I want to be able to Lucid Dream !!!

[Luxy]

Pls share your experiences how you have made it happen for you!

So far, I have managed to remember my last dream easily when i wake up.

[Minerva]

Start to keep a dream journal. That is very important in helping you remember your dreams. As you become more aware of your dreaming, you increase the chance of becoming aware in your dreams.

Next, you need to develop a habit that you don't mind doing in real life during the day that will let you know that you are not dreaming versus when you do. For some people, they pinch themselves. For me, I got into the habit of checking the clock. I would look at the clock, turn away and then look at the clock again to see if it changed. In reality of course, it wouldn't. But in dreams, they do. Once you start doing this habit and also tie in the desire constantly during the day of being aware of not being in a dream and wanting to be lucid, eventually this comes out during your dream.

When I did my habit of looking at the clock and kept trying to be aware during the day that I am not dreaming, when night time came and I had an interesting dream of being in the kitchen with my mom and brother, I instantly remembered to look at the clock. So I did then turned away, and then looked again and notice the clock was different! I then realized instantly in my dream-- I am dreaming!! And then suddenly it is the most amazing thing in the world to realize that you are in a dream! Once that dawned on me, I had fun I turned to my mom and brother in my dream and said, "Oh, you guys must be dream characters. You are not real. You are part of my subconscious." They looked at each other and then back at me in astonishment. It was cool.

Once you become lucid in your dream then you can start to try to control it which I did a few times with wanting to fly in it and changing the dream scene and it was a lot of fun.

Also, when you become lucid, ask for your dream guide
This is a dream character that will be your best friend and obviously part of you and your subconscious. The dream guide is there to help guide you through your lucidity and dream control. When I called upon my dream guide, it was a little girl. I spoke to her asking questions about my subconscious and the dream world and she answered them. She also helped me fly in my dream.

If you really really want to be lucid, you will be because it is that desire that will help you. Now you just have to make it important throughout the real day. Good luck!!

[Kingswood]

I find that sleeping in a new position, at an unfamiliar time for my body causes me to have sleep paralysis.

as for lucid dreaming, i've always been able to remember my dreams vividly for as long as i can recall. so sorry, not much help there in terms of how to make it happen.

but back to sleep paralysis - that's an even better experience. i've been able to teach myself how to bring it on, and gradually i'm starting to control them... so am able to have what i call out of body experiences.

[AngelPsychic444]

I think minerva gave you some great advice there Luxy, the only thing I can add is, that when you wish to develop a new skill and this can be any skill, even lucid dreaming, it might help to write down 20 times a day an affirmation like "I now can easily lucid dream" or something like that. Pick an affirmation that means alot to you or makes you feel as if it would work really well.

Keep writing it 20 times a day... everyday, no day's off, for at least a month. Things will start to happen for you soon enough.

[curiouslyrandom]

Do you meditate regularly? I do, and have done quite a lot of hypnotherapy over the years, so for me, the lucid state isn't ever that far off. I learned the fundamentals of lucid dreaming when I was probably 7 or 8 years old, and continue to lucid dream, although I rarely try to do it intentionally these days. I use meditation and hypnosis instead, and keep several dream journals.

[mrthejazz]

This is a goal for me too. I'm not there yet. For the longest time, I've been unable to remember my dreams, but recently, I've "learned" how to better remember them, but I'm still not there yet.

One book I read suggested that you pay attention to common things that happen in your dreams, common themes or things that happen in your dreams over and over, that would tip you off to it being a dream. These are called dreamsigns.

For example, I've learned that some of my dreamsigns include reusing settings from my childhood, like my parent's house, my best friend's house, etc. or an irrational fear of authority figures. If an authority figure started doing something to me that borderlined on the ridiculous, I would seriously start to question if I was dreaming. The more you write about your dreams, the more dreamsigns you can find.

The more dreamsigns you know of, the more likely they'll tip you off as dreaming. Maybe get your own personal "totem" would help too, something you can hang on your neck or your wrist when you fall asleep. If it's there in your dream and you can alter it, you know you're dreaming.

[HiImJeremy]

This is something i am actually in the process of starting.

Use a regular occurence as a 'indicator' to do a reality check.

Every time you see a:

• A clock
• Eat food
• Have a drink
• Notice your hands
• go to the toilet

i would do a reality check

Easy things. Ask yourself if

• The situation you're in is normal
• The surroundings are normal
• Your hands are melted, stretched or otherwise distorted
• you can fly, float or levitate
• Can you put your hands through the walls

Do this every time you see or perform one of those indicators. Once it becomes a habit, it will become a habit while you're dreaming and you'll be able to come out into it.

Also keeping a dream journal is helpful. Make sure when you wake up have key words straight away. Say them out loud. When you voice them they seem to stick in your mind. Just key words, jot them down. Then if you can remember more, go into a little more detail.

Last night i had a dream of a kidnapped girl being found. When mum woke me up early this morning i told her about and, and she told me on the news a girl had just been found, but she was gassed to death in the car with your father.

Dreams are fascinating. I've also noticed that when i wake up, i recognise that i was conscious in a dream, but i wasn't totally lucid. It was almost as if i was on the brink.

Anyway, hope that helps.

[JoePike]

All great advice everyone! As far as common themes that happen in my dreams - I've noticed in 3 separate dreams lately I've been in airplanes. I don't fly in real life very often, so that's a great idea to relate being in a plane with dreaming.

When I remember, I also use a reality check with doorways. We walk through so many doorways throughout the day that it would be easy to tap the side of a doorway as you walk through and think 'Am I dreaming?' But yeah, remembering to do it every time is the challenge, so that it becomes a habit that transfers over to the dream world.

I also really like the idea of checking out clocks during the day to look for changes when you glance back.

[Minerva]

Originally Posted by JoePike

All great advice everyone! As far as common themes that happen in my dreams - I've noticed in 3 separate dreams lately I've been in airplanes. I don't fly in real life very often, so that's a great idea to relate being in a plane with dreaming.

When I remember, I also use a reality check with doorways. We walk through so many doorways throughout the day that it would be easy to tap the side of a doorway as you walk through and think 'Am I dreaming?' But yeah, remembering to do it every time is the challenge, so that it becomes a habit that transfers over to the dream world.

I also really like the idea of checking out clocks during the day to look for changes when you glance back.

I know the clock thing is a great idea!
I also notice that I am better at lucidity in the morning hours after I have gotten plenty of sleep.

[drax]

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