New here, have questions about being lucid.

Three weeks ago, I realized I was dreaming in a rather short dream, I was in math class and noticed that a purple sky and 1 + 1 being 57,928 wasn't normal. I realized I was dreaming. I realize, get excited, and then when I exit the classroom and I fall straight through the floor, hit the bottom, and wake up. Yesterday, I had a dream where I was in china with one a pet dragon, fire breathing and all. I had complete control of the dream and could do whatever I want, yet I didn't actually realize I was dreaming. An example, I would think "Snow" and suddenly it goes from hot to being covered in snow, but I didn't realize I was dreaming. Is that considered a lucid dream? How can I lucid dream more often? I lucid dream once every two weeks, I wanna know how to reduce it to at least once every two days.
Thanks.

Taragaram, welcome to DV :).

If you didn't realise that you were dreaming, it wasn't a lucid dream. But it's quite good that you had some level of control in the dream. For lucid dreaming more often, I'd first recommend keeping a dream journal if you don't already. You should also do reality checks throughout the day, and focus on what you're doing as you do it (don't just do the RCs out of habit). This will help with DILD and also with MILD (Mnemonic Induced Lucid Dream), should you choose to try that. I'd say lucid dreaming requires only three things: effort, patience, and confidence.

ShockWave.

Thanks,
I don't want to lose sleep by paralyzing myself before sleep or waking up in the middle of the night and going back to sleep. Is there any way to passively without doing anything just lucid dream often? Yeah, it sounds lazy, but I have to get up early and don't wanna lose sleep.

Well the techniques I suggested (DILD and MILD) both induce lucidity while in the dream, so you don't need to get up in the middle of the night or anything. A good idea, if you want to have regular lucid dreams, would be to try out ADA (All-Day Awareness). KingYoshi wrote a great tutorial on this, and it's helped me to have more lucid dreams.

http://www.dreamviews.com/f12/all-da...gyoshi-113253/

ShockWave.

I honestly never read thoroughly each induction technique. With my level of perception, I think DILD is the way to go for me! Thanks.