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should i try lucid dreaming?
There is this thing called lucid dreaming i read about and I really wanna do it but then again yesterday someone told me that actually causes sleep paralysis and it's the worst thing you will ever experience. But i really wanna do it I'm also scared a little. The instruction is u actually lay down ur brain will think u want to sleep so it starts sending some signals to ur body to make it move or itch or blink or whatever. But u have to control urself and close ur eyes and fight the urge. Then u can control ur dreams cause ur brain is awake but ur body is asleep.
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- Dr. DLv 75 years agoFavorite Answer
I've been lucid dreaming for many years. What you describe is the wake-induced-lucid-dreaming (or WILD) technique. I don't like it and I don't think it works very well. I usually get my best lucid dreams by getting up late in the night to go to the bathroom, and then going back to sleep. I can usually drop back into sleep mode pretty quickly then, and when I find myself in a dream, I just think, "hey, this must be a dream", and it becomes lucid.
About sleep paralysis - it's normal. Everyone experiences it, we just don't notice. When we sleep our brain releases glycine and GABA which relaxes your skeletal muscles to the point of immobilization. Science call it sleep atonia. It is a good thing and keeps us from kicking and thrashing about when we dream. Then when we are aware (lucid) when we are in atonia it is called sleep paralysis.
Yes, I recommend you try lucid dreaming, but you will find that you cannot take control over all of your dream. You can control what you do, but not the dream setting itself. Things like flying, moving objects with your thoughts, vanquishing dream monsters, etc, are all developed skills that take practice. I recommend you study some YouTube videos from Robert Waggoner or Stephen LeBarge. They are the experts.
