Thread: Lucid dreaming 100% of the time. Need info.

Fiction writer win

This is ironic. I once had a similar issue in that I was becoming lucid all the time, and I found it sort of boring too. I stopped focusing on LDing, and now I am finding it tough to have LDs at all, and I would really like to be able to LD frequently again.

Interesting predicament, my friend. Definitely try to control it. The dream plane is fantastic.

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Originally Posted by Loaf

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anyways.. this is a very interesting thread, i hope everything works out okay for OP. I think it might be quite widespread. I found out a couple days ago that my flatmate has a similar problem, has always had lucids and she feels trapped in them for some reason.

Well, even having 4 lucid's a week at will leaves you kinda of tired of them after a while. Luckily, for people like me I can just stop since its not an entirely natural process. And I find a lot of people like to have normal dreams to balance things out. So I could picture how constant lucids could feel boring and even leave you feeling trapped. The process of dreaming becomes more clinical, less interesting, and less mysterious as you find out more.

Originally Posted by Camburn

Hello, I know that this may be for the newbie forum, but I'm pretty well educated in this matter and wanted more views than the other forum might present.

When I was very young, I learned about a tribe in Central/South America that put much focus on dreaming.

Shortly after, I always started to remember all of my dreams.

As time progressed, I was able to notice things like the fact I dreamed in color, felt physical pain or other sensations in dreams, etc. etc.

Then I started having lucid dreams. About 60 or 70% of the time, I was aware I was dreaming.

Within a year or so, it came close to 90%.

Now, I'm always aware I'm dreaming, I have full color, full emotional, full sensory dreams. I control them, I'm aware of them, which often makes me choose to wake up. I can wake up whenever I decide to and often do.

In many ways, I wish it wasn't like this. Because now, I'm always aware I'm dreaming, I know everything is in my mind, I know that when I start to think something, it becomes so in my dreams and it, quite frankly, makes dreaming far less fun.

I wake up all the time now because I realize what's going on every time and I eventually get bored with the dream knowing that it's fake and I choose to wake myself up.

I'm not sure what I'm asking or looking for but I know that this is beyond the typical person. I have lucid dreaming close to 100% of the time now. I have many tactics that work all the time that I created in my brain such as if I'm even wondering if I'm dreaming, than I surely am. I read a technique of trying to push your finger into a wall to see if you're dreaming and that worked. Then there is of course, the ever present feeling that things aren't right. I miss good old fashion dreaming. I hate the fact that I always, always know I'm dreaming. Nothings fun about having total control over your dreams contrary to what most would think. Pain, smells, tastes, all of it is so real except that fact that I'm always aware it's not.

Any opinions or whatever? Thanks for your input.

I say just try and make the most out of your dreams. Alot of people struggle to even have 1 lucid dream, I know having them all the time can get tiring, but just try new things. You say you choose to wake up cause you know it's fake. Check out my shared dreaming project in my sig. Youd be a very valuable member to our team.

If you are telling the truth, your being an idiot waking yourself up because its "fake". The only difference in that reality from this waking reality is that dreams aren't boring. If dreams are all in your mind, then this waking life midas well be too. Does that mean you'd kill yourself?

I agree, it's hard to get bored in a dream. Watch movies, read books, play games, get inspiration for new dream ideas. Or join the iosdp. Anything is possible in a dream.

Didn't read most of the replies, read a few, and one guy said to try MJ, and i couldn't agree more. Go to bed under the effects of weed and you will not remember any dreams you had. Not only that, you feel really refreshed in the morning!

I feel your pain. Well not really.....I have at least one LD a night. The other two or three are storyline usually. But some nights are all LD dreams. The thing is I don't get your problem....perhaps you like the mystery and not being in control part of it. I usually set up a scene and let it play out, its quite entertaining. You dont have to control every part of it, just set it up and let it go!

Originally Posted by Sroge4

Guys, I don't think the issue is that he (I'm assuming he because you mentioned beautiful women) doesn't enjoy lucid dreaming, its that he can't get a good nights sleep, which in my opinion would be terrible. Also, are you a fiction writer? I've found LDs can be a great source for ideas

Busy week guys. I'll answer and get more in depth today or tomorrow. I do have pleasant dreams but it's difficult to articulate and I'm trying my best. I have written only scienctific and non fiction articles so far.

It's opnot just the sleep but when one is so aware, it can take fun out if the experiences. There are so many advantages but at the same time, things I stubble with. I've learned a lot from this forum but I'm looking forward to more time to read here.

If words don't come out right etc, it's from typing on my iPad 2 and the auto correct such as stubble instead of struggle. I prefer to write from my laptop and that is why I'm waiting for time do so.

Well if you're dreaming, your body is resting so it has to be your mind that isn't, one thing I've learned that may help is that you don't need to sleep to get mental rest, you can meditate if you know how (I learned from wikipedia, I do it everyday for about five minutes and it's great) or just dream yourself up a hammock and a beach with sunset or something and just stay there. As for dreams being fake, check out Hyu's dream journal or Waking Nomad's they're pretty cool, as for myself I decided a while ago that the only thing that distinguishes my dreams from reality for me is that others don't take part in it (and even that's debatable). I see my dreams as the other half of my life, and treat them as such because that's what they are, and they're for sure real. Sorry if I rambled.

I know how to meditate as I used to teach this being a former kung fu instructer and chi gong practitioner. I'll admit I haven't done it in a long time. I've gone through very serious medical situatious that prevented me from doing past things I enjoyed.

To those that mentioned marijuana etc, I'm actually allergic to it. It took me a while to realize why I never enjoyed it like my friends. My nasal cavities close up, I get a huge pressure in my brain, my eyes feel like crap and I can't breathe. I tried it for pain relief when I broke my back and it didn't do much good.

I'll say that I may have been wrong saying I have LD 100% of the time. I'd say honestly that it's closer to about 90%. This is not without practice. As I've said before, I've probably been working on this and studying and enjoying it since I was about 14 after my first sleep paralysis experience.

Over the past few years though, I started to question everything. For instance, why is everything so foggy in memory after a dream and if it's like that in the dream itself. Well, LD has shown me in my own experiences that some times, things are as clear as real life, yet other times, they can be less focused and seem blurry as we often remember our dream cycles.

I want to reitterate that I'm not trying to complane entirely. It's something I've worked on after all and it's quite a gift when I'm able to work on issues with my work and life while dreaming only to wake with the answers.

As I've said I think, now, even while dreaming, I'm able to feel how my body is sleeping and in what position. I know how deep of a sleep I'm in based on my ability to control things and sense the physical aspect of where I am. I still deal with basic issues.

What I would call dream loops. Again, I'm not well educated as I haven't read into this a ton beyond the scientific explanations. I often get into loops where the same thing occurs over and over and at which point I choose to wake myself.

When I am in a controlled dream state which is 90% of the time, I can alter things as I want as long as I don't have doubt. The moment I start worrying about something happenning in the dream, it occurs even though I realize it's my self mental projections causing it.

My brain has created different parts of my home town, and homes themselves the constantly re-occur and I'm aware of where everything is even though it never existed in reality. It's like a re-occuring dream, only just the structures and mapping are the same, everything else can be changed. I'm sorry if I can't explain this properly. This is the first time I've posted or written about this and I haven't yet had enough time to read other people's posts.

I guess, I'd be better off just answering questions and I'm an open book in that regard. Just don't think I take it for advantage. This is something I've worked and perfected most of my life. It just got to a point that I didn't want it to be at. That's all. I'm not trying to just come and complain. I like to explore just as much as anyone. It's great when you know you're dreaming and you check the taste of foods, you check the clarity of the images you're seeing and you observe the complexity of someone's personality etc. etc. This is what I've done for the past year.

I'm sorry but I guess I'm uneducated in many ways about this but very educated in other ways. I'll readily admit I'm no expert but seeing the movie Inception was like a description of my life outside of all of the movie and adventure aspects.

Most recently, that is, the past 6 months, I've started regularly waking from dreams, only to be in another dream, only to yet be in another dream. 3 times redundancy.

It's hard to articulate. I only want to share. I hope this explenation that I've tried to give helps somehow?

feel free to ask anything. Maybe the questions themselves will help me understand more? I don't know.

Originally Posted by Camburn

feel free to ask anything. Maybe the questions themselves will help me understand more? I don't know.

Hi...i created this account yesterday to ask some questions on the irc chat about instant lucid dreaming and if other people try to meditate while sleep or during sleep paralysis... those are questions i often make to people and no one else had a positive answer, now i open the forum and see your post... do you believe in coincidences? i dont... i thought i had every answer about dreaming ence my nickname, but now i found someone with a vast experience in that regard, im 90% of the times lucid also, sometimes i can feel my own body and heart beat; i found that interesting when you talked about recurring dreams and how things are always the same (places,houses) i dream alot with my old house and everything is exactly always in the same place. You say your dreams are boring, i would be using them for creative proposes, sometimes i try to make music or write songs often to wake up and forget most of the song i created; as other users stated, you could use it to create stories and other types of art; many people believe its possible to enter other people dreams, i often try to create portals but most of the time nothing happens or i just wake up, you should try it and tell us how it went anyway... try other stuff explore, i will be trying to change things with my mind while sleeping, transmit thoughts to other people or switch lights...wtv... with such potential you could at least try this kind of stuff as well.

They way I see it, there are two paths out of your predicament:


1. Learn to enjoy your lucid dreams again.

or 2. Stop having them.


Unfortunately, while there are techniques for becoming lucid, I've never heard of a technique to lose lucidity. My guess is that the logical centre of your brain is abnormally active during REM. Absolute worst comes to worst, you could see a doctor about sleeping in a sleep lab for a night so they can run some tests on the electromagnetic signals your brain produces while you're asleep. (Plus you'd be advancing SCIENCE! ) You could also look for vitamin supplements that suppress your logical functions, although this wouldn't be a very good idea, as I've heard logic is important in the real world.

If you want to find a way out without stopping the lucids, then I would recommend trying to sleep during your lucids, because you really just want rest, right? Creating a false peace might do the trick.


Or fly out into space and take a nap. Or climb into a sensory deprivation tank. Maybe if you've tried these and they haven't worked, you could tell us?

You... you really aren't trolling?

Originally Posted by Camburn

Nothings fun about having total control over your dreams contrary to what most would think. Pain, smells, tastes, all of it is so real except that fact that I'm always aware it's not.

Any opinions or whatever? Thanks for your input.

Sigh.. I hear you. I started lucid dreaming at the age of 4. I don't know how to describe it.. its kind of like living a second life, a life you know is born from your subconscious and not real. Oh well, try to enjoy it.
Use this gift for good. God that sounded cliché...

If you can do anything you can do in waking life, and you're bored with that, I assume that you're bored with your waking life as well?

Can you please explain how you induce these lucid dreams?

Originally Posted by fOrceez

Can you please explain how you induce these lucid dreams?

I dont know how he does it, but when I fall asleep I tend to get a lucid dream if thats the last thing on my mind.

Sorry, I've been busy and it's a bit difficult to answer these questions as much came without a lot of practice while other parts came after years of thinking about it. I'll do my best to articulate things this week, hopefully tomorrow.

I tried to answer earlier today but forgot my pw and login. lol. Way too many passwords these days in life. Especially with ex gf's trying to find them.

I haven't documented learning to do what I do so I’ll do my best. Did you follow that last sentence because I barely did.

As I mentioned before, I first learned about Lucid Dreaming watching a show about a tribe where it was one of their main focal points of their daily life. I was probably 13. First off, and I don’t say this in any means to brag but maybe it helped a bit only. I was in gifted kids programs throughout school and have an IQ of about 165 last time it was tested. Keep in mind that IQ can actually change depending upon how much you use your brain and challenge it so it’s not a true determining factor in my opinion. Plus, despite my ability to remember things beyond a lot of people, I’m not beyond successful so I don’t put a ton of stock into it. However, my ability for memory is pretty strong.

I started off by trying to remember all of my dreams as soon as I woke. This was a bit easier for me since I’ve always come out of sleep more than a few times every night.
I’ve also had sleep paralysis a few times a year. When you go through that, it can mess with you. As it is, you’re already somewhat aware or lucid when going through sleep paralysis but when you’re very lucid, it’s somewhat worse. I remember sitting there, feeling like I can’t breathe, knowing my brain has is still initiated the function of paralysis as it should while dreaming, but unable to scream, move etc. Yet, I still could tell exactly where I was in my bed and would panic even after several times knowing what was going on.
Over time, I kept remembering my dreams for many years, thinking about them, thinking about the clarity and if things are the same as you remember them compared to actually dreaming. For example, when I’d remember a dream, it always seemed fuzzy etc. etc. so I wanted to know it that’s what it was like while dreaming at the time. Eventually, I was able to just naturally make myself aware that I was in a dream state and at that point, I just began observations. I tested every sense that we as humans use and would look at everything from my hand to the background to how people in my dreams interacted and responded.

Over continuous observation and remembering as soon as I woke up, I got better at it.
At some point, it just started happening more and more. I never read a lot about it. Just a few little things so I’m at a disadvantage compared to many of you in that I’ve done this pretty much solo. I see now that many of you know a ton more than I do.
Dreams are often fun, I guess the reason they may come off so poorly for me is that I’m very depressed and that will result in less than fun dreams.

With awareness though, comes other issues. For instance, when I’m fully aware that I’m dreaming, sometimes I can make it as I want, other times, my worries or secondary thoughts as best I can articulate them will take over. I.e. if I’m in a dream I like and don’t want it to go bad, I focus too much on what I don’t want to happen and sure enough, that causes it to happen. That started about 6 months ago.

However, the last month or two, I’ve gotten better at controlling it and actually, my lucid dreams have become less frequent the past month. I’m down to about 60-70% of the time now although I remember almost all of my dreams in extreme detail after waking up. That doesn’t bug me though and it’s very interesting.
So, as far as advice? I can’t say. I just practiced my best on remembering and reviewing all of my dreams when I wake up and I worked on techniques to make myself aware that I was dreaming. For the most part, they were my own techniques and I was blown away when I saw Inception. I felt like someone understood aside from the obvious Hollywood side. Met DiCaprio a few times. I’m better looking damn it.
Anyway, hope this helps somehow. Don’t exactly like giving out such personal stuff but what the hell.

Why are you depressed? You don't have to answer from the waking life perspective, but I mean I thought a dream was supposed to be the paradise on earth.
When you have full control of the dream you are a like a God. Have you done impossible things like flying and exploring other universes and something like that, because if you have then I need to know the reason to why you want to stop lucid dreaming. And now when you know that you can have lucid dreams whenever you want, why don't you plan right now what you want to do in your next lucid dream?
And by the way you shouldn't feel depressed you are awesome.