Technique that has brought me from bad-recall to 3 semi-lucids in 3 nights.
I know I’m pretty much a beginner, but in case anyone of similar experience would like to try, these steps have given me the most vivid-to-semi-lucid dreams in a small amount of time than anything else I have tried. I seriously feel as if I’m on the verge of finally having very frequent (true) lucid dreams, I just need to become more aware.
Make sure you set an alarm or have some means of getting yourself awake about 1-2 hours before you normally would.
1.) Read, watch, or listen to some material on lucid dreaming for about 20 minutes before bed.
2.) Get in bed, sit up, relax, then become aware of all external stimuli for about 5 minutes.
3.) Attempt to "imagine" various stimuli for each of your senses for around 5-10 minutes. (Imagine the way random objects look, feel, smell, taste, and sound as vividly as possible)
4.) Lay in bed as if you were sleeping, then take 10 deep, slow breaths while imagining that each breath makes you more and more relaxed.
5.) Close your eyes, then visualize walking down a spiral staircase as vividly as possible (all senses) until you reach the bottom, where a nice bed is located.
6.) Get into the bed, and visualize falling asleep within the visualization.
7.) Now replace the visualization of you being in bed with a vivid "re-dreaming" of your latest non-lucid recalled dream, as if all "external" stimuli of the bed at the bottom of the staircase are gone.
8.) "Re-dream" this dream as vividly as possible until you encounter the dream sign you missed when really dreaming it.
9.) Imagine yourself truly questioning reality, then imagine yourself becoming aware with excitement and all.
10.) Stabilize, clarify, then imagine doing what you plan to do.
11.) After a while, imagine waking up, back in the bed at the bottom of the staircase, and reflecting on your lucid dream for a few moments.
12.) Now, as you fall asleep, use autosuggestion of your choice. I usually say “The next time I’m dreaming I will realize that I am dreaming,” and sometimes I tag on the end “and I will be 100% aware of the fact that all that I see, hear, smell, taste, and feel are all a product of my mind.” If you find your mind wandering, tell yourself “I am not concerned with that,” then continue with the autosuggestion. If you start having strange thoughts such as catching yourself thinking of a completely nonsensical phrase in place of your mantra, then you are probably close to being asleep. Correct yourself, then continue until you’re asleep.
Now, when you wake up via alarm or other means:
13.) Get out of bed, use the restroom, get a sip of water, and make yourself comfortably/calmly awake and aware for about 10-15 minutes. During this time, remember exactly why you’re making yourself wake up, and get yourself confident in the fact that you might be very, very close to having a lucid dream.
14.) Repeat steps 2-12
15.) Realize that you are dreaming!
Let me know if any of you have success with this (if anyone tries). I’m fairly confident that it is a solid routine that might work for me now as an inexperienced dreamer.
