Techniques for beginners

[Panda124]

I've been trying to have a lucid dream for a while using the DILD and MILD techniques and it isn't working. Is there any other good techniques for beginners?

[Mancon]

How long have you been trying exactly? It can take a while to get your first lucid. I recommend focusing on one technique for at least 2 months before you move on to another one. You have to give it a chance! There is no 'best' technique. Different techniques work differently for different people. I made this thread: "Find Out What Technique is Right For You" for people who are trying to decide what technique to go with. Hopefully it might help you! Hope you get lucid!

[Chimpertainment]

My Best Advice All I can do is share. So, this is what I did the nights before my best lucid dreams. 1. During the day, I had focused intensely and completely, on the lucid state. In other words, the feeling, impression, atmosphere, of the lucid state all wrapped into a single perception in waking life. Focus on this for as long as you like. 2. Play out old dreams in my head as if I am back in the dream, going as far as acting out individual parts myself. 3. Before falling asleep, recall the days events, the weeks events, the years events, and any other occurrence of thought arising and dismissing. Every dream in recent memory is recalled. 4. Speak mantra while focusing on dream state. 5. For peaceful sleep, as I am falling to sleep I imagine I am doing one of a few things: flying through the air, flying through space, swimming in water, crawling on/through soil, any other fluid-like movement. These precepts of dreaming were shown to me by my dream guide as a six year old child. Somehow the knowledge came to me naturally long before I learned academically. These are the basis of almost any technique of lucid dreaming. I hope this is of some help. Its the first time Ive ever shared it so enjoy!