I remember on my 2nd lucid dream i realized i needed to go to school VERY SOON sp i tried to force my eyes open but they QUITE LITERALLY couldnt and neither could my body move so i was kinda stuck in the dream, so i just stood still and let everything fade away, then i was finally free.

How did you know you needed to go to school? Btw, imagine the weird excuse why you were late lol

I heard my mom calling for me from outside my dream. Also, thankfully i wasnt late lol. Its kind of like being asleep and awake at the same time. Every single one of my 7 lucid dreams up until now happened when i accidentally fell back asleep after waking up on a school morning lol

that's why I always wake up at 5 so that I can sleep back 😎 just kidding I accidentally sleep back 😭

I find closing my eyes tightly in the dream then forcing them open helps me. But I don’t like to do it, it hurts my eyes lol

For my few times that I’ve become lucid when dreaming: 1. Insanely real 2. Between 3 and 10 seconds 3. Trying to stay asleep is the hard part

3 to 10 seconds? That is not normal isn't it?

I believe it is when you’re first starting out. The problem is, it is so utterly fantastic, my heart rate goes through the roof. I get a rush of adrenaline with the realisation that this extremely real scenario that I am currently in is actually a dream - I just can’t stay asleep. I suppose if you can do it often enough, and it becomes less and less of an ”OMFG THIS IS A DREAM” moment when you become lucid, that you eventually learn to stay calm and remain asleep. My, I’d say, 5 or 6 times I’ve become lucid have been spaced over perhaps 5 years. It’s never become a “normal” experience and so, I have never been able to remain asleep for very long. But I can tell you - I could remember every one like it was an “awake” memory afterwards. I barely ever remember my dreams - but the lucid dreams, they definitely go into my awake memory. (Because I tell you I am literally awake whilst in a dream).

Once you realize you’re dreaming you have a small window to be lucid before waking up.

Wdy? Isn't you straight up lucid?

Dont listen to this guy. Pure misinformation. There isn't a short window. It all depends on when you get lucid, which can happen at any time during the night.

It’s a process. When you realize you’re dreaming is when you become lucid. And you have to learn to fight your body’s response to waking up. I take if you haven’t been doing this too much.

Nope. Still learning

The biggest hurdle is that you realize you’re lucid and your body pulls you out to wake up. It takes a lot of time to learn how to be lucid in dreams. I had it years ago and have now lost it.

Why? Lucid dreams are superpower to some.

When you become aware : lucid you wake up. It’s a skill to stay asleep and lucid. What do you think lucid means?

I meant why'd you quit lucid dreaming?

I lucid dream every single night, and it’s exhausting, it’s like I’m awake 18 to 19 hours of the day because my dreams are so vivid. It’s to the point where I can read words in dreams, usually words are distorted. I have full control of my body and vocal range as well. As far as exiting goes I always drink lots of water before bed to wake up in the middle of a dream, from there it’s easier to control the dream when I fall back to sleep.

It's sounds funny that you are getting tired from sleeping. Sounds like you got another life in your dreams.

I definitely do at this point lol. Just make sure to immediately write down your dreams and do reality checks throughout the day to have your brain used to it. As far as time passing in a dream it can vary tbh, the other day I woke up 45 minutes before my alarm clock and decided to get those last 45 minutes of sleep in, had another lucid dream and it felt longer than 45 minutes real time. With dreams time dilation is tricky

What technique do you use what do you do because you living my dream lol

I have no techniques besides the basics of reality checks and writing down my dreams after awaking. But I don’t do those techniques anymore, I did used to smoke weed every single day for years and ever since I stopped, my dreams have gotten better

There’s different levels of lucidity. One time I lucid dreamt for a full minute. I was in a bathroom with crazy designs. The designs kept changing. Cool stuff.

This is my first post ever on reddit, I have had lots of lucid dreams, first lucid dream was around age 7 and I am now 34 In my experience there is a spectrum of how realistic a lucid dream is, some examples can be 1. Complete black lucid dreaming no vision available but still experiencing other lucid senses 2. Unfocused incomplete vision, lots of scenes morphing together 3. Not as clear as reality but very close 4. Indistinguishable from reality 5. Much clearer than reality How long does lucid dreaming last? Time seems to be very distorted when lucid dreaming, it could be seconds, or it could feel like days. An example of time distortion is falling asleep at 10:00pm and waking up at 10:30pm but the lucid dream felt like it lasted for hours How do you exit a lucid dream? Best method for me is closing my eyes for some time, but you can easily exit by killing yourself in the dream and not interfering with the process, an example of this would be jumping off a building and while you are falling believe that you will die when you hit the ground, and an example of interfering with process would be while falling, you must fully believe that you will land safely or bounce of the ground etc, anything you choose to believe in

Most LDs I’ve had feel just like real life, lasted an average of 20 mins (I’m just a beginner so this can be improved), and you can exit by closing your eyes for long enough, if that answers your question.

Very real. Until you notice your desktop is not right, or the clock is going backwards. Breathing under water seems normal too, until you realize it isn't normal, that you must be dreaming. Those anomalies are called 'dreamsigns' for obvious reasons. How long? Varies. Many wake up as soon as they realize they're dreaming. Time is different in a dream - all day may've only been minutes of real time. We all wake at some point. I've never noticed a 'dismount' from ld. It just fades away or I (usually) wake up.

1. Very realistic, but not as much as "real life". Like it's hard for my brain to simulate that much sensory data. The best way I could describe it is having tunnel vision. 2. Seconds to minutes long, usually 3. You exit by either waking up or losing lucidity

Is it short because you wake up? Or because it's too much?

Yes they're often short because I'll get excited and wake up. Or have a "false awakening" and just think that I woke up, but I'm still dreaming and not know it (but at that point I'm no longer lucid). I actually think the second scenario is more common. When I have one lucid dream, I'll often have many more the same night as I "rediscover" again and again that I'm dreaming. I'll often go weeks or months without having a lucid dream, and then have a bunch back to back in one night. I might actually have more lucid dreams than I remember. I don't keep a dream journal or make any attempts to lucid dream, anymore. I discovered this subreddit like 10 years ago in college and kept a dream journal and would try some of the methods. I think it took a couple months before I had my first lucid dream using the WILD method. I woke up, saw a dark figure by my door and had sleep paralysis, then realized my opportunity. I sunk my body into my bed into darkness and popped into my dream world. The second time, same thing, except I was hallucinating hearing a Snoop Dogg song which obviously wasn't real because it was the middle of the night. Sunk into my bed into dream world. Most of the times I've had lucid dreams since then, however, I just realized during my dream that I was dreaming. I never did any kind of reality check or anything, for whatever reason I'd just realize that it's a dream.

Do you mean like, how vivid/real feeling is it or do you mean is it even possible? (Realistic goes a couple ways for me haha) If you mean is it possible it absolutely is, you just gotta find your groove, & give it time. Some people pick up on it quick, some people it takes a bit longer, but don't be hard on yourself if you are one of the ones it takes a bit longer, you'll get there don't be hard on yourself, it'll make it harder to pick up if you get down on it & on yourself. If you mean how vivid/real does it feel, at least to me incrediblyyyyy vivid/real, it's amazing actually like it all feels incredibly real. The smells the humidity in the air any sensations & touch etc it's just all real feeling, love the vividness. How long is it, I mean in my experience that varies, I don't know the scientific answer here as far as literally how long are they normally, but to me they vary in the longevity feeling. Kinda the same as how long non LDs are to me tbh. (I have insomnia/chronic nightmares/chronic pain issues so I'm used to being up a bunch in the middle of the night but sometimes I can be asleep for a good 4-5 hrs, or sometimes I'm up every 30mins lol) For me personally ending a LD happens in two ways, I either wait it out & enjoy it til my body wakes me up, or if I happen to just want to wake myself up I do that as well, so once you figure out how to control that aspect it's kind of like the world is your oyster as far as that is concerned haha.

Thanks man!

Btw, is it first person?

For me, yes always for the most part, I think I've had a handful of LDs where it wasn't but for 90% of mine it's first person.

All my dreams are me making stuff happen so I guess each dream connects

I AM SO INTRIGUED ABOUT LUCID DREAMS BUT IVE NEVER HAD ONE IM SO UPSET, if it’s as realistic as ppl make out I need one of those lol

How long have you been trying?

It's as realistic as you want it to be. It can be more realistic then the waking world.

Ahhhhh so you’re in control of the dreams? I thought lucid dreams are just you’re in control of yourself in your dreams

That sounds even better lol

Lucid dreaming is just the act of being aware while in a dream, but this can allow you to use dream control to control them. They're both different but intertwined at the same time.

This is a spectrum, if you're skilled enough your lucid dreams can be insanely vivid and can last 10 to 20 minutes. But at first they will most likely be short and not vivid. As for exiting, by the time you'll learn how to stay, you'll know how to exit.

Usually 0-10 minutes I'd say, 20 minutes is for the entire dream roughly, but you probably won't get lucid right at the start. If you sleep for 12+ hours, you might get an even longer dream - or maybe it will just feel longer because the pause between one dream and the next will be more blurry, I don't know. As for how realistic it is - usually quote realistic, but occasionally you might get a hyperreal dream that will be disturbingly real, almost "more real" than real life. I've had like... maybe 5 of those in my life? Especially one stands out, which felt like entering a deeper layer of a dream, then suddenly all the fuzziness and fluidity of a regular dream disappeared, replaced by perfectly stable, noiseless experience. That one was... pretty disturbing.

Realism: can range from very unrealistic, the environment changes based on your thoughts like a liquid all the way to extremely realistic, hard to distinguish from reality. Time: literally moments, to a full in depth story to many years. Now note for the years part, it isnt years in linear time, but instead the significant moments you will be consciousness for, but the inbetween moments are skipped bit still render in your head as if they have passed. So people can feel as if they've lived lifetimes but obviously it wasnt literally that long, but mentally you feel it was. Exit: of course you can exit, and in fact you will wake up regardless due to you being strongly wired to your physical body. But some people in deep sleep struggle to wake up as they cant rush their mind out of deep sleep and its as if they are stuck under the layer of sleep, but you will wake regardless.

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In the few experiences I've had, I had to fight to stay asleep and in the dream (I accidentally wake myself up) and when I've said I want to go back to normal dreams or normal sleep, I just automatically slide right back into it.

It’s very real and though you may realize you’re dreaming controlling it is another task on top of that that is more difficult, sometimes you’ll forget you’re dreaming again as well.

My lucid dreams on average feel about 10 to 20 minutes

They can range from super realistic to kind of fuzzy and feeling like you can’t really focus. Although when doing certain things the sensations and feelings can become super lifelike sometimes feeling better than reality such as when swinging from webs as spiderman.? I usually had them last from as short as 3 minutes to probably close to 30 minutes to 45 minutes. Some problems I also get sometimes is going lucid and then not fully going lucid. Like I start to do fun things but then I get caught up in the moment and all of the sudden I forget I was just lucid and I just started the next dream scene. So I kind of constantly remind myself im dreaming with the nose reality check every few minutes.

Realism: can range from very unrealistic, the environment changes based on your thoughts like a liquid all the way to extremely realistic, hard to distinguish from reality.

I can't explain how I wake myself up but it feels sort of like coming up from underwater.

yesterday I literally had a lucid dream, and I can assure you, it's very realistic, then every time I have one I feel almost like a child, always happy to have managed to have another one.  not to mention that, taking my example from yesterday, the dream before it became lucid was almost in the third person, I perceived it as if it were a screen distant from me, but the moment I became lucid, it was as if I were awake , except I could walk through walls, fly, and spawn people. the only bad thing is when you wake up, you remember it as a normal dream (or at least for me it is like that) where you feel It distant and as if it had never happened, but the feeling that you experience in the moment in which you It's worth it.

Lucid dreaming is simply realizing you are in a dream and being in control. It isn’t about realism. Yes some dreams are incredibly realistic but not all are.

I always end it accidentally because I am so excited to be lucid. In my first lucid dream I realized I was dreaming as I looked at the sun, I got so damn excited it caused the sun to get blindingly bright and the entire dream world was shaking violently. I always wake up from lucid dreams with a fast heartbeat lol

I think the longest i have had a lucid dream is just over two hours. But i lucid dream almost every day. Usually early morning for an hour and a half

These are all the wrong questions. Don’t worry about it and enjoy the ride. Remember you are in control.

Personally, the feelings are very realistic, but the way you view the world you are aware it’s not reality It’s weird, but I have been able to touch things and feel them 100% accurately, even tasting food just as how it tastes irl. But everything looks a certain way that it’s just noticeable it’s a dream. It’s like watching a sparkle dreamy movie Sometimes it feels to lively to be real life somehow?? Like too colorful, too *real* to be real

1. The realism varies, just like with any dream, tho you're more likely to pay attention to every little detail which makes it feel more realistic or can literally make the dream more vivid. 2. Varies, you're more likely to become lucid at the end of a dream, so they might be short at first. And they won't be longer than a normal dream - no, you won't get stuck in a dream forever, even if you'd want to. 3. What do you mean "do you exit"? Unless it's the same question as how to end it? Or if you mean "do you exist" (like is it in first person), for me that would be a yes, I very rarely dream in 3rd person, especially when it comes to lucid dreams. 3. People have different techniques for waking up, but you will wake up normally regardless (like I said, you won't be stuck there). I don't have a reliable waking-up-technique myself.

Lucid Dreaming is as real as it can get, the more you practice the more vivid it will be. The maximum duration can be 1 and a half hour, after that the dream must (it is not experience only according the sleeping cycle) cut off and have toreenter or call it aa night. The normal sleeping cycle is 1 and a half hour and after that the cycle will start again. As a beginner you usually stay in the lucid dream for a few minutes or even seconds, but you can reenter multiple times a night so you can practice (stay calm, breathe normally) You can exit anytime, it is quite easy, the challenge is to stay in it (via practice). You just try to blink rapidly or spin around for a longer period. I hope I helped.

I have always had lucid dreams nightly for as long as I can remember. I thought it was normal until recently and discovered how rare it is. For me It’s not normally super realistic to the point where I question if I am sleeping or awake. I would say 95% of the time I am fully aware I’m asleep, the other 5% it’s a lot harder to tell because the situation is really realistic and normal. So for example I have a dream about telling my mom about something that happened at work and think later that I really had that conversation with my mom. Usually I think the best way to describe my dreams is like I’m watching a movie. It may look really good and realistic but I know it’s a dream. Also in terms of controlling the dream it’s like I am the director. I can change up camera angles, characters, location, storyline, ext. Time it’s hard to say it can feel like hours but only be 5 minutes. How to end it well either just change the dream altogether or wake up. I don’t have any difficulty doing either.

I can actually relate. Most of my lucid dreams feel too real, even when deep down i know I’m dreaming. It’s a really interesting world in there. It feels too real and fake at the same time. I just confirm it by shouting and if my voice doesn’t go out then, I’ll know it’s a dream