How to Lucid Dream

Quest for Lucidity
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Personally, I have always had lucid dreams, and not on purpose. They began when I was a teenager and I am now in my twenties. When I tell most people about lucid dreaming they have no idea what it is, or think that I am crazy. In my first lucid dream I was in a mansion on a lake, and I walked past a mirror, to see that I had short choppy bangs that I did not have in real life. I thought to myself, “My hair doesn’t look like this! This must be a dream!” And then I woke up. Then it started to happen more frequently and I wasn’t scared anymore, I would start doing crazy things like flying which is a lot of fun, I get so mad when I wake up.
For my birthday one year, someone bought me a dream journal. I started using it every day and then I started lucid dreaming all the time. My advice is to keep a dream journal, because the more in touch you are with your dreams, the easier it will be for you to realize when you are dreaming. It’s also cool to look back at all the dreams you’ve wrote down. Some of them may actually mean something. I have had multiple dreams of friends becoming pregnant and then they do.
You have to write down your dreams as soon as you wake up. If you don’t, you will forget your dreams within minutes. That’s why you hear people say “I don’t have dreams. I never dream”. They most likely do, they just don’t remember.
The challenge for me is that sometimes when I am dreaming and I become lucid, my mind will try to wake me up. I have to almost pretend that I don’t know I am dreaming, as if my mind finds out I am lucid dreaming, my mind will wake me from the dream. That may sound weird but it does work. Like at first I would get so excited I would scream things like “Wow I am dreaming!” … Then I would wake up. But if I stay quiet and just keep the excitement to myself, I can usually stay in the dream for a while.
The more you think about dreams while you are awake, the easier it is to become a lucid dreamer.

Good Luck!

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Great post.
Actually all LD techniques and preparations boil down to one thing - increased awareness.
After all, when you think about it, most of us work the same in real life - we don’t stop and question the reality or pay attention to details, we just “go along” and usually never care about minor details like the clock-ticking, our eyes blinking, the smell of the air etc, because they aren’t important; and so we will naturally do the same in dreams as well, and therefore not notice the sublime dreamsigns.
So with increased awareness we will also become more aware in our dreams; it’s kind of like the difference between daydreaming and paying close attention to everything around you, where daydreaming is the real-life equivalent to a “normal” dream and the latter is a lucid dream.

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Welcome to ld4all :wave:

Those are some good tips :smile: I remember when I started out I would pretend I was in a poker game when I got lucid. I felt the same thing, it’s funny, that if the dream knew that I was lucid it would kick me out :razz:

@Laurelindo: Lately I’ve been also realilzing how important awareness is (and how I need to work on it). The last LD I was able to stay in for a few minutes without being kicked out, I took a deep breath, made myself calm, and focused on my dream environment as if my life depended on it :lol: After a while I got distracted, so I need to practice more during the day.

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Thank you for the warm welcome. It’s amazing to have found a forum about lucid dreaming. Although I become lucid often, I have to work harder on not getting kicked out of my dreams too. Who knew going to sleep could be so exciting?

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Indeed :tongue: I also have more trouble staying in a lucid dream than achieving one, in general. Well, I haven’t had many LD’s lately either, but I’m just coming back from a break…