Tomf1sh

If I asked Harley for his side of the story, what do you think he would say?

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Hey; firstly, thanks for doing this, I’ve been looking forward to this one for some time.

I have one principle question that I’ve been dying to ask. Do you ever regret your ability to lucid dream? Hear me out.

I have been lucid dreaming several times a week for 3 or so years now. I’m a WILDer (Wake-Induced Lucid Dream, I don’t know if the terminology is official or just internet lingo. I just walk right in from being awake into the dream, with a high risk of sleep paralysis and no real need for reality checks etc.), and my ability has begun to… make my brain feel weird. My ability is often linked to alcohol consumption (I go to sleep after a few drinks, wake up 4-5 hours later, and then enter the dream when I go back to sleep a few hours after awakening), but that only accounts for a little over half of my WILDs. When I’m tired, I begin to get snippets of dreams in my mind, like incredibly powerful daydreams. I quite simply need to go and take a nap, or else I cannot even slightly concentrate. The sensation of entering dreams can be terrifying; I hear powerful, low, rumbling noises, and if I try to kick myself out of it, I often just fall right back asleep and go through it all again. I feel as if my brain goes through a shredder every time that I WILD.

I also feel it can be psychologically disorientating; to spend sometimes upwards of half an hour in my own subconscious (I can often chain them together for long periods of time), with no sense of reality, can make things a bit confusing when I awaken, especially if I’m going through emotional difficulties for whatever reason. I’m never quite 100% in control when I lucid dream, I don’t think anybody quite is, and this means that I sometimes need to face things that strongly discomfort me.

I’m sorry for the long question; for those who can’t lucid dream as well as I can (or we can), it must seem weird that lucid dreaming could be something that somebody would actually complain about. But for me, considering how involuntary it can be, it certainly has its downsides.