Thread: best technique

i was just wondering
what would you guys say is the most affective technique for someone who has never had a LD before. like what was the technique you used when you had your first LD?

Well, when anyone starts lucid dreaming, they have to work on their dream recall-the ability to remember dreams. Try keeping a dream journal- a small pad of paper and pencil by your bed to jot down notes from dreams when you wake up, or even just a tape recorder. Once you can remember your dreams on a normal basis, you can start experimenting with techniques. The first couple of lucid dreams i've had are dream-induced lucid dreams, or DILD. They are when you are dreaming and you realize, "Hey, what the heck?!" and you find yourself in the middle of a dream. This can be done by getting in a habit of regularly checking your surroundings, doing "reality checks" in your day to day life, when you get into the habit of doing it in your life, you'll do it in your dream. Some of these checks can be looking at a clock to see if the time is readable, or a book, or a light switch: usually light in a dream is constant and can't be changed. Other methods involve waking up from a dream, not moving and keeping your eyes closed, and picturing something that reminds you to do a reality check in your dream, like sitting in a room with a sign that says "check your reality" or "you're dreaming!"... I really shouldn't be one to talk, I'm not very experienced but I've had a few of my own. It's great fun once you learn to control and maintain your lucid dreams. Almost an alternate life!

thnx
yeah iv been trying the realty checks and iv been working on my dream recall but whenever somthing weird happends in a dream i am always like wait am i dreaming then somhow i make sence that its normal

yeah that happens too, a self-enforcing delusion. By the way, if when you start realizing you're dreaming and you wake up by mistake, don't be frustrated, that happens alot when you first start. When that happens you should try doing the WILD by not moving or opening your eyes and falling back asleep thinking about lucid dreaming. One time I was thinking about walking down a long never ending flight of stairs and got into a lucid dream.

I would say try other techniques like reality checks for DILD before trying to WILD. After failing WILD for the last 4 nights that is what I have concluded =P

well tarsier
thnx for the advice ill have to try that out.

Originally Posted by noodle-soup

thnx
yeah iv been trying the realty checks and iv been working on my dream recall but whenever somthing weird happends in a dream i am always like wait am i dreaming then somhow i make sence that its normal

If you can remember to do reality checks in dreams, I'd try doing at least three of them. More times than none, my hands will be exactly the same, I jump like normal, I can feel pain like normal, but the nose plug RC never fails me. I've even had text look the same after looking at it three times. I've been trying to WILD so I can actively look at my dream signs and note them in my dream state of mind. Wish me luck! Happy dreams and many lucids!

eating bananas and chocolate give u more vivid dreams??

Originally Posted by noodle-soup

eating bananas and chocolate give u more vivid dreams??

yep, there are a lot of foods that can help with that, but most people have found bananas and chocolate to be the most useful. It's because of the higher levels of B6 (and in the bananas, Tryptophane) which help to make your dreams more vivid.

carrots, bananas, oranges, liver, nuts, eggs, chicken, spinach, fish, beans all have vitamin B6 which has Trytophan , which is then converted into serotonin that cause dreams to become so vivid.

btw, important that you eat them right before you go to bed.

noodle-soup, though ld'ing is very awesome in and of itself, it will take practice and training. First off, you should start by remembering your dreams down to the detail (people, enviroment, situations). Also, you will have to get yourself into the habit of analyzing your enviroment in your waking life (rc'ing every now and then, examining your surroundings). This is crucial to Ld'ing because if you get into this habit in your waking life, you are more like to do so in your freams, which will lead you to realization of being in a dream. Afterwards, you can try techniques like WILD or whatever you scroll across here. But like i said, it is most important that you get into the habit of analyzing and examining your surroundings in your waking life, so you can do so in your dreams. Cause when we dream we dont know it, so we act as is we were in our waking life, and generally accept anything that comes our way no matter how crazy, but you will be kicking yourself the next morning. Also look for dream signs (common themes in your dreams). For me its text, its walways illegible and gibberish. Well thats all for now. good luck.