Thread: Does the environment you sleep in effect anything?

It does.

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Originally Posted by Goldy

I've ever only had 2 lucid dreams. The first was only for a few seconds and it was all black. The second was very real and I was in control of myself and was able to walk around and change the environments suddenly. I have not really been "training" though. I do maybe 2-3 reality checks per day and had never done a dream journal in my life. But both times I went lucid, I was in my sleep camp at my camp in the same bed. Does where I sleep have anything to do with me becoming lucid?

Well if you had lucid dreamed in that same environment, then where your sleeping isn't the problem. The problem is that you're not training.

I WILD a lot, and almost all of the time I enter the dream laying down in my bed in the room I fell asleep in. I don't think that has ever NOT happened, actually. Sometimes when I open the door the rest of the place will be different, though. Or I just hop out the window and fly away

I lot of people believe that they are more likely to DILD if they sleep somewhere other than their own bed. I have even heard of people who will move to their couch after a WBTB to increase their chances of getting lucid. They theorize that it has to do with not sleeping as deeply as usual. Personally I have never noticed an effect.

I don't think some of you understand my question.

Well if you had lucid dreamed in that same environment, then where your sleeping isn't the problem. The problem is that you're not training.

There is no problem at all. I'm just wondering if the place you go to bed in has anything to do with the frequency or anything at all with going lucid. Wether it be aiding or preventing. I am starting my training tonight by the way .

I WILD a lot, and almost all of the time I enter the dream laying down in my bed in the room I fell asleep in. I don't think that has ever NOT happened, actually. Sometimes when I open the door the rest of the place will be different, though. Or I just hop out the window and fly away

As I stated above, my question was does the environment you go to sleep in, as in what bed you sleep in, have anything to do with the frequency of lucid dreams, wether it be aiding or preventing them. But now that you mention it, I now remember that my dream did start with me waking in my sleep cabin and continued outside which was also how it was in real life.

This actually leads me to another question, when ever I have more lucid dreams, will I always wake up in the place I went to bed in, like a friends place, an airplane or my bedroom? Or will I always wake up in my sleep camp because that's where my first lucid experience was?

Oops, I guess I only saw the title of your post (Does the environment you sleep in effect anything?) so that's why I answered the way I did. I don't know if where you sleep influences chance at lucidity, but I would assume it does somehow (if you are too comfortable, maybe you will sleep deeper and therefore not have as much REM sleep, which is when dreams take place?).

Originally Posted by Goldy

This actually leads me to another question, when ever I have more lucid dreams, will I always wake up in the place I went to bed in, like a friends place, an airplane or my bedroom? Or will I always wake up in my sleep camp because that's where my first lucid experience was?

As to the second question, it really depends on what type of lucid dream it is. A WILD (wake induced lucid dream) has a good chance of starting off in the place you went to sleep. This is because, I'm guessing, you are fully conscious from the time you get in bed until you enter the dream, so it's easiest for your brain to imagine you're still there. However, many people are able to form the world around them into something different as you enter the dream. Almost all of my WILDs start off in the room I went to sleep in (oddly enough, except for the first one I had).

But a WILD is just one type of lucid dream. I don't see any reason why you would always start off in the same place in all types of lucids; I have never heard of anything like this. A common type of lucid dream is a DILD - dream induced lucid dream. This is where you realize you are dreaming while the dream is taking place, and, unless every single dream you have takes place in your room and only your room, you could be any place imaginable when you turn lucid.

If you're just starting out with lucid dreaming, you might want to go here and check out all the tutorials on the different techniques for inducing a lucid dream and pick one to work on that suits you best.

Good luck!

hey,
the topic caught my eye and i had to check it out
i've been lucid dreaming for my whole life and i'm glad i came across this because personally where i sleep drastically effects what kind of dreams i have and how deep/meaningful/powerful they are. it also increases my chance of going lucid a large amount. i believe that every place you sleep in has some form of energy surrounding it and i think maybe sub-conscious senses pick up on it.. also a simple example of what i'm trying to say.. maybe you end up sleeping somewhere that has a smell that reminds you of something like an old home you grew up in, this could just easily trigger certain dreams that you wouldn't normally have (perhaps about the old home) just due to association. if you think of that on a more complex level.. there could be so many things going on that were just not aware of.

but i digress

lol, I've also become sensitive to who I sleep around, or even in the room next to me or in the same house. i definitely believe peoples aura's can affect your dreams. if people can affect you when your awake, it's not too far off for them to able to when your asleep.

anyhow, I hope my experiences help answer your questions!

For me it does. When I'm not sleeping in my own bed I seem to have more lucids. And when I have a False Awakening I'd still wake up in my own bed so that's a really good dream sign too.