How can I lucid dream?!??

[Sethwilliam]

I've read plenty of things about lucid dreaming and astral projection (which is the long term goal) i started trying 3 days ago. I kept a dream journal but only remembered barely anything from my dreams let alone be lucid in one. I've tried reality checks (I plug my nose under doorways to see if I can breathe) but still no success, today is day 3 and I didn't even remember anything from my dreams. I've tried repeating to myself "I will lucid dream tonight" as I go to sleep. Can anyone help me plz?

[Lionheart]

 Hello, I'm sorry but 3 days of attempting something profound like this isn't a lot of time.

But, you should at least be experiencing something different. If only mere scraps of memory form your night's Dreams.

I say to myself every night when I close my eyes and have been for the last year and half "By my act of will, I RELEASE my focus over my physical body. PLEASE TAKE ME to your desired destination. SHOW ME what I need to SEE. TEACH ME what I need to LEARN. AWAKEN ME in my Dreams with FULL CONSCIOUS AWARENESS, so I may LEARN FROM and ENJOY them, so I may REMEMBER them".

I visualize the capitalized letters as fading into the dark abyss before my eyes. I use this Brain Entrainment every night, no matter how tired I may be.

Immediately after you awaken, grab your Dream Journal and try to remember anything. It doesn't matter if it's just a color or symbol. You will see the more you do this, the better your memory gets. You only have about 20 seconds at first, so be quick. Do not put it off until you use the bathroom, as I know is very easy to do.

This is your new instrument. Now practice and learn how to play it! 

[Sethwilliam]

Ok so dream journal and reality checks and telling myself somthing before bed. So do I keep doing this until I fall asleep or just until I get it in my head?i

[Lionheart]

So do I keep doing this until I fall asleep or just until I get it in my head?i

They are both the "same difference".

I say my saying before I go to sleep and then just go to sleep. I find if I keep doing it until I find to sleep that I put my self into Phasing mode and start noticing.

There is a time to sleep and a time to Phase and to be successful you need to separate the two of them! 

[Bedeekin]

Try setting your alarm clock an hour and a half before you have to get up... then just go to sleep.

Waking up in the night or morning and going back to sleep improves your chance of not remembering a dream, but experiencing it. Any polyphasic sleep pattern will promote conscious dream experience. You are probably a heavy sleeper and drift all night through your dreams without becoming conscious of them.

If you accidentally fall asleep before you go to bed and then go to bed, you would also get a conscious dream.

Couple this physical exercise with affirmation and you will be flying.

[Sethwilliam]

Oh yeah I am a heavy sleeper.  I set my alarm clock for 4:am this morning them went back to sleep and I did have a dream but all I remember was somthing about a castle that had fires burning around it and some soldiers that told me to do somthing :p. anyways ill Judy practive 1. Dream journal 2. Reality checks 3. Waking up early then sleeping again 4. Tellingyself I will remember my dreams.   Anything else that would help?

[Dreamshards]

Intention is the biggest tool for me. I don't tell myself to lucid dream, I know I will. I also love to focus on at what point I became lucid in the dream. Did I go into the dream knowing I was dreaming or was there a turning point with significant information that caused me to become aware.

[Lionheart]

Intention is the biggest tool for me. I don't tell myself to lucid dream, I know I will. I also love to focus on at what point I became lucid in the dream. Did I go into the dream knowing I was dreaming or was there a turning point with significant information that caused me to become aware.

Excellent question Dreamshards. I used to become Lucid in my Dreams during the real action scenes. It was like I was being jolted into awareness by the extremity of the event.

Now I find that I become Lucid much quicker and can change the scene to my liking much faster. But, I still have those nights where I become Lucid in a Dream with a quest or task to accomplish. When I fail, which is what I do quite a bit for some reason, lol, I will immediately find myself starting that Dream sequence over and over again until I get it right. This is what I have labelled as "Re-Scripting". Sometimes the Re-Scripting can happen over many nights. It all depends on how involved the task to be was.

My question in this has always been, right according to who or what rules? 

[roman67]

Everyone has already explained you the methods for getting lucid dream. You can also try WBTB techniques for lucid dream.