Thread: from spontaneous lucidity to induced lucidity

Hello all, I am glad to find this site.

thanks to Tornado Joe for the card with the site address.

I met him at a workshop on Lucid Dreaming led by Stephen LaBerge in Hawaii.
http://www.lucidity.com/

Previously I had some spontaneous lucid dreams. I had read some books that were helpful (Patricia Garfield, LaBerge, Tenzin Rinpoche) and some that weren't ( Castenada, lucid dreaming in 30 days ). Reading the books inspired some lucidity, but I was too lazy to practice any techniques more than once.

I learned some some ability to stop anxiety dreams and nightmares by realizing they were dreams. I also had some flying dreams that had lucid elements.

At the workshop I started using techniques more consistently:
1) dream journal every day
2) set intent to have lucid dream (say it aloud with some emotional intensity)
3) Wake back to bed ( I drink extra water before going to sleep and it wakes me up around 3:00 to 4:00 am).
5) MILD technique

I've now had 3 lucid dreams from these techniques, but I'm experiencing stabilization issues that are new to me. Rubbing hands and spinning in the dream are helping. But also dealing with excitement about becoming lucid, and fascination of how real things look and feel in a lucid dream. My normal dream recall focuses on what happened, and I don't normally remember the visual clarity.

I'm going to write about my new induced lucid dreams in my dream journal and try and track my progress.

I'm excited about the new possibilities of regularly having lucid dreams.