<p>One of the most incredible aspects of the mind and experience. Who's had one and how realistic was it?</p>
<p>I have.</p>
<p>I was into inducing it about a year ago. I had somewhere between 5 and 10, with varying degrees of realisticness. Then I started junior year, and life took over and I couldn’t devote the time or energy needed (it takes effort if you’re not a natural).
The best one, I remember well. It was August of last year, and I was sleeping on an air mattress under the stars, and all of a sudden (at about 3 AM, I think) there was a big rainstorm and I had to move to a much less comfortable position on a concrete floor under a roof. I had a somewhat interrupted sleep (it was very cramped, and there were people around me playing cards), but I had a very long and vivid lucid dream because I was closer to consciousness than during normal sleep. I was able to keep it going across waking up two or three times.</p>
<p>It’s funny you mention that because, while it wasn’t one of my most vivid, one of my favorite took place inside a car on a stormy day, even though it wasnt raining outside. It takes a lot of effort, I don’t have them as much as I did in one period of time</p>
<p>I always wished I could have them basically at will (like some people were able to train themselves to do). I never got past one every few weeks.
I think this is because I never have enough time in the morning to write down my dreams, which is a critical part (and probably beneficial in other ways, too). I tried for a week or two, but I never got in the habit. I do have some strange dreams written down from that period, though.
I actually read Steven LaBerge’s first book on the subject, and it was interesting, but I didn’t learn anything that I didn’t know from the internet.</p>
<p>I’ve only recorded one dream, and it was the most vivid lucid one. I’ve found it nearly impossible to have a WILD (Wake-Induced-Lucid-Dreaming). The technique I used the most frequently was pressing my hand against a wall repeatedly which caused me to have quite a few DILD’s (Dream-Induced-Lucid-Dreaming) and the key is in your dream, your hand will fly through the wall. In my case, only my fingertips sink through but it was always enough for me to have that realization. Anyway, this summer I’m going to try to start them again, as long as I have free time</p>
<p>I had one. It was a sexual dream :/</p>
<p>One of my friends is a natural- she lucid reams almost every night!</p>
<p>I’ve actually lucid dreamed for the past 2 nights. Both nights I was woken up by something while in deep sleep but immediately went back to bed.
My dreams are f***ed up. :(</p>
<p>So I had this sick lucid dream the other night, you’ve gotta hear it. So Charlie Sheen right, he crawls into my head and he just keeps whispering “winning, winning, winning.” I don’t know what he meant by it, but ever since I’ve just been doing winning every day at school.</p>
<p>Whenever I remember my dreams, they are all lucid dreams. I usually begin to remember what happened in my dream after the point I figured out it was a dream. Then I make my dreams much more “interesting.”</p>
<p>I’ve been trying for a couple years, but I’ve been so busy</p>
<p>^No matter how busy you are, just try pressing your hand against a wall often. If you do that in your dreams, your hand will somewhat go through the wall (Articles say it flies right through, I personally only get my fingertips to go through) but that signals you’re in the lucid dream. Good luck!</p>
<p>Are there any health/mental risks involved in the process of inducing them? Ever since I saw it done on Star Trek I’ve wanted to try it, but have been warned against it.</p>
<p>I’m 95% positive there’s no danger in WILD (wake induced lucid dream) technique, which and you can research any possible harm. WILD is where you go directly from being awake to entering a dream. DILD (Dream-Induced-Lucid-Dream) is much easier and it’s the one I use, where you have the realization you are in a dream and gain some control. It’s very safe when I try it, the worst that happens is I lose control of the dream and have to wake up.</p>
<p>I naturally have lucid dreams almost every night.</p>
<p>Lucid dreaming or even dreaming in general is such an interesting topic! I had a lot of lucid dreams when I was younger because whenever I had a nightmare, I would realize I was dreaming and start praying to god to get me out of the nightmare (hilarious, I know). The sad part is, at that point in my life, I wasn’t familiar with the concept of lucid dreaming so I didn’t take advantage of the numerous times i was lucid 
Last summer I tried for like two months to get myself to be able lucid dream on a regular basis. Tried various reality checks throughout the day every day in hopes that they would transfer over to my dreams, had a dream journal, etc, etc. I’ve tried WILD’ing many times as well and I feel like I’ve got very close to having a successful WILD (I’ve gotten to feeling definite vibrations and auditory hallucinations while going into sleep paralysis and have also seen vivid images under my eyelids), but I’ve never fully made it. The funny thing is that over the time that I invested a lot of time and effort into making myself lucid dream, I never had a single lucid dream, but then months later during the school year–while I wasn’t focusing on lucid dreaming at all–I started having maybe one lucid dream a month. I started trying to focus on lucid dreaming again this summer, doing things like having a dream journal, WILD’ing, MILD’ing (mnemonic induced lucid dream), and WTBT’ing (wake back to bed), but I gave up after a pretty short time after getting frustrated with the lack of results.</p>
<p>It was actually really funny this morning, I was having a dream where I was in school and I was walking and my legs felt all weird and wouldnt work correctly like they sometimes do in dreams and my friends walked up and were like “why are you walking so slow?” And I was like “I don’t know, it feels like I’m in a dream or something.” But I still didn’t realize I was dreaming! >_<</p>
<p>^Nice. I’ve had situations where I realize that whatever happened can only happen in a dream, but don’t actually realize that it is a dream.
I tried that method, except that instead of trying to pass my hand through a wall, I tried to pass a finger through my hand. I think it translated into a dream once, but I was woken up before I had a chance to become lucid. Good luck trying to start, anyway.
Not an excuse, even though it’s the one I’ve been using. It is certainly possible if you’re busy. The only thing that is really almost mandatory is a regular sleep pattern in which you get a full night’s sleep.
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That will depend on the person. For some it will fly right through, for others it will only slightly go through, or not at all. Some people have to find another way to check if they’re dreaming because that doesn’t work.
Don’t let anybody talk you out of it. It’s not in any way dangerous. Some people are opposed to it for religious reasons, I think because they think it’s occult. That’s your decision to make, but you certainly won’t come to any harm from it (If you die in a dream, you don’t come to any physical harm). Even in WILD, the worst that can happen is that you lose some sleep (which can happen, but if you learn how to do it properly it won’t).
That is awesome.</p>
<p>I can’t recall having a lucid dream in a while. I usually die or find myself in an uncomfortable situation in my dream. If only I had more control!!!</p>
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Lol yeah it happens to me all the time; that was just one of many examples.
Have you sucessfully WILD’d before?</p>
<p>I recommend reading The works of Stephen Lamberg.
He is the world’s most authoritive expert on the subject.</p>
<p>I am reading his works so I can train myself to lucid dream more often.</p>
<p>Lucid Dreaming is 100% safe because while the body is sleeping, the mind sends signals to your spinal chord which temporarily paralyzes your limbs.</p>