Do you lucid dream?

To a degree? I think I'm one of those people it happens to on occasion and it's always been a thing for me. I've likely been experiencing this for longer without realizing but it was only when a work pal explained what lucid dreaming is when I tried to describe a dream back in 2016 I became more aware I was doing it. I have noticed I've been becoming somewhat lucid more often since I started keeping a dream diary though recently I've had a dry spell where I can't remember what the dream was.

Every so often I can to a degree influence what happens in the dream but I've not yet managed to take full control of the dream or change what I'm dreaming about. I did manage to wake myself up from a dream semi-recently but that seems to of been a one-off. I don't think I get lucid enough to realize I'm aware I'm dreaming (if that makes sense) so it never occurs to me to try taking control or changing the dream. Once I become lucid I end up waking myself up (unintentionally) shortly after, typically when I start to question dream logic or there's a difference I know is wrong and it's jarring enough it throws me out of the dream entirely. For example one time my OC Francis appeared in a dream only he had blonde hair instead of black and I was lucid enough to think wtf that's not right and that was enough to wake me up.  

Weirdest thing I experienced was the time I fell asleep on my back and had a feeling of leaving my body and ended up looking down on myself sleeping before being so weirded out by the experience it woke me up.

Scariest thing? Semi-recently I had a nightmare I was lucid enough to realize I was dreaming and and I was trying to force myself to wake up before the dream progressed to something really graphic and nasty I did not want to deal with in that moment because of how vivid and realistic my dreams can get. Only I don't know how to wake myself up from a dream and the feeling of struggling to force myself to wake up was extremely unpleasant and anxiety inducing but I consider it an achievement I was able to wake myself up by choice at all, it's the first time I've managed to do so. 

Paranormal thing? None experienced.

Do I like the ability? Idk. Most of the time I'm lucid dreaming I'm not lucid enough to get anything out of it.

Yeah but its unpredictable and leaves me feeling like I didn't sleep enough. I can choose to do a thing and still have awareness i'm sleeping but sometimes it would be confined to the logic of the dream or i'd wake up immediately before anything really interesting happened. I would push myself to try it more but losing a good night's sleep doesn't seem worth it and it hasn't happened much either too probably cause i'm sleeping better.

I don't believe in the paranormal but if this counts I had freakier stuff happen while I was half asleep right around the time i'd lucid dream like hallucinating an alien ikea catalog on my wall, weird blurry letters on a mirror, a miniature women underneath my sheets and a gun on the wall. Thank god that doesn't happen anymore.

i do but it's v rare. most of my dreams are hyperrealistic, but i can't control them. i CAN control them however if there's... a part 2 of the dream if u will? i've had a few dreams where i've 'returned' to the place of the old dream and since i'm already familiar w/ the area i can just vibe and do what i want

tho i did used to get them a lot when i was younger, mostly when i could fly and could control where i went or when i did it - tho it was always v difficult to get up in the air (and stay in the air) so i'd often wake up incredibly exhausted

i guess one example that is a small one would be...

well context being that at the time my grandparents lived in an acreage, and i was most familiar w/ the main large backyard, chicken coops, and dam, and there was an area for all the goats further back that connected w/ a 2nd dam, and further behind that were occasionally a couple of pigs and a borewater pump
now further behind that was a place i was rarely allowed in, being a good acre of grapevines w/ a little section behind it w/ olive trees, which then revealed the neighbour's fenceline where there was a bit of an overgrown river before it led onto their property
in my dream, i ventured past that fenceline and just kept running over all sorts of fields - it felt so free and i explored more than i could ever have irl! i ended up finding an abandoned outhouse in the middle of nowhere - a wheat field i think - and went into it out of curiosity then woke up immediately.
the 2nd time i had that dream, i came across the outhouse, and was abt to do the same thing when i went 'no, last time i went in there i woke up and i don't want this dream to stop yet' and forced myself to turn around and keep running, i wasn't sure when i woke up after that but i got a few more fields explored before it happened! it was a strange feeling to wake up to tho

in general............................ dreams where i can kinda do stuff like this are generally v realistic (as opposed to my hyperrealistic dreams which are usually more fantasy-esque that just feel super real, or incredibly complicated) and i'm the only one in them and the area is consistant, they always have quite a lonely feel? that's why they don't happen often bc my dreams usually involve at least 10 ppl minimum w/ many places w/ many things all happening at once lol

It's kind of random in my experience, but it seems to occur the most when emotions run really high in the dream-- especially fear.

Once I was able to gain control of a nightmare by pinching myself in the dream and realizing that it didn't hurt. Suddenly it all started to fall apart and everything quickly ended, lol.

Other times in normal/happy dreams I can make limited decisions? Like controlling what I do and what one other person can do, but not the situations around us.

Dreams are weird bro

I've been lucid dreaming (almost) every night since I can remember. I usually have around half if not more control, though my emotions probably make my actions a lot more extreme during lucid dreams. That's probably why I always wake up more tired than I was when I went to sleep, tbh...

As for the scariest thing that happened, I believe I saw a car get stolen in my dream. Not many scary things happen, mainly strange or happy things.

I've never seen anything particularly paranormal that happened out of my own willpower, so... I think that's a good thing :) Lucid dreaming is super fun, so I really like it! It's also super useful for thinking up stories. I'm currently trying to made a mental model of my character Ariya's space ship (technically it's not hers but it's a long story that I haven't quite fleshed out yet) based on what appeared in my lucid dream. Every night I imagine a bit more of it, and someday I'm hoping to use Minecraft or some 3D modeling tool to actually build it.

But when I'm not in control, lucid dreaming is kind of scarring. I get a bit spooked whenever I'm entering this one room in my church because in one of my lucid dreams I fought a battle and got injured there.

I don't know if this is unique, but I can extend a lucid dream. Even if I'm already conscious, I can still stay in a lucid dreaming state until someone decides to get me off my rear and stop being lazy.

I've been able to lucid dream for a long time now. From a young age I've also always been able to recognise that I'm dreaming and so wake myself up.

In recent I've been lacking the ability and merely just commentate on dreams as I'm in them. Sometimes I try to control things and it just fails and that is so annoying. 

I did a lot of lucid dreaming as a child, up to my teens, then it sort of...teetered off along with other kinds of dreams, much to my chagrin. I've never had paranormal experiences with lucid dreaming nor did I ever realise that it was something particularily strange, rare or desirable, it just was.

My most fool-proof form of lucid dreaming was waking myself up when a dream turnt bad. I did so by rapidly blinking my dream-eyes until my real-eyes flew open, worked 95% of the time! The interesting part was that it became such a deep-rooted cheat that I always remembered it even in dreams where I otherwise wasn't lucid!

Other than that my tween-era lucid dreams that I remember include:

-Heading for the nearest body of water as soon as I became lucid, as I knew I'd not drown and be able to breathe under it. I'd also grab a random piece of grass on the way and eat it, telling myself it was ghillyweed. I nearly always woke up before I go to the water.

-Other times I'd head straight for the broom in our apartment complex's corridor and use it to fly around the street. You can tell I was into Harry Potter.

-Trying to summon fictional characters I liked. Mostly it ended up with me waking up from the strain though I once managed to snog Meier Link from Vampire Hunter D and it was great.

I lucid dream all the time, but I only have so much control of it. I can rewind and change my dreams but I usually need to imagine some sort of object to make it work properly (like a remote to rewind my dreams or something) and I usually can't control when I wake up. I can make myself wake up if I really need to, but I always feel strange afterwards. 

I was sort of half lucid about a month or so ago. Other than that I’ve never had one, but I’ve wanted to for a really long time!