Lucid Dreaming Help?

One thing you forgot to mention is that WILD should actually be performed after sleep, as lucid dreams only happen in REM phases of sleep, which don't start (for most people) until an hour into your sleep.

A good way to do this is to wake up after 6 hours of sleep, then stay up for 10-15 minutes so you're alert but not too awake, then go back to bed and perform a WILD.

I've had 16 LDs in my life, and I started using the above technique just 3 weeks ago - in those 3 weeks I've had 8 of those 16 lucid dreams, so I'm having a lot of success so far.

 

Some time ago, I dreamt of flying above a vast green space with alot of highways and traffic on it. The green of the grass was beautiful, a real 'comfort to the eyes'. I turned around and heading for a hill with trees on top of it, and a small pathway. Standing in the tree looking over on the other side, I saw a whole valley with an immense green mountain and the other end of it. It suddenly reminded me of a mountain I know by name(but doesn't looks like it by far, lol). I jumped of the hill and flew over the valley, only to notice an immense increase of speed, being almost unable to hang on to the device which made me fly. I was able to hold on, and it really felt like going at a thousand miles per hour, suddenly I realized this was a dream, and I immediately crashed to the ground and woke up.
F*ck.

 

I have been having strange problems with lucid dreaming myself. This has been happening 1-3 times a week. Please not that every single night without fail I dream extremely vividly without fail and always remember my dreams when I wake up.

So I'll be in the dream experiencing it from the first person, when something unusual happens that makes me realize I am dreaming. However, I don't actually gain free will. It's more like my mind is an audience member in a theatre that acknowledges he is watching a movie but cannot control the character, even if the character is based entirely on him. So I realize I am dreaming but just continue to watch the dream, usually waking up moments later.

 

My first couple lucid dreams came naturally. At first they were only semi-lucid, I realized I was dreaming, but wasn't 100% conscious I guess, I could control myself, but not my surroundings (like the 'real' world). Then I started being 'more awake' in my dreams and could control everything (which led me to categorize my dreams into those taking place in a determined universe - uncontrollable; those taking place in a semi-free universe - can control my own body/mind; and those taking place in a universe with complete free will - everything is malleable before my mind).

After that I tried some different techniques, one that worked sometimes was drawing something on my hand before going to bed (a little Om on the tip of my index finger), so that when I see my hand in a dream, I remember that I had drawn something on it, and hence realized I was dreaming - an easy trigger I guess. Dreams are often related to the last things you were thinking about before sleeping, consciously or subconsciously, so just thinking about wanting to lucid dream before falling asleep works sometimes too.

Lately I've been trying the WILD technique, worked last night for the first time and its pretty cool, the whole passage from being awake to being asleep is lucid I guess. Definitely gonna have to try it some more. I never kept a dream journal and had success lucid dreaming, so its not essential I guess (but I've alway had respect for people that do keep one).

 

I don't get why a dream log is essential, I never used any and, honestly, until I saw this thread didn't even know about it. All my lucid dreams were spontaneous, I just realized I was dreaming and then I can influence it. What happens often too is that I can think as if I was awake, I really have the capacity to take conscious decisions about what I do in the dream. Weird shit.

 

K so I don't know if anyone mentionned this and I'm feeling too lazy to read through it at the moment, but have a look at the mexican dream herb.

http://www.erowid.org/plants/calea_zacatechichi/

 

If you cant be bothered to keep a 'dream log' in a written form, grab a dictaphone? I use it sometimes when I dont want to write and just talk a stream of conciousness. Also a lot of smartphones can hold hours of voice-recordings now too, maybe just start with that.

If you learn to stick with it, you can scribe them out later.

Just an idea.

 

This works very well. Since Ive had to stop smoking Ive been doing this a lot. Basically I let my mind wander, creating stories and images, and eventually Ill end up experiencing one. Its like a super light sleep state where you physically feel asleep but youre entirely conscious of what is going on. Didnt know what it was called, good info!

 

I think its true about trying not to get to excited when u realise ur lucid cause thats what happend to me and my memory of or dream stopped dam, bring on tonight