Easy Lucid Dreaming: 5 Steps to Having Lucid Dreams

So you want to know the easiest way to start lucid dreaming? You found it.

 

I've been lucid dreaming since I was 14 years old. Over the years, I've researched a lot about lucid dream induction. I have practiced many different exercises and developed my own ways to become lucid and stay conscious in the dream state for longer.

The following is a snapshot of all that work. It's my big picture take on lucid dreaming for beginners, whittled down into 5 sensible steps to prime your mind for lucid dreams.

Step #1 - Improve Your Dream Recall

This is a big one.

You should improve your dream recall so that you remember at least one dream vividly every night. Preferably more.

Plant the seed. Tell yourself regularly: "I will remember my dreams". Do this just before you go to sleep. Say it over and over in your mind like a mantra. This plants the desire in your unconscious mind.

Record your dreams. Next, start a dream journal. Keep it by the bedside so you can write down your dreams the moment you wake up. Recording your dreams verbally on your phone is another good option.

Emphasize your desire. Discuss your dreams with your friends. Hit home the message that dreams are important and must be remembered. Sign up to 10 Steps To Lucid Dreams to get daily reminders and motivation.

Go subliminal. Get the message in deep. Watch our subliminal lucid dreaming video.

Step #2 - Perform Reality Checks

This is a spectacularly easy lucid dreaming exercise.

Reality checks are the secret weapon of those who tend towards spontaneous Dream Initiated Lucid Dreams (DILDs). That's a fancy way of saying: you're dreaming, then you realize you're dreaming. You become lucid.

Just attempt an impossible action, like pushing your hand through a wall, while asking: "Am I dreaming?"

Reality checks definitively prove whether you're awake or dreaming. When awake, it's simply a way of forming a habit. When you're asleep - BINGO. This is the end goal of a reality check.

Reality checks are NOT needed to decide your reality when you're awake, as if in doubt. That means you're mentally ill.

Aim to do 10-20 reality checks randomly throughout your day. This enhances your self awareness and programs the question.

Soon, you'll spontaneously perform a reality check in a dream - and become lucid.

Step #3 - Learn To Meditate

Meditation is really, really cool.

If you didn't know that already then you're not doing it right.

When you meditate, you can experience all kinds of mental effects, including hypnagogic hallucinations, feelings of euphoria and sudden insights. Meditation tunes you in to your internal state like never before and helps you feel more at peace in yourself.

Research has also linked meditation with lucid dreaming. That's because it trains you to actively enter altered states of awareness on demand. And it makes you more self-aware, helping you to recognize the unreality of the dream world more often.

Start by introducing a simple 10-minute breathing meditation into your daily routine. Then go deeper. I find this much easier with brainwave entrainment.

Meditation forms a part of many lucid dreaming techniques, and is especially valuable when you're learning to have WILDs or Wake Induced Lucid Dreams.

 

Step #4 - Study Up

With the first three steps you can easily have a handful of spontaneous lucid dreams.

But if you're serious about having regular lucid dreams, you need to study up. This will help you identify the best induction methods for you (out of the dozens available) as well as what to do with your lucid dreams when you have them.

In the last five years lucid dreaming has become huge. Beyond this website you'll find countless books, websites, forums, TV and movie coverage to give you insights into conscious dreaming.

Also check out my resources page for more juice.

The more you think about lucid dreams during the day, the more likely you are to become conscious in your dreams at night. This part is ridiculously easy. Lucid dreaming comes faster to those who obsess about it. And that obsession can take any form you like.

Step #5 - Go Supersonic

Like I say, you will have some cool experiences with the easy lucid dreaming techniques described above. But then it's time to go deeper. Way deeper.

Take on some advanced techniques, like the Wake Induced Lucid Dream (WILD). This was originally developed by Tibetan Buddhists in the form of Dream Yoga. As the name implies, it involves training yourself to go directly from waking to a lucid dream state.

This one's not so easy. But once you figure it out, the payoff is huge.

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You'll find some surprising stuff when we get there!