Name: Lucid Dreams for Beginners - How to Lucid Dream Tonight (animated)
Uploaded: 2018-01-04T11:06:35.000Z
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A lucid dream is any dream during sleep in which you become aware that you're dreaming.

Which means you're able to control yourself and your surroundings freely.

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When you're conscious during your dream you're only restricted by your ability to imagine

So what you can do in your lucid dreams is limitless.

Now who wouldn't want to do that from the comfort of their bed?

Lucid dreams usually occur while a person is in the middle of a normal dream and suddenly

This is the most common way people become lucid.

It's called a dream-initiated lucid dream.

Basically you become lucid while in a dream, adding awareness to dreaming.

There's also a wake-initiated lucid dream, which occurs when you go from a normal waking

In other words you're adding dreaming to awareness.

So before we go to the technique, you will need some preparation first, before you can

It's extremely helpful to start a dream journal.

Keep it close by your bed at night, and write down your dreams immediately after waking up.

Write down as much details as you can remember.

This will train you to remember more of your dreams.

After all there's not much point in controlling your dreams if you forget the experience before

It will also help you recognize dream signs, such as recurring situations, which will make

If you never remember your dreams, don't worry.

We all dream, but not everybody has a good dream recall.

If you don't remember anything just write down: "I didn't remember any dreams tonight"

This will train your mind to expect to remember dreams.

Another thing to do is to perform reality checks frequently.

Every few hours during the day, ask yourself "Am I dreaming?".

With enough practice, you'll start following the habit in your dreams as well, cluing you

Also perform another of the following reality checks.

Simply look at your hands, read a page of text or the time on a clock, look away, then

In dreams, these things are blurry and will be different each time you look.

This will tip you off that you're in a dream state.

It's really important to do these reality checks when you're awake and not just in a

dream, because heightened awareness during practice helps gain awareness in a regular

So establish these habits and make your lucid dream practice easier.

There are a number of techniques that help induce lucidity.

But the one I recommend to beginners and also the one that I used to achieve immediate results

Basically you wake up in the middle of the night and go back to bed.

When you fall asleep you pass through different sleep cycles and the one in which dreaming

This technique works because you stimulate your conscious brain at a time you would normally

In REM or rapid eye movement sleep the mind is closer to wakefulness than in deep sleep

so the possibility to realize you're dreaming is much greater.

You have multiple REM periods over night, but around six hours after falling asleep

So the technique goes like this: Set your alarm clock, go to bed as normal and allow

Note that if you normally only sleep for six hours, reduce your sleep time even more

After six hours, get out of bed and wake yourself up.

The idea is to temporarily delay your regular REM sleep.

You should stay awake for about 20 minutes and get out of your bed for this.

You can read about lucid dreaming if you want to stay focused on the subject or set your

intent on what you want to dream in advance.

For example if you want to fly in your dream, visualize flying.

Now go back to bed, relax and slowly drift in to the dream world.

If all goes well you will dive straight into REM sleep from a conscious state and become lucid.

If your mind is too alert and you can't fall asleep practice meditation or perform

In short, MILD is telling yourself as you are ready to sleep that you are going to become

lucid to the point you believe it and then visualizing yourself in a dream.

Once you've flown all over the world Try to explore memory and performance.

Some people think of new ideas in their dreams, some practice their speeches, so I see no

Tell me, did you experience lucid dreams before?

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