Exploring the world of lucid dreaming

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1. seletskiyJan 2024
   Yeah. Read "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" book by Stephen LaBerge. It proposes a number of techniques, some of them works better than other for different people. If you are not predisposed to lucid dreaming (some people are), then the main obstacle is will or motivation to keep practicing.

   One that worked for me is having a mechanical counter of some sort (like lap couter or just miniature code lock so you can use it as a counter), which you reset every morning and increment during the day every time after you ask yourself "Am I dreaming?" and doing some basic "reality check" (e.g. trying to breathe in through your nose when you pinch it, or checking clocks twice in a succession and validating that it makes sense, or just looking at your hands). The goal is to consistently do a number of reality checks during your waking life, which inevitably will increase the chance that you will do it in your dream. That will likely would cause you to wake up immediately for couple of times, but then you'll get used to it. It works simply because "if you don't ask yourself that you are dreaming during your waking life, what is the chance that you'll ask yourself it during sleep?".

   There are number of other and more advanced techniques that borderline with "magic" to me, like falling asleep without loosing conciousness (and then waking up the same way), but I had this experience only a couple of times I guess.

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2. jayavanthFeb 2023
   Seems to me like you're just in a state where you're conscious while you're body is getting ready to sleep. You're also in a state of sleep paralysis.

   You should check out a book called Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. He has sections on sleep paralysis and nightmares. First few chapters tell you about the stages of sleep

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3. jay3ssJun 2022
   A really great book about dreaming and inducing lucid dreams is "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" by Dr. Stephen LaBerge[0]. It goes through relaxation techniques, improving dream recall, and eventually how to induce lucid dreams. It's quite a process and takes some work, but I was able to use his methods to induce lucid dreams and it's quite a powerful experience.

   - [0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316781.Exploring_the_Wor...

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4. Japhy_RyderJul 2019
   Buy, read, and enjoy "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" by Stephen LaBerge, PhD. It's the key text on this topic. A few years back I used the book with great success but I've fallen out of the "LD" world unfortunately.

   Keep a dream journal. That's the first step.

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5. moosehawkApr 2018
   Lucid dreaming is a skill. There's varying levels of experience and control that can be exerted via different methods. It comes naturally to some people, but is very much also a learnable skill (to varying degrees of difficulty for different people).

   I spent about a month practicing methods to lucid dream before being able to achieve a few lucid dreams over a couple weeks. It became difficult for me to keep up some of the exercises in order to do so (such as waking up to write down my dreams in my dream journal in the middle of the night would interrupt my wife's sleep). It can be time-consuming for some people as well, as learners benefit from being able to get 7.5+ hours of sleep each night. I still attempt to lucid dream when convenient, but I don't practice every day like I used to.

   Great resources to get started with learning lucid dreaming:

   - Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. & Howard Rheingold

   - https://www.dreamviews.com/

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6. dsrguruDec 2012
   I'm glad Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming and Moonwalking with Einstein made that list. Lucid dreaming and "photographic" memories are two of the most amazing near-superpower skills that anyone can and probably should learn.
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