Thread: My story on dreaming, answers needed!!!!

For a few years now I've known about lucid dreaming, false awakenings and astral projections and it's always intrigued me. Only until recently I've actually read up on it PROPERLY and I've realised a few things.

When i was younger I was actually lucid dreaming quite a lot and doing false awakenings purposely and frequently. I used to suffer a lot from nightmares and had a thing I used to do to get me out of them. I would press my eyes while they were shut and hope it will wake me up, as I knew when I was having a nightmare. I would then be in a different scenario, there's only one I actually remember, from previously being in a nightmare i squessed my eyes and a woke standing in a Christmas decorated longue with people around me, forgetting anything that happened before I carried on thinking I was in every day life.

I then started to feel uneasy and remembered I was dreaming and pushed on closed eyes and a woke again in a different dream in my grandads garden, I kept doing this till I would wake up properly.

As I was young I thought this was normal and gradually forgot about it as I got older, also I cannot do it now and no longer have this ability to take myself out of a dream or control it. Another thing I remember was jumping up really high in my dreams knowing I could fly because I was dreaming.

Why can't i do it anymore? I've tried and tried read and watched videos about it, and I've been trying to astral project and have got close but just can't do it. I feel when I was younger I could do these things without realising but unfortunately can't remember much.

What can I do to get these things back? Are these things i used to do even what I say they are?

Practice . may not have been the answer you are looking for, but that is what will get you back on a solid track. You can still use nightmares to trigger lucidity instantly though, I do it every time. I dont know what it is but there is something about nightmares that can make you lucid, and the trick(that I use) is simply believing and knowing that the next time I am in a nightmare, I will recognize that I am dreaming and become Lucid. That works every time for me and it can work for you too. That same technique also goes a far way in getting better Lucid Dreaming. I use it to get lucid all the time, and it works. Try it out! to get those things back, you can use techniques (haha i know, an obvious one) or you can use the exact same thing you did as a child, which was subconsciously knowing that you could do it, and having no doubt. This is exactly how the mindset of natural lucid dreamers work. They go to bed knowing that they'll have a lucid dream and dont even worry about it. But try out some of the methods on this site as well. Hope this helped a little bit.

This did help, thank you. I am going to look at other things and methods on the website, haven't had much of a chance only recently joined. I'm going to take your advice and keep practising hopefully I will be able to do it one day. Never had any direct advice before because if I tell any of my friends they just think I'm talking a load of crap, so it's much appreciated 😄 I do have nightmares so like you mentioned I'm going to try and use them to trigger my lucid dreaming,I guess that was what i did when I was younger, and I will do it again at some point just gonna keep trying ahaha. Thanks again.

Originally Posted by Hannahandpickle

This did help, thank you. I am going to look at other things and methods on the website, haven't had much of a chance only recently joined. I'm going to take your advice and keep practising hopefully I will be able to do it one day. Never had any direct advice before because if I tell any of my friends they just think I'm talking a load of crap, so it's much appreciated �� I do have nightmares so like you mentioned I'm going to try and use them to trigger my lucid dreaming,I guess that was what i did when I was younger, and I will do it again at some point just gonna keep trying ahaha. Thanks again.

Im glad it did! If you want to get some results quick, I would suggest to you the methods of: DEILD, and WBTB which is an aid for WILD. Those two can bring results on the first try and require little to no practice.