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The initial and most crucial step is the dream recall scenario. In order to become "good" at lucid dreaming you need to develop the capability to remember almost every dream you have. Now even though it seems more or less impossible at the moment "Oh crap, I can't even remember last night's dream." it is quite an easy achievement.
Everyday when you wake up simply have pen and paper next to you and write down or even draw everything that happened in the dream. Be as descriptive as possible and try to get all the details from the deep caves of your brain.
If your a fan of naps it may be easier for you to have a lucid dream. The best times to to try are usually after you've already had a large amount of sleep. Your brain is exceptionally aware and active during this time so you generally have an advantage.
After you've started to slip into your dream you will enter a state of sleep paralysis. This state is often accompanied by loud noises, tingling sensations, and a feeling of twirling into another state. These effects are completely normal when transitioning into a lucid dream.
There are downsides to lucid dreaming such as sudden awareness. Basically if you can't control your dream but you can control yourself anything can happen. Most dreams will end up nightmares, well at least from my experiences, and sometime you can go through a whole day of work/school in a dream later to find out it wasn't even real.
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Sleep paralysis can be pretty frightening in the beginning
I have lucid dreams all the time, but rarely nightmares, and I've never had sleep paralysis. I guess I'm just lucky.
I can hardly ever remember my dreams but any that I do, I usually tell my girlfriend because they tend to be trippy and she is a psychologist lol
I've tried that thing where you trick your brain into thinking you've gone to sleep, and you go into sleep paralysis, but it never works, why?
Well, I've always wanted to try this, so why not! Never really got the hang of it though.
@ rigor tortoise Have you tried to soothe yourself before sleeping. You have to be 100% comfortable unless you are using herbal supplements. Lucid dreaming is also very hard to achieve if you lead a stressful lifestyle.
You also might want to look at your environment. Is your room that you are sleeping in clean? Try running your sheets and blankets through the dryer before you try sleeping. I've read a few things on wiki, warm sensations such as a fireplace or small heater can help put you in a deeper sleep paralysis.
I've been reading up on this for the past couple of months, do you do it frequently Stephanie?
Sleep paralysis and lucid nightmares sounds potentially terrible, lol. I wanna know what I'm getting myself into beforehand.
Ultimately Toliver nothing about lucid dreaming can affect you permanently, that's what I love about it.
I have been frequently (3-4 times a week) lucid dreaming for about 4 months now and to be honest nightmares are very infrequent at least from my experience (everyone is different). When they do happen they are scary, but nightmares whilst lucid dreaming tend to switch over from lucid to a normal dream once scary stuff starts happening.
The only way to know is to try in my opinion :)
The best thing I like about it is that you can't put a price on dreams your imagination is your entertainment.
Good to know, I might start working on this. I'm looking forward to reading more about Lucid Dreaming, it's kind of like hacking into the brain or something, it's sweet.
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