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Great to see Dr Walker discuss lucid dreaming. It's a genuinely wonderful subject worth of more rational discussion, all too often hijacked by the woo crowd. It's good to see some clarity and sanity on the subject for a change. Dr Walker or Tim, if you'd like to learn how to lucid dream (from a rational evidence based perspective), I'd be happy to help -- just reach out.

Lucid dreaming is the most underrated thing in the world. You get to live out any fantasy you want and even though you know it isn't actually happening it feels very real. You can do pretty much anything you can imagine. Not only that but the benefits it provides can help with pretty much all areas in life. Even some inventions and scientific theories come from dreams

I began lucid dreaming spontaneously as a child, during a nightmare in which I recognized the hoof beats of the approaching horse were actually my own heart beats. Never had a nightmare after that. Can't control my dreams exactly, but I can leave them, and return to favorite "places".

Taking to flight is my go to proof of the dream scape once gaining lucidity

Joe Rogan needs a podcast dedicated to someone who is a specialist at lucid dreaming 🔥

I've read the eye opening "Why We Sleep" by Dr Walker and would highly recommend it. I came to this video via Daniel Love's channel

It's rare, but I lucid dream on occasion. In the last one I was driving my car down a well known road and I started to lay the road in front of me as I drove, taking short cuts across the fields and through the woods. It's great. I sometimes begin by viewing the dream, as if in a cinema, and then meld into it. I'm well aware it's a dream, and usually feel elated at this realisation.

I accidentally learned to control my nightmares with lucid dreaming. it doesnt work all the time, but I am getting better at it :)

I Enjoyed this video Tim so Thank you, as I also enjoyed reading Dr Mathew walkers book why we sleep. I’m grateful to Daniel love whose channel is Lucid dream portal for sending me a link to this video. To anyone who wants to learn to lucidly dream a good place to start would be Daniel loves channel Lucid dream portal. Thanks again Tim

So, FYI - at around 11' Dr. Walker describes a lucid dream technique called "MILD" - -but he describes it incorrectly. MILD was developed by Dr. Stephen LaBerge in the 1980s. It is not simply repeating every night, "Tonight I am going to be awake in my dreams." First, to do MILD, you need to be able to remember your dreams. I use an iPad so i can type with my eyes closed (much easier to remember dreams that way). Within about 2 weeks, you are likely to be remembering at least one, maybe more dreams every night. At this point you're ready to practice MILD. 1. You've woken up out of a particularly vivid (non lucid) dream. 2. Record the dream, then as you lie down to go back to sleep, go over the dream again and again, seeing it in as many details (visual, auditory, tactile, etc) as possible. 3. NOW is the crucial part - feel as if you are in the dream and you are lucid - that is, you're fully aware you're dreaming. 4. Finally, affirm that when you go back to sleep, you will have this dream again only this time you're lucid. Also he says Reality Checks have greater statistical validity. It's been a few years since I checked, but as far as I'm aware, there's considerably more statistical evidence for the efficacy of MILD than for Reality checks. By the way, my favorite technique is WILD - "Waking induced lucid dreams." I did research some years ago using music i composed, to help people maintain awareness from waking directly into dreaming. The key is hypnagogic imagery. If you're good at noticing the psychedelic imagery that occurs to EVERYBODY every night before sleep - but which most are not aware of - then this could be the technique for you. The key I've found is yoga nidra - if you can memorize a sequence, you can get to the point where you know almost exactly when your brain is shifting from beta to alpha to theta waves, at which point the imagery will be so vivid it will be as if you're observing a fully 3D immersive dream environment. I've trained many people to do this, but the next step is the one neither I nor most people have mastered - you're LOOKING at the dream environment then you have to somehow FEEL yourself moving OUT of your body INTO the dream. The first person who finds a way to teach this reliably will be a trillionaire Nobel Prize winner and this will usher in a medical, psychotherapeutic and overall scientific revolution that will dwarf all others.

I mastered lucid dreaming, had it down to a science on how to do it. It was accompanied by exploding head syndrome. I could notice right as I was falling asleep and I would pay attention without disturbing my body and there i was asleep but still concious , it was so freaking awesome!!!! I can't relax enough to do it anymore and no exploding head syndrome😞

Had an experience last night where I was not fully asleep but experienced rapid eye movement and could semi control the hallucinations I was experiencing. I was definitely not asleep and was using my thumb and index to check if I was in base reality. I’ve never experienced anything like this but this has occurred the day of some overcoming of some things. My routine was a bit different due to this and I was way more relaxed. So again I had a great degree of control over physical and visual hallucinations whilst I was fully aware I was lying in my bed and felt those sensations in my body. Wow Looking forward to exploring this more

I once had a lucid dream and I flew in my dream which was alot of fun

Lucid dreaming is one of the most interesting subjects on Earth.

I love lucid dreaming

What I question about Lucid Dreaming is why many of my dream characters choose to try to fool me as I am becoming lucid. Often when I ask dream characters, "If this Is a dream," they go silent, smirk, or carry on trying to convince me that it isn't a dream. My own mind fooling my mind, a brain playing games with itself. There's something magnificent about lucid dreaming that remains unknown.

Johnny Knoxville kicking himself he didn't study sleep science.

It's important to realize, everything and everybody in a dream are (familiar or not) representative's of your imagination. An actor of sorts.

From Steven Summer of the Blakes 7 Obsession story. Surprised that he says lucid dreaming was proven and accepted by science as far back as the 1960s, because I myself and many others faced a wall of disbelief. I felt like I was accused of being a bare faced lying about lucid dreaming,, and synesthesia. I am synesthete as well. I can only lucid dream about twice a year, and find it exceptioally difficult to go lucid in dreams. I have carried out some experimental lucid dreams. You can go into a room within lucid state, and it is night time, and you can switch a living room light off. I wont tell what happens here for fear of ruining future experiments on this. They say you cannot write in lucid, because it is suppose dto activate the language center of the the brain and take you out of lucid state right away. Well this is totall bullshit. Several times I have got a pen and written a full page in lucid state. Clouds move in lucid state, and the second hand on a clock or watch does go around at what seems like a normal pace. In lucid I once sat in a barbarshop chair, had a haircut, and when the haircut was finished, the barbar held up a mirror, and I saw the back of my head. If you play chess in a lucid dream your opponent often wins, and you think this is my bloody dream, AND it's lucid, how come that other guy beats me at chess!! You can't predict the moves of your chess opponent, which I thought was kind of interesting. By far I didn't think lucid dreaming was the best ability I had, if you can call it an ability, especially only being able to do it about twice a year. The absolute crem de le crem was maladaptive dreaming., which I think I might have once had possibly world class ability at. When I was a bout four and five I saw figures that were completely black, and I came to regard them as shadow peopl,e I took to calling them shadow peopl,e because they were just like three dimensional shadows. I just thought everybody could see these things, because I was five. I asked my mum, are there people who are just completely black? My mum said yes. I said I think black people are quite scray, I don't like the black people. I got told off, she said that was a very naughty thing to say. I think she thought I was talking about mor ehuman black people, and I was being racist. Having been told off, I tried to think of these shadow people more positively although they seemed a bit scary. So I smiled at them and tried to be kind to them, more friendly, and the shadow people seemed to behave much more nicely to me, becoming kind of imaginary friends I suppose. Maybe some kids were desribed as solitary, but I was hyper solitary, the one in hundred thousand kids who were hyper solitary, I absolutely spend lots of time alone NOT playing with any other kids. At six and seven I was seeing hazy figure, coboys and indians. This was pretty bloody fantastic for a kid, and it gradually dawned on me I some kind vountary control over this. I could summon up Robin Hood and Captain Scarlet. In 1978 I saw the first episode of tv sci fi series Blakes 7, and decided that was the greatest thing ever. I decided to live as much as much as possible, and that is all told in the Blakes 7 Obsession story. you tell some people about the Blakes 7 Obsession, and they oh I had a fave tv series, I used to pretend some wooden boxes were German tanks or something. I don't think they get that I was actually hallucinating it all, and was also dangerously near having a split personality. I lost much of my ability to maladaptive dream after the age of fourteen.

Kratom makes me luzid dream pretty frequently

I lucid dream every night but I'm scared to go to my doctor.

Would be interested to see Tim have Catherine Shainberg on - she is the author of "Kaballah and the Power of Dreaming"

When u wake up in the morning Watch a video on what u want to dream about and go back to sleep Your welcome