Cant Become Lucid

Hi my names Alex and im new to this place. When im asleep i cant determin if im dreaming.I mean a pink elephant could start to break dance and i wouldnt know if i was dreaming. PLEASE give me some tips

Hey. Welcome to the forum.

One of the most important things you need to work on is how to make yourself more aware in your dreams. Start a dream journal, if you haven't already, and make sure you write down your dreams every morning. There's lots of info on the forum about how to become lucid...spend some time reading through threads. If you want some one on one help, head over to the adoption forum and find someone to adopt you. ;)

thanks ill check that out

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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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 :bowdown: for the help guys!