Try The Weirdest Lucid Dream Technique (It's Trippy AF)
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- Опубликовано: 8 дек 2023
- Enter the lucid dream world tonight with this strange lucid dream technique using hypnagogia (aka liminal dreaming) - those vivid waking dream visions that happen as you fall asleep.
Surrealists like Salvador Dali used this portal into vivid lucid dreams and some very strange and trippy experiences.
This video offers a step-by-step guide to this incredibly easy lucid dreaming method.
Follow these mind-bending steps to lucid dream tonight:
STEP 1: Set your intention to lucid dream - Tell yourself you’ll watch for hypnagogic hallucinations if you wake up.
STEP 2: Harness hypnagogia into lucid dreams - Stay as still as possible with eyes closed waiting for these trippy pre-dream visions to start. Try not to move too much!
STEP 3: Ride the waves into lucid dreams - Let the lucid dream signs of sounds/sights carry you straight into a conscious dreamscape.
STEP 4: Maintain lucid dreaming awareness - Balance metacognitive awareness between the weird visions and your thoughts to cement consciousness into the lucid dream.
With practice, this unusual lucid dream induction technique gives an easy way to have vivid lucid dreams and strange nighttime hallucinations (where you can experiment with all the fun of dream control).
The Hypnagogic Technique (or Liminal Dreaming) is a good way to induce Wake Initiated Lucid Dreams (WILDs), but can also lead to Dream Initiated Lucid Dreams (DILDs)
Try it tonight and share your wildest lucid dream stories below!
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Congratulations, that is an impressive amount of time.
Happy 7th! Ah an auspicious number for a great channel.
who else clicked on it bcs he said it was trippy?
Seriously though, it really is trippy AF
Daniel, again and again I am struck by the gems of Wisdom in your teachings. "When you are waiting for the bus, there's nothing you can do to make the bus come, but you can miss the bus" - I love this!! Thank you!!!
i got my first lucid dream using this technique :)
Thank you for this! I love hypnagogic imagery. I’ve had some very interesting ones, including a few that jolted me back to full wakefulness laughing hysterically.
With my aphantasic brain it's especially great, a rare visual element to my otherwise auditory brain!
Same I love hypnagogic imagery
Thanks so much for your teachings, Daniel. A true subject matter expert. 😊
Man, your videos make me want to start learning everything about my brain that i can. You have single handedly pulled me out of weed usage, drinking, and caffine. You have actually helped me make my life better. Honestly thank you.
I've managed to do this once! It's a fine line to ride. So trippy to go from awake to lucid dreaming so fluidly. One of the best experiences I've ever had.
Thank you so much for this! I recently got your book and read about Hypnogogic hallucinations there! Glad to hear more about it. :)
My pleasure! And thanks for supporting my work!
First: Happy 7th anniversary!
Second: Commenting to boost your RUclips stats.
Third: Liminal dreaming (yes, new fancy name for hypnagogia indeed) is really what I'm focusing at atm, because lucid dreaming is so far away for me and nowadays I only have very little success with it. When practicing it I already very often have had the impression that I get visual hypnagogia more often when focusing on the body feelings instead of observing the visuals directly. Is this only me or are there any scientific studies on this? I guess not because we are in this not so well studied field here.
And to be really honest: I'm not sure that I somehow can summon them or influence them. It might be that it's only navigating the level of relaxation. But being just passive like you suggested is not what I want to do, but rather explore the state more and when I'm fully in control to get into this state then I'll dive into lucid dreams from it (I already did that once but not with any control some years ago and maybe during awakening from sleep).
Guess I'll watch the video again because it's really super interesting for me. Thanks a lot!
Thanks! And happy 7th anniversary of your channel 🎉.
Thank you so much Larry, I really appreciate it! Stay lucid!
Awesome! I was about to say that this takes prospective memory. Glad you mentioned it. I been doing hypnagogic surfing for a long time now. It's how I built my prospective memory up so well.
Yep indeed! Prospective memory is an absurdly important tool for this subject
Commenting to boost and totally forgot it was upload day! I'll watch when I can - at a comic con!
Love this video! I always practice hypnagogia these days and love the content your putting out.
Thanks so much Jay, really glad you're liking the videos!
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Great video as always! 👍🏻
I've always enjoyed the hypnagogia state. I've tried to get into a lucid dream a few times with this technique, it only worked once, though. Being apathetic really is the key here.
Thanks Mina, it's one of the more casual techniques - but fun to do just for the sake of it. I like to think of it as playing the surf of the subconscious. Every now and then you'll get washed out into the ocean of dreams!
You're right about hypnagogia not always happening. I watch out for it all the time and it's my portal to the lucid dream world. I notice if I don't get it, I won't lucid dream but If I get it I do. Had to watch this video twice lol. It's like a weird feeling that I know that I'm going to lucid dream after it appears.
Got lucid dream last night, flying, felt happiness for the first tie in a long while, my waking reality is abit rought to put lightly, gratitude for that 🙏☯️
The simplest way to induce hypnagogia for me is when I start a scene in my imagination with fast movements and do it for at least 1 minute and then when I stop it I can see the swirling bright and dark patterns behind closed eyes and then I concentrate on any pattern that my brain can recognize as something and try to get it more real and sharper, often it moves from pattern to pattern till some of it get more and more real and then if the concentration is good enough you can stay with it for a while. I got my first super real lucid dreams this way as a WILD. I hope it helps someone.
I do this with the swirls too lol for me its like eye floaters though i cant look directly at it or it will dissapear i have to passively watch almost out of my peripheral 😂
I’m ready for the weird and wacky! And happy 7th channel birthday!🎉
Thanks Saffrinian, bring on the weird!
Had my first lucid dream because of your teachings, lasted about 20 secs but being conscious was crazy - looked in the mirror & said oh shit, I’m in it & then started flying, end of dream 😂😂😂
Amazing work, and don't worry that's quite normal for beginners - they'll get longer and longer with time and practice. I'll make a video covering this in the near future!
@@LucidDreamPortalthanks Daniel! Setting the intention of wanting to lucid dream was massive -> same technique from the miracle morning, set the intention of wanting to wake up early, goes a long way!
I am going to try to have my first proper lucid dream tonight. Or maybe not my first ever lucid dream in my lifetime as I am sure I had many before that I may not know or cannot recall. But hopefully, I have my first lucid dream in a while and I can write it down upon waking up and recall all of it or at least most of it. Lucid dreams are amazing! I watched this video and I did watch some of your other videos. I hope I can have a proper lucid dream tonight, maybe I will have one tonight, but it won't be promised. But I know I may eventually have one sooner or later.
I remember that I have been sleeping near a heater when i have been trying to focus on the hypnagogia. This sound from the heater also bleed into the dream. Congratulations on the anniversary of your channel.
Thanks James, and thanks for bringing up blended hybrid spaces. I do love that side of this subject
Yeah, this is my favorite technique.
Back when I was considering a twaddle community as a legit phenomenon, I would often have hypnogogia. I don't know if it was just the expectation of it happening, but on a few occasions I had hypnogogia that included multiple senses and sensations like physical distortions, smell, visual, and tactile. Since following this channel and learning about the layers of twaddle of that community, those strong hypnogogia sensations have gone away, often being just small visual lines or dashes. I don't know if that's due to expectation for it to happen, but hypnogogia is a very interesting phenomenon when you experience it!
This morning I had rough sleep and actually had hypnogogia for a small amount of time when attempting to fall back asleep after a natural awakening. It was like a strong ripple feeling going all over my body and just different values of grey rippling in my vision. Instead of getting excited at the possibility of a maintained awareness lucid dream, I had fear due to bad expectations and just dropped any focus I had. Strongest hypnogogia I've had in a while!
Sorry if the comment is all over the place - I was in a costume for 7 hours and I'm really tired (I have phantom sensations of the costume still on me)! Great video as always and it makes me happy to see hypnogogia being talked about again! So much twaddle out there about it!
Thanks for the Poe bit! ❤❤❤🎉
My pleasure, there are so many great quotes and writings on this subject, I want to include more in future videos
Congratulations Daniel 🥳
Thanks Arnold!
Oh boy. I don't know why but I just always get excited. Not even like "uh, uh, uh it's happening! Yey! Oh :(" I get that too of course but not as often anymore. But most of the time it's just a short outburst in my chest like I would have when seeing a jumpscare. Without anything scary happening. I think this happens when things getting very vivid. I would hear stuff, see stuff, think stuff, very abstract and I'm fine, I even notice when I stopped a technique like IMP and continue it, but at some point, boom. For example, I can clearly see a person walking through a door, again not scary stuff but it get's so vivid, instantly, such a clear experience of seeing something happen, it's so abrupt, I don't know why but it startles me for a sec and I have to "start over".
Its a huge improvement that I even get so far. I'm not frustrated it just puzzles me that I'm not excited (yeah!) But "scared" for a second.
That one time a monster was running at me, I had the same feeling, a second later I'm back to normal "boy, that was cool, bring it back". But I could see a cute cat walking by and I would feel the same thing.
Thank you Daniel ❤
Thank you RainsaurusRox - What you're describing is quite normal, in fact there is a term for it, with a very cool name that would be great for a band: "Hypnic Jerk". It's that sudden spasm that leads to wakefulness during hypnagogia.
I find hypnagogic hallucinations *almost* as fascinating as dreams, they're such an odd insight into the software of the mind, the processes that are normally hidden away.
In fact, my personal theory is that what we're seeing is the machinations of the subconscious mind laid out before us, and that such thoughts are occurring all the time, only as we fall asleep the barriers between self-reflective awareness (what we call "me") and the rest of the mind come tumbling down and we see behind the wizard's curtain.
Anyway, thank you again!!
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Ty Its truly fascinating, yeah. I think so too. It never felt like something that just begins. More like something that is already going on and I stumble across it, like I'm crashing a pary I wasn't really invited too.
That's one of the coolest things of the whole practicing lucid dreaming thing, there are alot of fascinating, fun things to do and explore and everything is helping the overall cause.
One time as I was drifting Into sleep, I heard a really loud *bang* noise, that woke me up. But I was 100 percent sure, that it was just in my head. Nice video.
I love the auditory hallucinations, I get a lot of them too... mostly smashing and crashing sounds, occasionally snippets of music, and oddly, my mothers voice from my childhood calling me for breakfast! (the brain is odd!)
@@LucidDreamPortal yeah, exactly that. It's so abnormal and really interesting.
I remember the most common one I get when I wake up in the middle of REM sleep and start falling asleep again is whistling and a motorcycle. Everytime I hear it I know I'm going about to enter a dream.
I predominantly experience auditory hallucinations, rarely, if ever, have I experienced visual hypnagogia
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Thank you so much Daisy, I really appreciate your support!
Two of my favorite dream words❤ Hypnogogic 🎉Hypnopompic 🎉 and now adding a third: Metacognition ❤
They are beautiful words aren't they!
I think I experienced hypnagogia last night I remember the black turning into a purplish white colour and I saw shapes that resembled faces and black triangular lines
Good afternoon Daniel and everyone I discovered lucid dreaming 3 months ago but i started my journey shortly 5 days ago one thing i noticed is dream is bieng mentioned alot in my regular dreams like this other time I said this could possibly be just a dream. other times someone had asked me how often do you do your reality checks for lucid dreams but yet they aren't fully lucid another time I was at a funeral in my dream and I said I might have dream about this later
I see this every time for some reason
You should make a video on what the ideal dream journal should look like
It's on the to do list
my lucid dreaming experience is kind of strange and idk how to explain it right but I try. once sometimes in the middle of the night I will get interrupted in my dream by my conscious telling me im dreaming it will repeat it to me , and once I know im dreaming everything goes dark for couple seconds like I shut my eyes then after I can feel the back of my eyelids like there closed so I open them expecting to wake up in my room, but when I do, I wake up in a random filed on the ground. and this is scary realistic like to the point I forget what reality is, and sometimes it felt like I died in my sleep because how real the feeling is. and this is how I lucid dream it happens randomly by my conscious its like a little voice telling me im dreaming, its really hard to explain because how surreal it is.
Happy anniversary! 🥳
Woooo!
I just left a comment on another video so i feel a bit awkward commenting again (whoops) but i have a question: can re-reading my past dream journal entries help in any way?
Gonna try this tonight for the craic.
Edit: got some mad hypnogogia but no lucid dream but will keep trying.
Good luck, report back!
I dont relly know if I already had a hypnagogia because on internet people say it is a lot of colors and shapes etc. But the closest thing to this that I had experience is some shapes in a orange color, like when there's sun hitting your closed eyes or maybe I had one but I assume as a short dream
Thanks for the video, and happy 7th birthday of the LD !
I feel like I should dedicate some nights to really pay attention to whatever hypnagogia might occur after waking up in the middle of the night, and if I'm not wrong, I feel like the first step of the hypnagogic technique is similar to the first step of dream recall, in that you have to move as little as possible (not still like a statue, that's bonkers), and to keep your eyes closed. For dream recall you must do this while trying to remember any dream sequences, but for the hypnagogic technique, you must do this while apathetically waiting for any hypnagogia to occur.
For the moment, when I saw hypnagogic swirls occurring, I was just like "yay, sleep is incoming", then ignored the swirls and continued thinking about random things until I fell into oblivion.
Also, I had an experience unrelated to hypnagogia which boggles my mind quite a bit, as I had a dream where I saw an aurora while on a road trip with a couple people I know. But then in another dream that happened the next night, I saw a green smudge in the sky at another location, and asked one of the people that I saw in the previous dream about it, to which they replied "you saw that aurora when we were coming back from our last trip, remember?". Both of these experiences occurred when I was non lucid, but if I remember it correctly, it was mentioned during a past video or livestream that if dreamlings do seem to remember events from past dreams, those experiences would be rare. All of this leaves me wondering if this experience was simply a rare coincidence, or was it that the dreamling actually remembered what happened in the previous dream.
And also, thanks for the reality test cue! I never saw that cushion with the square design lying on the couch in the back before.
Well spotted for the cushion, there are actually two new cushions... You're the first person to spot the difference! (They have been there since early November 🤣)
Thank you for sharing these experiences, genuinely mindbogglingly and fascinating stuff!
And it's worth remembering that dreamlings are you, or at least part of the collective of brain functions that make up who you are.
I have hypnogogic imagery where I can see through my eyes
I'm here because last night i accidentally Lucid Dream like i wasn't trying to i was just trying to sleep, i have insomnia so it's always harder for me to sleep so i searched online how to make me sleep and i read a few suggestions like sleep in a dark and room with nice temperature and weirdly enough sleep naked for some reason so i did those 2 things last night went to bed and i lay on my side for more comfort i closed my eyes it was so dark that I don't have distractions and i think of nothing but what i wanted to dream and man to my surprise i was actually alive in my dream but I was aware i was only dreaming, my dream was i was a famous footballer and i in the same team as Ronaldo and apparently i scored a goal and assisted Ronaldo i even did the Siu celebration with him it was crazy, like one of the best experience in my life like ever, so my tip no distractions, and get comfortable.
Thanks!
One question (unrelated to this video): Does the technique outlined in your short titled "How to Control Your Dreams! (No Lucid Dreaming Needed!)" also work with broader, abstract themes/concepts such as certain feelings, ambiences etc.?
Does it work if you want to dream about certain persons?
Hi Wildscavanger, thank you for the kind donation! - Yes, scent is a really powerful tool for engaging memories of all kinds. This is partly due to how scent is processed in the brain (simple version: it's essentially "next door" to the area responsible for memory). So, yes, as long as you make the connection consistently it should be possible. This is used in all manner of unexpected areas in life, such as if you wish to sell a house, the smell of freshly baked bread will increase people's sense of homeliness when they enter. As for people, that's probably the easiest to achieve! (and part of the reason why the perfume/aftershave industry is so popular).
@@LucidDreamPortal Thanks for your answer, Daniel! Sounds promising 🙂
Hello Lucid Dream Portal. I was wondering if writing down your dreams on a computer would be worse than writing it into a notebook?
I slept like 10 am in the morning cause i didnt sleep well at night (ALL OF THIS IS A DREAM )i was feeling really trippy everything in my room was becoming small and changing in a circular space i took a walk to my kitchen the fridge was moving in a unknown way came to bed and i was trying to wake up i even had a reality check i watched my hand it was literally like a visual effect i knew i was dreaming but when i knew it was a dream i wanted to explorw but i was not able to wake up from the bed at all when i tried harder i woke up from the sleep itself now the time is around twelve ill try to sleep again 🙉
Will i get lucid again 👻❤
At the moment, my hypnagogia is just swirling colors and flashes of light (lately, I've often tried to wait for hypnagogia while falling asleep), nothing more concrete than that - and I cannot keep it going, I eventually fall into dreamless sleep. But I will definitely try again (and again, and again...).
It's a bit hit and miss! There definitely seems to be a qualitative difference between hypnagogic hallucinations depending on the stage of sleep. Think of it more of an umbrella term for "weird shizzle the brain does" when falling asleep. But it can be used a little like ART
ive been doing this for years
This happened to me last night and during my nap today, I kept trying to start a lucid dream scenario but it didn’t work.
hello and nice
I also need to reduce my screen time hence my late response.
I have hallucinations like that very easily. I always see images in front of me and feel numb. I do 20 minutes every day. Every time I have hallucinations even in the afternoon
. I also have very nice feeling during it. and find my mind very open. looks like a drug
but after time it feels like my dopamine receptors are fried and a dip. and I'm getting hungry.
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Hi Jim, that's very unusual! Hypnagogia is very poorly understood and acts more as a kind of catch-all word for presleep hallucinations. I'm not sure if your experiences would fall under the category but fascinating nonetheless! It's quite amazing how everyone's psychological landscape is different.
And thank you so much!
@@LucidDreamPortal when I open my eyes. I see faces coming from every corner and visuals.
I resist sleeping and just lie on the bed and get into a daze.
I often do it with meditation music. I succeed every time. and every day and every time.
but I am still unable to achieve maintained awareness lucid dreaming
@@LucidDreamPortal Now maybe I can explain. is dopamine used to make you fall asleep and serotonin? that I suppress sleep for 20 to 30 minutes. and that's why I get such a dopamine dip and hungry?
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just my thoughts, in this state you get different thoughts and strange thoughts and a lot of visuals.
frontal lobe communicate less and more slowly with visual cortex?
I think visuals are a bit like LsD. but with LsD you also have glutamine release in the frontal lobe and of course something else entirely
Dopamine usually keeps us alert, so it's not really what makes us sleepy - that's a bit more complicated. Serotonin, though, does help us drift off to sleep. If you're feeling hungrier when you try to stay awake longer, it might be because your sleep changes are messing with your hunger hormones (ghrelin and leptin). It's a very very complex process. Frankly the more important thing to focus on and to become familiar with is the subjective experience, as this is what will teach you how to lucid dream. What is going on "under the hood" is fascinating, but it won't be particularly helpful in regards to lucid dreaming or hypnagogic surfing itself.
@LucidDreamPortal How long did it take for you to get your first lucid dream and what do I think is the easiest method for beginners. I’ve been trying for a while now. I’ve only had one time when I realized I was dreaming but then I immediately woke up (I’m assuming bc I got too excited)
I started at age 5 so my memory of that time is patchy at best. However, as a lucid dream teacher and researcher I've worked with thousands of students, for most people they'll experience their first lucid dream within 3 months, often much shorter, if they're following the right advice. The first lucid dreams tend to be short, but they become regular and longer over time.
@@LucidDreamPortal okay, thank you.
I learned this as "wake induced" lucid dreaming
Sadly it seems like you learnt from a misinformation source. Induced means "to cause", that's like saying being awake causes lucid dreaming. It's a common mistake and one of the easiest ways to spot bad sources.
WILD isn't a technique, it's a category of lucid dream. Which is why LaBerge distinguished WILD and DILD by using "initiated", compared to his technique MILD which uses "induced"
@TheLucidDreamingGuide i feel like i got it back in the day when laberge was practically the only source so i must just have just remembered it wrong all these years
I know you can’t make hypnagogia happen but can you form ur own hallucinations when they start happening? (I feel stupid for asking this question but I’m just curious)
Generally hypnagogia tends to be distinct from expectations or control, but on occasions there can be the ability to manipulate it a little. In reality it's likely that we're discussing multiple different phenomenon when we talk about hypnagogia as it's poorly researched and a bit of an umbrella term. And no, please never feel stupid - questioning is absolutely vital and there are no stupid questions when you are learning!
Noice vid :p
Why do mine just feel like cars driving past my face with their brightest lights on
I usually hear sounds as I fall asleep!
I usually hear people I know saying one of these simple words as "Yes" "No" "Okay" right into my ear.
Yesterday I heard my crush calling out my name.
Do you have any idea why I experience it usually like this?
It's poorly researched or understood, but what you've shared is very much what seems to be almost universally reported. Hopefully one day we'll have clear answers to these questions
@@LucidDreamPortal Alright, thanks!
Make sure not to get excited.. 🤐
I wanna ask one thing please. What would you choose ? Become a billionaire but you will never get to Lucid dream. Would you take the offer. Actually i am asking you are you content being a lucid dreamer. Or is any other worldly thing worth more for you. Cuz i wanna contribute to this field. But i think will i be happy. With it. Or will i want a life of money instead of experiences. What can you advice me. Please reply
Personally, I wouldn't trade my curiosity, freedom, and the ability to explore the mysteries of consciousness for any amount of money. To me, that would be akin to a golden prison.
Fortunately, it's a choice that never needs to be made, because we can lucid dream and improve our financial circumstances.
Money doesn't buy happiness, but it can expand opportunities, so any offer where money restricts your freedoms would be the opposite to why most people value money in the first place.
However, for practical life advice, this isn't a field that leads to wealth, it's too niche. It suits people who value knowledge and discovery over material gain. So you'd have to think very carefully about your long term life goals and choose your career based on that. But, that's not to say you cannot still contribute while making money in a more lucrative field.
As for worldly things that matter more to me than lucid dreaming: it's the well-being and happiness of my loved ones. The shared experiences and emotional connections I have with family and friends will always be more important than any solitary personal interest.
The real joys of lucid dreaming are exploring and learning about the mysteries of existence, the freedom it offers, but most importantly, sharing that adventure with others.
And no amount of money could replace those things... I'd have to give up being me!
@@LucidDreamPortal thank you so much for this thoughtful advice. And thanks for taking time to reply . I am just 18 years old and it gives me insight. I am really very happy you replied. I explained this to my mom too. And just to share something I have had about 70 lucid dreams till now. But my experiences are limited I can't control things well and most importantly I haven't teleported even once. My dream control is weak but everything else is fine. I think it's now in my subconscious that I can't teleport can it be fixed ? I love you. Love from India. I once called tech support in dream and you had appeared but it was no use. How to change my subconscious idea.
The one thing im wondering is how people wake up in the night without an alarm
Interestingly, most people do have short brief awakenings, often at the end of REM each night, but they are forgotten. But interrupted sleep increases with age.
@@LucidDreamPortal One time I remember waking up in the middle of the night, is when trying to attempt DEILD, but that time I didn't knew about it.
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