My first experience of lucid dreaming was the most fantastic adventure that ever happen to me and it was discovered completely by accident. It was so magnificently lucid, I wanted to reproduce the result. So the question entered my mind: "
Before I introduce how I began lucid dreaming, which is a proven lucid dreaming technique... What is lucid dreaming anyhow? In short, it's to be completely consciously aware that you are dreaming. In other words, to be awake while inside your dream.
The main key benefit to a lucid dream is the ability to control dreams and experience anything you can image in a very real way.
In fact, most lucid dreams are more real than reality. One would think that being aware to the fact of your dream, it would suddenly lose it's realness factor, but the opposite is true; the dream begins to feel very alive and you become completely present to exactly what is happening. All factors of being preoccupied with thinking, day-dreaming, past/ future projections, unfocused activity, etc; drop away and you are so fully engaged that all senses are charged, turned-on and extremely vibrant. All your scenery perceptions are alive with a brilliant awe-ness that shines through everything you observe. It's almost like you are experiencing everything directly without filters.
Lucid dreams can indeed be tremendously intense, eerie, always fresh and new, mysterious, magical and unlike anything that can be described here... You have to experience it for yourself to understand.
Consequentially, the question still remains; how do you lucid dream?
Here is a simple but effective lucid dreaming technique:
Since dreams are a reflection of reality, we tend to most often dream about people, places, animals and objects that are in our daily reality. This lucid dream technique is about using that fact to our advantage.
The idea is to start a daily habit, this habit will likely introduce itself in a dream, but when it happens in a dream; you will instantly be made aware that you are dreaming.
The key is that every time you question the nature of a dream, you always become aware that you are dreaming. It's like an automatic occurrence, that when you're dreaming, if you question "Am I dreaming?", then you immediately awake to the fact that you're dreaming.
To create the habit and set into motion this lucid dreaming technique, follow these steps:
1. Create a 3X5 card.
2. Write "Am I Dreaming?" on the front of the card.
3. Draw a symbol on the back of the card. Draw a icon that has meaning to you or just a simple shape.
4. Carry this card with you throughout your day. Keep it in your pocket or somewhere you have easy access to it.
5. Pull out the card throughout your day, when you think of it. Read the the front side of the card, then turn it over and look at the back side of the card.
Within about 2 weeks you will look at the card in a dream, but when you look at the card in your dream, in that moment, you will instantly know you are dreaming.
When I pulled the card out in a dream, the eye I drew (which consisted of just a few simple lines that resembled an eye) looked different. I am not sure how to describe the difference, maybe more real, but when it happened I knew I was dreaming.
For your convenience, I made a lucid dreaming 3X5 card for you:
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Front of 3X5 Card |
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Back of 3X5 Card |
The next steps are:
- Click the button above
- Print the card off
- Cut along the dotted lines
- Paste the 3X5 cards together
To make the card thicker and more durable, paste the 3X5 cards on a poster board or cardboard, business-card printing-paper will work nicely too.
The Lucid Dreaming Fast Track is an exciting new guide to lucid dreaming for beginners, created by lucidity expert Rebecca Turner (author of the hit website, World of Lucid Dreaming). It covers essential techniques for having lucid dreams (no matter what your level of starting experience) plus a wealth of background information about sleep, dreams and meditation to accelerate and enhance your dream life (click image below):