BurnedOutMyEyes said:
Is it normal to wake up immediately upon realising that I'm dreaming?
Maybe I'm just scared of having dreams. The only ones I remember are the nightmares. Monsters charging at me at impossible speeds while I'm on a stroll in the middle of the night. Not even a chance to run. That kind of stuff.
As far as I have heard, realising that you are dreaming is a key part of lucid dreaming. And I heard it is common for some to wake up at that point. But it seems to be possible to train it. No sauce though. I just heard it in a (german) documentary on lucid dreaming I saw years ago and which's name I don't recall.
O.T.:
I only managed to lucid dream once. I dreamed about being in a car accident and somehow didn't wake up the moment I "died" (I have no idea why). I kinda realised that I was dreaming some moments before that, because I noticed the clock was sort of inconsistent. But after the point I was "supposed" to wake up I was fully lucid dreaming
After the accident I got out on the freeway and flung cars around. It was awesome.
Sadly I rarely dream (or remember them). So this was a really rare event. I hope I manage to pull it of again though.
snappydog said:
Any advice on how to actually manage to lucid dream? I'd love to go flying around fighting dragons in a spaceship, but I've never managed to get a lucid dream.
From what I have heard on the documentary the key part is to realise the fact that you are dreaming and staying asleep through that point. A method I have heard of is to keep an eye open for anomalies. Examples could be inconsistent times (like time jumps or a clock showing drasticly different times when looking when looking at it repeatedly. I also heard that text and numbers have a general tendency to change when double checking.
Oh yeah: And sleeping through the point you are supposed to wake up in a nightmare. This was what finally got me in my one lucid dream.
As I said: I'm not really experienced, but I hope it might help.