/x/ - Paranormal / Occult

I have chronic lucid dreams/night terrors. I'm not sure how I began having them, it might be a byproduct of my ptsd (i take medicine to make them less intense). But I noticed the longer I sleep the more lucid dreaming I have, so maybe if you have the time, try sleeping a lot longer than normal and maybe going to bed with something like music playing in the background.

>>1946
look up "wake back to bed", that technique worked for me maybe like 1 out of 3 times i tried it but it did work

>>1961
Can confirm, "wake back to bed" actually works. Although I didn't try it often enough to get my dreams lucid, I used it a few times to just get bright, memorable dreams.

You could probably combine it with creating a habit like, checking your time or pinching yourself, to help with realization whether you're dreaming or not.

play music that contains ringing throughout it. there's a bunch of these on youtube that run 10+ hours.

I need to start again. Dream journal isn't needed, just a clear mind and intention. It takes a few days to get into it.

Lucid dreaming is generally not worth the effort after experiencing it once or twice. The best part of dreams is letting your unconscious create an experience for you, letting you surprise yourself. Then again it could be interesting to try working in your dreams, like Aphex Twin lol.

Honest question.
Is there anything lucid dreaming can do that plain mid-day imagination can't?

>>2009
Daydreaming/imagination can come up with some cool concepts, but I find lucid dreams an experience entirely of their own and often very much ethereal in experience that no drug I've ever taken has ever gotten close to. Dreams themselves are a cycle of your mind dumping random information for deletion but instead cause vivid imagination the likes of which can't be described accurately. When in control of these in a lucid state (or seemingly in control), things can get very interesting incredibly fast. I have had dreams of corrupted skyscrapers and exploring their confines, drowning in an abstract pool of water situated in the orange, sunset sky next to random abstractions and buildings, large mazes of urban decay and mall-like structures that seem endless explored next to my closest friends, and terrifying lucid nightmares where I was vivisected repeated and cleaved in the head with a machete, splitting my brain in half. I suffer from vivid dreams and night terrors constantly that have only subsided once I was adequately taking my prescribed PTSD medication every night. I have also had bouts of sleep paralysis as well. The things our minds come up with when we sleep are several times more amplified than what we can think of when we are awake.