how do you induce a lucid dream?

Answer 1

What most people mean by "lucid dream," is one that is clearly remembered after waking.

Yes, a person CAN be trained to recall their dreams. Psychologists use a technique to help people unravel the causes of stress, often expressed in dreams.

It is a practised technique and wone becomes better at it over a period of time. First, right as one is preparing to go to sleep, after the lights are out and the body is in a comfortable position, one should "remind" himself that he wants to remember that nights dreams. Not a repeated mantra, no obsessive stress on the plan. Just a reminder. "I want to remeber tonight's dreams."

That's it.

Later, if one wakes up in the middle of the night, one should pause to recollect the last dream before waking. Before stirring, turning or getting up, just try to remember the "story." Upon waking in the morning, make the same effort to recall the dream. Lie in bed, or sit for a few moments and try to go through as much of the dream as possible.

It genuinely helps, if the memories can be written down as soon as possible after wakening. It does not work as well to do this later. Dream experiences usually don't have the lasting power of conscious thought.

Repeat this every night and every morning. For this to work, it must become a habit. Like the mental preparation that is part of any training regimen, one gets better with practice.

Answer 2

Maliolani is wrong and so is Vince M. Vince should've at least read enough to know that lucid dreaming is dreams in which you know that you are dreaming.

I have no idea if it can be learned, but I imagine so. As a child, I discovered that once you knew you were dreaming that you could control it when I created a pink elephant after I realized that I was in a dream.

I tell everyone to try techniques such as MILD, WILD or whichever of the many. They sound like they're not possible, and some may not be, but MILD and WILD worked for me. Check out ld4all.com . It looks kind of childish to me but it has what most LD sites have and then some.

I forgot to add that most of my lucid dreams were like many others: after I had slept of about 5 hours, got up for 20-30 min then gone back to bed.

Answer 3

When you wake up in the morning write down as much as you can remember about your dreams; including thoughts and observations. Don't worry if it's not a lot, at first. Don't try to make sense of it while you are writing it down.
After doing this for a week you will start to remember more and more of your dreams. You will notice that a lot of dreams repeat, everynight. Lucid dreaming will allow you to make changes...like the movie Groundhog Day.

Answer 4

I have them every now and then, but I don't know *how* to make them happen (like I don't plan for them or anything.) With me I think it's just highly upsetting dreams... if something in the dream is getting too scary or too traumatic, I can direct myself to change the course of the dream. Maybe it's why I've never woken up from what I would call a nightmare... I can change 'em before they get too bad.

Answer 5

A lot of people would like to dream lucidly, but I think it is as bogus as rubbing a lantern hoping a genie will come out. I believe that you cannot willfully dream lucidly, nor can you learn to do it.