Can Anyone Do It?

[Akira_Hikari]

Can Anyone Induce a Lucid Dream?

I have only had two Lucid dreams in my life, and I crave to have some now. Please, Does anyone know how to make yourself have Lucid dreams? Or have more dreams period?

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I LOVE dreaming, though i seldom do, i wish i could dream more...

[FlyingMaster]

Originally Posted by Akira_Hikari

Can Anyone Induce a Lucid Dream?

I have only had two Lucid dreams in my life, and I crave to have some now. Please, Does anyone know how to make yourself have Lucid dreams? Or have more dreams period?

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I LOVE dreaming, though i seldom do, i wish i could dream more...

I have many lucid dreams, but not usually on purpose. Most of the time something will set me off that I am dreaming, some sign or something that I recognize from other dreams. I think that the first step to having lucid dreams is to remember a lot of your dreams so that you can establish any patterns or dream history that might help to signal a dream state. For instance, I had (remembered) so many "false awakening" dreams that tricked me into thinking I had actually escaped a nightmare and was awake that I began to recognize them and develop tests to see if I was dreaming or not. I think that recognizing the dream (or recalling it from memory) was the most important part to becoming lucid and that only came from remembering a patterned dream. From then on I had more and more dreams that would suddenly tip me off in different ways and I would become lucid. Now it is to the point that I will notice the smallest thing, like how the people are interacting or if something that usually happens only during the day is occurring at night, and it will set me off on a lucid dream where I can decide what I'm going to try and do next.

So I guess what I'm suggesting is to either keep a dream journal or talk a lot to other people about your dreams so that they become embedded in your long term memory enough for you to recall them as dreams even when you are sleeping. That way, if you have a reoccurring dream or something similar, you might recognize it as a dream and thus, know you are in one.

[idgy]

Flying master is right in saying to keep a dream journal. This will make a start to help you remember your dreams more vividly after waking. Most of the time, I become lucid on the edge of a nightmare. Just at the point when I am about to feel fear and panic, I realise it’s a dream and there is nothing to fear. From then on I am lucid.

During your waking hours, tell yourself, ‘nothing to fear, it’s only a dream’ or ‘it’s a dream’. It’s surprising how your thoughts from the day will stay somewhere in your mind, and hopefully that part of your mind will click in whilst you are asleep.

It’s quite hard to explain how to lucid dream, but I think that if you have the intention and tell yourself that you will know when you are dreaming whilst awake, you will eventually get there. If you have had a couple already, you are probably well on your way.

[Charles H.]

Idgy's right..I didn't start lucid dreaming until I started telling myself "I'm dreaming, so I can do anything" during the day. And especially right before you goto sleep. Make it your unconscious chant. Subliminal, so its the first thing your mind says when thinking nothing...something like that..well..you get the picture. Then just about every night I have completely lucid dreams. Its kinda like a skill you have to master..anyways..good luck people

[neotank]

I say be careful what you wish for. I sometimes just want peaceful sleep, but for whatever reason my mind just never frigging slows down at night. I dream every single night, lots of different dreams. All different types, good bad, some I can control, others I can't.

I sometimes absolutley hate it. I see my wife next to me sleeping peacefully as always while I just awoke from some dream where a deranged clown is chasing me through the streets of Cleveland with a damn butcher knife in his hand. But also there is some obvious benefits, like dreaming of going on some grand adventure that seems to go on for days on end, and waking up feeling totally cool. I once had a dream I saved the 'chosen one' (some angelic girl) from the clutches of the anti christ. Not a bad day at the office.

I'm no expert but I would think you either are a dreamer or you aren't. But from what some of these other posters say, maybe it is possible, just might take a lot of mental effort.

[onitatsu]

Inducing dreams/lucid dreams is actually pretty easy, try watching a mivie or reading a book before you go to sleep. also, drawing a picture or doing a puzzle to get your imagination/creativity working before you go to sleep. If you take a while getting to sleep, use the opportunity to reflect on situations in your life you would like to change or would have liked to do differently, imagine yourself actually back in those situations and imagin them the way you want them to be, eventually you will slip into sleep and your mind will automatically continue it. As for remembering your dreams, when you first wake up, before you get out of bed, try to remember what you dreamed about, every detail. They say that the average person has 300 some odd dreams per night, so there should be something. If you seriously can't think of anything, make something up that you would have liked to dream about, eventually you will dream of these things. All this advice comes from experience, i always have lucid dreams, and used these techniques to remember them. Also, try writing down the details/things in your dream then look them up in the dream dictionary and write down the meaning.

All the Best,
Lizz Coolness

[Jeff]

Yes, anyone who can remember their dreams can have lucid dreams. I'd had a few random lucid dreams in my life until I found and read Stephen LaBerge's book "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. "

Within two weeks of reading the book and following his methods, I'd had four lucid dreams and two on the same night.

Of all the books I've read on the theory AND practice, this has been the best so far.

Regards,
Jeff

[Cheetah]

i too have found this book helpful xD

[Jennings]

I have had lucid dreams since as far back as I can recall; even in early childhood. They happen randomly but more lately I have been attempting to induce them when the law of reversed effort seems to come into play and nothing happens! On trying to maintain a journal my situation became worse when I found that I now have no recall of most dreams. I did not find LaBerge's books to be of any help; indeed, I feel that they made my situation worse although I am certainly not disputing what he says. I have opened his Web page but so far only surfed it. Many years ago I was able to utilise lucid dreaming to my advantage without then recognising it as lucid dreaming; now that I know something of its advantages I appear to be advancing backwards! Previously, although happening randomly, I did seem to be able to induce them but often never enjoyed doing so as at times there were difficulities in determining which state I was in. I had difficulty knowing whether I was awake but, I am still trying!