Lucid in a dream, I told dream characters they're not real, and this is what happened 🙊

[@Preview43]

I had a lucid dream where I was kind of arguing with the dream whether it was real or not. I was on a gravel path lined with trees and only lucid dreamers can understand just how ultrarealistic the scene was. It was so lifelike that I was testing the gravel, examining the veins in the leaves and smelling the air. I finally decided I wasn't actually dreaming... and that was the moment I woke up.

[@LucidExplorers]

Examining the dream environment is a wonderful way to deepen your lucidity and stabilize the dream once you're sure you're dreaming. You just have to keep that perspective while you're doing it.

[@Fast-Burn-Productions-LLC]

@LucidExplorers yhea even though I haven't in a long time. I did find to keep being lucid instead loosing it and just go back to regular dreaming I found that when I know I'm loosing it I just spin and I end up in a different place but still lucid

[@Goldilocks444]

Yes it can feel the exact same as here I love the leaves and the gravel like you said but then once you think actually maybe it’s real you start levitating lol it’s so weird to question it while you’re in it but I’ve been told to go ok how did I get here like what was I doing prior etc

[@Necrozene]

Instead of telling them "we are all in a dream", it is more fun to say "I have special powers! Let me show you!"

[@LucidExplorers]

Yo exactly! That's the more the angle I typically take. I tend to say something to effect like, I'm dreaming let me know what we can do! and then I show them how to walk up walls or go flying or something

[@Necrozene]

@@LucidExplorers I don't want to trip you out too much, but it is even better in real life when you can say the same thing, more or less... Like predictive dreams and precognition. It is even more rare than "normal" lucid dreams, but I feel these excellent dreams do have something to do with it. Dream on good friend!

[@Necrozene]

The most dramatic effect I had was a "healing dream" (lucid). I had terrible dermatitis when I went to sleep. I dreamed Llala Ward (Romana) jumped out of a tank in a Dr Who type battlefield, and I showed her my hands. She was so nice. She waved a gadget over my hands and said "There you go! Fixed". She then jumped back in the tank and rolled off. When I woke, my hands were perfectly healed - no sign of dermatitis. I had shown a friend at school the previous day, and I was happy to show him the result. He simply thought I was playing a trick on him.

[@LucidExplorers]

@@Necrozene shucks I've been waiting for precognitive and healing dreams for years but never got good results from it. I tried healing dreams on my low back (been dealing with low back issues for close to a decade) for years it never made much of a difference though. I think it is because it is so muscle related due to it getting tight and sloppy body mechanics when I'm kickboxing and stuff. I should get back to giving it a try though on a different problem and see what happens. Thanks for the comments!

[@Necrozene]

@@LucidExplorers I wish you the best in your dream quests. Some dreams are so special, that you remember them for the rest of your life. Wonderful. 😊

[@misspriss2482]

I used to have horrible nightmares. I had to learn how to control my dreams so that I could change things. I also used to see my dead mother in my dreams. When I would tell her that she wasn't really there, she would get sad and leave.

[@LucidExplorers]

My first lucid dreams were nightmares also. I was so young tho it never crossed my mind to try and control or change things

[@brittanyjackson1718]

Our loved ones who have passed visit us in our dreams....next time just hug her and tell her that you love and miss her....trust me God Bless

[@Jwy-e6l]

​@@LucidExplorersme too

[@nanomia]

Why would you say this to her? :(

[@ynggaming6749]

That's a Satan in disguise, be careful

[@shirleypena4133]

Only ONCE did I question whether a character in my dreams was actually real. This happened when I dreamt that my father (who is deceased) took me to an unknown house and-without any explanation-dropped me off there. It turned out that my grandmother (also deceased) lived there. In the dream, I told my grandmother "They told me that you DIED!" to which she responded with a smile, "Now why would they tell you THAT?"🤔🤔

[@LucidExplorers]

Thanks for sharing! Sounds like a very beautiful and meaningful dream. I had this dream one time not long after my grandfather died. I was lucid and flying around my childhood home and I see my dad standing on porch. I call to him flying above our tree to show him how I can fly and stuff and as I'm doing that I see grandpa behind him in the house. I get choked up and can't speak anymore as I try to point that out. I was in the process of learning sign language at the time in my waking life and it dawns on me I should try signing grandpa and pointing behind him. I do that. My dad gets the message and turns around to see his father. They walk into the house together and I felt this wonderful loving feeling wash over me and wake. I messaged my dad the next morning to see if he dreamed of grandpa but he said he didn't remember his dreams from the night. Whether I really linked their spirits together that night or not, kinda doesn't even matter to me because whether I did or didn't, it doesn't take away from the wonderful experience of being there in the moment and feeling like I did.

[@josiahesquivel1487]

To be honest our loved ones aren’t dead

[@josiahesquivel1487]

Just imagine your grandmother saying…now why would they tell you that, think about it

[@tomhanks341]

What do you mean​@@josiahesquivel1487

[@teonactalpizza]

@@josiahesquivel1487well yes they are. Maybe they exist as a memory that can the be used as raw material for dreams since anything can and in that sense they live on but , no they are in fact dead and gone. They won't know you did any of this.

[@johanwillemen7709]

Had a lucid dream lastnight where i told the dream characters that this is not real. They tried to convince me otherwise but i pointed things out in the senary that dont exist. They ended up agreeing with me then i had a conversation with some god like being/large face, who told me "this is how it is" i cant remember our conversation tho. I woke up but was still in a dream, then i forced my self to wake up. Had another one a few weeks ago and they got angry at me when i told them that this was just a dream. They were angry at me, then turned evil and attacked me.

[@LucidExplorers]

Yeah it is interesting how doing similar things in different lucid dreams can yield different results. Like for me most of the time when I tell dream characters that they're in a dream/I'm dreaming they don't really care. Occasionally will though. I can normally anticipate how they're react though by the general vibe of the dream that I'm in

[@LucidExplorers]

That first dream you shared sounds pretty amazing though.

[@johanwillemen7709]

@@LucidExplorers it was quite interesting, the second one made me freak out a little as there was a 2nd part to it i didnt mention. After they attacked me i skipped in to another scene, with 4 of us singing a song called "Dance with the devil" by Breaking Benjamin. During the course they sung "because i am the devil" then attacked me. Gave me one hell of jump scare.

[@LucidExplorers]

@@johanwillemen7709 Oh man yeah singing about the devil in a dream seems like it would only up the chances of negativity. I'll have to look that song up!

[@lucymae9965]

Been looking for a comment like this. I had a dream within a dream couple of weeks ago, became lucid and I asked the people "Am I dreaming", their faces distorted became evil and said "You are not supposed to ask that", I then woke up then woke up irl. Same happened last night, but it was a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream, I said "I know I am dreaming" and they all gave me a look of "who tf is she" like I had interrupted something, then woke up one by one then irl. Weird!!

[@alanstarkie2001]

I had a lucid dream as a kid when I tried to explain to my friend that we were in a dream. He just argued with me that we weren't in a dream at all. I still think about that dream and it amuses and fascinates me.

[@LucidExplorers]

it's interesting to me that that type of reaction from dream characters tends to be the norm when being told they're in a dream. it's pretty rare for me

[@TheStupidwolf1]

I was attacked once in my dream when i managed to realize its a dream and told dream people they are not real.

[@LucidExplorers]

😬yeah that seems to be a pretty common response for a lot of people. luckily mine are generally cool with it. maybe next time instead of telling them they're "not real" try telling them they're in your dream and then you can offer to take them flying or something!

[@Amethyst454]

This is so cool! I imagine you were getting the feeling of it wasn't a good thing to tell the dream charcacters this bc they are part of your subconscious.

[@LucidExplorers]

Yeah I think that sounds about right. Makes sense to me.

[@eyoung1683]

The other day, I dreamed something was happening ( I don't remember what it was now, but ) when I woke up, I began telling somebody about the dream right away, and then I woke up again and realized that too was a dream... But THEN I actually did wake up for real. I kept dreaming and waking up from dreaming. So, it was a dream within a dream within a dream.

[@Godlikemind]

Its also called false awakening

[@LucidExplorers]

Cool! I don't get false awakenings all that often tho

[@projectmusictroll]

@@LucidExplorers i got two false awakenings in a row lol

[@LucidExplorers]

@@projectmusictroll nice! I rarely get them but I always find them interesting when I do.

[@AdamADavis1]

@@eyoung1683 that's called a false awakening I LOVE that shi...I live for that shi! Thsts the shi dreams are made of! One Time I had 4 false awakenings back to back to back I thought I had died in my sleep kuz I couldn't get back to base reality!!!

[@-Gunnarsson-]

One interesting fact iv experienced is that dreams play at "normal" speed. Iv waked up many times in the night with a transparent view of the dream. Lasts 5-10seconds. Iv seen someone/people moving around in the dream. Just like normal. No crazy movements. Scientists claim you only dream something just before waking up. But if that was the case a whole dream would have to play x100 or something for it to fit that short time period.

[@LucidExplorers]

Interesting. yeah I'd dispute anyone trying to say the whole dream only takes place just before waking up. I wonder what kind of research they've done to come to that conclusion.

[@sarahdawn7075]

Actually I think it is when you wake mid-dream that you are most likely to remember your dream.

[@Enigm3]

I once told one dream character how does it feel to be dreaming and he just shrughed and said "Eh, it happens, just a normal day" very casual.

[@LucidExplorers]

Nice! Finally someone who has similar dream characters to mine. For the vast majority of people they seem to react negatively. But mine are either indifferent or happy about it when I tell them. Granted I normally follow it up with taking them flying or something and go explore the dream space together

[@MichaelKoslow-e4w]

How would you feel if a dream character told you that YOU are not real? After all, you are a character in the dream as well.

[@LucidExplorers]

Haha that wouldn't bother me at all! I would probably offer to take them flying or something or go explore the dream space with them

[@AbdoKeyar]

whenever i get nightmares, use this technique : fall down to your face , i always do it when i realize im in a scary dream, i always woke up after

[@LucidExplorers]

interesting technique! I haven't heard of that one before. Mahalo for sharing it 🙌

[@alanstarkie2001]

I used to roll up into a ball, then I'd wake up.

[@LucidExplorers]

@@alanstarkie2001 did you close your eyes too in the process?

[@alanstarkie2001]

@@LucidExplorers Absolutely yes, as tight as possible and then I'd be 'back in the room'!

[@LucidExplorers]

@@alanstarkie2001 nice. having a technique in mind to get you out of sketchy situations helps a lot in being able to explore whatever types of situations come up

[@Clash_boy__]

I once summoned one of my emotions( Hatred) it looked just like me but with more of a serious face. He told me many things about the behaviour of other people and about who were good and who were bad. He was a whole different person, he said that i should always talk to him when I'm feeling low. After that for sometime i was used to get lucid dreams and visit the same place where we talked for hours. The lessons he taught me made me feel more disconnected towards others and always think that other people from this real world will or may at some point make me feel down. This went for a whole month of continuous lucid dreams at night . After that one night i told to my hatred that he is also a good person and he suddenly disappeared 😔 then i was left all alone in that dream city. After that incident i didn't get lucid dreams continuously. Now i actually want to talk to him more because he also helped me a lot in my life by guiding me through the stages . It was like every other day in my life was planned of what i would say if people asked me a question. I hope to see him again now whenever i get lucid dreams i try to summon my other emotions too and talk to them as a combined character.

[@LucidExplorers]

@Clash_boy__ that's a cool idea! I wanna give that a try. Thanks for sharing

[@quickdudley]

With regard to lucid dreaming don'ts lists I like the approach some people take of dividing them into ones that risk making the dream unpleasant vs ones that risk waking you up.

[@LucidExplorers]

Good point!

[@infjelphabasupporter8416]

I've been lucid dreaming for as long as I can remember. I never tell anyone they're in a dream because they don't believe you, try to gaslight you into "oh maybe I'm dreaming you up!" or just start acting anxious and hostile. Telling them you're a god is the way👍

[@LucidExplorers]

haha nice I don't think I've ever tried telling a dream character I'm a god! Sounds like something fun to try

[@adorespreloved9625]

I told a person in my dream that the world was a dream and he said that he knew and was trying to summon someone

[@LucidExplorers]

That sounds so cool! I love it when I run into dream characters that seem to know what's going on. They're always the most interesting to interact with.

[@adorespreloved9625]

@@LucidExplorers ikr

[@annatrasanmalm]

Often our guieds can appear as dream characters... giving us really good advise. I get alot of downloads asleeph but almost always forgets them. But I think our unconciuse mind absorb it anyhow.. What do you mean summon? Like somthing bad?

[@wolfmerlot-hx3cr]

This reminds me of my friend who passed away and I'd see them in my dreams. I'd always tell them they're dead. eventually they stopped showing up

[@LucidExplorers]

Sorry to hear about your friend.Getting to see deceased loved ones in your dreams can be a really beautiful thing. I posted a video a month or so ago where I saw one of my friends who passed away. We got to chill on this rooftop and have a couple beers. It was really cool. Maybe you could try asking (dream incubating) to see your friend again in one of your dreams. It might work and if it does it would have a higher likelihood of getting you lucid in that moment

[@brittanyjackson1718]

Our loved ones who have passed visit us in our dreams....next time just hug her and tell her you love her....trust me God Bless

[@LucidExplorers]

That is always a good approach 👍

[@tysherapatterson2570]

My sister visits me in my dreams at times she died 2018 and I miss her and I love her and she’s always alive in my dreams It seems so real my baby sister she was sick i’ll talk to her in my dreams and tell her that I miss her and I give her a hug 😢😔😳🙏🏽❤

[@LucidExplorers]

@@tysherapatterson2570 amazing! the world of dreams are such a wonderful place with so much possibilities and potential

[@LucidExplorers]

@@nanilani28 haha well I guess that is possible too! I tend to think they are just figments of our subconscious mind

[@vpower3187]

my father appears in my dreams from time to time, sometimes gives advice, and recently he challenged me to a fight where we slugged it out for a good while lol.

[@KaraKahn]

I had something crazy happen to me in a lucid dream once. I was in a mall type of place surrounded by a bunch of people when I realized I was dreaming, so I said an affirmation out loud and they all parroted my affirmation back to me at the same time in sync. It was really cool, but kinda creepy at the same time, lol.

[@LucidExplorers]

Oh that is super cool! Thanks for sharing that. Never heard of that happening before. I imagine it would amplify the effect of your affirmation by a substantial amount. What happen after that?

[@KaraKahn]

@@LucidExplorers thanks, it was really interesting. I just looked through my dream journal because I couldn't remember exactly what I said, so I was hoping it would be in there, but it wasn't. I just wrote that I said an affirmation about being worthy, but I couldn't recall the full affirmation. That was January of this year, 2024 and looking back since then, you're right, it did amplify it, as my self-esteem and healthy self-love has blossomed quite a bit, and I've made better decisions and have gained more discernment and insights regarding my past and future. It was like I had an inspired thought to do it in the dream because I had been thinking a lot about affirmations at that time, so I think the idea in the dream came from my higher self. And then I felt called to do them in front of the mirror and straight into my eyes first thing in the morning for 1-2 weeks. Now it seems silly to say affirmations about being worthy because I know that I am. So the next time you become lucid in a dream, I highly recommend saying a positive affirmation 💖

[@LucidExplorers]

@@KaraKahn that's beautiful! I should implement more of that into my practice

[@claytonzillwood5797]

when youre dreamin youre in someone elses world man. have respect, specially when youre lucid. that shit counts more than we know. dreaming is the gateway to everything thats out there

[@LucidExplorers]

Yeah that is definitely a possibility. For the most part I'm respectful in my dreams... unless I happen to be in a super bad mood or something lol

[@itsmeyoufool37]

I often meet old friends or my father who I know died a while ago and I always say 'but you died' and they usually say yeah, that's just how it works.

[@LucidExplorers]

yeah being able to meet and interact with deceased loved ones is one of the most beautiful parts of the practice! thanks for sharing

[@ΔημητραΝτρουλια]

In my lucid dreams I usually ask dreampeople about their names and they usually respond that they dont have names!

[@LucidExplorers]

Oh interesting! I don't think I've ever tried that. Sounds like a cool little experiment to try

[@isaiahcanreallyrap]

I just totaled my jeep with my wife and newborn son two weeks ago. Last night i had a dream so real and defined that I'm just reeling over it now. Never have i smelled, felt pain, nor tasted things in my dreams. I'm convinced there's something amiss and we're all.. i don't know, not perceiving reality the way we think we are?

[@LucidExplorers]

Dang sorry to hear that. Hope your wife and son are doing ok. That's true though. There gotta be some interesting stuff out there beyond what we can typically perceive

[@troop_vr1971]

I did this yesterday I had a dream I was in my class with a bunch of my classmates and I told them and the world turned all black and there eyes became red and stuff it was terrifying

[@LucidExplorers]

Were you aware of what your expectations where before beginning the experiment? Or have you read or heard somewhere before that the dream characters or dream would react negatively if you tell them they were in a dream?

[@Theman12335]

I once asked a lucid dream character if he was real and he admitted he wasn’t

[@LucidExplorers]

Haha finally someone else who has dream characters that respond like that. I think we're in the minority tho 😅

[@davidbagels]

I think you found the emo kid💀

[@LucidExplorers]

@@davidbagels 😅

[@Theman12335]

@@davidbagels wdym. I may be weird but I’m not emo

[@skyrisetempest1452]

@@Theman12335he is talking about the dream character who admit that he ain’t real.

[@kiakew]

Once, I dreamed that I run as a kid into my mom's arms and crying because I woke up from a nightmare.. I saw dad was there.. As well.. And then I realised I am still dreaming because I was not a kid anymore and they were divorced... And I asked mom "am. Still dreaming?" she said yes... And I looked up and started yelling at someone..eho put me in that dream... "LET ME WAKE UP LET ME GO"!!! AND I wake up. After.... (I remember the "nightmare" as well)

[@LucidExplorers]

It is cool that the dream version of your mom helped you there. One full proof way to wake myself out of a dream once I get lucid is to close my dream eyes and shake my head back and forth to wake myself up. That technique has never failed me, even working when I have sleep paralysis and am partially awake. If you're in another situation like that, next time try stay in the dream and deal with the nightmare while lucid, or just completely change it or leave the area so you can make more use of getting lucid in it. Thanks for commenting!

[@sarahdawn7075]

I've never tried lucid dreaming but about 4 years ago I had a stroke. It left me with less mobility. I could still stand and walk but I no longer could walk more than a short distance or stand more than a few minutes at a time. I had to quit my job and I could no longer walk even a block which has been quite an adjustment. Of course my dreaming self never "adopted" this handicap and I would wake to recall dreams where I was walking or running as I had been able to do before. It wasn't long before I would realize mid-dream that I was walking and I would be delighted only to wake later and realize it was a dream. Now, after nearly 4 years I often recognize mid-dream that I AM dreaming BECAUSE I am walking. I get a real kick out of this sense of power over my reality. I have even mentioned it to a character in my dream at the time, telling them, ".......hey I'm dreaming right now because I can't walk around like this. This is a dream!" They just took the news in stride and we continued on our way. The sleeping mind is fascinating!

[@LucidExplorers]

That's so cool! I've often thought that the lucid dreaming practice should be taught in hospitals for people bedridden, paralyzed, or gone through a similar situation like yours. A best friend of mine recently went completely blind so I've been trying to teach him some about the practice.

[@sarahdawn7075]

@@LucidExplorers I completely agree! I believe your subconscious naturally will not incorporate the loss of an ability or a sense (at least not at first), the same way the conscious mind of someone who has lost a limb continues to sense "phantom" nerve signals from the missing limb. The tendency to dream ourselves as we were, both encourages us to remember more dreams and leaves the dreaming mind a great big cue as to WHEN you are dreaming. The sense of never again being limited by your physical body, even if only while dreaming can't help but be therapeutic!

[@aimeemaurer4862]

I asked in my dream if I was awake, she said yes, she said she was also concerned I had been kidnapped. It was shortly after I woke up. Now I’m curious about the building I saw if it will become what I saw in the dream.

[@LucidExplorers]

Interesting! Thanks for sharing and pumping up the KZbin algorithm lol. What did the building look like in your dream?

[@zapman6528]

A few times i have commented on everything being fake, but I will never forget what happened one time. I was at my parents house hanging out, when I became lucid and noticed that they all didnt have faces and realized that wasnt normal. So I start having a panic attack telling myself that im dreaming and they crowd around me trying to comfort me and telling me “No, this is real! Calm down, this is all real!” I ended up on the floor in the fetal position crying and hyperventilating while they loomed over me caressing me trying to calm me down. Woke up real fucked that morning.

[@LucidExplorers]

oh wow that is interesting actually. normally when feelings like that take over dreams start to take a different turn. I always like feeling like my subconscious mind has my back

[@zapman6528]

@LucidExplorers the problem was around around that time I was experimenting with my perception. Randomly throughout the day I would try to enter different states of mind to create a visual hallucination simply to experiment with control over my mind, but even though I never managed to make it happen, it gave me wildly vivid dreams at night. It got to the point that I got paranoid that I might summon a visual that I can't get rid of, or that the dreams might become permanent, so I stopped. I became interested in this after a sleep paralysis episode, and also because that was a high stress situation at the time. Now that I think about it, I think that dream was a warning to not mess with my perception of reality. My subconscious thought, "this guy ain't gonna stop so lemme scare him straight."

[@LucidExplorers]

@@zapman6528 shoots lol not to encourage to do something that you purposely stopped, but can you describe how you were trying to enter different states of mind and create visual hallucinations while you were awake? I wouldn't mind giving it a go

[@zapman6528]

@@LucidExplorers its hard to explain. No substance required, its a feeling I get, like emptying my mind, a sort of trance i guess? But it gives me chills, although im trying to empty my mind im afraid of losing myself completely so I hold onto my ego by a thread. Its been a while ill try right now so I can maybe provide a better description… so its like im unfocusing my eyes, and I have to accept that I am safe at that moment so that I can relax and let my guard down. As my eyes are unfocused I cannot be conscious of my breathing, I suppose its almost like a sort of sensory deprivation but by simply tuning out whatever you can. I feel it most when relaxing my eye muscles(not eye lids, they have to stay open, its the muscles that control eye movement and focus that need to be relaxed), it feels like they sink in deeper the more they relax (i know this is weird and not what is literally happening but im trying to explain to the best of my ability) and after my eyes are completely relaxed and unfocused I try to form an image based on what I am seeing. so i may see some contrast that I could use to justify the torso of the figure, and another blob as the head, ect, essentially what i tried to do was best explained in the Matrix. “There is no spoon”, so I know the figure is not there, but im trying to twist my perception and make myself accept that there is a person there with the limited stimulus im getting. I figured that way my brain could then more easily project an image where I want it. The most I got was just like, you know the movie Predator, how the hunter aliens look when cloaked? Something like that. A vaguely humanoid slightly darker colored shadow/transparent figure but it’s almost impossible to sharpen the image and it distorts like water, in waves and static. I know I sound insane right now but i messed around with that for a while and never got further than that cuz the dreams were getting too extreme. Waking up dead tired because i can only assume my brain was in over drive simulating so much detail and physical stimuli and perfect characters. Actually had a dream yesterday where i kept waking up within my dream, with perfect copies of my family, phone calls telling me i needed to wake up, some time slipping shit, this comment is already long so ill spare details but yeah, probably need a sleep study done lol. Anyway, i hope that was useful. Just be careful. Feeling your ego slip is scary and I get an irrational fear that something else might get in its place, like my personality might be affected and id be a different person. Edit: I should add that when my ego starts to slip, it feels like the connection between my body and ego is like stretching rubber, the part in between where the two halves are being stretched gets thinner and the tension gets real hard but it feels like it can snap at any moment. Body grows cold, and like a void is opening in my chest and behind my eyes. Thats how I visualize the experience to make sense of it.

[@LucidExplorers]

@@zapman6528 thanks for sharing! great detail too. I'll re-read what you wrote when I'm ready to give it a try, and if I have any further questions I'll reach out.

[@annajordan243]

When something goes really bad in a dream i typically say , WAKE UP !!!

[@LucidExplorers]

Nice! Does that work for you 100% of the time you try it?

[@nanomia]

Same!

[@alloutiife]

Duuude this just happened to me tonight. In my dream I could tell that I was dreaming but I couldn't control anything. After a few parts of my dream went by, I vividly remember telling my mom and my dad in my dream "No, this isn't real. None of you are real" and I gasped because I knew that I wasn't supposed to say that in a dream. A few moments after, their faces turned white and started like melting (?) and becoming elongated. It was genuinely so horrifying that I could compare it to an analog horror face. Do you think it could like mean anything special?

[@REDDY5521]

Na it was just your hallucination or imagination bcz when u said to them that u all aren't real u didn't said to them but to yourself and ur brain, so u destroyed your dream with your hands by saying it isn't real😅😂.

[@alloutiife]

@@REDDY5521oh damn, i do NOT wanna experience that again

[@LucidExplorers]

@@REDDY5521 that answer seems pretty on point to me

[@LucidExplorers]

@@alloutiife reddy5521's answer seemed pretty on point to me. Definitely sounds like one hell of an experience!

[@mattwright6786]

Your brain reflects your subconscious thoughts in your dreams. You EXPECTED something crazy to happen, therefore it did. I said “none of you are real, you’re all in my dream right now” to the family of my dream girlfriend while at a dinner table, and they just laughed at me and said, “yea sure, we’re the crazy ones”. I mean, that’s what I would expect people in real life to say, so I guess that’s why it happened. I never heard the rule about not telling the dream characters this, so I didn’t expect anything bad to happen like you did.

[@ReadyorNot811]

I like how you respond to every comment..even within the replies..salute to you ❤🫡

[@LucidExplorers]

haha yep it's a big priority for me. if someone cares enough to drop a comment I feel like the least I could do is drop them a reply. Thanks for the support!

[@userbonechills1me]

I have done this is why i search it up i told them they were not real but it took me a few tries to get them to understand they were like kids playing to much but one look like he was about to cry when he heard what i said i truly believe that some people we seen in dream are not all from your brain memory created some of them are ghost an demons i know from when fights the way a dog shange form when you hit it it turn to a snake or something ugly😂😂😂

[@LucidExplorers]

That's certainly a possibility

[@broskichannel4163]

I feel the same way sometimes i have shape shifting entities in my dreams too

[@nanomia]

Stop making them sad then :(

[@jonathaneaton]

I had a lucid dream about my sister. I suddenly remembered she had died so I told her and I immediately woke up sobbing. Normally I just try to levitate and end up falling which wakes me up. I’ve learned to just sit there and look around then they last longer.

[@LucidExplorers]

There are a bunch of dream stabilization techniques out there! Something quick you can try is next time you get lucid and you're sitting there looking around, try running your hands across the ground or rubbing them together. Typically that works pretty good at stabilizing things. You can also rug your hands together as you fly and it can help keep the dream going.

[@josef1391]

Honestly im fascinated by people like you who got this skill down to a T same as my friend she does this with a near 90% success rate every night, i also tried back in 2015 for 6 months straight and i never achieved it, partly because im the biggest NPC in my own dream 😂 even if i could trigger the repetive motions i did with my hands during the day to test if i was dreaming my ass was like "yeah hands slipping through one another most normal shit i've ever seen tbh anyways on the with the script" i can't bring myself to question my soroundings or what im doing it just doesn't cross my mind at all. Second problem, even if i was transported into this state by sheer luck im horrible at stabilizing the dream i get to excited by the fact that i actually did it, i'll go "im doing it, im doing it, im actually doing it" over and over until i get subsequently thrown out by my own body functions kicking in.

[@LucidExplorers]

dang a 90% success rate is super good! That's better than me. If I'm locked in I can have several nights a week with dreams, and some of those nights I might have multiple lucid dreams. But yeah, a 90% success rate is super killing it! For you though, I'd stick with the practice! From what you said, you're on the cusp of achieving it! As you get more close calls under your belt, it will be easier to stabilize the dream and keep it going. Plus once you break through that wall, you'll pretty much be good to go from then on.

[@AdamADavis1]

Yeah I'm a narcolept so im like a professional sleeper anyhow but yeah im at least 90% if not more I dont dream every night but everytime I dream? I'm Lucid AF like I can spot a dream in a second! And yeah practice dont get too excited and whatever you do dont rape your dream characters I know you want to but dont do it!!! Nothing will wake u up faster than a boner im jussayin Haha! Sweet dreams my boy!

[@Snociak]

I had a lucid dream where I asked my girlfriend if she know that this is a dream. After I asked her that everything collapsed into the void and I got Sleep paralysis after I woke up

[@LucidExplorers]

Yikes lol your girlfriend put a spell on you haha. That type of response seems to be the norm for most people though. Luckily my dream characters are almost always cool with it. Telling them I'm dreaming and taking them flying and stuff is some of my favorite things to do in my lucid dreams

[@Snociak]

​​@@LucidExplorers It was my first time telling someone in my dream that everything is not real. I regret it

[@LucidExplorers]

@@Snociak It might be worth trying again. If you do though try to come at it from a positive perspective about sharing the experience with her (or any other dream character)

[@thatguy2521]

Well technically if you think about it your dream is a product of your mind, so each character is also yourself, so telling them that your dreaming would be like telling yourself that your dreaming.

[@LucidExplorers]

Yep that's how I've always looked at it which is why I think my dream characters typically don't care when I tell them I'm dreaming, they're dreaming, or they're in my dream

[@motherofaxolotls2222]

I heard if you ask them questions you’ll get answers back from your subconscious.. I became lucid all of a sudden in a dream, I had been sitting at a picnic table hanging out with some girl I never seen before. I was so excited to ask her questions! I asked her name, she stared at me & said nothing.. after asking 2 more times she finally said “GATORADE” .. I don’t even like Gatorade. It was so weird 😂😂

[@LucidExplorers]

@@motherofaxolotls2222 ahahaha that's hilarious! yeah, typical dream characters normally don't give mind blowing answers, if they answer at all. gotta try find those fancy dream characters that stand out for one reason or another. that's an important part of the story a lot of lucid dreaming books leave out though. kinda gets at what James was talking about in the book where authors and content creators in the space have a tendency to pump up the practice

[@Mountainman8131]

So I was at a waterpark and it felt super real, so I asked someone if this was a dream and then they're eyes got red and they turned into what looked like a zombie and started attacking me

[@LucidExplorers]

Dang lol that's too bad. My dream characters are almost always cool with it when I tell them that or ask similar questions. I think a lot of it has to do with my intention though. I basically never say it in a negative way and I'll generally follow it up with going off with them to explore the dream space together

[@Iangallagherswife]

Last night I had a dream and I was fighting but yk how it feels in a dream bc ur punches are slow so I yelled out “I can’t fight u I’m in a dream”😭💀 and every start shaking and I went into sleep paralysis i told my mom and she said ur not supposed to say that in a dream she said, because when I was little, I said that and my dreams would start shaking and freaking out,then she said every time I knew I was in a dream I would just do whatever I wanted bc we can control our dreams.

[@LucidExplorers]

Yup that slow dream punching shit happens a lot! It doesn't have to happen though and you can learn to get around it. It happens because when you dream your body is paralyzed so you don't act out your dreams while you're sleeping. it is a kind of bleed through effect from what your physical body is dealing with

[@Prashant-cw3ir]

One yogi from a cave once told me I am dreaming and showed me his powers! That’s how I know even this waking reality is a dream and with higher enough consciousness, you know that you are dreaming everything.. by You I mean Absolute Infinite, boundless consciousness

[@LucidExplorers]

Beautiful! I love it when I come across helpful dream characters like that

[@ejbaggaley]

I love this guy. I have done everything in lucid dreaming that he said he’s done and more. however, he has educated me on a few things to change. I’ve often looked at myself in the mirror and seen a different person other times I’ve seen myself very odd. Flying in dreams I’ve always found it difficult. I don’t really enjoy doing it either however I did enjoy flying and dreams when I was a little kid.

[@ejbaggaley]

I’ve also in knowing that it’s a dream find something out or read something and I’m trying so hard to remember it so I could tell people about it when I wake up. But when I wake up, I forget it.

[@LucidExplorers]

Mahalo for the support! It's much appreciated man. Aloha!

[@LucidExplorers]

yeah dream memory even when lucid is still super shaky and can disappear instantly

[@Fast-Burn-Productions-LLC]

Years ago I was dreaming. I was in the north side of Chicago somewhere. I was at a busy corner. So many people walking around like in real life in Chicago. Their was this revolving door into a store on the corner. I realized I was dreaming. I was like holy crap I'm dreaming. It was such a beautiful day. And then it came to me. I wanted to ask that question! Kinda wanting to have a conversation with a dream person. Aka my subconscious. So I saw some guy walking into revolving door "How does it feel to be not real? Just a character in my dream! I know I'm dreaming! He turned to look at me. Not saying anything. Then I looked as everyone around just all stopped walking and everyone just turned and Looked at me! And before I could react? I woke up immediately. Everyone in my dream it seemed was like " How the heck does he know!" LOL.

[@LucidExplorers]

Lol yeah that seems to be how dream characters tend to react for most people. Haha I guess I just lucked out that mine are generally cool with it. Granted when bringing it up there isn't any negative connotation to it and I normally follow it up with taking them flying or something and go explore the dream space with them.

[@tommyjames9248]

Well first thing to consider is those dream characters are all projections of your subconscious. That's why the finer details on how to do things in lucid dreams differs for everyone but the main parts of it are generally the same. My dream characters always know its a dream but freak out and get scared if I ask them if they are self aware

[@LucidExplorers]

Yeah I agree with you on that. That's why I don't like those "lucid dreaming don'ts" lists you can find on the internet that tell people not to do that because by someone reading one of those it'll plant that seed of an idea in their head and make it more likely to happen. I'm pretty sure that's why it's never been a problem for me. Since I didn't have that expectation in my head when I first started doing it, generally speaking my dream characters never really care when I tell them that they're in a dream/not real.

[@tommyjames9248]

@LucidExplorers that actually makes a ton of sense. Lucid dreaming is such a fascinating thing , everyone should experience it at least once in their life

[@AdamADavis1]

how dream characters react and act always fascinates me...its as if they are ACTUAL people with their own agendas and wants and needs!? I always freak them out I'll be like...'DUDE< LOOK AT MY HANDS!?!!?!?" and they''re always like?!!?WHOA?!?!? WTF?!?!? and like DUDE LOOK AT YOUR HANDS!!....I do this so they wont feel bad about me raping them.....they'll know its just a dream so they dont freak out when I whip it out and put it in thier butt...you know? lmao

[@jeffthelandshark.235]

i did this and it shoved me into a dark room with nothing in it just me and terrifying noises then i woke up and DONT TRY DIS!!

[@LucidExplorers]

Yeah for most people dream characters seem to respond negatively when being told they're in a dream. I guess I'm just lucky my dream characters are cool with it lol. Granted when I tell them it generally has a more positive connotation to it because I want to take them flying and show them lucid dreaming stuff

[@AaronWanner]

Ive had a few times ive told my dream characters they werent real. Its was a brief moment when i became licid and i was behind almost a large brick building with sheet metal as roofing. The scene was almost like a zombies map if you bo2 id describe it like town. Burning asphalt, and people just hangong around doing there things. But as I approached and told this character they werent real they immediately switched to a demon and so dod everybody around me. I could feel myself sleeping and my body start to wake up with very intense steady shaking and my heart was starting to pound. Luckily this wasnt my first expierienece with something like this so I sat there eyes shut trying to control this intense feeling i was having still in the dream mind you. My memory starts to end here but there is one last thing. I shit you not the demon i was talking to literally told me how to sell my soul and where to go on the internet it was so stupid I felt I had to write it down. It was still very early when i woke up but i was tired and thought i could just remember hopefully when i woke up again. I forgot.. this was my last experience I had with something like this and maybe somebody will have a similar story to mine. Anyways thank you for reading this probably sounds crazy but i could never come up with something like this

[@LucidExplorers]

Oh wow thanks for sharing that! Shucks it would have been interesting to try looking up the site the demon told you about. Dream recall is a tricky thing. Shit can slip out of your mind so easily it's crazy. On a separate note, I see you referenced B02. Are you playing BO6? I been enjoying it. I was never much of a Zombies player, but I played a few rounds solo of the BO6 version and it's good fun. Nice way to rank up guns I don't like using in multiplayer.

[@meineklartraum-strategie1975]

Nice to see a other LD,abbo you have Bro :) Greetings from a German LD ;)

[@LucidExplorers]

Aloha from Hawaii!

[@ALWAYStheEIGHTIES]

I had a dream a few years ago that I was hanging out at the flea market like I used to do at our usual spot where we used to sell about a decade before. I was standing there having a conversation with my uncle and it just seemed like a normal day and normal conversation between us and my dad. He would always show up when things were winding down and everyone was packing up and would come hang out with us and talk because we were usually the last ones to leave. In the dream, the 3 of us were laughing and talking like old times and I suddenly became aware it was a dream. I looked at my uncle and he just stopped in the middle of the conversation and looked at me. I told him that this was a dream because he was dead. He'd died about a decade before around the time we had quit selling at the flea market. He slowly tilted his head to the side like Michael Myers, his face turned demonic ...and with an unhinged jaw and open mouth ...he lunged at me and screamed the most horrible noise I'd ever heard like Palpatine jumping at the Jedis in Revenge Of The Sith!!! I woke up freaking out! One of the worst dreams I've ever had.

[@LucidExplorers]

Yikes! That sounds terrifying lol. I guess I'm lucky because my dream characters are almost always cool with me telling them they're in a dream

[@ororomunroe8239]

I told a girl in my dream she wasn’t real and she pulled a gun out on me lol…

[@LucidExplorers]

haha yikes! what happen next?? she'd be a fun dream character to start asking questions to

[@Goldilocks444]

I’ve had triple level ones where I have a dream within a dream within a dream but when I wake to here I feel a bit like spun out like confusion foggy idk

[@EsteraDaria11]

When I said that in my dream my brother was there and he disappeared and I woke up sometimes I’m dreaming and I see me in my room and my mom is vacuum cleaning I thought it was real then I woke up and I was still in my dream then I actually woke up and I was like what just happened,one time when I was dreaming I felt my eyes tired and I couldn’t get out the dream no matter how hard I tried

[@LucidExplorers]

My goto technique to wake myself out of a dream (which works for me 100% of the time) is to close my eyes in the dream and shake my head back back and forth. It even works for me when I have sleep paralysis and am semi awake but can't otherwise move. False awakenings/dreams within dreams are cool. They don't happen to me all that often, but when they do I always find them interesting. Thanks for sharing!

[@EsteraDaria11]

@@LucidExplorers Thank you!Il try the method!:)

[@appletherapy]

That happened to me last night. My brother was driving and I was wanting to get off the car so I got impatient and told him(I also wondered how he'd react.) "so you think this is real?" He was like "yeah" I said "this is a dream..it's all a dream. The steering wheel isn't supposed to be there. It should be in front of me since I'm in the drivers seat." His face turned angry and bizarre and I felt a sense of terror, then I woke up.

[@LucidExplorers]

If the sense of terror starts to arise it will definitely start to affect the dream. In the same sense though if you can generate a feeling of fun and excitement that you're in a dream with your brother then the dream will reflect that as well. I think that is the main reason why my dream characters rarely ever react negatively to me when I tell them "this is a dream". My general vibe in lucid dreams are to have fun and share the experience with the dream characters so it's normally good vibes all around.

[@appletherapy]

@@LucidExplorers Ironically. The terror happened at the end

[@appletherapy]

@@LucidExplorers I've had demon dreams before

[@LucidExplorers]

@@appletherapy yeah demo characters are extra creepy. one time I was having sleep paralysis and the sleep paralysis demon showed up in my bedroom. I was lucid and instead of waking up I tried to stay in the dream and explore the space to see what was up with him... long story short it ended up grabbing my arm really hard and it totally felt like I was being possessed. it was pretty terrifying in the moment. I haven't had sleep paralysis since, but if I had the opportunity to meet him again I would try to stay in the dream

[@appletherapy]

@@LucidExplorers wow. Thats crazy. Love hearing your stories

[@evanblalock9744]

When I tell them that I’m dreaming they always stop and look at me. Their eyes go black and I hear loud static and I wake up

[@LucidExplorers]

The black eye thing use to freak me out all the time when dream characters like that would show up. Something I've found that works great at getting past it and keeping me in the dream, is I grab them and stare at them directly in their eyes and kinda just dominate the situation... haha sounds kinda weird but it works great for me.

[@searchingforentertainment...]

@@LucidExplorers based asf

[@LucidExplorers]

@@searchingforentertainment... 😅

[@AdamADavis1]

your going about it the wrong way...be subtle, just be like, If this is reality< look at my hands!!!!??? tell them to Look at THIER hands and ask them whats going on? why they look like that?!?!

[@LucidExplorers]

@@AdamADavis1 that's a good approach! I imagine different dream characters would react differently though

[@shaquillewilliams3603]

I just did this today it was raining on me while I was outside I went inside where I say 3 of my friends 2 which are close and the other one doesn’t know the other two and I told them we were in a dream and that I might wake up soon. Then I told them everything they’ve accomplished on my side and they were all so happy tbh it was a special moment and probably one of the best dreams I’ve ever had.

[@LucidExplorers]

@shaquillewilliams3603 nice to finally hear about someone who's dream characters are cool with being told they're in dream! Just about everyone else's comments say the opposite lol

[@shaquillewilliams3603]

Hands down one of the best dreams I’ve ever had.

[@AbdoKeyar]

i did it a couple of weeks or days ago, but it didnt go so well, i told him this is not real ur just dreaming , i literally flew to him like i was using a jetpack lol, when i told him this is not real, h literally punched me ni the face and threw me in a garbage bin

[@LucidExplorers]

@@AbdoKeyar sorry to hear lol but that is how it seems to generally go for most people. haha I guess @shaquillewwilliams3603 and I just have way more chill dream characters than most

[@LucidExplorers]

@@AbdoKeyar thanks for sharing!

[@Dream.fur91]

I had a bad dream when I was 5 and, zombies were attacking me, and I was told I could become a superhero if I told myself by my uncle, and I had the dream again and I did that and it was awesome

[@LucidExplorers]

Awesome! Your uncle sounds cool 😎

[@Dream.fur91]

@@LucidExplorers thanks

[@MK_DarkMystic]

Sending you powerful words to help unleash your power blessings to Hawaii

[@LucidExplorers]

Mahalo for that!

[@Goatku_333]

I tried this in my recent lucid dream I told character that it's all dream ur not real ,the character didn't respond but I suddenly felt like something pulling my head out of my body but after few seconds everything is normal😅😅😅

[@LucidExplorers]

haha yikes. I bet if you just said "it's all a dream" and not the "ur not real" part, the response from the dream would have been different. On a side note, I noticed your profile pic. Are you planning on playing Dragon Ball Z Sparking Zero? I'm debating picking it up or not

[@Loki2995]

It´s not your head, it was probably your soul/spirit (True conciousness) going out of your body or about to get out of it, I experienced it as a child and was flying in the living room but only touched the ceiling, then I came back into the body and woke up...

[@Goatku_333]

@@Loki2995 wow really 😮 are you still experiencing it ??

[@Loki2995]

@@Goatku_333 I actually did.. around 2 years ago. But never again since childhood. And I know why, my intuition and spiritual growth was simply on hold. I was in my sleeping room and kinda saw my bed in a distorted way and a body was there which was probably me, everything was distorted in a strange way. But I realized that something was off and pretty fast woke up. And it all started when I got a bit more into the spirituality, meditation and so on... I personally believe in god. I started practicing celibacy and it started to happen quite often.. revealing itself to me. I actually had so much energy that I felt like newborn, you should watch the movie "Limitless" by the way, it´s basically it maybe. I experienced psychosis and told my parents that a crazy shift is going to happen, I was really getting crazy at one point, they thought I am losing my mind or something. I saw numbers like 1:11 often, or 2:22 or I woke up at 3:33.... Then I had this one lucid dream or astral projection where I was in the woods and saw a UFO landing infront of me. It was so impactful, that I was about to lose my mind at how real it looked. Then I heard this buzzing sound once the object landed, it was so damn loud, it felt like it´s going to burst through my ears, it was allmost painful. I saw the lights in all colours, it was mesmerizing but I felt panic and I realized, if they will take me, some shit is going to happen so I started running away. Suddenly I saw a woman running with me, never saw her.. while we ran, a second UFO appeared out of nowhere and started hovering over me. I ran as fast as I could and then I woke up.. I felt as if my mind changed, probably I had a huge release of DMT in my brain and I felt like HIGH for weeks.. And I never felt so happy and fullfilled before. I had this awakened state.. As if GOD kissed me personally. I never felt so close to god.. yea, that was my journey. And I think I am trying to go back because what I also gained is something, I cannot explain to this day.. I know, it sounds Schizo at some point but damn, I never felt so happy and had so much luck in several situations. I am avoiding alcohol at the moment, going to practice again, meditate, pray. Touch some grass and find the inner peace again...

[@LucidExplorers]

@@Loki2995 that is certainly a possibility!

[@JenMarco]

I just searched for this because this just happened to me the other night.

[@LucidExplorers]

where your dream characters cool with it when you told them they were in a dream? Mine are almost always cool with it, but it seems like for most people their dream characters tend to react negatively

[@Goldilocks444]

I’ve been cut I’ve been shot and I’ve felt so much pain it’s very realistic in there ouch 😣

[@jakubkujawa695]

I told them we are in a dream, they replied oh he noticed.

[@LucidExplorers]

Interesting response! Did you follow up to try and figure out who "he" was? Do you think the dream characters were referring to your Subconscious or someone/something else?

[@Goldilocks444]

I HAVE A QUESTION 🙋‍♀️ - I only lucid dream after I hear this ringing sound in my ears before I sleep wtf is that ? Just before I sleep I hear it and smile then Hooray I’m flying exploring etc what’s the ringing anyone ????

[@userbonechills1me]

Its wild how u would think you the only one that think thing like this till u search in see other to same with sleep paralysis i use to be quiet on that till i search for answers an found them😂😂😂😂

[@LucidExplorers]

Yeah I think that's the best way to go about things. Searching things out for yourself and testing your assumptions is the way to go

[@tobesgamer3976]

what is this comment trying to say

[@LucidExplorers]

@@tobesgamer3976 haha I was kinda thinking the same thing too. I tried to decipher it and answer it as best I could 😅

[@MaryF-n8c]

Astral projection and lucid dreaming sound an awful lot alike. Can you please explain the difference? Thank you and God bless you.

[@LucidExplorers]

In my opinion they're essentially the same. I leave the door open to me being wrong though. I've just never seen anything in my personal practice to change my mind... yet lol.

[@angelabell7254]

I always dream about monsters, ghosts, etc and people hunting me down and trying to kill me. My dreams are hideous 😢

[@LucidExplorers]

😬ahh shucks sorry to hear that. how many dreams a night are you remembering? Is it multiple dreams like that every night?

[@angelabell7254]

@@LucidExplorers Yes. Some are quite disturbing. I can't go into details as they may make me look like a freak lol 🤣. I've always had dreams of abandonment and friends being traitorous. The list goes on 😭🤣😂

[@LucidExplorers]

@@angelabell7254 dang sorry to hear that. I was hoping it was only 1 or 2 dreams like that a night and the rest were more normal

[@cajones9330]

before you go to sleep with your eyes closed concentrate and in your mind tell anything that is trying to harm you that it no longer can harm you and not allowed to be attached to you , imagine releasing the energy and imagine yourself invincible.

[@LucidExplorers]

@@cajones9330 great tips!

[@almosmakk2117]

Dude am i the only one who once told somebody in my dream that he was not real, then the guy just hit me with the coldest face in the universe. Like he really did like a 1000 yard stare.💀

[@LucidExplorers]

haha yeah that seems to be a relatively common response for a lot of people. Not sure why that rarely happens to me though. My dream characters typically don't care when I tell them stuff like that

[@petrospetromixos6962]

I was trying to fall asleep and some paper fell on the couch and distructed me from sleeping and later when i woke up i realised i was dreaming of trying to fall asleep there was also no couch in the room reminded me of the old couch who existed years ago but no longer in my grandpas home

[@LucidExplorers]

When I'm dealing with insomnia I almost always catch myself at some point dreaming of being in bed stuck awake trying to fall asleep... but of course after I fully wake up and realize that I'm stuck awake again for real lol

[@petrospetromixos6962]

@@LucidExplorers so how can you fall asleep faster and keep your conscioussness?

[@LucidExplorers]

@@petrospetromixos6962 it's kinda paradoxical, but to fall asleep faster you can't specifically focus on trying to do it. So basically just try to put your attention somewhere else and let the natural falling process take over. Then, the tricky park, is you want to kick your consciousness back online to observe the hypnagogia without fully waking yourself up. Something that helps me is as I'm watching the hypnagogic images/liminal dream I kind of narrate what is going on. Or look at it in a way where I'm going to try and describe the experience later. This is a technique I stumbled across when I started my channel and was trying to hold on to the experiences to describe later in one of my videos. Anyway hope that answers your question. I kinda went off topic and started talking about hypnagogia lol

[@petrospetromixos6962]

@@LucidExplorers Yeah it does thank you ,this descibing what i see sounds good and you basically let go of your need for sleeping,i am gonna try this. What i used to do once and i immediately fell asleep was focus on nothingness and kept there and my consiciousness was gone like in one minute but you dont stay lucid like that

[@Maxcitysainj]

Asked my friend in my dream of he still lives on kiwi street he looked at me scared and started panicking

[@LucidExplorers]

Well at least he didn't start attacking you lol. That seems to be a pretty common response for people. Luckily that kind of reaction rarely happens to me

[@Maxcitysainj]

@@LucidExplorers I thought he was going to tho

[@ElectrifyThunder]

I would always have these wild, crazy dreams, and I remember them for a long time, but I never get the chance to control them, this always interested me and I wish I can do it someday… I just want to give my phone number to my dream characters haha.

[@LucidExplorers]

How many dreams a night do you typically recall? If you have good dream recall you're halfway to starting your practice! It's definitely a skill that can be learned, practiced, and improved upon. I'm sure you could pick it up if you give the practice enough time. If you have any questions about the practice feel free to reach out

[@ElectrifyThunder]

@@LucidExplorers It depends but i would usually have stupid long dreams that feel vivid, I still remember them today. I just haven’t figured out how to control them yet, but i would love to someday.

[@LucidExplorers]

@@ElectrifyThunder ever tried the WBTB (Wake Back to Bed) technique?

[@ElectrifyThunder]

@@LucidExplorers Nope, could you elaborate what it is?

[@LucidExplorers]

@@ElectrifyThunder I sure can! It's a bit long to type tho so I just shot a quick 1 minute video going over the basics. I'll post it shortly

[@vortexfx420]

I had advancement lucid dreams. Each one I floated up further and further until I flew into another dimension with a glowing golden aura around my body. Then yesterday I finally had my first long lucid dream, I could see myself as another person in a mirror that I created, before that I was asking the people in that time period if I was real and they can hear me, they nodded their heads. I was a big woman in the mirror (im a man currently). I then said my name into it and changed into what I currently look like. I was satisfied. I did a few different dimension jumps, each transition was me flying up into the sky. I could hear, taste, smell, touch and create whatever I wanted. Flying was fun too. Some lady tried to shoot me but I just used my mind on her and the gun didnt work lol. Cant wait for the next one!

[@LucidExplorers]

amazing! thanks for sharing. welcome to the community!

[@raymondcantrell5868]

had one last night, i was at Thanksgiving dinner and it wasnt my whole family just like 8 people and i went to get some food and saw a roach fall in the floor from the ceiling then about a thousand more...thats what let me know i was dreaming...so to be sure i bit my finger to see if i felt pain...i walked back into the livingroom and said im not awake my aunt looked back at me and said youre still asleep this is a dream...then this character called hercules who looked to be a teenage boy came out of nowhere and pushed me into my room( at first i thought it was my room at my grandmothers house where we were) and he pinned me down to the bed and his pupils were light blue almost white he was telling me something but i was trying to wake up it took me about 10-15 seconds but i finally woke up ane once i started thinking about it i realized how much that room looked like my room in my apartment so it was like he pushed me out of that scene and back into my own bed...it was also like they summoned the hercules kid to do get rid of me bc they werent happy i had realized i was sleeping and hercules looked pissed, edit: i would like to point out i hadnt heard you arent supposed to tell people they aren't real in a dream before this and i cant recall if ive had other dreams where ive done this and had more success to my knowledge this is the first time its ever happened i normally fly around and try to think of things that are impossible that i could do while im dreaming, normally when i lucid dream it starts as a nightmare and when im trying to run i realize im in a dream so i change it to something better its not very often that there are people around when i have the realization except for whatever thing is chasing me lol

[@LucidExplorers]

Interesting! Thanks for sharing. Maybe next time you're lucid try finding/summoning the hercules kid so you can ask him! If you can find him again let me know how it goes

[@Spencer-kf7jm]

After telling them , they're turning into some dark shit and I can't breathe.. Instant nightmare y'all

[@LucidExplorers]

If that happens again try grabbing them and staring at them directly in the eyes. Works good for me at establishing dominance and they tend to back off. If there is multiple dream characters though you might have to do it to each of them

[@cajones9330]

yeah same here , i had one recently where In writting i asked “what is going on”? When they found out i knew i was dreaming the face glitched like some scary ai shit and woke me up.

[@matrixgames-yc8id]

Im gonna try Wild lucid dream category for first time I never myself experienced lucid dream in my life so this is going to be my first attempt

[@LucidExplorers]

Best of luck! How'd it go? Generally speaking WILDs are a lot harder to come by then DILDs (Dream Induced Lucid Dreams) though

[@matrixgames-yc8id]

@LucidExplorers it worked after 7 days of trying I was on sidewalk and cars were recklessly driving on road they weren't following any rules so I went to near River Bridge which is next to sidewalk a guy appeared and said be careful the cars are also driving on sidewalk and right after that car drove on sidewalk which I avoided and went to outside of my house there I looked at my hands and my fingers were gradually changing from 4 to 6 back and back I said am I dreaming I remained calm but after 5 seconds I woke up

[@LucidExplorers]

@@matrixgames-yc8id Awesome congrats! Having one after only 7 days of trying is great!! Keep it up. It likely means you're naturally inclined to the practice

[@skaze58]

Have you ever tried talking to yourself in a mirror in a lucid dream, apparently this is a way to speak directly to the subconscious. This in theory could help with manifesting desires into our material world

[@LucidExplorers]

I love encountering mirrors in my lucid dreams. I don't recall off the top of my head speaking to myself in the mirror though specifically trying to interact with my subconscious. When I do want to interact with subconscious in my dreams, I typically just shout out to the dream wherever I'm at. I can definitely see how it can help with manifesting desires in the real world, although I haven't seen much direct evidence of that in my personal practice.

[@AdamADavis1]

one time I had a crazy lucid dream where this FINE ass chic was like standing over there and I had my dream eyes shut but just barely open so that I could stare at her and she think my eyes are closed? ....so she looks over at me, and we make "Eye Contact" and she says..."HEY!?! YOURE NOT ASLEEP!!!! I replied, YES I AM!! and the fact she said that was so crazy it made me wake up but I laughed like hell b/c it was like as if my SUB conscious, SAW my Conscious looking at it and was like, HEY? your not supposed to be here!?!?it was nucking FUTTS! haha thanks for reading! :)

[@LucidExplorers]

@@AdamADavis1 haha that is awesome. only way it could have been better is if you didn't wake up after lol

[@KuviraToryBridget]

The same thing happened to me when I asked the dream character's that they are not real and this happened to me Kuvira showed up out of nowhere and the next thing I know I was strapped down to the table in the experiment room and Kuvira was holding a needle and almost jabbed it into my neck but she didn't she handgagged me hm!!!!!! And this is what she said escape from me again I will get the needle and jabbed it into your neck understand

[@LucidExplorers]

Just wondering, what do you of Kuvira as a character? Like do u like her, hate her, etc? Sometimes villains can be the most interesting. For example my favorite character in Transformers is Megatron. Even though I know I'd despise someone like him in real life, I appreciate his complexity and can relate to the character in some sense.

[@KuviraToryBridget]

@@LucidExplorers Like I said in my comment she literally experiment's on me for some reason and it's not inhuman experiments it's like DNA experiment's like she does this every time she sees me and has been experimenting on me can you please explain it in your next video

[@LucidExplorers]

I got you. But how do you feel about her? Do you like or dislike her as a character in the show?

[@KuviraToryBridget]

@@LucidExplorers I like her as character and sometimes she appears out of nowhere in my vivid dreams please explain

[@Carl_Frank]

Depending on how you look at it, it *might* not even be accurate to say they aren't real. Everything in a dream is (apparently) being generated from your mind. You could say the whole dream IS you, in a sense. You could say that they might be fictional characters "dreamed up" by your mind, but maybe its fair to say that they are parts of you that you are not consciously aware of. I don't know. Consciousness is weird. I'm just musing.

[@LucidExplorers]

@Carl_Frank yeah that's a good point. I can see how since it's all generated by my mind, they are in a sense just as real as I am in the moment. I think the only real difference is my conscious awareness that isn't normally present there is when I'm lucid so I'm really just saying they're separate from that. I tend to look at lucid dreaming as a teamwork thing tho between your consciousness and your subconscious. You're essentially building a working relationship with it... and even when you're super lucid the Subconscious is still king up there

[@Sherezar]

Hey im just wondering, what technique do you use? I've been using SSILD and have gotten one semi-lucid dream from it you got any tips on that aswell?

[@LucidExplorers]

I normally use a paired down version of MILD mixed with Hypnagogic Meditation when falling asleep and get lucid with DILD. Lol I basically never use SSILD. If I wake in the middle of the night I pretty much exclusively focus on visuals/hypnagogia when falling back asleep and trying to get lucid. That combined with replaying the dream I just woke from to help commit to memory for journaling in the morning

[@ΔημητραΝτρουλια]

I often see mirrors as well and watch my self doing funny faces! Its fun!

[@LucidExplorers]

Yup! I love finding mirrors in my dreams. They always provide an interesting experience

[@eugeniovitoavenido3402]

I tried it ,they laughed at me

[@LucidExplorers]

haha well that doesn't seem like the worst type of reaction lol

[@cestmoi914]

Do you have any videos on dream control? I struggle to use powers or do cool things in my lucid dreams

[@LucidExplorers]

@cestmoi914 yeah I do for sure but it's buried somewhere in the sea of my videos. I'll search around and see if I can find some. If I do I'll post em here

[@vegetibilis2422]

THis is my best explanation and findings on dreaming every night. If you go tryhard you get 3 hours on average a night ina months time.If you dream every night you can expect to dream so you go lucid a lot. interestingly you can know your in a dream and still have no control of what's going on literally guided 100% so it feels so its kind of a mystery unless your efficacy is 100% every night witch isn't hard to do you just drink nuts and seed eat all the foods required to get all you can use and exercise plus don't smoke and you should dream every night just like i can. pistachio, cashew ,almond, hazelnut ,soynut, pepitas, sunflower, chia, poppy, black sesame, white sesame, all powdered and can be mixed into a mix witch is added to water to the desired texture if any is wanted and you glug that. golden flax and flax has hydrogen cyanide that takes away dreaming after a little. the idea with nutrition is that you eat meats and stuff for a 30% of coverage across the board and you eat vegies for more total coverage to get the next 30% and nuts and seeds to get the last 30 % ect. You must exercise, 1-3 hours a day is efficacious for 3 hours a night with good memory, run, jog, lift weight, walk, move, video games that pump the heart well like wow are physical exertionsim aswell as intellectual.I just mixed protien powder with the nuts and seeds powder and it was epic (diesel vegan protien) so you can add pea protien hemp protien ect aswell for bcaas, protien,nutirents,and a more filling effect. good luck explorers! The goal is the strongest physical state since that is what produces the experience for example if your dying or sick you get less patient and more crabby you can chase the greatest experience using the 4 health elements (intellectual exertionsim, physical exertionsim, nutritive exertionsim, environmental exertionsim). GOing tryhard for the best experience or physical state produces more patience wittiness, endearing qualities, the reason we speak and reasons we convey shape the stronger endstates and ofcourse you get to dream every single night that you sleep which is fun and a new adventure for all of us! we can use dreaming every night as a way to get children into health i have seen it happen with a friends child she was excited to eat healthy before bed and exercise with him to dream and she actually did that night. DOnt smoke! dont pot! or you will not dream lol

[@LucidExplorers]

thanks for sharing. I've heard the stuff about nuts before but haven't specifically tried testing it out while keeping a detailed dream journal. I definitely back you up on the smoking pot thing. It totally kills dream recall

[@livnrosalie12]

THis happened to me and i really wanna figure out what happend i was in a school shooting dream i knew i was dreaming and i was getting bored so i just let them shot me then i went into a new dream with the same girl i was running away with and i swear id never seen her irl. But people say thats impossible but thats not the point. When i got teleported into new dream the girl said "Yea good we survied the shooting" i didnt but ok. Then we started having an actual convo and i randomly woke up. i was tired so i went back to sleep. Somehow i went back to the same dream i saw the girl sitting down. She saw me she said "What? how are you hear. You woke up you where dreaming." then we talked. I know for sure i actually woke up bc i got up to use the bathroom and everything. She gave me friend like behavior she was enjoyable. But what scared me was how did she know i woke up and how did she know i was in a dream

[@LucidExplorers]

thanks for sharing. Yeah all that makes sense to me. Some people are naturally inclined to continuing the same dream after waking up for a short period of the time. That happens to me pretty often. Something I've noticed that ups the chances of it, is when I'm lucid or really invested in the dream for one reason or another and it's on my mind as I fall back asleep. As for the dream character girl knowing you were dreaming and woke, that can definitely happen. Every once in a while in dreams (especially lucid ones) you come across dream characters that are more cognizant than others. If you get lucid again try searching her out! If she gave you her name you could try calling it out or something. That or just put the intention out there and then start scanning the dream environment for her to pop up somewhere

[@sarahdawn7075]

Your subconscious is directing your dream. The girl was created by your subconscious as a sympathetic character who is viewing the situation from your point of view. She knows what she knows because she is a creation of your mind.

[@Pair-O-Bulls]

It seems to me from what you're saying......is that you've not yet realized that the characters in your dreams are yourself. They are aspects of your own subconcious, and they're equally as real as your 1st person dream ID is. By telling them they are not real, that they're just NPCs......you are negating those aspects of your self that they represent. That's exactly why it's recommended that you not do this.

[@LucidExplorers]

@Pair-O-Bulls yeah I agree that they're aspects of my subconscious. I typically don't do it in a negative sense tho which is why I think my dream characters typically don't care when I make statements like that. Plus I normally do it in a way where I want to share the experience with them and take them flying and stuff

[@ryotakurama5901]

Now this is new to me..😅 gotta try it sometimes..lol

[@LucidExplorers]

[@HopeDowling]

How do you control a lucid dream ???

[@LucidExplorers]

well it basically comes down to: Intention, Expectation, and Force of Will. I have a bunch of videos on it. If you go to my youtube channel, hit the search bar and type in control or controlling a bunch of videos will pop up www.youtube.com/@LucidExplorers/search?query=control

[@AdamADavis1]

the long of the short is.... YOU CANT.... you can make suggestions and your subconscous will some times honor those suggestions but in the end, its all beyond your control...Dreaming is the subconsciences game not the conscious

[@JGtheone01]

I don't tell them SHIT if you cool in the dream with me then I'm cool with you. Act up as a dream character then I'm gonna act up too. They already know me over there. 😈🗡️

[@LucidExplorers]

haha yeah I tend to try to be nice... unless they get me angry or I'm in a bad mood, then yeah dominate time

[@tomislavsamsung]

For me I remember this dream hold impact on me the whole day. I don't think it was lucid dream since I was not able to control where I wanna be and all those things. But I was aware of my mind I could use logic and think in my dream. And then I started to talk with my sister in dream and in the middle of talking I said "you are no real". And then all of suden the beautiful scene turned into war and she was yelling at me and saying thing on my subconsius level. All things thar bug me in day to day life I remember I was so scared and confused and then I woke up. Could you tell my why she got so mad and started reveling all things that bug me. Ty NOTE: English ain't my native leanguage and I'm too lazy to use chatgpt 😂😂

[@LucidExplorers]

@tomislavsamsung haha no worries about the English thing. Your spelling and writing was better written than noat comments I get haha. Shucks tho can't help u much on why it caused your dream to change so much and negative because my dream characters pretty much never care when I tell them it is a dream. Granted I rarely say they're not real exactly. I just tell them, hey this a dream! Wanna go flying lol. Sounds like a kinda neat experience tho even tho it turned negative. It's does sound to me like you were at least semi lucid. Sometimes in my lucid dreams I can't control much but I still know I'm dreaming in the moment

[@Harish00343]

How To LuCiD dream????

[@LucidExplorers]

Oohh this would be a long reply lol. I'll find one of my videos going over how to do the practice and paste the link

[@LucidExplorers]

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[@LucidExplorers]

You can also check out this playlist kzbin.info/aero/PLimI_RH7TnRueubt3DnA7LLVwwZrlFesu&si=bttAPpGXAGXj31Wv

[@Harish00343]

@@LucidExplorers I had one dream But I couldn't realise that I'm in dream Before going to bed I also Repeatedly telling to myself that I'm dreaming I will be LUCID in my DREAM today but I don't understand why I couldn't do it??? I don't know how long It takes But ain't giving up .. I'll try my BEST

[@AdamADavis1]

????? FIND OUT B/c THAT S*** Is AMAZINGLY FUN AND JUST an INCREDIBLE experience over all I do that S*** EVERY NIGHT I LOVE IT! I LIVE TO DREAM

[@yntondatrack]

My lucid dreams took me to sion

[@LucidExplorers]

Do you mean Zion?

[@brianneml2979]

They are real though 😂

[@LucidExplorers]

it's definitely a possibility

[@shinobi339]

Cool

[@LucidExplorers]

[@zxvc849]

dang they just ignored u even tho ur like a god to them

[@LucidExplorers]

Haha yeah. Getting blank or not full responses from dream characters when I'm lucid is pretty common tho generally speaking