Lucid dreaming

I always wanted to try it - but never did the "training" (at least there was mentioning of some sort of "training" where I read about it) Since I have trouble in 90% of the times to remember my dreams I first had to start with a dream diary and then go from there but never got to actually start one let alone doing reality checks in my dreams :D

Yes, I am a liar.

I can't do lucid dreaming on cue, but every now and then I do achieve it 'accidentally'. It takes some specific circumstances I think but it's a regular thingy.

However the scary stuff is where you're awake and you don't know if something you remember actually happened. Or are totally sure it did happen. I mean it gets embarrassing to call your trainer to ask if you accidentally might have scheduled a session for day X, at time Y...

and you're right about the game

Yeah. I had lucid dream and dream within a dream at the same time. I had just started an antidepressant cure. Those things always have some funny side effects, so I started seeing more special dreams. More colorful and HD. So that night I saw just some dream, and one moment realized it's a dream, and could do all that lucid stuff. But then I woke up. But really I didn't, I just woke up into a "normal" dream. Until I woke up for real.
I've also seen a couple of "almost lucid" dreams, when I realize it's a dream but fail to take the control.
But I have to be thankful I've never had sleep paralysis. My "it's complicated" has them regularly, the whole deal, with shadow people. Once he had it next to me, he was mumbling (later said in the dream he was yelling from the top of his lungs), I figured out what's going on, reached my hand at his face to wake him up but before I could touch, he already opened his eyes. That was quite creepy.

I only dream (that I am aware of) 2 or 3 times per year. I know they say everyone dreams every night but it is a rare treat for me.

Unfortunately those few dreams I have are usually stressful, terrifying dreams.

Never have, never will - unless it happens on its own. Don't understand the appeal of lucid dreams ... to me that is the most
vivid / authentic imagination + control ... guess what video games / reality usually deliver, when you're awake and at your senses.

Bunch times, just come naturally.

Occasionally, yes. I managed to have lucid dreams. Sometimes intended, sometimes not. It is really an interesting experience that I believe people should try at least once. There are many techniques you can find and try on the internet. For me, the 'music' and the 'diary' ones were the most efficient.

Also, with some certain substances, you don't actually need to be sleeping to have lucid dreams. But I don't recommend that.

I've never had a lucid dream, but sometimes I am able to realize that I'm only dreaming, but only when I have a nightmare. I can't really control it in any way, yet I can freely wake up from it and save myself the stress from seeing the sick images that my brain decides to show me.

I don't think I ever had lucid dreaming (but my dreams are usually pretty weird by themselves so that's enough for me), but I do have sleep paralysis now and then, which usually means I see specters and spiders everywhere :/

I am afraid to try it despite it sounding cool. I have had some instances when i was aware I was dreaming, trying wake myself up and couldn't: I would "wake up", then would would realize I am actually still dreaming, "wake up" again and so on and on. It wasn't nice.

I've tried, some strange things did happen.
I used a lot of methods. None of which involved
any kind of drugs.

But, I haven't been able to actually be
aware in my dreams for more than a
couple of seconds before waking up.

I don't even dream - or at least, I don't even remember having dreams. :P So, let me first see if I dream at all and then ask me if I can lucid dream or however the fuck it's called. :P

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Sounds like drugs.

Yeah I have lucid dreams eventually. The thing that worked for me is asking myself a couple of times daily "is this real?", and then one night, while talking to my dad in a dream, he suddenly said "you do know this is a dream, right?", and then it started happening. The hard part is not having a lucid dream, though. The hard part is controlling it. Up until now all I could do was float a little bit in the air (together with all objects around me). It's pretty easy to wake up, too. Just start doing something exciting and boom, you're awake. It got to a point where I knew that if I did something I would wake up. But most of the times I just couldn't stop myself from doing it, because like I said, controlling it is the hard part. But it's great fun, nonetheless.

I used to lucid dream very often when I was small. Now I can't anymore even if I try.

I used to practice this back in my varsity days, but not using this method.
For me, I would write down my dreams whenever I awoke. After some time, I awoke after each dream and dreamt maybe 5 times a night.
Once you get into a regular dreaming pattern and knowing the difference between being awake an in a dream, it becomes easier to recognise when you're in a dream state. At first you don't control the dreams, but you know you're in one and the experience is more real.
Then after some more time you learn to control the dream itself.
Even with the above method, you need some practice and learning to know the difference between being awake and in a dream.

I often know that I'm asleep, but I rarely have full control. The only thing I can do is to quit the dream at whim. It started when I was a kid and had nightmares, but now I'm using it for quitting dreams for various reasons e.g. I find something to silly/retarded (see: dream, where we were supposed to recite poetry in the math class and it was becoming even more weird when teacher told us to juggle for bonus points), when I'm trapped/hurt (see: dream, in which I wrongly thought I had full control, so I thought "hey, why not try to fly?", broke both legs in process and there were zombies going my way, so I chose a way out) or childish attempt to be smug, when I'm in hopeless situation (see: dream where Nazguls wanted to take away Ring of Power from me, and in the end they've had me cornered and I was like "I'm going to wake up now, so you lose anyway :P")
I'm sad that I can't stop myself from waking up when it's time to :< I don't know endings to many of my more interesting dreams.

It happened to me once, randomly. I didn't really have much time to explore, because as soon as I realised it was a dream, the scenery changed and I woke up. I don't know if I want to try it again, because that one single, isolated lucid dream gave me sleep paralysis and a scary as hell hallucination.
I couldn't sleep facing the window side of my room for a month.

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About 8 years ago I did a report on lucid dreaming and had practised it for about 6 months on a daily basis (and continued a little less consistently for the next couple years). It took about 4 weeks before I was having partial lucid dreams, but by 2 months I was able to do it pretty regularly. I recently bought a book on it so that I could try it again since I have been having major nightmares. Ngl I sort of felt like I had super powers when I was able to do it, so it was pretty fun practising it. It also helped a lot with my nightmares before. I used techniques like reality checks and dream journals though, not what your picture says. :o

Also I've seen that game around for ages and I always thought it was called Luoid haha.

I've had many a lucid dream, and I have experienced sleep paralysis very often when I was younger (I was living an extremely stressful life mainly because of the job I used to do).

Unfortunately, it's not as cool as the description in your picture says :( Also, it doesn't work like that at all, and the fact that it spells it wrong makes the text even a little less believable.

You just don't "instantly start dreaming if you shut your eyes". Simply, you hallucinate and cannot breathe. I used to see every kind of spooky things, like flying scorpions, giant spiders, weird creatures hovering around me and stuff like that, but there's people who's seen creepier stuff.
It also doesn't last very long, at least it never did for me. I'd say 5 seconds to half a minute, then I was was fully awake.

A better known technique to facilitate a lucid dream is to go to sleep normally, then wake up after 4 hours, stay awake for about one hour, then go to sleep again.
There are many other techniques as others suggested, just don't believe in obviously silly things like "paint your left hand blue, then run around a stone pillar 10 times anti-clockwise while singing the French national antheme before you go to bed".

Ah, not entering, but thanks for the GA! :D Looks like a fun casual game, but my backlog is too long already :(

Last time I've tried I had an encounter with the Hat man. This was the scariest thing I've experienced, so never again!

Everyone already knows this but the guidelines in that image are more for getting sleep paralysis than anything else.

On another note, I've had 3 or so lucid dreams. All in the early morning, after accidentally waking up at ridiculous hours. It's nice playing god.