Thread: Having Trouble Lucid Dreaming: Need Some Help

Originally Posted by Peranthai

Well when I use WBTB I wake up around 4:30 am, turn of my alarm and go back to sleep. This makes it so that I remember my dreams when I wake up but I don't really know I'm dreaming and I can't do anything in them.

Is there any way I can train to control my dreams? That's the kind of lucid dream I want : D

I just recently found out how to get myself to lucid dream. I had been trying for over a year and I was becoming very frusterated with it. I tried all the different ways people say to do it, but none of them ever worked for me. I had the exact same problem as you with WILD, I would lay unmoving for hours, controlling my breathing, and counting from one to 500 over and over to relax. After about an hour or so with no results my body would feel slightly numb, but that was about it. I would try to move my fingers and they would move so i knew i wasnt in sleep paralysis. It was really annoying. About a week ago, I woke up in the middle of the night, stayed awake for like 2-5 minutes, then went back to sleep as normal. The only difference, is as i was falling asleep, I would repeat to myself "lucid dream" over and over until i was asleep. I would have a dream and realize it was a dream about halfway through. No idea why. Try it and see if it works for you. It works for me about 70% of the time.

Alright. I'll give that a try. I was actually trying to do it using sleep breathing last night and something odd happened after a while. After I started feeling the vibrations my hands felt as if they were floating upwards even though I knew they weren't because I could still partially feel my bed sheets. I think that could be a start but when I wake myself up in the morning I'll be sure to try your mantra. I'll respond here again how it goes.

I hope it works out, I am super excited about it finnaly working for me. My only problem now is not waking up when I realize it. Have to learn to rub my hands together faster haha.