How I escape bad dreams

As an Owl House fan, I appreciate all the references, from Luz and King being in the background and the more subtle light glyph in the background

There is something just so euphoric about seeing King from the Owl House in the background throughout the video as well as other references such as Dana’s social media and Luz sitting next to other cartoon characters it’s just so AHHHH IM SO HAPPY

When I was younger, I was always scared to sleep near a mirror, because I watched a show where someone looked into a mirror and there was an evil version of them, and I was scared it would happen in a nightmare (still kind of scared).
Also top tip for me, when I have a bad dream, I like to turn a light on, because having light stops my brain thinking nightmarish thoughts.

The most terrifying experience with sleep paralysis I've ever had: i had my arm over my face, so I couldn't see what was around me, I could only listen to the horrors beyond my compression that surrounded me... and I haven't slept since

"sometimes your brain is bad at remembering what hands look like"
As an artist that struggles as much with drawing hands as everyone else, YES

"How do you know you're awake right now, and not dreaming?"
"I can tell because everything’s normal, I can't fly, and I have zero control and the future terrifies me"
So now how do you know that we aren't just in a nightmare?

Okay so... my worst nightmares are often about having arguments with my toxic mother. And the worst thing about these nightmares is that they're not exagerations. They were exactly like real arguments with my mother. That shows how nightmarish she is.
I've had a few lucid dreams before but there's always a problem. Each time I try doing something that clashes with what the dream was originally about, I start waking up. I try to stay in the dream but I'm always unsuccessful and I wake up.
I had sleep paralysis a few months ago too. When I woke up, my body felt super heavy and I couldn't move, and I felt like something bad could happen if I tried to force it. So I just let my imagination wander like I often do as my body slowly felt lighter and lighter as time passed until I could move.

I've unconsiously been doing lucid dreaming for almost my whole life. I didn't know it was something other people did. I learn so much from illymations!!!

Illy wearing glasses on her glasses at that therapist scene, its like the glasses are just a special feature of her body

My friend sometimes has the sickest dreams ever, here’s the weirdest one yet:
She said she was going to celebrate christmas in mexico at her worst enemy’s house (we live in europe and her worst enemy is literally her neighbor) and when they arrived they ate burritos with live snails in them. She later saw her enemy had a collection of overweight otters as pets...
*wtf did she smoke*

I still remember my one and only sleep paralysis, I somehow managed to close my eyes so I didn't see anything but I could feel something was in the room with me.
As far as bad dreams go, as a kid I had a lot of them. enough that there was legit lore within them, spanning for years. characters that began haunting me as a 3 year old would do so up until my early teenage years, evolving along the way. I actually finally defeated my dream arch nemesis as a teenager by making lewd remarks at it... weird way to deal with it but it worked, lol.
later in life my dreams have become more of psychological torture than scary monsters.
classics like
-waking up to look at the clock and "realizing" I have "overslept" (not really a proper nightmare but I stress about alarms way too much, to a point where I often hallucinate stuff like this in my dreams)
-the one where right as you fall asleep you fall and rapidly hit the ground (bed), waking up (not really a nightmare, but an annoying quirk non the less, one of the things I'd remove from the human experience, along with that "throwing up a little bit in your mouth every now and then" -feature.)
-teeth falling out in front of the mirror from the lightest touch
- being bitten by dozens of snakes on the ground (I like snakes but I guess there's still the primal fear)
-room/area being very dim or low contrast and turning on the lights don't work or only cause a dim, hollow glow, as you anticipate some unknown force coming to get you
-some artsy horror stuff like a dark figure standing over a frozen lake, under a freezing winter moon and dark sky with a very unsettling "camera angle" (think once used in Ari Aster movies)
among others.
every time I wake up from a nightmare, I curse the fact my mind is so creative at abusing itself while sleeping but during day time, when I could turn that kind of stuff into, I don't know, horror bestsellers, the only thing up there is permanent brain fog, lol.
I have used lucid dreaming to escape nightmares a few times but I've also ruined many cool flying dreams by realizing that I'm dreaming and then loosing the power to do so. must be some kind of an insecurity thing.
Dreams, they are funky.

As a Steven Universe fan, i love the cat hands reference. I suffer from chronic nightmares, thank you for this video.

“Luz id dreaming” could be a cool owl house episode

I had a disturbingly similar dream as a kid, my reflection came out of the mirror and crawled exorcist style towards me (I’ve never seen the exorcist at that point). Needless to say, mirrors and I don’t get along.

I have very frequent lucid dreams, but they’re often sporadic “one and done” scenes or just images. Often after they happen, I wake up and scramble whatever it was into my notes so I don’t forget, because they’re usually somewhat funny. Nightmares on the other hand are another thing, because I rarely remember them. I get flashes of stuff and wake up with this horrible dread and anxiety. It sucks balls tbh

My "worst" dreams are honestly just the ones where I dream I wake up but it's really difficult to open my eyes and then when I finally do I try to wave my hand in front of my face to check if I'm really awake, but I don't see anything. So then I try to wake up for real and once again I realise I'm still dreaming, etc. I always wake up super exhausted after those.
As a kid I used to dream about being naked at school or my teeth falling out very often. Those suck

“Bad girl coven” I love that illy is an toh fan and she sneaks it into her videos

I love how Illy has little references to the owl house, my little poney, pokemon, inside out, and all the little other details I'm her background art. ❤

In my opinion I think in specific people it can happen.
I kept having dream’s about about my house catching on fire one time at 10:30pm I could smell smoke there was smoke downstairs, and we all got out of the house safely this was recent to. I was horrified i still sleep with my door open to my brothers room. My friends mom told me my gramma could have been warning me and I like that idea. Thanks Nanay❤❤❤❤

I heard this fact from a friend, and it made me think. You always wake up after you die in a nightmare because your brain doesn’t know what happens after you die!😮😮

When I found out what lucid dreaming was, I was like “wait, doesn’t everyone do that?” It was quite the revelation to realize I had been lucid dreaming for my ENTIRE life.

Things I’m just now realizing:
-I’ve had sleep paralysis before
-in my dreams, mirrors don’t hold reflections, and for some reason my brain thought this was normal
-the reason I can’t lucid dream usually is because during the day I look around and go “..how do I know this is real?”

Thank you so much for making this video I have always had sleep issues and I am just recently realizing that there might be more to them for example I might “wake up” from a nightmare and see something but not be able to move and when I tell a family member they say “you should of come and got me next time” the thing is I have never been able to put the not moving part into words

Omg illy, I just woke up from an upsetting dream and immediately remembered your video. I looked in a mirror and my face opened up into a trypophobia nightmare 😭 I won't go into more detail but the way i snatched my phone and looked up this video

I've only ever had sleep paralysis once, and I do not wish that crap on my worst enemy. It started with a nightmare where I was shot with a shotgun, point blank, in my chest. I woke up crying in a cold sweat, and realized in that instant that I couldn't move my body. My room was hella dark and almost distorted looking, like it stretched on to eternity in the darkness. Thankfully, I'd read up on how to get yourself out of that state (start at your fingers/toes and concentrate on slowly moving them, work your way up your arms/legs until you regain control), and I got back to normal before I saw anything too traumatizing.

I'm so glad she mentioned about mirrors because here's a fun story:
One time in December I had a dream about my friend, I was sitting in my parent's room and talking to them (in my dream) and they have a massive mirror in their room and I have a habit of glancing into the mirror every time I'm in their room so obviously I did it in my dream but I could see myself perfectly. As if I wasn't dreaming, I wasn't distorted or looking peculiar just my normal self

I love Lucid dreaming! Basically what I do is while I’m about to fall asleep I start to map out what I want my dream to be and start detailing it. After, I start telling myself I will control my dream over and over again. Then while I am dreaming I ask someone for the time and they usually go “I don’t know your dreaming” and that’s when it starts. Unfortunately once I did this and while I was flying in my dream I dived into the floor for fun and instead I got sleep paralysis. Basically everything turned dark and I got scared so I woke up but then my whole body felt tingly and I couldn’t move. Then I noticed this black figure on my ceiling with red eyes staring at me and I couldn’t move to save my butt. It was not fun.

This made me remember the tine i had a pretty weird dream, like, it was pretty... Existencial i guess?
And at some point i looked at a mirror, and the reflexion looked like a weird version of me that made me feel super uneasy and unconfortable. And the character next to me told me that it reflected how my interior was or something, like how my personality was idk, and after he told me i started crying cause the reflection was terrifying lol

I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem with mirrors in dreams. (At least the ones I can remember.) They’ve always been good dreams, not scary.
For example, I remember a dream where I saw Garfield in the mirror instead of myself. And I was just like “Oh okay, I’m Garfield now. Awesome!” :)

The problem with dreams that make it hard to lucid dream that nobody seems to talk about, is memory alteration. Remembering things that never happened. So, anything that would otherwise not be normal would be excused by “oh but I remember this happening so that’s why it exists”
Edit: a lot of people seem to be misinterpreting this for some reason, so what I mean is, the dream will make up memories that never actually happened, and you only know they never actually happened when you wake up because… they never happened!

Ive had so many nightmares where i woke up in my dream then went through a totally normal, if not boring day, then suddenly actually woke up. It created a serious issue with panicking if i start to question whether I'm actually even awake, when i absolutely am.

These videos inspire me
To get up and actually do things because I'm bored and need my own background music or something

I either think what I dream is real or I realize "hey I'm lucid dreaming let's do something fun-" and I wake up. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Big props to Illy and her team for the amount of effort put into this, it’s insane… honestly blows my mind! Also love all the cheeky references hehe

I've had lucid dreams, nightmares, and sleep paralysis before. The lucid dreams are stuck in my head and they were both on very sensitive topics. One of human-ya know and the other about war. In the first one, I was lucid at first until I saw a tiger and then I lost control. In the second I wasn't lucid until I saw the same tiger and I realized that I was in a dream.
I've had multiple sleep paralysis moments. One was when I couldn't move and heard someone banging on my door. In another there were white spiders all over my room, and the next was when someone tried to kill me. The latest one was pretty chill man's black silhouette watching me sleep snd then just walking away. He seemed nice.
The way I find to help me escape sleep paralysis is wiggling my toes. It helps my body wake up and seems to be the only psrt of my body that I can freely move.
My first nightmare the night my grandmother died and I didn't mourn at her funeral, and I was around 9. We were in the house my father grew up in and I went to her room, while my father, mother and aunts were in their room. In that house, which is in village, the two rooms are straight across from each other with just the living room in-between. I went to my grandmother's room and I saw her looking into that old mirror. I tried calling her but she didn't listen. I tried calling my father but he didn't come, even when I told him what I saw. I went back to that room and looked at my grandmother's reflection only to see now facial features on her face. She then turned around, knife in hand, and killed me.
I had others but jeez grandma you don't gotta do me like that.

i don't think that i have ever succesfully lucid dream. to be honest, there even was time in my life when i was scared to sleep because of nightmares. and the thing that scares me is not that my dreams can be scary, it's actually because i can't control them. and i honestly never understood how people are lucid dreaming. i hope it can work out for me too one day

My dreams tend to have a third person perspective and an unclear character design of me (over the last few years i lost weight, gained weight, got darker hair, and changed my glassess frames, so with all the changes i tend to not be a physically existing thing in dreams

That sleep paralysis dream thing was legitimately terrifying, props to you. I’m scared right now and I’m not even dreaming

Love the relatable references all on 1:07. You got a switch, a Wii, TOW, amphibia, shulks sword, stitch, OK.KO, Finn. The list is endless.

I think once I was entering a sleep paralysis but pulled myself out of it.
What happened was I fell asleep and woke up, my eyes were closed but I tried turning and couldn’t move. I heard a man’s voice though and he kept telling me “close your eyes” “don’t let them know you’re awake” “pretend to be asleep”
I slept in my parents room that night

I've had dreams, but I couldn't really "see anything" I just knew deep down what it looked like. I never saw myself in a dream, I was just pretty much blind, and everything was fuzzy, as I relied on my mind to know what it looked like.

I've been trying to wake up sometimes, but I wake up in a dream, or series of dreams. Then the dreams get dark and scarier, even though I know that I shouldn't be asleep anymore, and I wake up in a cold sweat.
That's pretty recent for me.
Other than that, I have vivid, lifelike yet adventurous dreams or even still nightmares.
Unless I'm on my meds at the time, and haven't accidentally skipped them or something. Yes... There are medications that change how dreams affect you.

So one of the weirdest dreams I remember when I was a kid,that I had to get on a hospital bed that they carry you on and It just felt so unreal but It woke me up through,at which I am glad for 🎉. Btw I love your vids lilymation

I love how you were able to perfectly capture the creepiness and surrealness of a nightmare

Great video!!! Too scared to try lucid dreaming but it sounds really interesting 🧐

WOW the background work is incredibel
notes
1. a lucid dream is a dream in which you know that you're dreaming and it is separate from dream control
2. your brain can perfectly render your hands and has no problem remembering what they look like but because people associate their hands in dreams with some sort of visual issue, you can think of it as there are hands sin the dream but there's dream "code" referencing blurry dream hands and as a total the "value" of this hand is that it appears blurry purely because of this association in this case.
3. same for clocks as #2
4. same for mirrors as #2
5. sleep paralysis is a side effect of certain sleep disorders or conditions and most people will either not experience it in their lives or experience it only a few times. if someone struggles with postdormital sleep paralysis then them lucid dreaming or not lucid dreaming does not affect their chances of getting sleep paralysis. what can happen because of an association or a mental link of sorts is that someone can be having a lucid dream and because they believe it can turn into sleep paralysis, they will then have a false awakening and think that they're awake and experiencing sleep paralysis. regular lucid dreams don't really have a risk of turning into sleep paralysis. another thing is, the only constant when it comes to sleep paralysis is not being able to move but you could see nothing, good things, bad things, you could hear stuff, see stuff, feel stuff etc.

tip for stopping nightmares (or dreams i guess): close your eyes. it usually works for me, though i will occasionally only half stop it, making me mostly aware of the real world but unable to interact, while still somewhat aware of and able to interact with the dream world. at this point if it happens, try to move your real body, because the more i think about the real world while dreaming the closer i get to waking up.

I found a way to stop sleep paralysis for me, (it's happened to me a few times) is to really focus on my toes and try to wiggle them. It's the only part of my body I can get unlocked while frozen like that. As soon as I wiggle my toes, I can feel the rest of my body unlock. It is the most bizarre feeling, honestly haha
As far as nightmares, I had one where a monster not unlike your sink one came out of my laptop, and once had a dream where I thought the dog was running by my feet, but when I looked down it was someone/thing trying to snatch me from the shadows. I'm sure there's others, but those are the ones I'm remembering right now.

5:07 *THE BUS ACTUALLY SCARED ME SOMEHOW*

My reacuring nightmare is a bunch of straws all in purfect lines standing straight up then something happens to one and then the others and now there’s a monster. And I wake up crying over freaking straws even thou I love drinking out of straws irl.

5:56 - You are not scary. It’s not scary, it’s beautiful!!

I sometimes practice lucid dreaming too! There’s a whole bunch of other tricks for practicing lucid dreaming, including trying to read, trying to speak another language, asking someone if you’re dreaming to see their reaction, or trying the nearest light switch while expecting it to not work properly (try that last one at your own risk, it can go VERY wrong if you’re unlucky). But my FAVOURITE is to summon someone by thinking of them or calling them, particularly a fictional character.
I had plenty of nightmares as a kid, and these days while I’m not as prone to them, they can be BAD when I get them. So over time especially after getting really into old iconic horror movies, I found a really fun trick for starting to cope with nightmares. I would call for Freddy Krueger. No, really. Imagining a version that was a bit nicer and meant to protect me rather than murder, it was super useful to bring in this perfectly suited dream demon to chase away whatever scary thing was the problem, to the point where he’s gone on to appear during far less lucid dreams. One time I’d been getting chased by an angry mod of some sort only to be picked up by him out of nowhere and carried because I’m terrible at running in dreams. Another time all that was happening was me in some sort of prison school getting bullied by my old teacher, when Freddy shows up behind me, tilts my chair back and immediately tells the teacher to fuck off.
Basically when it comes to the dream demon himself, if you can’t beat them, befriend them. It pays to have something scary on your side.

You know that terrifying noise your phone makes whenever there’s an emergency alert, imagine that, but with sleep paralysis. That’s been my experience whenever I have a really bad nightmare or sleep paralysis.

My dad used to do upsies with me when I was a kid. He always held me, never let go.
Years after I was too big for them, I had a dream where my dad tossed into the air for real and I went really far away from him. I woke up in a cold sweat and my heart was pounding in my chest. 😅

I watched this right before bed thanks 🙏 ❤

No one:
Me: Freaks out every time I see an Owl House reference.

My freakiest dream I ever had was me realizing I was dreaming and trying to wake up. I felt like something was going to get me when I realized I was dreaming. Whenever I tried to wake up I woke up in another dream. Some of those other dreams I couldn’t see well and I could barely move.

Ty for this vid I am now a lucid dreamer and I know how to fly in my dreams and how to wake up during my dream if needed and I love all you vids :))))

When I was a lot younger and i started to get constant nightmares(still do), one person in my nightmare told me to keep saying "wake up" did that and woke up.
Was normal after some point for me to have control over my dreams. I thought it was normal to be honest, until someone in my class said he is trying to learn how to have lucid dreams.
I was pretty much always able to tell when I was dreaming and like I said, at like the age of 6 having lucid dreams.
Also the tips you said, with like looking at your hands/clock/mirror actually don't work for me.
Hands, clocks and mirrors just don't exist in my dreams(but so does water usually).

I have gotten sleep paralysis before. it was really scary because it felt like if I moved, something would kill me. and if I even LOOKED to the left, my body would tense up. I saw this shadowy figure, maybe a bit taller than me, and just kept trying to move until I broke out of it. when i looked at the time, it was 3:53-3:57 in the morning. it is literally so scary 😭

Illy: "I don't think you can go to different dimensions with dreaming"
SEE JAMES??? WAS IT THAT HARD??

I had nightmares a lot too as a kid, it got so bad that I eventually got horrible anxiety at night and had a really hard time falling asleep. I hardly ever got enough sleep as a kid. I also was afraid of the dark for a long time because of this. I still get bad anxiety at night sometimes and I can't sleep in complete darkness or silence. I have lucid dreamt before though, and I hardly ever have nightmares anymore, and definitely not ones as bad as I used to.

I once had a dream where all I can still remember is one single quote, with no context whatsoever.
“Well, you gotta respect the wizard”

OK LADIES GENTS AND NON BINARY FOLKS HERE IS ALL THE CARTOON REFERENCES I COULD FIND (if I missed any lmk)
0:01 Bad Girl Coven poster
0:49 lots of characters on the little island in the back. There's also the calamity box and Journal 3 on the left, along with Stan's mug
1:10 King plush above the bed
3:30 Stan Bobble-Heads, top left
3:43 Dana Terrace's Twitter
5:12 Calamity box again

I tried the mirror thing in a dream once, and my reflection had no eyes or mouth. Literally just skin. The most terrifying thing ever ngl…

Sometimes I am aware of my dreams but my mind is just so tired that it just goes "Eh, oh well" and I'm just that tired that I dont even care if I get scared.

The scariest dream I ever had was that I woke up, I went to school everything was normal but I kept seeing posters around saying wake up and I didn’t know what it meant and then I woke up, went to school and people in lessons started whispering to me to wake up, I woke up and the cycle continued three more times until when I woke up again a shadowy figure was stood over me telling me to wake up and that I needed to “ask Lacey” at th time I didn’t know anyone called lacey but when I actually woke up there was a new girl at school called Lacey and now we’re best friends. Dreams scare me.

I’ve been having lucid dreams lately, but never EVER try the mirror thing. Mirrors terrify me because I feel like something terrifying will look back at me.

I have the oposite of lucid dreaming. When I'm on the toilet I often think: "Soooo, how do you know for sure that you are actually awake. Are you really sure that you're not actually still asleep and peeing your bed right now?"

the answer to number two at 0:19 is 9.
6/2 (1+2)
groupings first, 1+2=3
division second, 6/2=3 (instead of typing the division symbol you can use /)
The blank spot inbetween 6/2 and (1+2) is multipication
so 3x3 is 9.
(sorry for teaching you math while you try to read comments)

I've never thought of dreams being the brain's hard drive defragging process, but I like that analogy XD

Sometimes sleep paralysis is cool. Like sometimes it’s my husband cuddling me too hard or I’m getting buried by puppies. But I think that’s because I’ve worked so hard to identify sleep paralysis and lucid sleep paralysis .
But that makes the demons even scarier. So it’s either puppies or evil nurses.

I learned to lucid dream as a kid. I wet the bed until 12. Eventually I learned to wake up anytime I saw liquid in my dreams. This eventually turned to intentional flying. And of course sleep paralysis. But I also created an escape room because I also have really bad nightmares. If I'm being chased by zombies, or whatever, I imagine a door that opens into a beautiful meadow. Nothing bad EVER happens in this meadow. I spend time building this meadow irl, and try to think about it when I'm going to sleep. There's a tree, golden dust motes, a gentle stream, flowers. Never any scary bugs. Butterflies and fireflies only.

I've had sleep paralysis about twice. If you ever get stuck in the dream for a little while... stay calm. It may be difficult to stay zen, but you need to realize that it's just a dream. Try "taking deep breaths" in your dream or maybe even try closing your eyes in the dream lol

I used to have lots of nightmares back then around when I was 5 or 6 about being in a speeding car and crashing. But I would also have short bursts in my dreams about veeeeery slight visions on what would happen or an alternate thing at any random time in the future! No joke, I still get those… People say it’s probably just déjà vu, but I doubt that personally… Idk though, hindsight is 20/20

Me: “Woah cool! I think I’ll use this to try to lucid dream!”
Illymation: *talks about sleep paralysis*
Me: “…I think I’m good, thanks!”

I always tend to have an easy time identifying when I'm in a dream. Because while I can feel things like I was in reality, there's this distinct floaty feeling I have. I feel like I'm floating and while I can experience pain in my dreams it always feels strangely numbed.
My issue is that after recognizing the floaty feeling and realizing I'm dreaming, my body automatically attempts to wake up fully or I end up feeling uncomfortable and want to roll over so I'll be more comfortable. Rolling over typically wakes me up further.

If the sleep paralysis happened when the whole toxic boyfriend thing was happening/ had recently passed you could’ve had a stress kind of paralysis. I’ve gotten this before when my parents were going through a divorce and it reminded me a lot of what your animated representation looked like. Anyways, stress is actually one of the hugest factors of paralysis and sometimes it represents something. The demon might’ve been your ex boyfriend trying to take control of you and you not being able to do anything about it could’ve represented how you felt during that. I hope this helps or brought you new information and someone found any flaws with this please let me know!

I’m obsessed with cats, and I’ve always wanted to be a cat. So when somebody told me about lucid dreaming and really wanted to try it, it sounded fun you know? They told me the same things that you did to make sure I’m in a dream, look at your hands, look at a clock, or a mirror all that stuff. And I didn’t actually do it, I just somehow recognized I was in a dream, the dream was I was in a classroom with lots of people I didn’t know, when I found out I was in a dream I guess I didn’t remember the part where I could control everything and become a cat like I wanted too. Something I never should have done was say “I know this is a dream.” When I said that the whole classroom went quiet all the their kids turned their heads like owls, then I felt like I started to shrink, it was like you put the fov all the way up, all the kids were warped and tall. The teacher was also looking at me, I heard her heels clank on the floor walking toward me. She said “You aren’t supposed to be here.” And everything went black, a couple seconds later I realized I woke up and had my eyes open, the reason it was black was becuase it was very dark in the room, my phone was next to me so I grabbed it and turned on flash, I looked around the room and in the corner I saw a weird, foggy kind of black tall man, it was blurry and had no face, long arms and long legs, kind of like MR kitty from that one BACKROOMS level. I was so scared. I Immediately turned off the flash and covered myself in my blanket. It has never happened since.

I once had sleep paralysis where I was in my bed and it felt like there was a force pressing me down. I have a very squishy pillow top mattress and a bunch of pillows, so it felt like I was sinking down down down, like there were hands on my shoulder and chest physically pushing me. I couldn't breathe like there was a weight on my chest and felt like I was about to be smothered. I eventually woke up but that's the one time I remember having sleep paralysis. It freaked me out so much that I thought I might be sick or something lmao.
I've also had weirdly 'narrative' dreams if that makes sense? I remember a particularly vivid one about going to the land of the dead and speaking to my mother (who is not dead), asking her to come back with me to the living world and her refusing. It helped me realize that my relationship with my mom was never really ever going to improve because she wasn't willing to put in the work, and therefore our relationship was 'dead', and I had to accept that. I also once had a weird dream where my brother (who is dead) was in my apartment rearranging my things. I got angry and told him off, but when he turned to me we both went quiet and one of us said, "We should probably talk." Then I woke up. I didn't get along with my brother and we had a very bad relationship growing up, and we'd barely started repairing it when he died. we never really got to have a serious talk about what happened between us.
Dreams are weird.

4:14 What you experienced was a False Awakening. Where you think it's real life and you continue your life as usual. So it is recommended to do a Reality Check (look at your hand, count your fingers, try to push your finger through your palm, etc.) when waking up, even when you are sure you're not dreaming. It is a Lucid Dream, but you think it's your daily life.
Also, it is recommended to not look in mirrors during dreams, because you don't know what's in there. Mirrors are strange in dreams, but it is possible to just see your reflection, because whatever is in the mirror it's what you expect there to be. In your case, your mind expected there to be something creepy so unfortunately it became a lucid nightmare, but happily you woke up. :)
Anyways, lucid dreaming is amazing, there are a lot of ups and some downs. But I recommend everyone to try it, because it is more amazing than you think it is.
Thank you for reading this, have an amazing day.

I recently (like in the last few years) found out that I dream differently than others. I'm almost never myself and sometime I'm seeing everything in 3rd person like watching a movie. By dreams can also be narrative heavy and usually tell a story, sometimes with actual narration, too! When I am myself and seeing things through my eyes in dreams, they're usually stress dreams. I've always considered trying lucid dreaming, but I'm scared it will lead to the paralysis issue (I already sleepwalk, also, so who knows what antics I'd get up to).

I remember after watching this vid for the first time, I was having a unsettling dream so I looked at my hands they had three fingers and then the dream was happier so thank you so much :)

I become lucid whenever I have a reoccurring dream. For example:
The starts out in the hallway of a hotel. I see a janitor coming out of a hotel room, which I assume was mine. Once I saw the janitor, I knew he’d chase me.
A gut feeling mixed with the countless dreams I’ve had about similar situations, I suppose.
Even thought I was aware he’d chase me, I still didn’t know it was a dream.
Anyway, the man walked right past me. *This is your chance to run,* I thought.
I ran down the hallway, and found myself at a fork in the road.
I always choose to run to the right, don’t know why.
In front of me is the exit of the hotel, and on the left side of the hallway is an… adoption center?
A second janitor waits at the door, and when I try to run outside, he grabs me.
This part is a bit weird, but every time I have this dream, I kick him in the balls. Then, he drops me.
Anyway, I run out and into my mothers empty car. I get into the backseat.
The first janitor gets into the front seat, and I crawl into the trunk.
A woman comes out of nowhere, and looks at me through the glass of the trunk window.
This is the part of the dream where I became lucid.
I forced myself to wake up.
Every time I have this dream, I just follow the same pattern: Wait, run, right, kick, car, trunk, wake.

Everytime I see owl house things I smile so big that my face doesn't exist anymore it's just a smile!!!! I LOVE THE OWL HOUSE!!!!!

i LOVE the references

I've had dreams that have verbatim played out exactly something that has happened many years later. I'll remember the dream and how it played out and one day I'll be doing my thing and KAPOW. It messes me up some.

Everytime i try that hand thing with lucid dreaming, everything around me turns pitch black for a second and a demonic little figure shows up in front of me and the dream goes back to normal and I'm like, "well I won't do that again" 😃👍🏼

The worst nightmare I've ever had went like this: So, I was at my grandma's house, and everything in the room I was in was fine, the carpet, the desk, the couch- everything, but through the window what should have been a driveway was instead a lawn with a sidewalk curving through it, going back and forth so it covered ~1/2 of the lawn, and here's the scary part; There were these 2 old ladies(?) who wore a ton of shawls and cloaks and scarves so you couldn't see most of their body, and a few times throughout the dream I could see their faces, and I only remember being scared by them, and then at the end of the dream I font remember what happened but I remember screaming with fear from presumably seeing the ladies' faces. Also while I was screaming I remember being embarrassed because I thought the other people in the room would be angry at me for screaming, the people were normal and doing what they would normally do in the real world, but they didn't notice the ladies at all.
Edit: The ladies' clothes were brown and black and maroon and I don't know what could have caused it but I think it was when I was 2-3 so I was pretty young, there wasn't any trauma that I had that could have contributed, at least none that I remember. The room I was in, again, was almost perfect so I was probably at my grandma's house when I had the dream.

Я часто летаю во снах. Как самолётик. Когда я была мелкой, это было легко, но потом с возрастом мне становилось сложнее, потому что я стала сомневаться, что смогу полететь. Зачастую я планирую с окна. Поэтому иногда стою перед окном во сне и думаю: "Нет, спасибо, ещё окажется, что это реальность." - и отхожу. Обычно в моих снах летаю только я. Сегодня мне приснилось, что какой-то ребёнок подлетел к моеиу окну как калибри. Я подхожу к окну и такая: "Что ж детям так легко летать... Хеей, сложно же так часто руками махать, смотри как правильно" привычно оттолкнулась и полетела... головой вниз. Такое уже бывало. Обидно на самом деле

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I believe I’ve had sleep paralysis twice. Once it was just straight up I woke up and couldn’t move at all, I could still talk a little bit though. My mom came into my room to wake me up and I managed to say “Mommy, I can’t move” I was like 10. Second time it happened it was much like yours, desaturated room but I managed to look to my left and see a figure made up of dust particles floating around in the beam of light that comes from my closet (I can’t sleep in complete darkness) I sugar honey iced tea you not I heard a voice say “You’re okay, close your eyes and fall asleep” and I managed to do so. I explained to my family what happened the next day, from then on I kept seeing more and more weird things and I just came to the conclusion of “I have a ghost buddy who’s taking care of me”

Has anyone in their dreams never get the chance to say:
"Is this a dream?"
Or
"I know this is a dream!"

My scariest and most detailed nightmare in a while was basically where me and a bunch of other teens were kidnapped by a monster that looked a lot like Kissy Missy. The conditions were if we did her chores and did them well, we could leave. However, she was really strict and the slightest mistake could provoke her into attacking (I remember being yeeted at her closet for checking my phone.) I was worried about my friends and family, so I tried to escape through a window that turned into a tunnel, but the monster noticed I was gone and dragged me back, and that's when I woke up.
My S/O says that my nightmare probably stems from my perfectionism and fear of getting in trouble, and they have a pretty good point about that, as I've had a borderline phobia of authority figures being disappointed/mad at me for years due to trauma.

A few nights ago, I tried lucid dreaming AND IT WORKED!!! I don't remember all of it but I was proud of myself when I woke up. This video helped because I was having a nightmare and was able to snap out of it

I heard mirrors are a bad idea in dreams because you can see pretty much anything. It can just look weird or so unrecognizable that it comes off as disturbing. Also, with experiences I’ve had in dreams, the scary parts of nightmares are pretty brief and you forget about them or wake in fear. However I have dreams where I was somewhat awake and remembered about something scary that happened in a dream. This scary thing kept coming up because I was paranoid throughout the dream. In dreams your thoughts basically become reality so if I think of something scary it could appear behind me when I turn around moments later. This is one of the risks of lucid dreaming. If you have a nightmare but are aware you are dreaming your entire dream basically becomes a nightmare. Not only is there possibly sleep paralysis, but also lucid nightmares. This is why I have never tried to lucid dream anymore. Sure it’s cool but I think it’s important to know the risks before jumping right into lucid dreaming and is something everyone should know. So by the chance you found this and for some reason read it all, just take into consideration of what I’ve said.

Another thing that helps me is keeping a dream journal. Write down everything you remember from your dream, even if it's short, and dreams will become clearer and sometimes more fun!

my dreams are nearly 99% realistic. it's like real life. hands are the same, reflections are the same, i feel EVERYTHING as i should, all my senses work. sometimes i do realise i'm dreaming though, not sure how.
i do sometimes go back to the same places or even the same dreams and recognise them, i've made a fictional world out of them. honestly i'd suggest writing about dreams more; it's super easy because you're not making anything up, just describing something that happened to you. even if it's in your head.

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I once became lucid in the middle of a Pokemon dream because I really wanted to ride a wailmer and was like "wait... WHY DONT I JUST MAKE ONE APPEAR"