Newbie Advice - Helpful Hints For Aspiring Lucid Dreamers II

I do put on a little light beside the bed when I’m going to write a dream. Doesn’t bother me…

Hm… try scanning around your mind for memories. Don’t force it too hard, just think of some common dream signs. It’s hard to explain. I just let my mind go blank for a few seconds and then ask myself for some memories. Once in a while I get a fragment of the dream. Then it’s like Minesweeper, you know? think about what happened before and after the fragment and it comes back. Of course sometimes you hit a bomb and that’s as far as your memory goes. Half of the time I can’t go further than a fragment or two, but sometimes I get good stuff. Then i write down the signs. All of this takes me about a minute or two.

Dream Recall is a learned skill, at first it may be diffcult but relitivly soon it will become quite easy. Also with minesweeper thing you will also get better and better at it as you practice. It took me roughly 2-3 weeks and then I was remember 1,2,3 or more dreams per night.

The sea’s evaporated
Though it comes as no surprise
These clouds we’re seeing
Their explosions in the sky
It seems it’s written
But we can’t read between the line
-Placebo-

Usually when i wake up in the morning after sleeping straight through the night I remember a tiny bit maybe just a picture in my head from dreams earlier in the night, but i can remember the dreams from later in the night a lot better. I’ve found that setting an alarm of some sort and waking up in the middle of the night and writing about the dreams I’ve had, and then going back to sleep and waiting till the morning for more dreams helps to better account for all the dreams I have. If you just sleep straight through and hope you can remember them all, you are wasting away half of your escape.

My name is dom and i have been intrested in Lucid dreaming since i was about 5 when i had my first "I was dreaming and my dad was in this dream, then for no apparent reason i opened my eyes and shut them i was still in my dream, i told my dad ‘DREAM DAD’ i was dreaming i then tried opening my eyes again and shutting them i couldn’t get back in my dream…
years gone by i have had a few incounters with lucidity in dreams since but i awoke almost stright away. it was not till recently i cought the end of a program on tv i dont even know what the program was but it described the same sort of thing and also that they were called ‘Lucid Dreams’ it is from there i have been researching it iv had very little luck so far but ‘If at first you dont succeed try try again’ i would like to talk about it with people that understand the erge/obsession/wantingness! to dream lucidly…

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For the past 2 weeks ive been recalling 2-3 dreams per night, this is a big step for me because before this i really could not recall any of my dreams.
i want to thank everyone who posts here because it has really helped me along.

Well done DaturaSpectrum just me now then lmao any first hand tips for me :smile:

check my site out there’s a few bits on DREAMING!

domsspace.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

nice site dom, you have more stuff on there than i was expecting :content:

well thankyou ‘No Poetic Device’ what was you expecting?
have you any info on LDing that i dont
would really help i feel stuck at the first herdle :smile:

Hello to all, I’m the newest newbie.

I have been interested in lucid dreaming for a very short time (about four days), as I just recently discovered its very existence. The past two nights I have remembered large parts of two dreams. How long would you think would be adequate for me to continue working on dream recall, or is that sufficient to be able to dream lucidly? (Sorry, I’m very anxious here :smile: )

Secondly, How well does the following reality check work? I write down the letter ‘B’ on my hand (the first letter of my name), and regularly look down at it, and say “B. Am I dreaming?” Again, my question is, how long does it take for this to become effective. Will it be easy to tell that I am in a dream?

Thanks to anyone who responds. This site is pretty darn cool.

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Stephen LaBerge says one dream per night. That’s a bit vague, but if you remember how a dream went or maybe a few minutes of the dream, you could start doing the techniques.

I think it’s a mess to write on your hand every time you do a reality check. Instead hold your nose and try to breathe through it.

Try MILD too, don’t just do reality checks. I suggest you work on your recall up to just a little bit, around one dream a night (fragments count as a dream, no one remembers their dreams in full detail!) Every time you wake up, you should sit around for a bit and think “what did I just dream about?”
The lucid dreams should come to memory first. So start whenever you feel like it. I started trying for lucid dreams immediately while working on my recall at the same time. I had good results, but it was sort’ve like Enron Corp
after that.

Your description of a reality check is pretty darn accurate. Only for me, the reality check triggers are random. Sometimes its the sky or the moon that triggers it, sometimes its a non-routine event. Starting with writing on your hand or sticking post its around your house is a nice way to get it in your head to reality check.

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I ALWAYS remember my dreams and I dream every night. Ver very rarely I will have a LD but only for part of the dream. I can usually remember a good deal of my dreams for the better part of the morning but the details fade as the day goes by. It also depends on whether or not the dream seemed worth remembering at the time. :tongue: Probably my favorite semi-lucid dream was one where I was back for another year in high school and we had to take some entrance test and I said “Screw this, I already graduated (in '99)” and walked out of the room with the teacher staring open-mouthed at me… sweetness. :gni:

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Uhhh… do you need help or are you just telling a story? Oh well, I’ll assume you do. You should keep a dream journal if you want to remember your dreams well (keep the little details too if you want, they will help out)

And the LD part… if you really want an entire dream dedicated to LD you’ve gotta do WILD because any other technique will have you realizing you are dreaming in the middle of it.

How accurate should your dream journal be? do you need to record all the details or just the general Idea?

Sorry, forgot to ask this in my last post meant to put it there but forgot, so here’s the question…
What is a good way for a beginner to increase lucidity? I have heard of several methods to try but I’m not sure what would be the best one to start out with.

Uh I use the rubbing hands method because it involves the least risk. You have to experiment to find the best for you, but you should try rubbing your hands and calming yourself down first.

Rowan - the important thing is that you remember as much details as you can. If writing them down helps you, do it, but you can try to remember everything and do only a short note in your DD, so you won’t forget the dream.

Rowan

I try to write down as much detail as I can. For long complicated dreams I even give them a title. I also will write down any dream fragments I may remember.

Sometimes when I wake in the middle of the night I will just write a sentence or 2 about the dream to jar my memory in the morning. Over a short time I did not even have to do that and was able to recall an average of 2-3 dreams per night. Don’t worry if your dream recall is not good now it will improve in time.

As mentioned above, rubbing your hands is a good way to increase lucidity. Some other ideas:

  1. grab a hold of something in a dream.
  2. Flying- This works great for me.
  3. Put your hand through a wall- Just walk up to any wall. Touch it then gently push your hand through the wall.
  4. Spinning- This is a great one but there is a danger of having a false awakening. While spinning keep saying “the next thing I see will be a dream”.

Another important thing to keep in mind is that you should have a plan for your lucid dream in advance. So before you go to sleep plan what you want to do if you become lucid. The reason for this is that the best way to maintain the dream state is to stay engaged with it. If you have to much down time where you are trying to figure out what you want to do you may wake up or the dream may loose its realness. If that happens use any of the techniques above to stabilize and intensify the dream.

I hope this was helpful.

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