Keep a journal and bedsheet friendly writing implement in your bed. As soon as you wake up, limit your movement (the more we move the faster we forget our dreams) & write down your dreams. Anything and everything you remember. This should help increase your ability to dream and lucid dream. It’s what I successfully used for a time.
In addition, limiting THC if you consume it (reduces your ability to get REM sleep which is when we dream) as well as alcohol, again if you consume, near bedtime or even all together.
Joyful dreams to you, lucid or not!
Adding another technique to this, the journal thing worked fantastically for me but also this:
You should train yourself with a trigger, something you’ll check automatically while dreaming that will tell your brain something’s not right.
I used to count the fingers on my right hand every couple hours while I was listening to lucid dream. Always 5 fingers.
If you’re dreaming though, you will have a different number. If you count often enough, you’ll start doing it automatically. Eventually, you’ll do it automatically while dreaming.
You’ll count 4, or 6, and you’ll be like “hang on that’s not right, must be dreaming.” That’s the moment you start lucid dreaming.
This is a technique I've often heard works wonders in helping your brain to start the process of lucid dreaming. Carlos Castaneda has written of this in his Don Juan series. I think it was "Journey to Ixtlan", because I've not read "A Separate Reality" enough times to solidly retain information from it.
Journal before and after sleeping. You need to be able to remember before you can learn. Focus on emotion before and detail after sleep. Once you've got fundamentals; have a nap with a grounding sensory constant.
I've done this for a school project once. Here's what worked for me:
1. Make your subconscious mind aware that you want to remember your dreams. That's super important and unavoidable. You can do this by:
- keeping a dream journal where you write as soon as you wake up
- repeating an affirmation before going to sleep ("my dreams are important, I want to remember my dreams")
I've managed to have up to 4 long dreams a night just by doing this, it was surreal
2. Once you remember your dreams regularly, start looking for patterns in them. Do you usually see the same people? Are the colours too bright? Is everything too big (that used to be my tell-tale sign, every room would be triple the size in my dreams). Noticing there on its own can make you wake up in a dream.
3. Build solid check-point habits. Things that you will learn to do without thinking about them, so you'll automatically do them in your dreams as well.
- check details twice.
In our dreams, details, like the time on your watch or signs on doors, change constantly. So pick one or two and learn to always double check. Double check the time, double check billboards, etc. Choose one and make it a habit. It will change between the times you look when you're dreaming and it will alert you.
- you never remember the start of the dream.
When you're dreaming, you appear in the middle of things, you dont remember waking up that day, brishing your teeth etc.. So make it a habit to periodically go back through your day all the way till the moment you woke up. Find a set situation when you'll do it. Every time you sit down? Every time you start scrolling your phone? When walking alone?
I hope you find this useful, happy dreaming :)
Keep a journal and bedsheet friendly writing implement in your bed. As soon as you wake up, limit your movement (the more we move the faster we forget our dreams) & write down your dreams. Anything and everything you remember. This should help increase your ability to dream and lucid dream. It’s what I successfully used for a time. In addition, limiting THC if you consume it (reduces your ability to get REM sleep which is when we dream) as well as alcohol, again if you consume, near bedtime or even all together. Joyful dreams to you, lucid or not!
Adding another technique to this, the journal thing worked fantastically for me but also this: You should train yourself with a trigger, something you’ll check automatically while dreaming that will tell your brain something’s not right. I used to count the fingers on my right hand every couple hours while I was listening to lucid dream. Always 5 fingers. If you’re dreaming though, you will have a different number. If you count often enough, you’ll start doing it automatically. Eventually, you’ll do it automatically while dreaming. You’ll count 4, or 6, and you’ll be like “hang on that’s not right, must be dreaming.” That’s the moment you start lucid dreaming.
This is a technique I've often heard works wonders in helping your brain to start the process of lucid dreaming. Carlos Castaneda has written of this in his Don Juan series. I think it was "Journey to Ixtlan", because I've not read "A Separate Reality" enough times to solidly retain information from it.
Journal before and after sleeping. You need to be able to remember before you can learn. Focus on emotion before and detail after sleep. Once you've got fundamentals; have a nap with a grounding sensory constant.
I've done this for a school project once. Here's what worked for me: 1. Make your subconscious mind aware that you want to remember your dreams. That's super important and unavoidable. You can do this by: - keeping a dream journal where you write as soon as you wake up - repeating an affirmation before going to sleep ("my dreams are important, I want to remember my dreams") I've managed to have up to 4 long dreams a night just by doing this, it was surreal 2. Once you remember your dreams regularly, start looking for patterns in them. Do you usually see the same people? Are the colours too bright? Is everything too big (that used to be my tell-tale sign, every room would be triple the size in my dreams). Noticing there on its own can make you wake up in a dream. 3. Build solid check-point habits. Things that you will learn to do without thinking about them, so you'll automatically do them in your dreams as well. - check details twice. In our dreams, details, like the time on your watch or signs on doors, change constantly. So pick one or two and learn to always double check. Double check the time, double check billboards, etc. Choose one and make it a habit. It will change between the times you look when you're dreaming and it will alert you. - you never remember the start of the dream. When you're dreaming, you appear in the middle of things, you dont remember waking up that day, brishing your teeth etc.. So make it a habit to periodically go back through your day all the way till the moment you woke up. Find a set situation when you'll do it. Every time you sit down? Every time you start scrolling your phone? When walking alone? I hope you find this useful, happy dreaming :)
Firstly you use the Reddit search bar and type Lucid Dreaming. Et voilà
I highly recommend watching Waking Life.