That’s very interesting, we have much in common. Usually at the beginning of the dream cycle I’m easily fooled and I just after waking up I realise the absurdity of the things that happened. By the end of the dream many erratic and absurd situations happened so I’m gonna be aware that I’m in the dream state.

This new approach approach is making me conscious during all the last cycles.

I started that way too but over time this technique lost it’s efficiency. By the time I got good at reading everything became so real.

I didn’t know that but it checks out for me. In fact I struggle with identifying my emotions. I am very empathetic and I get what others are feeling but when it comes to understand what I’m feeling I’m lost.

After my vacation at the sea I realised that water is my ultimate reality-checker. There is just no way I can submerge in my dreams and this way I can recognise when I’m dreaming. Now I’m back in the city so I will no longer have the opportunity to go for a swim but I think I found a solution… I’ll make a new post about this topic.

Yes, it’s harder to float in lakes.

The state of passivity that you’re talking about I think it’s quite common and quite useful from an evolutionary point of view. I once had built an entire fake city filled with fake people in my teenage years. Needless to say I was heavily depressed since I valued more the dream state than waking life. It’s all about balance.

Interesting, it’s like the subconscious puts the dangerous stuff beneath the water surface. For a long time there was a conflict from me and it. The subconscious tries to let me experience (and therefor act) the dream if as I was awake. I on the other hand want to have control over it. In this journey I’ve learned that instead of trying to establish dominance it’s a matter of cooperation. But still my subconscious won’t let me face my greatest fears.

In waking life I dive with no problems up to 3 meters below the sea level. Once I dove into Krk lake, crystal clear water aside, it was an amazing experience since buoyancy was weaker.

I see. I’m used to mastodon instances. I’ve tried tu use it and it doesn’t work on Memmy for ios :( I’m gonna leave a review for the developers

Yesterday I made a community for lucid dreamers. If you’re interested https://discuss.online/c/lucid_dreamers

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Hahahah yeah I feel you. False awakenings are the worst. I have a theory about them, probably I’m going to address this in one post of the community I linked above! Ps. I’m a thief in dreams. My main purpose is to steal information and bring them into waking life. As soon as I get up I start writing. And then I wake up again and start writing again. It’s like there is a police like force that prevents me from bringing the most valuable information out. My record of most false awakening in a row is 5. But again I would like to discuss these things in the community so others can join the conversation.

I don’t understand, it’s my first day here on lemmy. Should I have posted a different link?

I can relate. I spent some teenage years in depression because I valued dreams over waking life.

Today I made one here on lemmy! https://discuss.online/c/lucid_dreamers

I made a community specifically for lucid dreaming (not for dreams in general) https://discuss.online/c/lucid_dreamers

I made one today! https://discuss.online/c/lucid_dreamers

Find a significant purpose in your waking life. Dreams will become a training place. https://discuss.online/c/lucid_dreamers

Avoid getting stuck. Giving priority to dreams instead of waking life is a serious risk. https://discuss.online/c/lucid_dreamers

https://discuss.online/c/lucid_dreamers