How can I have more lucid dreams?

Question

I want to have lucid dreams more. I usually have one every 34 months or so. Is there any tips to help me have them more often?

Answer 1

I find that i can have a lucid dream nearly every morning, i set my alarm to a custom one that only rings for about a second, and it nearly always puts me in the lucid dream state.

Try it out man, it's so fun!

Answer 2

Look back over your non-lucid dreams, is there something they all have in common, a recurring incident, person, object, action? Once you can recognise these they can become triggers to gaining lucidity.

In my own dreams there is most often something to do with numbers, a door number, a telephone number, a train timetable etc and I can never work or understand them properly. Once i recognised these it seems they are in pretty much every dream i have and act as a trigger to me being lucid. If i cannot work a telephone, or write down a number correctly then i realise i am dreaming and can have a little in dream laugh about the absurdity of never being able to use a phone (a common one for me).

I also have another trigger where my legs won't work...i fall over or cant get up....

:-)

Answer 3

Further to the above: Post it notes around the place before you sleep, so you're subconciously asking 'Am I dreaming?' Can be useful also. I'm also a fan of individual triggers and associations - is there any common situations of behaviours leading up to your regular lucid dreams that you can imitate or duplicate to prompt a lucid dream? Is there a cycle of some kind that you are responding too? (Google biorythmic cycles for a few ideas) - Are the lucid dreams actually lucid, or are you just dreaming about having a lucid dream (deeply philosophical double twister question that one)

I had a client who was sure they were lucid dreaming, however in the end we determined the content was a replay of a previous dream that night, where different things were happening than the first time around. The second dream felt lucid, as the dreamer felt a choice was being made, when in fact, they simply remembered the events of the first dream.

Flick me an email if you have any more specific questions, I can dig up a couple of excersizes for you - they've been useful for some dreamers, not so much for others.

Answer 4

sorry they only come when you are meant to have them, and they come when you are meant to have a message for your self.

good luck

Answer 5

Get in the habit of periodically throughout the day asking yourself, "is this a dream?"

Answer 6

I find that I can lucid dream on a fairly regular basis. I am always doing little checks of reality through the day. Like taking note of something, and realizing that I would never have that in my world. Then when I dream I find myself doing the same checks. When I realize that I am dreaming, I try to bring a red balloon into the dream situation. Once the balloon is there I am on my way to completely controlling it, and living in the dream world. I always feel weird the next day though.