Ok, I recently began thinking about a way to help noobs (and me) to have more LDs, I'm not talking about new ways of induction just a small 5 item list of things if your not doing you should begin doing and stick with (if your wanting LDs)
1) keep a dream journal.
--I know everyone has told you this from day one, and its still true, always no matter what write down something in the morning (be it 5 pages or 5 words)--
2) always sleep at least 8 hours a night (and keep a slightly steady sleep schedule)
--in other words always try to go to bed 8 1/2-8 hrs before you have to get up, the truth is, more sleep means more vivid logical dreams which in turn means more lucidity (so yes, if you slept 12 hrs a night you would have a way higher chance of getting lucid, but this is unhealthy and makes your day feel like you didn't sleep at all)--
3) always take at least 2 minutes as your laying in bed (before you sleep) to think about lucid dreaming and what your going to do in the event that you become lucid that night (and always think of it in terms of what you are going to do, not "what I might do if I can get lucid")
--think of a place you want to go you something you want to do, imagine it for a little while then go to sleep--
4) just before you go to sleep think for at least 30 seconds about FILDing.
--you wake up at least 3 times a night but usually go back to sleep. if you think about FILDing and make it a task for you to do in the event that you wake up, then you up your chances of LDing exponentially every night--
FILD:
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5) Reality check often.
--reality checks aren't supposed to be a task you do, what they are is you checking to see if at that moment everything your perceiving is actually a dream that had been fooling you into believing it was reality, so don't go "oh, I haven't done a reality check in awhile. **vacantly looks at hand hoping no one sees him doing so** well that's done, **forgets that he just did a reality check in 2 seconds**" that's the wrong way to do it, what your doing shouldn't be a task, it should come out of curiosity from something you've just seen or heard. example:
I'm at work and my boss looks at me strangely. I think: "wtf, I haven't done anything and I don't think there's anything on my face" then I look down at my hand not really caring if anyone sees me or not (though still not looking like a psychopath ;)) "reality check says this is reality, but that look was pretty weird" looks at watch "hmm guess I did something wrong to piss him off"
that's a reality check, your actually checking to see if your current situations are caused by your subconscious and not by reality, not just because you have to, but because a stimulus has triggered it.
anyway there's the five steps, if you do that every night and day then
I guarantee you'll have more LDs than your having now or your money back. I'll even pay for shipping, so come on, what do you have to lose? but your acne. </messagefromproactivecommercial>
no but really, do this and have more LDs :)
(also you might want to check out the link in my sig for when you get into your LD :P)
(:ninja:)
