Alternative technique

[ASTGERARD]

im still attempting to have an OBE, so far ive managed to induce weird sensations though yet they pass with no OBE.
and the sensations i experience put my "brain" in a hyperactive state, after falling unusually and gravely ill the only cause i could contribute it to was the affect on my head of attempting to AP.

Im going to try Lucid dreaming and that way i can attempt AP in, what i feel, is a more insuring way.  i have a dream diary and i manage to dream every night now with every dream being really vivid, and in some cases my dreams have made me laugh to the point i awake laughing :/. in my dreams i wake and remember things i should have noticed to show i was dreaming but its never the case.

Has anyone any tips to make me go lucid within my already vivid dreams? 

[Summerlander]

Be a dream detective. Constantly ask yourself in waking life if you are dreaming. This sort of behaviour will be carried into your dreams and eventually you will have "aha!" moments when you spot inconsistencies. Look around for clues...

Alternatively, look at your hands in the dream. I used to do this a lot when I first started and it was very effective. Your dream hands should look malformed at first, but, the more you observe them, the more they transmute into a proper shape.

I can't do this anymore though because now my hands look normal all the time and my dreams tend to be quite realistic and vivid which makes it harder to go lucid.

[blis]

Ask for some lucid dreams. It's surprising how much you can get just by asking.

I had the idea of creating an astral alarm clock once. Didnt work the first night and I didnt persevere but I reckon it could have worked if I stuck with it. I tried to create(visualize) a digital alarm clock beside my bed. I set the time for the projection and cycled through LD, RTZ and AP until the screen said the one I wanted.

Sometimes when I look at my hands in LD's they're wooden. Feels pretty weird to find you've got wooden hands

[Summerlander]

Ask for some lucid dreams. It's surprising how much you can get just by asking.

Absolutely!

[ASTGERARD]

really appreciate that good advice, good to know yous had tested your techniques too

blis i think your technique is genius an LD alarm clcok, because ive noticed in real time when ive forgot to set my alarm for the next morning my mind, i always wake up on the dot anyway , maybe this could be affectively applied in a dream state. summerlander, thanks to, im grasping the importance of reality checks now. 

[blis]

You might want to try sleeping with crystals. I had a pretty far out experience sleeping with a quartz crystal pointing at my crown chakra. It was a little too instense for me at the time so I havent tried it again yet but I do plan to.

You can get a decent sized quartz point for a couple of pounds.

Herkimer diamonds are meant to have a particularly good effect on dreams but I havent been able to find any yet.