To wonder about lucid dreaming?

[Imadreamer100]

I had a dream last night. My teeth were wobbling and falling out one by one. Eventually I woke up (or so I thought) and it happened again, all but my 8 front teeth fell out. This happened around 6 times. I was willing myself to wake up as i was sure i was in a dream still. I was! I did wake up in the morning (for real) with most of my teeth. (I had one removed a couple of weeks ago and I have been worrying a lot about this as I had a review this morning)

Has anyone else had any experiences of lucid dreaming?

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I trained myself to lucid dream years ago. Can't do it anymore though, takes practice. It's extremely interesting (I think) and totally normal.

I did it successfully a couple of times a few years ago. I think it might have been after reading a thread on here. As @Jenpop234 says you can train yourself. I once realised I was dreaming and got so excited for recognising it that I woke up, and was really annoyed. The next time, I realised and didn't wake up straight away, and managed to control it a bit. It felt amazing to be able to do it. I haven't done it since though. I might have to try training myself again.

I remember doing it via counting my fingers and stating that I was awake - what I mean is, during your waking day, when you remember, you notice that you're awake, and say to yourself "I'm awake now, i'm not dreaming" and then counting your fingers. Apparently in a dream, you can't count your fingers properly... Anyway, if you do it enough when you're awake, you then find yourself doing it in dreams, and when you realise you can't count your fingers, then you are aware you're dreaming and you can start to control the dream. If you can lucid dream then you can stop nightmares.

Lot's of interesting stuff online regarding lucid dreaming, pre DC I could do this occasionally and it was quite fun, but when the dreams went in a bad direction or I had the 'dream within a dream within a dream' as you describe I would fight to wake up and that lead to sleep paralysis which was bloody terrifying!

Now I'm so exhausted by the time my head hits the pillow I don't get the chance to do it :')

I rarely have a dream where I’m not aware of dreaming. It’s really handy for bad dreams.

I've trained myself in the past too. Apparently numbers and displays don't work correctly in dreams so if you get into the habit of looking at a digital clock face or sign etc, looking away and looking back if you're dreaming the numbers will change randomly, whereas in real life they will stay logical. Get used to doing this and you'll start checking displays in your dreams as well.

However I don't think it works that well for stress type dreams. DH apparently has lucid dreams every night but if he's stressed, he can't control those ones. The teeth thing I always reckon is just your memory of losing teeth as a child but it does feel pretty horrific I know when you know you're an adult and they're adult teeth.

I don’t have lucid dreams as such, expect when I’m having rare episodes of sleep paralysis (used to have chronic SP). Then my brain starts screaming ‘ARE YOU AWAKE? I THINK THIS ISN’T REALLY HAPPENING!”

Which is somewhat comforting when you think there’s someone in the room about to murder you and you can’t move.

Yes, I have had lucid dreams (not for a long time), my son also has and they can be really freaky because you think you're awake and you're not. All I can say is it is a great relief when you do wake.

Not surprising you had a vivid dream about losing teeth when you'd had dental treatment recently.

I have lucid dreams but I find the downside is when I have a nightmare it's really vivid and sometimes I can almost feel myself fighting my dream to make my self realise it's a dream and that I can change what's happening so it's not a nightmare anymore/wake up.

This is really interesting. I've never done this but I dream alot! Last night I dreamt I was packing the car away after a holiday in a big grassy carpark. I met a man and women and in this dream I looked up to them like they were a parent figure. Then in the next part I'm in their house. It's on the next street to where I live. They are having a house party and dancing. I'm sat there in this dream watching them and thinking these people are so lovely and fun. I honestly think it's because my parents are hard work and not outgoing. I woke up and for a few minutes felt sad they were gone, as though they were real people.

Op do you have a dream book. I expect dreaming of teeth symbolises something. I sometimes in the past have dreamt I'm going back to school and I'm wearing a skirt and when I look down my legs need shaving haha.

I have them frequently. I trained myself to do it a long time ago, very handy if you suffer nightmares.

I get sleep paralysis a lot and whenever I've lucid dreamed, as soon as I realise I'm dreaming I become conscious and paralysed until I wake myself up. Which kind of spoils the fun.

Trained myself to do it once. But i didn't have full control over it as i thought i would. I just knew that i was dreaming, but i was watching myself making the decisions rather than actually making them. My bloody dream self only decided to fly to a fucking haunted castle made out of dark spirits. FML.

I lucid dream when im due my period I don't like it sometimed i can steer the dream to an end I find them frightening .

Never trained, experience it a lot. Don’t particularly like it as it is very real. Is fun sometimes but not in nightmares, although it is handy to know you are in a dream and force the dream to go another way/reassure yourself. Had sleep paralysis a few times. I have always had vivid dreams, funny how things work!

I go through stages of lucid dreaming. It will happen every night for a few weeks then it won't happen again for months. I always seem to get headaches after lucid dreaming

I do it after learning it very young. I can’t do it every time, maybe one in 4? But every single time I realise, without fail, I go flying. Flying is the best.

I lucid dream when I've had the dream before, but I'll usually just play it out how it should go instead of changing it.
However, I think I'm always aware I'm dreaming. I just don't like waking up from them.

Except nightmares. I can never control them, and I'm never aware I'm dreaming then. Usually happens when I'm exhausted.

I do but I can’t always control them. I do fly though too get myself out of bad situations. I think too myself it’s just a dream so I can fly (more floating actually) away.
I thought everyone did this. I have also had sleep paralysis but not for a long time.

I lucid dream when im due my period I don't like it sometimed i can steer the dream to an end I find them frightening .

I also lucid dream more when my period is due. And during the day too (night worker)
I struggle with nightmares sometimes, but it's not a lucid dream, I wake screaming, terrified, crying, sweating etc, but I don't ever know why, or what I've dreamed to make me like that. It's usually when I'm disturbed from a deep sleep, so the dog moving around, noise outside etc. It's like the disturbance has woken part of my brain but not the rest, I've leapt out of bed before and taken a swing at my dressing gown hanging on the door. Part of me knew it was my dressing gown, but I had the overwhelming response to 'defend' myself against my dressing gown 🤦‍♀️ and it took me a minute or so to really come to. That happens every few months, poor dog takes flight and I've scared the shite out of several relatives by sounding like I'm being murdered in the middle of the night!

I can manipulate the ending if I'm scared in a dream.

The emotions of a dream can often affect my mood for a while after waking. The other morning I was feeling guilty about picking DS up too late from school because I got delayed while with the other DS while taking him swimming in another town. The background was that he was off school and having to miss swimming that day.

I have woken myself by talking, laughing and miaowing. (I can still vividly recall the miaowing dream from 9 years ago, and a laughing dream from 20+ years ago) and I've also woken up finding myself sitting or doing the actions with my hands that I was doing in the dream. That's been a while though.

DH doesn't remember his dreams.

I have experienced it once when I was under a lot of stress and I found it very frightening. Like you I kept thinking I'd woken up but then kept realising I hadn't - I was scared I would never wake up!

I lucid dream ALL THE TIME. I find it really handy personally because if I'm ever venturing into a nightmare I can just wake myself up, so I genuinely don't remember the last time I had a scary dream. And I also love it when I'm having a nice dream and can control what's happening in it. I genuinely thought everybody could do this and it's only recently I realised that it's not that common

This is interesting as I have these repeated dreams, think Ive woken up and I haven't. I hate them. I also suffer from sleep paralysis which is awful. Mine are always in the correct place to, do if I'm in the spare room, the dream will be based in there.

I have them, but I wake up very soon after I realise I'm not dreaming so can't do anything fun.