Thread: How to Lucid Dream

Nice tutorial = )

WOW this is great, cleared things up about FILD and WILD for me.

UPDATE: To anyone who is skeptical, his schedule gave me 2 DILDs on Day 1! That is absolutely AMAZING for me, I haven't had an LD in months!

Again, I bow down to BillyBob.

Well, I just finished day 1 with no luck. I set my alarm for 5 hrs, woke up at the 1.5 hr mark, 3 and so forth, but remembered a lot of dreams though. So the WBTB thing was obviously ruined. (I think that subconsciously discouraged me cause the plan was ruined when I woke up) Billybob, do you know a solution to waking up before your alarm goes off?

Also, on my last attempt of going back asleep, I tried to WILD. I think WILD is almost impossible for me. My legs get numb, up to my arms and whatnot. I know that's normal, but I focus on my breaths, and focus on my breaths some more, count if my mind drifts, or thinks, then focus on breaths more. I can do this for an hour and nothing. Finally, I give up because my eyes start hurting, or something else does. Billybob, or anyone else, if you have some advise, please help me out. I would greatly appreciate it.

A common misconception is that your supposed to do reality checks so often that eventually you'll do one at random in a dream. Thats false, I've never once done a reality check at random in a dream. The only time I do reality checks in dreams is when I notice something in the environment that looks odd or dreamy.

You should reality check only as often as you notice things around you that seem out of place. Theres no set amount of reality checks that should be performed daily .

so you are saying only to reality check when something odd happens. i read this last night and today i saw something odd and i did a reality check but that was only once. will one reality check be enough? there may be more "odd" things happening but not all the time.

i didnt need to post what i did up above.i found out you already answered this question

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As I said in the tutorial, though its fine to just reality check that one time during the day, its also ok to begin to look for more things to reality check about in your day to day life (become more aware of your environment and you will begin to see more "odd" things about it).


An example I like to use is the paper clip.
Lets say I walk into my room and see a paper clip on my dresser. I don't remember putting that paper clip there, so I reality check just to make sure I'm not having a dream.

You can look at even the smallest odd happenings as cues of being in the dreamworld.

good points and ill try your method

Quick question Billybob. Is the schedule at the end one you follow/followed? If so, how many days per week would you say you become lucid while following it?

billybob this is the best tutorial i've read. on day 3 i had a LD and also on day4! thats puts my total of LD to 3. thank you, im going to do everything this tutorial says.

Hey Billy.

First off, WONDERFUL tutorial.

My favorite part is the focus on "not thinking about WILDing when you're WILDing".

One thing I'd like to add is that I've had much more success listening to the tick-tocking of my wall clock than to my breathing. I think this is because my breathing fluctuates and is unreliable, especially if I let out a big breath. The clock has gotten me into a WILD more than once, and I wholeheartedly agree with your point that you CAN NOT think about the fact that you're trying to enter a WI-lucid dream ... you just have to wait for it.

Again, Billy, awesome tute.

Fantastic post, and very well written! Will be trying all of these as much as I can

I was wondering if the one week schedule thing he made was meant to be followed for several weeks, months(??), or is just for 'one' week....

Wow this was very long and helpful thanks!

I RC because every 20-30 minutes I feel a weird sensation, like "wait, what if this is a dream?" and this sensation is not forced, is like being in a dream...so I RC..