Thread: How to Lucid Dream

thanks, really helpful just written down a list of 8 or 9 different techniques and this tutorial contributed greatly to that list, thanks v. much
SamWise

When I try to WILD it is using this method where you lay on your back and focus on your breathing and counting your breaths, and not thinking of dreams, etc.
I always seem to just end up meditating and staying awake. Any ideas?

first 5 days, no lucid yet, but for the first time I have remembered a dream every night. So, I am going to keep on this schedual.

awesome guide =] i'll definitely use it...
quick question for ya: when you say reality check everytime something strange happens in the physical world that doesn't usually happen...what exactly do you mean??

thanks =]

hey Meehaw this may give you a hand understanding "Reality Checking" (a VERY important basis of Lucid Dreaming!)

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ead.php?t=4470

they are essentially tests that you perform in order to see if you are dreaming. That link explains it a little more.

and I RECONMEND THESE TWO, TOO!

http://www.dreamviews.com/induction.php

http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamsigns.php

goodluck

hey thanks! =)

but the thing is...you reality check in the real world to make your mind used to reality checking in the dreamworld also...
but in the real world...what strange occurances can happen that would cause you to reality check?? is an example like an object that's placed somewhere which you thought was somewhere else?? because im not exactly sure what constitutes as strange in the real world...if you catch my drift lol

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EXCELLENT post. i've always been a Billy Bob fan, even though i've been away from the site for awhile.

i have ADD, and the thing that's difficult is to concentrate (or not concentrate) on something for a few minutes. it's hard enough when i'm TRYING to concentrate, but whenever i do FILD, WILD, i just CAN'T stop the voices in my head! i know it's going to sound like i'm schizophrenic... i'm not. but i do always have music running through my head (ALWAYS, not occasionally) as well as random "clips" of people saying things (things i heard that day, phrases i say often, etc.)... at the SAME TIME. it's rough. i'm on medicine for this but so far nothing has worked.

i'm not saying all this to just talk about myself, but i'm going to give WILD another shot. i think the simplification may have helped me. maybe i can somehow use the voices in my head as a way to concentrate on breathing or something. Billy Bob (or anyone), if you have any additional suggestions, i would LOVE to hear them!

again, fantastic post.

Originally Posted by Meehaw

... im not exactly sure what constitutes as strange in the real world...if you catch my drift lol

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Strange is meant as "unusual" or "odd". These may not always be obvious at first. Like in dreams, where we accept the unusual without question.

But strange can be anything from seeing someone you haven't seen in a long time, finding a coin, going to a new store, forgetting where you put your keys, arriving late somewhere, etc... The trick is to recognise things that are different from the most normal situations. Then, eventually, to be able to recognise things that are so different from normal (i.e. "strange") that you must be dreaming, like when you find yourself dining with Cleopatra or that your bedroom has beaded curtains for walls and is a shack on top of a mountain in hell.

Because really, when is being sucked into the sky by a purple tornado filled with pillows and panda bears playing hopscotch and drinking scotch and liquid taffy normal? But the problem is that even the most absurd seems "normal" in a dream. So if you can learn to recognise small and large anomalies and inconsistencies in the real world then you are better prepared to recognise their counterparts in the dream world.