Im having lucid dreams without knowing or trying...help!

The past 3 nights in a row I've had lucid dreams. I didn't even know what a lucid dream was until about 30 minutes ago after explaining my dreams to a friend. He was shocked to see that I described them in ways almost word for word to the definitions and explanations. I read about building up your ability to recall dreams. The past few weeks my girlfriend and I have been having fun telling eachother our dreams everyday.. so I have been getting better at recalling my dreams from that. Anyway... in my dream 3 nights ago I stopped and realized I was dreaming and turned to my friend in the dream and said "I'm going to remember this for a very long time". After that I had control over what I was doing and went on trip with my girlfriend I spoke of above. I controlled everything we did..though I admit I didn't have COMPLETE control but for the most part I did. These have been the most vivid and beautiful dreams I've ever had. I'd like to continue having them. I read on these methods.. but I havn't been doing any of those and I've been having them. I have an odd sleep pattern so I dont want to change around to keep having them. I go to sleep between 3 and 530 AM and sleep till usually 1:30PM. I sleep with a TV on also. Anyway I just thought I'd share this. It was a great experience that I want to hold on to.

I find that telling someone my dreams is much easier and helps me remember my dreams better than a journal... and ill bet that just you telling your girlfriend your dreams has increased your recall so much that it doesnt matter what your sleep pattern is just as long as you keep keeping a journal (written or spoken)

Welcome to the forum! :D

Anyway, there are some people (like you, apparently) that can have LD's unintentionally (Natural LD'ers). I used to when I was a kid, but they stopped a few years ago, and then I found this site and began having them again.

Well, I can't say you were very specific with your questions, but I'll try to help anyways.

Are you looking for a convenient method to obtain more LD's without altering your sleep cycle? If so, try DILDs (Dream-Induced-Lucid-Dream). They're the best method as far as time-consumption goes, since it only requires a couple of seconds to check whether you're dreaming, and it can induce LD's in your normal, every-day dreams. Since DILDs cover a wide variety of LD methods and types, they're the most common type of LD to have. They aren't as reliable as the other techniques (WILD and MILD are the most prominant methods of their type, but they alter your sleep cycle a bit).

I'm kind of shooting in the dark here, though, so if you could just clarify your question a bit, I'd appreciate it.

-Tsen :upsidedown:

ummm are u saying u knew u were dreaming or just that u had complete control? because i cant remember a dream ive ever had where i wasnt in complete control. lucid or not. just because u are conscious in the dreams doesnt mean u are lucid

Haha yeah I guess I didn't really even post a question. I guess I just kinda stated what had happened. I've just been in shock at how amazing the dreams were and I guess my only question was how do I keep them happening without going into some odd thing that will change my schedule and patterns around. I know I dont need to since I've had 3 in a row. I think you answered my question so I need to look more into what that is and stuff. Thank you.

I realized I was dreaming and then from that point I was able to control what I was doing... not complete control but pretty close. I thought to tell my friends mom to stop speeding and so I told her in my dream. I drove off a cliff into the atlantic and got scared and made myself swim to shore.. I looked for a hotel. I got in and had my girlfriend meet me there and had a nice time there because I wanted to. There were things I couldnt control like... the fact that the mom was speeding and we drove into the ocean. It was as if it were real though and I could control my actions but still had the rediculous things that could only happen in dreams happen.

Actually jay dawg, being conscious in the dreamn Does mean you're lucid. Having complete control is just something that comes along after you're lucid enough to Know you have complete control.
The word "lucid" is defined in a few ways. But most of then centered on "clarity" "the ability to think or sense rationally" "clear" "oriented"
You can have a dream where you have powers at will, able to fly and things, but are in the act of doing them without fully realising "Hey..wait a minute..I'm dreaming, thats why I can do all this."That is not a lucid dream.
But even if you become conscious "Hey I'm dreaming" and decide to just go on watching the dream, and not even actually forcing yourself to Participate, it is still a lucid dream.
Alot of people confuse being lucid with actually having a 'control' over your dream, but thats not true. Control comes with will. But you don't have to will yourself to do anything to have a lucid dream. Simply know you're dreaming.

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Originally posted by Oneironaut
Actually jay dawg, being conscious in the dreamn Does mean you're lucid. Having complete control is just something that comes along after you're lucid enough to Know you have complete control.
The word \"lucid\" is defined in a few ways. But most of then centered on \"clarity\" \"the ability to think or sense rationally\" \"clear\" \"oriented\"
You can have a dream where you have powers at will, able to fly and things, but are in the act of doing them without fully realising \"Hey..wait a minute..I'm dreaming, thats why I can do all this.\"That is not a lucid dream.
But even if you become conscious \"Hey I'm dreaming\" and decide to just go on watching the dream, and not even actually forcing yourself to Participate, it is still a lucid dream.
Alot of people confuse being lucid with actually having a 'control' over your dream, but thats not true. Control comes with will. But you don't have to will yourself to do anything to have a lucid dream. Simply know you're dreaming.

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i agree with much you have said. i think our sense of what is control versus what is lucidity is mixed. if by control you mean having complete waking conscious control of your actions in you dreams, then i am in control of all of my dreams, lucid or not. i see no difference in control in the sense that after becoming lucid one realizes that he can suddonly fly. that to me is the same account of control that is experienced nightly. lucidity is all of that, plus knowing your dreaming and its all in the mind. imagine dreams you have had in the past when you knew you were completely conscious of all your actions, now does not realizing one is dreaming take away from that? i think not

Not at all. I agree with that.

But in those dreams that you have complete conscious control of what you're doing, you're still not completely conscious, because being Completely conscious of the situation would institute being conscious that you were dreaming. It is only at that point that you can consider yourself truely Lucid. You can be in complete control of your dream 'self' without knowing that everything around you is a fabrication of your own mind.

Well congratulations, my friend, on your new-found ability to have lucid dreams! Recounting your dreams to your girlfriend certainly did help to infuse a conscious interest in dreaming that helped in becoming conscious during your dreams. So you should continue to either write down or tell your dreams to people, that will help.

You may be a natural LDer. Other than you recounting your dreams to friends, do you do anything else that may make a difference in your dreaming? Have you picked up any new creative hobbies, do you use psychedelics or other drugs, etc? Some people are simply more able to have LDs than other people because of how their minds work. Certain people are more in touch with their subconscious. Also being highly creative or imaginative helps.

If you want to continue having these dreams, simply spend some time during the day, intermittently, thinking about your dreams, and do the same as you go to bed. Then try to remember them as best you can as you wake up. You can try the WILD technique, but without getting up. When you wake up after 5-6 hours of sleep, just close your eyes and attempt to stay conscious as you fall asleep, and wait until you feel vibrations in your body, or sleep paralysis, and try to imagine a scene unfolding in your vision. It takes PRACTICE! Undoubtedly you will have more unintentional LDs. It helps to do reality checks when you wake up, and when you do things during the day. That means you just do a check to see if you are dreaming. When you do that during the day, you will be more likely to do it at night in a dream.