Hello, I'm new and need a little help. :)

[Astroman129]

Hello, I just joined DreamViews a few minutes ago. I have been trying to lucid dream for a while now, but I am having trouble. I was browsing the forums here before I signed up, and I found a few helpful threads, which I tried last night. However, these were too complicated. May someone please help me with some basic concepts of Lucid Dreaming? Thanks.

[innerspacecadet]

Hello. The two most popular basic recommendations to rookies are to keep a dream journal (where you can get used to remembering dreams and realizing the weird things in them, called dreamsigns) and test reality. I'd make a third recommendation: keep reading about lucid dreaming and cool methods for doing it. Have you read Stephen LaBerge's "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" yet? If not, try that. For some people, discussion of the concept of lucid dreaming or of life as a dream can be enough to trigger a first lucid dream. The trick to lucid dreaming is knowing something's different: either recognizing weird things happening, whether you force them to happen via reality checks or just see them happen spontaneously (recognize dreamsigns), or, in the case of wake-induced lucid dreams or WILDs, realizing that you just changed states from waking to REM sleep. My first lasting lucid dream was a WILD. Have you ever felt weird tingling or vibrating or falling sensations as you were falling asleep, and ended up dreaming minutes later, except you thought you had actually waken up? If you go into those weird feelings knowing that they mean you're about to enter a dream, you can have a WILD.

[Astroman129]

Thanks for the help. I already know about the dream journal and the RC, though. Thanks anyway.

[Grod]

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ead.php?t=1518 Look at this -- This should get you started quickly.

[Astroman129]

Thank you for that link.

[Ronstek]

Hello Astroman129 and welcome to Dreamviews. Relax and dont try too hard. Failure, anxiety, frustration, dissappointment, whatever name is put to it is an inhibitor to achieving a LD. Keep going with the basics and let the LD come to you. I have found that the best time to LD is during an afternoon siesta when the sleep is almost entirely in the REM mode. Again Welcome and best wishes.