lucid dreaming Guide
Where to go in your lucid dreams
your Tour guide to lucid dreaming
Our guide to lucid dreaming starts with one of our authors’ first experiences, which was actually, like many others, spontaneous. Although he had read an old lucid dreaming guide, he was not actively practicing lucid dreaming techniques in earnest at the time. Suddenly, he found himself back at summer camp in a familiar spot where he had been many times but almost 15 years previously. The scene was quite familiar, with sites that looked the same and an overall feeling that was just like back then. But the rest of the story tells a familiar caution. In his excitement about being lucid, our dreamer started to run, wanting to see as much as possible and interact with the dream characters. Like many lucid dreaming experiences, unfortunately, this one ends fairly abruptly, with the dream fading and him waking up. Now the experience was still quite motivating, but still shorter than it could have been.
Our lucid dreaming guide helps you not only have lucid dreams but make them last!
Real places
Visit places you’ve been
History
Go back in time in your visit
Fantasies
See what you mind creates
Create
Make your own place!
travel guide to lucid Dreaming
Our lucid dreaming guide will include the lucid dreaming experiences submitted by our readers. We look forward to hearing about your own experiences and adventures, and if you choose to submit them we will publish your lucid dreaming experiences here – you become a lucid dreaming guide yourself!
We hope that others will find this motivating – to see the successes of others can help you get through the initial learning and any dips in the road going forward. This lucid dreaming guide can also be a way to learn new places to go in your dreams and new possibilities as far as adventures and fun.
So please feel free to submit your own exciting, scary, or crazy lucid dreaming experiences to be published in this guide to lucid dreaming, though we do need them relatively condensed (approximately 300 words or less) and appropriate for a general audience.
Please make sure to only put contact information you are willing for us to share – although we will never share e-mail addresses or street addresses, we will share your name as you submit it and your city/town and state unless you tell us otherwise or submit differently. At minimum we do need a first name and state so we ensure that people know our guide to lucid dreaming is fully open and honest.
Lucid dreaming guide to meanings
Guide to Lucid Dreaming Experiences
And guide to lucid dreaming guides covers dream interpretation and meaning, so we will mention the most common dream themes that people tend to share. This part of our lucid dreaming guide aims to show how dream meanings can be derived from what happens in a dream.
As many of you who have had lucid dream experiences know, these themes and actions are often the point where you become lucid and, therefore, can be used as a jumping-off point to find deeper meaning and/or reduce the associated anxiety or stress. In addition, using our guide to lucid dreaming, you can recreate these conditions and then conquer them – another good way to reduce or combat the associated real-world anxiety or stress.
Lucid Dreaming Guide to experiences
Here is the partial listing of themes you might find in lucid dream experiences:
Losing Your Teeth:
- If you lose your teeth in your dream, you may be feeling unable to take control and address issues in your life, particularly in your social life.
Finding yourself naked or partially naked
- When you dream that you are naked in a public place, you may be feeling afraid of being exposed as not as good or prepared or competent as you should be in the real world.
Flying
- Flying is a good sign, signaling that you feel flexible and free, though it could also mean that you are looking for escape. These crazy lucid dream experiences are also quite fun! Our guide to lucid dreaming emphasizes the fun exciting things you can do!
Falling
- Falling or being up too high with no way down: When you dream about falling, it can indicate fear of failure or loss of control in your life. These can be scary lucid dream experiences for some.
Being Chased
- If you are avoiding something in the real world, or otherwise feel a problem might be catching up to you, you might dream about being chased. These can also be scary, but seeing them in our guide to lucid dreaming may give you comfort that this is normal.
Being Tested, not being ready for a test
- Depending on how ready you feel or how prepared you are in your dream this type of dream often suggests you do not feel prepared for something in the real world
The places you can go!
Lucid Dreaming Guide: Possibilities
unintentional lucidity
- Some lucid dreaming experiences involve a person who was not trying to achieve lucidity but naturally found themselves in a state of lucidity for part or all of a dream. The “what was that!?” reaction may make that person look for a lucid dream guide like this!
unintentional lucidity
- At some points, they realize they have control, but then the dream falls back to being the more traditional type. In fact, too many of these dreams can lead to frustration.
advanced experiences
- More advanced lucid dreamers can relate fun and crazy lucid dreaming experiences that are incredibly motivating to those that are just starting out. They may relate wonderful adventures and longer periods of full lucidity, and a wide variety of uses for their lucid dreams.
out-of control fun
- Finally, there are crazy lucid dreaming experiences that relate strange occurrences, such as dream characters that seem hostile, or dreams that seem to be out of the person’s control even if they are lucid. These lucid dreaming experiences provide worry or relief, depending on what ends up happening
Beginniners
- Some of our favorite lucid dreaming experiences are those that are people’s first lucid experiences. It is wonderful to hear the excitement as people relate these stories, and also interesting to see what these initial lucid dreams are like.
scary but normal
- Sometimes people report specific types of anecdotes, including scary lucid dreaming experiences. These can be concerning to some who are starting out but it is essential to realize that scary lucid dreaming experiences are normal.
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We welcome you to use our comments section to relate your own lucid dreaming experiences, or to ask the community here about their lucid dream experiences.