Thread: Lucid Dreaming: Beginners Complete Guide

This is my step by step guide for all on how to begin lucid dreaming. Please enjoy.


Things you need to have setup - Do all of these

Spoiler for Step One:

1) Get a big notebook, write dream journal on it, leave it next to ur bed with a pen

-note your dreams in the morning, write date/year, time you fell asleep/woke up, detailed dreams

2) Write a basic list of goals for lucid dreams (flying, sex, feeling free, etc.)
-all the things you want to enjoy in dreams

3) Gather a collection of dream inspiration - (posters, writing, video, audio, crystals, superhero references, magic wand)

4) Create comfortable bedroom conditions - (cool room with fan or a.c., lavender incense, put towels or blankets over windows - u need dark in the morning, soft music, clean room, 2 warm blankets

5) Look all of this over, you should be able to say "wow I'm prepared for this"

Techniques to prepare with - Practice all of these

Spoiler for Step 2:

1) Do reality checks throughout the day - these tell you whether or not you're dreaming

-Clock and Text - Get a watch, look at it, cover it with ur hand, look again, if it changes time you're in a dream. You can do the same with any written words.
-Set the alarm every hour, and remember to RC before the alarm goes off. Once mastered you will RC in your dreams.

-Plug ur nose and try to breathe

-Count your fingers, 1,2,3,4,5 then an invisible 6th

-Ask if you remember the last 5 mins and does everything make sense

2) Focus and meditation

-Reflect throughout the day on your breathing, pleasant thoughts, sleep and dreams

3) Dream control techniques - Practice these before sleep

-rubbing hands to make the dream vivid and stabilize things

-gently spin to stabilize things

-touch the walls and floor to stabilize things

-voice commands/spells click http://www.dreamviews.com/f14/using-...e-list-115795/

The Gameplan - How to have a lucid dream tonight!

Spoiler for Step 3:

With your room setup and the dreaming techniques mastered, it's time write your gameplan in ur journal.

1) When I go sleep I will relax my body and focus on my breathing

2) When I start dreaming I will notice I'm dreaming and do a reality check.

3) I will become fully lucid and try out my goals

This is a complete guide and it should absolutely work for you.

Looks good, Im going to give it a go =)

Good luck Theo. Let me know if you need tips/advice/guidance.

Think I'll give this a try tomorrow night. Can't tonight. I'll let you know how it goes!

i'm going to try this thanks for the guide

Hmm. basic guide. A couple of those work for me, not all, like dream spinning, that totally destabilizes my dream. There's A LOT more to learn. Everyone make sure you check the DV Tutorials in the Wiki for more information. Good job dreamdimensions.

Thanks James, you can try spinning more gently.

I too am not a fan of dream spinning. But to each his own as i have heard it works for some people.

Hello dreamdimensions,

1) When I go sleep I will relax my body and focus on my breathing
2) When I start dreaming I will notice I'm dreaming and do a reality check.
3) I will become fully lucid and try out my goals

As far as I understand this will work perfectly in the morning. However, it seems that you succeed in going to LD directly from the evening. Please confirm. I am very interested in this. Also could you please answer how many time ~ takes 1st and 2nd phase from the quote above? Also do you have the most LDs using this technique?

I am wondering because normally it should take about 1.5 hours before you get in REM phase. But I think it is possible to take control in a passive sleep phase too, I think there is even a some part of yoga is focused on being lucid during the passive sleep phase.

zetone, I was doing WILD's from the evening back then,
took a tired focus to do it.

You've had 1 lucid dream and you're posting a guide? Are you sure you're not overqualified?

Yeah you also left out a lot of stuff too. One does not simply do reality checks.

n00bf0rlyf3 this method has been qualified by a number of people. RC's aren't the focus.
It's a basic outline of what I knew when I was a beginner.

LOL bobblehat, dont judge a book by it's cover.

Qualified by 6 people that say they've tried it, tried, not have had it work. Besides, this is pretty much just autosuggestion which is a bad technique when using it by itself, you need to add more details about DILD/MILD/WBTB/etc

It was posted in 2011, and it's a focus outline, not descriptions of techniques you learn after a few lucids.

Originally Posted by n00bf0rlyf3

you need to add more details about DILD/MILD/WBTB/etc

You actually don't need more details, imo you walk into LD's inspired and after a 10+ you learn the library of techniques.