Lucid dreams - general

What is the science behind lucid dreaming ?
Have you ever experienced a lucid dream ?
How to lucid dream ?

I remember my dreams nearly every night, and most of those I'll know that I'm dreaming (aka lucid). Problem is it's so common for me that the knowledge is sort of background so I'm normally too lazy to try and go fully lucid. It's a trip when you do though.

Lucid dreaming is not hard, the key is to recognise your own dreamscape. The easiest way to do this is to keep a dream journal, just have some paper and a pen by your bed and when you wake up write down everything you remember about your last dream, even if its just a feeling or a single image / sound. As you record more and more of your dreams like this, you will come to recognize features of them when you are dreaming, and thus be able to "wake up" inside your dream.

It's a hallucination of godhood as your body shuts down to regenerate.

>Problem is it's so common for me that the knowledge is sort of background so I'm normally too lazy to try and go fully lucid.

I have the exact same problem. I'm aware that I'm dreaming in the sense that if a monster appears, I'm like "this is not real, so who gives a fuck", but I'm never like "since I'm dreaming, I could start banging Korean women".

I had one once. It was a test with other people there, and you had to demonstrate your abilities to proceed to the next parts of the test. First part was levitate a rock and move it around a track. Then fly yourself up through a hole in the roof. After that I woke up. Weird stuff though.

>Have you ever experienced a lucid dream ?
I had alot of dreams.

An easy way to check if you are at a dream is to look at you hands and see if you have an strange amount of finger at your hand

I once had a dream where I decided just for fun make the question "Imagine I saw every girl that exist at the world naked, I want that the most beautiful girl at my opinion (after seeing all those girls) appear at this dream."

The girl that appeared was was so beautifull I mentally said "WTF" while looking at her.

Then after waking up, I saw I screwed the dream, because I was thinking about using the word hottest and used the word "most beautifull", but I didnt had this an lucid dream again to make the question again, so I dont know the real answer.

>What is the science behind lucid dreaming ?
Dunno, maybe you are conscious when your brain is rearranging memories.
>Have you ever experienced a lucid dream ?
>How to lucid dream ?
For me it was when I realized that the dream I was experimenting (it was so vivid and real) I witnessed something that defied the laws of known physics (a strange small black hole floating in my office). That's when I realized I was dreaming and thought at first "dont screw it!" and then I tried something, manipulating the sky's color, but before it I woke up.

I guess one could train to identify cues that lead to the realization of lucid dreaming.

I tried the finger through palm thing in a lucid dream, didn't work. My hands always have the correct number fingers. Clocks are generally correct on the first read (relative to the actual time), but will change or turn into letters sometimes. Reading generally is possible, but may or may not change later.

I can never stabilize my lucid dreams, and I can't get the wild method to work either. I can render a scene in photographic detail, walk through it, etc, but can never fully transition into it. It remains something I am looking at.

Most of my lucid dreams have been rapid failures. One of which I was rapidly accelerated out the back of a car, then smashed into a cement wall. I feel like this would have been so much easier when I was in the depths of deconstruction, dissociation, and solipsism. Always questioning and thinking about everything, keeping everything in the forefront of my mind. Tracing out if my memories are real, if my assumptions about reality and the nature of the universe is real. If things still exist when they leave my sensory awareness. Now I am almost rigidly biased against that mode of thought, for various reasons. It is walled off and used carefully. I'm still a realist and not a bullshitter that convinces myself of bullshit and that I know things I don't know, but I just don't let myself immerse. Not very helpful for this.

Looks like I missed the boat again. Windows open but a crack, doors locked from the other side. The gatekeeper would readily oblige, probably, but I have no mouth.