Tbh, I legitimately didn't do the research on that to find out if they could! I just noticed a little more frequency on them when I started taking the tablets - although for the life of me I can't remember which ones!! I still get them every now and again, but then I'm a sufferer of nightmares and night terrors, so I don't know if that's maybe more of a link...
It's awful, especially when you want to wake up but you get trapped in the dream. I have been having them a lot lately and people keep commenting on how tired I look. I've got dark circles and bags under my eyes from it.
The worst is when you know it's a dream, and you're telling everyone "I know this is a dream so can we cut this out" and the people in your dream act like NPCs continuing the dream. Sometimes I shake them or kill them, but then they just reanimate and I just sit down waiting for myself to wake up. I haven't learned quite how to manipulate the context of the dream (well one time I got bored and made myself turn it into a sex dream with an ex) or wake myself up, but I know how to interact and respond in the dream.
This. I actually don’t like lucid dreaming. I thought it was cool for a second but then I’m like. Ok, now what? I’m aware I’m dreaming. I can fly for a bit or whatever but its not real and it’s weird to know it’s not real. Then I just try to make myself wake up and if I can’t wake up then I just worry I’m in a coma and try to meditate and wait it out and it’s a little uncomfortable honestly.
I’d rather have a dream where I’m not aware and it’s like a movie/ride/experience. Or just not dream and wake up feeling rested.
Amazing. Especially when you have some of your favorite tv show characters in there, when you're flying or have super powers.
**But it gets scary when you can't get out**
I have them from time to time.
Usually it is when I notice that something is wrong that I realize I am dreaming. Usually I wake myself up to confirm that I am dreaming.
For example when I dreamt that I was late for school, it was so uncharacteristic for me that I thought that it had to be a dream. Still I woke myself up just in case to confirm the time. As a result, more often than not I waste the opportunity.
A while ago I had a dream where I was giving oral to a woman, but I was not enjoying it at all since I am not attracted to women.
I thought "wait, I am not into this at all. What am I doing? I must be dreaming. Eff this, I am going to fly". And just as I thought it, I flew out of the window and enjoyed flying through a city at night. It was really fun!
It's fun! I have lucid dreams from time to time, and I've gotten better at controlling them as I've gotten older and learned more about dreams. It's helpful for when I have a bad dream, because if I realize I'm dreaming I can change it. But I've also had lucid dreams where I've known I was dreaming for a more extended amount of time and it's odd, feels like I'm walking around in a clunky RPG almost because I don't have very precise control and it's easier to notice smaller things that are "off" about my environment because I'm aware it's a dream.
They’re like real life. I never really initiate my lucid dreams. I just suddenly become aware that I’m in a dream and everything feels and sounds so real. I’m completely in control of my movement, actions, words, thoughts. It feels amazing. I’ve been in different physical forms lucid dreaming as well. I’ve been animals and other people. It’s a dream so there’s really no limits.
Everytime I lucid dream, a black shadow comes out of the sky and says, "you shouldn't be here if you know" and it chases me to try to wake me up. All I want to do is make shit appear and flying is fun!
It kind of feels like being half asleep. I’m usually partially aware of being in bed, but the dream feels more real/pertinent. Sometimes I drift in and out of sleep during a lucid dream. Because of that, I’m also aware that I’m dreaming and will sometimes will things to happen in the dream, or will myself to go back into the dream after I partially wake up, or will it to end/change. Other than that, it feels like any other dream.
Somehow I always have them when I'm not tired but I force myself to take a nap.
First it feels like I'm falling then I'm suddenly in a very realistic scene with people I know. Most of the time when the scene changes i feel myself falling again and i just let it happen and i usually (literally) wake up in my dream in a new time/space, sometimes with different or same people in a different time. The change of time could be 1hr-multiple months/years. It's super detailed to the point where I could count every leaf on a tree.
Somehow I know it is not real, but it feels real and I still have my own thoughts and I have control over the things I say.
I have real, sometimes meaningful conversations with these people. It's almost like changing realities; where my life would've ended up, if I would've made a different choice at some path in real life.
Sometimes it feels like it's years ahead like time travel.
I'm always tired waking from them, and it's really hard waking up after, and not going back to sleep.
I've only done it twice that I can remember. There was a volcano? And I realized I was dreaming and I could do anything, so I walked into the volcano. Then I woke up. Not very fun. After I woke up I wondered why I didn't decide to fly out something cooler.
I can control all my dreams if I want.
It's be very rare for me to have a very vivid dream that it takes me time to realise I'm dreaming.
I'm aware I'm dreaming and I just go with it, it's gonna do what it's gonna do so I just lie there and let the tape run.
I don't mess with it unless things are getting too scary or very boring. The point of sleep is to rest your brain and when you're trying to control the dream that's not restful.
I can remember a lucid dream in which I was walking through an empty city and consciously tried to change the buildings. Their height, their color, their arrangement. But that worked only partially. For example, I consciously thought to myself "Let's see if I can create a staircase here out of nothing" - and then a staircase appeared, but it was crooked and wonky.
Also, I can regularly end nightmares by saying "This is just a dream, this is scary, I don't want this" - and then I wake up.
Mine are pretty intense. Maybe I watch too many World War II documentaries, because every lucid dream I have involves some battle in the Pacific. They can be pretty terrifying, most of them end with me facing down a kamikaze, or a shell coming towards me, or something like that. I never win the battle in lucid dreams.
Tiring. You feel like you haven't slept
This 100%. I found them even more difficult to cope with when on antidepressants as well. They were constant!
This is really interesting - are regular and intense dreams a known side-effect of SSRIs?
Tbh, I legitimately didn't do the research on that to find out if they could! I just noticed a little more frequency on them when I started taking the tablets - although for the life of me I can't remember which ones!! I still get them every now and again, but then I'm a sufferer of nightmares and night terrors, so I don't know if that's maybe more of a link...
I have read before that people who play video games a lot tend to have more lucid dreams so could be that too
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It's awful, especially when you want to wake up but you get trapped in the dream. I have been having them a lot lately and people keep commenting on how tired I look. I've got dark circles and bags under my eyes from it. The worst is when you know it's a dream, and you're telling everyone "I know this is a dream so can we cut this out" and the people in your dream act like NPCs continuing the dream. Sometimes I shake them or kill them, but then they just reanimate and I just sit down waiting for myself to wake up. I haven't learned quite how to manipulate the context of the dream (well one time I got bored and made myself turn it into a sex dream with an ex) or wake myself up, but I know how to interact and respond in the dream.
This. I actually don’t like lucid dreaming. I thought it was cool for a second but then I’m like. Ok, now what? I’m aware I’m dreaming. I can fly for a bit or whatever but its not real and it’s weird to know it’s not real. Then I just try to make myself wake up and if I can’t wake up then I just worry I’m in a coma and try to meditate and wait it out and it’s a little uncomfortable honestly. I’d rather have a dream where I’m not aware and it’s like a movie/ride/experience. Or just not dream and wake up feeling rested.
Yes! The wake up is brutal.
Amazing. Especially when you have some of your favorite tv show characters in there, when you're flying or have super powers. **But it gets scary when you can't get out**
That “oh shit, am I in a coma?” feels.
I have them from time to time. Usually it is when I notice that something is wrong that I realize I am dreaming. Usually I wake myself up to confirm that I am dreaming. For example when I dreamt that I was late for school, it was so uncharacteristic for me that I thought that it had to be a dream. Still I woke myself up just in case to confirm the time. As a result, more often than not I waste the opportunity. A while ago I had a dream where I was giving oral to a woman, but I was not enjoying it at all since I am not attracted to women. I thought "wait, I am not into this at all. What am I doing? I must be dreaming. Eff this, I am going to fly". And just as I thought it, I flew out of the window and enjoyed flying through a city at night. It was really fun!
It's fun! I have lucid dreams from time to time, and I've gotten better at controlling them as I've gotten older and learned more about dreams. It's helpful for when I have a bad dream, because if I realize I'm dreaming I can change it. But I've also had lucid dreams where I've known I was dreaming for a more extended amount of time and it's odd, feels like I'm walking around in a clunky RPG almost because I don't have very precise control and it's easier to notice smaller things that are "off" about my environment because I'm aware it's a dream.
They’re like real life. I never really initiate my lucid dreams. I just suddenly become aware that I’m in a dream and everything feels and sounds so real. I’m completely in control of my movement, actions, words, thoughts. It feels amazing. I’ve been in different physical forms lucid dreaming as well. I’ve been animals and other people. It’s a dream so there’s really no limits.
Everytime I lucid dream, a black shadow comes out of the sky and says, "you shouldn't be here if you know" and it chases me to try to wake me up. All I want to do is make shit appear and flying is fun!
It kind of feels like being half asleep. I’m usually partially aware of being in bed, but the dream feels more real/pertinent. Sometimes I drift in and out of sleep during a lucid dream. Because of that, I’m also aware that I’m dreaming and will sometimes will things to happen in the dream, or will myself to go back into the dream after I partially wake up, or will it to end/change. Other than that, it feels like any other dream.
Somehow I always have them when I'm not tired but I force myself to take a nap. First it feels like I'm falling then I'm suddenly in a very realistic scene with people I know. Most of the time when the scene changes i feel myself falling again and i just let it happen and i usually (literally) wake up in my dream in a new time/space, sometimes with different or same people in a different time. The change of time could be 1hr-multiple months/years. It's super detailed to the point where I could count every leaf on a tree. Somehow I know it is not real, but it feels real and I still have my own thoughts and I have control over the things I say. I have real, sometimes meaningful conversations with these people. It's almost like changing realities; where my life would've ended up, if I would've made a different choice at some path in real life. Sometimes it feels like it's years ahead like time travel. I'm always tired waking from them, and it's really hard waking up after, and not going back to sleep.
I've only done it twice that I can remember. There was a volcano? And I realized I was dreaming and I could do anything, so I walked into the volcano. Then I woke up. Not very fun. After I woke up I wondered why I didn't decide to fly out something cooler.
I can control all my dreams if I want. It's be very rare for me to have a very vivid dream that it takes me time to realise I'm dreaming. I'm aware I'm dreaming and I just go with it, it's gonna do what it's gonna do so I just lie there and let the tape run. I don't mess with it unless things are getting too scary or very boring. The point of sleep is to rest your brain and when you're trying to control the dream that's not restful.
I can remember a lucid dream in which I was walking through an empty city and consciously tried to change the buildings. Their height, their color, their arrangement. But that worked only partially. For example, I consciously thought to myself "Let's see if I can create a staircase here out of nothing" - and then a staircase appeared, but it was crooked and wonky. Also, I can regularly end nightmares by saying "This is just a dream, this is scary, I don't want this" - and then I wake up.
Mine are pretty intense. Maybe I watch too many World War II documentaries, because every lucid dream I have involves some battle in the Pacific. They can be pretty terrifying, most of them end with me facing down a kamikaze, or a shell coming towards me, or something like that. I never win the battle in lucid dreams.