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Re: Ask HN: Do you practice lucid dreaming?

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Post by francocalvo »

thenthenthen wrote: post #10
elmerfud wrote: post #4

This is something that has always come naturally to me even when I was a child. I remember when I first learned about a lucid dreaming in my teenage years and I was surprised that this wasn't normal for everyone. Except for very rare situations I have always been aware that I am dreaming and once I am aware of the dream I can exert complete control over it.

Same, not sure how to trigger it though...Nowadays it happens more in the early morning, being half-awake, although as a kid I had it more when falling asleep at night

This happens to me too. Sometimes I even setup many alarms every 15min or so like 40min before I want to wake up. This gets me to this state, and when I snooze the alarm I can go right back where I was

Re: Ask HN: Do you practice lucid dreaming?

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Post by scrapcode »

pizza wrote: post #18

For years I tried and never got it. Though these days, I only remember, or have, a dream once every few months.

I very rarely over the past 15+ years have had/remembered having a dream, and oddly that seems to have started being the case after trying to practice lucid dreaming. Most of the dreams I do have seem to be when I nap on the couch during the day (which I can probably count on one hand how many times I have done in 15 years).

Is that good/bad/neither?

Re: Ask HN: Do you practice lucid dreaming?

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Post by ANighRaisin »

raunometsa wrote: post #19
ANighRaisin wrote: post #16

I've been attempting WILD every few days whenever it's convenient. No luck so far, but it's not something I'm taking particularly seriously. For that reason, I'm still not sure whether it'd be worth doing a dream journal or risk disrupting more of my sleep.

WILD can be quite hard to achieve, I think. Doing MILD with dream journal works for me very well if I give it a bit time (not on the first night after a pause.)

Hmm... I'll give it a go.

Re: Ask HN: Do you practice lucid dreaming?

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Post by faizmokh »

wruza wrote: post #5

It's a full virtual reality experience not only with visuals and sounds but with taste, touch, and emotions, too. The commonly experienced downside is lack of real control. Once you get really involved, you just wake up. Nice if you can avoid that, but doesn’t work for me. I have to stay in the mid-zone that is similar to when you wake up but decide to sleep further. After some success around ten years ago, I found t…

> Once you get really involved, you just wake up

or worse, you got sleep paralysis.

Re: Ask HN: Do you practice lucid dreaming?

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Post by anon743448 »

faizmokh wrote: post #24
wruza wrote: post #5

It's a full virtual reality experience not only with visuals and sounds but with taste, touch, and emotions, too. The commonly experienced downside is lack of real control. Once you get really involved, you just wake up. Nice if you can avoid that, but doesn’t work for me. I have to stay in the mid-zone that is similar to when you wake up but decide to sleep further. After some success around ten years ago, I found t…

> Once you get really involved, you just wake up or worse, you got sleep paralysis.

or you can learn to project your consciousness out of your body during sleep paralysis and experience out of body sensations.

Re: Ask HN: Do you practice lucid dreaming?

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Post by satvikpendem »

wruza wrote: post #5

It's a full virtual reality experience not only with visuals and sounds but with taste, touch, and emotions, too. The commonly experienced downside is lack of real control. Once you get really involved, you just wake up. Nice if you can avoid that, but doesn’t work for me. I have to stay in the mid-zone that is similar to when you wake up but decide to sleep further. After some success around ten years ago, I found t…

> Once you get really involved, you just wake up

No, that does not happen with enough practice. I can have crazy, long-running dreams with complete control.

Re: Ask HN: Do you practice lucid dreaming?

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Post by Quinzel »

I do practice lucid dreaming but haven’t really done so lately.

I figured out how to easily induce lucid dreaming for myself basically by letting myself become sleep deprived and then drinking copious amounts of caffeine before letting myself nap. Somehow, that almost always results in a lucid dream state.

Then in my lucid dreams, I often choose to dream about things that I wish were a reality in my real life, but that are not. Often relating to desired connections and relationships with people i’d like to have relationships with in real life, but can’t for whatever reason. Maybe it’s partly due to my anxious-avoidant attachment style, but I struggle to have healthy romantic relationships or even to maintain friendships for very long. The other reason I use lucid dreams (less often) is for exam preparation. I lucid dream that I am studying my course material etc usually the night before. Somehow it helps with recalling facts etc during exams the next day.

Re: Ask HN: Do you practice lucid dreaming?

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Post by raaron773 »

I actually have tried it but i dont practice it. Performing realty check is really important but at the same time you have to make sure that your check fails in dream. Once, made a mistake that my reality check passed in a dream and i went on about it without thinking much.

I never realized how exhausting it can be once you wake up.

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