How to Lucid Dream

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Originally Posted by Meehaw

... im not exactly sure what constitutes as strange in the real world...if you catch my drift lol

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Strange is meant as "unusual" or "odd". These may not always be obvious at first. Like in dreams, where we accept the unusual without question.

But strange can be anything from seeing someone you haven't seen in a long time, finding a coin, going to a new store, forgetting where you put your keys, arriving late somewhere, etc... The trick is to recognise things that are different from the most normal situations. Then, eventually, to be able to recognise things that are so different from normal (i.e. "strange") that you must be dreaming, like when you find yourself dining with Cleopatra or that your bedroom has beaded curtains for walls and is a shack on top of a mountain in hell.

Because really, when is being sucked into the sky by a purple tornado filled with pillows and panda bears playing hopscotch and drinking scotch and liquid taffy normal? But the problem is that even the most absurd seems "normal" in a dream. So if you can learn to recognise small and large anomalies and inconsistencies in the real world then you are better prepared to recognise their counterparts in the dream world.

Hey Oneironaught, thanks a lot for replying!
It really helped me out...and now that it's cleared up for me i won't be doing RCs at random anymore!
I especially liked the bit about the pandas XD hopefully after reading this i'll see some in a dream and realise i'm dreaming...if I do, many many thanks! and if I don't, then shame on me!
But anyway, thanks again! :D

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Ur tutorial finally broke my dry spell!!! :banana:

Thank you so much for taking the time to make such a structured tutorial. I cant tell you how much this helps. One of the problems on dream views is that there are so many techniques and ideas that people present that one is easily deterred from a structured routine to improve your progress. Having something to really stick to and just work on really helps. Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Meehaw

Hey Oneironaught, thanks a lot for replying!
It really helped me out...and now that it's cleared up for me i won't be doing RCs at random anymore!
I especially liked the bit about the pandas XD hopefully after reading this i'll see some in a dream and realise i'm dreaming...if I do, many many thanks! and if I don't, then shame on me!
But anyway, thanks again! :D

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You're welcome. I just wanted to mention that this doesn't mean that random RCs have to be eliminated. Actually, some random ones would be of use to you. But, as I pointed out, if you RC when something besides normal day-to-day happenings occur the you're on your way to much success. Many times - in normal dreams - things strike us as being odd but we never even think to RC. The same happens in real life as well.

The hardest part is to remember to do so when those unusual things happen. Because it often happens that new or unusual things tend to capture our attention to the point where RCs are completely forgotten about until later on.

quick question... it wouldnt hurt in any way to do WILD and WBTB at the same time right? I mean it doubles your chances if you think about it...

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Originally Posted by Shamrox

quick question... it wouldnt hurt in any way to do WILD and WBTB at the same time right? I mean it doubles your chances if you think about it...

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No. Actually, that's the "right" way to do either in many people's opinion. If you ask me, I'll you that WBTB should always be paired with WILD. Well, I do say it pretty often around here.

i never see any thing unusual or unordinary so i cant do RC's, the only RC i can do is RC every 30 min and my RC would be holding my nose and trying to breathe. how can i notice things that are unusual?

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Originally Posted by Oneironaught

No. Actually, that's the "right" way to do either in many people's opinion. If you ask me, I'll you that WBTB should always be paired with WILD. Well, I do say it pretty often around here.

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Thank you, thats what i assumed :)

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Originally Posted by peanut_butter

how can i notice things that are unusual?

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Hi peanut.. (nice nick btw)..

Looking at my hands has always worked for me.. simple to set up in the waking world..

For me, they never look exactly the same in an LD scenario.. and the sight of them is always accompanied by a "voice in my head" that says "You're dreaming..".

I've never found another RC that works 100% of the time, like "looking at my hands" does. Some people swear by the "light switch" RC.. this is okay until the time that the light actually works properly, rendering that RC useless. Same with the "holding one's nose" RC.. in my experience, it doesn't always work like they say it does.

All the best to you.

I had my first lucid dream last night (before reading this tutorial) and it was a WBTB. I can't wait to try it again tonight following the instructions here.

I have a question: what is the difference between WILD and WBTB? Both of them you wake up after 5 hours sleep, stay awake for a period of time, then go back to bed. How are they different?

Fantastic tutorial, I learnt a lot and now I have a whole heap of stuff to try out! Thanks for all of that!

EZ-CHEEZER.. that was awesome, it puts evrything into prospective, explaining it in a way that even i could understand. And the thing about the bird in the (WILD), Made perfect sence.. thanks mate. This really is the guide to end all guid's..

A thousand thanks, BillyBob! I've read through pretty much every tutorial on this site, and most of them seemed either strange, stupid, or arbitrary. Yours was the first that really made sense, especially the part about doing reality checks when you experience something odd. That seems a lot less laborious and a lot more reasonable than just doing them at random.

I'm gonna give your weekly schedule a try. Wish me luck!

I'm a bit confused as to the difference between a WILD and a WBTB. They sound sort of the same — you wake up, stay up for a while, and then slip into a dream when you go back to bed. What's the real difference?

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Originally Posted by Helix

I have a question: what is the difference between WILD and WBTB? Both of them you wake up after 5 hours sleep, stay awake for a period of time, then go back to bed. How are they different?

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Originally Posted by Lucretius

I'm a bit confused as to the difference between a WILD and a WBTB. They sound sort of the same — you wake up, stay up for a while, and then slip into a dream when you go back to bed. What's the real difference?

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When you WILD your attempting to pass directly from the state of wakefulness to that of dreaming seamlessly, with no passing out.

On the other hand, when you do a WBTB, your just waking up for a short time, then going back to sleep (possibly doing an induction method like MILD or something as your falling asleep).


When doing a simple WBTB you aren't attempting to consciously go from waking to dreaming, you're just assuming that you'll become conscious in the next REM period you get (you actually pass out and then re-awaken in a dream/have a DILD).

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Thanks for all the comments everyone :)

Very nice guide BillyBob. This has helped me and countless others, I'm sure.
You're a LaBerge in the making, I think :P

Wow! Thanks so much for this! I look forward to trying all of those out.

I've had one random DILD, which was pretty amazing, and have been keeping a Dream Journal and doing Reality Checks. Hope this will help me even more. I can see WBTB's helping me a lot. So, for a WILD, just concentrate on one thing right? Doesn't have to be breathing? Could I, for instance, just count down from 1,000?

You should have a poll for this post for people to vote if the tutorial made them lucid :D

This was amazing!! Best guide on LDing I have read thus far.

k, so something i dont understand is that when ur in a dream, and u see something odd and choose to do an RC, wouldnt u already be lucid by making that decision to do an RC alone?

so what if u have a problem even comprehending something is out of the ordinary and dont think to do an RC. how will you ever be able to? are there and tips or techniques that will help you know to do an RC?

Fantastic tutorial! I'll be trying the schedule of yours this week.

I like to see that we think alike billy. Normally I mess up one the dream journal one though.:P I wasn't fooled into thinking lucid dreaming was hard because at first I didn't know people had trouble with them, and when I had my first one in 4 days and my next one 2 days or so later, I knew in my mind it was easy.

Little buddy, yes normally when I do a reality check I only do it to confirm that I'm dreaming. I don't think I have every done one randomly. To do a RC when something strange happens, you have to do the same in real life.

I'm glad you made this tutorial for people billy, this should help a lot of people.

I think this should be the new tutorial that people should read first. It tells people the things that normally mess them up.

Thanks for sharing this tutorial with us. It was very interesting/good information.

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Originally Posted by LittleBuddy

k, so something i dont understand is that when ur in a dream, and u see something odd and choose to do an RC, wouldnt u already be lucid by making that decision to do an RC alone?

so what if u have a problem even comprehending something is out of the ordinary and dont think to do an RC. how will you ever be able to? are there and tips or techniques that will help you know to do an RC?

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When doing a RC it makes you think when you see something odd. like normally if you came in and couldn't find your cell phone you would just pass it on. So if you start to realize these things and get into a habbit of doing it, in dreams you will do it too. Also in dreams everything seems normal, even if you saw a yellow panda in your room, you would just accept it. But if you RC normally you would think 'hmmm how did a yellow panda get into my house...