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bobbyi_settv | 5 years ago
Everyone says they can't do this because they don't remember their dreams, but if you start trying to do it, you will probably find that when you have just woken up, you remember a little, and as you start writing, more comes back to you. Over days of doing this, you will get better at it.
After doing this for a while, try to recognize patterns, particularly specific things that show up with some frequency in your dreams that are indications you are dreaming. For example, there is someone you went to high school with that you encounter semi-often in your dreams, but never see anymore in real life. If you are talking to that person it means you are dreaming.
Try to brainwash yourself, really drill into your head over and over, that when you see this person, you are in a dream, and you should start trying to activate your mind and be conscious of what is going on. Also, really drill into your mind the idea that if you every find yourself vaguely wondering "am I dreaming right now?" the answer is ALWAYS yes.
With luck, the next time you encounter this situation in your dream, there will be a nagging feeling that there was something you were supposed to remember, and then you'll realize what it is and start to wake up your mind within the dream. After a few times, your mind will start to recognize when it is in a dream and become lucid sometimes without the specific trigger.
This is the technique I read in a book decades ago in my early teens and didn't expect it to actually work, but it did. I don't get there regularly (and never did), but I still get to full on lucid maybe once every month or two and it is amazing. It's so incredible to be able to look at the world around you and realize that everything you are seeing is created by your mind.
It gives a deep appreciation for how powerful your mind is and how much more there is to it than just what you are conscious of, since in the dream your conscious mind feels the same as when you are awake, but you know that all of the seemingly external stuff around you and even people that you speak to are also "you". If your conscious mind and everything that seems external to it are really part of the same connected whole when you are dreaming, could the same be true when you're awake?
Even if this approach doesn't work for you, keeping a dream journal for a while can be super interesting anyway.
FWIW, this was the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805025006/
I haven't seen it in decades, so can't really vouch for it too much. From what I remember, it explained the approach I've outlined above in not much more detail than I just did and most of the rest was filler talking about what dreams are.
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