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How to make your lucid dreams better

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Both amateur and professional lucid dreamers alike have all faced the same issue at some point. “How do I make my lucid dreams better?” Well, in quite a few ways actually. By better, I’m referring to three key areas for improvement. Firstly, we want them to be longer, secondly more lucid and vivid, and thirdly, more memorable on waking. Just as there are several techniques known to induce lucid dreaming, you’ll be equally as pleased to know that there are several more techniques available to improve upon the areas above!
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Lucid Dreaming Tips

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When deciding to start practicing lucid dreaming, there are a few lucid dreaming tips that you should keep in mind, in order to make the experience more enjoyable. A dreamer, who becomes lucid, may find their initial experience of lucid dreaming, strange as he will experience a range of different feelings and emotions which he may have never experienced before. With this in mind, the best advice is to go slowly. Some people realize that they are lucid and find themselves rushing to do things and neglect to appreciate the experience.

In addition, make sure to look at your hands often, as strange distortions will remind you that you are dreaming. This is a good ‘reality check’ as it will easily allow you to spot that you are dreaming. Many lucid dreamers tend to lift their hands up, in order to count their fingers to see if they are dreaming.

Another one of my lucid dreaming tips is to keep a dream journal. This journal should be placed by your bedside. Make sure to write down as much detail about your dreams the minute you wake up. Every minute that you don’t record your dream, the dream becomes more distant. Practicing using the dream journal will dramatically increase both your dream recall and your chances of becoming lucid.

A common tendency is to wake up from a dream that is so vivid, you are sure that you’ll remember it in the morning. Unfortunately, you won’t so make sure that you write it down straight away.

Stay away from stimulants such as caffeine before sleep, they mess up your sleep patterns. Equally stay away from alcohol or other depressants. Whilst such things can cause colorful dreams and “REM rebound”, in general, it’s better to just stay away as they too will interfere with your sleep patterns.

Avoid TV, especially before bed. It’s a real waste of your life.

Before bed, try to read useful material on lucid dreaming or out of body travel – try to saturate your mind with it as much as possible. Lastly as you doze off to sleep, ask yourself, “Am I dreaming?”. The next time you ask that question, you will be..

Lucid Dreaming – Get started tonight

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Every day that you spend reading about lucid dreaming is another night missed actually lucid dreaming! The point of this post is to give you a means to start immediately rather than reading any further. Over the past 4 or 5 years I’ve read so much rubbish and tried so many techniques that I was almost put off several times. You don’t actually need any product or guide to lucid dream at all. It’s natural and everyone can do it. If you’d rather have your first lucid dream in the next few nights rather than in the next few months or years though, there are certain products that will help. Having sampled a whole ton of techniques and products, I only have two that ever made any difference and actually helped. Unfortunately neither of these are my products, however they are both VERY highly recommended. The first product is from “World of Lucid Dreaming” and is really really good. It isn’t just another book to read but actually comes with MP3s and features actual practical step by step instructions and techniques. Just click the link on the left and see if anything strikes a chord with you.

The second product that I wanted to write about is Xphirience. It is NOT just another brainwave or binaural beat technology. It’s something else all together. It sent me into ‘the zone’ within only a few minutes of listening to it. Don’t believe me? I wouldn’t really expect you to with so many bizarre and unfounded claims about such audio technologies. Fortunately, I actually proved it – I’m the proud owner of an Emotiv EPOC EEG headset and so decided to actually record my brainwaves whilst using Xphirience as proof. Here’s the review and video.

It’s not expensive, and Marcus is another author who’s confident enough in his product to offer a full money back guarantee:

I don’t just write up any old rubbish here – if you have any feedback on either of these two products or of course any other lucid dreaming products, please just let me know as I’d love to look into it!

Sleep, Meditation and Lucid Dreaming

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Does meditation affect sleep and lucid dreaming? Absolutely. Improving your quality of sleep and wake time is essential for successful lucid dreaming. Meditation will dramatically improve your chances of a lucid dream, as well as a more restorative night of sleep. Lucid dreaming is not reported, even by frequent dreamers to detract from sleep time. So what does meditation have to do with lucid dreaming? Meditation increases awareness on a daily basis, and it is through awareness that lucid dreaming comes about. As you become more aware throughout the day, you will find yourself becoming more aware during dreaming, and find yourself lucid during more dreams.

The easiest thing to do is to set aside a short dedicated period each day to practice meditation. Sit calm and still, and just focus your awareness on your breathing. Each time you notice that your mind has wandered, just return your awareness back to meditation. I discuss this technique and other meditations in more detail here

Lucid Dreaming

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Lucid dreaming is an experience that EVERYONE should have at least once in their life. People often ask what lucid dreaming is, and discover that they’ve perhaps had one or more lucid dreams in the past without realizing it. To become aware that you are dreaming during a dream allows you absolute control over your own private universe, which is often as clear if not clearer, sharper and more real than waking reality. Lucid dreaming is an absolutely amazing experience.

What can lucid dreaming be used for?

  • Dreaming can be used to practice real life events and techniques, such as sporting for one example.
  • You could also take the opportunity to practice and master flying around your neighborhood in absolute full 3D reality!
  • Lucid dreaming can be used to gain spiritual or psychological insight into issues that are affecting you.
  • Experiment with different behavior, see how people respond.
  • Brainstorm new ideas
  • Resolve nightmares and fears


A lucid dream is unfortunately a largely ignored phenomenon in modern day society. In it’s simplest terms, it is when a dreamer becomes aware that they are dreaming. Often this is confused with controlling a dream. It is entirely possible for a dream to be lucid despite not having good or any control over it. Also possible, is controlling a dream without realizing it to be a dream and mistaking it with reality.

It would also be wise to explain what lucid dreaming is NOT:

  • Lucid dreaming in itself is not harmful in any way, at least no more or less than any other regular dream. You can not become lost, or trapped in lucid dreams. You can not become possessed by demons, monsters or anything similar. Millions of people practice lucid dreaming either purposefully or without even realizing it.
  • Lucid dreaming in itself is not some kind of strange or occult practice.
  • Lucid dreaming is not some kind of mental disorder – in fact, the ability to lucid dream is a sign of a healthy mental and conscious state.
  • Lucid dreaming is not difficult and does not require a high IQ or an honors degree. In fact, the more ‘intelligence’, ‘thinking’ and ‘logic’ one tries to apply to lucid dreaming, the harder it becomes. If you’ve ever had a dream before, even if it was years ago, you are capable of lucid dreaming. This applies to everyone.
  • Lucid dreaming is not a religion and as such requires no blind FAITH or BELIEF. In fact, you are better advised to practice the techniques and learn through your own experiences, rather than hanging on to other people’s reported experiences that you may or may not believe, and that may or may not resonate with you. Lucid dreaming is like any other skill – the more you read about it and intellectualize it, the more distant it becomes. The quickest way to learn to ride a bike is to just get on it and start practicing. Reading manuals about how to ride a bike is absolutely pointless! You have spent your whole life being told what to believe and how to experience the world around you. This is your own untouched world to be experienced without the conditioning of others!

There are two ways to actually enter lucid dreaming from within a dream. These are a) by realizing that you are dreaming within a regular dream, or b) directly from waking reality. I generally class any LD attempt where I lose awareness for up to a maximum of 10 seconds to be a ‘wake induced lucid dream’ or WILD. That is, a lucid dream aka ‘dream consciousness’ or ‘dream awareness’ directly from regular waking awareness. When I find myself in some dream or nightmare, and ask the golden “Am I dreaming?” question, I class this as a ‘dream induced lucid dream’ or DILD. The “Am I dreaming?” is called a reality check.

The Void

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In lucid dreaming, “the void” can mean a couple of different things in my experience. For one, Monroe refers to a “3D blackness”. This is not something that I have ever experienced myself, however it is discussed at length by other dreamers on forums. It seems to be a pitch blackness that has a three dimensional “feel” to it, and can be perceived in spatial terms rather than just as a flat blackness in front of the eyelids. It also seems that some areas of the darkness can be ‘blacker’ than others, even those it is all entirely pitch black. This is said to be a signpost that you’re on the way into dreaming or into an astral projection if you subscribe to that model.

Not only have I not experienced this particular phenomenon, but in fact I have never experienced any of the “signposts” that are associated with falling into dreaming or projection, so it’s really of no consequence if this sounds unfamiliar to you.

Another type of ‘void’ that I frequently experience is from a WILD attempt and when I ‘roll’ directly out of myself. I usually hit the floor and end up in a strange type of ‘colorful’ void. When I was first starting out, I would get the impression that my eyes were closed, and so I would try and force them open. All this did was wake me up in reality, and leave me awake and staring at my ceiling! The trick here instead, was to picture and imagine what I knew the floor where I had just landed to look like, and the surroundings from that point should begin to clear. Do not try to force your eyes open as I used to!

Lastly, the final type of void that I’ve experienced is when I try to move beyond the 1st dreaming state. As a thought responsive environment, any command or desire performed with intention will be instantly manifested. When I intend to speak with someone to learn information or similar, I am often ‘whooshed’ up right out of my dreamscape right into a colorful void, similar to the one described above. Although I can not describe the differences in words, this type of void has a distinctly different ‘feel’  to the one above, and so I categorize it differently.

Going through a dry patch?

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It is no coincidence that most dreamers experience their first lucid dream the night, or shortly after they first read about lucid dreaming. I experienced my first full lucid dream after a few days of intensive research. The mind loves the idea and the exciting new possibilities. Now after that first sweet experience, comes the “I wonder if I can do that again, probably not but I’m going to try” attitude. On that attempt you fail at dreaming, which is then reinforced with “I knew that I couldn’t”. From then on dreaming becomes an unattainable goal, something that you are forever trying to experience but always seems so difficult.

Think back to your first lucid dream – that’s how easy they all are, you’ve just made them difficult. Now you’re in the mindset of setting yourself up to fail each time, how to overcome it? Simple, by tricking yourself. Do not attempt to lucid dream tonight. Make no effort whatsoever tonight, give up and forget about it. Let it be a spontaneous activity. Sure, practice awareness constantly, and perform reality checks, follow a good diet, and get yourself into good sleep habits, but do it for yourself. For now, forget all about lucid dreaming. Instead, make the decision to really improve your recall skills, making your dream journal extra detailed, and recording your dreams the second you realize you’re awake. Enjoy every non lucid dream for the experience that it is.

10 Steps to Guarantee a Lucid Dream

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Here are my top ten steps for guaranteeing lucid dreaming. If performed diligently, they will result in lucid dreaming for sure;

  1. Avoid any artificial substances. Artificial means anything that does not grow naturally. Specifically avoid substances known to interfere with sleep such as stimulants (drugs, caffeine, energy drinks, etc), and depressants (alcohol, cannabis, sleeping pills, etc), avoid refined sugars and artificial sweeteners.
  2. Drink clean natural water. We were built to drink water, not sodas! Fizzy junk drinks are absolute poison for the body and mind.
  3. Spend as much of the day as possible in all day awareness.
  4. Spend as much time as possible outdoors and around nature. Try and avoid extended periods being blasted with radiation from computer screens and cell phones, or working from dawn till dusk in an artificially lit, artificially air conditioned room.
  5. Perform reality checks constantly. Perform them with focus and intention, not ‘by the way’.
  6. Try not to eat at night. I would suggest not eating for least 3 hours before getting into bed.
  7. If possible, try to spend those 3 hours from 5. above in meditation alone. After which, get straight into bed. Try and avoid TV, computers, games, or anything else that sucks your energy and awareness. Watching TV before or in bed is not a good thing. Television is proven to induce slow alpha waves within the brain, not only slowing your brain down to a halt (and not the good slowing down either), but also putting you in a highly susceptible state to receive the rubbish adverts being blasted at you in quick succession. TV and diet alone are probably the two biggest causes for the dramatic increase in attention related disorders that everyone seems to have or know someone that has these days.
  8. Saturate your mind with lucid dreaming related material as close to bed as possible. Instead of that television time, read your dream journal and read lucid dreaming related books.
  9. As you drift off to sleep, focus your attention on dreaming. If you’re good at visualizations, then picture yourself in a dream, lucid and aware. If, like myself, you’re no good at visualizations, stick with a mantra. “I am dreaming right now,” and mean it.
  10. Set your alarm for 6 hours after you go to sleep, ready for your WBTB into lucid dreaming! Whatever happens, make sure to make as detailed an entry as possible in your dream journal. Enjoy!

 

Astral Projection, OBEs and Lucid Dreaming

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There is much confusion about the different labels, astral projection, out of body experience, and lucid dreaming. I believe that they are all the same type of experience, differing only in the ‘level’ of the astral on which they take place. Whilst lucid dreaming is a scientifically observable and verified matter of fact, astral projection adds more of a spiritual or religious spin on it. This involves things such as contact with other life forms, shared dreaming and psychic transmissions. This is also probably where most of the ‘dreams’ and visions that we read about in various religions’ holy books.
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Further Dreaming Supplements

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I’ve talked about the dreaming supplements Galantamine, Acetylcholine and Choline in previous postings. While it’s important to remember that these supplements will not make you lucid alone, they can dramatically increase the chances. It’s important not to become reliant on such supplements to induce lucid dreams, as with experience, this is not a path to ongoing dreaming in the long term, and any experiences and practices gained will be tainted by the unnatural effects of additional supplements. There are some more natural vitamins and supplements less certain to produce lucidity but more likely to result in a natural sleep.
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