I learned about lucid dreaming at 13 and decided to try it. I practiced self-hynosis trance states while falling asleep. Took a couple weeks of practice before getting it to work. After that, it was easy.
Too easy.
Couldn’t turn it off. Every dream became a lucid dream, except no, they were lucid dreams within dreams. I’d wake up and go to school then wake up and realize I was still dreaming. Real life and dreams began to blur together. My dreams were so vivid I couldn’t tell them apart reliably. My dreams would alternate between lucid and not, nightmares crept in. It was thoroughly unnerving. So, I did the same self-hypnosis practice in reverse. A week of so of demanding normalcy again, and my dreams went back to normal.
Eventually, in grad school, I went through a similar process to stop myself from remembering my dreams, because I was so stressed out that all my dreams were nightmares.
After grad school I went back to allowing myself to occasionally remember dreams, at least fuzzily while waking or recalling the previous night’s dream while drifting to sleep.
I learned about lucid dreaming at 13 and decided to try it. I practiced self-hynosis trance states while falling asleep. Took a couple weeks of practice before getting it to work. After that, it was easy.
Too easy.
Couldn’t turn it off. Every dream became a lucid dream, except no, they were lucid dreams within dreams. I’d wake up and go to school then wake up and realize I was still dreaming. Real life and dreams began to blur together. My dreams were so vivid I couldn’t tell them apart reliably. My dreams would alternate between lucid and not, nightmares crept in. It was thoroughly unnerving. So, I did the same self-hypnosis practice in reverse. A week of so of demanding normalcy again, and my dreams went back to normal.
Eventually, in grad school, I went through a similar process to stop myself from remembering my dreams, because I was so stressed out that all my dreams were nightmares.
After grad school I went back to allowing myself to occasionally remember dreams, at least fuzzily while waking or recalling the previous night’s dream while drifting to sleep.