How i Lucid Dream

Hey everyone!

As you can see this is my first post so please move this to the noobie section if its in the wrong place!

The reason i havent posted in the noobie section is because i am not asking for info on Lucid Dreaming but have just come here to relate how i do it and what works for me.

I have had 4 or 5 lucid dreams since september 2009. I am no where near regular and i have a lot to learn and a long way to go.

When i have a lucid dream it is always in the predawn hours, around 5am-6am.

I have three children and they wake me up regulary all night so i have a decent sleep but it is never profound.

When i am dozying off to sleep around 4.30ish my body is sleepy but my mind is quitely active. I now recognize that i have a great chance to lucid dream.

I fall fast asleep and something in my dream will trigger me to realize i am dreaming and i will be able to do the nose touch test.

My reasoning mind is in full control and i can remember posts on this forum or readings i have read about lucid dreaming.

I will know to get away from my body and that i can doing anything that i want if i believe it.

One lucid dream i had, in real life my 3 year old son was sleeping next to me and he rolled over in his sleep and his hand landed on my face.

In my lucid dream i suddenly lost control of my face and couldnt move my head. I didnt break the dream though because i stayed calm and reasoned what had happened.

I finished the dream with no face movement.

Anyway i just really wanted to tell u that that time of night is really great, get woken up a few times (a lot) during your sleep and pratice your reality checks!

Kindest regards
J

I have 4 or 5 lucid dreams a week.

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Originally Posted by COLDBLOOD

I have 4 or 5 lucid dreams a week.

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lol way to brag.

Billycourty, great to see you've discovered some techniques on your own! Studies have been done which show getting up then going back to bed (like you do) increases the chances of lucidity in dreams by something like 20 times. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong!) We call it WBTB (wake-back-to-bed), and it's often combined with the WILD technique to go straight into a lucid dream. You should check that out. :)

Thanks for the replies.

I never meant to imply that i worked out these ways of aiding LD myself.

I just wanted to validate them with my personal experience.

Just sharing my experience in case it helped someone else to become a better LDer.

Kindest Regards
J

Go back to sleep, count bodies like sheep.

GO TO SLEEP GO TO SLEEP GO TO SLEEP,
GO BACL TO SLEEP,
COUNT BODIES LIKE SHEEP.

"a perfect cirlce, count bodies like sheep."

While it's off topic, that post brought back memories. Thanks! :D


@The original poster: Nice job getting lucids! In case you haven't found the right term for what you're doing, you're getting lucid through DILD (Dream-Initiated Lucid Dream), or association-induced lucid dreaming, as I was told once. I don't know if you knew that or not, but I figure as long as you're new, I'll help out however I might be of help! :D

Thankyou Clyde!

If i did know that i had forgotten!

Kindest regards
J

Turn on some soft music. Imagine being in the audience and seeing the performers playing their instruments. Imagine the people next to you , the curtains, the murmur. Imagine a sign above the orchestra that says' Am I dreaming? LD's occur in the transition from the Theta (deep relaxation) brainwave state to the Delta(deep Sleep) state.You will probably have LD's when first falling asleep or in the transitional period between asleep and aroused. Happy dreaming!

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Originally Posted by faceonmars

Turn on some soft music. Imagine being in the audience and seeing the performers playing their instruments. Imagine the people next to you , the curtains, the murmur. Imagine a sign above the orchestra that says' Am I dreaming? LD's occur in the transition from the Theta (deep relaxation) brainwave state to the Delta(deep Sleep) state.You will probably have LD's when first falling asleep or in the transitional period between asleep and aroused. Happy dreaming!

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While Delta brain waves indicate slow-wave (deep) sleep (stages 3 and 4, but primarily in 4), and Theta waves indicate stage 1 of the sleep cycle (just getting into sleep from being awake), lucid dreams occur during REM sleep. REM sleep comes after Stage 4 of the sleep cycle. That would mean, it does not come from the transition from the Theta brain wave stage to the Delta brain wave stage in sleep.

Seriously, where do you come off making a statement like that without doing research?

Pwn'd ^

@CM
Gee whiz! You don't have to be so rude. Faceonmars may have been referring to VILD, where you visualize a dream and a certain RC, then you have that dream later that night. It's true that you can't have a lucid dream right after you first go to sleep, but how do you know they meant that? They could have meant to do the music thing during a WBTB.

And even if they did mean it and were completely and utterly wrong, you could have corrected them without asking them what they're smoking and challenging their right of posting because of lack of research.

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Originally Posted by PuppyCat

@CM
Gee whiz! You don't have to be so rude. Faceonmars may have been referring to VILD, where you visualize a dream and a certain RC, then you have that dream later that night. It's true that you can't have a lucid dream right after you first go to sleep, but how do you know they meant that? They could have meant to do the music thing during a WBTB.

And even if they did mean it and were completely and utterly wrong, you could have corrected them without asking them what they're smoking and challenging their right of posting because of lack of research.

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I suppose this is what you might call a moment of shame.... :?

You're right, that post was pretty harsh. I was pretty ticked that someone would start spouting off scientific terms when they were entirely untrue, and pass it off to someone as truth, but I was indeed overcome with the overwhelming need to correct them, and had inadvertently corrected as well as verbally tackled Faceonmars. Not my intentions, I assure them/you. I usually post much less intimidating/aggressive posts, because I'm so passive in real life, but I know that's no excuse for chopping someone's head off online. *corrects self by editing earlier post*


However, I will say this in all fairness, in response to the line "It's true that you can't have a lucid dream right after you first go to sleep, but how do you know they meant that?", it's hard for me to take it any other way, when they lay out where specifically in the sleep cycle Faceonmars believed lucid dreams to occur, by stating that they occur during the transition from light sleep to slow-wave sleep. I mean, if they didn't mean that, then why was Faceonmars going the full nine yards and using specific terms to describe the brainwave states if he wasn't quite clear on where they occur? I could give him the benefit of the doubt with no problem if I could be convinced that he wasn't using those terms knowingly, but unless he posts in this thread again, I don't think that question will get answered. All in all it's not a big deal, even though I'd done the wrong thing in being the one to make a big deal out of it.

I'll type a little slower from now on when I get going on something.