I've been wanting to achieve lucidity for a while now, especially after learning about it. I've never lucid dreamed before, so I decided i'd start my research. I've seen a few different methods, but the easiest to understand was this one:

This is done by asking the same question during day. While doing this, believe that you are in a dream.
During the day, no matter what you are doing, stop and ask yourself "Am I dreaming"?

Look around. Examine your surroundings. Does everything look the way it should?

Ask yourself how you got there. What have you been doing 5 minutes ago? And before that?

Now it's time to do a Reality Check (RC), and a mantra (simple phrase that you repeat).

There are many different RCs and mantras that you can chose from, or you can make your own.

For this example I will use the classic "looking at hands" RC with mantra.


Bring your hands up to chest level and look at your palms.

Examine them. Do they look as they normally do? Count your fingers. Don't presume how many you have.

Say "Next time I'm dreaming, I look at my hands and realize I'm dreaming."

Put your hands down, bring them back up and repeat RC with mantra a few times.

It doesn't really matter how many times you do it. What matters is that you believe that you could be in a dream, you just don't know it yet. Don't, at any point, think to yourself "No, I'm not dreaming."


Repeat above steps when you are sitting on your bed ready to go to sleep.

As you are falling asleep, repeat your mantra only.

My few questions are:

The part where it tells you to constantly ask yourself if you're dreaming.. is that what you should do during the day? (Ie: if I'm sitting in class, should I randomly out of nowhere ask myself how I know i'm not dreaming? do I make myself think that the class i'm in is a dream?? and then go on to prove using my 'normal' hands it's not?)

I was confused about that.


The Mantra in the above example is "Next time I'm dreaming, I look at my hands and realize I'm dreaming." right?

Thank you.