How everyone does it!

Hello everyone! I thought it would be cool if we had a thread were everyone posted there exact method of attaining lucidity in there dreams. This way, new people can see all the different methods and maybe it will help them!:boogie: After all, that is the point of this forum right!:D

As for me, I notice dream signs. After keeping a dream journal for about 3 weeks , I had 10 dreams with a red bug in it. Now when I see this red bug, it reminds me of my dream journal and I realize that I may be dreaming. I then test it by trying to walk through a wall. I have not hit a real wall yet! (hope I am not jinxing myself):lol:

you try you fail you try you fail you try you fail you try you fail then you get a lucid dream then you try again. Its basically pass then fail, but mostly fail. keep with it.

I usually just notice something strange and come to the conclusion that I'm dreaming.

noticing something strange, most often that I'm floating, or that locations or time are distorted, such as my apartment being in california when its not, or that im back in high school or in a job i dont work at anymore.

sometimes just a sense of the strange or familiarity with how it feels to be dreaming that prompts an RC

and WILDs of course if i have the time

im still trying to see what works for me. i can do a WILD pretty much eveytime, its just that i only really try them on weekends cause i just CANNOT be tired for school or im screwed. im trying to get better at DILDs. im also getting better at MILDs, although i need to train myself never to move when i wake up

lol, for the two that I have had so far :) right before I went to sleep I kept repeating, "I will recognize that I'm dreaming" under my breath over and over

mostly DILDS induced by WBTB

basically all by recurring dreams.. or i just randomly start controlling things and then become lucid.

My two LDs were both DILD
I really don't have a specific dreamsign I just know i'm dreaming for some reason :P
Maybe it's the B6

2 of my ususal 3 dreams each night start out as FA's, and since i've made it a habbit of doing the nose plug RC everytime I wake, I go lucid. Hurray chain dreaming.

I just become lucid for no apparent reason. I think it has to do with the state of mind: most of the time we go through waking life and dreams in "auto pilot", but sometimes you stop to think, in dreams that's lucidity.

Most of the time, mine are dream exit, WILD combination, then lay still and quickly have a OBE type of experience. I've probably had 15-20 or so of this type in a few years, method doesn't work all the time, I usually have to go to the bathroom when I wake up, so it usually only works if I have already went to the bathroom once during the night.

I've also had a couple of WBTB where I do go to the restroom, go back to bed and fall asleep and lucid dream, worked extremely well for approximately 2 nights, I thought I had it down, then it quit, and hasn't worked since, unless I take a supplement, in which case I've had probably 6 more, but at first it worked with no supplements.

I've also had several DILD's where I just notice something isn't right, and realize I am dreaming. I've also had a few MILD's, worked well for a couple of days, and hasn't worked since. And sometimes I just realize for no particular reason I am dreaming.

Now I usually try for WBTB or dream exit, and I usually take some type of supplement, which works probably about 50% of the time, but at least now I've been having at least one lucid dream a week where I was sometimes going for months without one.

i have been unknowingly practised WBTB for years. that seemed to work great. i am the kind of person that thinks about a lot of crap at nght so my main method is sleep paralysis, then i think as hard as i can about lucid dreaming. it works.

I always try to mix things up. I try to vary my method a lot from night to night. I always do a WBTB. I think 99% of my lucid dreams happen after a WBTB. I consider it a necessity.

No matter what form of WILD/ MILD/ Autosuggestion I use, I always do an awareness meditation during my WBTB. I try to keep my point of view or awareness centered at the lower back of my skull. Right where my neck joins my head. I try to hold my consciousness there the whole time I am walking around, or reading, or whatever during my WBTB. I also do this whenever I think about it during the day. The idea is to step back from your perception of reality. Take everything in from a distance, so you keep from getting lost in the moment.

The actual meditation or techniue I use when I finally lie back down in bed is always different. I'm always trying out some new visualization, or experimenting with some new supplements or foods.

Awareness and autosuggestion work wonders for me. I make a conscious effort to keep dreaming on my mind. It helps to remain focused on why you want to remember your dreams. I try to be aware of myself and my environment too. This awareness then follows me into my dreams. I do a lot of thinking and questioning in dreams. In the past, this has led to lucidity. I'm still working on it though.

sometimes i just pop into a full lucid from unconsciousness, i really don't know why... but this is unusual and my favorite because it takes no conscious thought lol. but i've had lucids from imagining myself writing messages to my inconscious mind, WILDing by half falling alseep using my 5 senses to the best of my ability in my imagination and start falling or warping to different locations, and by doing reality checks when noticing something unusual.

the weirdest lucid i had seemed like my mind was forcing my into one. i fell asleep and then slid out of my bed and hit the ground and when i tried to get up it was so hard and felt like it took a few minutes almost like i was drunk, then i went back to sleep and slid out of bed and hit the floor again. this time it took longer but i got the message and when i looked out the window of my apartment it was completely different so i knew i was in a dream.

I have some kind of strange natural talent that I can tell when I'm about to wake up inside of the dream, usually one or two minutes before the dream actually ends and I wake up. Since I'm aware that its ending, that also makes me aware that I'm dreaming, thus making me realize that I'm having a lucid dream and do crazy awesome stuff.

Shame it only happens once every two or three months.

I consider myself pretty good at DILDs. I get around 2-4 per week. I do RCs throughout the day, question reality, and autosuggestion.

firstly i do the reversed blinking method, where you close your eyes and quickly open and close them every 5-15 seconds till my eye lids start feeling more relaxed when closed instead of when open.
I then tell myself in my head that the next time anything happens i will do a reality check
if anyone walks into the room or if i hear a odd noise i hold my nose and try and breath (i find this to be the easiest rc)
pretty much as soon as im dreamin i hold my nose and try and breath, i do this a few times just to be sure i can still breath whilst holding my nose.
This is the point where i often loose lucidity as i get distracted.

i almost only have WILDs but occasionally ill have a DILD

WILD, sometimes DILD
Oh yeah, forgot about FILD.

If I'm not WILDing its generally from either a Reality Check or external stimuli. I listen to music at night which helps. I really will listen to anything, I've also noticed that the type of music effects my scenery.


Hence when I listen to Jazz I'm in a very laid back atmosphere, Classical rarely works, House or other Electronic music puts me in very social atmospheres.

When I want to go to sleep I just start making up a story/dream, just like a really cool daydream, and when I've done enough fantazising, I will think of a perfect place to sleep (like a huge bird's nest) and after a while I just fall asleep (for real)

I absolutely can't fall asleep when thinking about sleeping, or when I try not to think about anything because then I will worry worry worry about EVERYTHING. and if I try actively to have a lucid dream, I get nervous and I cant sleep.

Instead of actively trying to have a LD, I always set my alarm like two/three hours before I need to get up, when I have to wake at 10 in the morning for example, I'll set my alarm at 7, 8, 9, and 10. and every time after I wake up and go back to sleep Im relaxed and not trying too hard and it's really easy to DEILD.

I sometimes have a DILD as well, I know in my dream that if it was wake life, and I'd think: am I dreaming? I'd know for sure that I was not. so every time I'm doubting if something is real, I know it's not (this probably doesnt work if you're on drugs :P)

edit: Oh I just saw some people actually do think they are dreaming when awake sometimes... must be confusing

I often start a night of lucidity with a DILD. Generally I don't notice a DS or do an RC, I just "know" I'm dreaming. If I'm not 100% sure I'll try to fly. If I fly I'm dreaming. If I don't I'm not. Works better for me than other RCs.

Then I often continue the night with a string of DEILDs. As a dream (lucid or not) ends I wake up momentarily. Then I sort of "sink" right back into the dream state. Generally I don't feel any SP. Often I end up back in the dream I just left. Which sometimes is nice and sometimes is frusterating.

Whenever I lay in bed, I just say aloud, over and over, "I will lucid dream", Or something of that nature, My dream recall is perfect because of it, I just ask my subconscious, Hey, help me to remember my dreams. So I do, I remember almost every single dream I have, at least a few a night a night anyways.I think anything is possible if you become closer to your subconscious.