Thread: Hi everyone

If you want to be relaxed, try meditation

And you can try DILD

Originally Posted by GavinGill

Hey, welcome to DV. =D

Puffin's Beginner's Guide To Lucid Dreaming is a great place to start learning about lucid dreams. You should also browse the Tutorial section when you get the chance, it's full of information, tips, and in-depth guides. On top of that, you can also visit the DV Academy for further guidance - the DVA Professors will teach you everything you'll ever need to know about lucid dreaming.

You might also want to get into the habit of performing reality checks (maybe two or three) throughout your day, you'll eventually start doing them in dreams and become lucid. I usually count my fingers but feel free to look up other methods and see which works best for you. I'd also recommend keeping a dream journal; regularly recording your dreams is a great way to improve to improve recall and you'll be able to notice common themes and patterns which can further help you attain lucidity.

We also have an off-topic section as well where you can discuss anything from books, movies, tv shows, philosophy, current events, etc so be sure to visit that part of the forum as well. If you ever get bored or need to kill time, visit Senseless Banter. It's full of nonsensical threads like forum games and the SB frequenter's are a friendly bunch so feel free to drop in sometime. We also have an IRC Chat Server which can be found near the top of the forum index. 'tis lulz.

When you enter SP, you should try to focus on your breathing and counting to. Inhale, exhale, one. Inhale, exhale, two. Inhale, exhale, three. Etc. The breathing exercise should help you relax and as for the counting, start back at one once you reach ten. Remembering to do that should help stay conscious as you slip into a dream.

Thanks for advice. I'll surely try these techniques today. DILDing is currently quite hard since I haven't got many dreams lately or they are very short (2-6 seconds).

When you write a dream journal, since your dreams are fairly short, write EVERYTHING that happens. Level of blurryness, how your dream body felt, what colo(u)r everything was, how the DCs looked like, how the sounds sounded like, the smells, the sights, the tastes, the feeling, everything that was cramped in those 6 seconds, write it. It'll increase your recall a lot.

If you are determined, you should achieve lucidity within a few weeks. Most people do. I however, for example, am a slow learner and took longer to manage even a single lucid. Don't get discouraged if you can't get them quickly. Everythign will pay off in the end though.

Welcome to DV. (: