What are ways to get yourself to lucid dream?

Question

If there are any ways at all, what are they? Also, If you have had a lucid dream, what can you tell me about it? What did you do in it?

Answer 1

Most of mine are. I'm not sure exactly how I do it, but it enables me to act out things I cannot do in real life. Sometimes I think that creative people that write or make movies do this.

I dream stories. I have violent, gory, horror dreams that don't scare me one bit, because I understand that I am dreaming. They are simply entertaining to me.

Maybe it's the way I go to sleep every night. I was an insomniac when I was younger, and found that when I lay down at night and close my eyes, there's an exercise that helps me go to sleep.

I picture myself walking down a hallway. All of the issues, conversations, thoughts of the day that have stuck with me are in rooms along this hallway. I stop at each doorway, peek into the room, then shut the door. At the end of the hallway is a switch. When I get past my day's troubles and reach the switch, I turn it into "off" position and I go to sleep. Perhaps the fact the I am aware of when I actually go from waking to sleeping makes my dreams lucid.

Give it a try! Good luck!

Answer 2

I've been lucky enough to have had a lot of lucid dreams.  Usually the moment of lucidity just kind of happens on its own, towards the end of the dream (unfortunately it's hard to keep from waking up for very long after they start).  My tips would be to train yourself to look for things in your waking life that could tip you off that you're in a dream.  I think they mentioned this in "Waking Life."  For instance, get in the habit of flipping light switches on and off, checking a digital clock for the time, glancing at a book, etc.  If one of those things fails to produce the intended result (small text, numbers, and lighting don't really 'work' in dreams) then you're asleep!  

Typically once I realize I'm dreaming, I make an effort to experiment -- I'll fly around the neighborhood, over buildings and trees, that sort of thing.  And sometimes I'll get the distinct feeling that I'm actually having an out of body experience, like, oh my, I'm wearing my nightgown and I swear I'm flying down a real street I know, making eye contact with very real-looking people.  I also like to try to conjure things and people, i.e. "let's have Orlando Bloom, Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt appear now!" (true story, and it was awesome).  ;)

The weirdest has to be when I had been thinking idly about a restaurant or cafe that I hadn't ever been to but had passed a few times, and in a lucid dream shortly thereafter, I flew to that spot and circled the block until I found the building and identified the name.  The sign looked exactly like I remember it, and when I woke up I remembered.  That could just be a regular case of memory recollection, but it was exciting nonetheless.  

Good luck lucid dreaming, and don't forget to experiment!  Smash a few things, observe objects to see if they change.  And make things appear -- objects, people, even whole buildings!  Have fun!

Answer 3

just have zero noise in the room, wear one of those masks over your eyes that block out light.

Answer 4

i dont recommend you do that, because those dreams in some cases become to real and effect your real life

Answer 5

Contact the Association for Research and Enlightenment and they can direct you to books on lucid dreaming and how to do it safely.

Answer 6

whats a lucid dream?

Answer 7

last answer was i dnt recommend you do that! I recommend you do, this isn't a Nightmare on Elm street dream! where stuff comes to life.

Half of it is hocus pocus! I dabled in tarrot and witch craft ouija boards and its all fake as chips.