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      How can i stop lucid dreaming?

      Hi,
      I want to know how to stop lucid dreaming. I know lots of people want to do it and spend time practicing and learning how to do it.
      I've always been able to do it, for as long as i can remember, from childhood. So much so, i thought it was normal and happened to everyone.
      I want to stop it all together and hypnagogia (which i too have always been able to do).
      It is having a hugely negative affect on my sleep and day to day life. The negatives are very much outwaying the positives of it.
      Is there any way to stop. Or anyway just to wake up to a normal awake state in the mornings and not enter a lucid or hypnagogic state?

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      If you become lucid in a dream, just lay down wherever you are in dream, go to sleep, and wait until you wake up.

      If you experience hypnagogia, try to ignore it until it goes away.

      If ignoring these distractions is difficult, then learn to meditate while they are happening.

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      Your problem is not with lucid dreaming, it is with dreaming. Everyone dreams and there's no way out of it.

      You have a few options. When you wake up, I suggest you think about what you need to or will do today. Get busy with something else. Wake up with playing a game on your phone. Your dream recall will plummet. You will feel like you don't dream anymore.

      Also, if the problem is that your dreams are unpleasant, increasing your lucidity and then learning to control the dream, you might be able to make your dreams more pleasant. Personally, I believe this is easier to achieve if you deal with the things that stress you out and scare you on a daily basis, especially social anxiety. Your dreams have more chance of becoming pleasant afterwards.

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      As a side note, your experience of being aware of your dreams is not necessarily lucid dreaming. Everyone always is aware of their non lucid dreams, otherwise they could not be perceived. Lucid dreaming is defined as the knowledge of being in a dream. And some would add that this is characterized by a state that is closer to that of waking life, where you gain access to your memories, you know that all that is happening is created by you and you have complete control over it.
      Last edited by Occipitalred; 12-11-2016 at 03:49 PM.
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