Is anyone a pro at lucid dreaming?

Question

I really want to learn lucid dreaming so bad. Anyone know any good ways to get a lucid dream? And I dont want the method that have to do with changing the alarm clock, becuz 1) i dont have one 2) i dont like waking up in the middle of the night 3) im trying to get more hours of sleep

Answer 1

http://www.lucidity.com/

http://www.lucidity.com/LucidDreamingFAQ2.html#techniques

3.2 HOW DO I LEARN TO HAVE LUCID DREAMS?

The two essentials to learning lucid dreaming are motivation and effort. Although most people report occasional spontaneous lucid dreams, they rarely occur without our intending it. Lucid dream induction techniques help focus intention and prepare a critical mind. They range from millennium-old Tibetan exercises to modern methods developed by dream researchers. Try the following techniques and feel free to use personal variants. Experiment, observe, and persevere - lucid dreaming is easier than you may think.

3.2.1 Dream Recall

The most important prerequisite for learning lucid dreaming is excellent dream recall. There are two likely reasons for this. First, when you remember your dreams well, you can become familiar with their features and patterns. This helps you to recognize them as dreams while they are still happening. Second, it is possible that with poor dream recall, you may actually have lucid dreams that you do not remember!

The procedure for improving your dream recall is fully detailed in EWLD and A Course in Lucid Dreaming in addition to many other books on dreams. A brief discussion of the methods involved is available on the Lucidity Institute web site. The core exercise is writing down everything you recall about your dreams in a dream journal immediately after waking from the dream, no matter how fragmentary your recall. Record what you recall immediately upon waking from the dream; if you wait until morning you are likely to forget most, if not all, of the dream. In A Course in Lucid Dreaming we advise that people build their dream recall to at least one dream recalled per night before proceeding with lucid dream induction techniques.

3.2.2 Reality Testing

This is a good technique for beginners. Assign yourself several times a day to perform the following exercise. Also do it anytime you think of it, especially when something odd occurs or when you are reminded of dreams. It helps to choose specific occasions like: when you see your face in the mirror, look at your watch, arrive at work or home, pick up your NovaDreamer, etc. The more frequently and thoroughly you practice this technique, the better it will work.

Do a reality test.
Carry some text with you or wear a digital watch throughout the day. To do a reality test, read the words or the numbers on the watch. Then, look away and look back, observing the letters or numbers to see if they change. Try to make them change while watching them. Research shows that text changes 75% of the time it is re-read once and changes 95% it is re-read twice. If the characters do change, or are not normal, or do not make sense, then you are most probably dreaming. Enjoy! If the characters are normal, stable, and sensible, then you probably aren't dreaming. Go on to step 2.


Imagine that your surroundings are a dream.
If you are fairly certain you are awake (you can never be 100% sure!), then say to yourself, "I may not be dreaming now, but if I were, what would it be like?" Visualize as vividly as possible that you are dreaming. Intently imagine that what you are seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling is all a dream. Imagine instabilities in your environment, words changing, scenes transforming, perhaps you floating off the ground. Create in yourself the feeling that you are in a dream. Holding that feeling, go on to step 3.


Visualize yourself enjoying a dream activity.
Decide on something you would like to do in your next lucid dream, perhaps flying, talking to particular dream characters, or just exploring the dream world. Continue to imagine that you are dreaming now, and visualize yourself enjoying your chosen activity.

3.2.3 Dreamsigns

Another dream-recall related exercise introduced in EWLD and further developed in A Course in Lucid Dreaming is identifying "dreamsigns." This term, coined by LaBerge, refers to elements of dreams that indicate that you are dreaming. (Examples: miraculous flight, purple cats, malfunctioning devices, and meeting deceased people.) By studying your dreams you can become familiar with your own personal dreamsigns and set your mind to recognize them and become lucid in future dreams. The Course also provides exercises for noticing dreamsigns while you are awake, so that the skill carries over into your dreams. This exercise also applies to lucid dream induction devices, which give sensory cues--special, artificially-produced dreamsigns--while you are dreaming. To succeed at recognizing these cues in dreams, you need to practice looking for them and recognizing them while you are awake.

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Answer 2

I'm a dreamer and I teach lucid dreaming but this is a limited forum so I hope this helps!

All dreams are lucid to some part of you. The part that "lucid dreams" appeal to is your identity. These are dreams where your sense of self is intact and confidence is high enough to effect change in the dream.

To control your dream, first you have to know that it is a dream. Each dream has its own rules just as waking experience has rules. Learn to question. Before you sleep, question what it takes to make changes in your environment. Develop a method of questioning your experiences.

For instance, if you find yourself in a room, how would you normally affect the objects in the room? Move them by pushing them with your hands?

In dreams, the rules are more pliable. Perhaps you can move them with your will!

The idea is to test if you're dreaming with a very minor change. I do this reaching into a pocket for something that I know shouldn't be there. In dreams, your expectations provide what you are looking for. In waking life, you can only find what has been placed there.

Once you know that you are in a dream, you have more options. Take it slow at first! Make sure that you don't try for a change that is too unbelievable. If this happens, you will be ejected from the dream and either find yourself in a new dream or waking up.

For instance, if you want to fly in your dream, try using a prop. Hold up a sheet to catch the wind first or try taking a single step off the ground. Once this is done, you have the confidence to change more.

This is pretty basic, let me know if you need more info.

Answer 3

The pros of lucid dreams is that everything you experience feels real so if your flying in your dream its an awesome experience you also can do anything you want and live any life style you want. You can improve your creativity and confidence and also face your fears without worrying because it is not real The cons are that you may have trouble distinguishing dreams from reality kind of like inception.

Answer 4

Lucid dreaming or astral projection takes some practice, but I have found a method that works for me. If you are in silence, then you can hear the ringing in your ears. if you can focus on the sound of the ringing in your ears, and visualise somthing you should be able to lucid dream.
BTW the best time to try it is after you rouse in the morning while you are still half awake/asleep

Answer 5

Start your dreaming by falling a sleep on your right side with your knees bent. Maintain that position and fall asleep in it. Then the exercise is to dream that you lie down in exatly the same position and fall a sleep again. then indreaming dream of falling asleep a second time in the same postion the dreaming had been started. If You can understand all this and work at it as it does take practice. You will be amazed at the results.

Answer 6

I lucid dream all the time.....I guess I take and active part in my dreams....I am generally able to control the outcome....I generally remember my dreams too.... For me it is the fact that "I" control the dream... I also dream objectively which is to say that I can be an objective observer....I know that I'm dreaming, I actually participate but I also see it objectively....

Answer 7

I'm no pro, but a couple different things have worked for me.

Go rent the movie "Waking Life" and watch it right before bed. That by itself might do it.

Ask yourself out loud during the day, "am I dreaming right now?" even if you know that you're awake. Sincerely question it anyway. Asking yourself regularly if you're dreaming during the day may help you ask yourself if you're dreaming when you're actually doing it.

Answer 8

I've experienced lucid dreaming before, it was during a sleep paralysis episode Considering I was fully concious but technically asleep, because my body was still asleep, I was still in a dream state. I was able to create my own auditory hallucinations, fortunatley my eyes were shut, and I couldn't open them.

Let me tell you, lucid dreaming is something you don't want to experience, it's like if you accidently think of something horrific, be prepared to deal with it and it's consequences.. all I have to say

Answer 9

THINK OF REALLY GOOD THINGS IN LIFE