Thread: Having Trouble Lucid Dreaming

You need to practice your ability to reflect over your current situation.
For example, in everyday life you probably accept whatever situation you are in as waking life, and in that case this will make you have the same attitude to the dreamworld as well - basically, you don't really take the time to question it, and you just "know" that it is waking life, even though it is a dream!
This is an attitude that needs to be changed.
Your first step should be to start questioning your state even if you are sure that you are awake - ask yourself things like "HOW do I know that I am awake?" whenever you feel even slightly suspicious about your current state, and then try your best to prove to yourself that you actually are awake, or that you might be dreaming.

Also, it is worth keeping in mind that waking life actually IS a kind of dream in some ways, because your senses use whatever information that they receive of the waking world and then recreate them as accurately as they can, and this is what you actually experience.
You never "see" the waking world directly, you only see the stuff that your brain has created out of that information;
so your experience of waking life consists of the same "stuff" as the dreamworld.