Did you have one spontaneously? Randomly read about it online? Are you one of those lucky people that have had them since childhood?
I had a few lucid dreams growing up but my constant nightmares really kicked me into lucid dreaming every night. One night I just got sick of how scared I was and stated fighting back with whatever power I could manage. Now I can control most things fairly easily.
I was following a youtuber that talked about magic trick, and I found an old video of him that talked about LD, and I started researching about it, last year I had two dreams. Two weeks I started trying again, but i couldn’t have one so far (except the ones i had last year). Would appreciate some help ;) .
Cool! How is your dream recall? Usually the first step is trying to remember your dreams better.
Yeah, I’m actually pretty bad at that, when i write something on my dream journal, its just the last moment of the last dream of the night. I hope that by writings things down I’ll be able to remember more and to have more vivid dreams in the future. I’m watching Beluga (Eplore Lucid Dreaming) guides, do you think his tutorials are good?
I haven’t seen those tutorials, so I can’t say.
But dream recall is a skill, you’ll get better at it. I recommend writing in as much detail as you can, even if it’s a short fragment. And if you don’t remember anything just write “didn’t remember anything” or something.
Some auto-suggestion before sleep can also help: “I will remember my dreams tonight” or “next time I wake up I will immediately remember my dreams”.
Another thing that has been helping me is trying to be more mindful during the day, and going through my day in my head when I go to bed. Try to recall your day before sleep and your dreams after sleep :)
(Feel free to create a thread if you have more specific questions, this magazine could use some more content!)
Thanks for the advice, I’d love to make some content for this community and for this federation!
Awesome! Great to have you on-board :)
I used to have nightmares when I was a kid, back in grade school in the late 80s
At some point it occurred to me that I was just dreaming and could take control, so I didSame for me, but instead of taking control I just used the lucidity to wake me up from the nightmare.
This is so cool I don’t think I’ve ever had a lucid dream but it would be cool to have one
It’s a skill that can be trained! Hopefully with a little time we can start posting guides, tips and answering questions. For now I’d say a good start is trying to remember your dreams. Keeping a dream journal helps greatly (write the dreams in whatever level of detail you find comfortable).
