Do you lucid dream? & If so, how often?

A lucid dream is when you know you're dreaming DURING the dream, and you can control the dream. I have them at least weekly.
Do you lucid dream? & If so, how often?
I don't think I have dreams in general
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I have dreams, but I've never had a lucid dream
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I have had lucid dreams, but less than once every few years
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I have had lucid dreams, but generally less than once every year
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I have lucid dreams at least once a year, but less than monthly
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I have lucid dreams at least monthly, but less than weekly
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I have lucid dreams at least once a week
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  • Actually I tend to have a couple lucid dreams around Christmas, but that was always it for the year. Like an annual dream. I've managed to lucid dream a little more often now, but still only a couple times a year, and I don't really know if it helps.

    And here's more information than you need.

    I have nightmares of the same event a lot. I've had them my whole life that I can remember, and one of the brothers I shared a room with had sleep paralysis which scared me as well as he would say someone was actually standing in the doorway a minute ago, and I hadn't seen anything. After I got older though I started being able to tell the difference between when I was dreaming and not at night, and we figured out that what he was seeing wasn't real either. That helped a little.

    But when I had my first lucid dream that I remember it was almost worse, because even though I could control most aspects with moderate difficulty, the nightmare was still going on. I couldn't stop it, it only seemed to become realer because as I disassociated with my dream-self it seemed to come after me for real as I was trying to control the dream. I'm still not sure exactly why this happened, but it scared me a lot more than regular dreams ever did. It was Christmas Eve too. I think I convinced some of my brothers to try staying up all night just to avoid falling asleep again myself-- except I was still the first one to pass out. I didn't have the nightmare that night though.

    Luckily I've been able to practice controlling dreams a little bit by this point, and when I have them I typically am able to end it pretty quickly. Once I'm aware of it being a dream, I can just disassociate with the dream for a minute to get myself to actually wake up before anything bad can happen. Several years I've been too tired to wake myself up though, despite being in a lucid dream, so I'm stuck back like before where I can control most of it but the nightmare still plays out. So I try to get enough sleep around Christmas especially, so that I'll be able to wake up when I can.

    Actually I just did that a few minutes ago, which is why I'm awake at 4 am in this timezone, and why I'm thinking about lucid dreams. Sorry if I wrote too much.

  • I am totally in control, all the time. I haven't had an uncontrolled "nightmare" in more than 20 years.
    I am aware when I am dreaming, and it starts to go 'dark' or 'evil' and sometimes I let it play out, to see if there is a subconscious reason, but it never goes uncontrollable freaky scary!
    I can see things, and read, and look at a clock and know what time it is, but nobody I know seems to be able to do any of that, and several have terrible nightmares that scare them, and freak them out.

Most Helpful Girls

  • All the time I can fly and shit to the thing that tips me off is when I'm visited by the dead at first I'm like a hey long time no see then I realized that said you have been dead for years and if I find unusually large coins and lots of them there's quite a few tells but I can even wake up and resume a dream and my dreams have thier own timelines even tho there may be a few hundred different strings to my dream reailitys they all have memories and seem to have thier own laws of physics and are all just as real as my waki g world when I'm withi. Them anyways like I can stash a bag of money or something I. A dream and two years later I will be I. The same string and go get my stash cuz I remember putting it there years ago so almost every night I do however concider my dreams as an actual reailitys and likely the place we go after we die in this world and I e even explained this in my dreams to other people in thier dreams and dream walked into my friends dreams and told them what they dreamt about the next morning with a fairly high rate of accuracy so

  • Yes! Fairly often, when the dream is a nightmare with me knowing something bad is going to happen like getting trapped somewhere/being abducted - I can shake myself awake from the dream. Often they aren't nightmares though. But more normal everyday events I'd dream of. I'll be out and about in my dream going for a walk and see someone I care to avoid calling out to me, I'll make myself in the dream hide behind someone/something, or walk the opposite direction lol

    I usually have lucid dreams 2-4 times a week.

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  • I can only lucid dream as far as I can tell. For example, I don't get nightmares in the normal sense because a part of me always knows I'm dreaming. I have been disturbed by dreams though, but it's like watching a disturbing movie. A good part of me knows it's not real.

    I also die very often in dreams, and that doesn't end the dream. I keep going to a new setting. Sometimes I die like 20 times in one dream. I think my brain does it when I'm starting to kind of get bored with one story and want to start a new one -- just give myself a very violent death and start over again.

    • I actually don't know how people dream in a way where they can't tell it's a dream. I remember having those as a little boy but I lost that ability at some point.

    • I think what I ended up doing was perhaps tapping into that part of the subconscious that has dreams and becoming consciously aware of it. Since I lost that ability to dream right around the time I moved to Singapore and had to adapt to a new culture. That made me start asking myself lots of questions as I was exposed to a totally different language, cultural standards, ideas about etiquette, beauty standards, etc. So I started becoming extremely introspective and asking myself questions all the time, trying to figure things out... and I think I broke into my subconscious at that point. I still have lots of things buried in my subconscious that I can't understand, but I think I broke a few layers of ice, so to speak.

    • Something odd happened to my memories as well around that time. As I became more comfortable learning to speak English, it's like my brain changed my memories of conversations in Japanese to English -- or back to Japanese -- it go either way. Maybe that had something to do with it as well. Sorry for ramble. But anyway, I only lucid dream, and I feel a bit alienated as a result of it. I don't understand how people like my wife can still dream in a way where they can't tell that it's a dream.

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  • I would love to have them daily

  • If I'm disturbed during sleep in the middle of a dream there's a sudden realisation I'm dreaming. I suddenly have more control over my. own actions in the dream but not on the overall direction of the dream.

  • Every so often, multiple times a year. I know that it's a dream but it's odd. I let it play "naturally". Like I control myself but realistic situations happen instead of it being perfect.

    For instance, a man I like was in it and we were having a fight about something personal. I think it was my subconscious telling me something about myself.

  • Very less for me

  • I did 2 or 3 times a few years back. At the time, I was attempting to get them and found success.
    After a few times becoming lucid I decided that I prefer to ride out the dream's original track, as cooked up in my mind, even if I'm lucid.

    Lately, I've just been keeping a dream journal to improve my awareness and think back on my dreams.

  • Maybe 5 to ten times a year. You have them that many times a year. ,, that's cool ,, What are your dreams about

  • daily for me

  • Yes I do. And often enough

  • I have lucid dreams once in a while. Sometimes I can control the dream more, than on other times.

  • I lucid dream very often, a couple of days a week.

  • The only time I don't is when I'm having anxiety dreams. I can't get out of them and they usually trigger panic attacks, which suuuuuuucks

  • Yes, I did have experiences as a child then I read a very good book explaining a few techniques the writer developed as he was testing (this is the oldest and best book about this subject with real practical techniques to try and test) you can do and test every and any day...

  • Not nearly as often as I'd like to, maybe two or three times a year. I find it happens more often when I actually write my dreams down regularly, so I might start doing that again soon. It's so fun and fascinating.

  • I dream in color come and sound. This happens at least two to three times a week. A lot of times I cannot remember them and I really want to

  • Once or twice a month

  • I can just do it at will, no big deal, but I guess I'm not that interested in it anymore these days.

  • I didn't for a while, but since I started getting scrip-grade B-complex shots, my dreams have become hyper real to me. They happen every night.

  • I haven’t had one in ages and the dreamworld would collapse as soon as I realised I was dreaming.

  • No, but I've had dreams that came to pass before.

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