The Truth About Lucid Dreaming
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Does lucid dreaming live up to the hype, and is it likely you'll have control if you actually lucid dream? In this video we chat about the history, the risks, and have a sip of my opinion.
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I think I had Lucid dream once, or so I thought. It was very vivid at the very least.
The thing is, that dream came when I was kind of sleep-deprived and trying my best to stay awake. Long story short, I failed but my consciousness didn't give up. As a result, I was sort of conscious in my dream, and even when my sleep was interupted for a brief seconds, I could continue the same dream after I fell asleep again.
Not sure if I really want to see it again now that I think about it.
Ohh yeah, I remember one of my Lucid dreams but I can't tell it publicly😅. It was really really awkward🙈
I haven't tried it on purpose, but it sometimes just happens in the moments when I am half asleep, half awake. Its interesting that usually it either leads to me waking up or happens just before falling asleep. I have had days where I wake up from a very cool dream and then try to fall asleep again and purposefully finish the goal I was trying to achieve in the dream :D One thing I enjoy more than lucid dreaming though is the weird, vivid dreams I get after taking melatonin. I have sleep cycle problems, so I have to take it sometimes and it gives me hyper realistic dreams. But I wouldn't suggest people experimenting with melatonin, because it can give you unpleasant side effects, e.g., when my boyfriend tried taking it he experienced a nasty headache on the next day.
I lucid dream fairly frequently, which I attribute to my TERRIBLE relationship with sleep, as I tend to sleep very poorly and lightly so I remember my dreams and nightmares frequently. It can lead to incredible stuff like flying, "superpowers" and creating fantastical structures, but usually when I realise I'm dreaming my attempts to control it don't work and I either a) wake up shortly afterwards or b) realise I'm actually pretty tired so try to stop dreaming and just go to deeper sleep. I've found it's sometimes useful for dealing with nightmares as I'm able to escape the situation, but more often I just realise I'm having a nightmare but can't do anything about it or make myself wake up.
I've had many great ideas spark from things that happened to me in my dreams and I don't want to stop dreaming entirely, but I wish I didn't dream so much and slept better.
I've had some very strong lucid dreams worrying about exes, and will usually check in on them if I can when they happen just for my own sake. Most, though, I recognize and shrug off as just dreams (often me telling someone or them telling me "well, it's just a dream, so not surprising it doesn't make sense") and might think of them afterward but usually don't affect mood.
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He's brought me here too and wow, what a fascinating video
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Once, I thought: "Am I dreaming?" Then I was like, "Nah, this feels to real to be a dream."
I was dreaming.
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I feel like the part of me that’s really realistic turns off whenever I dream.
In my (very not lucid) dreams I kinda leave out the reality part and work out what happens by the path of least resistance...
Aka.... My f*cking brain is procastinating, procastination should be my field. No, really.
I was lucid for like a minute then was like “wai-“ *goes onto next dream*
This used to happen a lot in my dreams, until I repeatedly told myself while awake “if I doubt if I’m dreaming, then I’m dreaming”. And then I though of that naturally in a dream and I realised I was dreaming and got a lucid dream (but I’ve got plenty of those over the years)
@@Pimkly I do the same thing; I noticed I only doubt if I’m dreaming while dreaming.
Sometimes when I woke up halfway through my dream I used to finish it, like playing a video game. But I never knew wherever it was an imagination trick or a real dream.
I do that too! It's pretty fun honestly
hah same, or if I didn't like how it ended I retcon it. But in my case it still feels different...
I do that when I want to know “the ending” lol but I am frustrated that it’s now isn’t “authentic” 😆
Sometimes I would be half-asleep not sleeping but in my bed eyes closed and imagine stuff it almost becomes a dreams but I'm not sleeping But sometime I do it so well I trip in my half-dream and I open my eyes and I scare myself with tripping even though it's not real.
I've done that before too
I lucid dream completely by accident. My antidepressants cause frequent lucid dreaming. I'm also prone to night terrors so it's been really useful to know that I'm dreaming & have some control when I have night terrors - it's still scary, but I don't feel completely out of control and that in itself has had a positive effect on my mental health. But I would credit the antidepressants with that 😝 not the lucid dreams.
My antidepressants gave me stressful dreams that I would sometimes remember. I always woke up in night sweats when they happened. The night sweats were a side effect that never fully left when I stopped taking antidepressants
If I am on my pain killer I always have the same dream so I know I am dreaming when it happens to be that dream.
My experience with lucid dreaming is finding that I can influence things but then I inevitably lose control of whats going on.
sounds like real life to me
@@gummisnoodable what's the name of the channel u said? I need it
@@melinaonal7780 he just changed the name to: lucid dream portal , check out his latest video and the huge catalog of free video help.
@@gummisnoodable thanks a lot
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People are trying to achieve lucid dreaming while I'm over here not getting a dream 99% of the time
I had the same problem. I think you still get them it’s just a matter of remembering them and when you do, write them down in as much detail as possible. That’s the first step in the process.
@@almightytreegod I don't dream much but I always remember it
@@almightytreegod but not in any more detail than an average day
Jean-luc Chessher most people dream all the time they just don’t remember they did when they wake up, so they don’t think they had a dream. That sounds impossible until you realize a lot of people will talk or move in their sleep to reveal something is going on, and then have no idea about it in the morning
Jean-luc Chessher
You probably dream multiple times, every time you sleep. I think the ones you remember are when you’re close to waking up.
I'm a lucid dreamer. I am never tired after a lucid dream. In the real world I'm sleeping.
It is said that everyone dreams every night just not always you remember what you dreamt about. So if everybody dreams mostly every night, everyone should be always tired.
Lucid dreaming is not an alert state or a wake state. It's an awareness state inside the dream world. You can even wake up on command from a dream or nightmare when you are aware that it's a dream.
Is it overrated? Well. It's your dreamworld. You can do anything there, whatever you can imagine. How can that be overrated? Sure, it's not real and it ends when you wake up but the mind CGI is the best of it's kind and you not only see but also feel and touch and hear and smell or taste everything. It is like living it only even better... You can eat the best cake and if you don't like it you only need to imagine/think/create/taste a better one. The same for whatever else you do.
Do you wanna fly? Just take off. Do you wanna have sex? Just think who you wanna share it with. Do you wanna build a city from the ground with your mind? You have all the materials imaginable available. Do you wanna visit another star? Do you wanna go into outer space? Swim in the ocean? Go to a gig or even play for the crowd? Eat anything without feeling bad or getting fat? Travel in time to the Far West or ancient Egypt? Do you wanna see dinosaurs? Go to a place from your childhood? Talk with anybody? Meet an angel?
You can do anything of that and even more. Only your ideas, your mind and your imagination are the limits.
The metaphysics aspect of that realm is something that really interests me. It's a great way to know yourself better, know your subconscious self and try to learn even about your own essence. I'm also very interested in trying shared dreams. The problem is that people never recall dreams right. But I keep trying.
Lucid dreams are not only vivid, they usually are a lot easier to remember when awake, but the important part is having the knowledge that you are dreaming, that that world is your creation. You can chose to control it or not, maybe just explore.
In my case, suddenly and out of nowhere I just know it is a dream. No clue or anything. Just spontaneous awareness of the fact. But I can and have tried different ways to seek clues and objectively realize it in more dreams and sometimes I detect it. I am sometimes able to just enter a dream from wake state too. The transition is pretty interesting and weird.
Thx I enjoyed reading that also I have only had two lucid dreams
Well said!
@Reeet there is WBTB technique which means wake back to bed. So you set an alarm for 5-6 hours into sleep, wake up for 20-30 mins and go back to sleep. That moment of conciousness can trigger conciousness/lucidity in the next dream. On the other hand, if it fails it will rob you some time from sleeping or even more, wake you up completely.
It's fine to try it 2 or 3 times a week and then, if it doesn't work, try other techniques. I think that it's the only way you could feel tired the next day.
I remembered now that, when you sleep, the one phase that rests your brain happens before REM so, you are always getting your full night sleep, no matter how much is just REM or lucid dreaming in REM.
When I lucid dream and I freak out so I try to wake up I can't
Finally I woke up but I was still dreaming
It's like inception dream inside a dream
Scary
Have you ever told someone in your dream that they’re in a dream
i always get lucid for a moment and then fall back to the dream afterward
When you feel your slipping away from the lucid dream, spin around in circles, and it will stabilize the dream, and there is a high chance you will stay in the dream
Seems like "the data" says "we need more data" haha
Often I'm totally aware that I'm dreaming and can even think about what during my day might have triggered this imagery or that, but for whatever reason it never occurs to me to try to direct them. That's okay. I do enough "driving" during the day; I'd rather be in the passenger's seat at night.
That happens to me too. I’m in a dream, and suddenly I’m like: “this is a dream”, but I just go with it.
But then I watched a documentary about dreaming, and a lot of people in the documentary talked about flying in dreams, so the next lucid dream I had, I tried to fly (which totally didn’t work for some reason). But then in another dream, I tried it again, and finally began to fly.
Usually when I realize I’m dreaming I walk around in circles till I decide I want something to appear. then tell myself when I walk around this corner where I can’t see behind it should be there. And then I walk around a corner and whatever I thought of is spawned there
Yay! I was just thinking of this series as you posted it 💛
Whenever I realize I'm in a dream I get freaked out and wake up.
In my experience, the tricky thing about lucid dreaming is that once you realize you're doing it, you have to kind of have to keep playing it cool and don't do anything too crazy. If you try to alter the dream too much, it can be jarring and wake you up. Consequently, can never really gain complete control over your dreams. You just become more aware of the ride you're going on.
I had a dream where I was sleeping in Sleeping With Friends and I was dreaming (within my dream) that I was super anxious because if I didn't have quality sleep, I would lose against Greg from ASAP Science.
Wildest dream in a while lol
I just read this comment that I wrote 3 years ago and what-the-fucked a bit.
The happiness of seeing a new Braincraft video is dream-like ♥️
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I don't actively pursue lucid dreaming. But when it happens, it's just like the lady said in the interview; i.e., it's like, "Oh, I'm dreaming. Cool," only to wake up shortly later.
But I'll tell you this much, gaining lucidity during a *bad* dream is where it's at. Rather than waking up in a cold sweat after a bad dream (and requiring a few moments to compose yourself) I'll try to gain lucidity during a bad dream using a reality check. The moment that I've ever determined that I was dreaming, all of the stress that I was experiencing during the bad dream simply melts away because I knew it wasn't real.
1/3 of your life is sleeping. Why not do whatever you want during that time, which could never be possible in real life
I really dont know if you would call it lucid dreaming, but sometimes around 30 minutes before I wake up I'm sort of half awake half asleep and directing my dreams. I'm conscious of the morning and being in my bed and the fact that I could get up but don't want to, so I turn over and decide to go back to sleep. But cause I'm already asleep I can guide the subject of my last minutes of dreams by just deciding to dream about something and then making up the first little bit until my sleep mind takes a hold of it and then I'm truly dreaming. I can do this 2 or 3 times as I'm tossing and turning in the morning and then eventually I just decide to wake up because I'm exhausted of it. Its kinda weird now that I put it into words but its just how my head works I guess 😅
Yes..that's stage 1 lucidity using a wake back to bed technique. Pretty advanced. If you practiced who knows what you could do. That's the thing. Noone really reveals the true potential behind lucid dreaming. It's one of the keys to enlightenment. Everything we can do there , we can do here.
@@rjsweet9570 loled
There are different levels of lucidity. I would say that any dream you remember was a very low-level LD. A little higher than that is what you're describing. Your expectations and focus was shaping the dream, but you just didn't realize you're dreaming
I thought I am the only one. Same for me, I am like that too. Like I have much more control of my dreams or I am aware that I am dreaming after a really deep sleep and when I am about to wakeup. Even real life background noises joins my dreams and I knoe it but still I am sleeping and like directibg that dream.
All my dreams are nightmares and are all terrifying.
I’m scared to go to sleep.
PTSD?
I'm sorry, it must be horrible :(
Please seek medical care. I am having sympathy for you right now as I type this.
@@JusticeBurpees it fixed itself now thanks😃
@@yungstallion2201 I would suggest you to visit a doctor. But okay.
Your videos are really well made!
I appreciate this point of view. I practiced it for a while and I did find was more effort and stopped. I did find it useful when the dream went bad I could remind myself that this was a dream and there was no negative consequences as a result of the dream.
Imagine trying to not only sleep in an MRI, but also forcing yourself to lucid dream in one.
Seriously!
There's a hospital that advertisd their MRI was much more open and quiet than a typical MRI machine, and I'm guessing they're not the only one with it. Even without that, as someone who gets a brain/facial MRI yearly, I've gotten to the point after 6 or 7 years that while not incredibly comfortable, I've fallen asleep during the two-ish hour sets of scans.
It would be hard to fall asleep in one, because the sounds are like music to me and it makes me feel like dancing. That in itself is kind of relaxing, but not, like, fall-asleep levels of relaxing.
The MRI I'm getting in a couple days though... is not going to be relaxing at all. I have to spend the entire time laying in a very painful position while they scan my spine to figure out what's wrong. I'll be sore for days afterward... but maybe if it goes well they can fix it and I'll be able to walk again. That would be cool.
I rarely have lucid dreams but my dreams are often very vivid. I have an entire dream journal in which I write whatever I can remember each morning, and I feel that both the vividness of my dreams and my ability to remember them has improved since I started doing it.
Lucid dreaming sucks. I do not have normal sleep most of the time. I don't get as restful sleep, I need more sleep to feel right. I can't turn it off. I think just laying down and turning off would be great. Only chemicals can shut off my mind enough for regular sleep, but that has down sides also.
I am aware of all my dreams, but can't always control it, but I always know I am asleep and dreaming. Sometimes my dreams are boring, so one upside is I can then change into a new dream .
I had a lucid dream once. Years ago, completely randomly. I've tried every so often with techniques and it just hasn't worked (never tried the waking up one, I like sleep too much). That one time was pretty fun though.
have you tried taking something you do every day and biting your finger before you do it? (note: you have to accept, at any time, that this might be a dream, no matter how normal it seems, and you have to be certain you felt the bite, if you aren't certain do it again) in my case it was before i went to the bathroom, i sleep for long hours and when i gotta pee my brain let's me know by having my dream body (not my real body mind) pee.
but i've never found lucid dreams to be very interesting...maybe i'm just a boring person, but when i can control my dream i can't think of anything i really wanna do, except wake up. all the things i do in my normal life (use the computer, read books, watch tv, etc) don't work in the dream world. my first lucid dream involved me spending quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to wake up.
Try going to bed so early you wake up naturally and fully refreshed at some very early hour to replicate the conditions of the 'waking up tactic' without losing sleep. In my experience the most consistent natural lucidity comes from being so well rested your brain doesn't need the extra rest despite you going back to sleep anyway.
As you go back to bed, try to imagine yourself walking through places you used to live or work to start things in a direction a REM state likes to work with, it might help.
Best of luck.
I found if you go to bed and want to lucid dream. Think about it for at least 5 minutes just before you drop off into dream land. Keep it up and after a week or two you will have one. dont' force it just think about dreaming and knowing if things happen in a dream that are not logical, You will know you are dreaming.
I thought the way you did like whats all the hype about but that all changed after I unintentionally experienced it at 33, words can't describe its like the ultimate virtual reality experience completely immersive with an ultra high degree of resolution, a type of clarity that stretches beyond real life and whats more is that this reality's construct bends and rearranges itself according to your own conscious volition in a way that's demonstrative of an ingenuity or intelligence that seems independent or transcendent of your consciousness
I often have lucid dreams, but not deliberately, and when I do it's as Nirit said, I know I'm dreaming but only have a limited amount of control.
the first minute of the video she sounds like she's just mad that she can't lucid dream
I taught myself to lucid dream a few years ago, after being told that you could completely control your dreams while lucid. This isn't true. I can control certain aspects, for example I can grant myself a limited form of telekinesis, however I cannot control other characters in my dreams, or the environment I am in. Over time it has helped me with nightmares though, as I can practice anxiety reducing techniques when I feel a nightmare coming on and with enough practice I have been able to prevent a lot of nightmares. In this sense it has helped me, as I feel calmer when I awake. This is all purely anecdotal but lucid dreaming has been a very fascinating experience for me, and I think a beneficial one.
As someone that lucid dreams regularly, I'd say the positives are being able to end nightmares, have control or overpowered abilities within dreams, and having deeply meaningful conversations about your own past or present with people inside the dreams. The negatives would be an increase in sleep paralysis and occasional muscle soreness from tensing. I don't want to go back to non lucid dreaming, I have PTSD night terrors and this helps with ending those faster. Also the dreams have become very meaningful to me and I enjoy them a lot.
I stumbled into lucid dreams a few times as a teen, but was never able to trigger them again in later life. It was the most exhilarating experience as I realised I was in control of the dream state; even the transition from the point of realisation ("I'm dreaming now") into the lucid dream itself, was like riding some kind of rollercoaster, or the crest of a wave. It's this experience that was so tantalising I tried in vain to recreate it, still better than any drug-induced trip.
Might try out some of these methods for inducing them.
I've realised i was dreaming alot, but the realization always shocks me awake
I used to have a issue with awful nightmares, but then I figured out how to lucid dream to be able to control them. Worked great for me, though now I usually only realize I'm dreaming if it starts to become bad. I've also found that increasing my awareness of a dream increases the chances I'll wake up, so limiting one's awareness to just enough to control the dream is key in my opinion, though it is handy to be able to force myself awake if the nightmare is especially bad. As far as feeling less rested the next day, I wouldn't say there's a correlation that I've noticed except for actually waking myself up early.
Came from your video on Tom Scott's channel!
In my most recent lucid dream, I panicked and woke up. I tried to go back to the dream and unexpectedly succeeded. It was an.. interesting dream.
But the thing is I didn't actually wake up in the first place.
A pseudo-stage.
Anyone else here having such intensely vivid dreams throughout this corona virus outbreak? They’ve started to affect my waking emotional and mental well-being that I lose my comfort
I already dissociate (schizotypal) but since the outbreak I've started having genuine trouble discerning between dream and reality on occasion. Like I'll be awake in my bed but still think I'm in the dream, and it'll pull me back to sleep. It's been strange, but usually linked to oversleeping, so pulling myself out of bed alleviated it some.
Me: becomes aware that I'm dreaming
IM DREAMING IM DREAMING IM GOING TO-wakes up :/
When I lucid dream and I freak out so I try to wake up I can't
Finally I woke up but I was still dreaming
It's like inception dream inside a dream
Scary
I worry the ability to lucid dream comes at the cost of keeping your sense of reality in check in 'real life'. I have lucid dreams occasionally (or what I would call partially lucid as I cannot control every aspect of the dream) but I also have auditory hallucinations just as regularly. Any time I'm really tired I risk hearing a phone or alarm going off (not quietly either) that no one else hears. I can't help but wonder if the two are related given the hallucinations only happen when I'm tired.
Exploiting the regulation gap is one way into lucid dreams. The auditory complex, in your case. When you suspect you're lucid dreaming, try “hearing” something, or something new, then let go off it to extend your experience. It's like riding a wave.
I would just love to remember more of my dreams. They are always great stories.
I never had a lucid dream, but I always had one frequent dream in my childhood where I rode a t-rex around the city.
When I was in school I used to have an alert clock to wake myself an hour or so before hand and go back to sleep since it helped me to get up more easily, and for 70% of the time I had lucid dreams but I didn't know those things can have a connection.
Also, sometimes when I am asleep I notice that something don't make sense and it changes to make more sense to me - ironically I never notice that it is quite weird that the world just changed now and just continue to dream regularly.
I once had a lucid dream where someone was trying to kill a bunch of people. It was very vivid and disturbing but in the middle of dreaming I became lucid. Because the situation was disturbing I decided to go back in time and stop the event before it occurred. Even though I was aware that I was dreaming, I didn't want to stop the dream because I wanted to give it a "happy ending". But what I found was that I couldn't control anything outside of myself, just like in real life. The terrorist would change his methods every time I attempted to go back in time and stop him and it was pretty hopeless. I don't lucid dream often and when I do I usually wake up. I've never heard of another person to have a dream like this and I'm wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience? where they were lucid but didn't have full control.
When I was young, I had a long streak of nightmares, all with the same basic concept. Every week, sometimes multiple times, I had that nightmare. Back then I was too young to know about lucid dreaming or anything, but apparently I had one, because I was able to control large parts of that nightmare. In the nightmare, I created a mobile phone and called the police with it. I never had that nightmare again. Stopped that night.
The same thing happened to me as a child. I had a recurring nightmare and eventually I knew the dream so well that I managed to escape the danger. Never had the dream again and I have lucid dreams very often. I feel like, eventually, I recognised the familiar situation and it kind of made me conscious.
my best dreams are the ones that I have forgotten about. The happiest memories are the ones you are not afraid to let go of.
5:58 Bob Dylan was a visionary since his early works. So useful in 2020! XD Great video, BTW. Regards!
Your videos are awesome
I had an ad for this thing to get me to lucid dream at the start of the video :/
Hi Vanessa, this is a very interesting topic of study for me, because growing up, I wet the bed a lot, no thanks to a tiny bladder and trauma. So I learnt how to lucid dream from quite a young age.
I'm in my thirties now, and the long time effect that I can speak about personally, is that my sleep cycle is seriously messed up. I get to have very long and deep sleep once in a very special while.
Love this video 🥺❤️
I've have lucid dreams from time to time, and I never realized it was unusual. I wouldn't say it's a must-do for everyone, but it is pretty fun
Lucid Dreaming? I don't even know if I dream visually or not!
I used to have nightmares almost everytime I went to sleep when I was very young, to the point I would frequently check I was awake throughout the day, afraid of what might happen next if I wasn't. One night I noticed I was in the middle of a nightmare, and was able to consciously take actions that nullified it. My dreams have usually been lucid from that point onwards, which took care of the constant nightmares, and have generally been enjoyable.
I remember one dream i had where in the dream i just stopped in the middle of the street looked around and said "this is a dream its time to wake up" and then i woke up.
I have had lucid dreams on occasions but its rare that i have lucid dreams.
The first minute and a half of this is what somebody sounds like when they know nothing and then they learn just a tiny bit but still pretty much don't know anything.
I used to get loads of very vivid dreams and nightmares when I was about ten. I had a few that I became aware I was dreaming and one where I got to control my dream and start flying and stuff but I quickly woke up. But since puberty my dreams seem much less frequent and vivid, I hardly remember them at all anymore. I started a dream journal but I've only had like 8 memorable dreams in two years. A few have been since lockdown but I think that might be just because I have more time to write them down.
If I'm dreaming and I fall into a nightmare, instead of trying to run away from the fear in that nightmare, I just concentrate on opening my eyes. By doing this I have either woke up out of it, or just before the nightmare was about to start.
I sometimes (rather rarely, maybe once or twice a year) have lucid dreams. I find it very difficult to control the dreams and I can't control everything in the dreams. Usually, I can mainly control myself (flying is a staple, and it's amazing!), but it's very finicky so I often wake up rather shortly after I realise it's a dream. One fun example is that I had a discussion with a character in my dream, that we were actually in my dream, and that they weren't real. It really crushed them.
I've some amount of lucid dreaming since I was a child (like 5-6 years old). I more or less developed it on my own to some degree to combat my very frequent nightmares. I basically gained the ability to wake myself up from dream by sheer willpower.
Another thing worth mentioning is that I have a rather clear hypnogogia (which is basically dreaming while you are awake). If slightly tired or bored, I can call it almost at will. The state is basically I know that I'm awake, I know that I'm dreaming, but I have very little control over what happens. The "dreams" are close to hallucination and seeing images with very little interaction between them.
I've never tried all out to lucid dream but every now and then I go into periods of time when I could easily lucid dream and sometimes even control my dreams. Never in my dreams I ever have full control even when I could control a huge part of it. Something always doesn't fit or sometimes things just go crazy and I give up trying.
About exhaustion, I'm never more tired after a night of lucid dreaming. The dreams which are most taxing for me are the dreams where I'm under extreme stress (getting chased, being targeted are the most common ones). But if in my lucid dream, all I did was tour around Hogwarts and chill out in the common rooms, I'm perfectly rested the next day.
When I first realised I was lucid in my early teens, I would go and do crazy things, to tick them off my bucket list so to speak. In my experience, doing physically exciting things in a lucid dream (like leaping off towers) or doing things that would hurt you physically feels very very dull. In one lucid dream, I leapt off a very tall seaside cliff, and it felt very... normal. I wasn't afraid or thrilled as someone who is scared of height and couldn't swim would have been. The experience just doesn't feel real, probably due to the awareness that it wasn't. I've broken bones in both my lucid and non lucid dreams (my dreams are pretty insane) and while the non lucid one hurt like mad, the lucid dream doesn't as much. It was just a minor inconvenience and I just 'healed' it when I got annoyed with it.
However, I have had one very scary lucid dream. I was in my house when a dragon's head broke into the window and started breathing fire. Up till this point, I wasn't lucid but somehow I was aware enough to immediately deduct that since dragons don't exist, this can't be real. I immediately began screaming at the top of my lungs for my father to wake me up (and dream dad was telling me to get myself together and run to safety lol).
I also had a very odd dream where I was sort of gaslit by the characters in my dream. I was mostly lucid but everyone denied that I was dreaming and the events in the dream supported their arguments. In the dream, I was chronically ill but I know that I really wasn't because it's not real so I tried to convince my family that I was healthy but then the doctor came and the tests proved otherwise and somehow that felt like a solid evidence and I got very confused and began questioning my judgements and point of view. Especially when everyone tried to gently talk to me how they understood why I wanted to escape reality and all.
I haven't been lucid in a long time though, at least not fully. And the last few times I was lucid, I would slide in and out of lucidity within the dream and I simply go with the flow. Personally I am not a big fan of lucid dreams. I'm not for or against it but I just don't think it is as cool as experience as most people make it out to be. I do, however, like the idea of being aware and wonder if it is linked to the state of mindfulness. But as far as experiences is concerned, I think non lucid dreams shed a lot more light on myself and my state of mind and it's just a lot more 'real' altogether.
When I take too much melatonin I lucid dream and I feel like I didn't sleep that night... I just stayed awake inside my dreams and it was tiring. I was tired after I woke up.
Lucid dreaming for me tends to be involuntary, and i tend to have oretty strong dream control. I personally really enjoy it. Going on these crazy short adventures and bending everything to my very will is a wonderful experience
I had a lucid dream once and it was a wonderful experience. I wasn’t trying, it happened naturally. I was exploring a huge geode, looking for crystals to use for making jewelry. I suddenly realized I was in a dream and continued looking around. It was fun and I had no ill effects. There must be a reason for it to happen naturally on occasion.
Yeah because this happened to me yesterday I was on the bus with a lot of people I know except this on guy and I was confused then it just snapped I said it out loud WAIT THIS IS A DREAM and my crush was in the dream and my first thought was to say things that I wouldn’t say in real life and it went well. I literally didn’t wake up till about 1:00 pm and I thought it was about 8:00 am. My first time experiencing it was about a year ago I was in a tall building and I just snapped and realized I was dreaming and I just jumped of the building and gave my self spider man abilities. And like it was so fun then I woke up and I was mad.
One theory is it's hyperactive parts of the brain, as diving in is linked to making use of one sense. In your case, the visual; a rather common from what I gather. (Did you sometimes see geometric shapes at night when you were a child? Or schemes?) You can try to induce, prolong, or rescue a fading dream by making use of that sense, like spinning, turning around.
I’m not sure how, but I started regularly lucid dreaming when I was 11 or so. I find that it occurs far less frequently during time periods where I’ve been anxious and stressed. Although, I’ve never really tried to intentionally do it.
Ive been lucid dreaming since I was a kid, I got bored of it when I was about 12. All I really did was flying and summoning stuff and situations, but now when I dream I willingly stop controlling, or if the dream is bad, I simply wake myself up.
Nice video. Also, nice Bob Dylan's book.
I used to have lucid dreams, but sometime in college my dreams began to fade away, and now I very rarely remember them at all. At the same time, I developed aphantasia, which is perhaps related...
And I was actually more well rested then, when I could guide my dreams and receive that emotional catharsis that life refused me, than I am now.
I’m wary when anyone claims something is how a brain is “supposed to” work.
The coordination thing makes sense... in lucid dreams, people may be able to control their movements in their dreams but they still feel tired (they're litterally sleeping), so they feel heavy in the dream... that might affect how they're going to judge their motions when they are awake.
I dream pretty much every night, but when I wake up I forget pretty much everything about the dream but I still know that I had a dream, sometimes I even remember some people or subjects from the dream but most times is like seeing a new color and not being able to describe it.
How could anyone sleep/lucid dream knowing that their alarm clock was set for 4AM! :D
ive only had two lucid dreams and the excitement of realising it woke me up
I'm pretty sure I've only had two as well, one when I was really young and I don't remember it and another quite recently. The second time I realized I was in a dream I more or less was just a bit uneasy because I didn't know how to stop dreaming, and that I knew I didn't know how to control it at all. I did manage to 'spawn' in objects and people though, as if it wore a game, I didn't try changing the environment at all but the dream only lasted a few minutes, or at least that's what I remember.
I have never really forced lucid dreaming, but have done it often and find it envigorating.
As you said, I cannot control everything, but I can control my own actions in the dream, which never factors in my real life health limitations. Because of that, I can actually experience what society would consider a normal lifestyle of going out, having a stable job, meeting friends and having people accept me in person.
That said, there is one HUGE limitation on lucid dreams... Unlike the vividly exotic real dreams I've had, lucid dreaming tends to follow the Inception rule... Where Dicaprio explains that going too far into the imaginative breaks it down and the dream attacks you.
Also with PTSD, I could see lucid dreaming be equivalent to throwing someone back into the traumatic event (which is why I find phobia treatment to be inhumane)
This video is so underrated it hurts.
Most of the dreams I have are lucid. There are a lot that I know exactly what area my brain is thinking of. It's amazing the countless varieties of locations it creates. My hometown is a tiny town, but I've seen it spread out, as a massive city, as a slum or even rearranging the natural features. I have lived in cities that don't exist for months on end. Traveled between place I know over land that doesn't exist there. Frequented fictional places enough to have a waking mental image of its layout. Some dreams where I constantly fall asleep at a different location then my real bed. One time I lived in this small apartment, in the dream, and I have memories of going to bed late, having friends over and living my life in this place and wake up the next morning in my real bed. I would be confused until I realize one night has past in reality, but I had been living in another place in my dream for weeks or months. Or dreams where I just fall asleep in the dream and wake up in reality really tired.
Edit: I never try to induce lucid dreaming, I just know when I'm in one and I never take control of it. I like to play it out like an RPG, see where my dream takes me, who I'll interact with, if I know them in reality, how unrealistic my goals are going to be. Also its weird to have a dream that takes place in one city. Then in another dream in a completely different place, and end up traveling to the first city, and in the dream remember dreaming about that place and how those 2 places connect in the dream.
Nobody talking about nightmares during lucid dreaming ( lucid nightmare). It’s like you can control things that you concentrate on ( as a normal lucid dream ) but just like in a lucid dream, you can’t control every single aspect of the ground, sky, people and their roles in the dream ( you can “phase out” from that story ). The “nightmare” part is when the surrounding itself ( in my experience) is trying to harm you ( in my case, eat/absorb me in darkness ). Haven’t seen one video talking about this aspect so far.
ive been lucid dreaming sice i was a kid. and now i can lucid daydream sounds weird but i love it
Intresting what you said about mental health i personally see lucid dreaming as more away to communicate with your subconscious directly and solve problems you have been burying my subconscious tried to warn me i was falling in to a depression before i did in the dream i shouted out what is the meaning of life and a deep god like voice shouted back pain and suffering i believe this was the warning but i panicked and trid to ignore it at the time and stopped practicing lucid dreaming because i was scared at the time lol i came out of depression in the end after i realised i needed a change in my direction of life and been happy since
I had that happen unintentionally recently, without even knowing about the phenomenon. Really weird, thought i was going crazy. Thanks for helping us understand.
I'm here from Tom btw
Lucid dreaming by your definition is an utter nightmare. After a wreck I was in, that is all I do and the lack of REM sleep feels...deadly. Period.
Well, given the fact that no one has made a movie about the negative sides. Thanks for making this! :D
What I like about lucid dreaming is that if you try then you can even re-enter into the same dream where you left before although the environment settings always get changed and so do a lot of things but the main reasoning tht why you were having tht dream remains the same . I have done it myself a lot of time..
Whenever I wake up from a dream I try to remember wht I dreamed of as accurate and detail as possible. It helps me to reason out a lot of things evn in real life . I have doing this since 2 yrs or so and I can surely say that the more I try to know about my dreams the next time I sleep I become more aware about the fact that it's a dream and I can characterise things and select my own actions. Though I haven't being able to make up the required situation I want in my dream till now but I am sure I will be able to reach tht consciousness level someday even in my sleep
@6:00 a book of Bob Dylan lyrics to prop up your screen now that is classy hello from Australia
I've had lucid dreams for as long as I can remember. Not every dream I have, but maybe 1 out of every 7 of my remembered dreams are lucid. What they don't tell you about lucid dreaming is how disturbing your behavior can be when you have control of your actions, yet know there are no consequences in this dreamland...
Lucid dreaming is great. I lucid dream more often than not, and have gradually gotten better at it since I was little. It's great being able to have crazy adventures at night, or depending on how things are going, sometimes even work on projects while I'm asleep. Like, writing songs or software or stories -- things where I can do some creative or problem-solving tasks so that later I need only write it down.
The main limitation I've had is that I must keep a careful balance between consciousness and unconsciousness -- between control and sleep. If I push too hard against the direction the dream wants to go, I wake up. It's like I have a limited number of "influence points" which recharge slowly, and the harder I have to try to make something happen, the more points it costs... and when they're gone, I wake up. So I have to manage that carefully in order to not get ejected from the dream.
Practice helps though. The more I practice doing something (flying, for example), the fewer influence points it costs to do. It becomes more natural and I get better at it, so I don't have to try as hard or focus as much to do it. Like, it used to be hard to move one small object with my mind... but now I can juggle dozens pretty easily, or even move huge objects.
As for risks... not much, really. I guess I forget sometimes that I don't have superpowers in the real world, so occasionally I get confused for a moment when I try to telekinese something while awake and it doesn't work.
And costs... There are only two. And these are the bulk of _how_ to lucid dream in the first place:
1. You have to get in the habit of writing down your dreams, so you can remember what you did and carry information from the dream world to the real world. This must typically be done right after waking, or even during brief periods of waking throughout the night, especially if you're new to it... and that can be a bit of a pain.
2. You have to get in the habit of _frequently_ checking if you're asleep. Like, all the time, even while awake. One of the most reliable methods is to read something short, look away, then read it again. If the text changed, you're asleep and lucid and can now have an adventure.
It's similar to how people deal with hallucinations. They have to constantly test whether what they're seeing is real. It's a bit weird at first, but you get used to it and then it's not a big deal.
Anyway, I hope this is interesting or helpful to someone.
As a person who has pretty regular lucid dreams due to meds I take, it does make you tired all the time and it can be psychologically exhausting.
When I was a kid I had several lucid dreams but it turned out to be nightmares. I was aware that I had been asleep but I couldn't wake up. I was running away from scary unknown, while praying for wake up, there were monsters and terrors around me and I knew they are just imagination but still I was feeling unsafe. Like my own mind was trying to swallow me and like I could die in my sleep. When I finally woke up I was afraid of falling asleep again and of being conscious while dreaming. And sometimes I still have the same problem - I know I'm asleep but I can't wake up... 😣
I have narcolepsey and lucid dream rather frequently. Apparently it's common in Narcoleptics. It's a pain. It often happens when I'm stressed or anxious, but it also means I wake up mentally tired (as if I didn't need another reason to fall asleep during the day).
I am lucid most nights, and control dreams often. When I was a teen (20+ years ago) I "taught" myself to be aware of when I am dreaming by:
1. Flicking light switches regularly (They usually don't work in dreams. Or sometimes do things other than turn off/on lights.)
2. Reading words with intent. (In a dream, a book will be my stream of consciousness. Or a sign will say something nonsensical.)
3. Taking a second to think and ask myself "am I sleep" a dozen times a day.
For the 18+ that don't mind some addicting chemical assistance:
I find the thing that instigates lucidity most regularly is *nicotine*. (Tobacum-derived is better than Rustica or synthetic for me.) Abstain all day and then fall asleep with a snus prilla, or a big pinch of snuff before bed, etc.
Pleasant dreams, all.
I look at my watch. Read the time. Look away. Then look again. In a dream it will probably be different.
I've only lucid dreamt a few times in my life, but it's really fun! You can do things that are physically impossible, such as flying or running really fast on all fours. Although I can imagine that if you get "stuck" in a loop of never getting normal dreams, only lucid ones, it becomes a problem.
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I wake up from the slightest disturbance, so I get lucid dreams once in a while. Usually triggered by "this shit does not behave normally, I must be dreaming".
Most times I go towards windows/balcony or make a window/balcony appear, then I jump out and try to fly, usually plummeting to the ground in a few seconds and waking up from that.
I feel no change to my emotional or physical state next day.
I like having dreams a lot. Maybe because the ones I have are usual very visually clear and audible. I like it when they are very long to the point I can remember multiple "plots" that interconnect like if it was a short, weird, story. I don't try to have lucid dreams and I also don't do anything to stimulate my body from having it, but sometimes I do and it is quite interesting to have the feeling you are aware while you dream. Although I don't know if I am actually lucid, but rather having the feeling I am lucid.
I occasionally realize I'm dreaming and it's awesome, but I'm not gonna try to chase those dreams down.
I have pretty often lucid dreaming but I never able to control it even if I try very hard, I mostly just wake up after doing so, so I just let it flow and I enjoy it, its fantastic tbh
I know this video is 2 months old, but this remembers me something I wondered before: Considering these reasons why lucid dreaming may not be healthy for your sleep, could it be extended and argued that not dreaming, or not being aware of it, could be even a better sign of healthy sleep?
I guess the effect of not remembering compared to just knowing you dreamt may not be drastic, but I didn't remember my dreams for years, and I didn't have any disruptive sleep, or any sleep problems that I remember, so it makes me wonder if being conscious of remembering can be itself something that has consequences.
Been lucid Dreaming for many years. Its highly addictive and has been the cause of depressive episodes in the past. I cannot stress this enough. its VERY addictive!
I've read about ways to achieve lucid dreaming and it mostly says to have a comfortable environment when you sleep. But the first time I lucid dreamed I was on holiday in a pretty uncomfortable bed and I woke up half way through the night freaking out because I didn't know where I was...
Happens. Dissociation can happen, too, for example you briefly not recognizing your own hand(s). I assume it's hyperactive brain parts, and expect the brain will regulate that away.
@@EditioCastigata That must explain why I also wake up some mornings after a realistic dream and can't remember where I am for ages. I just lie in bed freaking out
There is always someone saying something negative. Lucid dreaming is amazingly magical.
Sometimes I'm aware of when I'm dreaming, but that ends up in just making me wake up.
Try to look around. If you can, spin in your dream.
@@EditioCastigata that will wamke you up
Same. But this morning before waking up, I wanted to test it and by getting busy I think I stayed in dream state longer. Find some text to read in your dream, then look away and then read again lol it will be different - just a start
I’ve had 4-5 lucid dreams in my life so far, all by accident except for 1 that was intentional. They’re super cool, and really only useful in their novelty as far as I’ve found. You can enter one and fly through the clouds, soar into space and explore the stars, rip the ground apart with telekinesis, resurrect a deceased loved one or friend. Sometimes they can be a bit useful, like the video suggests with learning a skill. You can basically act out all those fantasies you have during your waking hours with 0 restrictions. There is a big limitation, and that is knowing how to remain calm and keep your heart beat stable while in the dream so your brain doesn’t force you awake. It happened to me every time because I always got a bit carried away. The last one I had, I ended up spawning a huge tornado by pointing at the ground, and clapped and split the ground in half. It got wild. I had another where I recognized I was lucid after I (within the dream itself) woke from a dream and realized I was still actually dreaming. That I had a false awakening. So my parents were in the house at the time (in the dream) and I told them “hey, guess what? This is a dream right now.” And they just smiled and said “I’m sure it is” then I ran outside and forced the sky from sunny to overcast by thinking about it. Even this got my heart rate up and I got kicked out.
Sometimes it can get a bit frustrating though because while I may not have full lucid dreams anymore, I sometimes I have lucid moments just before I wake up. This other dream I had, I was being chased by mercenaires who were trying to kill me on a tropical island and once I realized I was dreaming, I started to levitate and tried to use telekinesis to crush the life out of them, but try as I may, it never worked for some reason and they ended up pulling me down with some wire or rope. Then as I went to punch them, my arms got very heavy and sluggish, which forced me awake.
If you ever have one, just be as relaxed as possible and only attempt small things at first and work up to big stuff. Like try to lift a pebble with your mind, or (if you like avatar the last airbender) try to water or earth bend a little. It’ll work