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This week, I don't have a dream to share (not for lack of weird dreams), but I wanted to instead share something I recently figured out.

The other night, while I was lucid dreaming but starting to wake up, I wanted to stay in the dream and see where it went. This is something I do a lot because, honestly, my dreams are wild and I am fascinated. So I've pretty much always know that I could continue my dream if I decided I wanted to, even if I've actually woken up, as long as I can get back to sleep. I've actually shown friends some of my Fitbit sleep tracker readings where you can see me literally go directly from REM sleep > awake for a few minutes > REM sleep immediately.

But this time was different. I didn't just want to stay in the dream, I wanted to remember what happened and how I got to where I was in the dream. SO MY DREAM GAVE ME A RERUN OF THE DREAM SO FAR? I basically re-dreamt the dream leading up to where I was when I started waking up. And I remembered having dreamt it already. It was wild. Will I remember to do this more whilst actually sleeping? Was it even actually a rerun? Who knows 🤷‍♀️ But still...it was cool to me 🙈

Do you have any weird sleep/dream habits or tricks?

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Horpel (Sandra Keßler)

I have often reruns of lucid dreams. It's like navigating the dream and when it's getting way to wild I automatically reset to choose another path. Seems to be a way to process stuff for me as I revisit the same dream often for many consecutive nights until I found an end. Usually this means losing this dream forever.. sometimes for good..

voiceunmuted

That's so cool! Do you choose the path while you're dreaming? I've had reruns/recurring lucid dreams before, but I seem to generally not have a ton of control over my lucid dreams; I know some people do, though!

The Rev

Can't say I have reruns... not that I can remember.. honestly I can't remember the last time I had a dream ... I do know that flying seems to be a recurring thing in my dreams and I seem to have weirdest dreams if I have too much sugar before bed ... I do recall in some lucid dreams when I get to certain point where I want to wake up and having to be very purposeful in thinking to open my eyes to wake up ... have you ever had a dream where technically you are still asleep but you think you wake up ... " waking up in dream" that has happened in lucid dreams for me .... which oddly enough my best friend and I used to do something similar to that as a road trip game ....

voiceunmuted

It's so strange to me that there are so many people who don't have/don't remember having many dreams! Flying does seem like a cool dream...I honestly don't think I've ever had a flying dream 😅I'm too grounded, I guess Kappa Dream-ception! That's wild. I don't think I've had much of that either, though I do know a lot of people who have! For me, I have the dreams where I am genuinely awake enough to be aware of where I am am, my surroundings, and what's going on around me/if people are talking or music is playing etc., but I'm somehow also sleeping and actively dreaming.