Well, i saw that on the forum "What is Reality" someone asked about lucid dreaming and how to do it. So i wrote this tutorial.
Well, seeing that people liked my old lucid dreaming guide, i have decided to write a new one. This one will have even more detail, go deeper into hynposis, and some more techniques with some extras. I will not use so much bold in this one, as people complained about it :P
What is Lucid Dreaming?
Lucid Dreaming is the art of being able to control dreams and do whatever you want. The most common reasons people do this are to stop nightmares, problem solving, or fun. We will be going over these later.
FAQ:
Is lucid Dreaming Occult or Demonic?
I am not god, but i dont think there is anything (this is comming from my view as a christian) biblicly wrong with ld'ing. (lucid dreaming). I have read most of the bible, and dreams were in it when god gave people visions. Also, a sin (ive heard) cant happen on axident, which lds sometimes do.
Lucid Dreaming and New Age?
To some, lucid dreaming is concidered new age. If lding is new age, then so is sleeping and dreaming, so this is false. There are 2 dream viewpoints, alot of people say that you are in another dream realm, (astral projection), but scientificly you are in REM (rapid eye movement, this has been proven).
If you have any more questeions, dont hesitate to ask and i will add
Disclaimer:
I am not responsible for anything that happens from following this guide. Dont be scared from reading that, its safe.
Reality Checks
Reality Checking is very important in all lucid dreams. They are ways of telling reality from dreams. There are several ways of doing this:
*Look at you hand. You probably have like 40 fingers or 3.
*Plug your nose - If you can still breathe, do another RC (reality check) to make sure your not crazy.
*Jump - No gravity in lucid dreams
Notice:
Lucid Dreams are exactly what you expect them to be. If you think there going to be scary, its going to be scary. If you think dream characters (DCs) are purple, they will be purple. If you think it will be fun and awesome and dcs are full of life, so it will be.
Dream Journals
Before we go any farther, i would like to say that alot of people like to keep a dream journal, for dream recall and to look for reaccuring dreams when DILDing. They are not crucial, i do not use one.
Induction Methods
There are alot of induction methods for a lucid dream. Not all of them work for everyone, but when you find the one that works best for you you can have 2-15 ld's in a night.
There are two types of Lucid Dream inductions. There are lucid dreams induced from a awake stage, and there are onces inducted when you are already in a dream. I would suggest wake induced lucid dreams over dream induced lucid dreams, as they are more successful. Most people would suggest sleeping 2-5 hours before a wake induced lucid dream for REM, this is faster and can be more vivid, but i do fine with doing it before any sleep and working my way up (more dreams ).
Dreams Inductions While Asleep
I would not suggest these, but many people like them so here we go...
The Reality Check Induced Lucid Dream
This is induced by getting in a habit of reality checking every 30-1 hour. I dont prefer this (i started with it though) because you have to wrap your real life around for it. Once in a habbit of reality checking alot, you will start to do it in your dreams (this takes time).
DILD (Dream Induced Luci Dreams)
DILD's are a very popular lucid dream. They are lucid dreams where you find out that you are dreaming while in lucid dreams (these are ones that happen accidently). It is done by looking for dream signs such as:
*Reaccuring Dreams (Used with a dream journal)
*Breathing when being drowned or sufficated
*Anything paranormal
MILD (Mnemonic Induced Lucid Dream)
I dont know to put this in to wake induced or dream induced. Basicly all you do is repeat "im in a dream" in the back of your head while in bed and when you pass out you still im in a dreaming and RC.
Wake Induced Lucid Dreams
These are the most successful and vivid. There are sevaral types of these (not all of them work for everyone).
WILD (wake induced lucid dream)
This is very popular, and may take a while to get down 100%, but can be very vivid and successful.
WILDs can be accomplished as a Nap, or in a REM Cylce (i do them before rem cycle but its better to do it after for a begginer). Rem is in the middle of the night.
To do this technique, get really relaxed and lay down. Clear your mind, the less thoughts you have the better you are detachted to enter a dream state. You are moving your physical stimuli into dream stimuli.
Good practice for clearing your mind is closing your eyes and not thinking for 5 mins, and every time a thought inturupts, retry, tell you can go 5 without thinking.
So lay down, relax alot, and clear your mind, meditation is often a good way of doing this although not nessacary. People who report having lyrics in there head and stuff may want to try medditation, i will add a meditation guide as soon as i know how to do it (lol).
It will take anywhere between 15-45 mins your first time, and after doing this alot dreams will become more vivid, and you will be better at picturing stuff.
Within this time period you might: (not all effects happen with everyone)
*Feel like you are floating - Like waves are running through your body
*Hynotic Imagery - Focus on the black and ignore this
*Wooshing sounds, or people talking - Ignore this
*Awake tests - your body will test to see if you are realy asleep, this can be uncomfortablility, to loud sounds and flashing
*Sleep Paylasis (see underneath all induction methods)
*Vibrating - This is when you are going into the actual dream
*Flashes of light and people
*Sounds
Eventualy you will vibrate and your eyes will open. Dont get too excited or youll pull out. The most common reasons for a failed WILD is:
*Fear - Theres nothing to be scared of. Pray or something.
*Exictement - I see alot of people on the forum are getting excited, dont it will pull you out.
*Inturupting thoughts - Try meditation or practice not thinking
BILD (black eye induced lucid dreams)
This is now my new favorite.
You know when you close your eyes you see all those changing moving colors? All you have to do for this technique is focus on these, relax deeply, and notice every color, everything. Fall into a trance with them, clear your mind, this is similair to wild, and a dream will form.
Sleep Paralysis
When i was a kid, i would have night terrors. Every night, i would have a nightmare and wake up. When i woke up, i would feel tightened, my breathing slowed to a minimum, i could not speak, as if the words were frozen as they came out of my mouth. I would be very scared and could not move. I was parallelized, and i could see monsters running at me, coming from my bed, my closet, anything you could think of.
What i found out i had was hallucinate sleep paralysis. This is when you fall into SP (Sleep Paralysis) but are still half in a dream (the hallucination). You will experience this, not hallucinate but you wont be able to move. If you fall into this and need out, focus on your index finger and wiggle it tell your out. This is common for the WILD technique.
Dream Recall
Alot of people have lucid dreams and dont even know. You know when you dont think you dreamed (alot of people posted that they dont dream) you probably did and just dont remember it. In order to remember dreams:
*Keep a dream journal - I dont do this but i hear it works. Every day when you wake up just drought down your dream.
*Lay down for 5-10 mins. Dont move, just remember.
Increasing Vividy
2d crappy mario lucid graphics are no fun. Just shout "Increase Vividy" tell you get the vividy you want, and note: the longer you have slept before the better vividy, rem gets better as it is developed. You will become better at visualizeing from lding alot
Walking Around
Moving around in lucid dreams is different then in real life, you move with willpower.
Flying
Flying in lucid dreaming is very fun, although alot of people dont believe they can therefore they cant. I can just liftoff, and you will too when you get good, but to start id suggest jumping and bouncing around untell you start going (there is no gravity in lucid dreams).
Eating Food
You can tase very well in lucid dreams, and alot of people think its fun to eat alot without getting fat. You could diet off this too.
Spawning Objects
Something people have a hard time with at first is spawning objects. To do so, just look down at your hand and believe something is there
Spawning People
Believe its there, blink, and its there.
Changeling LandScapes
There are many ways of changeing where you are, i remember my first dream i spawned some DCs (Dream Charectors) and just ran around seeing where i ended up. I ended up in a place with a tv, not sure where i was, and i had the remote. I fliped the channel untell i found teh landscape i wanted, and jumped in. When i was done there, i closed my eyes. I decided i was in the desert, i felt the hot sun on my head, i was swetting, and i opended my eyes and there i was. I was in the desert.
I hope that story gave you an idea of changeing landscapes
A note on Dream Charectors
known as dc's, dream charectors are interesting to conversate with. Alot of them are funny, and fast at thinking. Scientists would tell you they are figures of your imagination. I remember hearing a story once about a guy named dan who lucid dreamed. He had a girl sitting on his lap, and then told her he needed to wake up and go into reality. She said, "What? You dont think im real?" and he said "No your in my dream haha" and laughed, she, angered, gave him a cigarate burn, and when he woke up, the burn was on his hand, and he felt it. Talk to a DC, it is fun
Just a note on control:
I just saw that "snapping fingers thing". I tried it, and it does work. The thing is, i dont even have to blink or anything to change landscapes because i believe and now it will happen. The tips on changeing/spawning stuff are only to make it easier on yourself untell you get better at it.
Feeling in Lucid Dreams
You can feel in well in ld's. Your mind sends sences. You can feel pain, taste food, get excited, scared, sorrow, happiness or any feeling
Hypnosis Induced Lucid Dream
I often use this failsafed with WILD (lmao). Basicly you can get your sc to tell you when your dreaming.
So, lets get started.
What is Self Hypnosis?
Self Hypnosis is very real and [U]Has/U] been scientificly proven. It is a way of talking to your subconc, and commanding it to do stuff. It is not dangerous, it is safe, and it cant turn you into spider man . However it can get rid of fears and help with stuff like that. But in lucid dreaming it can help by telling you your in a dream and makeing them alot more vivid. I often use this with WILD to make sure there is not chance of failure.
I will not be teaching to deeply into self hypnosis, and if you cant do it post that and i could add some more detail to this part of the tutorial.
Doing Self Hyonsis
Self Hypnosis is 80% relaxation, as sleep is 100%, so its basicly like being on the verge of sleep. It helps to be able to visualize stuff well, which lucid dreaming improves, but not needed. You do not have to do this every time you go to bed, only once:
The goal of hypnosis is to relax yourself completely and talk to your sub. There are many different ways of relaxation:
I got to take a shower when im back ill finish this part lol. Back sorry i took a while i have a dick infection and it hurts...anyways back on topic. I will be going over my best method of realaxation and if it does not work for you tell me and ill add some more.
Lay Down on a bed or sit on a chair (chair is preferred if you pass out easily). Drop your shoulders and close your eyes (not hard, just nice and comfortable. Dont force them shut) Tense up, count to ten (visualize the numbers as they go down) backwards and then release (relaxes your musles a little). Next, imagine yourself (your body as if it was transparent) being slowly filled with water, and tell yourself as the water comes up you will become more and more relaxed and liquid like at that part of the body. In like 30seconds you will be filled completely with water.
A brief note: Not everyone feels different. Alot of people think they wornt in hypnosis because they did not feel different. Some effects that dont happen with everyone are:
*Your eyes will flutter and try to open. Ignore This. *You may feel stoned *You may feel like your floating *You may feel like waves are comming up and down your body.
Continuing, and when i say tell yourself think it dont say it out loud.
Imagine that you are looking at a door. At this part things should get a little vivid and more realistic (not always). Notice everything about the door. The color, is it red, blue, dark green? Everything. Tell yourself that when you open this door, your eyes will shut tight. Tell yourself they are shut like a garage, and it would be very hard to open them. Open the door and imageing you are standing on a 20 foot stair case that leads down to a beach and enters the water. Tell yourself while imageing it that at stair ten your toes will dip into the water. Then at 15 you will be up to water in your waiste. Tell yourself that with each step, you will slowly get more and more relaxed, and when you enter the water, the part of your body that enters the water will become 5x more relaxed then it is right now. Now go down the stair case, pictureing yourself with each step. Listen to the calm waves smack up against the walls of the staircase. Picture each letter. By the time you are completely underwater, you should be in a deep enough trance for this to work. Now swim (or walk some people cant swim) down the water. Then imagine 3 gifts sinking down from the top of the water.
When they reach the bottom onto the sand, focus on them. What type of paper are they rapped with? What type of bow? What colors? Take note of this in your head. Notice the tag with your name on it. Open up the first box, and notice it is a orb. What color is the orb? Notice the words that come up from the orb and write themselves in ink, they say:
"I will now reality check every time i am not completely awake" and let it go back into the orb as the orb enters and fills your body. Next, the second gift is:
"The Gift of having more vivid and real lucid dreams" and let it fill your body.
and the fourth:
"Let my Wake Induced Lucid dreams take less time and be more effective."
Now dont pull yourself out immediatly as then nothing will happen. If you have any of the side effects i listed above, then you are sure that it is working, but if not it might of worked and might not. Swim back to shore. Walk up the staircase counting to 20 and becoming a little more tense. Basicly the reverse of before. When you finaly reach the door, tell yourself:
"This is the door of reality which i am now entering". Open the door and open your eyes (opening your eyes might take a while). Now it is good to sit/lay for another 20 mins (take a nap if you need too) so that the blood can come back into your body (so you wont faint, i ignored this my first time and got a horrible migraine).
If that did not work, tell me and ill add some more methods. 80% of the world can be hypnotized.
Things to Do in a lucid dream
This is a list of some fun things to do once induced:
Easy Things
Eat something - Food is good in lucid dreams
Jump off a waterfall
Do something you have always wanted to do.
Explore - Go anywhere
Chat with dream charectors
Spawn DC's
Spawn people
Moderate Things
Fly
Memory Recall - Remember things you forgot
Hard Things
Learn Something New - Practice Skating
Inspiration - Write a song (your smarter in dreams?)
Well that pretty much is everything, but i feel like im missing something so if i am, tell me. Please post what you think i will not count thanks or hates as spam. Rep me if you liked it, too. And remember it can take weeks even months to get WILDs down, so dont get mad if you cant do it fast enough. And baked, you can ld every night i can its alot of fun, just dont give it up. Add me on msn if you want any more help, have questions:
Donnie_dooshbag@hotmail.com - MSN.
Edit2: Taking a shower then i will finish up the guide on the hypnosis inducedl lucid dreams and add some fun ideas to do in lds.
Edit3:Updated Hypnosis Part. Thanks for the comments and rep!
Edit4: Tell me what you think of my tut writing skills, am i adding too much or too little detail? I could use some critisim/help or just a thanks.
Edit5: Added black eye technique.
Answers to some questions people where asking:
The Man:
Please read this. The flashing lights you saw happened to me every once in a while, mabye it is a test. Like the uncomfomtablity i get when trying. Your body tests you. And as the breathing is slowed, i think you were on the bridge of a succesfull WILD, good sign for your first attempt. And if your mom does not want you to, then im not going to tell you to, just make sure not to make sure not to call people fake lol? idk.
Also, your flashing lights, you might have been going to a bright place (mabye a desert, and the light was in your eyes?).
And lucid dreaming in not daydreaming, although it can make day dreaming more realistic from doing it to much (rem is good for you).
In lucid dreaming, yes you are alseep i think like 50%? Its still good enough rest. Thats a good sign that you made it that far your first time. Im updateing the WILD guide on what to expect right now to better fit your needs.
A note on the cig burn story - Ive been studying deeper into this type of stuff, realy creepy. Tonight i will talk to some dc's about some stuff, pm me if you got any questions for them, and post on here tommorow. [/B]