The "Window" technique

For a very long time now, i've been using this method that i made up, and it works awesome. For everybody that i have told it to, they seem to now be good at it, and become lucid more often. First things first though, so at first, this will be better off as a dream sign, knowing that your dreaming. Here it is:

Everyone has there own dream signs, but this is mine. Whenever i wake up in the morning, i ALWAYS look out my window. Thats probably the first thing i do. When i look out the window i observe the beautiful scene, sky, trees, etc. I look out the window (its my kitchen window btw) atleast 6 times a day, but you could do it more. I've done this since i was very little. I kept on doing this until it became a habbit, and everyday i look out my window.

Anyway, when you have the habbit of looking out your window, your brain will take this method in, and you will be looking out your window in your dreams or LD's. For the first while, everytime i dream, the first thing that would happen in my dream is that i would be looking out my window starring. At this point, i could tell i'm lucid because when i look outside, it doesnt look normal like it usually does in reality. In reality, you'd normally see a blue sky, green grass, green trees, your average houses, and such. But in your LD's, the scenery would look TOTALLY different, or there would be something that would make it look different. For example, in my dreams when i look out the window, i would see a pink sky, orange trees, blue grass and houses that would made out of chocolate. Other times, i would see weird objects, and the scene would look very bright with the colours looking extremely rich and beautiful, sometimes neon.

Thats an example, different people will see different things, but the people i taught this to usually see different colours and such at first. Once you look your window and see things looking different, you should automatically KNOW that your dreaming. Once you realize this, you now can control your dream a bit, if not alot. It takes a bit of time, but you'll eventually get it. Another thing is, if you first look out the window and see things different, there could be a chance that you may think this is reality. So you should do this. Look out your window, and when you see things looking different but still cant tell if your dreaming, look AWAY for 5 seconds, and then look back out the window. The scene should look more different, and you'll see things looking more bizarre.

So basically what you do, is go up to a window(i perfer kitchen) and just look out the window. Observe everything, and continue looking out for atleast 2 minutes. Do this more often. Dont worry if your dream doesnt start off by you looking out your window, because this can happen anytime in your dream, and when it does you'll know your dreaming. From that point, thats when i start taking things the way i want it to go. I've been doing this for a long time, and it works perfectly. For everybody i told it to, they think its a great method. You guys should try it. Seriously by doing this, i was able to become more and more lucid often, to the point where i have 6 lucid dreams at night, controlling it however i want. Remember, use this as a dream sign first.

Tell me what you think. :wink:

*adds idea to his list*

That sounds like a great method!

Yup, I remember...

Since you mentioned this technique so many times, I'll take it more seriously now...

But if this question can be answered, is it necessary to search for oddities, or just look, trusting our minds to let us know whether it's an LD or not?

good method. I usually see very weird and mysterious things when I look out my window in a dream...