Having a LD almost every night… that’s what any lucid dreamer wants, right? Well, believe it or not, it is possible. Perhaps not every single night, but this technique guarentees frequent LD’s.
I know that this technique works for me, but I’d really like to know if it works for everyone else, too (but I know that it can work, so I want to post it more as a technique than an experiment). So, I’d really like some people to try it out and post their results. Fill this out:
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How this Technique Works
Anyways, I call this technique BCILD (biological clock induced dreams). Everyone has a biological clock inside of them. It’s basically just a big clock that keeps track of your daily habbits and makes your like easier accourdingly. For example, it wakes you up at the time that your clock is usually set, and at night ot makes sure that you don’t need to go to the bathroom as much. It tell you that you’re hungry when you usually eat and keeps track of any habits that you have.
The key is to add lucid dreaming to your biological clock. Lucid dreaming will become something that is not something you hope for every night, but as a part of your daily life. You’re not tricking your body into having a LD, your telling it.
How To
The way to do this is simple. It’s a simple matter of teaching your body that there is a time that you are going to have a lucid dream and it is going to remember that.
First, you need to set a time. This will be your lucid dreaming time. It should be right in the middle of REM sleep, so about 4-6 hours after you’ve gone to bed. Keep this time the same. Along with that, keep your bedtime the same every night. Once you have chosen a time, first you must get your body used to it. So, for several days, set your alarm for that time. When the alarm rings, do something to get your mind working (math, word problems, logic puzzles, etc.) for a few minutes, but not very long. Then go back to sleep.
Once you have done this for a few days, you’re ready to move on to the next step. That is to start focussing on your dreaming. When your alarm rings, get up and do the math/logic problem. Then go back to sleep. But, this time, don’t just let drowsiness come over you. There are two ways of falling asleep. The first is the way that you like to fall asleep: letting your head get fuzzy and tired and then just dozing off. The second takes a little more work, but with practice, it becomes very easy. With this way, you must keep your head clear and thinking. It doesn’t matter what you’re thinking; you can let your imagination run free as long as you make sure that what you’re thinking somewhat makes sense to you and isn’t a bunch of random thoughts put together. Think in sentances, not random words. This teaches your body that you want your mind to stay awake and active.
Once you’ve mastered this technique of falling asleep, move on to the next thing to do. This step takes only a day or two, depending on how quickly you learn. When your alarm rings, turn it off, then just lie in bed. Do math in your head to keep your mind working for a few minutes, then go to sleep. Make sure your thoughts don’t wander off until you’re done the math. If you can’t master this, practice until you can do it without fault.
Now, the last step! Do the step above, except this time, don’t let your thoughts wander quite so freely. Let yourself daydream, but every now and then do a math problem until you fall asleep. It’s not the same as a WILD, because you can fall asleep before the LD.
Soon, just by keeping yourself focussed, you’ll have a lucid dream! Don’t be discouraged if you don’t have one the night that you do the last step. When I say every night, I mean every night starting when you have your first lucid dream. It won’t take long, I promise. Eventually, with practice, you won’t even need an alarm!
Get into a habit of, in your LDs, right when you start dreaming tell yourself Lucid dream at (LD time)! If you can, do the same when you wake up.
Before you know it, you’ll be having frequent lucid dreams! It’s so simple that you probably don’t even think of this as a technique, but then why has no one ever done it? Someone had to put a proper name to this!
Anyways, happy lucid dreaming, and sorry I took so long to finish the post.