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 sporadicly, or you can just remember some dreams from your childhood and you have the feeling you don't dream anymore, then read on.
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When you succeed in remembering at least one dream every night, you are ready to try to become lucid.
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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 dreamscenarios. 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 visualise 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 visualise how you wake up and write down your dreams in your dream diary, 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 visualise 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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