Hey guys, I've started having lucid dreams in the last few months, and was wondering if anyone else here is familiar with the experience? (: I figured it would be cool to start a thread on cool lucid dreams, how they affect you, etc. Also, to give anyone who's interested some pointers on how to train their brain to dream lucidly.~ <3 I didn't think I could until we went over it in psychology this year.
Ok, I'll bite, I don't really have any experience with lucid dreaming, but I'd love to try it. Where do I big? Like, what's the first thing I need to do? I always just blindly believe that all of my dreams are reality so I behave normal ._. Should I be doing reality checks even in real life so I become accustomed to flipping light switches and whatnot for no practical reason?
I'm not the expert here and even I know that step 1 is dream recollection training. It's vital. You could have the most incredible dream of your life, but if you don't remember it, you might as well have had nothing.
>>1436I personally think reality checks in real life are only necessary until you have associated that if something weird happens that you need to do one.I used to check my hands and count my fingers all the time but now I don't. But in my dreams I always look at my hands when in doubt.But yeah the very first step would be to keep a dream journal to help you remember them.Besides that I don't know what to say because what usually happens to me is, I'm in my bed, I fall through or teleport somewhere and I enter the dream lucid. Either that or I realize that what's happening makes no sense so I check my hands just to make sure.So I guess you can try being awake while you fall asleep (I can't really put it any other way...)
yeah, I'll try to be better at dream-journaling. I kinda do it now, but I always use a computer to keep track of my dreams because I'm paranoid mom would read a diary if she sees it lying around, but I don't think she'd go through my computer files. I keep a document titled "yume nikki" to keep track of my dreams, so nobody would open it anyway, they wouldn't know what it meant. I don't know why I'm so paranoid about that. But, it kicks me in the butt because my computer takes a long time to load up and by the time it's done I've forgotten something. I guess I should just keep a physical diary by my bed.
An easy way to have a lucid dream, I've found, it to got back to sleep when you wake up. I don't know if it's down to the method, but I don't have much control in my lucid dreams.