When I was around 7–9, I had serious sleepwalking issues.
Not just the usual stuff, it was full on horror movie type stuff.
One time, my mom told me I walked downstairs in the middle of the night to where my cousins lived.
I just stood there silently and then walked away.
No one knew where I went.
Another time I randomly started screaming at night so my parents came in thinking something happened… but I was just standing there like nothing was wrong 😭
This weird stuff kept happening.
And my dreams were also weird.
Demonic.
Gothic.
Forests with shadows, creepy figures, unnatural things moving around.
It felt like some cursed movie.
I would wake up full in sweat, heart beating like crazy.
At one point I thought ; “What if I could just know I’m dreaming?”
If I knew it was a dream, I wouldnt be scared.
Just In a dumber childish way.
Didnt fully work at first, but strangely… after that thought the sleepwalking stopped.
Fast forward a few years.
Im 16, not to much into self-improvement yet.
One day I discovered lucid dreaming.
The idea of controlling my dreams sounded crazy.
I got obsessed.
Doing reality checks 30 times a day, watching every video, reading every post, journaling every dream.
Then, it happened.
My first lucid dream.
Short but real.
I was next to my bed.
I realized I was dreaming.
Tried to move, felt super weak.
Fell, and woke up.
And than next night, second lucid dream.
This one was wild.
I’m in my room again, and I just super jump through my roof like I’m Superman.
City looks just like mine.
NPCs walking around.
I fly to a real barber I know and get a buzz cut.
Then I start swinging like Spider Man through the city.
Woke up instantly, shocked.
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Lucid dreams say more about you than you think.
1.The fears you dont talk about.
2.The stuff you secretly want.
3.The person you actually are when no one is watching.
I realized this after my second lucid dream.
I wasn’t in some fantasy world.
I was in my city.
I flew, changed my haircut, had Spider Man powers… it was chaotic, fun, real.
But after diving deeper into psychology, thats when I figured it out.
The dream wasnt just random.
It was showing me exactly who I was and what I truly craved.
I wanted control.
I wanted power.
I wanted validation.
I was chasing freedom because, deep down, I always felt trapped, weak, out of place, overlooked.
Lucid dreaming exposed the parts of me I never said out loud.
And thats when I understood:
-Your dreams dont lie.
You do.
Last words :
Lucid dreaming made me realize how powerful the mind is.
It turned sleep from chaos into something I could explore every night.
I could face my fears.
I could literally do anything.
Honestly, I think lucid dreaming is underrated in the self-improvement space.
Everyone talks about gym, money, discipline, meditation...
But this?
You can train your mind, practice skills, visualize your goals, and confront your deepest fears while your asleep and it’s so much FUN.
I hope someone reading this tries it out.
It might just change how you see everything.
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