What Is Lucid Dreaming?
Lucid dreaming is the ability to become aware that you are awake whilst you are still within your dream. It is an experience like no other. The ability to have a lucid dream can be taught. It comes naturally to some people whilst others have to work at it. But you CAN learn how to lucid dream.
Learn How to Lucid Dream
Lucid dreaming is a skill we all have within us and it is our objective to teach you those induction techniques. On this site, you will learn how to lucid dream as often as you’d like. Some of the lucid dreaming techniques take patience and hard work, but there is no quick fix. You will usually see results quite quickly but the more advanced lucid dreaming techniques will take longer to learn.
Feel free to browse the site. The free lucid dreaming guide can be accessed from the sidebar to the left. You may skip chapters but I would advise that you work from the beginning. Each section follows on from the last. Before soon you will be Lucid Dreaming in no time!
Lucid Dreaming Guide – Introduction
“I found myself sitting by the edge of the road on a red hot summer’s day. The sun was high in the sky and I could feel the sun beating down on me. I was so hot, why was I wearing my winter coat? I looked around, some of the familiar buildings looked strange. This is so odd I thought. Suddenly an overwhelming feeling ran through my body from head to toe, a feeling of excitement mixed with anticipation. I understand what’s going on….. I’m dreaming! This is unbelievable. I am awake inside my dream.”
The paragraph above is an account of what happened to my self one night when I was a young boy, no older than ten or eleven years of age. It was many years ago, but I can remember it like it was yesterday. Although I have had many experiences which have been similar and often better than that first experience, that feeling of realization that I had become fully awake whilst still inside my dream will stay with me forever.
What happened to me that night has commonly become known as a ‘Lucid Dream’. A lucid dream can be described simply as being consciously aware whilst in the dreaming state. For many years people didn’t even believe it was possible for this to happen but thankfully it is now an accepted phenomenon.
All those years ago, I had no idea what had happened to me, just that it was great fun, and I couldn’t wait for it to happen again, which luckily it did. As I became more proficient at lucid dreaming I developed certain ideas and techniques along the way which helped me achieve my lucid dreams. Unknown to me at the time, (The Internet didn’t yet exist in its present form.) many other people were having just as much fun and using their own methods and techniques.
The aim of this lucid dreaming guide, is to bring together those different ideas so that beginners and experts alike can use this information to accelerate their progress in attaining lucid dreams without having to go through quite as much trial and error, avoiding the pitfalls and hopefully mastering the techniques that will allow them to have more full and enjoyable lucid dreams.
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i had encountered a lucid dream this afternoon.. and it was almost instant i dont remember even closing my eyes.. i immediatly went out of body and floated through my house and i realized i was dreaming once i could control my flight and one thing i did was try to take the first small object and put it in my pocket and surf through the dreamworld with the item.. i just so happened to be a piece of gum sitting on a shirt and i took it and it suck to the shirt.. but i even tired talking to people still being fully aware of what i was doing was about to tell someone that i was lucid dreaming but woke up. all i knew when it happened is it felt like i had just been given a fat rip of Dimethyltryptamine i loved it
I’m not sure if it was a lucid dream but remember walking around and seeing some red indian foxes in our garden which looked like field. and they were shooting arrows at me and all i remember was running then falling down a hole. I woke as my legs and arms were flailing around
note: this is not about dreaming
I used to (about once a week) feel like I floated up and fell through my bed. I was still awake but for like 1 second It felt like I fell through my bed and it makes me pretty scared. Anybody have this or know what it is?
This happens when you are entering the dream world, so this is a good time to remember to lucid dream
I’ve had lucid dreams unintentionally 4-5 times a week for about 4 months. Ever since i stopped smoking weed. In alot of my dreams i smoke, and it feels so real. i get the same feeling and everything
I found that drawing a dot on my hand with a marker that i notice it throughout the day without having to think about it. Then I notice its not there when I’m dreaming and realize I’m dreaming. Helps me hope it helps you.
I’m trying to learn how to do this and when I start falling asleep, I start having dreams and I know that I’m dreaming but when i try to control it, I wake up… Am I not far enough in the dream state or what?
I think your only half-asleep so controlling anything when you’re not deep enough asleep (especially when you try doing something exciting) will wake you up.
Hey yeah great site! I used to be fully lucid when I was five years old and below, now I’m only half lucid so my subconscious does most of the actions for me with half-conscious awareness, I did a reality test in my dream and my hand went through my other hand but couldn’t lost lucidity when I tried to fly (P.S. vomiting in dreams makes me more aware of the dream XP)
I had a dream a while back now, but I knew I was dreaming, but couldn’t control it. I wanted to fly, and so this magical chair thing took off, but wouldn’t fly properly, even though I was thinking “WTF, this is my dream, so why the f**k won’t this stupid chair fly properly!” And it still wouldn’. I remember thinking, “I wonder if this still has a waranty…”
Any tips there??
I really want to have a lucid dream because it’s like a virtual world. I’m 11 years young. Does anyone know how I can start having them?
try and do visual techniques or astral travel techniques (this may help you remember your dreams to become lucid) or at least try to drink something spicy before going to bed to induce lucid dreams, and keep a tape recorder if you can’t keep a dream journal cuz you’re to sleepy to write… trust me this works if you remember to reality check and know that you’re dreaming .
I used to have full lucid dreams before, my favorite lucid dream is when I woke up in my room. My sister was asleep and my body was on my bed (this wasn’t creepy for me) so for some reason during a time when it was dark but a strange light came from the clouds, I then went to creep out of the house, went on the middle of the road and flew to the sky where I met strange children from around the world by a playground; I had lots of fun there
but I decided to leave, I had enough fun. I floated down to where I flew, went back to bed, and floated down into my body screaming to my sister, “Hey! Can’t you see me!? I’m floating!!!”… I woke up… But the sky was not dim with a brilliant sky cloud anymore… I remember my old lucid dreams like it was just yesterday, so I’m reteaching myself and having good success 