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    First step towards lucid dreaming, finding a trigger into it. Second step, much more challenging, finding a way to remember you know you’re dreaming, because your brain is trying to snow you. Third step is all those sex dreams you came here for, and then flying, and then possibly some mild psychosis.

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      19 hours ago

      some mild psychosis

      The album “Pain Remains” by Lorna Shore is pretty much about that. Except it’s not mild. The narrator “wakes up”, takes control of his nightmare, ascending to godhood inside the dream, finding love he can’t ever quite grasp, eventually realises how hollow and vain it is and that it’ll disappear when he wakes up – so he proceeds to burn it all down himself.

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      Do people know anything when they’re dreaming? When I’m asleep and dreaming about something I’m not thinking stuff is just happening.

      Very occasionally I’ll get a vague sense that this isn’t actually happening and I can make it stop. But all that results in is me changing the dream and having all of the current dream go away. I don’t get control over anything.

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        To train for lucid dreaming, you basically do two things:

        First always write down what you were dreaming right after you wake up. You will start to see patterns and then be more aware when those happen again (I often dream that I can’t break in time for a red light. That never happens in real life).

        Second is to make it a habit to check whether you’re dreaming. Look at your fingers, look at your watch, etc. Something will be off when you’re dreaming. Just like in Inception.

        I used to train like this and after a few weeks I could actually control my dreams sometimes.

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          I have always found that text doesn’t work in my dreams. Another dream check is trying to read a sentence twice to see if it changes

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            Mine was pushing my finger into my palm. In a dream, it would go right through my hand with no resistance.

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      ngl, if I could controll my flying sex dreams I would be in for some psychosis.
      no-one should have that kind of power.

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        19 hours ago

        Generally speaking yes. I’ve had more wet dreams as an adult than I ever did as a teenager.