 So Sean says have you ever had a lucid dream, but then it turns into a normal dream when you're still in the dream Yes, this is one of the most annoying things about lucid dreaming if you are too Emotionally involved with what's going on if you're too emotionally invested in what your dream character is doing You're gonna have a very hard time staying lucid and this is something that's probably a bit controversial and I hope that some I'm hoping that I'll get some sort of response from this video from maybe other use YouTubers who talk about lucid dreaming or from even just people anyone really anyone in the comments section I want to hear what you think about this. Here's just here's my take on it. Okay You've got to consider lucid dreaming like a video game And in a video game you are of course in control of the character, right? Let's just call it the avatar you're in control of the avatar the character the game character and You can direct the character through the game You can tell it where to go what items to pick up where to journey towards what battles to be in You're in control of the character, right? But at the same time you are not immersed in that character's body You're not seeing the game through that character's eyes And I'm referring particularly to third-person games where you can see your character walking from above Because you're not immersed in that character's eyes that is the best way that I would consider Approaching lucid dreaming now this can go one of two ways, right? You can when you enter a lucid dream you can approach it from one of two ways The first way is where you're so immersed and emotionally engaged with what's going on You're seeing the dream through your dream characters eyes and it feels like you and you experience it as You're actually doing the things you are actually the character yourself But the problem with that as I'm sure you can relate to you will eventually get into the situation where you're having a lucid dream and You become not lucid you lose lucidity Okay, you lose that control because you're too emotionally involved with what's going on And it happens so easily You know you can be walking down a street and you're lucid you're in control of everything you're doing and the next thing You know you notice something coming around the corner Maybe it's a tiger or something and suddenly bang You know you're smart you're smacked with the reality of the dream and because you are so emotionally immersed in it because you think it's actually Happening to you you lose lucidity almost immediately you'll lose lucidity and this happens time and time again however The other way of approaching us right the second way that I said about before is If you approach lucid dreaming with the mindset of a gamer a video gamer Meaning if you deliberately enter a lucid dream with no intention of getting emotionally charged and involved with what's going on If you approach it more like a video game you maintain this third person Floating sort of perspective similar to the effect that you get when you meditate when you meditate What you're really doing is you're taking your awareness your consciousness out of the mind the egoic construct of the mind and Into your body essentially into your body and into just being in the moment in that space So if you do the same thing when you're lucid dreaming right if you approach it with a detached sort of Transcendent awareness you will experience much longer lucid dreams basically in layman's terms The less emotionally engaged you are with what you're doing in the dream The longer the lucid dreams gonna last from my experience and I really want to hear what your opinions are on this I want to hear other people's subjective experiences on this as well, but that's just what I found You know I found that if I approach it like a video game I'm not too worried about what I'm doing as long as I'm in control of the character those lucid dreams seem to last forever Now a common example of this is lucid dreaming sex when you're having a lucid sex dream It's very easy to lose lucidity. I'm sure those of you who have done this can agree with me here You know you get so involved with what you're doing the emotions take over the hormones get released the adrenaline the dopamine and Suddenly you're not lucid anymore. You might have a normal dream You might have a nightmare you might even wake up and the reason for that is that you're too emotionally involved with what's going on You've you've involved your you've involved your mind too much Too much mind right so what I would suggest to do that the approach that I always take with lucid dreams is I try and become Detached enough that I can control the dream character, but also still engaged enough that I can remind myself Hey, I'm still dreaming here. You know, this is still a lucid dream. This is none of this is real So try and find a balance between being immersed in what you're doing and being aware enough of yourself that you're It's still in control and you're not gonna lose lucidity I really hope this makes sense because that's quite a it's quite a hard feeling to put into words really But the best way I can think of describing it It's just you're sort of floating above the dream character looking down on yourself having the dream Instead of seeing the dream through the dream character's eyes and getting caught up with what the dream character sees and experiences I hope this makes sense Done. 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