Thank you 🙏 It has taken so long, but I've finally reached lucid dreaming. I started Journaling all the details of the bad dreams I was having. After months of doing this, I began to experience awareness while I was dreaming to the point I would tell myself in the dream that I must remember this for when I wake up to write in my journal. The last dream I was standing at a large long table with many people seated. I stood up to make a toast, but instead was looking at each face and saying I must remember all these faces so I can remember who is here with me in this dream. It's amazing 🤗 Daniel you're so right!!! I've been doing deep self work for years now and lucid dreaming is now another layer of self examination.
Please never stop making these videos. I especially love your long rants on philosophical topics that branch off of lucid dreaming. Best channel for LD ever
Thanks for the help Daniel, Im trying to become a lucid dreamer. I've only had a 10 second lucid dream, which ended abruptly, which you have said is normal. I try to do like 10-15 reality checks a day, and I try to write my dreams down on my dream journal whenever I can. My goal is to become a regular lucid dreamer, with multiple a week. I've only been doing this for a few days, hopefully it will work and I will have a decently long lucid dream. I hope you can keep giving as much as advice as possible in these videos, it really helps.
Hi daniel!! Just woke up from another lucid dream. i wanted to ask a question. I did the early morning nap and wild methodology. And once my lucid dream segment ended and the scene began to shift. And morph . I remember feeling the bed on my back. And seeing blackness and void. And feel the covers. But i also remember saying " nah lets dive back in" and then literally with my imagination. And somehow actually feeling all this take places while my real body doesnt move.. i feel myself sink into the bed and theough the bed. Falling down into the universe of my mind. and lunge into the hypnogogic imagery thats very detailed and vivd and i transfer to the dream . But there is a brief moment where i see black. And a void of nothing. But i still went back into the dream and was lucid. But So rem wasnt over. Any chance you can provide explanation or commentary on what i experienced? and it was a real lucid dream i had one of those moments where i was in school in the dream walking to class. And i was just like " f this. Imma fly and go catch some bad guys" which i did. Lol. Would appreciate your feedback.
Hi Jack, thank you for the support and detailed account! This sounds like a fantastic experience, and a really good example of floating in REM space and allowing the dream to reform. There are a few things to consider here. Firstly, we can never be entirely certain if we do experience our sleeping body in these states, or if we're simply dreaming of them (similar to a false awakening). So it's worth considering that possibility. As for the shifting between void states and full blown dreaming. I recommend letting this act as a lesson in the nature of perceptual processing and the "canvas of the mind". The void, in my experience, is the space of infinite possibilities, it's the canvas where both dreams and waking reality are processed. All occur in the same perceptual space, and our role is to maintain our mental clarity to watch the changes between input. With the brain being so absurdly complex, it's impossible at this point in history to give a meaningful analysis of exactly what you experienced. So we must work with these metaphors, which are useful tools to allow us to navigate and place our focus on what matters. Frankly, it sounds like you're finding the balance that works for you, so keep up the good work and use your experiences as your guide. Well done!
@DanielLoveOrg thanks for the epic response. Yeah I thought it was super cool. Unfortunately. Thus far I've noticed my lucid dreams happen when I do early morning naps. And don't really occur when I sleep normally. First 6-7 hours. Annoying. And want to figure out how to get more natural ones.
me trying to lucid dream: >try some techniques >finally have a lucid dream for about 30 seconds >keep trying and practice for longer lucidity >get to the point where i can talk to my sub-conscience >ask my sub-conscience "how can i have more lucid dreams/can you help me to have more lucid dreams?" >hope that this could help
Hi Daniel! I love how cozy it is in the comments under your video with people sharing personal experiences :) And I also have a personal thing I really need the answer for. So, I've been depressed for almost a decade now and don't really feel any emotion except exhaustion (on the way of improving tho). Can I learn lucid dreaming anyways? I wanted to learn this skill to have some sort of self-discovery/therapy tool long term and have the best life I can get, but I constantly get discouraged because I feel like so many things in life depend on emotion, a resource I barely possess, also influencing dreams with vivid experiences in waking life, which I think is a thing to achieve lucidity? I consider myself a very determined individual tho, which is also on the top list of my most common dream themes, but I often feel like I am just trying to enter a locked door
Hi Nix, thanks so much for your support! Depression is a terrible thing, and something I can relate to as I have my own variety each winter with an extreme case of Seasonal Affective Disorder. To put your mind at rest, generally, beyond motivation, it really shouldn't hinder your chances of lucidity - however it might change how you need to target your triggers for lucidity checks. As you mention emotional "numbness" (very common with depressive states), you'll likely have to focus more on thought patterns than the emotional states they trigger. As a silver lining (for want of a better term), there's a fair bit of evidence that certain forms of depression increase time spent in REM. So don't worry, it's not a barrier to entry - lucid dreaming is difficult for everyone, so if you're struggling with it, you're likely in the same state as most. You can do this, and I wish you positivity and an improvement in your inner-world. And, of course, please talk to the relevant professionals if you find your depression is limiting your daily life - there is help, and nobody deserves to feel that way.
the purpose of terminology and jargon is to reduce the "effective bitrate" of communication between people that understand the subject. terminology should ALWAYS be "uncompressible" and the average person should be able to understand it if it's explained to them by an expert.
When I was young I lived most my life in my lucid dreams. It was every night. How I feel in my dreams feels more real than waking life. Now I only have a couple a month but I will keep working on getting back my childhood abilities.
Hello Mr. Love, You might not see this but I'd like to share that I had a very interesting dream that I can't tell if it was lucid or not. Me and my parents all of a sudden became aware in the dream and teleported to a mall with no roof, but I wasn't really lucid though. Later we got in a car to get sandwiches and I remember being asked what I want. I thought about it making cognitive decisions, but she picked turkey and cheese for me lol. Then it ended. I woke up and thought whether I was lucid or not.
Yes, spotting the difference between the waking and dreaming state is difficult and takes time. The whole system evolves over time as well. What had worked once might not work anymore etc. it takes a lot of consistent experimentation, mental effort, and patience. It is difficult in part because it deals with some quite mysterious phenomena and processes like consciousness, dreams, brain functions, etc. But, it is worth it
Hello Daniel , I am exited to have found someone, such as yourself, that has said all the right things about Lucid Dreaming. I know just how difficult lucid dreaming can be , my Dreams are extremely important to me , I am planning on buying your book . What little I’ve listened to of your techniques , has already helped me, that five minute exercise was impressive, I can tell , my brain started to react differently. Ok , so I’ve been dreaming my entire life , very intense dreams, when I was young , I would constantly astral project, without knowing what was going, or how to control it , al
If you're willing to pace yourself and treat it with the same dedication you'd treat learning a new language, your goal is entirely achievable! It's absolutely worth it
I have always been a Lucid Dreamer. It was a Nescessity to combat my children Nightmares. I wish to share this, but only for others to share on my Facebook group. No money. "Lucid Dreamers". ...and, it is a Superpower. You are correct.
Daniel, last night I tried to stalk a dream character but there wasn't none insight. I went around the house looking for one. I even tried using Siri but remembered that, that's dream control. Too my surprise the dream wasn't ending, but right when I spawned an item it started to end. You where right. What do I do if there are no dream characters? Just walk around?
Hey Firebolt, firstly thank you! Your ability to remember dream tasks and missions is very impressive, so I take my hat off to you! Ok, so if you're unable to find a dreamling, I'd recommend just exploring the dream environment casually. Follow the flow of the dream, don't attempt any major scene shifts or dramatic deviations from what is presented. This way you'll work with the dream giving schemas time to flow into one another. Look on cupboards, or seek out hidden doorways and passages, you'll find lots of unexpected things!
@@DanielLoveOrg Every time I woke up from a dream I said to my self that I'd follow a dreamling around next time I'm lucid. Okay, I'll start looking in cupboards and look for hidden doorways and passages. Sounds like fun! I just gotta have that in my mind as I fall asleep.
👽 Huh, everything feels fuzzy. Would void be a better word? Falling, but weightless at the same time. Cold but comforting - reminds me of my birth. Something was meant to be here but it's all nothing. Am I the something or am I making this place nothing?
So true, and thank you. Tiny snippets is very true, for me at least. Under a minute. I become totally aware, begin to steer and control the script and have fun in my dream and do what I want then I wake up in a minute or less. The awareness is increasing rapidly to the point that I am too aware, which wakes me from sleep.
I noticed that whenever I do my taekwondo forms that I can evaluate them after to remember what I did wrong. This reminds me of dream journaling and I think that it is a benefit of lucid dreaming practice.
Wow, where do I begin (without seeming like a broken record)? Being almost 4 years in, I'm out of the very beginning of beginner stages and though hype did drive me to have my first few lucids, it eventually did dry up. Of course I'm still excited when I have lucids, but it is a process to become causal (best term I could think of) with lucid dreaming. My second lucid dream I was ready to accomplish this huge goal, which I had lended from the RS community. In the dream, I was able to do somethings related to my goal, but I was disappointed with what happened. The hype (and beginner mindset) led me to think that I was able to do all this and that as a stranger in a foreign experience, but it was humbling in a way. Nowadays, I don't have that dream goal anymore due to not needing it, but I probably wouldn’t even attempt it in a lucid dream due to how straining it sounds. One thing I will say is that you do get to learn yourself a lot more through the process that Daniel teaches. I've learned insights from this that, while I would have rather not learned, I can now try and correct or work with to try and make myself a better person. I've gotten a better read on what my own limits are and can acknowledge if I need help on something. While getting that help is another task, at least I know what's there and have started coming to terms with who I am. While I never had that "rose colored glasses" view of myself, I can now understand how life experiences have shaped me and not be so harsh on myself. Great video and apologies for the ramble near the end of my comment! This video spoke to me more than what I thought it would from first glance.
I just had my longest lucid dream ever this morning! Fifteen to twenty minutes at least! Usually, for some reason, when I become lucid, my world fades out and I "wake up," which I'm sure sometimes is legitimate and sometimes a false awakening. But this time, I waited for it to return, and when it did, I enjoyed my longest lucid dream ever! Thank you Daniel !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also narrated bc I remembered that in the dream and it helped beautifully 🎉
Charlie, this is brilliant news - well done!!! It's sounds like you hit a nice fertile period of REM and did absolutely everything right. Well done for remembering to narrate, it's really such a powerful tool and I'm glad you've now had first hand experience of why it's so useful. Music to my ears!
After a week of practicing wild I've been able able to have lucid dreams every night but the problem is that they are always short and not soo vivid it's kind of frustrating.
So I am a beginner to lucid dreams I started like half a year ago and when I got my first ld it was really short when I realised I am dreaming I was wake up and one time I was realised and few minutes later I consciousness still try to doing ld and getting longer and longer every dream
I’ve only achieved lucidity twice , the first time it only lasted a few seconds, once I realized I was lucid dreaming, I woke up from the excitement. The second time I don’t know what I did differently, but I knew I was.Lucid , and to test it , I was in a bank, I grabbed a few bank tellers , and we went off into a room, one thing led to another and there you have it , I felt bad about it so I woke out of it But I knew I was lucid
Hello Daniel, this is so relatable ! Also I wanted to ask you which cursus you had done, is it a psychology master or phd degree in which you specialized yourself in lucid dreaming ? Because I can't find any information about oneirology.. Are your researches based on non-official institutes ? I am in my 2nd year of psychology " license, or bachelor degree ? ",and I want to study consciousness, cognitives biais, mental model, and maybe lucid dreaming ! Thanks again for your lessons, theses are extremely precious !!
Thanks for the nice words, and good question! Unfortunately, it’s almost impossible to study lucid dreaming as a specific field in academia (unless your university happens to have a researcher already specializing in it-very few and far between). Most people incorporate it into a thesis or dissertation within broader fields like psychology, neuroscience, or sleep science. Pursuing careers like sleep lab technician or sleep researcher can be a solid foundation and chance to explore lucid dreaming further. The majority of research in this area isn’t tied to official institutions-it’s a mix of academic study and independent exploration. I’d recommend reaching out to researchers who are already working on related topics and building your network; collaboration and curiosity are key to making meaningful progress. Personally, 99.9% of what I’ve learned came after formal education, as I found my studies in psychology at the time quite limited in this area (annoyingly so to be quite frank). Lucid dreaming is still an emerging field-think of it as the “wild west” of research. I’m always working to offer advice and guidance to help others navigate it, so keep pursuing your passion. You’re definitely on the right track! (One final piece of advice, think carefully about how you'll earn an income from your career, lucid dreaming research is absolutely not a lucrative field at all, so I'd strongly recommend ensuring your path leads to a financial reward and stability that matches the effort you're putting into study).
The lab of my university is studying social cognition, and one of the students is working on self de-centeredness and meditation. It interests me a lot, so I am thinking about that ! And as I want to become a neuropsychologist, it can be interesting to see how to incorporate lucid dreaming into my professionnal life.. Good evening to you and thanks for your answer Daniel
@@DanielLoveOrg "I found my studies in psychology at the time quite limited in this area (annoyingly so to be quite frank)." You could be channeling Ann Faraday there. Despite all the advances in psychology, neurology, etc, all the fancy improved technology, and how the work of Stephen LaBerge proved to even the most sceptical critics that dreams (lucid or otherwise) are a genuine phenomenon, rather than some illusory, "by definition not real" post-hoc interpretation of random unconscious "brain noise", it sounds like it hasn't become any easier to pursue serious, academic research into anything dream-related, since Faraday's day.
So I am a beginner to lucid dreams I started like half a year ago and when I got my first ld it was really short when I realised I am dreaming I was wake up and one time I was realised and few minutes later I contisyn
6 months is a typical beginner phase for most skills. Martial Arts, Guitar, Piano, Painting ... etc. Lucid dreaming isn't any difference. Been practicing for 6 weeks already had 1 lucid dream and 3 lucid dreams back to back in the same night. Slow dedication will lead to mastery, pace yourself, and enjoy the process. All will be revealed in time, trust the practice and keep going.
2 years is still part of the beginner phase. I would argue 3 years for some skills in music and even more for martial arts. Back in high school I used to do piano, singing and dancing professionally to help pay for stuff. I still practice now, but now I'm focusing on college. Looking back, you really don't know how much you don't know until your learn more. Even now after practicing lucid dreaming since 7th grade, I'm still developing more and more. To be fair tho, I did get mislead by a lot of misinformation online back then which caused me to have to unlearn a lot of had habits. 6 months, even if you give several hours of yourself per day, simply isn't enough to get past the beginner phase, you'd need to have an abnormal amount inherent ability to get into an intermediate level of any skill like music, martial arts or even subjects like mathematics or physics within 6 months. The thing is tho, practice makes habit, practice doesn't make perfect. If you practice incorrectly, you'll habitualise a lot of stuff that you'll need to unlearn later on. I'm not saying this to come across as negative or anything, I'm just saying that it takes a lot longer to develop your abilities in something than it seems like at the time. I'm sure if you keep going on, 10 years from now you'll look back at yourself from a few years into your journey and realise how much you've grown and how much more there is to grow. For example, when it comes to karate, earning your black belt is the first step into leaving the beginner phase after which you can start increasing your black belt degree aka Dan, which is your level of mastery. It takes more than 10 years to reach even a 3 Dan black belt, which is usually when you are considered past the beginner phase and enter into intermediate, it takes even longer to even have a chance at reaching 10 Dan. Best of luck with all your endeavours, I hope this helps with giving some perspective.
Daniel, lucid dreaming has been represented in the new Inside Out: Dream Productions animated series from Pixar on Disney+. Do you think this will raise interest and awareness in lucid dreaming?
Unfortunately not a fact, but can happen on occasions. It's actually perfectly possible to dream of death, with the mind filling in the blanks. I've done it many times and there are many historical accounts of these types of dreams. Hope that clears things up.
Those who make it to the end of the video have passed the first test...
Im back but never fully left...still been practising but life can get in the way at times ☠️ glad to see your channel is doing well 🙂🙂
Good to have you back, it's one of those subjects that seems to fluctuate for a lot of people, so make hay while the sun shines! (And thank you!)
A new way of existing....is what i feel, since you changed this channel's direction. Thank you...again.
Thank you 🙏
It has taken so long, but I've finally reached lucid dreaming. I started Journaling all the details of the bad dreams I was having. After months of doing this, I began to experience awareness while I was dreaming to the point I would tell myself in the dream that I must remember this for when I wake up to write in my journal. The last dream I was standing at a large long table with many people seated. I stood up to make a toast, but instead was looking at each face and saying I must remember all these faces so I can remember who is here with me in this dream. It's amazing 🤗
Daniel you're so right!!! I've been doing deep self work for years now and lucid dreaming is now another layer of self examination.
Please never stop making these videos. I especially love your long rants on philosophical topics that branch off of lucid dreaming. Best channel for LD ever
Thanks for the help Daniel, Im trying to become a lucid dreamer. I've only had a 10 second lucid dream, which ended abruptly, which you have said is normal. I try to do like 10-15 reality checks a day, and I try to write my dreams down on my dream journal whenever I can. My goal is to become a regular lucid dreamer, with multiple a week. I've only been doing this for a few days, hopefully it will work and I will have a decently long lucid dream. I hope you can keep giving as much as advice as possible in these videos, it really helps.
Hi daniel!! Just woke up from another lucid dream. i wanted to ask a question. I did the early morning nap and wild methodology.
And once my lucid dream segment ended and the scene began to shift. And morph . I remember feeling the bed on my back. And seeing blackness and void. And feel the covers. But i also remember saying " nah lets dive back in" and then literally with my imagination. And somehow actually feeling all this take places while my real body doesnt move.. i feel myself sink into the bed and theough the bed. Falling down into the universe of my mind. and lunge into the hypnogogic imagery thats very detailed and vivd and i transfer to the dream . But there is a brief moment where i see black. And a void of nothing. But i still went back into the dream and was lucid. But So rem wasnt over. Any chance you can provide explanation or commentary on what i experienced?
and it was a real lucid dream i had one of those moments where i was in school in the dream walking to class. And i was just like " f this. Imma fly and go catch some bad guys" which i did.
Lol. Would appreciate your feedback.
Hi Jack, thank you for the support and detailed account!
This sounds like a fantastic experience, and a really good example of floating in REM space and allowing the dream to reform.
There are a few things to consider here.
Firstly, we can never be entirely certain if we do experience our sleeping body in these states, or if we're simply dreaming of them (similar to a false awakening). So it's worth considering that possibility.
As for the shifting between void states and full blown dreaming. I recommend letting this act as a lesson in the nature of perceptual processing and the "canvas of the mind". The void, in my experience, is the space of infinite possibilities, it's the canvas where both dreams and waking reality are processed. All occur in the same perceptual space, and our role is to maintain our mental clarity to watch the changes between input.
With the brain being so absurdly complex, it's impossible at this point in history to give a meaningful analysis of exactly what you experienced. So we must work with these metaphors, which are useful tools to allow us to navigate and place our focus on what matters.
Frankly, it sounds like you're finding the balance that works for you, so keep up the good work and use your experiences as your guide.
Well done!
@DanielLoveOrg thanks for the epic response. Yeah I thought it was super cool.
Unfortunately. Thus far I've noticed my lucid dreams happen when I do early morning naps. And don't really occur when I sleep normally. First 6-7 hours. Annoying. And want to figure out how to get more natural ones.
me trying to lucid dream:
>try some techniques
>finally have a lucid dream for about 30 seconds
>keep trying and practice for longer lucidity
>get to the point where i can talk to my sub-conscience
>ask my sub-conscience "how can i have more lucid dreams/can you help me to have more lucid dreams?"
>hope that this could help
Hi Daniel! I love how cozy it is in the comments under your video with people sharing personal experiences :) And I also have a personal thing I really need the answer for.
So, I've been depressed for almost a decade now and don't really feel any emotion except exhaustion (on the way of improving tho). Can I learn lucid dreaming anyways? I wanted to learn this skill to have some sort of self-discovery/therapy tool long term and have the best life I can get, but I constantly get discouraged because I feel like so many things in life depend on emotion, a resource I barely possess, also influencing dreams with vivid experiences in waking life, which I think is a thing to achieve lucidity? I consider myself a very determined individual tho, which is also on the top list of my most common dream themes, but I often feel like I am just trying to enter a locked door
Hi Nix, thanks so much for your support!
Depression is a terrible thing, and something I can relate to as I have my own variety each winter with an extreme case of Seasonal Affective Disorder. To put your mind at rest, generally, beyond motivation, it really shouldn't hinder your chances of lucidity - however it might change how you need to target your triggers for lucidity checks. As you mention emotional "numbness" (very common with depressive states), you'll likely have to focus more on thought patterns than the emotional states they trigger. As a silver lining (for want of a better term), there's a fair bit of evidence that certain forms of depression increase time spent in REM. So don't worry, it's not a barrier to entry - lucid dreaming is difficult for everyone, so if you're struggling with it, you're likely in the same state as most. You can do this, and I wish you positivity and an improvement in your inner-world. And, of course, please talk to the relevant professionals if you find your depression is limiting your daily life - there is help, and nobody deserves to feel that way.
@ Thank you for your answer!
the purpose of terminology and jargon is to reduce the "effective bitrate" of communication between people that understand the subject. terminology should ALWAYS be "uncompressible" and the average person should be able to understand it if it's explained to them by an expert.
When I was young I lived most my life in my lucid dreams. It was every night. How I feel in my dreams feels more real than waking life. Now I only have a couple a month but I will keep working on getting back my childhood abilities.
Good luck
Hello Mr. Love, You might not see this but I'd like to share that I had a very interesting dream that I can't tell if it was lucid or not. Me and my parents all of a sudden became aware in the dream and teleported to a mall with no roof, but I wasn't really lucid though. Later we got in a car to get sandwiches and I remember being asked what I want. I thought about it making cognitive decisions, but she picked turkey and cheese for me lol. Then it ended. I woke up and thought whether I was lucid or not.
Yes, spotting the difference between the waking and dreaming state is difficult and takes time. The whole system evolves over time as well. What had worked once might not work anymore etc. it takes a lot of consistent experimentation, mental effort, and patience. It is difficult in part because it deals with some quite mysterious phenomena and processes like consciousness, dreams, brain functions, etc.
But, it is worth it
Hello Daniel , I am exited to have found someone, such as yourself, that has said all the right things about Lucid Dreaming. I know just how difficult lucid dreaming can be , my Dreams are extremely important to me , I am planning on buying your book . What little I’ve listened to of your techniques , has already helped me, that five minute exercise was impressive, I can tell , my brain started to react differently. Ok , so I’ve been dreaming my entire life , very intense dreams, when I was young , I would constantly astral project, without knowing what was going, or how to control it , al
I’ve been trying to lucid dream on and off for about a year and I only did it once but it is a thing I wanna master and of every night
If you're willing to pace yourself and treat it with the same dedication you'd treat learning a new language, your goal is entirely achievable! It's absolutely worth it
I have always been a Lucid Dreamer. It was a Nescessity to combat my children Nightmares. I wish to share this, but only for others to share on my Facebook group. No money. "Lucid Dreamers".
...and, it is a Superpower. You are correct.
Daniel, last night I tried to stalk a dream character but there wasn't none insight. I went around the house looking for one. I even tried using Siri but remembered that, that's dream control. Too my surprise the dream wasn't ending, but right when I spawned an item it started to end. You where right. What do I do if there are no dream characters? Just walk around?
Hey Firebolt, firstly thank you! Your ability to remember dream tasks and missions is very impressive, so I take my hat off to you!
Ok, so if you're unable to find a dreamling, I'd recommend just exploring the dream environment casually. Follow the flow of the dream, don't attempt any major scene shifts or dramatic deviations from what is presented.
This way you'll work with the dream giving schemas time to flow into one another.
Look on cupboards, or seek out hidden doorways and passages, you'll find lots of unexpected things!
@@DanielLoveOrg Every time I woke up from a dream I said to my self that I'd follow a dreamling around next time I'm lucid. Okay, I'll start looking in cupboards and look for hidden doorways and passages. Sounds like fun! I just gotta have that in my mind as I fall asleep.
Loved this, thanks for the Martial Arts references too ;) Always inspiring! Thanks for that tremendous honesty, priceless.
👽 Huh, everything feels fuzzy. Would void be a better word? Falling, but weightless at the same time. Cold but comforting - reminds me of my birth. Something was meant to be here but it's all nothing. Am I the something or am I making this place nothing?
So true, and thank you. Tiny snippets is very true, for me at least. Under a minute. I become totally aware, begin to steer and control the script and have fun in my dream and do what I want then I wake up in a minute or less. The awareness is increasing rapidly to the point that I am too aware, which wakes me from sleep.
I noticed that whenever I do my taekwondo forms that I can evaluate them after to remember what I did wrong. This reminds me of dream journaling and I think that it is a benefit of lucid dreaming practice.
Very nice video :) keeping motivated is so hard, when you see no progress :( especially when you do not know if your main goal is achievable.
Everything you've said is so correct. It's not going to be easy. I'm not sure if you can teach. I've tried. Once.
Interesting video!
Thanks!
Wow, where do I begin (without seeming like a broken record)? Being almost 4 years in, I'm out of the very beginning of beginner stages and though hype did drive me to have my first few lucids, it eventually did dry up. Of course I'm still excited when I have lucids, but it is a process to become causal (best term I could think of) with lucid dreaming.
My second lucid dream I was ready to accomplish this huge goal, which I had lended from the RS community. In the dream, I was able to do somethings related to my goal, but I was disappointed with what happened. The hype (and beginner mindset) led me to think that I was able to do all this and that as a stranger in a foreign experience, but it was humbling in a way. Nowadays, I don't have that dream goal anymore due to not needing it, but I probably wouldn’t even attempt it in a lucid dream due to how straining it sounds.
One thing I will say is that you do get to learn yourself a lot more through the process that Daniel teaches. I've learned insights from this that, while I would have rather not learned, I can now try and correct or work with to try and make myself a better person. I've gotten a better read on what my own limits are and can acknowledge if I need help on something. While getting that help is another task, at least I know what's there and have started coming to terms with who I am. While I never had that "rose colored glasses" view of myself, I can now understand how life experiences have shaped me and not be so harsh on myself.
Great video and apologies for the ramble near the end of my comment! This video spoke to me more than what I thought it would from first glance.
I just had my longest lucid dream ever this morning! Fifteen to twenty minutes at least! Usually, for some reason, when I become lucid, my world fades out and I "wake up," which I'm sure sometimes is legitimate and sometimes a false awakening. But this time, I waited for it to return, and when it did, I enjoyed my longest lucid dream ever! Thank you Daniel !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also narrated bc I remembered that in the dream and it helped beautifully 🎉
Charlie, this is brilliant news - well done!!!
It's sounds like you hit a nice fertile period of REM and did absolutely everything right. Well done for remembering to narrate, it's really such a powerful tool and I'm glad you've now had first hand experience of why it's so useful.
Music to my ears!
Could you point me to a video about narrating to maintain lucidity, I’ve never seen vids of it
When I was young , I used to astral project , without knowing what was going on
After a week of practicing wild I've been able able to have lucid dreams every night but the problem is that they are always short and not soo vivid it's kind of frustrating.
So I am a beginner to lucid dreams I started like half a year ago and when I got my first ld it was really short when I realised I am dreaming I was wake up and one time I was realised and few minutes later I consciousness still try to doing ld and getting longer and longer every dream
I’ve only achieved lucidity twice , the first time it only lasted a few seconds, once I realized I was lucid dreaming, I woke up from the excitement. The second time I don’t know what I did differently, but I knew I was.Lucid , and to test it , I was in a bank, I grabbed a few bank tellers , and we went off into a room, one thing led to another and there you have it , I felt bad about it so I woke out of it But I knew I was lucid
Hello Daniel, this is so relatable !
Also I wanted to ask you which cursus you had done, is it a psychology master or phd degree in which you specialized yourself in lucid dreaming ? Because I can't find any information about oneirology.. Are your researches based on non-official institutes ?
I am in my 2nd year of psychology " license, or bachelor degree ? ",and I want to study consciousness, cognitives biais, mental model, and maybe lucid dreaming !
Thanks again for your lessons, theses are extremely precious !!
Thanks for the nice words, and good question!
Unfortunately, it’s almost impossible to study lucid dreaming as a specific field in academia (unless your university happens to have a researcher already specializing in it-very few and far between). Most people incorporate it into a thesis or dissertation within broader fields like psychology, neuroscience, or sleep science. Pursuing careers like sleep lab technician or sleep researcher can be a solid foundation and chance to explore lucid dreaming further.
The majority of research in this area isn’t tied to official institutions-it’s a mix of academic study and independent exploration. I’d recommend reaching out to researchers who are already working on related topics and building your network; collaboration and curiosity are key to making meaningful progress.
Personally, 99.9% of what I’ve learned came after formal education, as I found my studies in psychology at the time quite limited in this area (annoyingly so to be quite frank). Lucid dreaming is still an emerging field-think of it as the “wild west” of research. I’m always working to offer advice and guidance to help others navigate it, so keep pursuing your passion. You’re definitely on the right track!
(One final piece of advice, think carefully about how you'll earn an income from your career, lucid dreaming research is absolutely not a lucrative field at all, so I'd strongly recommend ensuring your path leads to a financial reward and stability that matches the effort you're putting into study).
The lab of my university is studying social cognition, and one of the students is working on self de-centeredness and meditation. It interests me a lot, so I am thinking about that !
And as I want to become a neuropsychologist, it can be interesting to see how to incorporate lucid dreaming into my professionnal life..
Good evening to you and thanks for your answer Daniel
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"I found my studies in psychology at the time quite limited in this area (annoyingly so to be quite frank)."
You could be channeling Ann Faraday there.
Despite all the advances in psychology, neurology, etc, all the fancy improved technology, and how the work of Stephen LaBerge proved to even the most sceptical critics that dreams (lucid or otherwise) are a genuine phenomenon, rather than some illusory, "by definition not real" post-hoc interpretation of random unconscious "brain noise", it sounds like it hasn't become any easier to pursue serious, academic research into anything dream-related, since Faraday's day.
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So I am a beginner to lucid dreams I started like half a year ago and when I got my first ld it was really short when I realised I am dreaming I was wake up and one time I was realised and few minutes later I contisyn
I had a lucid dream, but now I can't do it again. And I don't know where I'm going wrong?
Im tried fild,mild,wbtb but none of this is not working for me 😢 suggest me a better one 👍🏻
As luck would have it... youtube.com/@danielloveorg?si=m9vQFXcwDV7lwdg-
6 months is a typical beginner phase for most skills. Martial Arts, Guitar, Piano, Painting ... etc.
Lucid dreaming isn't any difference. Been practicing for 6 weeks already had 1 lucid dream and 3 lucid dreams back to back in the same night.
Slow dedication will lead to mastery, pace yourself, and enjoy the process. All will be revealed in time, trust the practice and keep going.
2 years is still part of the beginner phase. I would argue 3 years for some skills in music and even more for martial arts. Back in high school I used to do piano, singing and dancing professionally to help pay for stuff. I still practice now, but now I'm focusing on college. Looking back, you really don't know how much you don't know until your learn more.
Even now after practicing lucid dreaming since 7th grade, I'm still developing more and more.
To be fair tho, I did get mislead by a lot of misinformation online back then which caused me to have to unlearn a lot of had habits.
6 months, even if you give several hours of yourself per day, simply isn't enough to get past the beginner phase, you'd need to have an abnormal amount inherent ability to get into an intermediate level of any skill like music, martial arts or even subjects like mathematics or physics within 6 months.
The thing is tho, practice makes habit, practice doesn't make perfect. If you practice incorrectly, you'll habitualise a lot of stuff that you'll need to unlearn later on.
I'm not saying this to come across as negative or anything, I'm just saying that it takes a lot longer to develop your abilities in something than it seems like at the time.
I'm sure if you keep going on, 10 years from now you'll look back at yourself from a few years into your journey and realise how much you've grown and how much more there is to grow.
For example, when it comes to karate, earning your black belt is the first step into leaving the beginner phase after which you can start increasing your black belt degree aka Dan, which is your level of mastery. It takes more than 10 years to reach even a 3 Dan black belt, which is usually when you are considered past the beginner phase and enter into intermediate, it takes even longer to even have a chance at reaching 10 Dan.
Best of luck with all your endeavours, I hope this helps with giving some perspective.
What is the relationship between narcolepsy & lucid dreaming and
None in any meaningful or relevant sense.
Daniel, lucid dreaming has been represented in the new Inside Out: Dream Productions animated series from Pixar on Disney+. Do you think this will raise interest and awareness in lucid dreaming?
Smoking hot ending, Daniel!
I always thought they were ghosts Yanking me out of bed , then I ran into a Ted. Talk
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Fun fact: The reason you wake up when you die in a dream is because your brain doesn't know what it's like to die
Or you’re cortisol levels raise in response, then u wake up
Unfortunately not a fact, but can happen on occasions. It's actually perfectly possible to dream of death, with the mind filling in the blanks. I've done it many times and there are many historical accounts of these types of dreams.
Hope that clears things up.