So you want to learn how to lucid dream,
but what is the best lucid dreaming technique for beginners? Let's find out.
Hi, dreamers. Well, as a lucid dreaming teacher, I am constantly asked,
what is the best lucid dreaming technique for beginners? There are so many choices out there.
Is it filed? No. Is it mild? No. Is it wake back to bed? No.
Then what on earth is it? So, of course, there is no one technique which is the ultimate lucid
dreaming technique. But if I had to choose one, this would be it. And it boils down to
one question what is the most important thing for lucid dreaming? And no, it's not a trick question.
There is one thing a lucid dreamer owns that is the most important item for a lucid dreamer. What
is it? It's their dream journal. And you can use your dream journal as a lucid dreaming technique.
It's actually a complete system for beginners looking to learn how to lucid dream.
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what I consider to be the most important lucid dreaming technique for beginners.
Step one, easy peasy keep a dream journal or voice recorder by your bed so that you can easily wake
up in the middle of the night or first thing in the morning and record your dreams. Step
two lemon squeezy. If you wake up in the middle of the night or first thing in the morning, grab your
dream journal or voice recorder and write down everything you can remember from your dreams.
Not just what happened, but your emotions, what was going on, the people in your dreams,
any thoughts you had, every detail. You can be really thorough with how
you record your dreams and do this every time you wake up in the night or in the morning.
Step three throughout the day, think about your most clearly remembered and most recent dream.
And I want you to act like a detective and really think about all the ways you missed
realizing you were dreaming. So you look at it with a detective's mindset thinking,
what is it about this dream that I should have realized,
what should have cued me into becoming lucid? And this can be anything from strong emotions,
strange events, unusual illogical behaviors, your thoughts not making sense, your memories missing,
you name it. Be a detective and work out how many ways you should have realized you were dreaming.
Do this as often as you can throughout the day. Step Four so now you have a
vague list of ways that you missed becoming lucid in your most recent
vivid dream. And what I want you to do now is to start to look at the world
around you as you go about your day for anything which is even vaguely similar.
So let's say you missed an opportunity to become lucid because you were too busy arguing with a
dream character. If you find yourself getting caught up in an argument in waking life,
think to yourself, could this be a dream? And then perform a reality test. Step Five just before you
go to bed, read through your dream journal, look at all the ways you missed becoming lucid and
remind yourself just how easy it is to not spot them, how easy we can be fooled by our dreams.
And then tell yourself that you are going to remain vigilant from here onwards. Step Six
as you lay your head on the pillow for the night, once again recall that well
remembered dream from the previous night. And I want you to play it over in your mind.
Imagine it, visualize it, but be hyper observant of all the ways that you missed becoming lucid.
What you're trying to do here is to engage your critical thinking and your observational mindset,
so that as you fall into sleep, you'll be more likely to spot when you're dreaming in the coming
dreams. And also tell yourself, I am going to remain vigilant to notice that I'm dreaming.
Do this as many times as possible until you feel that you've really set your mind
in motion. Then just allow yourself to drift into sleep. Step Seven adapt to new dreams.
So if you wake up in the middle of the night with a brand new dream, well,
firstly record it. But then once you've recorded it, go back to sleep. But before you do that,
replay that dream in your mind and analyze all the ways you should have realized you were dreaming.
Play it over in your mind, and if you want to, you could also imagine becoming lucid in that
dream. When you've done that a couple of times, tell yourself you're going to remain vigilant
for the rest of the night and then allow yourself to fall back to sleep. Step eight.
Be persistent. Don't expect this to work immediately on the first night you try it.
This is a technique that works over time and builds in effectiveness over time.
What you're doing is becoming used to remembering and recalling your dreams, analyzing your dreams,
understanding how they're different from waking life, and becoming attuned to the ways in which
you don't notice you're dreaming and then correcting it. And that, in a nutshell, is the
Dream Journal reflection technique. And frankly, it is the single best technique for beginners.
There really is nothing that builds the muscles for lucid dreaming better than this
technique. What it really is is a condensed version of standard lucid dreaming practice
that will get you moving in the right direction. When you combine this with
other lucid dreaming practices, you will turbocharge your ability to lucid dream.
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that's it for today. I hope you find this technique useful.
I'm, Daniel Love, the Lucid guide. This has been Lucid dream portal. But until next time,
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