How To Lucid Dream
- December 24, 2008
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Writer
ShannonH
Voice Over Artist
Taige Jensen
Music
Edison Music Corp
Learning how to lucid dream—that is, to be aware during your dreams that you are, indeed, dreaming—will allow you to live out fantasies, stop nightmares, and even road test some solutions to real life problems.
You Will Need
- A dream journal
- An alarm clock
Step 1: Start a dream journal
Keep a journal and a pen next to your bed so you can immediately record everything that happens in your dreams. You’ll begin to see patterns, and that will help you realize when you’re actually in the middle of a dream.
Step 2: Adopt some new habits
Look intently at mirrors, book titles, and your watch face several times a day. In dreams, these images are always blurred. Looking at them while awake will increase their appearances in your dreams, helping you recognize when you are dreaming.
Pinching yourself when you’re awake is another good way to train your brain to recognize when you’re dreaming, because when you pinch yourself in a dream you feel no pain.
Step 3: Talk to yourself
Tell yourself as you drift off to sleep that you’re going to have a lucid dream. Research shows that simply instructing your brain to realize you’re dreaming—especially when you’re in the suggestible pre-sleep phase—helps boost your odds of doing so.
Step 4: Set an early alarm
Set your alarm half an hour earlier than normal. When it rings, stay awake 30 to 60 minutes, then go back to sleep. Because you likely interrupted dream-intense REM sleep, you’re now 20% to 50% more likely to have a lucid dream.
So George Clooney is about to kiss you and you feel like you’re starting to wake up? Pretend to spin around in circles. This keeps the dream going 96% of the time.
Step 5: Start directing
Once you’re attuned to the fact that you’re dreaming, start altering the action. Fly over mountains. Tell off your mother-in-law. Have a “dream” date. You can also test problem-solving scenarios, practice sensitive confrontations, and speak to loved ones who have passed.
Lewis Carroll was inspired to write Alice in Wonderland after having a lucid dream.
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Comments (19)
The first time i found myself in a lucid i tried to fly. It was harder than i thought. I had to concentrate on lifting off the ground and then propelling myself.
The second, and last, time was much easier. I flew through the skies of Rome &; Barcelona ... other things i won't mention. The possibilities are truly endless!
over 3 years ago by instinctblues
I too had a lucid dream - my sister was in it and I tried to convince her she was in the dream with me. She didn't believe me so I told her I'd prove it by making anything in the world appear. She requested a chocolate sunday with a cherry on top and poof I made it appear lol that's her always thinking of food. I've tried since then but haven't been able to dream lucidly again... :( think of what we could all do...maybe thats my ticket to quitting smoking! lol
over 2 years ago by MissLBell425
i once had a lucid dream, but then i thought about something bad that happened to me when i was relay young, and undead vultures came out and clawed my face off and fed it to my dog, then i woke up.
over 2 years ago by alec2293
once i had a lucid dream and i was able to adopt a million cats
over 2 years ago by Sabrinaxo
i thought i did it for a second but i woke up after about five seconds.
over 2 years ago by russell1717
Last night I had a dream that my friend died...
over 2 years ago by Harizu13
Very good combination of medium and material!
over 2 years ago by justannesopinion
i once had a lucid dream i died it was so bad lucid dreams are fun but there is a down side
over 3 years ago by ster211
I want to lucid dream so bad, but just couldn't maybe with some of the steps shown here I can finally do it.
over 3 years ago by sarge657
Awesome video. i once had a lucid dream. when i recognized I was dreaming I started flying over the city! Most fun dream ever.
over 3 years ago by Ernesto_Silva
please, guys, help me! who knows how to download this video????
over 2 years ago by Lullaby
I have pain in all of my dreams, Even in my lucid dreams. In my lucid dreams i cant escape, or leave the dream no matter what.. usually if the dream gets too weird, i will close my eyes, tense my body, and scream and shake violently... 70% of the time this will bring me back to reality, sometimes it doesnt work and i just stand there going ";let me out";.... :(
over 2 years ago by LucidDreamz
I lucid-dream sometimes, but I would like to more, especially since all of my dreams are so strange and fun. I once had a lucid dream that seemed to go on for hours. It was an epic mystery, going to all sorts of fantastical places. When I solved the mystery at the end, everything suddenly made sense and I wanted to see the whole dream again just for fun. So I 're-wound' the entire dream and relived everything! It was like dream-DVR, very awesome!
over 2 years ago by Areya47
One time I had a dreram about Shirley Temples in tements outside and she fell underground where there were coalminers as children and she had to save them from the queen Creualla De Vile and she had help from some of the coalminers and she saved them.
over 2 years ago by FunniBaby
I have lucid dreams from time to time. In some of the dreams, i'm running and when i jump i and keep jumping and keep getting higher in each jump. Then i start to fly. Flying around the Town i live in. Sometimes i dream and not realize its a dream until something weird happens.
Who in here ever had sleep paralysis? Very scary the first time i had it. Now sleep paralysis isn't that scary anymore.
over 2 years ago by Akpsp
do u mean sleep paralysis as in you wake up not feeling your body or as in you just lose feeling inside of the dream for i have come across both
about 1 year ago by Andy_Marse
It's Actually pretty hard to control your dreams. Even with this video I never found myself pinching myself in my dream even though I did it before I went to bed. I kept telling myself to have a lucid dream but it's hard. Actually though I remember in one dream that I was able to fly and I didn't know it was a dream. But it was pretty cool.
about 1 year ago by 09tranm
It has been awhile since I've had a lucid dream, but in the past I've had several of them. Even-though I do dream almost nightly, I haven't been lucid in quite sometime. I probably haven't been asking myself enough, if at all, if I am dreaming during the day. Once, I even realized I was losing the ";dream state";, so I imagined myself spinning, Before I knew it : I was back in the dream. From now on I will have to let go of all the stuff on my mind at bedtime. Lucid dreaming is a blast.
about 1 year ago by Squideye
just wondering. what the positive and negative when you have a lucid dream?
about 1 year ago by chefcheiro
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