So i have had weird issues with sleep nearly my whole life but it has always gone in waves from frequent to very infrequent. I remember having my first hypnopompic hallucinations when I was probably 4 years old. I remember 2 distinctly. 1 was large grubworm descended from a web like a spider from the ceiling above my face in the night. The other was a small beast (from beauty and the beast) guarding me from leaving my room in the morning.

I usually have them roughly 30 minutes to 1 hour after falling asleep. I wake up, see things for about 5 seconds and then it quickly fades away. I very often immediately panic and breathe heavy for a few seconds and my wife reminds me that whatever I'm seeing is not real, which is very helpful and kind of her.

A funny one I had as a teen, i was staying with a friend and i was sleeping on a twin bed that almost up against the wall but not quite. I woke up just after the sun came up and immediately saw a massive black spider and then it jumped toward me. I was so terrified that i instinctively jumped away from it into the wall and fell down between the bed and the wall. As soon as i realized it wasn't real i just sat there stuck between the wall and the bed laughing at how silly I felt.

There was one time though that I still question to this day. We lived in several different houses growing up and one of them we lived in had sort of a spooky vibe because several sort of strange things happened that kind of gave us the creeps. One instance in particular was a night where I woke up feeling the covers being pulled off my body towards the edge of the bed and I wasn't scared at all because I immediately assumed my sister was pranking me. The only problem was we had a jack and jill bathroom and we slept with the doors open so I looked into her room and saw her there asleep. This one was made even worse by the fact that a few more very odd things happened after this. Maybe it was just a hallucination or maybe I woke myself by kicking the blankets but for some reason it never really felt like that to me and it still sort of creeps me out to this day.

I want to hear all of your sleep hallucination stories! Spooky, funny, or in between.

Thanks

I tried WILD multiple times last few nights with WBTB & naps

I felt like I fell asleep, then suddenly woke up with a wave of vibrations.

No dream scene developed. (Except my 1st WILD).

Has anyone experienced this? How did you overcome it or get past this stage?

I had lot of horrible recurring nightmares when i was a teen, i was always chased by a killer and i knew if he catched me i will suffer an atrocious death. Everytime he put me in the corner and i suddendly know i was dreaming and kill myself to woke up.

Was actually a lucid dream? Thank God i dont have those dreams anymore, but also i dont realize im dreaming anymore.

I wanted a lucid dream for a while now, but I’m overwhelmed on where to start….. I have horrible insomnia and I’m pretty much nocturnal so I don’t know if that would affect things, I’ve had sleep paralysis a few times before in the past…. And I will be starting trazadone for sleep soon I’m already on melatonin…….. I’m also on a shit ton of other meds and I don’t know if that affects things.

I’m very sickly and can’t do much in life and I’m hoping I was able to lucid dreams should be able to do things and function like a normal person, is that how lucid dreaming works?

I have bad ADHD so it’s really hard for me to sort through where to start or what would be best?

I was wondering if using mugwort essential oil with a diffuser (the ones used in like aromatherapy) would have a potent enough effect to cause vivid and lucid dreams. Has anyone tried this before?

What are your best ideas of things to do? Other than flying and stuff. Once I realized I’m lucid dreaming I kinda get stressed feeling like I have to figure out something to do quick. And then I often end up flying for example. But then I get so excited and my heart starts beating, and because of that I wake up so fast 😞

TLDR

0 lucid dreams, 2 dreams recalled last night.

0 lucid dreams, 19 dreams recalled total.

Sickness is finally gone 🥳

Dream recall

2 solid dreams last night, i think there was more but i was still recovering, i feel completely fine now.

All day awareness

20 minutes a day is nice for meditation, morning and night so its like a full loop. Im digging deep into my dreams, for some reason im always fine with whats happening and my brain connects some story to make it make sense. For example, last night my friend threw a frisbe so fast it caught on fire, so he could light his birthday candles on fire. Now my brain connected the fact it could happen and just went with it. SSILD Still being used over MILD, but nothing happening yet....

Thank you!

Week 2, here we come...

Today I successfully lucid dreamt about 4 times in a row

I didn’t put any alarms or anything, I simply woke up and had just gotten out of a dream and affirmed that I’m lucid dreaming, then I felt myself being pulled and having a sleep paralysis but I simply calmed myself down and kept affirming. Which allowed me to successfully get into my dream where I was flying around my room and in order to ground myself better i looked at the walls and my hands and everything, but when I thought I was fully grounded (I didn’t panic or feel excited), I immediately felt everything crumble and I woke up again. The dream barely lasted 15-20s.

I didn’t want to get frustrated so I tried again, and same feeling of sleep paralysis, and I ended up in a whole other scenario, in a supermarket. I looked around and kept repeating that I’m in a dream so that I gain full control. I grounded myself, so I went shopping and got a few sweets so I can binge eat them but when I jumped, everything crumbled again.

The next lucid dream became non-lucid mid-way because I forgot to say that I’m in a dream, and the fourth I barely had the time to ground myself and I immediately woke up. I’m super frustrated because i ACTUALLY lucid dreamt, I just had an annoying time limit 😭

Can someone tell me what can I do to make them last longer and what to do to ground myself rapidly?

I’ve wanted to lucid dream for the past few years so decided to improve dream recall by keeping a journal, but quickly realised i rarely dream, and never vividly. Any advice?

Does anyone have advice on how to successfully lucid dream tonight on command? I’m currently dealing with an incredibly heavy, unbearable situation in my waking life and desperately need to connect with my spirit guides for some guidance and answers. Since it’s a high-stakes night for me, I also want to experiment with lucid sex if I can successfully stabilize the dream. I'm planning on trying the WBTB (Wake Back to Bed) method paired with MILD, but I really need the most reliable, fast-acting tips or grounding techniques to make sure I actually get lucid and don't immediately wake up from the excitement or stress. Any advice on how to anchor myself and manifest both of these specific intentions in one night?"

It’s happened for the last couple days and I don’t like it.

For context, I work very overstimulating job in an event/game center. Lots of music, kids screaming, talking, etc. I also have GAD and ADHD, so sometimes my mind gets frazzled, anxious and overstimulated. I really don’t like these things I’m feeling as I fall asleep and they really make me
Anxious. Any ideas?

My first lucid dream, I was just exploring an abandoned city and it was so cool, I wanna do it again, when I was sleeping yesterday, all I had in mind was "please lucid dream, please lucid dream" I even had my fingers and toes crossed but I didn't, I feel like I can't do it again and it makes me sad :(

Last night I feel like I had a moment of going to bed and entering straight into a lucid dream. Went to bed, did my checks through the day then as I went to bed stayed focused in my mind and in the process of doing that over months I feel I start to recognize thoughts in my head and actual hallucinations that I’m seeing with my eyes closed. Mainly just little colors and textures to little dots of light and last night in doing that I went from watching some dots of light dance around to a song that I was thinking to suddenly flying a fighter jet fighting aliens. Side note I also figured out a way to fly in this dream as well so double points. Has anyone else had that experience? I’m 98% sure I entered right into a lucid dream because I did wake up after the dream about 30 minutes later from things going on in my room.

So i have always had intense, vividly detailed dreams every night for as long as I can remember (I'm in my 30s), but I have never been able to control things quite like other vivid dreamers seem able to do based on what ive read from the community 🤔

I have "internal thoughts" in my dreams, have told certain characters that "I thought I was dreaming or something!" In interactions, and I've even referenced past dreams I've had to dream characters 😵‍💫

But even though it's an intense, vivid, hours/days-long experience in my brain every night, I always am operating under the conditions of the dream (if that makes sense) and have never been able to affect the surrounding environment/situation.

I regularly experience physical sensations while dreaming; a recurring example is a small bird landing on my shoulder, & I can feel the small but firm grip of its talons, hear the gentle rustling of its feathers, and notice the way its presence slightly distorts my hearing on the side it's sitting on.

Does this all count as "lucid dreaming"? Or am I supposed to have more agency? It always feels kind of like "going with the flow" and rolling with the punches so to speak.

I've read about/tried (albeit casually) the techniques that are supposed to help, like the reality-checking light switch stuff, but i still feel at the mercy of my dream scenarios, and they can get quite disturbing and harrowing.

Anyways, just wondering if this sounds familiar to anyone else & if this is indeed "lucid dreaming"?

Thanks for whoever takes the time to read and/or respond! 🙏🏻

I've been trying to lucid dream the past few days. And anytime I'm starting to realize I'm dreaming, I become half-awake and I remember thinking "Well, I can't lucid dream now because then that's just day dreaming," then I'd drift back to sleep. Why is that happening and how can I stop it?

I had woken up for a little bit and started to fall back to sleep cuz i was still tired. I kept hearing static or something idk how to explain it. But the more I heard it the more I felt heavier. I kinda scared myself out of it a couple of times. On the way of doing whatever I was doing I think I dreamt? Im not sure but then the first time it felt like i was spinning but I wasnt which I then scared myself out of it. I started to do it again. I imagined myself entering portals like im going further into whatever I was doing. Then my mind turned blank. No thoughts no nothing. My body started to feel like static and fuzzy. My eyes and face were twitching as I had my head laying on my hand. I could feel my body get like tingles and goosebumps. I could still think and stuff. And then I also scared myself out of it. And sorry for the grammar as im still tried right now. Do yall know what this was? I searched on Google and googled said sleep paralysis. But Idk if thats what the was. What do u guys think?

Between May and August I used to have LDs frequently, and for years I have also gotten lucid dreams occasionally, and I never really put effort into them. However since like last month I have been unable to get LDs (well, it has been difficult for me to sleep in general, even when not trying to LD). I have tried to do FILD, MILD, SSILD, and sometimes WBTB (I usually don't really think much about LDs when waking at midnight, but I sometimes do). Considering I have tried all the methods I actually understand, I'm not entirely sure what to do know. I'm not sure if I should keep trying all these methods, or if I should exclusively try a single method (maybe combined with WBTB?) for a period of time and do that for the others if that doesn't work. I don't know if I'm being too desperate about this.

I'm not sure if this changes anything but in that dream I could affect objects just by deciding to affect them for the first time (although in one moment I couldn't do anything anymore so I decided to wake up). I'm not entirely sure if I'm just not realizing my more recent LDs, or if I'm actually not having them.

Usually when the dream is slipping away, my vision starts to fade away to black, but this time there was just enough blur left from my dream that I was able to just focus on it as hard as I could, and I also put so much brain power into really trying to make it feel like my body was as present as I could in the scene, and then the transition to being back into lucidity was such a vibrant colorful explosion and it just felt so euphoric.

I have been trying to LD for more than a year and was finally making progress. Within the past couple months I even had three LD (of varying lucidity/control/stability) within the span of a few weeks. None exactly the high-control high-lucidity consistent ideal LD, but one was close, being fairly long and consistent and allowing me to fly around but not quite control the scene.

But I've hit a wall again and it is again with dream recall. At this point I'm not sure what to do to get past it.

If I wake up overnight (naturally, not with an alarm) I can usually recall a tiny bit of a dream. But come morning, I really struggle. I struggle with waking up in the morning in general and have to set back to back alarms every 5-10 minutes, and it can take up to half an hour of alarms for me to be able to get out of bed. I fall back asleep between the alarms and I wonder if I am losing my dream recall as I fall back asleep.

Lately I have been trying MILD, and sometimes phase 1 works--in fact I seem to wake up and remember a tiny bit of a dream right after my first sleep cycle--but I have no idea if phase 2 works because I cannot remember any more dreams after falling back asleep.

Does anyone have any tips for getting past this? I do dream journal, and when I can get away with it I lay in bed for a moment recalling my dreams before getting up, but it is risky because I might just fall back asleep in that brief time.

I own a eye mask that had built in speakers and can auto turn off after 1 or 2 hours so im wondering if there is anything good that i can listen to on Spotify to help induce lucid dreams that can be turned off after a few hours but tbh can it be classed as a podcast because i dont wont my wrapped to be filled with lucid dreaming stuff as my top songs

Hey guys I once saw lucid dream without realising and I want to do it again tonight, can anyone tell a way to lucid dream without wblb and without waking up again? Or just tell a tip for using the DILD pls

I once woke up after a ~5 hours sleep, checked my phone, drunk water but before I went back to sleep I wanted to lucid dream.

I laid down, I repeated in my head "Mind awake, Body asleep." And closed my eyes, then I felt this energy around my body, it felt like it was my soul coming out, I didn't know what was happening but I felt like I was elevating, I was so scared and I jolted my eyes open and moved and it stopped.

What was it? Was it a near successful try to lucid dream that I ruined?

I don't know why. Last night, I went to sleep as usual, but while falling asleep I felt something heavy over me. It was in my mind and I knew it, but it was there, and it followed me as I fell asleep.

Then, next thing I know, I am in the dream, and I become very much aware of it. I go around, do my things, obviously, as a beginner, I woke up a couple of times during it, but I went back to sleep immediately after, and the next dreams were lucid as well. My sleep quality was terrible, but hey, at least I had some fun!

Today, I decided to take a nap. No heavy feeling this time, just... Me randomly becoming aware. Unfortunately I also woke up soon afterwards, because all I got was a black tea and a walk through the city during winter.

They are incredibly vivid - I was surprised by the intensity of the flavours! The tea was incredibly rich, with a hint of lemon and spices to it.

Years ago, I used to practice, having a dream journal and all that, with very little success. Today I had four lucid dreams in under 24 hours.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? What could be the cause?