Thread: The basics.

By trying to lucid dream, you're trying to alter your perception of your dreams, so the basics of lucid dreaming are the same as those of perception.

Attention-During the dream you need have attention on the dream itself to become lucid.

Memory-During the dream you have to recall that the dream is one in order to become lucid.

Expectation-In order to recall that the dream is one, you have to have an expectation that you're dreaming.

Learning-To have an expectation that you're dreaming, you have to learn beforehand what a dream is like or otherwise learn that it is possible to be dreaming in whatever situation you're in during the dream.