Thread: question on becoming lucid..

Originally Posted by gooner_85

hi everybody, ive been very interested in lucid dreaming ever since i discovered it a couple months ago (from a awesome movie "waking life" which i suggest taking a look for). But becoming lucid is still a problem for me. i understand that this can take awhile to achieve but i feel that i am heading in the right direction and simply need a nudge to be successful. Many of the technquies in the tutorials ive tried but cannot do because of my sleeping schedule. However autosuggestion seems to work very well for me and i am able to remember most of my dreams when i am willing. Now for my question: when i dream i feel like sometimes the location and what i am doing isnt normal, but i always fail to realize its a dream. For example, a few nights ago i dreamt that i was in school conversing with a teacher which did not like me that much. After talking for a short while, he gave me a hug and said somthing i cant remember. I thought this was extremely akward and out of place, but it never clicked in that hey! maybe this is a dream.
I recognize that we are all just unconscious observers of our dreams most of the time, and that simply realizing your in a dream doesnt happen that often. Is there anyone with any tips on how to make this perhaps alittle easier? thanks

gooner

Hi, since Ur dreaming mind is able to 'reason' stuff like that..U may want to try the light failing RC instead. U autosuggest a scenario where U turn on a light and it fails and U do a reality check.... Even my 'unreasoning' dream mind recognizes that..I'm sure it'll work very well for U.

IMJ

thanks sounds promising ill give it a try.

This comes from my own experience of what works.

At least several times a day when you're awake, press down hard on a solid object. There's not always a light switch handy, especially outdoors, so the easiest for me, because it's always at hand is pressing my right thumb into my left palm. When I'm awake, I feel the pressure, and the resistance is solid. Trying this in a dream will almost invarably create a painless sensation of resistance, and eventually of putting my thumb through my palm. The sensation of this is very much like pushing my thumb through semi-firm clay. By creating a waking habit of checking reality in this manner, I've created a dreaming habit of doing the same. If I penetrate my hand with my thumb, I don't have the slightest doubt that I've achieved a lucid dream.