What methods do you use to lucid dream? I've tried to fulfill my dreams of shooting up trenches full of nazis in my sleep (video games just aren't the same!!111!) but failed, are there any specific things you do?
I wake up an hour early in the morning and immediately roll on to my stomach to sleep. I can't sleep on my stomach usually but when I'm half asleep it's a breeze. I still feel some connection to the body which enables me to enter a dream lucidly. I've gotten about 2-3 lucid dreams a week this way and I stumbled upon it completely unintentionally.
MILD and WILD also exist but I've never found success in those. Dreams are unstable by design, you need to learn to be present but still calm enough. Get a dream journal, try some techniques, but don't really make it an obsession. You ultimately can't control when you lucid dream as a beginner, I can't even control the when as a more experienced person. All you can do is make the right conditions and wait. You'll get the hang of it if you try, but getting there is hard.
Keeping a dream journal is a classic one, just write your dreams first thing when get up in the morning. Then there's methods, an easy one is reality checks for example if you can breathe through a pinched nose, break laws of physics or have really weird hands/whatever versus normally it's a good chance you're in a dream. Do note dreams are ruled by expectations if you expect xyz you will get xyz.
When I really want to put effort into LDing I keep a scrap of paper like a receipt etc (or I guess a phone would work) and I just scrawl my memories first thing on waking up on that then transfer to a dream journal if I feel like it.
What methods do you use to lucid dream? I've tried to fulfill my dreams of shooting up trenches full of nazis in my sleep (video games just aren't the same!!111!) but failed, are there any specific things you do?
I wake up an hour early in the morning and immediately roll on to my stomach to sleep. I can't sleep on my stomach usually but when I'm half asleep it's a breeze. I still feel some connection to the body which enables me to enter a dream lucidly. I've gotten about 2-3 lucid dreams a week this way and I stumbled upon it completely unintentionally.
MILD and WILD also exist but I've never found success in those. Dreams are unstable by design, you need to learn to be present but still calm enough. Get a dream journal, try some techniques, but don't really make it an obsession. You ultimately can't control when you lucid dream as a beginner, I can't even control the when as a more experienced person. All you can do is make the right conditions and wait. You'll get the hang of it if you try, but getting there is hard.
Keeping a dream journal is a classic one, just write your dreams first thing when get up in the morning. Then there's methods, an easy one is reality checks for example if you can breathe through a pinched nose, break laws of physics or have really weird hands/whatever versus normally it's a good chance you're in a dream. Do note dreams are ruled by expectations if you expect xyz you will get xyz.
Gotcha. I had a dream journal but I keep forgetting to write in it lol, same goes for reality checks.
When I really want to put effort into LDing I keep a scrap of paper like a receipt etc (or I guess a phone would work) and I just scrawl my memories first thing on waking up on that then transfer to a dream journal if I feel like it.