I Tried Lucid Dreaming for 30 Days and My Life Will Never Be The Same
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One-third of our life, about 9,000 days, are spent asleep. Is it possible that there is more to our sleep than just blackness followed by waking up? I tried lucid dreaming for 30 days, and my life has changed forever.
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I think you should do a update video, on the progress you have made.
(follow up on my last reply) FYI, rumor is the IRS uses Benford's Law to flag folks who cheat on their taxes.
I hope you will do update videos about your lucid dreaming journey. Very interesting.
I have found the most effective way to dream journal. Instead of getting up, turning on a light, and writing ... ( which causes sporadic sleep patterns and is a TERRIBLE for your health and well-being )~ I record. I open my eyes just enough to be able to see and grab my phone. I then face it down ( as to not accidentally video myself 🥴) Hit "video " and in my still half asleep state verbally give all details of the dream. When I've said all that I can recollect (If I don't fall back to sleep while talking;) I just fall back to sweet slumber. When I have time I then go back to listen to my recording and write it all down. I have been amazed by how much I have forgotten and am able to write it all down in a more legible hand writing as well. Give it a try!
For me.. realizing you're in a dream isn't really the hard part... It's remaining asleep once you come to the realization that you've just hacked your mind...
this is true. 99% of my tens of thousands of lucid dreams have been like 1 minute before waking up. It's pretty hard to become aware during a super deep sleep dream. Those are the most epic ones though. I've done it so much that basically i have deep dreams where i kind of dont even know im dreaming but its totally normal to be just flying around or throwing energy balls, using telekinesis etc.. its like they've evolved .. or somtimes even though i become aware, my dream will try to convince me its real but a different timeline or dimension or something... shits weirder when u get older or have been doing it for a long time.
You have to act disinterested the moment you can control things. Become less enthusiastic as soon as it happens, don't try to change anything too fast either and you'll stay longer
Lol, I go lucid, instantly realize ive just done that, get too excited and wake up
You have to find a balance in your body/mind/soul complex, we are unique as humans and thats why we are targeted. I have found whilst lucid dreaming sometimes my 'body' will adjust (roll over, change position, whatever) so I have a 'go to' position - which is similar to how a pharaoh is laid down. So I check my 'mind' to the position. I get back on my back, put my arms on top of my chest, then slide them down beside me outwards palms up, or palms down resting over my pelvis bones. All the time keeping the 'portal' open - you have to keep your eyes shut. Similar if you get up and go for a pee, but keep you eyes half closed. You do the function go back to bed, and you're right back into your dream. This is the same if you have the skill and are human lol. So the portal you where in, you just keep thinking about the last thing you remember and you can get back there easily after the adjustment. You aren't hacking your mind, you are on a journey with your soul, having left body, and not in this dimension/time/space/whatever.
Yeah its definitely really helpful to drill in your mind that when you realise you're lucid to remain calm. Interestingly, i think this has also helped me remain calm during nightmares and sometimes it keeps me from waking up immediately from one lol
I am 71 years old. I have been lucid dreaming since I was about 6 years old. I feel like i live in a day universe and night universe. The night universe can be addictive at times. I had to make a conscious effort to avoid too much lucid dreaming. I have been able to do all kinds of things in lucid dreams. I could fly. Teleportation. Travel into the past or future. Move things with my mind. Walk through intact walls. Sometimes I could be gone for weeks. When i wake up I have to forcefully convince myself that it was only a dream. Some people are good at basketball. I am good at dreaming.
that is amazing I have decided to become good at dreaming aswell
Can you share a method of how to do it?
Try to have multiple dreams simultaneously. I started this when in an entertaining dream I couldn’t decide how I wanted a story to continue. So I split the dream and jumped between the two similar diverting dreams. I got so good at jumping between I just started dreaming them both at once Now I can have 3 dreams simultaneously and jump into another dreaming swapping one of the three with an additional 5 dreams The godlike power and ultra realistic environment as you stated reduces with each stacked dream. it is a trade off, but practice can make it less so This also helped me pull back past dreams and re enter a past dream. I have built up a dream world with this
Is that true then as inception movie describes that you can experience time shifting. I have experienced out o body experience many times but never reached experience lvl. Like robert monroe for example.
Tell me about all the crazy sex stories
I have a little story to tell, sorry if it's too long. I learned to lucid dream to try and stop a recurring nightmare I had that would wake me almost every night, causing night terrors. It was an infinitely black cloud or shape that I knew (in my dream) was pure evil, a malevolent thing that would undulate and change shape and follow me through my dreams, I couldn't escape it and it would invade my normal pleasant dreams and turn them into horrific nightmares about it hurting people I loved and my only choice being to try and run away, eventually it would catch up to me and that's when I would wake up, sweating, shaking, sometimes shouting out loud. Then I learned about lucid dreaming... I never went through the phases you did here when learning, I read some book and the instructions where about learning to hold yourself on that cusp between sleep and wakefulness, that time when you are just beginning to nod off, but you're still aware of what is going on around you. Learning to meditate helps with this a lot. The next part was going to sleep with a story in your mind, make a scenario up and "play pretend" as you fall asleep, just use your imagination. This worked for me regularly. Finally one night, I had the same thing happen as usual, the black shape appeared in my dream and that was the trigger that made me realise I was dreaming, so I started to try and control my dreams, I wasn't able to fly, but I was able to leap ridiculous distances to try and escape, but this thing still caught up to me and, boom, night terror. Until finally one night it happened again, I'd watched The Matrix movies recently, so they were still fresh in my mind and I think that's what made me change my tactics in my dream, it occurred to me, in my dream, that this was MY dream and I can do whatever I want, so Instead of running away, I turned to face the shape, just like Neo finally turning to face Smith, the fear melted away and I got angry, seething and somehow reached out and grabbed the shape, i pulled it close to my face and snarled at it "leave. me. alone" I then took a completely unrealistic Superman level deep breathe and blew at the shape until it started to dissolve and dissipate, until it was finally gone completely. It has never bothered me since and neither have the night terrors. Lucid dreaming can be a very powerful thing.
I'm happy for you man
Yeah right.
bro thinks he's the alpha of the pack
Wow, amazing!
I actually had the same experience. It wasn't until I read "the art of dreaming" by Carlos Castaneda, that I knew what the dark foreboding shape was. It's real and it lives of of your emotions, especially fear.
I feel like once you're in the lucid dream everything gets more vivid and your brain is like, oh crap, he's onto us. Edit: 590 likes?! Thank you guys so much!
It is because if i tell others in my dream that I'm dreaming everything glitches to sht everyone soullessly stares through my soul locking to my eyes and i start losing control
Bruh, 30% of my LDs are about the government chasing me with special equipment that neutralizes my special abilities. Can't fly because they have lightning towers. Can't be invisible because they have detectors. Can't use telekinesis because the have psionic dampeners.
@@Gaze73 morph into one of them noob
@@Gaze73 seems a little... fixated.. chill out, whatever will be will be, enjoy the moment without worrying about the government and perhaps you'll stop imagining them ruining your dreams 🤷♂️
I was into this when I was younger and I think it changed the way I sleep. I had forgotten all about it, but watched this video and remembered. When he started talking about being conscious while starting to sleep/dream I thought "doesn't everyone Notice their dreams beginning? " I actually think it might be why I started having sleep paralysis, because I stuffed something up between being asleep and being awake, now my mind will wake up before my body and I'll be stuck listening to myself snore haha
I realized that I could Lucid Dream at a young age but did not take it seriously until I reached college. As a biology major, finding time was rough and then I realized that the time I am sleeping, I could use to study. As I began experimenting with myself through this process too, I began to be able to recall much more and would have projects that I would finish and write it down. When I would wake up, I immediately knew where to start. It sounds crazy, but you can reach a point in which you can study and try many new things and wake up to reality knowing what's next. I feel that it prepares you for events that never have happened. Learning a skill by just experiencing it in your dream can give u an instinct if it does ever happen because you remember it. To this day, I have learned to talk to my subconscious.
I wish I could do that too. I'll keep trying.
This is cool.
Sorry, but I don't believe that's true. I had lucid dreams before and its not like you can deeply learn anything. It still a dream, the environment, the feeling, everything feels foggy and not fully in control.
@@iamj369 Sorry, maybe you can learn from specific situations, but I mean, you can’t read a book in a dream cause you can’t remember the content of it to actually see pages… even driving a car it’s more about the feeling of driving than the action of doing it, cause the car does not fully corresponds to the real thing. Of corse I’m talking about my experiences. I would love to know more details of something you were able to learn from a dream.
lol I'd just imagine a hot chick the instant I realize I'm lucid dreaming xd No learning happening sorry
I first discovered lucid dreaming when I was 7 years old. I had a lucid dream where I was studying for a spelling test that I had the next morning. The next morning when I had the exam, I recalled everything I studied during the dream and scored a 100%. I’m 24 now and ever since then, I’ve been able to sleep consciously. I graduated with a neuroscience degree and i still don’t know how to explain my experiences scientifically
Cap
Lucid dreaming inspired me to study neuroscience, too
it s explainable, but not in years to come by scientific evidence unfortunately
Oh I have a explanation for u
@@philipsparks6089 cappedy cap
tip: draw a triangle fully shaded on your wrist and look at it through out the day and say “I am in a dream i am in a dream (repeat like crazy person) then when you see it in the dream you will say the phrase and notice the irregularities around you.
thats a good one i used to use clocks & keep an active mind through the day to constantly look at them eventually I guess it became habit in dreams & the numbers either are jumbled or never look the same if you look at them twice & thats when I'd tell myself "I'm in a dream!" then usually wake up instantly lol Thinking back to it too, it was always digital clocks I saw in my dreams, the abnormal digits or varying digits would always be those digital looking alarm clocks, which is weird because I didn't look at those types of clocks in the day at all I remember my dreams from those times so well even to this day, I'm turning 38 this year & i practised lucid dreaming every night from 17-19 I wrote down all my dreams each day I woke up, I type real fast so I just typed them up which allowed me to put in way more detail I re-read some of those a while back & its amazing to me how much more my mind remembers them, almost like a movie I'd seen before
This is a very useful but a particularly dangerous way of going about it for people who aren't adults. You are essentially turning an action into a sub-conscious habit. It is the speedrun method to developing lucid dreams. The issue arises when you start having these dreams regularly. From my own experience as a child I used this method in the form of pinching myself daily. I eventually was having a lucid dream every single night. One day when I was around 13 I stopped being able to tell which life was real anymore. I would wake up and live with my family, go to school, see friends. Then go to sleep and explore new worlds and crazy landscapes. The dreams felt more real to me than being awake. The constant fooling of your brain Via "Am I dreaming, am I dreaming" can cause forms of Schizo-active traits to start to form whilst you are going through puberty. This problem I had remained for around 3 years until I learnt how to properly differentiate the difference between sleeping and being awake. So as much as I highly recommend this strategy if you are keen on dreaming consistently. It is something you have to respect carefully if you are still a child or teenager. A less dangerous but more exhausting method that has a 100% success rate in my experience is going to bed, and laying in the dark trying to picture yourself walking, of a castle, forests. Whatever you want, the key part is trying to form visuals. Do this while relaxing to eventually fall asleep. But right as you are on the edge of falling asleep. Kick yourself awake and repeat. Do this all night until around 7 am. When you will eventually let yourself fall into a dream. You will find yourself in a super heavy dreaming state that is very likely to be lucid. The only downfall is your next day is gonna be shit as you didn't sleep much.
@@NiimsyI tried to do that but with only one thing of it and guess what? I wa s just picturing walking in grass and it made my Brian active enough to stay up till 6 am before passing out
@@ChiefMakes Yea gotta be careful with staying up completely. This relies on the act of fending off sleep, not avoiding it entirely. But hey. Being able to visualize something is good practice for your brain regardless. That is how most people who practice trances start out.
Wow I just saw a video about this and this is a DEEP rabbit hole, and a lot of people do this, so yeah I’m really trying to figure this out, jurs really interesting In general
I never really thought about this until I watched this video... I get them frequently and what you said about dream clarity is on point. I get them after waking up in the night, getting cozy again and telling myself "alright, where was I?". I just start thinking about what I was dreaming about previously and it'll happen
Yes yes yes, that's what I do !
I've been aware of people speaking of dreaming like it's a movie, like it's from outside their own thoughts. To me dreaming is simply when I imagine the _improbable._ Because contemplating & psychologically preparing for the _improbable,_ and how it might play out, is necessary & could save a life; yet while awake we shouldn't waste time over-thinking, when there's work to be done. Isn't this obvious? Most of my dreams are mundane. I dream about cooking foods with the wrong ingredients, and the consequences. Occasionally I hit on a promising idea, and am primed the next day to try it. Hormonal urges make me dream of sex, _improbable_ sex. No luck next day on that front.
Same! And just like you, I never knew what it was. I was simply between waking and falling asleep again, and I told myself what I wanted to do next in the dream, which happened naturally. Now, it is quite rare for me, too bad.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. - Henry Ford
I disagree old people are still learning, and they are already old.
@@Lila22.11 you know what he means
Try learning boring sh!t for work like telephone billing tax codes because you've been tasked by your boss to write code for it. Then you can't wait to be old and retired so you won't have to learn all this deep dive bull.
Great lol
I think what does it is humility. When everything you learn proves how little you know. This is where each answer suggests new questions. But if the motivation is for personal greatness, you'll become a blow-hard. That said, to hone a skill is to stop learning it. For example shoelaces - there really is a cap on that and feeling fresh and open-minded about shoelaces at twenty is laughable. This part of you that learned shoelaces should become calcified like an unconscious robot, so that your conscious mind may progress to fresh challenges. Only much later in the face of senility, when we've robotized everything, must we practice mindfulness.
The only lucid dream I had was emotional. I realized it was a dream because I was with some friends that were no longer in my life. Once I realized that, my mom, who took her life 6 years ago, showed up. I immediately hugged her and she told me everything will be okay. I cried in her arms for about a minute and then I woke up feeling emotionally drained. I was extremely proud of the fact that I realized I was dreaming. I also found it interesting that the only thing I wanted to do was hug my mom. I learned a lot about myself that night.
Wow. 😢❤
This happened to me before. My bestfriend who passed from 32 stabbings to the chest face and arms from some scrawny 16 year old white kid who jus wanted some weed and i guess wanted to take a life but i saw him in my dreams and told him I’m sorry and that i missed him and man iv had a couple of those dreams even of my mom who has schizophrenia but is still alive thankfully and one of my still alive bestfriend telling to me text him back and stop being a depressed lil bi*ch lol
@@gregtavarez3322 why mention "white guy"?...grow up
Incredible. At the Bob Monroe research institute one can train, I've read, to meet departed loved ones. Having met your deceased mother once, perhaps you could encounter her in the lucid concealed world, again.
@@christopherhaley1964 It may be possible for one to learn how to do the same via learning how to astral travel.
Brings back memories of when I was into lucid dreaming about 20 years ago. One thing I always had trouble with was floating up uncontrollably. I learned that if you spin yourself around, you will come back down and this actually worked a couple of times in my lucid dreams!
My problem is only when I go really high for some reason I like to go down but sometimes too steeply. The amount of effort I have to put in to swoop back up isn't possible and it wakes me but I do love dive bombing on the rare occasion I can handle it lol
@@jonnyrubberfist tell yourself you won't get hurt if you hit the floor and you can dive bomb the ground and land without waking up.
@@giftofthewild6665 lol good idea but it's quite hard to fully break thoughts like that
You guys are connecting to spiritual realms. This is dangerous and can kill you/ introduce you to witchcraft and the oo cult practices of the world. Give your life to Jesus
Dave C oh my gosh man! That's what happened to me last time i lucid dream i accidentally said out loud wait a minute this is a dream and then everyone stared through my soul and i started floating up into the air uncontrollably before waking up😂
Lucid dreaming has fascinated me ever since learning about it. Been serious and not so much over time, but a dream journal was a game changer. Even when not doing anything for months or years… I recall WAY more dreams after sticking to habits seriously for a couple months. Same as many, as in went from a single sentence to a page or two of detail. Now even when I’m not “trying” I almost always remember at least one or two dreams in decent detail.
Have you had a dream so nice that you woke up & tried to go back to sleep to continue your dream? It happens to me alot of times 😂
I have that a lot.
Me too!
yes, ... and i can even re-write the story-line of my dream within my dream .. and sometimes i have them as episodes, ... for example- exploring a place or house or uncovering a mystery , one section per episode ...
Every dream I remember is that way. I never had the thought of trying to enter those systematically. I do remember hoping to have them.
You lucky I have no dreams. Just darkness
My first lucid dream happened when I was scared of the recurrent nightmare i had since childhood. I finally found a way to escape the nightmare by closing my eyes very tight and then opened them very fast. This helped me to wake up when I am scared. I practice this technique for a long time and once when I did it again - the dream didn’t ended, It changed. I didn’t wake up as I expected, but everything around me changed. It was still a scary dream, but different. I closed my eyes with force again and then opened them and the dream changed again. This time I wasn’t scared, I was curious. This gave me so much excitement that I started to switch dreams and changed it for about 10-15 times before I woke up. I was so exited when I woke up, so I started a journal. And it became a habit. Every time when my dream was scary or even unpleasant I just closed my eyes and hoped that it will change. And this gave me a realisation, that it’s a dream. Since then I had more than 100 lucid dreams in 2 years, it was so easy for me. I was experimenting and trying to learn what are dream made of. I had so many notes and journals. And then I stated to lose this ability. I couldn’t hold myself inside the dream, because this realisation was pulling me out. I bet it’s because of the hormones or night parties and alcohol. The sleep pattern was broken so the lucid dreaming stopped. I have them sometimes even now, on my 36, but they are short and I don’t have time for experiments. So this video motivated me for another experiment. I believe that if you can hold yourself inside a dream you can rewrite your thought pattens.
Thanks for the tip!
I agree. I’ve been readin the comments and I can write my dreams and basically looking back I can also help create a filter that help maature me.
I have a recurring falling elevator dream and I close my eyes tight and say "this isn't happening, this isn't real" and I'm able to stop the elevator and wake up.
This is so crazy I experienced this exact same thing with lucid dreaming but from a young age! I would squeeze my eyes shut too and open them to have the dream change, almost like I was changing the channel on tv. I also learnt how to lucid dream by escaping my recurring nightmares as well (mine were about crocodiles) 👀 eventually I got frequent sleep paralysis which I think was caused by me lucid dreaming so much
I wonder how common this experience is!
Your experience for the first lucid dream is so similar to mine. I was in a car and for some reason knew it was a dream, then a pulse of clearness happened and I had this strange euphoric feeling. My lucid dreams after that had the same feeling, but less pronounced. I had like 9 over the course of 3 months, but now no very vivid lucid dreams at my 720th entry in my journal. I'm trying to get back to trying hard now.
Did u successful get a lucid dream again?
@@RahulNilmadhub-kk1xf Yes, but short ones of about 2-3 minutes. But I stopped trying every night since then and it was mostly luck I think.
@@phildiop8248 u should do lucid dreams affirmations every day to increase u chances and reality checks. Dont try too hard or it wont happened just instead of thinking “i will lucid dream” say “there is a chance i lucid dream”
I watched this yesterday along with videos on healthy sleep habits and I was finally able to lucid dream last night. I didn't only have one but three lucid dreams. Thanks for the vid!
As a suggestion when you wake up to write up your dreams it’s a good idea to record them on your phone first and then when you wake up in the morning you can write them down. that way you don’t totally wake up and it’s easier to just talk and record than writing when you just wake up. It’s also super cool cause when you wake up in the morning and listen to your audios you start remembering things about the dreams that you wouldn’t normally remember
Thats a very clever idea
Great idea. I used to write down all my dreams but I was remembering so many details that it would take over an hour to write and I ended up with reams of illegible scribbling
Amazing idea, but too bad that I might wake up my family if I started talking in the middle of the night. Not worth the risk. I’ll probably try this someday though.
@@KahinAhmed72 lol same 😭
i use my google docs for dreams. but I only write down my vivid detailed dreams. the ones that don't make me feel anything i never bother writing down.
I ended up having to go through sleep therapy because of lucid dreaming. When I was a kid (and even to this day), I would experience lucid dreams pretty regularly (1-2 times a week). When I tried explaining what would happen to my parents, it scared them (which in turn scared me) as they thought something may have been wrong. After some sleep studies and some relatively deep questioning, the therapist came to the conclusion that I naturally have the ability to become lucid during a dream, she chalked it up to a certain level of self-awareness.
That’s class
I`ve been like that since i was a kid too. scared the crap out of me when i was young(due to seeing a lot of weird and scary things). Over the years i`ve gotten better and doesn`t really interfere with my life now.
I’ve been lucid dreaming for as long as I can remember. I didn’t know there were people who couldn’t. It’s just so normal to me.
@@sarahpetersen6576 same
@@sarahpetersen6576 what do you do in them?
I have found that background music helped me. I knew the music was heard in my room, but dancing while on ice skates to this music became magical. I cannot even stand on skates...but I sure danced on them beautifully.
"I looked at my hands and there were five hands. And I don't know how I knew but I just knew that I was in a lucid dream."))))
Long time lucid dreamer here. I also recommend "daydreaming" with your eyes closed while you try to fall asleep if you want to control the kind of dream you want to have. Imagining/visualizing things in a dark room helps even when you are not sleeping. Think of it like meditation. To stay in a lucid dream, look at your feet and spin in place. This can also help you teleport out of a nightmare. I learned to lucid dream because I had chronic night terrors as a kid and it was the only thing that got rid of them. I have been doing this for over 20 years. I have tested the limits of lucid dreaming as well. You are not god immediately in a dream. You have to actually learn how to control the dream because you are combating your logical self and emotional self at the same time. It is a lot like trying to swim on a rough ocean and not be pulled back into the dream. I found the best way to do so, is imagine you have telekinesis. Your brain uses sensations it knows already to construct sensations in the dreams too. Nothing is "new" to you. Like, lets say you have wings and go flying in a dream. The sensation might be similar to when you held cardboard in your arms as a kid and tried to fly with them. Also, your "body" doesn't exist, and you can have more than your normal limbs. They feel exactly like your normal ones, just in different sizes. i.e. So you can have "wings" on your back and your arms, and your brain just duplicates the sensation for each of the 4 limbs as arms, and two of those arms are holding cardboard but feel like feathers. You can even shapeshift in a dream, but there are limitations to the realism and the sense of size also gets wonky. Reality isn't always realistic either. You can dream in 2D and 5D. You will always interpret the dream as real, even while lucid though. But when the planets have n64 graphics you will scratch your head once you wake up lol.
This is amazing
Nobody cares about whatever you wrote
@@GabrielTepasse 5D? Could you explain this? Your info is very interesting.
10 year lucid dreamer here. how do i switch back to regular dreaming?
try travelling to Saturn`s Rings. You`ll see some f*** up shit. Like Souls being imprisoned and forced to reincarnate to Earth. Use your skills bro for the vision of the world, not for your own vision on the world... see others not yourself. forget you ego, bruv.
When I was a child, I have always been able to lucid dream. My childhood best friend has this gift too. We would talk about our experiences and share our techniques to lucid dream. We both became exponentially more gifted at our lucid dreaming skills from this. One of the techniques we learned from this was a pretty advanced form of lucid dreaming… and I think this is what lucid dreaming is for… Creating your own reality: Have an idea of what your perfect reality you want to exist in, in great detail. When you realize you’re in your lucid dream and you can finally sustain, begin to manipulate a small object. Once you have the ability to change it (example would be to grow bigger or smaller) then flatten out your reality and begin to build and sculpt the world around you. Kind of like using the force. Once you realize life is a dream too crazy shit will happen.
""Once you realize life is a dream too crazy shit will happen." Calm down on the drugs lol
Thanks for sharing. Can you share some examples of some of the crazy shit?
My guy is either the main character of real life or high
My man about to try running through a wall.
@@klwong You can be walking around down by a canal, with people walking dogs, so you can change these dogs into overly large poodles with multiple colours. You can just start skipping, or hopping, then jumping and jumping higher until you are bounding at great lengths. You can jump quickly to get up to another level and just hover or fly. You are actually changing the matrix of the world you are visiting. Subtle things at first for learning, but later you are able to perform amazing things to help others in places you visit.
i remember my first lucid dream. it was around a year ago when i was more dedicated to having them. i was having a nightmare and i shut my eyes and opened them into a sort of void...and it just hit me. it was so incredible...the landscape around me would swirl into shape as i imagined it, and the mountains would roll off into the distance. i was able to swim underwater whilst breathing, something i'd always wished i could do. i continued to try to have another lucid dream for weeks afterwards, to no avail. i became demotivated, but this video has given me the motivation to try once again.
I had my first lucid dream and I was able to fly right away the night before I found your clip; which was the result of wanting to understand lucid dream more. Thank you so much I have learned so much from this clip. Last night, the same night I watched your clip, I was able to do reality check with the nose trick and able to fly again!!! Maybe because I do 1-2 hr of Vipassana meditation everyday helps as well. Thank you my whole experience of the dream world has changed. Thank you thank you thank you! ❤❤❤
super interesting experiment Zach. I was once really into lucid dreaming too but never got past what you reported as Phase 1. You out here inspiring me to try it all again
Yooooo ..... how are you guys doing here
Well hello there 👀
I’ve only ever lucid dreamed twice
Most people stop when they have a bad experience.
Wow really ? I found lucid dreaming to be so easy and even natural. When i was younger i used to lucid dream before i even knew what it was. I used to have a lot of nightmares though and i guess my solution to nightmares was to naturally remind myself that it was a dream.
That "pulse" or ripple effect you talked about is exactly what I've experienced. Usually wakes me up though. I can't ever stay more than a perceived minute or so in a lucid dream.
You need to start spin around for a while to stop waking up
You get too excited and wake up. Just try to stay calm. Dont be scared by the strangeness of what is going on. I find it easy, but i have taken many strong psychedelics, i am used to different reallities, the rational mind might be holding you back. Try to think less and feel more to become more balanced, should make lucid dreaming easier.
I remember feeling it lots of times. I lost most of my skills regarding lucid dreaming, but I had extremely realistic dreams. I felt that pulse thing, I remember thinking "the dream is crashing, the dream is collapsing" and I made an effort to calm down. Amazingly it worked, but the dream wasn't the same
@@af2876 oh what kind of experiences or different realities? Is psychedelics that strong!
Psychs are a whole different thing man. Wouldn't even use strong. Just different to anything you probably have experienced. Life changing for sure. Positively or negatively is up to you.
Your last dream that you shared really resonated with an experience that I had once. My grandfather had passed away and my family and I visited his house to get some closure, as well as take a bit of a vacay. He lived quite far from us growing up so I didn't get to see him much, maybe once every 2 or 3 years. As I got older and got into high school I had a lot more opportunities to see him but I always made excuses not to go, whether it be finals I needed to take or needing to work, really whatever worked so that I didn't have to make the nearly 2 or 3 day drive to a state I couldn't stand. Once he passed I realized how much I missed out on and how interesting and important he was to me and my family. It devastated me for awhile, and I was wrecked with guilt for not visiting him and for taking the potential time I had with him for granted. So fast forward to this family visit to his house, I decided to meditate/fall asleep while thinking about him. It was hard not to considering I was sleeping in his house. And then all of the sudden it hit me like a truck, I wasn't dreaming per say, but I felt the most intense emotional wave of love and forgiveness I have ever felt. I remembered what it felt like to hug him, how it felt to shake his hand, hear his voice, and all around just be in his presence. Almost as if he was telling me it was okay and that he forgave me. To this day if it wasn't for me discovering the idea of astral projection and lucid dreaming I don't think I would have experienced anything like that. And to those of you who read through all of this, and watched this video, give lucid dreaming or meditation at least a shot if you haven't before. Give yourself 2 or 3 nights of dedicated practice/attempts and you'll see progress. Dream On!
Happy to see the community still kickin ❤
I've been lucid dreaming for about 25 years. On one occasion while I was dreaming I found a child with an algebra book, so I began to ask him simple and difficult questions and he answered me correctly all of then, the last question I asked him to multiply was a very difficult equation that I could not solve within the dream, when he gave me the answer to my question. I quickly woke up to check the result on my cell phone, and the answer was correct.
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Yea i believe our brains are far more capable than we think.
Cool story bro
@@StefanReich nah most likely it is true, since same happens with hypnosis. PPL Being able to calculate, remember, have perfect pitch but when they wake from hypnosis no such skills.
Wow i also need this 🥺
This is such a cool experiment. I’ve only been able to experience lucid dreams a few times in my life but I didn’t know it’s something you could try to control 😅
It really is super cool
My most memorable lucid dream I have had was when I was dreaming and talking to someone then in an instant realized I was dreaming. I decided I could just fly away since I am dreaming and I actually did and flew to my parents house talked to them for a few even joked about how I am just dreaming then I woke up. Once I started lucid dreaming everything got really vivid.
he forgot to decalcify his pineal gland,instead he just drinks more floride tap water lmao
@@mast3r346 wait, can you explain that, "decalcify your pineal gland"
@@mast3r346 stop lying. No type of food or drinks can stop you from lucid dreaming, otherwise it won't be natural for some people who drink tap water.
i've been doing it since i was 8 years old, its a very spiritual awakening when you've learned and accomplished it
Ive had a couple of lucid dreams without trying but its been a while since the last. I can still remember them vividly, the amusement and scariness of taking flight on a storm and getting so up that you go above the clouds and see the sun shine trough more clouds is something i dont think ill ever see in real life.
You had a super good start!! I started lucid dreaming as a child, imagining 3 doors while falling asleep. With time, those doors became a whole space just for me.. Like an abandoned cathedral floating in space. Those 3 doors are portals to lucid, normal or nightmare experiences. I can choose every night or hang out in the cathedral. If I’m tired I’ll just go to normal dreams, or if I’m adventurous I’ll go somewhere lucid! A couple years ago I introduced a mirror into the cathedral (is the default place where I go when I fall asleep) and I started having conversations with my subconscious (my reflection talks back).. And it was cryptic but amazing since it helped me to overcome an ED I struggled for so many years… 💜 Keep going! It’s totally worth it
what the actual fuck my brain is missing some parts to be able to do that xd
@@horseradish0911 I could talk about that second life of mine for days. I developed many insteresting things and psychological tools in there, like a map of my memories in a night sky (each star or cluster are different times of my life), for example . Of course I choose the visuals of my world! I’m sure everybody can do it too, but I think every person needs different techniques to achieve it… It was very interesting to see in this vid a newbie trying some of them and working 💪🏻👌🏻
Hello, I'm having trouble getting vivid/realistic dreams, my recall is pretty terrible so that may be the problem but It seems that when I get lucid my dreams aren't very vivid and lack details. I also noticed how you could sort of build a world to dream in, could you reiterate on how you could get the same setting each time (abandoned cathedral), sorry if I'm asking too much
Hello, I'm having trouble getting vivid/realistic dreams, my recall is pretty terrible so that may be the problem but It seems that when I get lucid my dreams aren't very vivid and lack details. I also noticed how you could sort of build a world to dream in, could you reiterate on how you could get the same setting each time (abandoned cathedral), sorry if I'm asking too much
@@Why_did_KZhead_add_handles When I started as a kid, I hyperfixated on imagining those 3 doors with the maximum amount of details possible. I took my time to give the wood a grain, the knobs a style, and all that. With time, I added a white room around it, then a window to the nightsky, and little by little I keept adding details like an architect. To me personally, the trick is being aware the moment I fall sleep meanwhile I visualize my space. When I notice my body getting paralyzed and my visuals getting stronger I understand that I'm traveling to that oniric dimension in my mind. Then I'm free to do whatever I want 😊 You can also try to add stuff awake, design the details of the thing, so when you're in that meditation state you can now concentrate in your created reality. Start slow... I have a lot of rooms and stuff built in now, but I started as minimal as possible. Btw, a tip: when you're imagining that space, Do not, DO NOT let any intrusive thoughts in. You don't want anything else appearing in your space. That area is for your conscious self ONLY. The lucid door is half controlled by your subconscious but that space you will be creating needs to be completely and absolutely safe... Believe me, the mind can be W I L D ( Sorry If I misspelled something, English isn't my main language💜)
Been keeping a dream journal for 4 years. And i feel like talking to myself on some deeper level. Subconscious definitely works at a speed of a light. Catching and processing things you don't even think about during a day. One time i even predicted a future event. I'm really glad you made this video. I think more people should try it and feel the power of subconscious mind! Thanks!
4 times I have dreamed about scenarios which actually happened later. Sometimes next day and one time, immediately.
@@RizwanKhancovers happened to me to when i dreamed about that a massive volcano that blew up and the next day one of the biggest volcanos in tonga blew
y'all should read up on Neville Goddard...
As a kid I had a dream that someone rips out my earring and the same thing happened the next day ,even the same spot.
Jeez don't you ever feel like you don't get a good full night's rest?
I appreciate the cleanliness of the places you recorded the shots in all the places its so nice and crisp great video.
I went through this process 15 years ago and did some insane lucid dreaming for about a year. I then decided to get away from it and with in a month or two I didn't have any lucid dreams anymore. Then I had a couple random ones a couple years ago and now I'm watching this video having ordered the books again. Here we go!
good luck!
like 2 days ago i was having a dream about the day geometry dash 2.2 releases, i was looking through the game and i all the suddenly yelled "IM DREAMING" then i woke up instantly after that. i think this is the first semi lucid dream ive ever had.
@@OuroborosGD real
no@@sandrahenderson3512
i had a lucid dream and when i woke up it still felt like i was in a dream state!! it was HORRIFYING. luckily it went off and i began to feel "normal" after a few minutes, but the fact I couldn't initially escape that disorientated feeling as though I was still dreaming was FRIGHTENING and sent me into panic attack.
"I looked at my hands and there was five hands, and I somehow I knew that it was a lucid dream"
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5 hands are normal!
When you become aware you are dreaming you feel more aware than you do in real life. It’s like you feel so free and you just feel so present. No thoughts, just presence and fun.
Sometimes its not so fun
@@CesarSandoval024 why
@@CesarSandoval024 it will be fun if you want to
@@CesarSandoval024 you have to overcome your fears and not fall victim to your environment, that is your 3d mind working. Your power is limitless once you believe in yourself and face those fears. So liberating. I wish you the best
@@hannahwillis9838 thanks! 3D mind the material world.
This video is great for me to understand that I have been lucid dreaming for years and didn’t know it. When I have experienced this it is always beneficial and restorative. The best dreams and the most important in personal growth.
Been doing it about 5 years now. I can meditate with my eyes open and feel the weight in my forehead only. This really helps to block out physical elements, even pain. It takes practice but eventually I can place all my focus there at will and then don't feel any other part of my mind or body, almost like zoning out. At night its easier and what works for me is to be as still as possible and to breathe deeply steadily. I basically behave exactly as if I'm sleeping but stay mentally focused. Eventually the mind "thinks" the body is asleep, because it has been programmed to recognize that state, then the imagination starts sparking and pictures begin to form. Then its all about putting my intentions in the right place. Its hardly ever as vivid as I thought it would be, and I didn't feel like I could control every aspect of the dream, but I know I'm nowhere near my body and definitely floating out there somewhere 😂
Hi 👋. That's sounds great. I've been trying to get into meditation 🧘♂️ for a while now but I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I just can't seem to get my mind to go quiet even for a little while. Do you have any tips for me maybe?
@@gracie3770 Maybe going out for walks in nature to clear your head before attempting to mediate would help.
@@gracie3770 Maybe u have to look deeper in different types of mediation to learn more about it. I think that this could help a lot, and u will find new tips and technices. 1 Tip i heard that u have to really try to get in a deeper state of mediation and have to want it, for it to become easier.
All have done evil “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23) The penalty for sin is hell (Revelation 21:8). Because of Gods love for us Jesus Christ came down from heaven to take the punishment for our sin on the cross in which he was spat on, beaten, mocked and laughed at. Christ died for the sins of the world and The third day God raised him from the dead (Praise God). This was done so that those who believe on Christ will not perish (hell) but have life everlasting (heaven); be justified by Gods grace through redemption in Christ (John 3:16) (Romans 3:24). The blood Jesus shed on the cross washes away our sin if we Believe in The Son of God and his finished work (ordained by God) on the cross. When this happens the believer receives the righteousness of Christ in place of their own unrighteousness (all sins are forgiven) and this makes them saved (going heaven) and they are born again as a Christian. (Romans 3:25-26)
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I started just like you: writing journals, reality checks... and I ended up having two lucid dreams, but as soon as I realized I woke up immediately. So I slowly stopped doing what I did (journals and stuff). After one year, I am really convinced to do it. I really must! I'm starting again from zero, hoping to do it just like you did :) This video was inspiring, thank you!!
Anything yet?
lol that was exactly me.
@@funkymonkey7202 huh?
@@MrDeano-eu9rg my bad lol
This is my problem…almost happening…then I wake as soon as I realize it’s happening!
i used to lucid dream every night, i was active in all the things you had to do in order to achieve lucid dreaming. reality checks, dream journal and the mindset i had is gone, it has been years. i just didn't have enough will and power to do all those things anymore because "life" anyways i miss lucid dreaming a lot, i kept watching videos about it ever since, but something and i don't know what, your video made it possible. it's just 20 minute long and i was nowhere near my bedtime and somehow i fell asleep in the middle of watching it, but something in your video the way you delivered your thoughts, something clicked and i had it, a lucid dream and boy i've missed it more than i thought i did. i can't describe in words, thank you man.
This happened to me when I watched Waking Life try it out!
Thanks for documenting your experience! I started looking into lucid dreaming as a way to help reduce my anxiety levels, for a couple years I've been waking every morning with anxiety. A crazy thing happened though, within a week of just keeping a dream diary I stopped waking with anxiety. Totally crazy! Then like you, I had a couple of lucid dreams and then nothing for almost two weeks. This is where I am right now. I think I need to be more persistent like you suggested. I'm gonna try WILD too.
I accidentally lucid dreamed when I was young and let me tell you I usually forget dreams like 5 minutes after I wake up The moment I realized I was in control I never forgot it Literally stuck to my mind till this day
What’d you make yourself dream ?
Haha I was raidng a Nightmare. I was still shocked cause Nightmare was taking control over me
Same, flying was so unbelievably cool
that's the same feeling I get... While I generally have terrible memory of dreams, I can remember every/nearly every lucid dream down to the very last details.
Spent most of my childhood in lucid dreams. Enjoyed it more than real life so I would spend weekends asleep even until I was a teenager. There's no pain in a lucid dream so it was a great escape. Taught myself from a self hypnosis book in the library in 1989. Can still recognize things that I set for myself as ways to realize I'm dreaming so I wake up in the dream and take over. Still love flying.
it's interesting that some (most?) people never feel pain in their dreams. i'd say in about 1/10th of mine i experience intense pain, worse than i've ever felt in real life. it's usually a stabbing pain in my lower back. i'm in my mid 20s and don't have any back pain. i also had a problem where even when i knew i was dreaming i couldn't force myself to wake up. for a while i was actually scared to sleep. i eventually learned that wiggling my toes and focusing completely on that usually works to wake me up. i still don't know why the pain happens though
@@dntnawall that is pretty scary tbh
@@dntnawall I too have felt extreme pain in my dreams before.
do you remember what you applied from the book you read?
@@billionaireno1 unfortunately not. I remember working breathing through each part of the body and then setting an intention but I know there was more to it because I haven't hit that level of lucid dreaming or Astral projection again. I'm sure it's in there.
Great job, man! All of that, within 30 days! Highly impressive! Your friend was right; you must stay committed no matter what. You need to nurture it. Preferably don't play videos games during the day. Keep things low key, low intensity. Have ''normal'' days where you work / study - eat - sleep - repeat. You can't be on holidays or doing anything unexpected. Also better to avoid people as much as possible. You want the lucid dream to be the highlight of the day, the one thing to look forward to, and there can't be anything ''competing'' with that. Here's reason why you could have lucid dreams: 1. you expressed your desire to lucid dream effectively during the day + right before you went to sleep and 2. you specified your goal for the lucid dream; ''flying''. Very important. Reality checks with pinching the nose is risky, better to find a recurring item / object in the dream to look at. Visual > Touch. Then when you're in the dream and did your reality check (and thus confirmed you are in the lucid dream), don't freak out. Relax. It's important not too get too excited or too scared. Your emotions cannot be too intense - positive or negative. Because that will end the dream. You need to stay cool and confident. Have a phrase like ''You're fine'' or a dance move to tone down the intensity. Have a standard routine for when you get scared and even for when you're going to ''die''. Be annoyed with your death, not scared. Whatever you want to do in the dream - do it with full confidence. And then you can literally do anything you want to do and experience the impossible, there is no limit. Except: have enough confidence. Sometimes you need to progress to a certain level of confidence in steps, e.g. first explore Earth before exploring the moon. And really have an objective instead of letting the dream take you - you'll have more control of the dream. More control = more confidence. Otherwise the dream will be filled with too many unfamiliar details that will make you increasingly cautious and less confident. Fear is the big lucid dream killer. Better yet, have a reason to return to the lucid dream, e.g. unfinished mission. That will increase the likelihood that you will have another lucid dream. Write down the last thing that you saw in as much detail as possible and make up a whole story around that to give it more potency, with the emphasis on the visuals. That visual e.g. ''wooden door with dark blue paint stains'' that becomes your reality check. That item does not exist outside your lucid dream so as soon as you see that door - you're in. So read and rewrite and mediate on it and visualize that wooden door the following day but especially right before you sleep. It's a hell lot easier to continue lucid dreaming when there is a specific mission, a story line, unfinished business. You can easily slip back into it. But you need that reality check, visual cue. It's tempting for first timers to generate different experiences each time and try out many crazy things. But when things become too fuzzy and unclear, you get overwhelmed quickly and thus your dream ends quickly. You need to keep the lucid dream alive as long as possible, especially your first ones. And your association with them needs to be overall positive. Otherwise your next attempts fail. Better wish to be put back in the dream where you left off to continue the mission, focus heavily on the visual cue until it appears, stay cool and collected when you see it and thus realize you're dreaming, have few crazy things here and there and finish with a bang. That's positive. A mission also helps you forget about your body and the fact that you're dreaming. And really make sure in your ''real life'' , you don't have much stress and avoid situations and events that would disrupt your emotional state too much. It could take months before you can get back. I'm a lucid dreamer, self taught when I was 13. You can use lucid dreams as your playground, but you can also use them to deal with your own weaknesses, dysfunctional beliefs, phobias, traumas. And extremely effectively. I had a fear of doing class presentations / public speaking. So I ''practised'' the class presentation IN my lucid dream, literally hours before my class presentation in real life. Never had a problem with public speaking in my life since.
Ever heard of paragraphs?
@@loco_tom sorry i got carried away haha
Great video, thank for sharing your journey!
This is easily the best and most accurate video I’ve seen for this topic. I’ve been lucid dreaming every few weeks for about a year now and the hardest thing to get used to was the WILD (wake induced lucid dreaming). Commonly, I would hear somebody walking on gravel outside my window even though there is only grass and mulch. The best cure for this for me was to actually focus on the strange things (especially sounds and jerking of legs/arms) and try to put those into the dream. This helps it seem more realistic in the dream and less terrifying.
Do you have physical sensations in your normal dreams? Like can you taste a beer or feel yourself reaching climax?
@@DP-nb2hd I do
@@DP-nb2hd no
I am going to start reading this book today. I stopped having lucid dreams in like months, and was feeling really sad about that. I was with you all along the video, was happy and then teared up at the end, very happy for you experiencing this. And thanks for the video, very inspiring!
I've always had very vivid, amazing dreams, but recently I've started reading quite complex documents in my dreams on a regular basis, except that I'm aware that I'm making the words appear a split second before I read them, and at the same time I'm aware of another level of consciousness - which is fully conscious me - commentating about the fact that I'm actually asleep, how fascinating it is to watch myself, and that I should try to remember what I'm reading when I wake up. I'm also aware that what I'm reading is quite lengthy and complex. Also, OMG - you mentioned the loud bangs when you're falling asleep - I'm so glad to hear other people hear those sometimes.
You got it in less than a month. It's amazing! A lot of people take months to do that. Congrats!
I tried for 2 years and couldn't do it :(
That feeling you had after your first one, when you were telling us you did it, that was exactly how I felt my first time, so I really understood your excitement. the problem I had with lucid dreaming is that it is easy to get distracted by the images, and "follow the rabbit," (as I called it back then), becoming re-engaged with the dream and losing the lucidity. That was frustrating. My Aunt worked with Stephen L. before he died, when I was a kid, and she would always teach my brother and I about lucid dreaming. That book is great.
Maybe you should follow Stephen W. insted of Stephen L. _-🗿_
@@lonnpton5239 Stephen W.?
@@condoin72 (win, it's a joke)
@@lonnpton5239 **slow clap**
@@sleeplessdev7204 😅
One time I had a lucid dream, I felt my body fall asleep while my consciousness stayed awake. I just told myself that “I” as in my consciousness will stay awake and that’s how I ended up dreaming lucidly without even needing reality checks, because I knew that I was sleeping from the beginning.
That's sleep paralysis, and apparently, having sleep paralysis gives you better and more vivid lucid dreams. It's awesome.
@@dietwater8769 Yeah, probably. But tbh it felt very different from how I usually experience sleep paralysis. And I actively forced it. My body didn’t just randomly fall asleep before my brain did. I actively let my body relax until I felt like I could still move it. Like my body was meditating or the progressive muscle relaxation was way too effective 😂. With (my) sleep paralysis experience it is quite different. It happens when I wake up. I have auditory and sensory hallucinations and I don’t open my eyes because I am pretty sure I’d have visual ones too. So it felt quite special to me in comparison to my “normal” sleep paralysis.
@@Blabberflups that sounds awesome!
@@dietwater8769 No it's not! What you on about? It's WILD, not involving sleep paralysis at all.
@@dietwater8769 I get sleep paralysis all the time and the only way I can describe it is a living hell! I've heard that letting it pass can lead to astral projection but I am so scared that I struggle in my head until I get that tiny little jerk that wakes me.
I watched this video late last night and hoped for lucid dreaming that night/this morning. In the past, I've been able to sense in dreams that I was dreaming and could sometimes manipulate the dream for a few seconds. Most of the time I'd wake up. However this morning, I was able to experience what felt like HOURS of lucid dreaming!! I fully knew I was dreaming and was able to say and do things that I normally wouldn't do in real life because I knew it was ok because it was just a dream! I even woke up at one point to go to the bathroom and went back to lucid dreaming when I laid down! The tips you shared here really helped! I was definitely not in control the whole time...there were aspects of the dream that were out of my control. But I tried to direct my behavior and speech. I remember thinking that I would write the dreams down upon waking but I didn't. I just have fragments, the most memorable of which was the number 3700. But despite not remembering, I felt great upon waking up!
This is very inspiring!! Thank you for sharing your journey!
this is something that i tried maybe 10 years ago, and the same thing happened to me too where I had a very brief lucid dream and then did not have one again after that and I gave up. it's cool to hear the same thing happened to you as well. you've made me wanna try this again! I'll definitely try to go as far as you did and wont stop even if I go many days without having one
I accidentally started lucid dreaming because I had so much anxiety my mind couldn’t turn off while sleeping. So I guess it’s one of the positive things that came from a dark time in my life.
Thanks for the nose thing, I was having a strange experience, and remembered what you said. I did the nose trick, and realized I could breathe and that I was in a dream. Then I started flying around and enjoying it. Appreciate you. Before watching this last-night, I had never experienced anything like that before.
Had one intense vision appear once. Maybe lucid or not. I was resting in my bed. And was fully awake cos the radio was on in the background. Suddenly I was above clouds. And hundreds of shining crystals like small stars was around. I couldnt control it but I was moving forward. My body were vibrating like crazy. It felt holy and divine. Amazing stuff. Lasted 10 seconds or so. I almost cried but at the same time I was not brave enough to let it continue. Have never seen this before or after again. ✨✨✨
I used to lucid dream all the time and really enjoyed the feeling of having a sense of power. It helped me conquer some of my darkest nightmare and gave me insights into so many things I never considered before. It's definitely a way to unlock life's mysteries.
That pulse you had when you realised is exactly what I've experienced everything. Colours get brighter, or music louder. It's a pretty amazing experience on its own.
It's actually incredible when you realise you're not lucid dreaming but, transferring your consciousness into the 'other' you. I deep dived last night and woke up three times in the the form of dream levels. It was... different this time.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I will definitely try this method.
I've made it to the end of the video and I thank you so much for documenting your journey. I've been thinking about lucid dreaming for a while but I never committed. This video helped me a lot to understand more about how I could tackle this and start my own journey towards lucid dreaming.
I’ve practiced lucid dreaming on and off for a while now, and I’ve just started to get back into it again. Your journey in this video has had me in tears, awe, and reminiscence of my previous dreaming/lucid dreams. Thank you Zach, to the skies we go. Going to try to dream BIG!
how do you do wbtb and wild conbined?
I learned to do this on a regular basis and it´s amazing!
Have had about 9 lucid dreams. Cant stress enough how important it is to keep your excitement contained got into this younger im gonna try again! Keep CALM and dream ON 😊
15:23 I was on a similar situation on my lucid dream, it's so particular good to have a conversation with yourself... Also i discovered my nature, or who i am, in a lucid dream. I wish all of you guys can have great and deep experiences in yours lucid dreams ❤🙏🏼
Excellent video about Lucid Dreaming Zach! I've been journaling my dreams since my teens and dreamwork is my passion. But lucid dreaming has been a challenge so I appreciate the tips and inspirational tips you shared, thank you!
I’ve been doing a lot of this stuff since a college acquaintance of mine taught me about the concept of lucid dreaming and I’ve been able to manifest some ridiculous things in my dreams out of all sort of fantasy mediums and it’s crazy that they work exactly as you imagine they would
Thank you for the kick in the ass to start again ❤
I'm a lucid dreamer too!! It was nice looking at your progress and what you learned about lucid dreaming. I definitely think everyone should try and experience lucid dreams it's one of the coolest experiences someone can have in my opinion. If you really want to get into lucid dreaming, there's a channel called Lucid Dream Portal that's one of the best, if not the best sources on youtube for lucid dreaming! I've had immense progress learning from that channel! Good luck and happy dreaming!!
Thank you for sharing this beautiful soul 🌷
I used to lucid dream all the time when I was a kid and didnt even realize what it was back then, now being older and having ptsd I have terrible horrifying dreams and coming across this video is definitely a sign to start this journey. Thanks for sharing this amazing journey.
Sorry about the PTSD, I use to have them a lot as a child too and not know what they were. I use to say "I can control my dream, and I know when I'm actually dreaming" when it first happen, but I think other kids didn't believe me, why would they. Now I don't have them as often but I have really good control, I hope you can restart again!
You have Post Traumatic Down Syndrome?
When i was young i would always lucid dream too and it just phased away
PTSD? What, did you break a nail?
... May god and peace be with you 🙏@@JaysonT1
This video truly shows how putting practice and time into things will make you improve a lot. First he was having problems writing dreams down if he had one, and then he just kept getting lucid dreams after some time. Good video.
@@sandrahenderson3512 cool
I’ve always had vivid dreams so years ago I started writing them down. I’ve had dreams where I been certain places and years later I would actually be in that place in real life. I’ve gotten to the point now I can know I’m in a dream and always look around and take in the whole dream. I’ve gotten many many spirit visitations from passed loved ones in dreams where it almost seems normal when I’m in that subconscious mind space. I’m certainly ordering this book and try to bring it to the next level
Thank you for making this video and showing a realistic progresss. Every video I see on KZhead says that you can use their techniques to instantly get a lucid dream so I tried for like a week and got nothing. I thought there was something wrong with me and I was unable to get lucid dreams. Just when I was about to give up I see you trying for a month. Thank you for that
I was experimenting with WILD just after University, travelling and I once had an intense experience where I basically fell out of my body. It was so crazy and odd. Like as if when I started awake-dreaming the dream didn't have a floor. Annoyingly, the sensation of falling and the excitement to finally be lucid dreaming/astral projecting shocked me awake.
Haven’t been able to lucid dream in a few years… not sure why but last time I did, I woke up feeling more refreshed than I ever had. I also can still remember every detail from that dream. Pretty wild!
Same here, they just happen i guess. Im guessing that you felt more refreshed because awhen you're lucid dreaming, you are technically half awake.
So true. This aspect of lucid dreaming doesn't get mentioned so much. That euphoric feeling that lasts all day!
Keeping a dream journal is important not just for understanding our dreams but also for discovering many kinds of symbolism that our sleeping self uses to communicate with our awake self. Dreams repeat for a reason because they're important. They are like little children tugging on their mother's dress trying to get her attention.
I watched the whole video and found it very interesting. Thank you!
man this was a really great video about the Ben Franklin Bridge
I've not done the complexity of research into the dreams but the WILD thing is definitely I think the concept that worked for me. Usually it's just like that, they happen if I'm woke up (kids, pets etc), awake for a few minutes then go back to sleep. In my lucid dreams I've done the whole gambit from modifying reality, time travel, time loops, to even writing & compiling computer code. I remember the first one I really realized how much control I had when I was able to launch off the ground like superman, but when I got to space I got scared and fell then work up. I had a series of lucid dreams where I was in someone else's awakened body too which was strange and they were so real one time I found a phone and called my cell number, woke up to my phone ringing, but then woke up again. So definitely some Inception type dream-in-dream-in-dream stuff. The most strange were the multi-year time expanse dreams where after I woke up, even months later I thought about the time I was at some place that was in my dreams but it felt like a real memory. I had a dream where I was in prison (never been) for a long time and woke up feeling guilty of the crimes I was in prison for and it took several hours to really sort out that I've never been to prison or did those crimes. I've also been able to recall the same dream over different nights too. I find myself often just teleporting to another place by thinking about it and changing the scenario. I originally thought lucid dreaming for me was linked to being drunk (because often times it would be then it was happening, mornings with a hangover going back to sleep). But I quit drinking 7 years ago and still lucid dream - not often, but I'm going to specifically try the WILD technique every time I get the chance because of all the times I remember Lucid dreaming it was always after waking up in the night.
Ohhhh you motivated me! I used to “practice” lucid dreaming 20 years’ ago and it was astonishing. I stopped because I just didn’t stay motivated to do the daytime reality checks. But now I want to get back to it. My reality check is testing gravity 😁 .
I’ve only ever had 1 lucid dream and I remember it still today. I really really want to have another one and I’m very tempted to start doing what you’ve tried in this video. Even though it was over 11 years ago since I had my lucid dream I still remember it so clearly.
I had lucid dreams after meditation. These lucid dreams mostly came during afternoon naps . One lucid dream was my consciousness traveling through changing shapes and patterns like these optical illusions where a shape changes into another shape smoothly. Then I felt my emotions intensifying like I was high and super grateful. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the feeling of being there while a music was playing on the background “ I couldn’t identify the song and I though it was weird because technically my subconscious is playing it for me “ and then I woke up and became super interested in lucid dreams . Unfortunately these days I lost interest for lucid dreaming , but your video gave me motivation to start the method again . Appreciate it 💚🙏🏻
Hello, what kind of meditation? Clearing your mind of thoughts or imagining pictures?
@@CombraStudios The one that involves focus in breathing in and out . Each time your mind drifts to thoughts you watch them and bring your center of attention back to breathing .
I’m 40 yrs old and I experienced lucid dreams at a young age before I knew what lucid dreaming was. I never focus on lucid dreaming because it doesn’t necessarily matter to me. I just become lucid if I want. Like if I’m being chased, I will just take off and fly. Also my brother came to me in a dream while I had fell asleep at my parents house where he was living before he passed away. I hated that he had to leave this world tragically and I didn’t get a chance to say I love you so in this dream, I am in the exact place where I’m laying in my parents house and my deceased brother walks from his room and he’s leaving with a white Lieutenant shirt on like he’s going to work. I called him by name as he got to the front door because I knew I might not get a chance to tell him again, even though I know he’s passed while I’m dreaming. I said I love you and he said I love you too. My brother has been gone for almost 2 yrs. He was the youngest sibling. It still hurts but I felt comfort to be able to tell him what I needed to tell him in the dream.
I love that. I believe he knows it to from wherever we go! Sorry he didn’t get to stay longer. ❤ So glad you get to see him in your dreams. It does feel better to visit no matter how it happens. Thanks for commenting.
The way you explained it at the end of phase two was perfect
Love this video. I've experienced many lucid dreams. I unintentionally taught myself to do it. The part about having that state of loud sounds and body jerks. I find thinking your name works best going between the two states. Sometimes I'd hear my sister saying it. Different for everyone. What works for me may not work for someone else.
You went a great way! Do breathing exercises and meditate until right before going to sleep, if you want it to deepen and widen. But beware, the stuff you get into may interfere with your emotional life cause it loosens up parts that may have been suppressed long longtime. I'm thinking, maybe I myself should start it again, but titrate (small doses, not every night).
YES and yes, I teach dream work and I'm very happy to have found your KZhead .. .. .. thank you.
My main issue with lucid dreaming is the sleep paralysis. The first few times of the paralysis, when I woke up, I panicked because it felt like an elephant on my chest and I try to breathe but then I realized that I am breathing automatically and I calmed down, but it was still very heavy and I just wait until my brain switches to wake state and activate my body. In my lucid dreams, I can't choose the place or people. I can sometimes control what I do like flying/floating. The only active senses are sight and sound, I tried touch but that's hard and that's also when I drift towards wake state, being "too aware" that it is a dream. I'm working on dreaming while awake. I close my eyes and activate dreaming. Doing REM purposely help activate the dream state. It helps me regain energy during mid-day like taking a nap without losing consciousness.
I have never experienced sleep paralysis but i started on a school where i lived for a year and slept feet to feet with a self proclaimed satanist and i chould not move. Dont buy into this devil trickery he is after all a angle with far more knowlegde of humans desire to sin, so he Will appeare in your dreams with wild interesting experienced to hook you to mentally sin and get you addicted to.
Lucid dreams and techniques used dont give nor use sleep paralysis
@bomfine I don't think he meant sleeping during the day. But to avoid the mid-day energy dropoff
@bomfine REM = rapid eye movement. I just rapidly move my eyes all kinds of directions. There is a study about moving your eyes side to side rapidly to heal mental trauma. There are 2 states of dreaming. One is the shallow version and the deep [REM] version. You can learn more about it from Andrew Huberman podcast. Dream state is different from imagination state. The 2 techniques I use to enter this dream "simulation" is after closing your eyes, do REM and the other is to point your eye upwards but allow your mind's eye look forward. There is a scientific study of the portion of the brain that emits light, I think its like where the eye attaches to the brain [I forgot sorry]. You know how sometimes in the dream it appears daytime? I think that is when this part of the brain activates. So for my dream simulation, I allow this to happen until the scenery that my mind's eye see looks like an actual dream, or something very real. But since I'm still conscious, I know that it's not real. Normally I don't try to control what I do compare to lucid dreaming because my goal is to allow my subconscious to take over and create the dream and I just watch.
What you describe is more like some astral travel experience.
Hey Zach, thank you so much for sharing your experience with us! It sounds absolutely amazing! How is it going now, after 10 months from this video? Please I'm curious to listen if you went on and what happened 😊
ive been trying to lucid dream for a while and i just couldn't find the motivation, and man, this was so motivating.
Thanks this was very interesting. I actually started wanting to lucid dream around 2000, I wasnt even a teenager but I read a book and fell in love with the idea. Nut I never could. Since then I've had bouts of trying stuff like reality checks and trying to stay awake when falling asleep (does not help I have delayed sleep phase disorder), this has given me motivation to try again for my mental health issues
I’ve been on and off trying to lucid dream for a long time now, but never stick with the protocol. You have inspired me! I’m gonna do it! Thank you!!
Yeah do it! Gets me thinking about it too
It's amazing what I remember after reading the dreams I have written down. I need to start writing down all of my dreams. I have dreams that come to pass. So I have had dreams and knew I was dreaming. I didn't know lucid dreams were a thing. Now I know.
I’ve been controlling my dreams since I was a child! I used to create my own movie scripts in dreams when I was still taking naps before going to elementary school! It’s awesome!
I accidentally lucid dreamed in my early 20's. It really freaked me out because i was not aware of "lucid dreaming". I found it really hard to decipher what was reality. Its happens now very often, i don't try to lucid dream either. One thing I've noticed is that I'm more likely to lucid dream if i take a nap in the daytime or when my sleep pattern is broken (weird). When i close my eyes i can start to see visual hallucinations, i focus in on them and boom, I'm in the lucid dream, i can open my eyes at any point in the lucid dream, look around my bedroom and remind myself what reality is and then close my eyes and go back into the dream to somewhere completely different.
that's so effin awesome. best feeling ever. you so lucky :)
There’s a name for the method your using. Wake induced lucid dreaming
what the fuck thats insane , ive never had one before can you literally do want you want providing you have enough practice?
I have realized that if I ask myself “wait a minute is this a dream?” Then it is a dream. I remember in my dreams that I would never ask myself that in this reality. That way you can know quickly if you were in reality or in a dream.
the question is whats reality