Lucid Dreaming

7 Step to Start Lucide Dreaming

Lucid Dreaming is consciously being aware within your dream. When you are dreaming and you become conscious that you are dreaming you can start to control your dreams and the direction they go in. Lucid dreaming can help with recurring nightmares, solving creative problems, speaking with loved ones who have passed on, anxiety, and problem solving. It can be an exhilarating experience and the feeling of euphoria after your first few lucid dreams can last for days.

1) Remembering your ordinary dream

Some people say that they don’t dream, but everyone dreams. A lot of people say whilst you may not remember them still dream, to start remembering your dreams try this simple technique. Every night before drifting tell yourself that you will remember your dream the minute you wake up.

2)Dream journal

Writing a few short sentences about your dream is also a good; you’ll get in the habit of remembering your ordinary dream, also start looking forward to sleeping because you’ll be to remember it after. It could be also called analyzing your thought processes.

3)Pick a signs                         

A lot of your dreams will have an object or people that could act as a cue to you waking up in your dream. For example if you talk to someone regularly they will appear in your dreams.

4)Notice your waking world

This might sound crazy but to be conscious in your “dream world” means you have to be conscious in your walking world. For example you are consciously focused when learning a new task, or when you are thinking about every action and step you are taking to get there.

Being consciously focused means looking around you and saying what you see, feel, hear, smell and touch and voicing it. This has the added benefit of being in the moment and can help you to inner calmness, it’s almost zen like. If you start to consciously focus on the world around you, you will carry this over into the dream world. 

5) Ask yourself: ' Am I dreaming'

Ask yourself just now ‘Am I dreaming?’. Your obvious answer is to say no, of course you are not dreaming. How do you know? Don’t just say; because I know, try and think about why you are not dreaming. For example you could say if I was dreaming I would be able to fly. When you are dreaming you cannot read text for longer than a few seconds, so try reading text to prove to yourself you are not dreaming.

This again will carry over into your dreaming world and you will start asking the same questions in your dreams which can turn into a lucid dream

6) Your first lucid dream

Many people have their first lucid dream simply by reading about it. You might find that you become over-excited and lose the lucid dream however, you first lucid dream will be remembered for years to come

7)Staying lucid

I have used different techniques to stay within a dream however by far the best one is calming me down with self-talk and dream spinning. If you find that you are losing your lucidity you can talk to yourself to calm yourself down and just start noticing the things around you in your dream.

Dream spinning is when you feel you are losing control of your dream you mentally spin like a tornado to stay within your dream. This is focusing the mind on staying lucid.

Have you ever had a lucid dream? If you have why not tell us about it by leaving a comment