@alyx lucid dreaming is awesome i just have barely been able to do it.
@icedquinn @alyx start a dream journal, every time you wake up write down anything you remember. make sketches if you need to, and read it back to yourself sometimes, I heard this helps
@icedquinn @alyx anyone reading this should be warned it causes dreams to occur more frequently

@coyote @icedquinn
I already have dreams quite often, so that's not a concern for me. And I usually enjoy most of my dreams. Don't have nightmares often enough to where this could be a problem.

As for lucid dreaming, I sometimes do manage to have some control over them. Not sure how it happened, cause I didn't really try to train to make it happen. I guess it was more of a consequence of me starting to figure out I was dreaming during the dream.

Sometimes I manage to take close to full control over the dream, other times it's a very subtle influence. I tend to prefer the latter, since it creates a more natural feeling dream, letting it unfold normally, and only slightly nudging them towards or away from a direction.

@coyote @icedquinn
P.S. I even had a few sleep paralysis moments. Most have been harmless, but I did had an "alien encounter" one, where I saw a very tall "alien" at the foot of my bed. It was close to a slender-man looking "alien". But when I managed to wake up completely, it turns out the "alien" was just the window drapes. :comfyshrug:

@alyx @icedquinn I have heard dream journaling should still help with lucid dreaming, the "dreaming more" was just a side effect
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@coyote @icedquinn
Never really had the patience to write dreams down, but usually when I wake up, I do try to recall the details of the dream, especially if it was note worthy in some way. I can't even tell you how many times I dreamt I was "playing" Half-Life and was fighting vortigaunts.

@alyx @icedquinn that can help too fwir, actively recalling it does a similar thing, not sure why this seems to happen, it was anecdotal and there's people I met who said it worked, it kinda worked for me. I also remember this image that says something about meditation before sleep in this particular way to induce lucid dreams
@alyx @icedquinn playing tetris in my dreams was too weird, I used to play a lot of tetris

@coyote @icedquinn
Mostly played Half-Life. Although saying "played" is not entirely accurate, since I felt like I was in the game. I didn't dream a monitor, keyboard or mouse. Just me, a shotgun and some frustrating enemy vorts.

Another interesting incident was when I played Fortnite in a dream although I never played it IRL. :blobshrug:

@alyx @coyote @icedquinn

That happens a decent amount if that's what's on your mind.
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