LD4all Pocket Guide to Lucid Dreaming

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LD4all Pocket Guide to Lucid Dreaming

© 1996-2026 pasQuale/LD4all. All Rights Reserved.

LD4all started out back in 1996 as a guide to lucid dreams. Over the years it has had several incarnations. The last incarnation (2004) of the LD4all guide has become too time consuming to update because it was -let’s say- unique HMTL.

Now I bring you the Pocket Guide to Lucid Dreaming. Same guide content, outdated info removed and evergreen content saved. (and spelling errors (finally) fixed xD)

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Introduction

Have you ever controlled your dreams? Yes, that is really possible!
It is called lucid dreaming and here you can learn how to do it.

Don’t take your dreams for granted

In dreams, things happen that don’t happen in daily life. But when you dream, you are convinced that what you see is reality.

When you are at work, and your boss appears to be a pink monster with tentacles, won’t you at least start thinking that that is slightly strange? In real life, you would, but in a dream you don’t. In a dream, everything that happens is absolutely normal.

Most people are accustomed to the fact that dreams are just dreams, and that you can’t do anything about them. In fact, some people are convinced that they don’t even dream.

:right_arrow: A lucid - or conscious dream is a dream where you know you are dreaming. You are aware of the fact that everything around you is a dream and made up by your own mind.

Become aware of the dream

However, it is possible to ‘wake up’ inside the dream-- to realize that your boss normally goes through life in a human form, and from there to realize that you must be dreaming. This is called lucid dreaming.

When you become lucid in a dream, you can transform yourself into an animal, become invisible, fly away through a window, materialise a Ferrari in mid-air, step through a mirror or change your mother-in-law into a teddybear. In short: you can do everything you can imagine.

You can also take advantage of your lucid dreams by confronting your fears, trying to understand your dream symbols (they are there so why not just ask them what they mean?), or ask for answers to your questions. You can use your dreams to gain knowledge about yourself and to grow spiritually.

I hope this guide inspires you to start your own Quest for Lucidity!
-pasQuale

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Remember your Dreams

Before you can have a lucid dream, you’ll have to remember your dreams. How else would you know you had a lucid dream when you wake up?

If you are somebody who wakes up and can write whole books of your dreams, you can skip this part. However, are you someone who can only remember dreams sporadically, or you can just remember some dreams from your childhood and you have the feeling you don’t dream anymore, then read on.

:right_arrow: When you succeed in remembering at least one dream every night, you are ready to try to become lucid.

How to remember?

One of the most important things is to not want it too much. When you are trying to force yourself to remember a dream, it won’t work. Try to let it come naturally. Practice makes perfect.

When you are consciously intending to remember your dreams, your subconscious will pick this up and you will notice that you remember more and more of your dreams. In the beginning it may be just a fragment, or a feeling. But it will develop into complete dream scenarios. Be patient and persevere.

Dream remember exercise

The following exercise you can do while you are in bed, ready to go to sleep. You can adapt it to your own insights, what’s important is that you feel good doing it, and the things you say to yourself sound right.

To start you are going to clean your head a bit of everything that happened during the day. Relax and go with your attention to the center of your head. This is the point between your ears, behind your eyes. Feel how you are in the center of your head. Now visualize a big vacuum cleaner that cleans the inside of your head.

Feel how you breathe. Breathe in and out. Breathe in and tense the muscles of your feet. Breathe out and relax the muscles of your feet. Breathe in and tens the muscles in your lower legs. Breathe out and relax them again. Go on until you have come to your head.

When you feel completely relaxed say to yourself:“I’m going to sleep now, and I’m going to dream. When I wake up I remember my dream”

Now visualize how you wake up and write down your dreams in your dream journal, or record them otherwise.

Keep repeating your intention to remember your dream until you fall asleep.

Ask for help

You can also ask for help. Ask your subconscious, your Higher Self, God, the Universe, your spirit guide, or whoever you want. Make contact with the one you ask for help and ask him/her to help you remember your dream.

Water trick

You can also take a glass of water, and consciously drink half of it. While you drink you tell yourself that you are going to dream and remember your dream. Then visualize how you wake up, drink the rest of the water, and remember your dream. When you awake, you empty the glass and if everything goes well, your subconscious will be triggered to let your dream surface.

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Keeping a Dream Journal

To help you remember your dreams (and also to keep track of all your lucid ones) the best thing you can do is to keep a dream journal.
Recording your dreams will give you a reason to remember them, thus improving your dream recall right away.

:right_arrow: If you consequently write down at least one dream a night, you will begin to recognize your own unique dreamthemes. Once you have found such a theme, you can use that to become lucid.

Choosing your means of recording

First make a conscious choice on how you will keep track of your dreams. Will you write them down by hand or on the computer? Do you prefer to speak your dreams into a dictaphone and write them out later?

Make it special

If you are going to write by hand go out and buy yourself a journal that appeals to you. Also get yourself a pen that will only be used for writing in your journal. Consciously decide that this journal is the place where you will be recollecting your experiences in the dreamworld.

This will make your dream writing some sort of ritual. Another hint to your subconscious that remembering dreams is important now.
If you chose another method of recording your dreams, try to find something that will make it special and fun. It will really help your dream recall.

Do not wait

Keep your dream journal right next to your bed so you can write down your dreams directly when you have awoken.Let recording your dreams be the first thing you do in the morning. The longer you wait, the more your dream will fade away.
If you wake up in the night with a dream fresh in your head, don’t wait until morning to record it. No matter how clear they are at the time, they will have disappeared entirely from your memory by the time you get up in the morning.

Let the memory come

When you awake, don’t get out of bed immediately, but keep the position you awoke in. Let your mind wander back to your dream. Let the memory come to you. Don’t force yourself to remember, it won’t work.

Write down anything

If you cannot recall a dream then be aware of how you feel on waking up and write that down. Maybe you have a particular song in your head. Write down anything you can remember… emotions, colors, sounds, anything.

Title your dreams

Give every dream a title and don’t forget to put the date in as well. Dream titles help you to remember what the dream was about when you go through your journal.

Make it a habit

Make writing down your dreams part of your morning ritual. Set aside time in your schedule for writing down your dreams. If you make a habit of writing down your dreams your dream recall will improve. It is like exercising your muscles.

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Discover Recurring Dream themes

When you write down your dreams for a period of time, you will start to recognise recurring dream themes. These are your personal themes. As soon as you have found one, you can learn to recognize it while dreaming and thus become lucid.

Example: I used to unplug the telephone when I went to sleep because I didn’t want to be woken up by somebody who calls me in the middle of the night. However I had dreams in which my telephone rang and I answered it. I realised this was impossible so I knew I must be dreaming.

:right_arrow: When trying to find out if you are dreaming or not a Reality Check is the way to do it. More on this in the next chapter.

Common dreamthemes

Everybody is different, so everybody has different dreams. However, there are some common dreamsigns. You can add your own themes to this list as you write down more and more dreams in your dream diary.

Unstable point of view

Sometimes your point of view changes during your dream. For example: you are running through a street; you see yourself from above, running, and the next moment you are there, running. You can dream you see somebody doing something and the next moment you are that person. You can watch something and then become emerged in it. For example: You read a comic and become emerged in the story.

Malfunctioning devices

Your telephone won’t work, you have trouble turning on your computer, the TV is broken, etc.

Your teeth falling out

A very common dreamsign. A variation on this theme is loose teeth.

Bathroom trouble

Bathrooms in dreams are unfindable, extremely dirty, or have a tremendous lack of privacy.

Different houses

In dreams your house never looks the way like it does in real life. Or you find yourself in houses or rooms where you used to live.

Not being able to run fast

You have to get away fast, but you can only run in slowmotion. Or your feet are stuck to the ground.

Screaming without a voice

You want to scream but your voice is gone or barely hearable.

Perpetual falling

If you notice this one, try to change from falling into flying.

Being late

You miss your train or bus, or are afraid you are late for an appointment.

Exams

Terrible… You have a very important exam but you don’t know any of the questions. You haven’t studied or anything.
This one has been a trigger for lucidity for me.. When I have those dreams, I remember that I don’t have to do any exams anymore because I have finished school a long time ago. Then I realise I’m dreaming. Sometimes I don’t and I have constantly a nagging feeling that I already have graduated and I keep wondering why I’m doing the exam.

Being naked

Suddenly you realise you are naked, or essential parts of your body are uncovered and everybody is looking at you. You spend the rest of the dream searching for clothes.

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Is This a Dream?

When you start trying to have lucid dreams, you will find yourself sometimes wondering whether you are really dreaming or not. To answer that question a Reality Check is an excellent way.
One thing you must keep in mind is that whenever you are not sure it is a dream you are probably already dreaming!
In the dream world, other rules apply than in waking life. This is what we take advantage of in a reality check.

:right_arrow: Tip: Always have 2 or 3 Reality Checks at hand - If you’re doubting you can use the second and third one to be absolutely sure it’s a dream.

Here are several reality tests you can use:

Read something

Read something, look away and read it again. If you are dreaming the text will have changed. It will maybe not even be text at all but weird symbols.

Look at the time

Find a clock and tell the time. Then look away and look back again. If you are dreaming, the time will have changed.
In a dream clocks never tell the time right. Sometimes they will not even tell the time. The clock may have no hands for example. Digital clocks will have too much numbers or strange symbols on them.

Hold your nose

Simple and effective. Hold your nose and try breathing through your fingers. If you can breathe you are dreaming.

Use your hands

Look at your hands and see if they look weird. Alternately: try sticking a finger through your hand. If you succeed you are definitely dreaming.

Try to levitate

Go on, just try it. Try to levitate from the ground and let yourself float. If you can do that you must be dreaming.

Try to switch on the light

Light-switches work erratically in dreams. Flip the nearest light switch. If you are dreaming the light won’t work. Or it might work but will shine in a different color or less bright.
If you switch on a light and it works not like it should you have a big change it’s a dream. Or a fuse has blown - so don’t go jumping from high buildings yet.

Through the mirror

This one is my favorite. Try to stick your finger through a mirror, the window, or a wall. It gives a very strange tinkling feeling in your finger when it works as well as the utmost conviction that you are dreaming. And after that, just step through and see where you end up…

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Some Advice Before You Begin

There are many ways to have a lucid dream. In the next chapters you will find some common lucid dreaming techniques. Everybody is different, so choose a method that appeals to you.

:right_arrow: Some people have lucid dreams naturally, others have to try very hard to reach lucidity. However, everybody can do it!

Make time for it

It is advisable that you don’t lead a stressful life. You must have the time for yourself and for your dreams.
I recommend you to start the exercises in a quiet period. Maybe in your vacation.

Take your time

Also, take your time. Maybe it doesn’t work the first time. Or the second. Or the third. Maybe you will get your first lucid dream the 35th try. Don’t give up. Be patient.
Once you have had your first lucid dream you will see that the next ones are easier and sometimes you will become lucid completely by surprise.

Don’t want it too much

Don’t want it too much. Things you want too much slip away from you. If you feel frustrated because nothing works, take some time off. Take your mind of LD-ing for a while. For some people their first lucid dream comes when they stopped trying.

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Using Reality Checks to Become Lucid

Reality Check? Didn’t we cover that one already? Yes, but instead of using the reality check inside the dream to determine it is really a dream, you can also apply it as a tool to become lucid.

To do that, you have to start doing RC’s everywhere, every time. Make a habit of it. Do it for example every time you wake up or look at a clock.

:right_arrow: Incidentally: Are you dreaming right now?

If you do RC’s all the time during waking life you will eventually dream of doing a Reality Check. And it will fail! (or work - depending how you look at it) and you will know you are dreaming.

Tips:

  • Get an alarm watch and every time the alarm goes off do a RC
  • Have one or 2 favorite reality checks and keep using them. That way it will be almost like a reflex.
  • Use the banner option in your screensaver to remind you to do a RC.
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Mnemonic Induced Lucid Dream

This method is familiar under the name MILD and has been invented by LaBerge.

According to LaBerge this method should be used when you have just awoken from an ordinary dream and you go back to sleep. The most important thing is your intent. You really have to believe what you say to yourself.

:right_arrow: It is important to not want it too much. Try to let it come to you. If it doesn’t work today, it will another time. Be patient.

MILD in 3 easy steps:

1 - Remember

Tell yourself that you will awake from a dream and you will recall that dream upon awakening. When awakening from a dream, try and remember as much as you can.

2 - Set your intent

While drifting back to sleep, concentrate on your intent to be aware that you are dreaming. Repeat the following text, or one you write yourself:
I’m going to dream now. I’m in a dream. I’m aware of my dream.
If you find your thoughts wandering, bring them back softly, and keep repeating the words.

3 - Visualise

Now imagine yourself becoming lucid in your dream. Go back to the dream you had before you woke up and imagine you realize it is a dream. (If you couldn’t remember any dreams when waking up, use another dream you previously recalled). See yourself realising you are dreaming. Visualise what you are going to do once you are lucid. (for example flying)

Repeat

Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you fall asleep.

The dream

If you are successful you will be inside a dream and you will suddenly realize that you are dreaming.

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Wake-Back-to-Bed Method

WBTB stands for Wake-Back-to-Bed. It is one of the most effective ways to become lucid.

Set your alarm clock a few hours earlier (I know, it is difficult, but this method is worth it).

Then get completely out of bed and do something lucid dream related. Read something about lucid dreams so you will have your head completely filled with the subject. Surfing lucid dreaming sites for an hour or so does miracles too.

Reading and posting in the LD4all forum is an excellent way as well of course. Or visit the LD4all discord - there is always somebody around.

When you are confident that Lucid Dreaming is the only thing you can think about go back to bed.

Tips:

  • If you have trouble getting out of bed try putting your alarm at the other side of the room so you have to get up to turn it off.
  • Combine this with other methods like WILD or MILD for better results.
  • Be sure to go to bed earlier or be able to sleep longer, don’t deprive yourself of needed sleep this way.
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Wake Induced Lucid Dream

When using the WILD technique, you go from being awake, directly into the dreaming state. That’s why it is called Wake Induced Lucid Dream

The trick is to recognize the hypnagogic state and stay conscious while it develops in dream images. You will then be able to literally step into your own dream world.
The hypnagogic state occurs on the border between waking and sleeping. It can be anything from colored dots to flashes of color or complete images. As you keep paying attention to it they will develop into more detailed images and if you stay aware you will find yourself inside your dream.

WILD in 3 easy steps

The below steps are interwoven. I separated them to make the process clearer.

1 - Relax

The hypnagogic stage occurs when you are relaxed. So first you do a relaxation exercise.
Feel yourself breathing in and out. Breathe in and tense the muscles of your feet. Breathe out and relax the muscles of your feet. Breathe in and tense the muscles in your lower legs. Breathe out and relax them again. Go on until you have come to your head.

2 - Be aware

The next step is staying conscious, and not drifting off. Ways to do that are:

  • Counting 1 - I’m dreaming, 2 - I’m dreaming, 3 - I’m dreaming, etc.
  • Paying attention to yourself breathing, while counting every breath in and out.
  • Imagining yourself walking down stairs, counting every step.
  • A combination of all of the above.

3 - Enter your dream

If you succeed in staying aware your hypnagogic images will become clearer. You will suddenly have a feeling you can now step into your dream. This is very hard to describe. The word that comes close is “knowingness”
With this knowingness you can grab an object you see before you or zoom in on an image. This will pull you into the dream.

Keep practising

The hardest thing is to stay aware and not drifting off to sleep. If you don’t succeed, keep trying. WILD can take some time to master but it is worth it.

Experienced WILDers can reach this state without the counting - they just relax, keep paying attention to the hypnagogic images and then consciously enter the dreaming state.

A WILD example from me

When falling asleep I see images, and one of them is a rock. I am still conscious and decide to try and pick up the rock and thus end up in the dream scene. It works, I find myself inside the scene, holding the rock in my hand.

WILD and OOBE

The border between WILD and and an Out of Body Experience can be very thin. Instead of zooming into your dream, you can feel yourself rolling out of bed or just stand up and find yourself beside your bed, in your room, but you don’t see yourself sleeping in bed.

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More ways to become lucid

Look at your hands

During the day, look consciously at your hands and ask yourself:“Am I dreaming?”.

Before going to sleep remind yourself that you will look at your hands in your dream.
When you do this often enough you will eventually look at your hands in your dream too. You will then either immediately realize you are dreaming - or ask yourself the question “Am I dreaming?” Then do a Reality Check to be sure.

How did I get here?

During the day ask yourself:“How did I get here?”. Then retrace your steps in your thoughts.

If you do this often enough, you will eventually ask yourself this in a dream. And then you really don’t know how you got there. Now you know you are dreaming.

Drink a lot

Before going to bed, drink some glasses of water. Now you will have to go to the bathroom somewhere in the middle of the night..
Lie down, close your eyes and concentrate. Tell yourself that whenever you are in a bathroom or looking for one you are dreaming.
Almost definitely you will have a dream in which you want to go to the bathroom or are in one. Now you can become lucid!
Unfortunately, nature keeps calling, and eventually you’ll wake up. But at least you where lucid…
warning: It can appear so real that you may wet your bed…

Watch a movie

Watch a movie before going to sleep. Choose one that is inspiring to you.
When you are going to sleep, let the movie play back in your mind, while you are telling yourself you are dreaming.
You will hopefully dream about the movie, that you are playing in it or something similar. Now you can realize you are dreaming.

Learn yourself lucid

Research has proven that you digest the things you have learned during the day in your dreams. Hence this tip.
Emerge yourself completely in lucid dreams. Read books, write stories, surf websites. Learn techniques by heart. While sleeping, all this information will sink in and most likely something of it will appear in your dreams.
For that matter, it is generally a good idea to have your mind on dreams or lucid dreams. In one way or another it triggers your subconscious to be alert for dreams. The proof: whenever I’ve worked a lot on this site, my lucid dreams increase.

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Prolonging lucidity

Once you realize you are dreaming, it is sometimes difficult to remain lucid, or even to remain dreaming. Here are some tips to keep you lucid:

Remain calm

One of the most common things that causes you to wake up is sheer excitement. As soon as you realize you are dreaming you can get very exited. Try to stay calm by taking deep breaths and repeating something like:“I’m lucid and i stay in my dream.”

Spinning

If you feel the dream fading use this technique. Twirl around your own axis (you won’t get dizzy) and repeat to yourself:“When I stand still I’m still dreaming.” or “When I stop I’m [insert place you want to end up]”

Look at your hands

Another stabilizing technique is to focus at a stable reference point in the dream, like your hands or the ground.

Rub your hands together

The rubbing will give you a vivid sense of movement and friction. While rubbing your hands repeat to yourself: “I am still inside my dream” or something else that for you will help you to stay lucid.

Grab hold of something

When you feel your dream fade, grab hold of something in the dream. Grab something like the grass, or take an object within reach, or hold on to a dream character. While holding on to it, say you want to stay inside the dream.

Make a to-do list

Not knowing what to do while lucid can make you easily drift back into the normal dream. Make a list of things you want to do in a lucid dream. Then before going to sleep pick one or two things you want to do that night. Keep that in mind when going to sleep.
In this way, when you become lucid, you directly know what your goal is and can pursue it.

Shout it out

When you feel lucidity fading shout: “Increase lucidity now!” or: “Lucidity x1000!” or something similar. The dream will respond.

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Flying course

Flying is something almost anybody does in a dream. Flying in a lucid dream is even better because you are so much more aware of the experience.

For me when flying, one of my main problems is height. Sometimes i find it very difficult to fly as high as i’d want. And when I am able to get higher, my fear steps in and I will be afraid of going too high.
When I was a child I used to make a swimming motion in the air. This didn’t really go fast but that was all I could. I only came about a metre above ground level so walking would have been faster.

I remember dreams in which I searched for high buildings to use for taking off, but I would always take a swoop and end up about a metre above the ground.
But gradually I gained hight and also used different techniques.

:right_arrow: Everybody has their preferred way of flying. Experiment in your dreams to find your best way to fly.

The weirdest technique I’ve used is one I did when I was hooked to a videogame in which you are a squirrel that can fly when you run and then jump in the air. I actually did that in my dream. I ran, jumped, and indeed I flew.

Techniques to get you airborne:

Flapping your arms

Of course I start with the good old flap-your-arms-technique. This one is quite slow in my experience. Better than airswimming though…

Air swimming

This one is just like regular swimming but now you do it in the air. It isn’t really fast though.

Superman style

Imagine an energy coming from under your feet that pushes you upwards and onwards. You can really go fast with this one.

Air diving

This one was taught to me in a dream. It is really effective. Imagine big fins at your feet, like you’d have when scuba diving. Then use the air you’re in as though you under water and use your fins to propel yourself forwards and upwards.

Use a vehicle

If you have trouble flying all by yourself, try using a vehicle that will fly, like a flying carpet or a flying broomstick or mount a flying creature

Flying on ether

Someone mailed me that he flies on ether. He imagines flows of ether in the sky on which he floats.

Fly like a bird

Try to transform yourself into a flying animal like an eagle or something mythical like a dragon for another way to experience flight.

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Conquer your nightmares

If you have nightmares you can overcome them through lucid dreaming. If you realize you are dreaming, you know you have nothing to fear.

Confront your enemy

The best thing to do is to confront your enemy. If something is chasing you, turn around and look at it. Sometimes this is enough and the scary thing turns out to be nothing to be afraid of at all.
When the enemy is still hostile, ask him what he thinks is doing in your dream and defeat it. Feel the power of the knowledge that he is part of your imagination, that you are in control and that it should listen to you.

Demand a gift

If the enemy is defeated, demand a gift. The purpose of the gift is to transform the negative into something positive. You will always get a gift. These gifts are really amazing and give you a very powerful feeling. Once I got a gift of really beautiful music, and I could still hear it when I woke up…

Give a big hug

Another approach is to hug your enemy. Essentially, all parts in your nightmare are parts of you you are afraid to see. If you hug your enemy in your dream you will transform your fear into love and thus dissolve it.

How I transformed a recurring nightmare

I used to have recurring nightmares of being chased by an unknown “thing” or person. I could never run fast and when “it” was close, I would wake up.

This is the lucid dream that made it go away:
A German soldier from WWII was coming after me to make me prisoner or something. I ran down a bridge and hid myself in a corner.

Then I realized I was dreaming.

“I want to know who that is that is after me, and why he’s doing it” I said to myself.

I yelled: “Here I am! Come and catch me!”.

There he came. But the mean-looking soldier had transformed in a small childlike woman.

I asked: “Who are you?”

She replied: “I’m your fear for the unknown.”

This was a very emotional moment in the dream and crying, I hugged her.

I realized that my “fear for the unknown” had made me “run away” in real life situations.

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Ideas for your next lucid adventure

There are so much fun things you can do in a lucid dream. Imagine yourself to be in some kind of spiritual virtual reality where everything is possible.

Explore the dreamscape

One of the coolest things you can do is exploring your dreamworld.

Dream Discovery

When you are lucid, there is no need to ‘go with the flow’ of the dream anymore. Look around you on the spot you became lucid.
Follow paths, enter buildings, talk to characters you encounter. For example ask who they are, and whether they know they are in your dream…

Look up…

Don’t forget to look at the sky. Dream skies I’ve seen so far are breathtakingly beautiful with marvelous colors or enormous planets.

Understand symbols

Instead of deciphering your dream when you have already had it, you can do it right away in a lucid dream.
Maybe you have a recurring dream symbol which you want to know the meaning of. In a lucid dream you can call for it to appear and ask it what it represents.

Shared dreaming

You can try to meet somebody you know in a dream. As soon as you become lucid you try to find this person.

Transforming

Try to transform yourself into an animal, such as a dolphin, a dragon or an eagle. It is very strange to actually feel yourself be another shape.
Often you will experience the senses of the animal. For example a bird-like vision or the experience of walking on four legs and having a tail.
It isn’t limited to animals of course. How about changing yourself to the opposite sex, a tree or an inorganic being.

Become Invisible

Something I like to do is become invisible and then pinch the people in my dream.

Step through a mirror

My personal favorite. Step through a mirror and see where you end up. I’ve been to the strangest dreamworlds.

Do some magic

A fun thing is to do some magic. Let the sparkles come out of your hands.

Teleportation

Instead of flying, try to teleport yourself to the place you want to be.
If you have difficulty teleporting try these tips:

  • Step into an elevator and press the button of your location.
  • Stand in front of a closed door. Know that the location where you want to go is now behind that door. Open the door and enter.

Go creating

Try to materialize something out of thin air. If you find it difficult to conjure up the desired item try wanting to find it in your pocket, or knowing it is behind a door.

Holodeck

Somebody mailed me he loves to play ‘holodeck’ in his lucid dreams, just like in Star Trek. He starts with the black background with the yellow squares and from there he calls forth his desired environment.

Showing off

It is really fun to show off in your dreams and amaze your dream friends. Like stepping through a wall or taking off flying while exclaiming:“Look what I can do!”

Beyond dreaming

Lucid dreams can take you to other levels of awareness in which you can do things you normally can only achieve when in deep trance. You can use your lucid dreams for spiritual enlightenment, to search for the Light or God, to receive answers to your questions.

Discover a past live

Do you believe in reincarnation? You can use your lucid dreams to catch glimpses of past lives. Or even experience a past live in detail. Ideas to inspire you:

  • Materialize a door in your dream and say to yourself that when you step through it you will find yourself in a past life.
  • Watch tv. On the screen you will see yourself in a past life.
  • Enter a gallery with paintings on the wall. Every painting is an image of a past life. Walk towards a painting and watch the life unfold itself.

Contact your Spirit Guide/angel etc

If you believe in Spirit Guides and Angels, you can try to contact them in a lucid dream. Actually meet them “in person” and ask for guidance.
Even when not believing this is possible, dream characters can possess wisdom. You can call forth a Teacher or a Guide, someone you trust to have the knowledge you seek.

Your imagination is the limit

Of course there are a lot more things you can do in a lucid dream. The only limit is your own imagination.

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Conclusion and Further Learning

You now know the essence of lucid dreaming.

If you liked this Pocket Guide, and want to learn more:
I have created structured courses to master lucid dreaming, in a similar vein as the Guide.

You may find it interesting if you value:

  • Spoken instructions and visuals
  • Guided practice exercises
  • A structured, step by step path
  • Micro lectures that contain exactly what you need to know
  • Examples grounded in real life practice

:glowing_star: So you want to be a Lucid Dreamer

Integrate lucidity practice in your day-to-day life to become lucid at night.

  • Stripped to the core for easy understanding
  • Based on my 30 years experience in lucid dreaming
  • Real world examples and tips based on experience

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:glowing_star: Goal Oriented Lucid Dreaming

A follow up course if you want to use lucid dreaming for personal goals.
Master the GOLD method that I have developed for reaching any goal in a lucid dream.

This is beyond dream control. It is a way to plan your lucid experience in such a way that you will be successful in experiencing it while lucid.

  • Proven effective for any goal
  • Fail-proof
  • The solution to ‘Why can’t I do X in my LD’s’

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