any lucid Dreamers?/anyone have any advice for vivid dreams

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hello everyone

are there any lucid dreamers out there?

i am trying to lucid dream (or even just have more vivid dreams) but i am finding it hard to have more vivid dreams,
does it have anything to do with the fact i am an aspie.

i have been trying for a while and nothing seems to work

When I was younger I used to have lucid dreams a lot. Of course I didn't know these were called lucid dreams at the time. I remember when I was 5 or 6, I was aware I was dreaming and I asked people in my dreams can I go home now? I had plenty of lucid dreams when I was younger.

Now I rarely lucid dream and I don't remember much of my dreams. When I was younger, I pretty much remembered all of my dreams and had some pretty crazy ones as well.

I don't have lucid dreams exactly, but I sometimes am aware in a dream that I am dreaming. My dreams aren't vivid. They are very confused and fuzzy.

Theirs some really awesome meditations online you can try or binaural beats that will help encourage lucid dreams
Try out a few meditations, give it a while and see with regular practice if you'll start to develop lucid dreams.
Happy dreaming.

I've not tried to induce a lucid dream yet, but I've had them, and I'm an Aspie, so Aspergers Syndrome is not a bar to lucid dreaming. I was amazed to find that there are skeptics who don't believe they exist. They do.

There are lots of ideas on the Web. I quite like the one where (while awake) you occasionally look at some writing, or a clock face, look away, then look back. The hope is that eventually you will dream that you're doing that, and you should see that the writing / clock face will have changed when you look at it the second time, proving to you that you must be dreaming. That happened to me once just because I'd read about the idea, though I hadn't done the exercises, I was just lucky that time. I looked at a door twice, and the number on it changed.

It's been a while since I had a lucid dream. I've never been able to keep dreaming for long once it's become lucid, sometimes because I've noticed that my body is paralysed, which has scared me, so I've woken myself up. No doubt it's harmless, but even so I like to have a way out. The muscles for breathing aren't paralysed of course, and I found I could pretty easily regain control of that, and by deliberately panting, I begin to hear the sound it makes, and I then wake up.

A wonderful bonus I usually get from rapidly waking out of a dream is what I call "hypnopompic hallucinations" - if I keep my eyes closed on waking, I see brilliant full-colour visions for a minute or two. I don't know of anybody else who has experienced these.

I remember having a lucid dream once. I was around 10-12 years old, I think. In the dream, I was being chased by a lion. Eventually, he caught me and tore off a sizable piece of my back. Once I realized that I would not manage to break free, I remember coming to the realization that I could just wake up from the dream. And so I did.

Years later (one or two years ago, I think), I had a dream where I was chased by a dragon. For some unspecified reason, I was sure that I would find a rocket launcher in the area. It could be because I knew it was a dream and I expected to find anything I could conceive of, but since I woke up before I found the weapon, I cannot be sure it was a lucid dream.

Other than that, I have many surreal dreams (and a few painfully boring ones; it seems I can dream only of either fantastical things or mundane day-to-day stuff). In some of them, I am aware of being in a dream, but I do not recall ever using that knowledge like I did in the dream with the lion.

And although it was too long ago for me to remember such details, I am fairly sure that I was not thinking about lions before I had that lucid dream. It came out of nowhere. I do not think you can control if your dreams will be lucid or not.

On the net there are a lot of "reality checks" you can do to check if your dreaming. Practice these during the day and then you'll start doing reality checks whilst dreaming and become lucid.

write a dream diary to get used to remembering your dream and wake yourself up a few times a night

no, aspergers has zero effect on ability to lucid dream. You dream and you can realise your dreaming

never mind