Thread: How do I stop lucid dreaming?

What the hell is that? How can u want to STOP LDs, when everyone (including me) is trying like you cant believe to have one?

Because everytime I realize its one i instantly fall "awake' and im in sleep paralysis unable to breathe heart pounding out of my chest and unable to move for 10+ minutes with a demon standing next to me and no way to move, I didnt ask what your opinion was i asked how to stop it

I think these might be false awakenings. When you find yourself in this SP situation again, imagine yourself falling or sinking through your bed!

I don't know how to stop the lucid dreaming neither why anyone would want to although i have found a method to break out of the Paralysis. When paralysed you should think or dream about rolling out of your'e bed and falling on to the ground. Falling on to the ground should act as a Kick which sends a little adrenaline to the body freeing you.
I hope this helps we all know how stessful Sleep Paralysis can be.

Sleep Paralysis is a stress indeed, specially when still suffering from visual/audio allucinations. The tips presented here should work fine... I will only add another: as much stress you get, the more unberable it becomes. Try to relax the body and think about going back to sleep. That way you will hopefully continue dreaming and have a normal sleepy night. About stopping the LD, it is not complicated, in my opinion. Just try to ignore the subject and focus yourself on other things, not only during the day but also when going to sleep, SPECIALLY when you go to sleep. The more you focus on LD the more episodes you have.

Hope I could help! Good Luck!

Try to ground yourself once you become lucid so that you don't wake up. Look closely at your hands, get down and feel the grass, taste something, do whatever you can to use all of your senses. This makes the brain focus on simulating all of those sensations for you, and keeps you in the dream. If you do this, the dream should be stable and you won't wake up like you normally would. If you really don't have time to do that and you feel like you're just about to wake up, then spin around. Just spin around in a circle, and the feeling of spinning should stabilize you.

If you find yourself stuck in SP again and you want to get out, just start breathing very deeply and very slowly, your body should realize that you're actually awake and go out of SP.

A shorter version of all the above:



How do you stop lucid dreaming you ask?

You don't!

You simply learn to enjoy it!

Hallucinations of entities, demons or other strange presences are common during waking sleep paralysis. I also heard somewhere that the heart pounding thing is a hallucination and your heart isn't really beating as hard as you think it is, although I'm not sure if that's true or false.

This could even be false awakenings as someone above suggested. Either way, truselt me, you don't want to stop having lucid dreams, you want to learn to make them pleasant experiences - because for most, pleasant is a vast understatement.

Originally Posted by Orior

How do you stop lucid dreaming you ask?

You don't!

You simply learn to enjoy it!

Best advice you will get right here.

You can't just stop lucid dreaming, because that's like saying "how do I turn off my sense of smell?"

What seems to be your only problem is that sleep paralysis is freaking you out. Don't let it. Simply learn to enjoy sleep paralysis. "Float" through it. Don't try to move or fallen any techniques or anything. Just lay there. Let your body remain numb. You'll either gradually wake up, or slip back into a dream.

Visualize what you want to hallucinate about. If you are afraid or adverse to sleep paralysis, your brain will generate awful things. I like to imagine being outside and I usually feel the wind through my hair and can hear birds singing or I hear people laughing and feel myself smiling. It makes SP much more enjoyable.

I feel for you OP. Before I knew about SP and LDs i sometimes used to randomly fall into it, it was so scary.

I found I could move my head if i really, realllly concentrated. This alerted my partner who woke me up.

Try moving your head and see if you can, then move it really fast. Or try breathing faster. Anything that gives back any control to your waking mind and you can work with to wake you up.

as posted by Deco above, i have frequently heard that breathing slower and deeper for ten seconds will un-paralyze you.

although i do agree, we all work so hard to achieve both LD and as a technique, SP, and here you want to stop them with no attempts at learning to control the state?

This is my first ever post on this forum and I felt compelled to join just to respond to this thread. While I may not know how to prevent lucid dreaming, seeing as though I have still yet to perfect it, I would suggest advice along the lines of what everyone has pretty much been saying. You should definitely use some "control mechanisms" to keep yourself in the dream, but if you happen to wake up and find yourself in SP do not worry.

Personally, I have had numerous SP episodes in one night - even upwards of five or six attacks within a period of a couple hours. I am not sure whether or not this is stress related or the fact that I am half asleep when it happens, but I have found a solution to SP that helps me a great deal.

I find that it's the best if you just try to calm yourself down as best as possible. The best way for me is to start talking to myself in my mind. I will just start soothing my mind by saying: "It's not really happening, its just a dream, relax, just relax" and I find that if I concentrate really hard on controlling my breathing, taking deep breaths and saying these words to myself, then my mind does not have the opportunity to continue panicking. Kind of like you will occupy your mind and you will no longer be effected by any visions or hallucinations.

The first couple of times I had sleep paralysis, I would freak the heck out because I would surely hear footsteps and imagine an entity getting closer to me and kind of just sitting there, but it was an OVERWHELMING sense of danger and it is a very eerie and unpleasant feeling. I totally understand, but the sooner you learn to accept it and control it, the easier it will become to overcome. Remember, just focus on your breathing and telling yourself it's not real and your mind wont have the chance to really develop hallucinations.

Hope my wall of text helps lol

Originally Posted by Limbo

I don't know how to stop the lucid dreaming neither why anyone would want to although i have found a method to break out of the Paralysis. When paralysed you should think or dream about rolling out of your'e bed and falling on to the ground. Falling on to the ground should act as a Kick which sends a little adrenaline to the body freeing you.
I hope this helps we all know how stessful Sleep Paralysis can be.

Oh wow. I wonder where you learned that method from.

this isn't helpful, but if i was having a LD every night i would be going crazy with excitment.

What a pity!!! I am trying to find the whole world for methods of inducing SP , and somebody here wanna stop that? Ha ha. I doubt that you are having little awareness of LD and SP. Read, read and READ.

Once the mind expands so immensely, it can't shrink back on demand. Enjoy what you have while you have it.