I found the best method that started me off lucid dreaming was to simply think alot about being lucid during the day, read the forums often and also to do reality checks every now and again saying things like "Am i dreaming".. Dont just say it though, actually look around and think about it. I used to try and change the colour of something like a wall.
When its on your mind to do reality checks you will eventually do one in a dream and you should become lucid (if you realise).
Good luck anyway.
About the reality check: if you feel the need to check, no need to. You are dreaming.
Ah,
By "when its on your mind" i meant when it gets to be habit. not when you think you might be dreaming.
ok cool, so aside from actin like a nutter, and pinching myself in the middle of lunch. LOL not to slight your technique because I'm going to start doing it. But isn't there some technique to flow into your dreams while still concious? like literally being lucid and entering a dream? or is the only way some fluke of realizing you are dreaming. Isn't there an unfailable method that can be used on a daily basis to have lucid dreams?
Be well,
J
Yes, WILDs (Wake Induced Lucide Dreams)...
Or just check some Astral Projection technics posted on the forum and give them a try...
Or, to make it "simple", let your body relax and fall asleep but keep your mind awake...
Ok thanks for your input.
I think I will try to dream while awake. Have any of you ever created a scenario or a visuaalization of a place or event and placed yourself into it, and then drifted off to sleep? I assume that you would move seemlessly into that created scenario as a launching point into your dreams. Doing this lucidly however...
Be well,
J
I did something like that I think. I was letting myself daydream a bit... when, as I was walking down a street (daydreaming), suddenly the whole street became "3D" (when I daydream, it usualy looks flat/2D). At this point, it was like a normal lucid dream. But one could argue that daydreaming is a loss of lucidity...
A funny exercise is to lie down or sit and visualize yourself getting up from wherever you are and going for an imaginary walk in your house, then in your neighborhood. Visualize the scene as you would see it with your eyes. Use all your senses; touch things, listen to noises, etc... Try it and see how far you can go until your mind is brought back to where you really are. When it happens, you have to start over.
There is also a nice website you may want to explore on lucid dreaming. The link is as follows: http://www.lucidity.com/
Very best,
I made a computer program for this type of thing. just every five minutes or so it would beep . then this would slightly disturb my sleep enough to jump me into remembering dreams and entering lucidity.
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Have any of you ever created a scenario or a visuaalization of a place or event and placed yourself into it, and then drifted off to sleep? I assume that you would move seemlessly into that created scenario as a launching point into your dreams. Doing this lucidly however...
Be well,
J
Yes. It's great.
I'm not sure if I posted about it... but I'll tell you that the only way it works is when you're involved in an abnormally long dream that is in the process of ending, and you know it's ending, and when you "wake up" you're just in nothingness, not aware of your body too much, more in tune to what just happened in the dream, and you just... you just lie there and visualize the dream you were just in and feel yourself back in it and eventually you transition back in.
There's no way to describe how to do this, but it feels very natural when you're in such a deep state of relaxation.
I mean I remember one time I was having some cool lucid dreams and I'd wake up every 5 minutes and have to struggle back in, and I knew this wasn't going to last much longer before I couldn't anymore.. but this one time I was sitting there looking at an elevator about to go in it, and I woke up, into blackness... so I just envisioned that elevator.. and felt myself back in the dream, and all of a sudden I feel myself kind of fly into the dream and I'm falling, briefly, as if I had jumped from maybe 10 feet up, and as I'm falling all the blackness is filling in like some sort of movie transition and as soon as I hit POOF, vividness, I'm in this whole new world, back where I left off, and people all around me... it's the coolest feeling in the world.
Like plugging into the matrix and all of a sudden you've gone from your room to a world of your creation.
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About the reality check: if you feel the need to check, no need to. You are dreaming.
Aside from when you need to do a reality check because you've had one too many waking dreams that night, you're absolutely right.
Hi all,
I've been having strange violent repeating dreams. I want to become lucid, but I haven't the first clue how to do this. I'm practising to AP, and my dreams are getting vivid and I'm remembering them all. However I'd love a way to snap into conciousness during my dreams and alter events. Can someone help me by giving me the basics of becoming lucid in dreams, exercises, methods, strategies etc. or at least send me to a good link I can read up on it from? Thanks.
Be well,
J