>>34601880
What method did you use to learn to lucid dream anon? A few years ago I was able to remember all my dreams but I never got to lucid dream so I stopped.

>>34601883
i started being more aware of myself and spacial surroundings outside of dreams first (i used to zone out a lot)

then i started sleeping more often in shorter intervals to become a lighter sleeper (this helps with not tossing and turning in your dreams when you wake up in order to sleep continuously in 1 cycle)

then i would go and try and figure out i was in a dream as soon as i could and wrote everything about it,

eventually a muscle in your brain becomes active enough through repetition that youre aware of it without effort and are able to be lucid (that does not mean you can change reality or do whatever you want in your dreams, its a common misconception)

>>34601889
So you're basically waking up to your ordinary life, but in the dream.

Sounds boring. I thought that you could bend reality in your lucid dream. Guess if I ever try that successfully, I'm going to just kill someone since that's the only unique experience available for a lucid dream. Damn, was hoping for a Homelander experience if I ever try lucid dreaming.

Unironically weed stops most dreaming and would cure your issue. People with PTSD use weed to stop nightmares and such. Prayer also works if you have The Faith.

>>34601936
dreams aren't so worked out anon. there's a good chance you also couldn't kill someone. from my very limited lucid experiences, you quickly hit limits if you start doing weird things out of character. what happens still kinda makes sense but not really and is very disappointing

Surely there must be a way to train yourself to let go of consciousness again in your dreams. I don't know if you are very practiced with this but if you have experience pushing yourself closer to sleep, use it in your dreams once lucid? I know for me it works to deliberately make myself have very random associations, e.g. I have a memory of being at a park then I think, at a park you could have a circus, people come in there wearing shoes, shoes are a key element in the Cinderella story, my sister damaged our Cinderella tape when we were kids, kids are curious... I find I can sort of lull myself into a freely associating headspace where at some point I no longer neeed to pick new associations but my mind just took it over.

Or picturing very vividly what it feels like to fall asleep, like hearing noises fading and getting distant, the sensation of your body almost sinking through the mattress.

Obviously stop writing about or reflecting on your dreams when awake. I imagine this is a problem more lucid dreamers run into so it might also be worth looking up specific online spaces with discussion about that. Good luck.