Starting

Contents:

Intoduction
Preparation
Techniques
What next?
Questions and comments
Conclusion

Introduction:

Lucid dreaming is being aware that you are dreaming. You can use lucid dreaming to control your dreams and create any world you can possibly image. You are only limited by your imagination.

Do you want the ability to control your dreams?

If you have seen the film the matrix you can think of lucid dreaming as the matrix world and the real world as the real real world. And when you are going to sleep you go into a dream (the matrix) and have get contro (lucidity) like they do. You can summun up objects and bend the laws of physics. Anything is possible.

Of course lucid dreaming has nothing to do with the matrix but it can help you visualise the concept. In reality you got to sleep and in the REM stages of the sleep cycle you begin dreaming. You gain lucidity in the dream by realising that it is a dream. And the journey to help realise you are dreaming and gain lucidity in dreams begins here. Including lots of techniques to induce dreams and ways to improve them

If you have just become aware of lucid dreaming you may find it hard to set foot in the right direction and not know what you should start with and where to progress next.

Luckily there have been people before us that have experimented with dreams and lucidity to help develop ways to induce it. Lucid dreaming is becoming more well known in modern society with films such as 'vanilla sky' covering it and the information here will help you on your journey towards having regular lucid dreams.

These steps are desiged to tell you the main skills you will need to develop in order to have a successful lucid dream and the easiest techniues to start out with.

By all means, experiment with other methods whilst learning but you may find these harder to do than these.

Preparation:

Before you will be able to lucid dream you must first be able to remember your dreams. Often people who don't develop dream recall wake up in the morning and either can't remember their dreams or remember little for a short time and easily forget it when out of bed occupied with their daily tasks. What is the point of having a lucid dream when you can't remember you had one or what it was about when you wake up in the morning? Not much....so it is avisable to start improving your dream recall. Visit these sections early on the learn the different methods for helping you remember those dreams

Dream Recall - Dream recall techiques and methods need to be implemented because....(read more)

Dream Diary - Keeping a diary of your dreams will improve your dream recall over time and should ideally be done...(read more)

I advise you to visit these sections for further reading, especially the dream diary section when starting out it will be a great aid into achieving a lucid dream.

Techniques:

So far i have covered what lucid dreams are, why you should learn to remember and how good it would be to control them. but how to you acheive lucidity? how do you become aware you are dreaming? How do i know i am lucid? What does it feel like? These are some of the question that may be resting on your mind. And these next sections should be visited and implemented alongside your dream recall development to help you understand the full process, and what happens both physically and mentally from being awake to going into a lucid dream.

Techniques you should begin with are

Reality Checks - This section will reveal a technique into lucid dreaming that is a must for beginners

Levels Of Lucidity - This section will reveal what is feels like to become lucid, what the different levels of lucidity are and what levels of realism and control can be experience.

MILD - This is a method of induction described by stephen La Berge

WBTB - Used in combination with the WILD technique can be ver effective for lucid dreams.

For more information on these techniques follow the links provided above. It is a good idea to get to grips with these techniques before any of the more advanced ones, but by all means, if you think that these arent for you and want to try one of the other methods you can but will have slower development of the skills and they will take longer to learn. Hopefully by this stage you know the basics of lucid dreaming and how to induce them, what they feel like etc? and maybe you have already had one. If so, then well done!

What next?

Make sure you don't stop here. Keep reading and learning more advanced tecniques and better ways to contol your dreams and before long you will soon find yourself having many lucid dreams a week and having the kind of contol and realism from them that you never thought possible.

Make sure you visit other sections on the site, there is plenty more information you can find.

Come and visit the LucidNet.co.uk online dream diary to start recording your dreams, and reviewing the dreams of other lucid explorers. Click here to enter

Come visit the Forum and introduce yourself, you will be able to ask questions, dicuss topics and meet other lucid dreamers. Click here to register

Questions and Comments:

If you have any questions about any aspect of lucid dreaming

You would like to know some trivia
you are unsure on a certain aspect or concept
You would like to discuss something about reality checks or sleep paralysis

You should visit the FAQ section and the forum first, there may be a thread discussing your question and find a suitable answer there. If there isn't you can post a new topic(you must be registered) to ask your question.

If you do not wish to post your question on a public forum then you can email me at: andy@lucidnet.co.uk. I will reply to your email as soon as possible with an answer to your enquiry

Also, if you feel anything should be added to this section get in contact.

Conclusion:

Remember, there is no wrong way to get started. This is just a guide to make it easier and avoid getting tangled in advanced methods before you fully understand the easier ones

Also note that everyone progresses through lucid dreaming at different rates. This could be because of your personal life or because you are a natural at lucid dreaming