What you will learn?
There are 7 things you need to know to be successful with lucid dreaming. This video covers all 7. From sleep cycle information and how to do a reality check.
At any given moment you should be able to determine if you are dreaming or awake. You have to be sincere about it, and accept that this could be a dream, otherwise you’ll always assume you are awake, and that makes it difficult to get lucid.
The reality test that Dr. Stephen LaBerge from the Lucidity Institute has proven to be effective is called “text re-reading.” To do this test, you just need to find a sentence of text. First you read it, then you look away from it for a moment, then look back at the text to re-read. If it changes, then you know you are dreaming. If the text stays the same, you are awake and aware.
Text is very unstable in dreams, so it makes for a reliable reality test. This is because text is very intricate and symbolic. When you look away from the text, it disappears. When you look back at it again, it has to be re-created very quickly. On rare occasions your mind can recreate the exact same sentence, but most often the sentence says something completely different. If that is the case, you can confidently become fully lucid. But it does require you to be willing to accept the possibility you are dream right now. Are you dreaming?
The most well accepted technique for increasing dream recall, vividness, and chances of getting lucid is called Wake-Back-To-Bed. It involves waking up for a period of time in the early morning then going back to sleep. The awake period can be used to set intention and prepare for a lucid dream. The process usually causes the last REM period to be extra vivid.
This lesson shows a step-by-step lucid dream wake-back-to-bed lucid dream practice with optional dream supplment or tea. There is a pdf you can print out and put by your bed to refer to at night while starting a lucid dream Wake-Back-To-Bed practice:
Once you have a preferred dream journal or audio recording technique setup, you can record meaningful and lucid dreams upon awakening. Sharing these experiences with others can help re-enforce your progress and connect with others who have similar intentions.
When you have a meaningful, vivid or lucid dream you want to share with the community you are encouraged to post them in the private dream forum here:
If you are in San Diego, you can join the San Diego Lucid Dreamers:
https://www.meetup.com/lucid-dreaming-san-diego/
Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/439354696090688
About the course
Anyone can learn the skill of lucid dreaming, but it’s particularly profound for anyone between the ages of 16 and 32. Even if you don’t recall many dreams at this time. The information and technique taught in this course boost dream content and can make non-lucid dreams more memorable while increasing the likelihood of getting lucid. When you become aware of the dream while you are in it, it opens up whole new possibility of empowering experiences you can have that feel as real and vivid as waking reality. Awareness is the key to unlock this incredible state of mind.
To have a successful lucid dream practice you will need these three things in place:
1) Knowledge: Understanding of how sleep and dreams work.
2) Technique: A dream recall technique to remember and record important dreams.
3) Sharing: A person, group, or community to share experiences with and learn from.
1) Knowledge: This course presents the 7 things you need to know to have a lucid dream. This includes information about the circadium rhythm, dream recall, and lucid dream stabilization techniques.
2) Technique: This course provides a printable handout that goes over the most common lucid dream practice of: Wake-back-to-bed, and includes information on how to include an optional dream suppliment to boost dream content, recall and likelyhood of getting lucid.
3) Sharing: When you have a meaningful dream, it is important to share it with someone. Sharing dream experiences is one way we grow as a dreamer. To share a dream, we must make sense of it, or at least re-tell it in such a way that another person who didn't experience the dream can get a sense of what happened. This course shows how to establish friendships with other lucid dreamers, and some online communities that you can join.
This course will provide you with all 3 of these things to help build a strong foundation for you to get lucid.
About the teacher
Richard Hilton
Lucid Dreamer, Web Developer, Filmmaker
Richard Hilton is a web developer and filmmaker. He has nurtured his interest in lucid dreaming since 1998. Inspired by a heartfelt appreciation for its potential benefits, particularly in the area of personal development, he produced the short documentary film “Explorers of the Lucid Dream World” in 2004. He has presented and co-facilitated several dream workshops in the Santa Barbara area, participated in research experiments, and assisted with The Lucidity Institute‘s Dreaming and Awakening programs for several years since 2010.
