Ugh It Happened

[u/Killer_Horse]

So you know how everybody's first lucid dream usually ends pretty quickly cause they get to excited...

Welp here's my dream

I'm on a school trip walking thru a gas station and I grab some gum to eat.

We walk into a huge amphitheatre with fancy lights, and someone ahead of me asks me if I'm chewing gum, I say shhh.

A teacher walks onto the stage and starts talking about shit.

I was worried I would get seen eating the gum so I walk up further away from the teacher and end up sitting in a row of people who are all gaming on steam decks, my own steam deck appears in my hands, (It is at this time I realized) so then I kinda like fast traveled to the other side of the amphitheatre and tried to turn the teacher into a pixie dragon (lol it was what I first thought of though) I hear a sound effect, get super excited then... I wake up

[u/foxgirlmoon]

So you know how everybody's first lucid dream usually ends pretty quickly cause they get to excited...

No, this is a misconception. It's not true. Excitement and intense emotions has nothing to do with waking up. Just think about all the nightmares people have. The closer you are to waking up, the more likely it is to have/transition into a lucid dream.

So what actually happens is that beginners tend to have lucid dreams near the end of their sleep. So they don't last long, regardless of what emotions you feel.

[u/Killer_Horse → u/foxgirlmoon]

Huh interesting, I thought lucid dreams were usually in rem and you usually wake up in light sleep?

[u/foxgirlmoon → u/Killer_Horse]

You wake up at the end of the cycle, which is the end of REM sleep. Light sleep is only like at the start of the cycle. You go through multiple cycles every night, and yes this does mean that you wake up naturally multiple times per night. Those are the ideal instances to try whichever specific LD technique you are going for.

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[u/child-morpheus]

Congratulations! It's a beginning 🤜🏽🤛🏽

[u/Killer_Horse → u/child-morpheus]

I mean I guess it's pretty good for my first week of trying