Thread: help please :)

What is your sleeping schedule like?

I'm going to sleep 11pm and wake up at 7:30am

The easiest way to increase your chances of having a lucid dream is to sleep longer hours (10+). If you don't have the time, it will be more difficult. Three weeks ago, I only had time to sleep for 5-7 hours per night and I had no LDs whatsoever during that period. Normally, I have about 1-2 LDs a night.

A good habit to get into is to become mindful when on the edge of sleep (during hypnagogia or hypnopomp) after a few hours of rest. Lay still, relax, don't intentionally generate thoughts, don't attempt to regain awareness of your body. Pretend that you're dead. Once you get used to this state and can consistently place yourself into it when resting, induction of a LD should be very easy. For me, simply imagining that I'm rolling out of bed will usually be enough to start things off.

I would suggest becoming a student here: Intro Class You can ask questions and say what you are currently doing, what you want to do and you will be helped out For me, mindfulness meditation is, along with sleeping a lot, the best way to induce lucid dreams. But I don't know how meditation benefits other people.

Practicing mindfulness means to pay attention to your thoughts, sensations in your body, feelings, sounds, but without thinking. Simply noticing what is happening. Doing this enormously increases the clarity of my mind, and the longer I do this the better it is. I can confidently say that if I started meditating 2 hours a day I will have 5-10 vivid and long lucid dreams a week, and now I only have 3-4 disappointing lucid dreams a week. So that's how powerful it is for me.

To remember dreams, before sleeping you can repeatedly tell yourself "I'm going to try and remember my dreams after I wake up" or something like that. And then when you wake up, try not to move after waking up and just close your eyes and try to remember something. After a few days you'll probably at least remember snippets.

Also, the 2 most commonly repeated "lucid dreaming basics" are reality checks and dream journals.

Good luck, fellow dreamer