Thread: Looking to become a more experienced dreamer

Hi everyone!

I'm a regular dreamer. I keep a dream journal. The last few weeks, I've fallen out of my habit of remembering and writing down my dreams, and I want to get back into it.

I've had a couple of lucid dreams before, but they were years apart. But I really want to develop the ability to lucid dream on a regular basis! And I'm hoping I can learn the techniques and methods of doing that here.

Im going to give you a few techniques. Note: They work for me quite well thats not saying that they will work for you, but it might get you started. You want to find a comfort dreaming zone. If you remember the way you went to sleep the one night that you had your lucid, attempt to sleep in the same kind of position. If your planning on going through with it make sure you have nothing that will break you from your dream. IE alarms, annoying brothers or sisters, music, as these things find their way into your dreams. I dont know if the sleeping position really does anything but its never failed me. Give it a try and see what happens

Welcome to DV!

You've found the right place. I would highly suggest checking out some of our tutorials on different lucid dream induction techniques.

Also, a really great book to pick up is Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen Laberge. It was the first thing I ever read about lucid dreaming and was one of the most helpful things (aside from DV) for me in having lucid dreams.

And again, welcome!

The one time I did lucid dream, it was waking up in the middle of the night, staying awake for 5 minutes, and then going back to sleep. (This was unintentional, but I later made the connection as to why I went lucid that night.) I'm not sure if a sleeping position would help me, as I can only fall asleep in certain positions, side or stomach. I can never sleep on my back.

I will also check out the tutorials. I do want to start trying lucid dreams soon.

It sounds like the WBTB method is perfect for you, then. You should be able to find it in the tutorials. My advice is to work on recovering your dream recall if need be, before going after lucid dreaming. This is the stage I'm in now. I have a pretty sporadic record when it comes to paying attention to my dreams.

Yes, I do need to work on my dream recall a great deal. I was at the point where I could remember more than one dream per night, but lately I'm not remembering anything. So I do need to work on that first.