The best way to Lucid Dreaming

Hello,

As I have explained in an earlier thread, Lucid Dreaming means "dreaming while knowing you're dreaming". It's one of the best things you can experience (once you learn it) and the feeling is undescribable.

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Now...let me explain the best way to Lucid Dreaming. For me, that is. This is how I learned it.

Before you do anything, you must realize the following fact. EVERYBODY DREAMS - EVERY NIGHT. At LEAST 2 times. The thing is that dreams are hard to remember and some can't remember any at all. This is why you have to train on something called DREAM RECALL before starting to practice Lucid Dreaming. After all, you might have had a lucid dream and not even know you had it.

First thing that is a MUST is getting a notebook/diary to write your dreams down after every night. If you can't remember anything, just relax and try to let it come to you. If you can only remember an image or short scene, write it down.

After doing this for a week or so, you will stop and analyze what is common in your dreams - also known as DREAMSIGNS. For example, people always talking to you, or you always being outside, etc. Then you make a list of these.

Now, after about 3 more days of writing down dreams and recalling, it is time to start practicing to have a Lucid Dream.

As stated previously, Lucid Dreaming is a state when you're dreaming and are fully AWARE that you're dreaming, giving you a feeling of perfect freedom and virtual reality so to speak. A feeling as being in a "parallel dimension".

How is this achieved? Well, first, you need to get a digital watch. Not analog, but digital wrist watch. Let me explain exactly how this works.

The method I am talking about is called "Reality Checking". How do you distinguish dreams between reality? During a dream, everything seems completely NORMAL to you, and if something is "weird", you will never usually realize that it is a dream, because everything looks VERY real.

In a dream when you look at a digital watch or some text, look away from it, look back - it changes 99.9% of the time. This is the best way for reality checks.

So what you need to do is this; you have to make a HABIT looking at your watch, looking away, looking back, several times during the day. Eventually it becomes a habit, and you will automatically do it in your dream, BUT - the numbers will change this time, thus realizing that you're in a dream.

You cannot simply distinguish dreams and reality, that is what the reality checks are for.

Therefore, making reality checks a habit throughout the day, and setting yourself to do at least 30 a day or so, and then increasing etc etc. You can also create reminders, such as - whenever you see a pet, you do a reality check, whenever you go outside/inside, you do a reality check, whenever you meet a new person, etc. Eventually you will do it in your dreams if you're not lazy to do it in reality. I even made signs in my room saying "RC Now!" meaning "Reality Check Now".

The problem with most beginners is when they see the numbers change they panic and wake up immediately. I did too - at first. I can remember it so clearly.

I'm tying my shoes getting ready to go outside, so I check the watch on my cable box, 7:14, i finish tying my shoes, I look again 8:50, again 1:11, I became terrified and wake up after 3 seconds. I just didn't know what to do, the dream just faded because I was scared.

NOTHING can hurt you in a dream. Once you achieve strong lucidity you can do anything your heart desires. When you're fully "lucid" you know that you're in bed - asleep, you can remember the date, what you did a day before, what you're about to do when you wake up, when you went to bed, etc, and sometimes even solve math problems very good. Weak lucidity is knowing you're sleeping, but not fully aware of other things, such as what day it is etc. Sometimes weak lucidity also leads to losing lucidity throughout the dream, just "forgetting" it's a dream. Sounds dumb but it can happen.

Once you realize you're dreaming, are calm, but the dream still begins to fade away, spread out your arms and start SPINNING or simply look at your hands, it will stabilize, I've had it happen many times.

One of the best things I used to do when I had LDs is sit down with dream characters and talk with them. It is an EXTREMELY weird feeling lol.

I'm going on forever here

That's the best way to do it (it worked great for me).

And really, the feeling it gives you is unbelieveable and I can't really put it into words.

www.lucidity.com... has really good info as well.

Peace

Excellent!!!

I didn't know Lucid Dreaming is what this type of dreaming was called. I have done this a lot. In fact a lot of the thing that they say about dreams is false. Some examples are you dream in black and white, you can't read in your dream, when your falling and you hit the bottom you wake up and if you get killed in your dream you die. I can speak from personal experience that all of these are false.

IM goin to attempt this and report my findings in a new forum in about a month. Thanks for the info.

Conquering Sleep Paralysis, Lucid Dreaming, whats the difference.

I've dreamt in color, and I've dreamt in black and white...

Wow, I never realized the time thing... As I mentioned in another thread, I learned to do this myself as a child. However, I never realized, that I do indead, use the time on various clocks to calibrate whether I am dreaming or not...I actually do do this...

also read once that lucid dreaming can lead to astral travel..?

Originally posted by alienaddicted
also read once that lucid dreaming can lead to astral travel..?

Either way, lucid means something that is easily understood..so whether it be an OBE or a dream, if you are 'aware' of what is happening and can even see or feel or tell yourself 'this is just a dream/obe' then yes you have dreamt so lucidly. BUT not always during an obe can you understand or grasp things which are taking place.
Mag

i will try this sometime.

I have a problem of remembering my dreams,for instance I had a dream last night and I went to record it in my own LD diary and found that I knew I had a dream that night but could't remmeber it!It took me the whole day to remember what it was about and now it was't as clear.Whats the best way to remember your dreams!

"Usually" and most all times, when you dream lucidly-you WILL remember your dream. There is no way though that another person can tell you exactly how to remember your dreams, it's really all up to you and what seems to work best for you. Some people say journals work really well, but I remember my dreams just fine without one, so there again, everyone is different. I think if and when people realize that dreams are a part of us, just like everything else and you think about them throughout the day, that there will come a time that you will see your dreams more clearly and thus remember them better. It's almost though, that you have to concentrate during your waking hours and tell yourself over and over throughout the days, that you will remember your dreams tonight and every night.

This is too much work for some though and even seems a little(or alot) obsessive. But it does work! And once you get yourself on the track to recall your dreams and dream lucidly, you can maintain it without all that obsessing

Also when you DO have a lucid dream, you are in control of that dream, therefore you can make it go wherever you want it to go(most times) and you can make it last as well...that's why I insist that it's near to impossible not to recall a 'lucid dream'.

Another thing too, and this has happened to me, that I've been dreaming lucidly, then lose it. Basically lose grasp of it for some reason. And this is when I awake and only recall bits and pieces or not enough to make sense of to another.

I would suggest maybe trying different things for weeks at a time. Even changing the direction that you sleep in-meaning move your bed to another place in your room where your head will be facing a different direction. Believe it or not, something as simple as this can give great results.

Good luck!
Magestica

Heh ya i did notice that the dreams I can remember are lucid or fragments of a lucid dream.My problem is that I have trouble staying lucid or even becoming lucid becouse my dream enviroments are not detailed and they jump from one thing to another.But the ones where I am lucid are outside and always rich in detail.Guess I just need to practice and relax my mind alittle before I go to bed,maybe that will allow me to focus on one thing while i'm dreaming.
Thanks Magestica

I so want to try this. I love dreaming jsut normally. But if i were able to lucid dream. Oh the fun ;P

I love my imagination.

Has anyone seen the movie called "The Ring"?

That horror movie. I saw it at the cinemas, loved it, thought it was pretty damn scary/creepy.
Wanted to make my friends see it at teh cinemas too ut the didn't end up going.
So i had been waiting for it to come out on video and hire it out and make them watch it.

The week b4 it came out on video i had a dream/sorta nightmare about it.

I dreamt my sister, dad, and I were going to see it at the movies. Heaps of detail in this ;P

It had nothing to do with the movie the ring at all except the thought that horror was running through it.

If i could direct it it would be sick! Only got about 15 mins into the movie.

Went like this:

It had a few adults being led by a small chubby face, angry looking asian kid, down an alley way similar to that off the Blade Runner movie, lot's of lights advertising restuarants, casino's, etc. At the end of this alley is a dead end, but the kid lifts up a sorta american drain cover, climbs down a ladder and ends up into a pit that opens up into an Egyptian pyramid sorta thing, just like scenes from the movie "The Mummy". The adults follow this kid. He's leading them to a big block of old looking sand made concrete block, but wait, there are 2 men there digging, and they just found a box and opened it up, in there are 2 little wooden figures painted, one of a bride and one of the guy she's getting married to in his tux. They both break in the hand of the guy who picked them up.

There is a gust of wind in this underground place, and it gets a bit darker, colder, Then everyone realises something bad is about ot happen and they need to get outta there, they turn back to run, and then they look let and see Skeleton fighters with big Egyptian swords charging at them coming out of the darkness in between pillars holding the place together ;P. *All Egyptian style. The skeletons start attacking, and suddenly the adults have swords too, and are trying to fight them off, but not really going that well.

Then i see 1 guy smash one of the skeletons heads against a pillar, look around, throw whats rest beind a pillar and then disappear ehind it, only to return into sight 2 seconds later dressed as one of the Egyptian skeleton fighters, and there is a skeleton fighter right in front of him attacking one of the adults. the adults are outnumbered and are against a bunch of stone seats but with the skeletons attacking them. The guy dressed as an Egyptian skeleton is no other than the actual main character from the movie "The Mummy". He see's another adult getting attacked, wants to help him out but not get attacked/raise suspicion to the Skeleton attackers that he aint really a skeleton...rofl...so he hip'n'shoulders the skeleton attacking this adult guy, then he starts attacking the adult guy with his sword in a non-harmful way, hitting him on the back and head with the flat of the sword repeatedly. Now that adult has his back towards everyone and is bent over the stone seats, but now the skeleton attacker that got hip'n'shouldered is back and puts it's sword through the back of that adult. He dies instantly.

Then all of a sudden it goes to the guy from "The Mummy" wearing an Egyptian skeleton, running towards the ladder below the alley with skeleton attackers racing towards him, lucky for him they cannot climb ladders. He escapes. And little chubby faced, angry looking Asian kid is climbing the ladder and gets out too, to the top of the alley's dead end, where he looks and see's "The Mummy" guy making a left at the end of the alley, running and scared shiotless.

Then i walk ot the end of the alley and grab the packet of Salt and Vinegar chips sitting there, open them up, and start munching coz i'm hungry and watching the movie "The Ring". Then i walk back down to the dead end end of the alley where the little asian kid gives an evil look at me, climbs down the ladder again and covers the top. I'm left out at the dead end of the alley, at night time, surrounded by nuthing but concrete walls and bright lights advertising restuarants/casino's.

But something aint right. It's time for something very very bad and evil to pop out. There's just this very bad feeling in my gut coz i know it's time for something bad to happen coz i've seen the movie before...rofl...this aint nuthing like the movie ahahaha.... Then something dark flys overhead...

... then my sister knocks on my door and i wake up, glad to be woken up ;P

I was sooo soo close to having a lucid dream.

I got into bed, started lying there, started falling asleep, and knowing i was wanting ot do a lucid dream. Anyways i fell asleep and started dreaming straight away, and as i started dreaming straight away and i was still conscious that i was wanting to do lucid dreaming and i realised i was dreaming, i looked at my hands in my dream and started becoming self aware in my dream that i was having a dream more and more and tha ti could do anything i wanted to if i just imagined it. It was like i was awakening myself, my senses, the realness of me being there suddenly started climbing real fast. buti could hear noises and then a CLANG from outside my dor int he kitchen where my sister had jsut woken up and was making breakfast and grabbing a pot/pan (i'm a night worker).

Anyways i lost that sorta lucid dream.


had more dreams but they wern't lucid.

Woke up. ate some chunky soup. Went back to bed as i was still tired. Set my alarm for 8:05 pm so i'd have time to have something else to eat/get ready for work b4 i went to work.

Was asleep. Dreaming again. In my dream the thing i remember was that i needed to check the time. So i looked on the computer screen and saw that it was 8:19pm and im like "OH SHIOT, i gotta get ready for work". Then woke up. Them i'm like!!! that was just a dream!!! i just checked a digital clock and woke up because it said a time. I shoulda double checked to make sure if it was reality or not by looking away then back at it again

Damnit!

And it was only 7:30pm real time when i woke up.

I did it using the method there. i just looked for a digital clock in my dreams, double checked it, first it would tell me a time, the second time i looked it would show me something totally different like L:46 or R:|7 or /-:18, etc

Then i'd check my hands out and it awakeed me inthe dream even more and YEAH! lucid dreaming. way fun ;P

I think i might try a spin too this time, ake me mroe aware as well. I think i sorta had weak lucidity at time though, coz i'd forget it was a dream and be doing things i wasn't in control of.

Yep they sure are fun,naps work the best for me. found that if I take a nap during the day around lunch time,I can become more lucid faster.

Damnit i need to get myself a digital watch and get in the habit of looking at it every 15 ;P

It really REALLY pisses me off wheni know i've dreamed now and didn't become lucid. It's soo much fun being lucid.

It's like. We do what we have to in life, have some fun, work, etc.

But we always have to sleep. WE cant go without sleep.

Now i can do something while sleeping. I can be having fun too

Am gonna try this and report my findings when i feel the need to

Thanks

Ive found the best way to recall a dream is to have an alarm clock next to ur pillow and set it for a couple of hours before you normaly wake then when it goes off stay awake for 10 mins and fall back asleep. you should find youself immedietly wraped in a dream which you can recall clearly. this really helps for the first stage of lerning to lucid dream

This is a good faq about lucid dreaming.

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