Thread: Cant Become Lucid

Hi Alex,


You might want to think of doing regular Reality Checks or RCs. I do an RC every hour.
The purpose of them is to get you to ask the question, am I dreaming? and answer the
question. I look at my hands one at a time and then count my fingers. I try to push my
finger through my hand to see if it is solid or not. I look at my watch three times to see
if the times change dramatically and I look at a piece of text three times to see if the
letters change position.

The hand reality check has been good for me because I can check if I am dreaming or
not. If you check if you are dreaming or not very often then over time you can train
your dreaming brain to be more questioning about what it is generating. So if it sees
a pink elephant juggling 6 juggernauts it goes hmmm is that quite right.

I have only had DILDs which are Dream Induced Lucid Dreams when the brain realises
that it is dreaming. I do an RC as soon as I realise I am dreaming to make sure. With
the hand RC I usually have too many fingers, or what looks like a broken finger or
something that isn't painful, or the hand is hideously distorted or not solid.

It might help, give it a try...

Namaste







You could read this wikipedia article about Lucids
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lucid_Dreamin...tion_Techniques


If you use a computer alot - try using something like this to remind you to RC.
http://bytered.com/software-realitycheck.html

Yes, definately keep a Dream Journal
You need to get good recall so that if you have a Lucid Dream you can
remember it when you wake up - it is possible you have already had
them but upon waking you forgot - you can keep a dream journal on Dream Views
like mine:

http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/inde...howtopic=24721

Originally Posted by Namaste

Hi Alex,
You might want to think of doing regular Reality Checks or RCs. I do an RC every hour.
The purpose of them is to get you to ask the question, am I dreaming? and answer the
question. I look at my hands one at a time and then count my fingers. I try to push my
finger through my hand to see if it is solid or not. I look at my watch three times to see
if the times change dramatically and I look at a piece of text three times to see if the
letters change position.

The hand reality check has been good for me because I can check if I am dreaming or
not. If you check if you are dreaming or not very often then over time you can train
your dreaming brain to be more questioning about what it is generating. So if it sees
a pink elephant juggling 6 juggernauts it goes hmmm is that quite right.

I have only had DILDs which are Dream Induced Lucid Dreams when the brain realises
that it is dreaming. I do an RC as soon as I realise I am dreaming to make sure. With
the hand RC I usually have too many fingers, or what looks like a broken finger or
something that isn't painful, or the hand is hideously distorted or not solid.

It might help, give it a try...

Namaste
You could read this wikipedia article about Lucids
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lucid_Dreamin...tion_Techniques
If you use a computer alot - try using something like this to remind you to RC.
http://bytered.com/software-realitycheck.html

Yes, definately keep a Dream Journal
You need to get good recall so that if you have a Lucid Dream you can
remember it when you wake up - it is possible you have already had
them but upon waking you forgot - you can keep a dream journal on Dream Views
like mine:

http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/inde...howtopic=24721
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thanks for the help guys!