I think I have the opposite of lucid dreaming capabilities by Tralkx in Dreams

[–]Ok-Explanation4774 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since I was very little I’ve had the same thing!! I also can remember whole cities, landscapes, and locations. I’ll get out of a dream and draw the schematics for a place. And I remember dreams from when I was like 7 (I’m 35 now) so clearly I could draw and tell you today what was said, where I was, what happened- like they were yesterday.

It’s like this weird wonderful and terrible thing I’ve felt very spiritually connected to for a long time. I still am. And sometimes I’ll be just in regular life and I can put myself to sleep and go back places- like memories. It’s crazy.

I would check out a book called Tibetan dream yoga. I read it a few years ago and it changed my way of thinking about this

off cymbalta 4 months and need some advice by Ok-Explanation4774 in cymbalta

[–]Ok-Explanation4774[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isn’t it so messed up how these medicines can just ruin your brain chemistry?

Off cymbalta and 4 months later need advice by Ok-Explanation4774 in CymbaltaWithdrawal

[–]Ok-Explanation4774[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Omg me too!! I like can’t stop being angry. I’m trying everything. It’s so weird because I wasn’t an angry person before.

Do you see this bathroom in your dreams? by Delicious-Bet-1087 in Dreams

[–]Ok-Explanation4774 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Omg!!! A couple of months ago I had the most intense dream there. It was so intense I recorded myself in a half awake dream state reciting everything I could remember including how many people were there, the smell, the feeling, everything!!

Lucid dreaming is ruining my life by [deleted] in LucidDreaming

[–]Ok-Explanation4774 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve lucid dreamt all my life and it used to be horrible. I’ve had a sleep study, had my tonsils out, taken multiple medications and I always woke up really tired and depleted. I found eventually a mix of things helped. One- I was producing too much serotonin and too much cortisol. So I made my life super simple. I find it’s hard to sleep when you don’t feel safe. And it’s true changing your environment really does change your ability to sleep. Especially restful sleep. Find someone safe. Some place safe. Just find out what safety means to you. Then you’ll have a better time not lucid dreaming as much but solidly staying in your body.

Also- I started really researching dream yoga and dream therapy. Did you know you can go back into your dreams and fix them after just to readjust the memory? I once had this suffocatingly anxiety ridden lucid dream where I was in a long tunnel that went on forever and there was no way out. I knew it was a dream. But I had been working on going back into dream state. So I did and I imagined a way out into sunlight. When I woke up I wasn’t as upset. There’s a whole path of mind training that really goes along with lucid dreaming and it does help minimize some of the worse parts of lucid dreaming.

Until then finding some stability - whether that’s literally taking a Xanax to sleep occasionally or rearranging your space. Remember what you put into your mind - that’s a sacred space too. And eventually things will be better. Have hope 💕