it's annoying isn't it you're in the middle of a lucid dream and suddenly you get distracted
or you lose control how do you stop it well in today's video i'm going to share with you
six lucid dreaming tips to help you to stay in control of your dreams so let's get started
hey dreamers well we all know that lucid dreaming is mother flipping amazing but it can also be
really smegging annoying you can spend ages trying to get lucid and then when you're in the lucid
dream suddenly your dream control doesn't work you get distracted and your lucidity levels drop
it can be very easy to lose your abilities in the middle of a lucid dream so what can we do to
enhance the lucid dream experience well in today's video i want to share with you six lucid dreaming
tips to help you to stay in control of your dreams that means to help you stabilize your dreams to
increase dream control and a few other things and there'll be one bonus extra tip for those of you
who stay to the very end of the video but before we get into the video there's one thing you can
do right now that will guarantee an improvement in your lucid dreaming experience what is that
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enough twaddle do it now and let's get on with the video number six only try twice whenever you're in
a lucid dream and you're trying a bit of dream control it's really important that you don't get
caught up in a negative expectation loop what do i mean by that i mean that when you're trying to
engage in the dream trying to control the dream in some way it could be something as simple as
trying to fly or walk through a wall or to find someone whatever it is that your dream goal is
only try a couple of times if you fail more than twice the chances are that you're gonna start
to get frustrated that frustration will turn into negative expectation and then you'll just
waste the dream trying a million different ways to achieve this impossible goal why is it impossible
because you've made it impossible by trying too hard failing too many times lucid dreams run
on a kind of telepathic dream control so your state of mind will influence what is possible
and what isn't so if you fail twice you start to expect you're going to fail more and therefore
you fail more so don't try any dream control techniques more than twice in any particular
dream because you'll just end up wasting your time if it's not working move on to another goal
number five multiple dream goals okay so this is one of the biggest mistakes that beginners
to lucid dreaming make when you're looking to explore lucid dreaming you have high and mighty
ambitions as to what you want to achieve within your dreams these can be things like fly to the
moon fire lasers out of your nipples and they turn into dinosaurs or to travel back in time
or something really sort of sci-fi crazy dream control stuff but this is aiming way too high
for the early days and what you're going to do if you try a really complicated dream goal and
you're a beginner to lucid dreaming is you're going to become frustrated it's going to fail
it's just not going to work out how you want it to most beginners will have very short lucid dreams
therefore having a complicated goal like flying to the moon is going to be very hard to achieve
in the very short period of time that you have your early lucid dreams so what's the way to get
around this well the simplest thing to do is to have multiple dream goals but this doesn't just
mean having multiple ambitious dream goals it means having a tiered list of dream goals that
are based on how easy they will be to achieve so basically get a page in your dream journal
and write easy medium and difficult and under easy i want you to choose some very simple dream goals
they can be as simple as putting your finger through your palm trying to say your name out loud
trying to move within the environment briefly not too far just something very simple that can be
done in a short period of time it doesn't require too much dream magic and then for your medium list
you can move up a level you could be say you know try to get to a very different stream environment
try to talk to a dream character etc something which takes more time and investment and then the
difficult dream goals which are your ambitious long-term big dream goals why do you do this
well you're accounting for anything that your dream throws at you so if you're only having a
short lucid dream and you start with an easy dream goal you you will achieve that dream goal within
the dream then then if you do wake up you'll feel satisfied you achieved your goal now if
you're only aiming for big dream goals you need a lot of frustration it can get very frustrating
when you can't achieve your big goals so another thing i want to add to this is when you're writing
your list of three tiers of dream goals it's good to have them lead into each other so if the dream
does turn out to be longer than you expect you can start to move one green goal into the other
so it could be as simple as the first dream goal is i want to stick my finger through my palm which
might give you the the confidence that you can transition through solid objects
then you'll think okay well i'm still still in the dream so i'm gonna walk through the wall
which was your medium dream goal and then maybe you might go okay well this dream's really stable
and my dream control is really strong so now i'm going to do my big dream goal which is to travel
to the center of the earth do you see what i mean so try to make your multiple tiered dream
goals lead into each other and this will avoid frustration it will build confidence in the dream
and it will mean that when you wake up you'll normally always be achieving one of your dream
goals and remember to have a wide range of dream goals that can fit multiple circumstances number
four narrate your dream so this is one of the easiest lucid dreaming stabilization techniques
and not only does it stabilize the dream but it stabilizes your awareness and focus and it's as
easy as saying what you see as you walk around the dream talk to yourself say what it is that you see
but importantly every third sentence tell yourself this is all a dream so let me give you an example
right now let's imagine that i was dreaming right now and i'm narrating the dream i would
say something like i'm looking at the camera now i'm looking at the microphone this is all a dream
i'm looking out the window there's a guitar against the wall this is all a dream so you see
it's incredibly basic so why do we do this there are multiple reasons the first reason is that it's
pretty obvious you're staying focused you're being very aware of what is going on around you this is
critical thinking awareness really important for stabilizing consciousness the second reason is
you're reminding yourself that you're dreaming which gives very little room for your your brain
to drift off into uh distractions um and that constant reminder keeps you lucid the third
reason is it's improbable behavior unless you're a bit of a loon you probably don't narrate your life
very often so the behavior of talking out loud as you're going around the dream is bizarre enough in
itself to remind you that this environment must be unusual it must be a dream because i'm wandering
around talking to myself and if you really want to have fun with this you can also try singing your
way around the dream exactly the same principle only you sing what you see give it a try it is one
of the single best ways to stabilize your dream and to stabilize awareness within the dream number
three emotional balance so this is one of the more tricky lucid dreaming techniques
and it really takes time to develop basically through practices like daytime meditation
you will learn to stay calm as the world becomes crazy and emotional around you
you're trying to learn to center yourself to be a calm and zen human being i would recommend
meditating for about 10 minutes a day minimum just to constantly work the muscle of focus and balance
also read up on stoicism it's a very interesting philosophy that is incredibly useful for emotional
balance and translates well into the dream world basically what you're trying to achieve
is to learn to build the muscle of stability in the mind so that you're less easily distracted
less easily caught up in the currents of emotion not only in this world but the world of dreams
in both worlds both in waking life and the dream dream world if you get caught up in an emotional
wave you will end up losing your focus losing your awareness and in a dream in a lucid dream
that's disastrous because one minute you're lucid and you're aware of what's going on the next
minute you're caught in an argument with a dream character or trying to solve some kind of problem
and you forget where you are you forget yourself you forget that it's all a dream and lucidity is
lost so the more you can learn emotional balance in the waking world the better you will do in the
dream world and this is one of the main reasons why meditation is a useful practice for lucid
dreamers number two perform a pre-flight check what the smeg do i mean by that we're not pilots
yes we are we are pilots of the starship lucid every time you get lucid in a dream you need to
take time to take stock of what it means to be in a dream what it means to be lucid now this can be
as simple as performing a reality test just to ground yourself just to remind yourself that yes
this is the dream world anything is possible a reality test even if you don't need to do one is
a very good way to center yourself think of lucid dreaming as if you're walking along a tightrope
so if you were to jump onto a tightrope and just run off onto it because you're not balanced to
start with you're going to fall off very quickly but at the beginning you balance yourself you
get focused you bring yourself to the center and then you walk calmly into the dream this
is what you need to do so remind yourself that everything you see is a construct of the mind
this is a psychological simulation therefore it is something that you can control something that
has no control over you consequences don't matter the the emotions of dream characters don't matter
the dramas and problems of the dream don't matter go through all of this at the beginning
of a lucid dream and you will stay balanced as you walk that fine tightrope into lucidity
number one don't create artificial value okay so that sounds a little bit weird doesn't it what
is artificial value well in my time as a lucid dreaming teacher teaching many students over the
years i've noticed something in common with all students and by the way if you're interested in
lucid dreaming tuition go to thelucidguide.com and we can do one-on-one personal lucid dream tuition
if you need some help but the thing i've noticed over the years is that people have very personal
dream goals things that they really assign value to the the reason they want to have a lucid dream
and this can be anything it doesn't really matter what it is but it's deeply personal
and it is their big valuable reason their big main target for lucid dreaming now for
some people this could be something very uh emotional and meaningful such as meeting
a dead loved one for other people it could be part of their spiritual journey they want to
explore the spiritual side of life whatever it is it really doesn't matter the problem is when
students and lucid dreamers have their own personal dream goal they assign it with artificial
value that means they put it on a pedestal and therefore they think that because it's
something they care about deeply that it therefore must require effort to achieve that
um and this is where weird things start to happen because once you decide that something is valuable
you set off the whole cognitive process of assuming that you need to work hard to get it
you don't need to work hard to get anything in the dream world technically
dream control the the dream world is a simulation anything is possible so you create a negative
expectation thinking that because you value this thing that it's going to be hard to achieve
now the funny thing is is i've experimented with this with students over the years if one student
is struggling with a particular dream goal and another one is struggling with their own
particular dream goal what i'll do without telling them initially is i will assign them the dream
goal of the other person and more often than not they will be able to achieve the other person's
dream goal with zero effort why because it's not something they've assigned personal value to
what does this tell us it tells us that the only limitation is that we are assigning value
and therefore creating an expectation that the thing we want is difficult to achieve because the
reality is if you didn't assign it that value you would be able to have it like that so be careful
not to put your dream goals on a pedestal because if you do you're creating a hurdle that doesn't
need to be there well paint me purple and call me susan are we at the end of another video well not
quite there is one more bonus tip at the very end of the video for those of you who are smart enough
to stick around for that but yes that's it for today um if you've enjoyed this uh video obviously
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make this a two-way thing not just me rambling at you anyway that's it for today i'm daniel
love the lucid guide this has been lucid dream portal and until next time stay lucid
are you dreaming
hello you're one of those people that stays to the end of the video which means immediately
that you're kind of awesome it also means you're going to get the bonus tip that all of those lazy
people who clicked away with the short attention spans are going to miss but it's their loss
because this is actually a really important tip if not one of the most important in this video
so what is it it's to pay attention to your non-lucid dreams why well this is basically one of
the reasons we keep a dream journal your non-lucid dreams will teach you about the true nature of the
dream world so we've all had non-lucid dreams where we've had special powers where we could
fly where we could travel in time blah blah blah all the amazing things that can happen in dreams
but in our lucid dreams sometimes we'll be trying to do something similar and struggle with
it our non-lucid dreams teach us that there are virtually no limits to dream control and what can
be experienced in a dream it is when we get lucid that our artificial um negative expectations limit
our ability to control the dream we essentially trip ourselves up now another thing with this is
non-lucid dreams teach us about the length of dreams so many beginner lucid dreamers have
short lucid dreams or wake up early in their lucid dreams and sometimes this is a natural
process because they're getting lucid at the end of a dream but often they're waking themselves up
with excitement or worry so if you spend some time looking at your non-lucid dreams what do you find
well you don't just randomly wake up after a few seconds or minutes of non-blue streaming
you dream the entire dream why because you're not worrying about waking up you think it's real
at the time so if you're having short lucid dreams look at your non-lucid dreams and ask yourself
are they short as well and if they're not then it must be me waking myself up from the lucid dreams
so our non-lucid dreams are a very wise teacher that will tell us what the true limits are of
the dream world and point out to you where you're the problem where your expectations are creating
negative uh a negative impact on the dream world so your non-lucid dreams are a gold mine
of knowledge about lucid dreaming anyway thank you for sticking about to the end of the video
if you have now's the time to leave a comment um yeah i shall see you next week