Hello fellow oneironauts!

I have been following some routine (using WBTB) to study and navigate my dreams after embarking in a personal spiritual journey. I tend to try to do what’s called “dream yoga”.

But lately I have been having trouble remembering my dreams. It was easy at the start of my spiritual journey, but now I tend to forget them the moment I wake up. Even if I am lucid or semi lucid in the dream. I have tried mugwort and blue lotus tea, but nothing seems to work as a dream enhancer or improve dream recall.

So, have you tried any supplements/drugs to improve dream recall? And is this something you’d recommend? If so, which herb, supplement or drug help with dream recall?

Hello I'm very new to this Lucid dreams thing (even if I experienced it one time) , and lately I've realized that my subconscious beliefs are holding me back from what I truly want I once heard someone that lucid dreaming can help wit this , is it true?

Recently, I've been going pretty intense on lucid dreaming and have reached a strong level in recall and how frequent my LDs are.

I feel like I am close or I can begin looking at my main goal of why I started LDing which is persistent realms. Mainly I just have some points/questions that anyone who has a bit of knowledge/experience with PRs can answer please:

1. I once heard of a method to create a PR which is to sort of "create" it in real life by writing all about it down and look for it in your dreams: is this the best method/does it work? And what other methods are there that work?

2. What is the limit? I know this might sound like a stupid question but is it actually possible to create a world that's as detailed as real life and has many hidden plots/events, realistic relationships, realistic luck mechanics etc. Also, for example If I want to go to a world that is very different to this one like backrooms or avatar can my brain really simulate all the effects/physics and all those little details.

3. Time dilation: I don't 100% know how time dilation works. Does it work like movie time skips or is it possible to genuinely make it like real life where it felt like you spent a day (Just like real life) and you can recall it like you spent a day. I kind of need a deep explanation because I am really confused about time dilation.

4. Short but is it actually possible to return to the very moment you left the dream with all the events/content "saved" exactly even if you have not returned to it in a few nights.

5. How do you make yourself less "potent" for realism purposes. Like how do you make it so lose your usual omnipotency/power in dreams. And other stuff like be able to feel pain/remove plot armour in general.

6. This one is more for those with a lot of experience in persistent realms but any tips or advice you would give or common misconceptions you can clear?

Hola amigos creo que descubrí cómo entrar en sueños lúcidos
primer paso: en un sueño normal debo estar consiente que estoy durmiendo

Segundo paso: después me quedo viendo al centro de la imagen de mi sueño o de mis ojos como si meditara y poco a poco empiezan a salir como imágenes y ya de la nada estoy dentro del sueño lúcido, les pasa???

Como si meditara dentro de mi sueño para pasarme a otro sueño, mientras estoy “meditando”he sentido que en la vida real me falta un poquito el aire o como si me temblara un poco la cabeza no se jaja

Ayuda es normal? Quien más lo hace?

Well I have never ld-d , and the closest I've come to it was realizing that breathing under water is really something i wasn't able to do before and it's kinda wierd. I don't dream EVERY night but most of the time I do. They are usually really really long , complex and convoluted with complete plot lines and I remember mostly all of it when I wake up. So I am just asking if I need to start a journal first to remember even more or I can try to do ld techniques?

So I sleep in the same room as my parents and therefore if I turn on an alarm at 3 in the morning they will scold me like hell. For waking up in the night for MILD I would just drink a bunch fo water and wake up in the middle of the night to piss. But I think movement should not be done for FILD. Any ideas

Basically what the title says, so I'll go into specifics.

So the first day it was about 5 seconds of a lucid dream. My eyes felt heavy and when I tried to open them more, I opened my eyes in real life.

Second day the dream was a good 15 or so minutes! The next day was short, and then this morning's was maybe a minute.

Here's some aspects I'm having trouble with. Firstly, it's hard to keep things looking real. I've experimented with rubbing my hands together and licking things. Rubbing my hands together don't do much of anything, and licking stuff is fun but not very good at keeping me lucid or making things more grounded. Are there other techniques I can do?

Closing my eyes at all makes me wake up. It's like when the dream vanishes or my sight vanishes, I'm aware of the back of my eyelids suddenly and so I'm awake. It's a little hard to explain.

I'm worried some of this is because it's in the morning. I constantly wake up throughout the night over and over during dreams, but it's only in the mornings I can find myself in a lucid dream. Furthermore, it ALWAYS happens when I'm dreaming about being in my house. This includes past random lucid dreams.

I feel like at the end of the day it's just going to be about practice and trial and error. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

I’ve been naturally lucid dreaming for at least 10 years, or since my early childhood. I went from rarely lucid dreaming to every night, and still continuously LD nightly. I’ve always thought that LD is kind of like a video game— you progress by levels, and if you try and do it all at once, chances are it doesn’t work out (though there are always exceptions, in dreams especially). I say I lucid dream nightly, but that doesn’t mean each and every dream has full control— they all just have some degree of control, usually the baseline, for me, is flight— because that seems to be my go to lol. Here’s a couple of my personal observations/techniques for inside of dreams and myth busting:

1. If something doesn’t work, think of it differently. Can’t fly by thinking ‘up’? Think of a gust of wind carrying you instead. Or a super jump, or literally whatever comes to mind.

2. Focus on what’s there, not what isn’t. If you’re trying to slip into a LD, don’t think about how you feel ur eyes or how vague the dream looks, try to focus on what’s is there, and build from that. A purple blob? Maybe when you look from this angle it’s a dragon

3. In my experience, changing something that’s already there is much easier than pulling something out of thin air. Making a goldfish into a sea monster is much easier than just making a sea monster, most of the time.

4. Ground things to something. LDs are like sandbox games, you gotta create the rules if you want stuff to work. You wanna change the setting? Well maybe for that you need a spell book or a wand or literally anything! Dreams love conditionals for some reason.

5. Dream experiences are different for everyone. There’s no general ‘you can’t check the time’ or ‘don’t look in mirrors’ stuff reacts differently for everyone, and it’s highly affected by the state of the dream, and your mindset. If the dream is more reactive, characters and objects will follow your mood more. If the dream is more stubborn and you have less control, the possibilities are less predictable.

6. Even though I’m only recently getting into LD techniques, my favorite baseline ‘reality check’ is, if you’re thinking about doing it, you’re in a dream. You would not be seriously considering robbing that bank if you were in real life (probably) or diving off that cliff, or stealing that car (hopefully). This specific check is kind of specialized on the scenario though, I just find it works. Dreams are very good at convincing you that doing crazy things is completely normal.

Anyways have fun happy dreaming lol!

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

I'm writing this at 12:47 AM, just moments after I woke up. I laid down to sleep at around 10:30PM-ish.

At first I think I was sort of inside the Dead Air campaign of Left 4 Dead 2? Literally what I was playing earlier. Shortly after, I'm in the living room, sitting by a window and I think I was sitting next to someone.

I think I her knocks at first but ignored it. Then I hear a familiar voice through the window calling me: "Hey."

The moment I look, I see my dad partialy exposed in the window frame. For a split second, I see him pointing a small carbine at my face, from behind the window. I manage to weave my head so he doesn't shoot at my face, but the bullet hits my shoulder, then I take two or three more in my arms and one in my torso. Those looked like .22s but they were feeling like .357.

I was FEELING. I felt every shot and I was never ever been shot, nor we own firearms. I've never fired a weapon, only airsoft.

I swear I heard dad saying something like "That didn't hit/I missed." Then he went around the house to get to the kitchen and reach me, but I was faster and got to him first. He was riding his bicycle and holding the carbine, pointing at me. I managed to snatch it and push him away. He falls but the way he reacted felt like he was under the influence of something. I hear chatter, from where he came from, there were other people looking for me.

I eventually went past the garage, there was a police-like car outside. My first instincts was to shoot back, but I immediately surrender and raise my hands, trying to get to some cover, shouting something along the lines of “PLEASE, we can negotiate-- I'll go to jail, I'll do jail time I swear”. I knew exactly what this was about. I never been to jail.

Then this police officer, pointing whatever his gun was, fired at me a couple times as he approached and forced me down, kicking me and hitting me with a baton.

And I was still feeling everything.

When he finished I struggled to get up and my dad showed up, looking thin and staring blankly at me as I stood at a safe distance.

I immediately asked: “Have you drugged yourself...??” Then he aggrees immediately: "Yeah."

We just got back inside the house and then I looked at myself. There were so many bruises and scars where each projectile hit.

Once again, I was feeling everything.

Then I slowly opened my eyes as I woke up, I couldn't believe what just happened, but one thing I was sure. If this wasn't a lucid nightmare, it was either a premonition or a warning. A warning for me to lock the fuck in and set my life straight.

I don't have any criminal records whatsoever and I might as well keep it that way.

I think I'm having a hard time going back to sleep after this.

i think this was my first time lucid dreaming, or like breaking the 4th wall in a dream. i don’t remember much about the dream, but i was my current self at my grandmother’s house (who passed away 6 years ago) with one of my cousins. i suddenly said to my grandmother “you’re not actually here, right? you’re dead. this isn’t real” and my grandmother said “that’s correct” and that’s all i remember

How do YOU feel lucid dreaming connects with spirituality has it helped you with connecting with you self? Has it done the opposite? Did spirituality help you with lucid dreaming? Was it the over way around? I’m open to all interpretations of this and your perspectives. How has your journey with both been and how have the intertwined if so?

I just had my first experience lucid dreaming. It was totally random and I didnt prepare anything to induce it. Also scared the crap out of me lol Ive heard a few things on how to lucid dream but never really had intrest in trying. My dreams are usually chaotic and random as hell as it is so I decided to not really take to much interest. The method I'd heard most of was asking someone the time.

I was laying in bed with my partner( or so I thought) and we were cuddling and talking.. alot calmer than my usual dreams when the energy shifted and I felt fear that my partner wasn't really my partner. The type of fear that puts a knot in your stomach. So I started to sit up and for some reason asked what the time was. It was so weird its like my brain knew I could ask that to become conscious even though I have never tried to.. as soon as I asked my partners body started to turn black.. like shadow figure black and I started to panic and told myself to wake up and I did.. I laid there confused/scared and started hearing tapping noises around my room so I panicked and grabbed my phone to turn on the flashlight to check around the room.. luckily nothing was there.. im so glad there wasn't. Another thing to add it felt like I was in the dream for hours but it was only 30 minutes....

Has anyone else had anything weird happen to them like this ?? 😭😭 is lucid dreaming dangerous..? Cause like why would there be some entity posing as my partner..

it would genuinely be the coolest thing ever to see the castles and terrain and just exploring , anyone have an experience like that?