Easy Way To Lucid Dream?

[Nay]

Hi there TKnoob, again..[]

Wish I had a dollar for everytime that question as been asked..

I promise if you just read a few posts in the dream forum, you shall find your answer.

I will say a dream journal is a good place to start.[]

Nay

[TKnoob]

sry

[funinfloating111]

dream journals help a great deal, you should spend a few minutes lying in your bed before you wake up and remember as much as possible before you go about your day. good dream recall is very important, its possible to have a lucid dream, and not even remember in the morning. i have had lucid dreams before, and havent remembered them till sometime in late afternoon, and im sure ive had a few that i never remembered []. aside from that you should just get used to thinking about the possiblility of dreaming through out your day, (like saying too yourself "am i dreaming?" even though its obvious your not. remember when you ARE dreaming you think its just as obvious...) and getting in the habit of reality checks help alot i hear, ive never done them though. good luck

[T_Kman0610]

ALright since your new here though i think we should cut ya some slack. My answer to you is the best method for lucid dreaming and most effective way.
alright goto bed for 6 hours.
wake up and stay awake for an hour or until full awake and not groggy or anything.
then goto bed.
do your technique or method of whatever kind to get you in gear.
after some time you should have a lucid dream.
i agree Nay too, dream recall is a very good way for lucid dreaming. It helps in reality checking and dream signs.
Dont rush your self into doing this either, just go with the flow. Do some reality checks about everymorning, afternoon and night.

i hope this helped, T_Kman0610[]

[The AlphaOmega]

Well, um, I think you just gotta want it.  It's good to use excercises (like looking at your hands periodically throughout the day) to get your brain accustomed.  But honestly, lucid dreams are fairly random.  Once you have one you know the feeling and how it all works.  But it's quite hard to make them come at will.  I've found that subliminally is an effective way.  Such as saying things over and over before you go to sleep about having lucid dreams.  Recently I have been trying a new technique that has had some success, but it's not as easy as it sounds.  It's all about the hands.  For reasons beyond anyones understanding, when you look at your hands in your dreams they melt away... and once they melt for some reason your mind says to itself "hey, that's not normal, I must be dreaming".  Why it doesnt do that when a purple talking panther walks by is beyond me, but it's the way it goes.  So here's how it works.  Concentration is much easier when you are not in your sleeping position.  I sleep on my side, so as long as I am on my back I will stay concious.  So, find a position that is not comfortable for you to sleep in during this excersize.  By the way, how exactly do you spell excersize?  Anyways... while in that position simply try to drift off to sleep.  Sounds easy, but the unnatural position will make it somewhat of a lengthy process.  Now, you know when you drift to sleep and you start imagining all kinds of things and scenerios and fantasies, etc?  This is the point at which the mind drifts into sleep.  When in the state and, well, I guess you could call it day dreaming (only you're trying to sleep) imagine yourself looking at your hands in the day dream.  If for some reason, before you drift off to sleep you think about yourself as some character in a story or something (just an example), pause and look at your hands AS THE CHARACTER.  This can be difficult because A- You dont really think about it, and B- When you do think about it you tend to come back to reality.  Just relax and imagine the character you are looking at his/her hands.  In doing so you're much more likely to look at your hands in the dream, and become lucid.  I know it's confusing, and belief me it's hard to explain because it's still in the wood works, but it's the best I could do.  Good luck!

[Rakon]

quote:
Do some reality checks about everymorning, afternoon and night.

That would be about 3-10 reality checks every day, right? I don't know, maybe it's enough for other people... I do about a hundred reality checks every day just to make sure I will have a lucid dream. It sometimes feels like I'm overdoing it, but I think I can't do too many.


TKnoob, you should program your mind with a trigger to make you realise you are dreaming. Do reality checks, but assign them to a certain action. For example, every time you drink, do a reality check. Or you can use any action you often do. If you smoke a lot, you should do a reality check every time you have a cigarette. Eventually, it will become more diffucult not to do a reality check than to do one, because you will create a habit. So, when you sleep, there is a certain chance that you will have a cigarette in your dream. If you do, you will automatically do a reality check and become lucid.

You can also increase the chances of having a lucid dream by telling affirmations to yourself before going to sleep like:
"I will remember to do a reality check."
"The next thing I see when I open my eyes again should be my room, if it isn't - I'm dreaming. (my favorite)"
Say your affirmation about 20 times before you sleep, and really MEAN IT. Concentrate on the meaning of your affirmation. Don't just rattle it off like a parrot.
It sounded pretty stupid to me that saying affirmations is any good (come to think of it, anything that includes talking to yourself sounds pretty stupid to me), but affirmations really increase the chances of having a LD.

The next important thing is to remember the dream. It can be very frustrating doing reality checks all the time, thinking you are just incapable of having a LD, while you are actually having them, but simply don't remember them. Just spend 5 minutes every morning trying to remember your dream. Really put all your will into it. More than a dosen times all I remembered of a dream was 0.1 second of it, and I recovered the rest of the memory, detail by detail, putting great effort in it. After it I felt somewhat exhausted, much like I was having physical excersise. But things like that greatly improve your dream memory. It won't be long before you can recall most of your dreams. After you remember a dream, write it down, dream memories tend to vanish rapidly.

If you all of these things every day, and put some effort in it, I say you should have a lucid dream within a week or two.

[Sampson]

A method I use for inducing lucid dreams is 'Dream incubation'; I would explain the technique as a kind of visual affirmation.

My method is as follows:

For the day/s leading up to when I want to have a Lucid dream I will visualise, think, focus, and concentrate about a person who I know appears in my dreams regularly, if you keep a regularly updated dream journal you will have a good record of characters who appear in your dreams often.

I also regularly visualise that the first sentence this person will speak in my dream will be to tell me something along the lines of "Hey your dreaming" or "Remember, I'm here to make you Lucid" you can even program this character in your visualisation to repeat the phrase until you are lucid if you wish.

Before I tried using dream characters as my prompt to go Lucid I experimented with inanimate object's for prompts such as 'When I see/interact with a red car' or 'When I see/eat an apple'.
The success rate here was not so good as I usually just ended up interacting with the object and having a slightly more conscious dream than I would have had without any prompt at all.

I find it much more difficult to ignore or overlook somebody you know or recognise speaking with you face to face reminding you that you are dreaming!  

[BlackTalon]

Do you dream before you actually fall asleep?...sounds kinda weird but sometimes when i'm falling asleep i'll catch myself, i'll be looking at a beautifull mountain, filled with detail and colour then i'll realize it and it will fade. I've got into this state a few times while resting but it seems to escape me lately. 3 times I cought myself looking up at the clouds, and another I was looking up into light and I was in like a well....weird thing is is I know i'm not sleeping yet but the images are so detailed i'm not sure what to make of it but...first time It happened as I was falling asleep i pictured myself ( kinda like what was described above ) as a character in a scene...I'm gonna try tonight i think i was just pulling out odd images in my mind then i'd try to visualize them in great detail as if I was looking at them in real life.

[Kazbadan]

Maybe you are having:
- an obe/astral projection
- an hypnogogic hallucination
- remote viewing

Try to investigate more your visions.

Its probable that its hallcuinations (not harmful, normal to some people in sleep stage).

I had some halucinations from times to times. One of them its strange because i am not shure if it is remote viewing or just hallucination: i start see things through my eyelids! And many times that view its accurate. At 4-5 days ago i was seeing trough my eyelids and i didnt realise that i was doing that. Suddenly i opened but it was like if they were never closed. The only difference was the colour since my room was more dark a little (it was morning) and with my strange view i had more light (supernnatural, like fosforescent light).

Exception to that difference, evertything was in the exact place as if i never had my eyes closed.

At some years agor i sleep in the same room as my bro. I was almost sleeping but i didnt noticed that the room was dark. Well, my brother entered the room, for sleeping, much more later than me. When he does that, entering the dark room in wch we sleep, i saw him normally. I saw him moving, etc,etc but i noticed that my view was very strange (the yellow light that i spoke above). Then i realized that i was with my eyes closed.

I opened it and thenm i saw everything dark! Turn on the light and cinfirmed that my bro was just arrived and was entering in the bed as i saw him with my "view".


Many times i think that i dont have any powers that psi powers are not for me, etc,etc. But when i think in this "little" things ( i have some of them in my life) i realise that maybe me, and many other normal people, have powers that we dont know...

[BlackTalon]

Yeah it's all interesting stuff. I tried lastnight...pictured being on a mountain sitting beside a stream and tried to look around as if i was there...only once i got a flash of looking into the riverbed that was very vivid...and the next flash was like the top of a bunch of black umbrellas that had weird indents on the top....the odd thing about those images is that i feel a sort of shock...im not sure if the shock is due to me noticing these images or it happens as i have them. Only thing i could think of is an electrical current going through the brain...i've felt shock feelings like that in meditation when i feel like i'm going through stages but other than that i haven't got the slightest.

[TKnoob]

I was wondering is there an easy way to lucid dream?