I have my first lucid dream experience today.

I’ve been interested in this for about two years and have occasionally tried on and off to really focus on it, but unsuccessfully.

I’ve been meditating regularly about an hour a day using theta wave audio which I think contributed to my success.

Today I went to bed at 3 AM and woke up at 7 AM. Unintentionally stayed awake for about 45 minutes just scrolling and then went back to sleep. I laid back down, and found myself asleep but semi aware. I recall thinking “use dream power” (some kind of mantra I’ve never thought of before) and progressed to go to a variety of places and situations where I could command the location or circumstance and it occurred in real time.

However, the one concern I’ve always had is wondering if what I’m willing is actually coming true or if it’s just a dream I’m imagining it being my Will. I’m very sure that it was finally the former in this case because in one instance I distinctly remember thinking, “Now I want this to occur” and it happened.

Wishing you all luck in your journey. It’s possible and too don’t have to be psychic or a Buddhist monk to achieve it.

Hey guys. The last days, i dreamt of superpowers and always after i felt my pinal gland in my brain. Like i was focusing on it. After that i had superpowers of flying. I was in a huge mall and one guy was teaching me to fly. He said that i dont have to fly from my back just focus on my forhead, the pinal gland. After that i was flying high and down. After that he vanished. Strange :D
The other dream was about water bending. I had my fingers in a water bowl and was spining them round in the water till a huge straight form of water came out.
I always felt it in my forhead.
So anyone else had similary expirience like me?

Hey! Just wondering if anyone can give me any shared experiences or information on these dreams I've been having for 10+ years.

Essentially, this always happens when I am tired and trying to fall asleep and occurs completely randomly, unprompted and unwanted. Shortly after I fall asleep I go into a dream, realise something is off about what I am experiencing and realise that I'm in a dream - I can then move around lucidly but it's a panic and I instantly want to wake up. I scream, try and clench my fists to hurt my palms with my nails and open my eyes until it feels like nothing is working and then... I'm awake. Sometimes, sometimes I think I'm awake but I'm actually in another dream and the process starts again. The dream is lucid and as soon as I'm aware I can move around etc but it's always met with panic and an instant need to wake up in a way that feels uncontrollable. Sometimes it's paired with sleep paralysis.

I should mention that the dreams aren't really nightmares, nothing horrible is happening but they feel sinister to me, like there's a greater plot I'm unaware of and when I find out I'm dreaming it's almost like finding out I'm the star of the Truman Show.

I live normal life, am currently a breastfeeding co sleeping mum but this has happened for many stages of my life through my late teens and 20s.

I sometimes thought that recreationally taking MDMA caused it although I haven't taken it in years now and even when I did it wasn't super frequent.

Something strange that's also recently happened was after one night 10 years ago I was at a festival and after taking MDMA (I always thought it possibly could have been laced with something) I started having closed eye hallucinations. Most noticeably I would shut my eyes and be back on the festival feel in this mad kinda trippy dance sequence. Well, this weekend I was at a festival with my baby - completely sober as I've been for months and the same thing started happening! The moment I was closing my eyes I was in hallucination.

Anyway, would love to know more if you have anything to offer. Thank you!

A woman whispered the word silence into my left ear when I woke up. Not sure if it was related to the lucid dream I had, but that was really strange.

I've been practicing lucid dreaming for years, but my lucid dreaming skills have faded recently because I've been struggling with insomnia.

During this time, I've been reading and hearing some really strange and fascinating stories about lucid dreams — things like dream maps, recurring dream locations, consistent dream worlds, and even the idea that we might somehow be visiting different worlds when we dream.

What's interesting is that I've actually experienced lucid dreams that felt extremely vivid and realistic, almost as if I had genuinely entered another world rather than simply being inside a dream. The environments could feel incredibly detailed, and the experience itself felt completely different from an ordinary dream.

I've always assumed this was simply part of how vivid lucid dreams can become, but lately I've been wondering about other people's experiences.

Have any of you experienced lucid dreams that felt like you were actually entering a completely different world?

I'm especially curious about:

• Have you ever returned to the same dream location multiple times?

• Do your recurring dream locations have consistent geography or details?

• Have you ever discovered something in a dream that seemed to exist independently of what you consciously imagined?

• Have you ever had a lucid dream so vivid that it genuinely felt like another reality?

And what about dream maps? Do any of you actually keep track of recurring places or have a mental map of your dream world?

I'd really love to hear your experiences, especially the ones that made you stop and think, "What the hell was that?"

hi. This has been happening for months now. My sleep hours in the real world are relatively normal, about 6-8 hours each night, but almost every time I sleep, I experience a lucid dream that is exceptionally hard to wake from. My dream world is very consistent and continuous; Previous days in the dream world affect future days in the dream, even across (real) nights. There are locations my dream self recognizes, while also being able to recognize they're in a dream. Bizarre cities and landscapes that my unconscious mind concocted and retained over the past few years, that both of us know how to navigate, despite no parallels to the real world (except for one area). My memories in the real world are as vivid as my memories in my dreams, I feel my dreams as if I'm really there, living a second life in my mind. Sometimes my dream self can remember parts of me, too, including my distress experiencing the dreams alongside them and reminiscing on it later.

I sleep in my dreams often, and then wake up the next day, still in the dream. I know I'm in the dream. I know the house I'm in, and how to navigate it. I know it is not my real home. I know I cannot die, and that if I try, everything will just get really foggy and disoriented. I know how to block the doors. I know some sounds to look out for. I know some areas to avoid, but not where to go. I know the patterns of my nightmares, the looks of my friends, and when not to look at something. I fear death, not because of the fear of death, but because it hurts in a way that's hard to describe (stuffy static that fills and burns you up). I spend my dream life trying to find safety and enjoy the company of my friends when I can. And at some point, I wake up, until at some point, I wake up.

I've tried searching around, but I couldn't find anyone else experiencing anything like this. It's really scary and it sucks. It feels like I exist in the real world less than the majority of time I experienced, and it's been freaking me out. The only place I've found that describes anything similar to what I'm experiencing is the Oneirology page on wikipedia, specifically the section on Schizophrenia. Has anyone else experienced something like this or knows what could be going on? Anyone have any insight to share?

I had sex with more than 2 women at once for the first time. I usually don't have sex with more than two women at once when I dream, but for the first time I had sex with 8 women at once. They were performing oral sex on me and I kept tapping their heads like an acoustic drum, and they kept mumbling I was an asshole while they kept giving me oral sex. Unfortunately, it didn't last very long and there wasn't any other sex position before the dream shifted into a different scene.

I had a lucid dream with J. Cole last night…

We basically just walked and talked through the street and we asked each other questions about life and art.
What’s crazy is, it’s been a few days since I listened to any of his music.

Some details from what I remember:

I recognized him while exiting a small event where he was just a bystander.
I said hi and that I was happy to see him supporting the community.
He said thanks and asked which way I was walking. I said I’m headed up the streets to pickup my kids and told him about my family.
He said he would walk with me since he was walking the same way.
He told me how influential having a family was to his life and music. Then he turned to me and said, “I know we as fathers don’t hear this enough but, bro you’re a great man”
I hung my head an let out a tear. He patted my shoulder and said,”you’re good bro”
We started walking again and I said, “alright I have 2 questions about music and your career and that is it I promise! I swear I wont ask shit else!”
He said, “you good, you good, what you got?!”

This is where things got really lucid.
I said, “the 2 questions are, 1 how many takes did it take, pun intended, to lay down ‘Poor Thang’?!”

He said, “pfft like a 100 no lie!” And laughed.

I said, “alright, alright, second question. This one is a little deep. Now that you’re done making music-ish, how are you going to inspire and uplift our community? Are you planning on filling that void somehow? I know myself, like many other POCs find motivation in your music and it makes us want to improve and do better”

He looked, me dead in the eye and said, “I hear you about filling that void and honestly I don’t know. It’s a question I ask myself every day!”

We turned the corner and parted ways. I said I wish him the best and thanked him for his time. He did the same.

Then I woke up.

Me 28 M, stopped dreaming years ago.... I cannot remember when it stopped but I had crazy dreams everyday, superhero stuff, funny stuff even alot of nightmares this was arround 0 to 20 years old.

Suddenly It stopped, I've never came out tired out of the dreams they were just part of my life, I loved to dream.

It was little by little.

I justes entered med school 2 weeks ago, and since then I have been dreaming again every single day even when I take short naps.

Is this normal? I mean it's cool but just wanted to know if someone has a similar experience.

I've never really known what to make of this experience. Even after all these years, I still don't know if it was just a dream, sleep paralysis, or something else entirely.

First, I want to make one thing very clear, I was completely sober.

At the time, I had been in rehab for about five weeks and had recently moved into a sober living mansion, with fourteen other women. The mansion itself was beautiful. High ceilings, lots of natural light, large white pillars inside by the staircase etc. It actually felt really peaceful, which is part of why this experience has stuck with me.

I shared the master bedroom with one other woman. It was the only bedroom on the main floor. The layout of the room is somewhat appropriate because of the subtle differences from real life and what I saw in my dreams.

Walking into the room from the interior doorway in the house, to the right was the master bath and to the left was a short hallway that opened up into the bedroom. The hallway was essentially walk in his and hers closets with sliding mirror doors facing each other.

Our beds were against the same wall, with mine closest to the walk in closets. At the foot of the beds there were French doors leading outside, and above them was a dim red EXIT sign that stayed lit all night. It's was enough to cast a faint red glow over everything, not bright enough to see details clearly just enough to see silhouettes.

Normally, when I slept on my left side, I couldn't actually see the the mirrors because of the angle.

But that night in my dream.. I could.

I remember realizing I couldn't move...

I was lying on my left side staring into the mirror. Everything in the room looked normal, the room was still dimly filled with the red light from the EXIT sign. 

At first, ⁠nothing happened. The room was perfectly still. I could hear no footsteps, no creaking floorboards, not even the air conditioner. The silence was so complete that it almost felt like the room itself was holding its breath. 

As I stared into the mirror, I noticed the reflection of the sliding closet door on the opposite side of the room.

It slowly began to open.

There wasn't any dramatic sound. It just slid open inch by inch until there was about a foot of darkness between the wall and the door.

It wasn't normal darkness.

It looked... empty. Like light itself couldn't reach inside.

I couldn't stop staring at it.

As I watched that opening, an overwhelming feeling of fear settled into my chest.

I've been scared before.

This was different.

It was the kind of fear that doesn't come from your thoughts. It comes from somewhere deeper, like every instinct in your body is screaming that you're in danger before you even know why.

Then I saw it.

Something pale slowly crawled out from inside the closet.

At first I could only make out its skin. It was so white it almost looked like it had a faint glow to it. Then I noticed the long, scraggly white hair hanging around its face.

It crawled toward me in the most unnatural way I can describe. Its movements were crooked, almost broken looking. It didn't crawl like a person or even an animal. It was so silent as it moved across the floor but...it never stopped looking at me.

Its eyes are what I remember most.

They were a pale bluish white color, the kind you sometimes see after someone has died. There weren't really visible pupils. Just those cloudy eyes staring directly into mine.

I was trying with everything I had to wake up.

I couldn't scream.

I couldn't move.

I couldn't even blink.

It felt like time itself stopped and it moved closer.

As it reached the side of my bed, I suddenly felt warm breath against my ear.

I FELT it. 

If you've ever had someone whisper directly into your ear, you know that tickling feeling their breath leaves behind.

That's exactly what I felt.

Then I heard a quiet voice whisper,

"Open your eyes."

The second it said those words, I woke up.

I was still lying on my left side and the room was still eerily quiet. 

I sat straight up and looked around the room, trying to get my eyes to adjust. The red EXIT sign was still glowing above the French doors. I immediately looked over at my roommate. She was bundled up in her blankets, facing away from me, completely asleep.

That deep fear I felt hadn't gone away.

It was still there.

It felt like whatever had been standing beside my bed had only just disappeared. Somehow... I was able to fall back asleep.

The next morning, as soon as I woke up, I asked my roommate if she'd been awake during the night or if she'd tried waking me up because maybe I'd been talking in my sleep.

She looked confused and said, "No. I didn't wake up once last night." So that confirmed my fear that it wasn't a person who spoke to me..

I've only had sleep paralysis one other time in my life, and it was nothing like this. That time there were no creatures or whispers not even a silhouette, I was lying on my stomach next to my husband, everything looked black and white and grainy like an old TV, and I couldn't move or call out to him. Eventually I forced myself up off of the mattress with just my arms enough to awake my self throwing my body back onto the mattress.

That experience didn't scare me though..

This one didn't.

Maybe that's all it was.

Maybe my brain created every bit of it.

But I'll never forget the fear I felt, the warmth of someone's breath against my ear...

...or hearing a voice whisper,

"Open your eyes."

I had a lucid dream the other night and I asked the people in my dream if they were Real and they told me they are Real. They said to me they are as real as me in the dream. Like. I was in the dream with them and they told me they were just as real as me inside the dream. It was really weird. We sat down for what seemed to be about an hour or two and I spoke all about it to them.

I want to share some observations I've made from my lucid dreams because I want to understand what is actually happening and experiment more with it. I never do anything to induce lucid dreams now. No reality checks, no dream journal, no MILD, no mindfulness, nothing. I started having lucid dreams about a year ago, around the same time I started experiencing sleep paralysis, so I don't know if the two were connected or just a coincidence. After experiencing sleep paralysis a few times, I found that I could quite easily enter lucid dreams through it, although the lucid dreams weren't consistent. It's only been around the last 4 months that they became consistent. Now I get at least one lucid dream almost every week, and some weeks I've had more than one or two. I've had around 20–30 lucid dreams in total. I also have ADHD, aphantasia and SDAM. Because of SDAM, my autobiographical memory of my dreams is weak, so afterward I usually remember the dream more as semantic information about what happened rather than being able to mentally re-experience the whole dream. A lot of the actual sequence, visuals and details disappear quickly.

The first thing I've noticed is that actively using my senses and connecting with the dream environment seems extremely important for keeping the dream clear and stable. When I'm actively looking at what's in front of me and paying attention to the visual sensory information, the dream can become much clearer and more stable. If I focus too much inside my head, thinking about the dream or thinking about how to stay lucid, the dream can start fading, becoming dim, or even having blackness dominate the visuals. I've experimented with this several times while lucid. I've also tried using other senses as an anchor. Once I used bubble gum, trying to stay connected to the dream through the sensation of chewing it, but the bubble gum expanded inside my mouth and started frothing, which became distracting and seemed to pull my attention back into my head and away from the dream environment. So far, looking at what is directly in front of me and focusing on the visual sensory information seems to be the most effective for me. I've even started thinking about whether the amount of sensory attention I give to the dream affects how stable it remains.

The second thing is the flow or narration of the dream. My dreams seem to have their own ongoing flow, and dream characters and the situation already happening seem to play a role in what happens next. Initially, I noticed that when I did something that disrupted what the dream characters were doing, the dream sometimes became unstable. For example, taking something while dream characters were focused on something else, or randomly going into an office and saying that I'm the manager. It isn't usually an instant collapse. It feels more like the dream starts pushing me out of the current situation, and I have to actively stabilize it, although sometimes I eventually fail. Changing the environment can also seem to trigger this. At the same time, this isn't always true. I've had lucid dreams where I interfered with the situation very heavily and the dream continued for a long time. I've noticed that when I stay in the same environment and continue with what I'm already doing, I can sometimes keep the dream going almost effortlessly, while changing environments seems more likely to make it unstable. I don't know whether this is actually a property of dream narration or just how my dreams happen to work, so I'd really like to hear what experienced lucid dreamers think.

The third thing is dream characters and their reactions. Their reactions seem to vary a lot. Once I told a dream character who was basically my friend that I was dreaming, and he didn't really care, so I continued the dream for quite a while. Another time I told a dream character that I was dreaming in a very impulsive way, and afterward I became more emotionally alert and disconnected from the dream environment, eventually having to close my eyes as the dream was cutting off. So I don't think simply telling a dream character that you're dreaming automatically causes a dream to collapse. The character, the situation, my emotional state and the way I interact with the dream seem to matter.

I've also had an interesting experience where I heavily disrupted a dream situation and the dream didn't actually collapse. I was in a place with a lot of women and got into a confrontation with one of them. I started physically fighting her and doing wrestling moves, and everyone around reacted strongly, but the dream continued. Then it seemed to collapse, but instead I had a false awakening. I found myself apparently awake looking at a phone, and Reddit was open with a notification saying that my lucid dream had been terminated because of what I had done. It even mentioned that the lucid dream had lasted around 15 minutes. I believed I had actually woken up, but I was still dreaming. Later I was dealing with dogs and puppies outside my room and eventually woke up for real. So this made me question my earlier idea that disrupting the dream necessarily causes it to collapse, because apparently the dream can instead create a convincing false awakening and continue.

Another time, I was almost getting into a conflict with a dream character, so I told him that the girl with me was my girlfriend to calm him down. He became much nicer, but then the girl said that he was actually her brother. I immediately thought "oh fuck" and the dream collapsed. That made me wonder whether contradictions in the ongoing story or social situation can sometimes destabilize a dream, although I don't know if that was actually the cause.

Something else I've noticed is that my dreams are usually surprisingly coherent with real-world logic. This is not necessarily the main way I become lucid, but I've noticed several times that when something happens that clearly breaks normal logic, I realize I'm dreaming. For example, I once noticed that a car didn't really feel like a physical object and that I could drive it in a way that didn't make sense. That helped me realize I was dreaming. I've had similar moments before where something didn't fit the normal logic of the world and I suddenly became lucid. I find this interesting because I have aphantasia and SDAM, and I don't know whether either of those has anything to do with the way my dreams work. I'm not assuming they do. I'm just curious whether there could be any connection between aphantasia, SDAM, ADHD, visualization, autobiographical memory and dreaming.

Another unusual thing about my lucid dreams is that they often seem to happen very soon after I fall asleep. From my experience, I'll close my eyes, start dreaming, and when I wake up only a few to several minutes seem to have passed in the real world. I don't normally have to sleep for 5–6 hours and then do WBTB to get lucid. It just happens naturally. My sleep schedule is also pretty messed up and I've often been severely sleep deprived, so I don't know whether that affects it. I don't deliberately use sleep deprivation to induce lucid dreams.

I'm mainly interested in investigating my own lucid dreams and doing more experiments inside them, rather than just following a standard lucid dreaming routine. I want to understand whether sensory focus really helps stability, whether changing environments affects dream stability, whether dream characters and their reactions matter, whether the ongoing story/context of a dream can resist disruption, and what happens when I deliberately test these things.

For people who lucid dream regularly, do any of these observations match your experience? What do you think might actually be happening? Are there specific experiments you think I should try inside a lucid dream? What should I pay attention to when the dream starts becoming unstable? And are there other interesting things I could test that don't require reality checks or keeping a detailed dream journal every day?

Edit: I forgot to mention something else that I've noticed. Sometimes the dream itself seems to talk to me. The first time, I heard a voice coming from nowhere telling me to tame a dog, and that actually made me realize I was dreaming. Another time I had a figure named Muneer (meaning shining/illuminating) who seemed to help guide the dream. I could kind of watch the dream unfolding from outside while he gave me tips. More recently, I met a lucid dreamer inside my dream who said he was exploring too, and he gave me advice about using sensory anchors.

I can sometimes watch the dream form while I'm still conscious. I see random people talking, pieces of different places, bright colors, geometric patterns, sounds, voices and moving scenes appearing at the same time. Some areas can be completely black while completely different scenes are happening somewhere else. Some parts are extremely vivid while others feel incomplete or barely formed, almost like pieces of several unfinished dreams appearing simultaneously. Sometimes I can watch all of these things gradually converge and form into an actual dream while still maintaining my consciousness. This doesn't happen every time.

I've had sleep paralysis for years now I learned how to deal with them and how to get rid of them it's that I get really mad when I wake up I start cursing screaming and resisting trying to move and everything else and I wake up immediately

But it's not what I'm trying to discuss the problem the thing that is making me scratch my brain carefully and try to think is the dreams that I have before sleep paralysis

When I sleep and have a dream sometimes it's so much super realistic more than real life and I immediately realize like yeah that's a dream I had my dreams in third person pov my whole life ill be just looking at myself and everything from above

But in these realistic dreams it'll be a first person's pov I see facial hairs sun light details I immediately know my brain clicks it's a dream and I don't even try to hide it I tell everyone yeah I know it's a dream and they turn insane like yeah what I normally hear happen when people do that

But I'm very curious my mindset when I'm asleep is very curious I don't think I do no second thought so the first time they go insane I wake up sleep paralysis I sleep again I have the same detailed view and I just tell them yes I know it's a dream

The weird thing is that the people in my dream usually family start telling me yes we know we want you to stay here it's important and I try to stay but I wake up

It happened multiple times now and now they don't go insane first time they just stare at me try to scare me off with weird eyes like a person in my dream who stared at me with pupils like dots that were staring around weirdly and changing and saying yes? As I tried to ask a question after saying i know its a dream but I woke up it keeps happening and I'm confused I'm so confused is it my unconscious mind? Is it a trick I'm lost and I want to know even more but I don't know what to do because they always go insane or I forcefully wake up

So I'm having a dream where I'm walking around my town trying to look for a fair. I see a guy and ask him where the fair is. He gave me directions to a place that didn't exist in real life, which is how I realized I was in a dream. Me and this dream dude get into an argument on whether the place is real or not, until eventually I just straight up tell him I'm having a dream and that he isn't real. I kid you not, this dude in my dream says "Then wake the fuck up my guy." I woke up laughing my ass off.