of your intimacy. It was nice to see and feel in your lives.
Warning - in some societies, lucid dreams can literally be 'heart-stopping' for example, it's called 'ba-ngu-ngot' in the Philippines, where you know you are asleep and dreaming but your nightmare is so real and frightening that it literally kills you in your sleep. You need someone to shake you awake - you are trying desperately to become awake but you cannot.
How do you know someone's dying because of a dream if they're asleep? Did they... tell someone?
I tried something one time that i cant move. I think it became my signal that im dreaming so i thought of other things and it came to be. But hell scary. I was literally shaking as in vibrating in fear
Im fil too btw
@@audiotap8332 They are writhing, sometimes screaming, crying, wimpering in terrified fear, trying to wake up - until they don't. Hundreds of recorded cases.
@@rexsolomon6325 As someone who writhes and screams on occasion I will say that it may or may not be because they're tryna wake up... That's very spooky though, thanks Universe.
Next up: we tried Astral Projection for a month. It was... crazy
Wow, this is quite incredible. Thanks for sharing.
I appreciate you sharing this experience with us. Not only do I love your music, I'm also crazy about you guys, and I love when you share your life with us.
It’s nice til the demons attack
Sleep deprivation can twist the human mind into squishy noodles...
Are you guys trying to open the door to the underworld?
What a fantastic left turn from your usual music video's. I have a special place in my heart for Lucid Dreaming. Also I love that you chose to edit the video by sketching out your dreams. Very cool :)
This was amazing to watch - so interesting and beautiful :) It was really lovely to see a vlog from you and hear your thoughts and experiences! Idk if you feel like making more videos of this kind, but just know I would be so keen to see them!
“Try” to sleep with celebrities 🤣😂
A mindblowing fact:
The experience of meet other person in your dream isn't really the experience of meet other person.
You aren't really in other places. You are in your own mind.
Whem you talk with anyone in your dream, there is no other consciousness there, only yours.
When other person talks to you in a dream, this person (1) is an ideal representation of this person to you - the person you think this person is - or (2) this person is, in fact, yourself.
I love this, keep on keeping on
Pretty awesome video! I used to lucid dream some years ago and your video definitely made me want to start again!
I feel like I'm watching a documentary about people trying to be in Inception
Pomamoose has become buzzfeed
don't drag good content into a ditch by comparing it to Buzzfeed.
Your bravery for exploring your own mind, your dedication to each other for exploring together, and your kindness in sharing your experience with all of us. Thank you.
You both are amazing keep creating wonderful music/videos ! Stay strong and stay safe! Your big fan 💚
What you think is reality is also a dream. There are layers of reality. There are infinit ones. All experiences are in essence, dreams. So the question is, what is the only thing that is really Real ? To investigate this, the correct question should be, Who are you really? The Who is under investigation because it is also a dream. So, go deeper and find out. That is a turning point in anyones life, for ever.
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This is beyond a depressingly dissociative way of life. Definitely has vibes of becoming the link to homosapiens communicate telepathically, maybe.
One of the best orchestrated pieces I've seen on RUclips in a while! Well done, love your content!
What an unexpectedly wonderful video - I've followed your music for a couple of years and even went to see you perform live in LA so I know what good content you create, but this was a really lovely video to see! I enjoyed it partly because I've gone down the lucid dreaming path myself, but just in general I appreciated the creation (those drawings!!!) and editing of this video. Thank you so much!
Be careful Lucid dreaming can lead to layered dreaming where you are unable to wake up. You think your are awake, but still in a dream, and you wake up again, and you are still in a dream. It can go on, and on, not waking to the real world. It can become a real nightmare.
THIS! This is what happens to me all the time.
I dont need to do this satanic nonsense because i get dreams from God everynight. Jesus is God 🦁.
Jesús is the hijo of God my friend, not God himself. And Lucid Dreaming has literally 0 to do with satanism. Nonsense 🤷🏻♂️
Yes, lucid dreaming opens doors to demonic activity in your life hence why most the people who dabble in it get severely depressed and bizarre.
Lmfao. Thanks for the laugh Jimmy
Hope Wins I naturally lucid dream. Nothing demonic (there are no demons by the way). You are literally talking nonsense.
LES lol ikr? sounds to me like if that’s what you’re lucid dreaming about, it says more about you than it does about lucid dreaming right? Like... literally. But whatever.
Thanks for sharing & inspiring me again!
This was a pretty good video, and interesting idea. I don't think I'll try this myself but to hear about your experiences with it made this video really good to watch/listen too.