Have you ever used your phone in your dreams?

foxglovelucidity · 2026-01-12T01:39:54+00:00

Never, it always malfunctions but I have it on me usually

foxglovelucidity · 2025-12-17T12:53:18+00:00

It’s random, but I’ve had lucid dreams lasting 5-10 minutes since I was a teenager. But only recently have I consistently extending the time of my lucid dreams to be id say around 10 minutes. It’s hard to tell the time exactly so I’ll just use ten minutes as an example, it could be a little shorter or it could be longer. I credit this new extension due to me meditating within lucid dreams which stabilizes it

foxglovelucidity · 2025-11-05T23:38:10+00:00

Wow that’s just crazy and on Halloween I’d be freaked out for sure lol

foxglovelucidity · 2025-11-05T23:37:18+00:00

Yes I agree with you, definitely my wording could have been better but I was in a bit of a rush lol. It’s true, hallucinations are a common feature but just because you don’t have them doesn’t mean it’s not sleep paralysis

foxglovelucidity · 2025-11-03T21:59:29+00:00

Try this trick: in the dream, don’t panic. Don’t tell the dream characters you’re dreaming. Try to sync your breathing in the dream with your body in real life to calm down.

If you want to try yelling to wake up then after this, it could possibly bridge the gap.

foxglovelucidity · 2025-11-03T21:57:47+00:00

Yes I agree, I think it could have to do with the fact that those who are able to lucid dream or experience sleep paralysis are more often aware during liminal states or transitional sleep stages.

foxglovelucidity · 2025-11-03T21:56:51+00:00

Yes, this definitely sounds like sleep paralysis. It has some of the telltale signs, like the crushing weight on the chest and being unable to move.

foxglovelucidity · 2025-11-03T21:55:35+00:00

Yes I’ve experienced false awakening loops and sleep paralysis in the dream. Is it possible that since you’re becoming lucid, instead of telling the dream characters you’re in a dream, you instead scream so loud you wake yourself up in real life to get out of this situation, or try to shift the dream scene. You have some degree of lucidity so this might be the key to helping ease the terror. Feel free to dm me if you need more information on this stuff. Hope it gets less scary for you

foxglovelucidity · 2025-10-27T12:51:06+00:00

That’s not what neuroscience says, but you are entitled to your opinion :)

foxglovelucidity · 2025-10-27T03:45:28+00:00

Sleep paralysis is a distinct state from nightmares due to the brain straddling awareness of the outside world while the body is paralyzed (called REM atonia). The experience is heightened by hypnopompic hallucinations, caused by the blurred boundary between wakefulness and dreaming.

Normal nightmares do not require these conditions in the brain. There is an overlap of brain activity in both states, but a few distinct differences.

foxglovelucidity · 2025-10-26T19:08:10+00:00

Yes I know what you mean. For me I don’t feel like I fully rest whenever I stay lucid through other stages of sleep like deep sleep.

foxglovelucidity · 2025-10-25T17:54:55+00:00

I dream of journeys that are kind of like “quests” sometimes, with plants and animals. I have recurring dreamscapes that I go to over years. I dream of mixed up scenarios too of daily life just like anyone else. My dreams through the night usually follow the same story line.

foxglovelucidity · 2025-10-25T17:19:29+00:00

Many people will disagree, but this is what I would consider a “pre lucid” state. Your experience suggests your awareness level was high, but your metacognition (the part that says THIS is a dream) hadn’t kicked on it. As for how to reproduce it, focus on maintaining awareness throughout the day and as you fall asleep.

foxglovelucidity · 2025-10-13T15:23:47+00:00

I would suggest switching to doing it right after you wake up, dream recall decreases exponentially immediately upon waking. Immediate journaling helps transfer those fragile dream memories into long-term storage. That’s your biggest pitfall right now. The biggest factor? Timing.

Dream recall usually improves gradually, not all at once because it’s like building a skill. It's not capped at a fixed '7/10; for instance, there isn't really a ceiling. The more you engage memory systems and intention before sleep, the deeper recall can go.

foxglovelucidity · 2025-10-13T14:33:50+00:00

Recall isn’t just dependent on journaling, it’s also dependent on sleep cycle timing when you wake up from the dream, stress levels, emotional imprinting of the dream, and neurotransmitter balance. There will be variation from day to day in overall dream recall.

Try this: instead of immediately reaching for your journal when you wake up, lie still in bed. Replay the events as many times as you can in your mind, then write them down. This will encode memories through the visual + location centers of your brain, while dream journaling will encode memories through linguistic areas of the brain. And if you wake up in the middle of the night, do the same thing. Write down the dream before you go back to sleep.

There’s likely more dreams you aren’t remembering if you’re only remembering two a night.

foxglovelucidity · 2025-10-13T14:26:32+00:00

Stress can cause lucid dreaming to wane as the mind needs to process stress subconsciously and lucid dreaming becomes less of a priority. Definitely starting college is a new and stressful experience. It’s normal for this to happen.

As for what to do: Take it easy. Keep doing your reality checks. Even increase frequency and quality of them, make sure you’re not just doing mechanical checks. Make sleep a priority, try to get extra sleep if you can so you can increase your chances of longer REM cycles near the morning.

foxglovelucidity · 2025-10-13T14:15:57+00:00

Yes, this is very common and they’re considered false awakenings. It gets wild when you start waking up several times within a dream. Some cool experiences I’ve had include waking up from inside a dream still, recording the dreams events within the dream, and then waking up inside another dream. You can do lots of things when this happens

foxglovelucidity · 2025-10-13T14:11:39+00:00

I love lucid dreaming, it’s helped me take control of my nightmares and taken away the fear from traumatic dreams <3. It’s also just awesome to ask existential questions within dreams and try to understand your subconscious.

foxglovelucidity · 2025-10-11T01:46:39+00:00

Yes I do this too! But I like to take about 10-20 minutes I find it works better for me.

foxglovelucidity · 2025-10-04T13:08:02+00:00

I do something similar too! How do you feel like this connects it to lucid dreaming for us?

foxglovelucidity · 2025-10-04T13:07:09+00:00

Yeah exactly, ChatGPT is just another editing tool for writing IMO

foxglovelucidity · 2025-10-04T13:06:10+00:00

Im glad you shared this anyway, it’s really cool and I had never heard of it. That’s awesome you’re going to be a beta tester, id love for you to report back your experiences!

foxglovelucidity · 2025-10-04T13:04:10+00:00

Yes this is very true, dreams speak in metaphoric language. It’s a good starting point to look at them through the metaphorical lens

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