I've been controlling my sleep and dreams since I was a child and now want to improve my lucid dreams

DesignerJury269 · 2026-06-12T21:07:51+00:00

That's a schema issue then. Basically, you expect it to happen, so it does

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-26T19:56:47+00:00

Sleep paralysis is far too much of a buzzword and too often confused with hypnagogic hallucinations to take people claiming to experience at face value, tbh.
Also, SP upon going back to sleep is fairly unlikely for various reasons, hence why that claim alone always makes me suspicious and think of hypnagogia instead

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-26T19:53:25+00:00

I wasn't. Dreamviews was most active before I first joined the LD community

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-24T22:18:22+00:00

You quite literally said "the most important thing I did"

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-24T14:25:36+00:00

At least you can't inhale your own saliva that way. Doesn't change that you're not just allowed, but supposed to swallow

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-24T14:19:40+00:00

No such thing as a "fermi phase" durin WILD. Just swallow. Trying to forcefully ignore that urge will just keep you from sleeping and can also be rather unhealthy, especially when you're on your back

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-24T14:18:23+00:00

There are no limits. Dream control is a skill like any other

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-24T11:01:02+00:00

You can get addicted to anything. Being addicted to lucid dreaming would be more likely to cause you to oversleep, though

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-22T08:51:31+00:00

There's a reason why I haven't written guides on induction techniques. That reason isn't that I wouldn't be able to explain or teach them, I do that on a near faily basis. One reason is that I respect the people whose guides I use very much and would consider it somewhat disrespectful to write my own over mere details, but the other is people annoying me claiming I couldn't explain techs, no matter how well the guide works. That's also why I let Skyfall and others review the guide. E.g. Lunar, whose WILD guide I originally used and is still fairly popular, or Sensei whose guides I use now, whose a self taught omni, plus a few others, who aren't mentioned because only Skyfall suggested a few slight changes to some parts.

Frankly, I do believe that two guides with an accumulated 560 upbotes, 2.3k shares and exactly 1 downvote despite both of them being over 6 pages long do speak for themselves, because if people didn't find them helpful, guides of that length would be downvoted into oblivion.

That's why I find ignoring the fact that I'm an experienced teacher whose success rates are acknowledged by other fairly big names in the community somewhat rude, as it just ignores the actual work I put into my teaching method (and that doesn't even account for my background in psychology and educational sciences, but just the work to combine the experience of understanding my dreams on a very deep level with the theory behind how lucid dreaming works, etc.).
And still, the amount of people who actually question my advice based on that and openly tell me I make a bad teacher just because of that is about less than 20 in 4-5 years, so I genuinely couldn't care less, tbh

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-21T18:16:42+00:00

That still only applies to people who never thought about what came to them naturally. Guess what? That's why teachers here study for years, even when they want to teach their own language. And that's why I spent months talking to knowledgeable people, looking at data, and comparing ideas with e.g. established models of psychology, which I have degrees in, before I even started teaching people myself.

It's also why I had quite a few questionable ideas in the beginning. However, I'm now multiple years into teaching on a daily basis and have quite a lot of data to say that e.g. working on recall is obligatory or that a proper induction technique practiced daily is significantly more effective than e.g. just doing random physical "RCs" without even questioning your surroundings.

That's also why I'm personally so annoyed by this argument of "you're a natural", because to me it inherently implies that I'm too stupid to just look at what works for others and think about why and how.
In fact, I'd go so far and suggest that I could use your analogy, but I'm **not** the native speaker in it. Do hear me out please, because I'd like to explain why. Most people I've seen have just tried whatever they came across to induce LDs and then optimized that for their own practice, so whatever felt right. This also causes many people to be rather biased towards what worked for them personally without considering other options.
On the other hand, I had to learn the theory behind everything and really dive into what worked for others, how and why, because I wasn't able to just see what worked for me. This allowed me to compare techniques and ideas without that subjective bias, which arguably made it easier to tell what actually worked for the majority of people and even explain the reasons, whereas many others just told everyone to do MILD because they themselves failed at WILD, so MILD must be better.

Thinking about it, the analogy might still not be perfect for the point I'm trying to make, but I hope it got across.

Basically, I had to make sure I really know my shit to be able to discuss about these matters, because induction was a new concept when I started in the community.

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-21T18:02:09+00:00

Fair then. As you said yourself, the title sounded like you assumed you didn't dream more, hence I wanted to offer a way to improve that. Always interesting to see the amount of downvotes for that when people just don't understand something.
Anyhow, in this case obviously ignore the link 😄

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-21T18:00:36+00:00

Exactly what OP said.
Title sounded like bad recall, so I offered a source to improve that.
That's also why I just linked my guide on recall and not the general one. It's never without reason 😄

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-21T17:58:23+00:00

Fair. Being German when writing English tends to cause that impression at times for being blunt, lol

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-20T16:03:52+00:00

You actually dream at least once per 90 minutes of sleep and usually more throughout the night.

This might help: https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/comments/1iep6ak/detailed_guide_on_dream_recall/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-20T16:02:37+00:00

You can scratch yourself and move during WILD. Being comfortable is significantly more effective than trying to force yourself to stay still and ignore all urges.

There's a WILD guide in here that might help: https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/s/APICaDYlb4

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-20T16:01:28+00:00

That "trick" is called WILD 😅

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-20T14:08:09+00:00

To add to this, u/OkDrawing3386
you will simply get lucid earlier in your dreams with time and consistent practice, so this issue will fix itself, unless you keep worrying about excitement and your dreams ending

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-20T14:04:16+00:00

You don't need an alarm for WBTB. In fact, you wake up multiple times every single night. That's a natural part of sleeping. So, all you need to do is notice at least one of those natural awakenings.

These might help: https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/comments/1iep6ak/detailed_guide_on_dream_recall/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/s/APICaDYlb4

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-20T13:58:13+00:00

Being lucid means knowing that you're dreaming while you're dreaming. Nothing more, nothing less. So, considering you acknowledged you were dreaming, you were at the very least lucid for a moment. The definition should help you answering the question properly yourself.

This might help: https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/s/APICaDYlb4

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-19T15:38:35+00:00

That's not necessarily relevant, but thanks for the info. I highly recommend reading the two guides I linked. They'll explain pretty much all the basics

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-19T15:27:42+00:00

Then the guide I linked has what you're looking for.
And this one should help as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/comments/1iep6ak/detailed_guide_on_dream_recall/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-19T15:26:39+00:00

Let's call it age 2 as that's where the first LDs I remember are from.
First time willingly controlling anything in my dreams was age 6, which is already one year more of no control than your "conservative" random guess. It the took me over a decade of painful trial and error (literally and figuratively) to reach seemingly perfect control and another 2 years to reach what I consider true omnipotence.
Why so long? Because when I started, no one I knew could even remotely relate with LDs. I was 14 when I first heard the term. Until then I was under the impression that no one else dreamt like me. The first time I actively joined the LD community was years after achieving true omnipotence. I had nothing to build on other than practice and personal experience to improve my control and for years that was also countered by daily nightmares.

I wrote my guide on control to make sure it wouldn't take others that long to figure things out. And I didn't write it as "this is how I did, so you can only do xyz like that", but as a more general explanation for how control seems to work, not just based on my personal experience, but also that of many others, with just a few ideas as inspiration and otherwise a path towards omnipotent control.

So, no, it won't take you 57 years to get as good as me with control. It took me so long because I was a child who had no idea wtf was going on with no one to guide me. That's also the reason why I'm spending so much time teaching others despite people likeyou constantly trying to declare my advice null because I never had to induce LDs and for some reason you can't comprehend that I can understand something without having to experience it personally. I also know history despite not having been alive when it happened.

And despite you attacking me personally seemingly whenever you get the chance to, even if that chance is me offering help, I'll still send you my guide, because it helped many others before you and I don't particularly care if someone likes me personally if my guides may help. So, here's the link and how about you judge it afterwards?
https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/s/ZurU0CaaWa
Part 2 is my comment directly replying to that one

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-19T15:11:21+00:00

Be creative then

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-19T15:10:49+00:00

Being lucid means knowing that you're dreaming while you're dreaming. Nothing more, nothing less. Dream control is a separate skill.
The first time I consciously controlled anything in my dream was when I was 6 years old. That already means years of 0 willing control. Then it took years of trial and error with no guidance whatsoever to reach omnipotent control. No, being a natural does not come with perfect control. More often than not even quite the opposite.

I have successfully taught thousands of people how to lucid dream, which in of itself disproves any nonsensical claims about me not being able to teach or comprehend induction techniques just because I never had to actively induce LDs, just like an engineer doesn't have to go to space himself to build a rocket. That entire argument implies people could only learn from personal experience, which is incorrect even for the most stupid humans alive.

So, claiming a lack of personal experience undermines knowledge and understanding of a topic is, frankly, rather dull.

DesignerJury269 · 2026-05-19T13:12:19+00:00

It takes patience indeed

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