Just like the title says, I was wondering if anyone has found out about any new lucid dreaming techniques. I am curious to know. Please tell me also if you have created your own!
I have only had one lucid dream, just two nights ago and I was talking about the topic with my dad right before I went to bed. I guess this is kind of like WRILD (Writing Induced) or MILD (Mnemonic Induction) but does this specifically have a name?
Basically, my questions are:
Do you guys know of any new lucid dreaming techniques?
Has anyone created a new lucid dreaming technique?
Is there a named technique that involves having an active (on both sides) conversation about lucid dreaming with someone before you go to sleep?
Interesting question! Looking forward to what people will respond. I don’t personally know of this..
Lately I did try myself to induce lucid dreams by being on this forum every night right before sleeping. Sometimes I just read, but other times I interact so that’s kinda like a conversation. Sadly, no improved results (still at 1 short LD per week on average, which I also had when I just tried reading a book about lucid dreaming before sleeping). Perhaps screen time is not a great way to go. I tried both of those methods for a few months. Now trying new things again in the hopes of finding something more effective.
Last week I tried pulling an oracle card from a deck about lucid dreaming. And reading from the booklet the explanation about that card. I then lucid dreamed for 3 nights out of the 5 nights I tried. Even one of them was one of my longest lucid dreams ever. Not sure though if I’ll keep getting such good results, and i just need a bit more discipline for it than for some forum reading on my phone.
Would love to hear your results if you give your conversation method a longer try!
Through the forum I by the way found out about VILD and SSILD. They’re not new, but they are less known and they were new to me. Did you know them? Not to hijack your topic, but would love it if others also share less known induction techniques that might be new to some of us.
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New here and just had my first truly lucid (rather than pre-lucid) dream in a while. Though I’m not really sure if this is truly a “new technique,” it differs somewhat from the reality checks that other people have come up with (for example, the hand technique from Castenada’s fictional Don Juan).
What’s been helpful for me is focusing on sensations and experiences that I commonly have during dreams. One dream I commonly have is of trying to turn the lights on (flipping a light switch) but being unable to. Another very common sensation that I have when dreaming is feeling a sensation of being unable to keep my eyelids open (slightly like if you’re extremely sleepy and literally cannot keep your eyelids open), or unable to open my eyelids in the first place. Last night, I was having a dream where I was struggling to keep my eyes open, but I realized that I could see anyway regardless of whether they were open or closed, and a combination of an awareness of “this is something that happens to me in dreams” and also that being able to see even with my eyelids closed meant I was dreaming brought me into full lucidity, and in fact one of the most stable and high-level lucid dreams that I’ve had to date.
Obviously this technique is not going to get me a lucid dream every night, since I don’t have an “I can’t turn on the lights” or “I can’t keep my eyelids open” dream every day, but I do think dreaming is a fairly individual experience in which not everyone’s experience is the same, so I wanted to share this in the hope that dialing in on the specific experiences and sensations you commonly have in your dreams and cultivating an awareness of those as signals that you are dreaming might be helpful to someone else out there.
The technique Night-Owl mentioned, reading about lucid dreaming (or hearing about, talking about, thinking about, or just interacting with the idea in any way) during the day is a known thing (I think Robert Waggoner talks about it in his Lucid Dreaming book) and I’ve also found that helpful in the past. The most transcendental-feeling lucid dream that I ever had was during a time that I was regularly playing a PC game called Dreamscaper, where you interact with people during the day and then combat enemies during your sleep. I don’t think it quite clicked until after I had that lucid dream that the whole game is actually about lucid dreaming (you control the actions of the character during the dream).
Hope this is helpful to someone!
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My personal twist on Castenada’s technique is to go outside during WBTB and look for the moon before performing a reality check. For me the intention is more powerful than just looking for my hands as it also primes future / prospective memory.
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Thanks for this, Night-Owl.
I haven’t used this forum for ages (I kind of forgot about it 
) so sorry about this very late reply, but I think that’s very interesting! Especially the oracle cards!
I didn’t manage to give my conversation method much attention, considering the only people I can talk to about lucid dreaming are on this forum, and, like you said, maybe screen time isn’t a great way to go.
I think I’m gonna try and get some of my friends and family into lucid dreaming so I can give my idea a good try. I will make sure to tell you if I get any interesting results!
Also, I did know about SSILD, and I know a bit about VILD. SSILD, in fact, is one of my favourite induction techniques! And don’t worry about hijacking my topic - I don’t mind at all. I also think it’s a good idea for people to share some of the lesser known techniques.
I kind of lost my interest in lucid dreaming for a bit, but when I remembered about this website I decided to give it another go. I’m very glad I came back to it.
Anyways, happy lucid dreams!
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