I was trying to Lucid Dream a few years ago and forgot about this topic and the last days I have been trying to provoke it.
I also work nightshift only since a few years and quit using it because I never had issues sleeping after work but now I threw in 3 mg of Melatonin and what else can I say other than I had the most lucid dream ever in my life.
It felt so real. Normally I get scared after looking into the mirror of my bathroom because it was pitch black and had no reflection. Numbers never made sense either. So while I knew all that I ran to the bathroom and looked into the mirror knowing it won’t show reflections and started laughing “It worked”.
It’s a funny subject to me because everytime I watched the youtube videos and read on the internet I was like “weirdos” and now I can’t wait to go back to sleep tomorrow night.
I have a feeling though it was a one time experience. Especially if I don’t use melatonin.
Anyone else have had lucid dreams? Perhaps someone doing it daily?
Many of my dreams are lucid ones. It’s not something I trained myself to do and they just come along naturally. I particularly love the ones where I’m in space or flying, it almost feels like I’ve found a cheat code and I’m just having pure fun. The dreams where I’m the captain of a space capsule along with my two best friends always begin when the capsule is already in orbit, and if you’ve ever been on a rollercoaster, that’s how it feels in my dreams during re entry!
That sounds cool.
Stupid question but do you think you have a good “deep” sleep if you have many lucid dreams? I always thought having lucid dreams was when people are kind of asleep but not really asleep - you know what I mean?
I for example had lucid dreams if I get out of bed to go to the toilet at night and go back to bed for an hour or if I set my alarm one hour before waking up and hit snooze.
Good question! This might be different depending on who you ask. I personally haven’t noticed a difference in how refreshed I feel after I have had a lucid dream versus not having had one.