"WAKE UP!" Realizing the Dream at the end of the Dream.

reply to post by incarnating


Alright, starting tomorrow. It's already 11:30PM here so it's a little too late. I'll be going to sleep soon, with some thought, who knows, maybe I'll be lucid tonight

good luck dude.


everytime i try to go to bed focusing on a thought like your about to do, i can never fall asleep!!


its a catch 22!


or when i do finally fall alseep, its only because my mind wandered from the thought...

and then im back to square one.

reply to post by iAnjo


I know what you mean in your OP, I have similar experiences, even if I wake up in the middle of the night knowing that I have just woken from a dream and then go straight back to sleep and start dreaming again I still can't remember that I am having a dream.
It's extremely frustrating as I would love to be able to lucid dream.

heard starting a dream journal would help but beyond that don't know what to tell you.

reply to post by iAnjo


I've found that I'm often able to go back to the same dream if I go back to sleep right away. I usually don't try to do it, as it's something pretty frightening that woke me up, but if I can do it, it can be done.

To know yourself in your dream, you must know yourself when you are awake. Or else we run the risk of getting caught up in the illusory nature of our dreams just as we do when we are awake.

Lucid dreaming should be a small rest stop along the road though, not the end goal. "awake" is a rather nebulous term after all

reply to post by iAnjo


If you want to have more control over your dreams, you should start by experimenting with the lighting in your room. Dreams are the most lucid just as the sun is rising, however, at night, you need to have at least a small amount of light in your room. The best way to keep control is to practice breathing techniques, find a kind of pattern or rhythm and breathe intentionally, keeping all your focus on it, also be attentive to your physical body as you sleep. When you are dreaming, the pattern of your breathing will continue, and as long as that patten is there, you can remain conscious while controlling your breathing, as well as maintaining an awareness of your physical body. I often get attacked in my sleep, and when various entities are tampering with me, I have to "snap" myself awake out of sleep paralysis, basically, if you want your will to be strong, your body has to interpret things as a matter of life or death.

Lucidity is a quality of awareness. Reality checks are most often recommended to increase the frequency of lucid dreams. Like questioning if you're dreaming every time you look at your watch or pass through a doorway.

The problem with most reality checks is that the person does them and quickly forgets about it, rendering their efforts practically useless. The trick is to do your reality check, but not let it go. Keep that awareness that is required to question your realty as long as possible. The more you do it, the longer you can sustain it.

A lot of my dreams seem to be ending in a sudden realisation of causality. These may include my own, impending death, the deaths of close friends or family and as recent as last night, facing 10 years imprisonment for drug smuggling and realising my life was ruined. Every time I seem to wake up at the moment of realisation with a mix of terror and relief. I hate my dreams sometimes.

I to cannot get passed the part of realizing I am dreaming. I don't know if I am dreaming until something bad happens.