How Lucid Dreaming Works
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- You may have heard of lucid dreaming, the type of dream where the dreamer is aware of dreaming. Is lucid dreaming a real phenomenon? Sleep expert Matthew Walker explains how much we know about lucid dreams so far.
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Jessica Orwig: What if we could control our dreams?
When most of us dream, our thoughts and actions are involuntary. The dream plays out as if we were watching a movie. But not all dreams are the same. There is another kind of dreaming called lucid dreaming, which is more like playing a video game than watching a movie.
Matthew Walker: By definition lucid dreaming is simply the act of knowing that you're dreaming whilst you're dreaming.
My name is Matthew Walker. I am a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California Berkeley.
Most people actually think of lucid dreaming more in the sense of actually beginning to control what you're dreaming. So, you gain volitional control and you decide what's going to happen during your dream.
Orwig: Frequent lucid dreamers claim that they can control many parts of the dream such as teleporting themselves to another location, learning to improve real-life skills, or even eating fire. It might sound far-fetched. And until recently we lacked the technology to prove if lucid dreaming was real or not. But a series of recent studies has shed light on the phenomenon.
Walker: Scientists have designed experiments and they’ve been able to demonstrate objectively that when people say that they're doing something in that dream that they actually are.
Orwig: In 2012, scientists reported results from one of the first experiments that objectively measured lucid dreams using fMRI scanners. fMRIs measure the rate of blood flow to different areas of the brain, so they can relay information about a person's thoughts and actions simply through a series of images.
For the study, scientists first asked participants to clench their fists while they were awake. This lit up key areas of the brain on the fMRI scanner. After that, participants were asked to fall asleep and dream about clenching their fists. Sure enough - similar regions of the brain lit up in both cases.
Lucid dreaming comes naturally to some, but many of us have never experienced the sensation. However, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
Walker: How can we actually become more capable of lucid dreaming? Well, it's a little bit tricky, but you can certainly try to tell yourself that you will remember that you're dreaming whilst you're dreaming before you actually fall asleep. So, try to go through a mantra chant as it were. Some people actually try to do deliberative things whilst sleeping, like turning on the lights in a room. And that helps them to become aware that they are dreaming at the moment of dreaming itself and therefore they gain lucid control.
Orwig: Those who can already control their dreams with ease say lucid dreams aren’t only for entertainment but can also be used to expand one's conscious boundaries.
On the other hand, lucid dreamers have also reported frightening accounts where they have trouble distinguishing reality from the dream. In some cases, this can be a sign of mental illness, and should be taken seriously.
But why do some people have the ability to lucid dream but not others? And what is happening in our subconscious that triggers the experience? There’s still a lot we have to learn about the causes and effects of lucid dreaming.
Walker: It seems to be only around 20 to 30% of the population are actually natural lucid dreamers. So, perhaps if it was so beneficial mother nature would have had all of us being table of lucid dreaming. And the fact that we’re not perhaps means that it's not necessarily beneficial. But we actually don’t know. Maybe those 20 to 30% of people who do lucid dream are at the forefront of hominid evolution, and they are going to be the next species of preference. We just don't know.
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What's weirder is when you entered a lucid dream, then woke up; did your usual morning routine... then realized you're still sleeping.
Happened to me once, just once.
Oh really it happend to me like 5 times
Happened to me EVERYTIME im not even suprised -,-
It happens a lot with lucid dreamers, our brain doesn't like the fact we are aware that we are dreaming and try to revert this by reiniciating our dream, waking us up or making us unaware again. There was this time when I was having this lucid dream and then a realized my brain made me go back to unaware state in the middle of it.
Thats why you should do reality check
I use to get that, going to work then realised I was sleeping the whole time. Sometimes dreaming I went to the toilet but still in bed. That one always pissed me off. So I have snooze mode to keep waking myself up constantly.
Lucid dreaming = Creative Mode irl
i things vr mode
I fking always see you
Omg I saw you in so many videos I saw your comment in so many videos
@@nevadash I am getting slowly paranoid by seeing almost in every random video someone with the same Terminator Avatar always as the first or second commentator. What the hell is going on with that stupid shit? I must getting crazy I guess.
@@buzib5203 yeah right every one has it and I sometimes get mistaken I saw one today I see them every where
Anyone here woke up in your room twice realizing you were still inside your dream?
because it literally just happened to me XD.
And trying to cm out of that dream after cming back and sleeping in the same position knowing it's a dream and open your eyes and finally u are awake😯😧
😂😂😂🤣 yeah
Yes I am 12 ye old and this happened to me yesterday
I did
Yes
I just had my lucid dream today, and it’s such an unimaginable feeling. It’s crazy how real it is
The brain literally simulates psychosis while you dream. It's literally crazy!
Wow
I m doing a research about lucid dreaming. Can you help me on that? I mean sharing your experience
@@hoshadidewmini8416 it’s a weird feeling, so like you’ll be dreaming and then suddenly you look at your surroundings and realize that you’re in a dream, and the second you realize it’s a dream the surrounds start getting more vivid, and in that moment specifically it feels literally like real life. I was too scared to talk to anybody or do anything because It’s the equivalent of going to a random person in real life and smacking them (as in how it feels just like real life). But then when you wake up it’s just feels like another dream you had except you remember that dream vividly, but it won’t feel real when you wake up. It only feels real in the moment that you’re dreaming
@@jetoux4881how’d u do it
This professor looks 16yo and 35yo at the same time lmao
TreyX he looks like that dude that plays Dr Strange.
TraumaER LOL true!
Looks like a creep
trey happy to see r commenting my exact words in the past 2 videos he appeared..
Honorable Clasher I'm sorry mate
Me: lucid dreaming
Me: looks at crush
Me: it’s free real estates
Hahahaha mood
Shittt
When i was at grade 4 i had a dream of my grade 6 crush naked
@AlreadyWon stfu it's a dream
@@sovietsky1481 wtf
Sometimes I dream that I am flying and I know it is a dream but the sensation feels so realistic. I can actually feel rising in the air, the sudden g force when I fly high and far in swift movements, as if that is what it would feel like if people could fly. I love flying in my dreams it is an out of world experience !
The thing is when i usually fly to get away from a bad guy or ghost, i don't fly further up but just above them where they could easily jump and catch me. It's always terrifying
Oh y’all are bold! I’m usually scared to get that deep into the dream
Same!
omg ikr its so realistic to the point where i woke up and i was so convinced that i could fly, it always started by shaking my arms a bit and jumping then i would sort of levitate above ground, in my dream people r always shocked and its super realistic
Fr bro i suddenly remembered this and came looking for it
I'm a lucid dreamer and I hope more people have it... it's just amazing!
Could you do it naturally or you had to learn how to lucid dream?
@@Badass_Brainsthis happend naturally to me, maybe this can happen if you are really tired lol
Ahhhhhhhhhh......... I see
I once really wanted to lucid dream, so I embarked on a quest to try it, eventually it worked, so far the only way I've been able to control my dream is I can move by myself and make my own decisions, and I can grow a pair of wings, but that's about it, also my dreams are really weird, I was once chased by a girrafe-parrot-large headed-beaked-monster thing, it could fly, also some of them were short, their body structure was like the ones ducks have
We're trying, but to lucid dream without just being genetically lucky, we got a choice to either ruin our sleep schedule to wake up in the middle of the night, or form a habit of doing a reality check over many months.
**Falling asleep hoping to have a lucid dream**
*I schleep*
**Seeing a goat man at the end of the bed**
*R E A L S H I T*
Jolyne Cujoh 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂
Lol that's sleep paralysis m8
That's sleep paralysis, don't get scared if you go lucid in that place you can just blast him away in an instant, or embrace him.
Dr Scalpers i always have a sleep paralysis sometimes but no scary things
Im just staring at the window
This guys looks like the white version of Tyler the creator
The placement of his eyes, yes. Isn't it weird how humans can recognize those little details and remember them?
Im Incredible wordddd
BROOOOOOO WHAT
Bruh moment
I think it’s the ears
Me : Omg im dreaming, ok dont think about anything scary
Brain : anything like this?
Me: FUUUUUU
Brain: Oh you want to wake up?
Brain: *You have selected 'wake up in cold sweat’*
Yo
You copy and paste this everywhere
@@BiscuitZombies NOt everwyhere
OMG you here?! For anyone who wanna learn lucid dreaming , check his channel!
@@HowtolucidOfficial you're that guy who popped up in me fookin' ad
The word that comes to my mind describing lucid dreaming is Spectacular. You feel Great, you see incredible colorful things, you control time and space, you can fly and be whatever you want.
Dang,wish I could get me some of that,all the lucidity I've enjoyed have not been too crazy or crazy in a trippy way I'd say, certainly not with alot of colors.
Whenever I realize I’m Lucid Dreaming I always get too exited and wake up :/
First thing to do in that case is when you realize you are dreaming, start to spin around with arms outstretched (in your dream of course), like a whirling dervish. Keep spinning until you are in a more relaxed dream state. You will probably be able to avoid waking.
i cant blink in lucid dreams, after blinking when i open my eyes im awake. but taking things slow works for me, take few reality checks, spin around and enjoy!
try spinning around or rubbing your hands together like a jew, I've heard that stabilizes the dream.
I dreamt it only once . I want to dream it again
You have to focus on sleeping while it happens. I have lucid dreams where I'll be sleeping in the dream, and then I imagine where I want to be. And at first it's black and then like a movie, where I want to be just appears. It happened to me 5 times last night. And in one of the dreams I was actually telling my family "this is a dream I swear, watch this" and I'd go in my pocket and pull out a gun. It was so weird. Last nite was def the weirdest of them all and that's why I'm watching this video now. But I can always recognize it's a dream if something truly insane is happening and then I can make myself wake up. Lucid dreaming and then manipulating dreams are two dif things
It will be patched In the next update
Under rated comment
Uninstalling
I dont like that
I hope they add multi player
miles Fenton aw man!
I can’t understand how I can actually feel things in my dreams. I can feel that water is wet. I can feel the texture of carpet. I can feel the cold rush upon me as I walk outside. I can hear perfect music (classical pieces). I can even taste. It’s astonishing to me that such experiences are possible in a dream.
Same. I think it’s memory.
Wait not everyone feel this?
Same , I can read and comprehend things very clearly in my dreams too.
This happens to me so many times. There were even times when i could not distinguish between reality and dream
Me: *lucid dreaming*
Brain: Im gonna spawn your biggest fear
Me: *ah shit, here we go again*
So don't go look at me with that look in your eyes.(friends by Anne Marie)
But it's fun you know. All the excitement. And knowing you can do-over when things gone bad. It's a dream and you can control it. 😁
That’s true! That is where the true meaning of life comes. When you see that creature or thing you are most scared of, do not run!! Do NOT RUN! You are meant to fight it or make it disappear! U can do it physically or even mentally! And cool enough I can pray in that dream! And watch how that thing in you dream disintegrates! Try it!
OMG SAME LOL
I dream about I need to wakeup because I know im dreaming then I wake up in my dream I thought im awake already then it still a dream lol
Well how do I describe lucid dreaming, it's pretty amazing normal dreams are kinda blurry and not clear but as soon as you realize you are dreaming your dream becomes HD it feels so real that I sometimes fear if this is reality so I don't end up doing crazy stuff, everyone has to try it, it's pretty amazing.
I noticed this also. Colours are highly saturated too.
TRUE, my lucid dreams look and feel exactly like a real life
omg i thought i'm the only one who experiencing this (sorry for the bad english:)
I remember accidentally realizing I was in a dream, while I was driving a car on the highway in the dream… I remember taking over the steering wheel and I was so mesmerized that I crashed. The crash felt so real, I’ll never forget that feeling.
Exaxtly! I was fazing out, everything got blurry and then I wen into a control room almost like and idk it's like I took control as the manager or owner and then everything was def in HD and I went back in the dream! It was freaking cool
Sometimes during my lucid dreams I tell others: "Do you know this is a dream?" just to see their reactions... Very few get surprised or excited... Sometimes I teach others how to fly... same reaction. Funny since as far as I know I am creating everything and everyone in my dreams... Or am I visiting other realms?
What if real life for us was someones lucid dream lol
I was once in a lucid dream and I told someone "This is a Dream, your Not Real!" He preceded to give me a long explanation on his entire life story on how he had two sister, a dog that didn't like his cats, he was a salutatorian in school, and he even talked about how he had a dream last night and more and more stuff and that if he wasn't real and if this was just a dream then how could all of that happened. It stunned me realizing that this person had this entire life they thought was real, and was in reality no more different then you or me, and they thought they were real. And when I woke up they were gone, dead, non-existent. That could happen to all of us one day.
Like that episode of spongebob
@@deluuno7334 Link's Awakening IRL
I always just annoy people. It's wayyy too fun. There was this lanky acne covered teen working some summer job as an assistant at a hair salon. I kept turning the lights on and off as I invisibly floated in the roof. His reaction was always priceless
I had my first lucid dream a few days ago. I was going through a situation in my dream and at that moment I started realizing I was in a dream. When I finally realized I was in a dream, the people in my dream started standing in place and staring at me the whole time. And I started just walking around them and moving their arms and pushing them. Dreams and the subconscious are so fascinating to me.
I lucid dream almost every night...
let me just say, it’s hella fun
I always lucid dream
can it be scary sometimes
@@kendraalexis8770 Sometimes the dream feels so real that you feel like you have to wake yourself up to make sure you don't harm yourself lol. Like I was on a balcony once and usually i'll just jump off to go where I want cause I have superpowers in a dream but one time it felt so real that I was genuinely scared to jump and had to just try to wake up to not accidentally kill myself.
@@jaylee2119 The first times I experimented with superpowers in realistic environments those things also happened to me, but don't worry, over time you'll get used to realizing that you aren't in the real life; besides the amount of powers and your level of control over them will increase
i just had one. not very fun for me. u cant taste anything. tried to wake up my buddy who is sleeping in the other room in my dream but he is weightless. i was scared i tought i will never wake up. so i jumped and jumped in my dream, there u cant actually feel the gravity. so i realized maybe i can fly? so i tried to fly then start falling then i woke up. holy shit i was scared af.
I read it "Liquid Dreams"
And I thought the video was about "wet dreams" 😂😂
Haha mawfowka
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Salahudeen Ahmed 😂😂😂😂
And you still clicked
susma marasini arenot the wet and lucid dream same? Serious#
During my lucid dreams I can't control the surroundings or events in the dream but I can control my actions...kind of like reality
You can practice dream controll my first lucid dream also felt like this but my 2nd lucid dream I was flying and changing from my room to a big city
It takes practice. I use snaping my fingers to initiate changes I think about.
Same, and i still move kinda slow in my lucid dreams
Takalani Mathagu
Same
@@syrlozmira there's a reason for that. If you're initiating the release of adrenaline then you are shortening the time you can lucid dream because you're forcing your body to come out of rem sleep. Try not to create stuff that will scare you and you can really milk the experience for what feels like hours but is actually minutes or seconds.
I did it for about a year. I slept with a pen and notebook under my pillow. Would meet people I wanted to meet. Go to places I wanted to go. Had sexual experiences I wanted to experience. Wrote down a song and was so excited to see what I had written down. Only to wake up and realize the pen didn’t work during the dream, but did that very morning. I think things from other realms should stay there. So I stopped with the craziness. The mind is a wonderful thing.
what do the pen and notebook do? do you have any tips on how to start lucid dreaming, i really want to
@@shakirov.nicole The pen and notebook are just a tool to write your lucid dreams down. Think of a place or someone you would like to see before you fall asleep. Picture yourself there through deep meditation. Keep trying this until you master it. I don't encourage it though.
whenever lucid dreams happen to me i swear a 20 minute nap just gives me more energy than my regular 4 hour naps can ever do
Exactly!
But my head hurts whenever i see a lucid dream.
@@sajjadhossanshimanto8622 same just had one. A long lucid dream that felt like my complete 9 hours sleep but was actually just an hour nap and it gave me a temporary headache
I still see your shadows in my room..
Indyoboy Velting can’t take back the love that I gave you
@@anarose222 its to the point where i love and i hate you
Indyoboy Velting and I cannot change you so I must replace you oh
@@blue-vn3ml easier said then done
i thought u were the one
Just today, I couldn't stop asking the people in my dream where they live as if I would go to this place lol. I was about to exit my lucid dream and I asked this guy, are you a real life human being or just a person in my dream? And he replied, "wish I was a real life human being."
In one of my dreams I was at a park with many people and when I was about to leave this gathering I said to a woman "You're dead, aren't you?" She looked at me and said "You aren't supposed to be here." I woke up immediately.
Through my childhood and teen years, I was scared of going to sleep as I’ve had several sleep paralysis (always about the devil). For months I would have nightmares about the devil, satan and possession. I have to say, now being an adult, I am so glad I can lucid dream. It definitely helped me concur my nightmares. I see people trying to follow the techniques for lucid dreaming, but honestly, I think it’s bs. I wasn’t able to sleep for months, but now that Im able to control what I dream about is probably more amazing than reality. I’d rather sleep all the time, than stay awake. In lucid dreams, you’re everything, you control absolutely everything. Pretty cool.
This may sound funny
Same when I was a teenager, I am always scared of nightmares too. but now I don't know how.. I can control my dreams every time I have a nightmare I just teleport away from it or I blast it with kamehameha 🤣
No more nightmares for me 🤣
@@RamlyJer Exactly, lol. I once woke up from a very bad nightmare and said to myself: No no, this nightmare won't end like that. So I went back to sleep, and changed the outcome of the same nightmare, lol
I went to jurassic park while lucid dreaming, then my dad woke me up and I was so pissed
# relatable
Then you can go back
Galacticgamer is there way you can wake yourself up?
First Name it’s really hard to wake up
@@Kssav u can try to punch someoe then when they are trying to chase you,you will wake up
I’m aware that I’m dreaming but I usually cannot change the events
It takes a lot of experience... its amazing to control your dream.
Same but only at a certain extent
When i dream, sometimes in my dream i realise that i am dreaming. But i cannot control things. It is just that I KNOW that i am dreaming and not to fear as it will be over once i wake up.
This one time i was dreaming, it was as following:-
I am laying in my bed and i am watching the ceiling. All of a sudden i see a shadow (kinda spooky) , don't know what it is, and it slides across from ceiling to wall and back. And iam like hey, its just a dream. No need to be frightened. And then BAM💥 The thing jumps right on my face and i am trying to shout out loud but cannot open my jaw. I am shivering with fear. Still i know it a dream and will be over. But god that was scary!
jemsncrystals Dude you're on sleep paralysis
Precilme Tulin every body IS, at some degree, if not full; In every deep sleep. That's how body heals itself.
The strange thing about my lucid dreams is how inconsistent they are, sometimes I can fly, sometimes I'm anchored to the ground and flying seems impossible. Sometimes I can teleport, sometimes nothing happens when I try. Speaking to people when lucid dreaming is weird too, like a conversation with your subconscious or like you are controlling both sides of the dialog. Also looking at text on a page is weird, the words change each time you look back like it is being updated second by second
omg yes!
Yes. Even if I try to go back to a certain place in my dream, it’s no longer there.
I was trying to type what was happening on my phone when I was lucid dreaming and the keyboard would get all wonky like bigger or smaller… it was my first lucid dream
I'm a natural lucid dreamer, and one tip I can give you all that I've never seen anywhere is to daydream. When you daydream, you control it and know its a day dream, and doing that is practicing to lucid dream.
I've lucid dreamed a few times and they seem WAY longer than original dreams, which I love!
Is that because you remember a lot more, when you wake up?
@@donf4227 Yup. Normal dreams are like a compilation of things to me and then I wake up. When I go lucid, it’s like real time is passing by it’s really crazy. I go to sleep from 9-7 so that’s plenty of hours to spend in a lucid dream.
@@Ashw1115 i really want to try lucid dreaming, how do i lucid dream
@@mountainbikeparadise4763 wake up 4 hours after you go to sleep then after you wake up say to yourself when I go to sleep I will lucid dream this will be the last thing you remember then go back to sleep and your brain should still remember what you said and u realize u dream
I hate it! I start panicking, mostly bc I have anxiety and then I start struggling with my brain until I wake up. I really hate that I do it naturally sometimes. It scared me as a child I use to hate to go to sleep . I always thought I would get stuck in a dream or better yet what if my whole life is a dream
I can control dreams pretty well but once i get too excited i wake up lasts around 10-25 seconds. Pretty interesting. One of the hardest things to do is realize you are in a dream after that you can easily do stuff and it feels SO real
Next time, try spinning while in the dream. Sounds odd, but i've heard someone suggest it a long time ago and it's actually helped me prolong a lucid dream.
I realized I was dreaming last weekend when I was sleeping in and go in and out of consciousness.
Walter Antonio Alba An I was experiency lucid dreaming since 10 years, one thing I did a lot in my beginner journey that once I become lucid if I feel that the dreaming is collapsing or ending somehow, I begin to stare at my palms and relax for as long as the dream will become clear again and I continue my lucidity and also if I wanted to extend it for more time I stare at walls and begin to touch them; it is weird but it worked for me everytime (touching everything you see in the dream will make your dream clearer) after years you will not use those as relaxation and meditation will be very beneficial.
ziad daoud thanks for the tip actually on my first experience i touched my own hands and the bench i was sitting on naturally, i didnt knew anything about lucid dreaming before. I was pretty excited and got into it after that one dream its pretty cool!
Here is a TECHNIQUE i do to prolong lucid dreaming.. just keep thinking of the next thing thats gonna happen in ur dream or what you are gonna do as it will take form in ur dream and at the same time you are in controll. Also, if you messed up in the middle of the night and now you are awake, just stay relaxed/calm and think about the last part that happened to your dream, keep thinking about it and you will find yourself back to the dream. Also becareful of oversleeping, you might be enjoying too much you forget to wake up. hahaha enjoy
Due to the way I’ve currently been living my life, I’ve slowly been loosing my abilities to Lucid dream. Depression, bad eating and sleeping habits along with stress of work and life. I’ve been slowly just “falling asleep, and waking up” not remembering even going to sleep. And sometimes I can still feel my dreams, but can only see glimpses. Whereas when I was a child I had full clear visions and could alter everything. Now I’m almost fighting to survive in a way in my dreams.
My mate overcame his PTSD with lucid dreaming. His childhood trauma, he was neglected to the point of being a wolf-child, flipped when I told him that he could be in control at night. Not letting the nightmares overcome him but slowly but surely control them. And it turned out he was a natural and he is now in full control of his dream
I had a dream and cried and woke up and was actually crying
Miguelito I like burrito wild
i happened to me as well.. then?
Miguelito I like burrito that’s happened to me before, my sister woke me up
same
yup...it happens..
I am aware that I’m dreaming and can occasionally change events and I can also fly when I want to aswell...I can also wake myself up/force my eyes open when having an unwanted dream.. idk if others can do this but I can..
Same here. It usually occurs to me when I wake up in the middle of sleep and then again fall asleep
Yes I can do all this plus some. I've been doing for over 15 years. You are doing the right thing by just forcing your eyes open during a nightmare. Editing nightmares is a a dangerous game. There are things that will latch themselves on to you and the pipeline that you make to the dream world. They will wait for the opportune moment to make their escape to our reality. You won't know they are here with you until it's too late. This my warning, please be careful. There things about lucid dreaming we dont fully understand yet.
@@ItzGerrod what do you mean by "things that will latch themselves on to you" do u mean mixing up reality and the dream world or what?
Sometimes I have dreams that start off normal and eventually take a turn for the worst and when it does that I seem to like to ride these nightmares out as to me if I wake up in the middle of one I want to know what happens I want to understand the experience the problem is the emotions and feelings I am actually feelings are very much real so the anxiety and stress are all too real for me to believe that dreams are just a creative way to sleep but instead they are preparing us for some of our actual fears and by actually experiencing these fears in your dreams it takes away from the consequences in REALITY but if you take these to heart you will more or less take these as a warning. All though after I have these dreams for about a few hours to sometimes a few days these fears are A LOT more prominent and affect me deeply mentally until they eventually fade away such as many other feelings like love.
I always do this like I know I'm dreaming in my dream but I decide to stay even in a bad situation even if I die in my dream I just see black all around but still have thoughts and feeling and can decide if I wanna wake up or not in real life
After a weekend of heavy drug use, especially ecstasy and ket, I have always lucid dreamt for the rest of the week. Its amazing. The phenomenon itself is fascinating.
I was able to lucid dream since I was young, but I thought it was how everybody dreamt and I didn't even know it was a thing haha. It was just natural for me.
Haha Just like me
Well your lucky I've had to practice and finally starting to do it more often
Me too, I just thought it was normal.
Same, I get it like every night
Dreams are such a strange concept. How do they even work?
Basically your brain doesn't fully go to sleep. Because your brain is ALWAYS *when you are awake* processing information, when you are asleep it thinks it needs to process something, so it creates a dream. And some people who are natural Lucid Dreamers naturally have more of their brain awake than others who dream.
Blake Bauman there are actually many theories to why we dream each one is true to certain people
bish im not a weeb ok gtfo some dreams are whats going to happend in the future or a alternate universe or a possibility
bish im not a weeb ok gtfo so if you dream something it might happend if you work hard to get it
bish im not a weeb ok gtfo lol ezy
Don't know why, but that professor looks kinda SHAGGY from Scooby Doo
Zoinks!
Happens to me when I have sad or even scary uncontrollable dreams
No Russel Howard
Man i'm a natural lucid dreamer, I have been lucid dreaming for about 5 years, And can control evrything in a dream, Its so awesome It is like a game yes but you can do LITTERLY anything, the only limit is what u can think of.
I think everyone CAN lucid dream but its hard.
Trough testing with my lucid dreaming ive come very far and learnt alot.
You also learn to recognize what is a dream and what is not alot easier.
I just did it, I asked someone what the place was called to write it on a naplin and the he told me greenville, zamacanducs. I asked where is zamacanducs? Before he could answer I woke up with my fingers positioned as if I was really holding a pen.. This has happened to me on several occasions, most of my lucid dreams happen when I wake up really early then go back for a second sleep. I could do things like flying with such ease, you can feel evething exactly as you would feel it in real life, it's just that you are aware you are sleeping and to me colors are so much brighter than a normal dream! It is an amazing feeling!
I can lucid dream sometimes. It's awesome.
You know i only had one lucid dream in my life and what i did in that one life was bang my crush! and it was epic and its like i felt it you know! 👌
@@bernie7274 awesome
I could control what I’m doing but I guess I didn’t unlock creative mode because I was in survival mode when there was zombies , and the bad part was I know I’m sleeping but I die and don’t wake up
@@FBI-vy9ze you have poopy dreams. Stop watching horror movies before bed.
Kristin Gallo I was watching cartoons my guy.But 3 days before that I watched a vid about killing floor and the same zedds there where in my dream
Turns out I have always be lucid dreaming.
Like I thought that was normal
Before I go to sleep I have always chosen what Iv wanted to dream about
lucid dreaming is you chose what to do not what you WILL do
same I thought everyone could do it
This is why I love to sleep so much, I lucid dread every night!!! as soon as I notive I am dreaming I leave it all and go fly and explore the world created... it is amazing for you feel it soooo real!!! I love it!!! I know I am dreaming by kicking the floor and if I levitate... I know I am dreaming and then I can control it, amasing!!!
I control my dreams very often. Once you know you are in a dream, you control them by strictly feeling. If you want to walk through a wall, you must feel it and do it rather than think about it. The more you think about it the less you are able to control it. A truly bizarre dimension.
Me: I'm finally lucid dreaming!
Brain: *Uno reverse card*
I always thought we could control our dreams, but okay...
Ikr. I've always been able to do what I want in dreams
You are so lucky I’m still trying to lucid dream
Same like I control my dreams almost all the time
@@zawa5490 you try to lucid dream? Honestly sometimes I'm too tired to dream since lucid dreaming actually takes energy.
@@zawa5490 im always lucid dreaming like.san Goku and superman 🤣 i can do anything
I stopped smoking weed, did that many years. My dreams got very intens and now i have more and more controle! I love it, its a gift that i cherish a lot, it keeps me from smoking weed again....
I’ve recently started lucid dreaming honestly it feels awesome I always check my hands to see how many fingers I have and when your dreaming you always have extra fingers from that point I know I’m dreaming and can control my dreams.
I Fly In My lucid Dream, the first time I experienced it when I was 16 years old until now I have been 20 years and sometimes "still experiencing it
I have been experienceing it since I was like 7
A dream is a wish your heart makes
Is that from Disney princesses bcas that is on my daughters disney princess stool lol
Nazmun Alam r/woosh
Yeah cuz I really was wishing to fall off a zip line
I disagree
That is absolutely right...I was so into mammoth resurrection for some days and one day in my dream I saw three mammoths tied up in a tree near a road, and they doesn't seems so accurate...one of it was keep saying something to me, I don't remember what it was saying...it felt so real...I even saw the news that science had recreated mammoth on tv, in the same dream
I've been able to lucid dream from a very young age.
Ppl need to understand that it's a lot more to it than just being able to control your dreams.
A LOT MORE!!!!!!
I've been getting these kinds of dreams from long time now I'm so used to it that I've explored many things in it
How lucky
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me too since highschool and now I'm already graduate from college.
it's still hard for me to have a lucid dream now though.
I didn't explore in my lucid dreaming, because all I'm doing is hunting pretty boys 😂😂 and have kiss or sex with them but others always get mad at me if I touch them 🤣🤣
@@ifeelspecialonce6801 wtf
@@ifeelspecialonce6801 😂 Same with me but with girls lol but its not that sexual its more like a romantic film and i dont remember thier faces after waking up and theyre strangers mostly and sometime i can be active from brain i can see that i am awake but i can again go to that dream if i want but i shoudnt take too much time
The first thing I do when I realize I'm dreaming is fly like superman I love it. I just wish it happened more often
you can practice and get realy good at it
@@youngchap4941 ya, so true. Once superman came to my home and taught me how to fly . Since then I can always fly in my dreams.
What if lucid dreams are not dreams? What if some how we found a way into limbo or a different reality
I believe its a reflection of what you are going through in your life. Sometimes when you have problems, you will dream of that problem sometimes in a different form and i think its giving you a chance to solve that problem in your dream, i experienced this only 2 times, and it solved the problem i had.
Peenoise is heart me too I solve my own problem by lucid dreaming
OJ Mayo Light+ Yes, you are correct, it is literally, a different reality from yours, an alternate reality if you will but a mental one, but when you are there it feels physical, but I do not know if the reality is 'real' or not, what even is real?, Dr Malachi Z York (check him out) says it's whatever you are experiencing...
...On a side note, did you know that you are more likely to encounter inter-dimensional beings & other lucid dreamers while lucid dreaming
Peenoise is heart
Well my lucid dreams are usually about being in danger, like being chased by bears and lions and I try to control it but it doesn't work
Search up astral projection
One time I dreamed about my late sister, as soon as I saw her i realized that it was all a dream. I knew it was about to end soon so I rushed and hug her. She was smiling. I woke up up happy and at the same time sad.
I can easily lucid dream, since I was 6. Playing video games is the key. I can get control of it easily like I can be a different person or at a different place like in a movie where two to three scenes are going together. Also I can change my appearance. And if I read a book before sleeping I dream of the same book and I can be any character. So I change my decision the whole story changes. How cool is that!
Kamran Ahmed my first lucid dream started off good I closed my eyes and suddenly was hovering over my body I quickly realized I was dreaming and freaked out and this happened my eyes went dark around the edges and I heard a scream or laugh idk never opened my eyes felt like I couldnt breath move or yell. I somehow calmed myself saying I'm dreaming it's fine and was going to play fortnite but I decided to fly and the same thing happened Then I was in a totally different place after that with a basement with sewer and I helped some people or something and two dogs chased me when I was flying I felt that darkness again so I stopped and when the dog was about to bite me it paused then went black like a movie and I woke up feeling dog bites on my foot
I think it's fine *fortnite*
I had sex in my dream. And I had full control, nice
Yeah, I can usually attempt to "pause" the dream and press quit if things go wrong.
Same as you lol. 🎮 4 the W.
I had control of my dreams many times, sometimes i even said i was dreaming in the dream, but in all of them i lost control or ''forgot'' was dreaming and went back to just dream or woke up.
Same I forget and my dream plays on like usual
Yeah I voluntarily wake up when I’m having a nightmare sometimes
Once I was dreaming, and i was trying to convince this random girl in my dream that I was dreaming, so I walked to random wall that showed up, and said "I'll prove it" and started banging my head on the wall, and I woke up.
Then I was like, _now I have to fall back to sleep_ so I fell back to sleep in a few seconds, and walled back up to the girl and said, "See?"
Then she got upset, then 2 other people were in a hallway outside the room we were in (for some reason.) agreed with me.
Next time you feel yourself losing control put your arms out to your sides shoulder height and spin like a top, that will ground you in your dream.
Whenever I have a nightmare I always scream for help but my voice doesn't work then slowly I start to lose oxygen then I wake up does anybody know the signs?
I taught myself to lucid dream, little by little I started controlling the movements and situations. I would open my eyes sometimes and see the images moving in my room. Gotta say, it’s hella fun sometimes.
Do you often get sleep paralysis as well when you wake up? On the rare occasion I experience it, I sometimes have gotten sleep paralysis afterwards.
I lucid dream very frequently and I love it. Makes going to sleep exciting
OMG I JUST KNEW, I WAS LUCID DREAMING THIS WHOLE TIME?!
everytime i dream i know i am dreaming and kinda can sorta control what i was thinking inside the dream and control the play
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It's a rare thing to find a night without a dream. And everytime i dream i knew i was dreaming and i just thought it was a normal thing, i mean everyone does it, right?
I-T TURNS OUT NOTTTT
I'm so shocked rn and trying to get more information
Me too, I thought it was normal to control your dreams
Same
Awesome video! I remember lucid dreaming frequently when i was younger and it is a brilliant experience. The capabilities of what you can do in a lucid dream is astounding. It helps open up your ability to become more imaginative and creative, which is brilliant if you are a designer, engineer musician or artist.For example, whilst dreaming I could be in a fight and have 5 large spears thrown at me into my body and rip them out of my body and throw them back at the opponent without waking up or getting injured in the dream. I could teleport, fly, do huge jumps that could make me leap a mile into the air as well as cover huge distances. I could have superhuman strength, hold my breath underwater forever, survive through fires which would usually burn and kill you in several seconds. The list of things are endless and i truly miss those moments. Unsurprisingly, my favorite film ever is Inception and i enjoy it so much because it somewhat relates strongly to the concept of lucid dreaming. Its a beautiful crafted film and if you have ever lucidly dreamt to the level of expertise i have you will realize how powerful that movie is and how much you can relate. PLEASE make another video on lucid dreaming where you can look at ways to increase your chances of lucid dreaming and how to control the dream. For begginners who first start, it can be rather disappointing because having the ability to control and plan your dream can be overwhelming and cause you to wake up from the dream.
StudioOAC i one had a lucid dream where i got shot and i felt the pressure on the stomach but no pain it was interesting
StudioOAC Awesome, I think I have had a lucid dream one time. I was basically like superman, I could fly and I could jump super high.
do you feel anything from the fire because i've jumped off stuff in lucid that would normally kill to experience the moment of hitting the ground which in dream their is a moment of pain and injury but not intense, more like "wow this is interesting that i can feel pain in a dream and heal within a few seconds"
I know in my dreams im dreaming and i control when i should wake up though not all the time i can control,at times i wake up and go back to same dream just to finish dreaming ,i fly when i want i always see myself saving people and attacking bad people is common to me, many times my dream always tell me how my week will look like ,im a dreamer .
I always write about my dreams cuz they're pretty weird yet interesting storylines. I hope this helps me lucid dream one day!
I do also same
For me only nightmares turn into lucid dreams. FeelsGoodMan
Thats dope, just spawn a shotgun and shoot the crap outta the monster
@Dalia Daly This reminds me of a movie plot I saw once or something.
Frs that what just happened to me my time lucid dreaming
Right same here dude
For me, it’s more like Lucid dreaming turn into Sleep paralysis : (
"the next species of preference"😂😂💀
My lucid dreams are me living my best life. Each dream is a new world
If a dream is going badly I tell myself it’s a dream and I can just wake up and end it. I had no idea that meant anything until I heard people talking about lucid dreams and that you can control what direction they take. So I tried it and it worked. I haven’t really done it much since because I don’t really know what to do with it.
I think I can lucid dream. My dreams are usually very vivid and have a sense of weight to them that feels real. A lot of the time I'm a different person in a different time period in what feels more like a memory than a dream. Things that happen are things that I have no knowledge of in the real world. Sometimes I wake up confused for a second or two as to where I am, who I am, and what I look like; it can be quite frightening.
Fox Smith it’s called the Spirit World
Yep it's the spirit world and your that avatar so its casual
Fox Smith+ Same bro saaaame!!, this has happened to me as well
Fox Smith legend of ang ~
Fox Smith if you have LDs you will definitely know not just think my friend😊its so obvious when you have them..
I remember having a 'sort-of' lucid dream or more accurately a lucid nightmare. I remember dreaming of a person chasing me with a knife in their hand and in the dream I remember running and then wishing I was super fast and I did actually run very fast but the guy was still right behind me whenever I looked back. I then wished to teleport some place safe but wherever I went he was still behind me. Can't remember if the dream ended abruptly or if the guy who was chasing me actually got me but this proved to me that even when I am aware of dreaming I can't always control everything.
I have same experience just like that a very scary nightmare. There was a scary creature trying to puncture my neck while i pray hail marry then suddenly stop and woke up in that dream while still asleep dreaming. I thought i was gonna die in my sleep. It is very frightening and scary
I had a lucid dream where I was running from myself. I was chasing myself with a gun and I remember running so fast but I was always behind me.
The animation in this video was amazing! It really brought the dream sequences to life and made them so much more understandable. I could watch this over and over again
It's so trippy knowing you're dreaming. I love it!
I actually recall one time telling someone in my dream, "But I'm dreaming" or "this is a dream" 😅
(I can't remember why I made such a statement at that particular moment in the dream though).
I can usually fall back into the same dream if I wake up momentarily too.
Although, I'm going through an awful period of insomnia lately and I can't remember the last time I even hit REM sleep long enough to even recall any dream whatsoever! 😩
I believe it helps a lot. It has given me many fail scenarios, helps me avoid things I’ve failed out in my dream and avoid them in real life. It’s kind of weird but I’ve been stabbed to death and shot to death as well. I’ve been able to repull these dreams in other dreams and go through these scenarios and figure out where I went wrong. Kinda neat. It’s like an extra life in a video game. Hopefully this helps.
This happens with me too.
You're damn right. In Christianity we say God has given us a vision of what is to happen. And if you face it in reality, you will certainly know what to do to avoid it if you notice and remember it just in time
I lucid dream but mostly only when I'm sad
Are you sad most often? :P
@@Satan666Official uhh yeah and I always think of not being a scientologist
we're same!! actually after i experience sleep paralysis, there goes lucid dreaming. was about to explore it but i got too excited bc damn man finallyyyyy but i woke up🤣 i always experience sleep paralysis when i'm sadddd smh
I’m horny so yeah
In your dream think of a happy door and open it.
I only lucid dream, and I have been astral traveling since the age of 12. Whenever I lucid dream I feel like I’m watching myself from the outside while being in my body at the same time, and I’m always also aware of where my physical body really is In this realm. I’ve always been a little different than most if you will. I’ve been seeing spirits my whole life and didn’t know everyone else couldn’t until I was around 5. When I go to sleep at night I lay flat on my back and mediate into a lucid dream or astral projection. I get up just about every 1-3 hours to reflect on where I just was then back at it again. I never wake up tired either, but many times I don’t feel like I ever even slept. It’s like I just have a vision wake up and repeat. I’ve mastered turning off my thoughts and can fully relax my entire body pretty much instantly. I learned all of this from wanting to be in control of when I astral project and what I experience when I do. Everyone can do it but, just like building muscle you have to work on and strengthen these abilities.
26 now, lucid dreamt since I remember. I've felt stimuli before I ever did in real life, from private time to the taste of other things. And they seem to be spot on..there's something about dreams that makes me think there's alot more too them
His hair doesn’t match his face
Life Hacks lmao
It wouldn't match any face.
DUDE DONT CHANGE THE TOPIC LOL
Matches clothes
@@andrewmartin6445 🤣🤣🤣
I'm a very good lucid dreamer then.
Everyday I control them.
Same
Same
Omg really? To everyone out here... I am looking into this and I want to try this out. I looked up so many techniques and preparations for this. I don't dream whatsoever.... So I this seems so unbelievable to me.... Does this actually work? And can you do everything you want? How real is it on a scale from 0 to 10? Can you feel stuff? Hear stuff? Isn't...this actually....REALLY awesome?
What have you guys dreamt recently? Can you like meet ur crush or something?
@@s.c4754 To be honest I have never tried any of these techniques, I have had lucid dreams since I was 11 years old (6 years ago), and the first few times you can only be aware of your dreams and it doesn't happen so frequently, it took me 1 year of practice to start to control them, so these methods may be useful but I can't verify it.
In response to how dreams are, yes, they feel quite real, with enough practice you can experience them with all your senses, although it is limited to the brain's perception of these senses, for example, when you fly you feel the speed and the wind in your face, but it isn't exactly what you feel when you fly, but what you think it feels like when you fly, based on memories that you form in real life
When you feel pain in a dream and you are sure that it was real that's bc our minds are so powerful that in dreamland we still feel the same like as if we were awake. The difference is the physical damage sustained in a dream will only effect ur dream body. If you've ever wondered why you wake up after you die in a dream its bc our brains can't comprehend death bc its never actually been through it (idk how this would apply to ppl that have died and been revived)
i LOVE lucid dreaming! I always choose to fly! It's so exhilarating that I wake up with goose bumps going up and down my arms and legs! And the scenery is incredible! I fly over mountains and oceans!
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I have trouble telling the difference between real life and a dream. Sometimes when I wake up by my alarm I hit snooze and rest my eyes then I get up and I go on with the rest of my day but then I wake an hour later still in my bed laying down and I’ve been late to school and work because of it. I would compare it to day dreaming though not lucid dreaming but idk what it really is.
That is called "false awakening", it's linked to lucid dreaming, and the mere solution to it would to enhance your lucidity so you'd instantly realize it is just a false awakening and snap out of it.
Then u can see the future literally
AHAHAHA YOUR STILL DREAMING
Jk but that sounds creepy.
@@supakapa5661 one time my friend lied to me and said that we have a math test , then i had a dream that we wont have the test and when my friend told me she was joking about the math test i told her that i had a dream about it ، i also have dreams where some of my relatevs come to visit us and they really do
Bruh, i've been dreaming like that. Always. It's really fuun
The best way to describe lucid dreaming would be almost like you’re soul leaving you’re body to go free roam I do lucid dream at least 2-3 times a week some of them are very detailed some of them can be frightening but not frightening like something scary I mean frightening because you have the ability to add people and remove people it’s honestly such a wild feeling I feel like sometimes I’m living another life while I’m dreaming
When I was younger, it was really easy to tell myself I was in a dream, and to wake my self up if I didn’t like it, or to change small parts of it. After I started smoking weed my dreams became more vivid and hard to tell the difference from. But I continued to smoke and my dreams are becoming more controllable again.
I can be having a lucid dream and be woken up for a brief moment and then go back to sleep and fall straight back into that dream. They are often pleasant ones and i dont normally want to get out of bed. So that makes me wonder if im actually dreaming or is it just my imagination running wild. Anyone else have this phenomenon?
Yes, that exactly happens to me too from time to time...
I'm also wondering if it's my imagination or if I'm really dreaming...
Mine are also the same as you describe
But ain't dreaming basically using ur imagination? (Kinda)
Yes I Do.
how to control your lucid dreams?
when you feel sleep. if you see something walk on your dream ,
how to know if you are in dream?
try to bike your hand in your dream and if you dont feel anything begin . controling your dreams and do what ever you want. but dont close your eyes and dont blink to avoid waking up
@Jay Bee 😂😂😂
But how am I supposed to remember this when I’m dreaming? The only thing I can remind myself when I don’t know how to get out of a nightmare, I just open my eyes really wide and I wake up in my bed, but I’m not really awake and it’s just a simulation almost, I am paralyzed when I do that but at least I don’t see no demons or anything when I’m paralyzed, I just hear voices and watch my arm not move as it feels like I’m moving my limbs.
I actually feel pain in my dreams if I want to. I can even taste foods.
@@romnicklazatin3679 I felt a celebrity holding my arm while I was lucid last night, and my hand tickled when I woke up
@@Iionkit. you're having sleep paralysis
I have been doing this for years. It stopped for a while, then I went back to it again. I have been lucid dreaming for the last week. I wake up really tired though, like I have not slept at all. I cannot necessarily control what I dream about before going to sleep. However, when I dream (me being a different person), there is context to it. Like I suddenly know who I am, how I feel, what my history is, and then control the narrative of the dream from there. I control what the person in my dream does. My dreams are very vivid too. And if I ever get woken up by the need to pee or something, I go back to sleep and consciously decide to go back into it to finish the dream. This morning, I remember opening my eyes and checking to see if it is morning yet, then I went back to sleep to hurry myself up and finish all loose ends in the dream so I feel like I am not left hanging.
The last two recent lucid dreams, I had the feeling of deja vu. Like I somehow feel the familiarity of the dream as if it is was either an old dream or an old memory while still subconsciously reminding myself that I am dreaming.
I can control my dreams when they are unfavorable or scary. Sometimes I have little control and sometimes I can control dreams very easily. I can't tell every time I dream, but I can tell quite a few times that I am dreaming and shape my dreams as I like. Anybody having similar experiences? Most people here are commenting that they can't differentiate between dreams and reality, but when I dream I can tell, and the dreams don't seem very real.
What about when i know im dreaming but i cant wake up
Benzyfi that's what I was like I thought I woke up and went into my mum but it was all a dream
Benzyfi That's when you are awake but you body is sleeping.
When I lucid dream I ask for help to get back into *woke mode* so I’m kik “ayyyyyyy I’m dreaming and I can’t wake up can ya help” other guy” trying blinking a bunch and closing your eyes and try to wake up real hard” “ok cheers mate next dream if I see ya again I will have a stubble with you ok” “ahhh no worries”
i hate when that happens
Its called life.
I have been lucid about 4 times so far but I am not always able to induce the lucid dream state voluntarily it sort of "just happens" sometimes. When it does, it is absolutely unbelievable!! For those who have tried playing games in VR - its like having super high fidelity VR Googles on - you can literally move and touch things just like in real life. Its incredible. Also - I am taking higher than normal doses of Melatonin which seems to aid in me becoming lucid once in a while.
I woke up from a lucid dream and ask my brother if so and so were still here chilling. And he was like they were never here
Today, I lucid dreamed for the first time. I started to have night terrors when I was a boy, that turned into sleep paralysis, then to sleep paralysis/nightmares (Hallucinatory dreams), and now lucid dreams. I recently resolved a lot of my trauma, so my theory is that it is linked with spiritually/mental health.
So I have been a pro at this the whole time and I just called it day dreaming 😂 I started doing it in the car with music when I was like 11!
Lucid Dreaming comes naturally to me, and until a couple of years ago I thought that everyone could lucid dream. After that I felt so lucky, but I was confused when others told me that they couldn’t lucid dream. Guess I’m part of the 20-30%!
Frankie Prokop its amazing to know you are actually asleep and being able to live in any world and interect with it, you are really lucky
Same! I just had a lucid dream that I controlled.
Anime Lover howww? helpp me pleasee lol
Anime Lover same started off awesome then scary
Adam Nazifi so true lmao, I thought everyone could control their dreams too when I asked my friends and gf 😂 turns out none of them could control their dreams. I get a lot of sleep paralysis though, possibly two times a week
I used to dream walking to the bathroom and felt relaxed as one does when peeing standing up. I peed my sheets many times when I was around 13 years old. Lately I dream very vivid lucid dream. I learned that I can dream and interact with people in my dreams. I read several times one can only dream about faces one has actually seen in real. I do not have that. I interact with like in star wars or Harry potter like people and lifeforms. Many of them over the years. Marvel characters only known to me in my dreams. Actual real stories in lenght and detail. In other words i dream star wars or enterprise movies all on my own. I make friends with some others are not. I could often write a book or draw characters from my dreams. I like it. Most dreams are positiv. At times i want to shout or yell but cannot. The feeling you are suddenly mute. That is scary a bit since it always involves danger I'm my dreams. I wake up exhausted and a bit frightened until i realise it was a dream
I used to lucid dream and sleep walk in my early teens. I used to fly in my lucid dreams....amazing sensation!
I had a lucid dream today...
I heard a random loud click, then that made me realise that I was dreaming
you everyone freaked out when I started flying in my dream