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I do concentration and insight meditation. For me it's about developing more awareness and clarity of mind. See Mindfulness in Plain English. It's usually what people recommend on r/meditation.

Nice!

Suggested reading at the end of the article is: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.

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There's an app called <em>Sleep as Android</em> (I don't believe theres an iOS version) that tracks your sleep patterns, can record audio that breaks a certain volume limit at night to see if you talk in your sleep or snore, and also has a Lucid Dream function which does exactly what you're talking about. After you've used it a few nights and it has picked up on your sleep patterns, it'll say a message like you're talking about. I haven't had success with it personally, but I've also never had a lucid dream at all. I would give it a shot, as it doesn't require you wear headphones or listen to white noise for a long time while you sleep.

I believe the Buddhist approach is the best, right way to approach lucid dreaming. Also IMO required reading:

The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

The classic dream/sleep yoga book. The introduction to the practice section is perhaps the most important writing on awareness/mindfulness and its relationship to lucidity in all the literature. Heavy on the Buddhism but if you're not open to that there are still very relevant sections.

Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep by Andrew Holecek

Just about everything Holecek writes is on target. Amazing sections on awareness, mindfulness, and lots of visualizations to practice. He has a gift for describing deep concepts in simple words. Also lots of Buddhist points of view, regardless of whether you're open to that or not, this is a must read.

Wherever You Go, There You Are -- Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Excellent, approachable book on general mindfulness. Includes daily "things to do" to promote mindfulness.

Eckhart Tolle is basically just giving a very unique presentation of insight meditation and mindfulness. It's the first spirituality book that resonated with me and allowed me to transcend my narrative. But I plateaued with my practice after a couple years of practicing the power of now. Really, if you're going to chase that awakening you need to read many versions of this. The Mind Illuminated by Culidasa (John Yates PHd), is one of the best meditation instructional books I've ever read and it's by a neuroscientist. The Way of Zen by Alan Watts is one of the easiest most straightforward explanations of Zen I've ever read. Really helpful. Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha by Daniel Ingram is a particularly advanced book that basically extracts many key techniques and principals from a massive collection of classical Hindu and Buddhist texts. It is fantastic if you are stuck as at a intermediate level of meditation, but probably overwhelming if you are a beginner. What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula is an excellent and straightforward way to get to understand Buddhism in a nutshell. Tibetan Yogas of Lucid Dreaming by Tenzin Rinpoche is a brilliant guide to enlightenment and spirituality through lucid dreaming.

Well I use Awoken for writing down my dreams. It also has a feature to alert you multiple times during the day to do reality checks.

If you have a few bucks to spare, also check out Luci by Sam Ruston. It's my lucid dreaming app of choice and has an in my opinion vastly superior dream journal.

This has successfully fully funded just a few minutes ago! I fully intend to find a way to connect the two, as one can detect REM (via Theta) and the other can signal to you that you are dreaming. Tough this will take a while to ship. (mid 2013). They also said the Muse headband was designed to be sleept with so perfect!

Perhaps with your help I_Am_Coder...

Another great app is &quot;Lucidity&quot;.

It does all you mentioned, plus has a few extra features like a "dream sign analyzer" where it scans through all your entries and gives you repeated elements, allows you to attach audio/drawings to your entries, toggle tags, etc.

1. Each morning, write down your dreams, everything you remember, even details.
2. Each day, before going to bed, read them and think about them. If you liked some specific dream, try to tell yourself you are going to continue that dream.
3. Think about your written dreams throughout the day.
4. If it helps, make some drawings along with notes as well.
5. You can use the Lucidity app for journaling, but any notepad or paper will do as well. The Lucidity app is great, becase you can also write down the level of lucidity, vividness, realness, and tag your dreams. You can analyze your dreams after that, which will help you understand them better.

I have actually never heard of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, my idea was mostly inspired by the incredible Tao of Programming by Geoffrey James and my own quest to reduce all programming to one key skill. This is something I have a big obsessions with ever since I started programming in Assembly and moved up to higher level languages like C++, to sort of sum it all up instead of seeing it as different skills across different languages.

As such I have read a lot about the theory of formal languages and I also share your fascination with how the brain work, especially in the case of replicating it all with AI.

I wish I could say I figured something smart that tied all of this together, but I really have no idea.

The Art of War is a classic, makes you rethink every conflict you enter and the best way to approach it. Extremely impressive considering Sun Tzu was a tactician during a Chinese dynasty millennia ago. Although he doesn't talk much about masturbating... like at all lol

Like this, mostly.

It works fine with copper quarters, too, and actually looks pretty cool.

I didn't write the tutorial, but to sum up what I did, I took a quarter and drilled a small hole in the middle. I put a bolt through that and secured it with a nut. I held the quarter by the bolt and laid the side on a vise. I used a hammer to tap on the edge of the quarter until it was flattened to the right size. Then I drilled out the center to fit my finger, and used files to get just the right size.

So escapism isn’t going to help you with your reality whatsoever. You have the freedom to do what you want, so no one is going to be able to stop you from going ahead with this, but at the least you can be warned. Your problems with stay the same or worsen if you try and stick your head in the sand and live in fantasy world. Escaping reality was (and if I’m being honest still is) a huge motivation for me to learn how to lucid dream. But sooner or later you will have to face reality and fix or deal with your burdens as best as you can.

Anyway, with that said, you can check the pinned post at the top that says START HERE. There’s many techniques which fall under one of two methods, WILD (Wake Induced Lucid Dream) or DILD (Dream Induced Lucid Dream). Start a dream journal, and when you begin to remember dreams, you’re ready to incorporate reality checks into your every day life. Daily meditation is also very helpful, as well as keeping to a healthy sleep schedule.

Of course there’s tons of information I left out, and a lot of stuff you need to learn. Which is why I suggest you begin your journey of researching as much as you can about inducing lucid dreams. Start with the pinned post, then maybe do some google searches. A lot of people recommend Stephen LaBerge’s book , and I do as well. There’s a lot of good information in it. Hopefully this comment serves you well, good luck if you choose to learn how to lucid dream.

Um, you could do this today for much less. Buy a cheap smartwatch with vibration, set up a reminder on your smartphone, and you're done. (Randomly RemindMe is a good app for that.)

It depends what your definition or understanding of enlightenment is. In tibetan buddhism they meditate, in part (and ultimately), to reach enlightenment (or some high level of realization about the nature of consciousness) and they also practice dream yoga, which is sort of the tibetan version of lucid dreaming. Although they take it a step further and practice developing sleep yoga, awareness during the phase of non dreaming sleep. Fascinating stuff.

With all the research that is coming out from neuroscience and studies on meditation, it is becoming obvious that there is something they are on to, but I think it drowns in metaphysical and mystical language and might be interpreted incorrectly.

I interviewed Andrew Holecek, a dream yoga teacher, on my podcast and also asked him about enlightenment. Check it out if you are interested: http://www.lucidsage.com/episode-14-dream-yoga-with-andrew-holecek/

I would also look into Waking Up by Sam Harris (a philosopher and neuroscientist) who has done months long meditation retreats and looked into this subject extensively. You can listen to the first chapter for free here: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/chapter-one

I haven't read anything on Tibetan Dream Yoga but I may look into it now. I don't Lucid Dream often and this was the first time I decided to meditate within the dream. I've been meditating for roughly 3 months now, once in the morning when I wake up and before I go to sleep at night. Somewhere around 30 minutes each time.

This is the book that got me going with meditation: Mindfulness in Plain English

It's a free PDF so grab it and it will definitely help you get going. I also researched Zazen meditation online so I do a form of that mixed with Vippesana meditation which is what Mindfulness in Plain English teaches.

And aside from that head over to r/Meditation for any other questions. The folks are very helpful. Both of these practices have already impacted my life for the better and I encourage both! Meditation takes discipline and I've missed sittings here and there and can tell the difference it makes. So if you start don't give up if your life doesn't change instantly. Just keep on it!

I am glad they changed their name: http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/14/the-zizz-is-an-intelligent-sleep-mask-which-helps-you-get-better-zzzs/!

I suspect that the lucid dreaming aspect is an afterthought they added when the LUCI KickStarter campaign failed: http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/intelclinic. But their device is serious business and I am excited to see some real research in this direction. With the right software and a bit of coaching, e.g.: having background music all night and playing audio tracks that get progressively louder when rapid eye movement patterns are detected, they might be within reach of a working solution. A shame that the developer edition is $750...

Please remember that no one has documented anything greater than a 10% increase in lucid dreams, so the "whenever you want, you can literally control your dreams" is probably a bad copy pasta. But let us not let that detract from the hacking that went into this thing. They might not have known about lucid dreaming and created something with the intention of keeping you awake for much longer stretches than normal... tweaking it to wake you up during a dream is not much of a stretch of the imagination...

I strongly recommend reading "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" by Stephen LaBerge.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bibliotecapleyades.net%2Farchivos_pdf%2Fexploring_luciddreaming.pdf

You don't need to sign up to anything mate.

If you have a Kindle you can just click to buy the book as normal.

If you don't, you can download a free kindle reader to any device here https://www.amazon.com/gp/digital/fiona/kcp-landing-page?ie=UTF8&amp;ref_=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd - look on the right hand side of email optin.

If you could explain to me where Kindle Unlimited comes into it I'll try to find out what is happening.

Looks like the download page has changed, but you can get the reader here https://www.amazon.com/gp/digital/fiona/kcp-landing-page?ie=UTF8&amp;ref_=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd

You won't need to pay for Kindle Unlimited. As soon as you have the app on a device you can get the book for $0 and it will load onto the device.

They are supposed to work quite well. For some people that is.

There are loads of products like this and Remees are years from the first type of these glasses.

http://www.lucidity.com/novadreamer.html http://gizmodo.com/5903703/incept-yourself-with-lucid-dreaming-goggles

They are all inspired from the dream machine, some kind of lamp that was spinning and flickering pretty much, they made it in the 90's if I am correct.

So my point is basically, this isn't anything new or revoultionising and it probably won't do miracles for you either.

You could have been becoming lucid and you felt a heartbeat and because it freaked you out (you said you had to calm down) it threw you out of it.

Or, you could actually have felt your actual heart. During REM your heart beat is faster a quick google source I got was source

I have had an experience before were I was slipping in-between my dream and real life body. I played around and wondered what my sleeping position was, I sensed i was on my right side. Upon awakening, I was on my right side. I don't know too much about this part or what it would be defined as.

In either case, for Lucid Dreaming you need to be calm. For me, a lucid dream is like snapping my fingers, a lot leads up to it but the snap itself is instant and dies quick. It is different for everyone from my understanding.

According to Oxford, the rule is part of English. Technically, the whole language is "made up" by people, but this rule is accepted as one of the rules of English.

Mmm, nope. Unless you are sleep deprived or have a disorder that makes you skip several sleep cycles, you are only experiencing hypnagogia

It certainly is possible, but with the low quality REM you would eventually receive it is hardly worth it.

You can try some sort meditation for WILD. Listen and feel your breathing. Feel yourself going to sleep etc. just relax everything and let any stress of that day go. I think these are things where only you can give the best answer. Trying things and making new methods, I usually use this one. As for your alarm. You can try using snooze and putting your phone at the other side of the room... I have my phone on my desk. So I need to get out of bed to turn it of. Maybe if you use some sort of nature sound, just annoying enough for trying to sleep (after 10 min I get out because I can't take it anymore). I use "day one" from interstellar. Great soundtrack to wake up to. Very nice and quiet but enough to wake you up. I hope you are able to "wake up" on time and you find a good working way for your WILD.

Ps here is a link to a WILD technique http://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/WILD-Tecnique-For-Lucid-Dreaming I guess just look up lots online and find out which works for you. I hope this helps. Good luck again.

Gnaural Is open source and it's extremely flexible - you can set yourself a session to go as long as you'd like, and you can use it along with Audacity and any relaxing music you might like to create your own custom binaural beats audio sessions.

You are not alone. I don't die in dreams, but in my dreams I do experience death, mine and others'. As for the emotions you feel after waking up I call them dream hangovers. At worst I've been stuck thinking about a dream for days, wondering if it was real or if it really happened. That reflection period is really important to me and I learn a lot about myself and my waking life just remembering my dreams.

As for whether this stuff is truly real or not, I believe it is. Maybe not according to science just yet, but there's a lot about consciousness, quantum mechanics and dimensions that most people don't understand. If you have the curiosity to look further, I suggest reading up on the seven planes of existence @ http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Plane_(esotericism).

Edit: sorry, just noticed at the end you said you don't want to discuss religion but I highly recommend a skim nonetheless. Even if you don't believe what you read it might help you find your own truth.

Yeah there's android and iphone apps for that that say "Are you dreaming?" sometime at night when you may be lucid dreaming (which it determines by your bed movement thanks to it's accelerometer/gyroscope) and might make you do a reality check.

Or you can always try this.

That idea of forming a character that represents my lustful impulse in the moment is not too bad. With the way dreams work it may or may not be sufficient to tone down the emotion if I simply “separate” myself from my lust.

A Field Guide To Lucid Dreaming on Amazon: A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming

One more thing, make sure you absolutely understand what you’re doing before you do it. So I’d recommend for you to read this book.

They have ones that are not noisey and plasticy feeling

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08167J84Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_BZCRTEC9DXG5Y4EDBZ1R?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1

I don't have any evidence of how common this is and I think it's more frequent for me than normal but it's one of those things people don't talk about cause we're all raised to believe big boys and girls don't pee the bed and most people feel too much shame. But when I bring it up to people usually every few people say it's happened to them in adulthood

I thought I read something about sex robots being useful in this case, which would imply LDs could be too, but I can't remember where I saw that.

There is this interview I have cued up with the author of this book, which I think might cover at least the sex robot example if you want to check it out.

So if you’re dreaming and that happens, starting with the knock, if you’re lucid you will know “this is a dream” and you will be able to make the choice to look or not look. With practice you might even be able to change what pops up. Or call through the door without even seeing what’s there and ask. To me this sounds like it’s a very clear metaphor for something that’s bothering you irl and if you learn to confront it the nightmares will probably stop.

A lot of people find the publisher Llewelyn controversial, but they have a book that I have found to be completely necessary for my lucid dreaming journey. It’s called The Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming and it has an entire chapter on nightmares.

Don’t be afraid. You will have more control than you think.

But that's not ideal either since we have lots of lucid dreams as children that we may not remember. In fact, I've read before that the majority of children's dreams are lucid. I believe it was in dreams of awakening by Charlie Morley.

I got the YnM weighted blanket on sale for around $60 on Amazon a few days ago. I didn't really do all my research to see if it was the best one out there, but the price was finally low enough to justify the buy.

Personally I haven’t gotten the chance to experiment with this, but what you’re talking about is called shadow work. Charlie Morley has a book on it that I haven’t read yet, though I’d like to.

I’m still somewhat skeptical about the idea of this shadow work stuff, but regardless it’s something I want to try out.

Hi!
As for a beginner I can recommend you WILD/MILD and reality checks. Actually, there are a lot of different techniques, and you will aparently find your the best technique, but you should do some practise at first.
You can also try my Android app for lucid dreaming - <strong>Lucidly</strong> It has a lot of tools for lucid dreaming, and list of techniques. Hope it will help you!

Hi, good question!
Yes, 8 hours is recommended time for sleeping. I'll try to explain why. I'm not a doctor, so maybe there will be some mistakes, so I will write only my experience (and users experience of my lucid dreaming app <strong>Lucidly</strong>).

When you go to bed around 10.30 pm - 12 pm - this is the best sleeptime for you body. In my opinion this advice good for the health.

So, after you fell asleep, occurs REM sleep – the alpha state. In this state of brain activity you start to see dreams. Typically, this phase of sleep takes 8-30 minutes. In this state, the eyeballs rotate rapidly, breathing is frequent, and the brain consumes as much energy as during wakefulness. At this time, the dream is very vivid, memorable dreams. The state of REM sleep is also called paradoxical sleep, and lucid dreams mostly happen at this time.

You wake up after each phase of paradoxical sleep, but the memories of this will not persist. During the night, this cycle can be repeated 4-5 times - so that's why I think you should sleep 8 hours. You will just have more attempts to have a lucid dream.

If you need more information - you can try my lucid dreaming app, it has lots of features that can help you.

Nice work :) MILD is a great technique, you may have found your go to technique by the sounds of it. I've actually just released an app to teach/prep for MILD, anyone that's interested it's completely free: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=studio.victorylapp.mildtrainer

Yes, it helps some people. But remember: lucid dreams is not the main goal of meditation. It's just a "side-effect".
I can even recommend you 2 apps for meditation and lucid dreams:

1) Meditation - Headspace: Meditation &amp; Mindfulness

2) Lucid Dreaming - Lucidly: Dream Journal &amp; Lucid Dreaming Helper
Also I recommend you to do meditation in the morning for 5-10 minutes. It won't take much time. And don't forget about reality checks!
Good luck :)

Try this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alarmclock.xtreme.free&amp;hl=en, Alarm clock xtreme has autodisable features and how long you want a certain alarm to play. you can even download files off youtube like nature sounds and set that as your alarm for the method.

Have you considered electronic enhancement? ie binaural frequencies, etc? There was a book out a while back called &quot;Into the Void&quot; that I'd recommend.

Best is to pick up one of the many excellent books on mindfulness. There is a lot of great literature covering it, and many great minds have written about it. It is central to traditions like Buddhism. Kabat-Zinn describes mindfulness as "the art of living consciously," in other words, living lucidly. The goal is to be fully present in the moment, to recognize the truth of your experiences. Emphasis is on the higher self: your thoughts, emotions, reactions, choosing action not by reflex, but with consideration. Practicing mindfulness benefits both one's waking and dreaming lives.

I believe every serious lucid dreaming practitioner should study these books:

General mindfulness: "Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life" by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness and focus on lucid dreaming: "Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep" by Andrew Holecek

All time classic (some amazing mindfulness/awareness discussion): "The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep" by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

"All Day Awareness" on the other hand is one guy's idea to promote lucidity in dreams by focusing intently on minute details of sensory input. I don't think it's particularly useful for anything.

I read Mindfulness in Plain English this summer, which is on Buddhist style vipassana (insight) meditation, and it absolutely helped with vividness and recall. I would do 20-25 minutes before bed and got definite results, so I would recommend that.

I had an accidental lucid dream when I was a kid but only the first level. Immediately when I realized, I woke up. I thought that's how it worked until I found this subreddit.

I began to keep a dream journal for a couple days then tried WBTB. Worked the first time but only reached the same level.

This quick success may be due to the fact at around the same time I was very interested in Buddhism, trying out mindful meditation and working on being mindful my thoughts, actions and breath. "The Miracle of Mindfulness" by Thich Nhat Hanh was where I got my start a little before I learned about lucid dreaming. Then read "My Spiritual Journey" by the current Dalai Llama (translated by a woman, not sure of her name, I know - for shame) where he states that he is aware even when asleep and dreaming.

This sparked curiosity and I began to do some research (primarily this subreddit) and was moderately successful when I kept at it with strong intent.

First lucid dream that I didn't immediately wake from was about a week after I really started trying.

I don't understand why there isn't a bigger push for meditation, particularly a mindfulness focused meditation in terms of lucid dreaming. Because awareness is essentially mindfulness and if you get your baseline mindfulness to a certain threshhold you can get frequent lucid dreaming close to free, or with much less effort than if you didn't have a meditation practice. Not to mention frequent lucid dreaming is only one of many many benefits to strong meditation done right.

Furthermore, people use sleep and dreaming to meditate. Since meditation probably has more lasting power than lucid dreaming because it addresses deep everyday problems you're more likely to stick with lucid dreaming than if you're mearly using it to fly and have sex or whatever.

Meditate, and read high quality literature on meditation if you haven't already. Mindfulness in Plain English is usually a good place to start. (which is free in PDF form, google it.) Again, lucid dreaming is close to a freebie with a correct, strong meditation practice.

You could lucid dream multiple times a night but you would never remember if you don't have a dream journal which helps you with dream recall, trust me, tree months ago I was like "how could writing my dream help me remember them" but when I started doing it I was shocked that after about 1 month of either 1 dream or no dream recall I started to remember up to 3 dreams/night and if to u don't want to use a pen and paper you can use your phone to write down your dreams there is this app called Lucidity for Android

You can use this app(assuming you are an android user),https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alarmclock.xtreme.free&amp;hl=en

1)Set an alarm, and click edit->Auto-dismiss duration( I usually keep@ 45 sec)

i use sleep as android for my alarm. until i write in my 'journal' the alarm cannot be silenced. It does pause the noise while i type though.

If you check your (Android) phone a lot, you can download this app: Google Keep which lets you make lists and stuff. Then you can make one with just 'Reality check' or something. After that, you can make a widget on your homescreen with that reminder, so you'll think about it every time you look at your homescreen

Edit: made a quick example for you: Screenshot

I use Awoken https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lucid_dreaming.awoken&amp;hl=en&amp;referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dawoken+app&amp;pcampaignid=APPU_1_4HFuVfTONOHLmwXv8oDYCg

You can set your own alarm sound, it only plays once and you can set the time it goes off. It also makes the same sound in the daytime to do a reality check and has a dream journal. And is free! :-)

Edit: just re read the title. Perhaps this isn't what you want, you can only select a sound file not a play list.

Download the lucidity app. It has push notifications and an ADA reminder and it reminds you in the morning to record your dream and at night to review that dream.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.b3nz.lucidity&amp;hl=en

It's been a while since I did stuff like that, but 'journeys out of the body' http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/journeys-out-of-the-body-robert-monroe/1012151062?ean=9780385008617 describes multiple techniques to do so, and a lot of satisfying to read stories about his own experiences with astral projection. It's a great little book all around

one of which had something to do with imagining two metal rods above your head, which you then move and try to tune them to a frequency which resonates with your body. you also 'scan' your body (think like MRI scan)

Other training exercises include astral body awareness, but i got most of that from another book, one I don't recall the title of but definitively a good one. I transcribed some pages as I got it in audiobook form http://imgur.com/a/rhDLF The full audiobook is on an external HDD which I wont have access to for atleast 3 weeks

Anyway, I hope I was able to help somewhat.

I programmed a DIELD alarm for Windows. Could be easily scripted but mine is an .exe file.

Source included and compilable with mingw (gcc -oalarm.exe alarm.c) https://mega.nz/#!v4gFkLAK!gEhv6pwHJNKUEaYWw0ePMyOcv0XJBXfTx7gd3dn0zkY

It turns off your monitor then makes a noise for 3.5 seconds after six hours. Windows XP +

If you want email notifications everytime a thread is posted, /u/dan_onymous created this applet which can do that for you. Follow this link https://ifttt.com/applets/VXGkh2Ut-lucid-dreaming-daily-immersion-thread and you can start to get notifications for the thread

The trick to WBTB isn't about how many hours you get, but when in your sleep cycle you wake up. I'm assuming you are pairing this with WILD, and for that it helps tons if you're in the middle of an REM cycle when you wake, as it'll be easier to re-enter the dream from there. Now, I can't find a accurate enough chart for sleep cycles, but the sweet spot is around 3 hours.

For the alarm, use intentions if you can. If you haven't trained intentions much, feel free to use an alarm. It's more reliable anyway. You'll want a quiet one, but not too quiet you won't hear it. And since phones have a wider variety of sounds to choose from, use a phone alarm app. There a few really cheap ones that can do the trick fairly nicely.

You should definitely get up. Don't stay awake too long, or you will get a second wind. Maybe eat a snack (some say apple juice helps with LD) or read, but don't use the computer unless you have f.lux, as the blue light from the screen will release serotonin and wake you up more.

It doesn't matter what position you lay in, as long as you're comfortable and won't want to move around.

To keep your mind awake, just think to yourself, maybe come up with a story in your mind, or you could just try counting to a thousand or something. The important thing is that you don't move, so you can enter REM atonia and jump directly into a dream from there.

I hope this is enough, but keep in mind WILD is one of the harder techniques, so don't get discouraged if it doesn't work on your first go. If you have enough willpower though, it can be a very reliable method to LD every night.

Hmm that's rough. There are a number of things you can try. I recommend the app called Flux. The bright light/blue light in devices like computers and cell phones has been known to negatively affect sleep quality. That program slowly dims your computer's brightness according to the time of the day. It's helped me sleep better.

Hey I'd like one too!

There is also a good dream journal app for Android if you guys don't already have it.

Lucid dreaming is amazing, I used to fly around the neighbourhood in my late teens, now in my late twenties the occasions are less so.

I believe you are predisposed to lucid dreaming, but I use this app on my phone frequently and it definitely works, I use the Astral Projection setting.

This is not spam, I just want to share the goodness.

Binaural beats therapy - beta Giorgio Regni

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ihunda.android.binauralbeat&amp;hl=en

I ran across an iPhone app in /r/Meditation called Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell that will chime randomly throughout the day in anywhere from 30-minute to 1.5-hour or so intervals. It's designed to remind you throughout the day of your intent to be mindful (a meditation practice) but I've been using it to remind myself to do RCs.

I like it a little better than an hourly timer because its randomness has caused me think about the chime and thus I do a RC more often than just the chimes. (Plus it leaves a notification on your lock screen so when you use your phone, you're reminded yet again.)

This Android app supposedly does something similar I think

Oh man theres something called a search bar, this question has been asked so much times https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/comments/78n3w2/flying_tips/ or https://www.wikihow.com/Fly-in-a-Lucid-Dream (google search)

Only issue I can think of is that seeing blue light from electronics at night is hazardous to sleep, but you can fix that using a program like f.lux to make your screen more orange at night: https://justgetflux.com/.

When you wake up, keep your eyes closed and recount what happened in the dream. Tell it to yourself as a story, then find your journal and write down what you remember, you may have forgotten quite a bit but just write down any details you recall, anything is better than nothing. You'll find your recall growing the more you use your dream journal. I personally use an Android app called Dream Journal Pro, but you can use anything you feel most comfortable with. Even writing them down in notes on your phone or a site like DreamJournal.net. If you feel a pen with a light is the best way to write down your dreams, use that.

I tend to use some kind of white noise just to help reach that meditative state before falling sleep. Something like Rainymood can be great for that. Used it a few times.

You can also link youtube videos to it, so mix it up with a song if you like. But I just love the rain. So calming.

Unfortunately interrupting sleep is shown to be bad for your health. This is why many of us aren’t fans of methods that require yourself up.

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/interrupted-sleep-tips#what-is-interrupted-sleep

Give me at most 20 minutes and I'll send you a java program for it.

edit Ok a little longer, compiling and testing

Edit 2 Here's the source code : http://pastebin.com/mgFWbvZn

Edit 3 Here you go. This is a really simple (not necessarily easy to use, just simply coded) application. Run the .bat file to start it, and to close it you just have to close the console window that opens. You can modify the .ini file to change the intervals and message. It will pop up at the intervals and show the message you entered. The message must be on one line (no line breaks) http://depositfiles.com/files/526yf3njh

I use an app called lucidity on Android.

It has some tools to make analysing dreams easier although I haven't used them yet. I find typing my dreams a bit easier cause my handwriting is really terrible upon awaking.

To avoid being blinded by the phone, you can use some apps as lumen or twilight or flux. I actually use f.lux in my pc. Do try this! your eyes might thank you.

I too have problems with WBTB. You're definitely doing it right, but staying up for so long can be brutal. I second what /u/Anattaa said. It'll take some time to find how long you can go awake without falling asleep.

I definitely agree with staying away from bright lights/electronics. If you must get on a computer in the dark, I recommend F.Lux. Also remember to turn your brightness down, preferably before you go to bed.

Best of luck to you my friend, I'm still tryin' too.

http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/

The dual n-back task involves remembering a sequence of spoken letters and a sequence of positions of a square at the same time, and identifying when a letter or position matches the one that appeared n trials earlier.

It has worked for me before. Download This, I found it rather easy to use, although buggy, but perhaps it has gotten better since I last used it. There are some good youtube tutorials that can run you through it. The technique I used is to have it start at mid-range beta and slowly descend into alpha. I also added occasional peaks of beta to see if it might trigger awareness. You can also use it for other purposes such as concentration (mid- to high-range beta with bursts of gamma) or meditation (also alpha).

There is an app for iOS called Brain Wave, by Banzai Labs, that has a bunch of different programs (including one for LDs!), and also has some nice features like background noises to add, and independent volume control. It also has custom sounds to play after the program has run through. Good for use on the go, obviously.

If you go into it skeptically, you'll probably experience minimal results. But it really does work if you try it with an open mind. (Even if it's placebo, who cares?...)

Mh, pick a sound you'd like to hear and I'll implement it.

Edit I might just add an advanced option page tomorrow where you just drag your sound files in.
But it got pretty late here, so you'll have to wait a few hours.

If you want a good transcript, you're going to have to type them out. (This is what I do.) There are some useful tools like oTranscribe. If you don't mind some silly typos, you can probably find a text-to-speech service that you can submit mp3 files to.

As for actually recording, I have a digital voice recorder I bought from RadioShack for about $50 (you can find cheaper ones if you look). If you have a smartphone though, I'd suggest starting with the voice memos app there to see if you actually like it. You can just email the recordings to yourself if you don't have too many.

For organization, if you don't want to convert them to text and keep that as the final form, you could try an index -- name each of the files, e.g., "2016-08-23 #1", and then start a document where you write a title and a brief description, tags, people who appeared, etc.

http://jsfiddle.net/6nYs4/

Whipped this up really quick with code found in various places...

You'll want to adjust the times, transition colors, and other parameters under "First Transition", "Second Transition", etc. Add more if you need them. I recommend keeping parameter 5 and 6 matched for smoother transitions. Increase them both equally if needed.

Just copy it out to an html file. Open in browser. Fullscreen the crap out of it.

EDIT: Slightly better instructions.

yeah, right here. I can think of a bunch of different uses, you could use text to speech, so the computer to provide you with information for in dream problem solving, or you could communicate with people from within your dreams. It'd be like having a dream companion of sorts.

This is more of a journal (but you can make custom flairs which is good).

((This app is in google play and idk if it exists on App store))

It doesn't need to be a physical journal, I'm using this app for example I found the voice note feature very useful for when I'm to lazy to write (and it happen quite often) ahaha

Been there, I tried dream journaling in journal but eventually abandoned it. I also tried a note-taking app but it didn't please me that much. I tried DreamViews but got lazy and didn't write anything. But, Then I watched a video of a channel called Tipharot which makes content on lucid dreaming and he mentioned a app named 'Lucid - Dream Journal'.

So I tried it and haven't switched since, it provides voice memos, tagging dream and other information like sleep quality and the mood of the dream. It also nicely arranges it in a tidy and searchable form. It used to cost money to save your dreams to the cloud so that they sync over when you sign in again but now that feature is also completely free. Also, it provides you with reality check remainders. So I'd definitely recommend it.

Regarding the importance of dream journaling, I'd say they are extremely important because you can have multiple lucid dreams and not remember them. Having a journal ensures that you remember your dreams and also stocks you with some fun dream stories to tell others. It is if not the most then surely one of most important things while trying to lucid dream.

Here is the link of the app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fm.lucid.android) and I was not able to find it on the Apple appstore

These are the real deal. They are 4mg, which is great: take one for a lighter dose, two for the "recommended" 8mg dose, three if you want to rock out. I'm fine with just one 4mg tab. Pretty much guarantees an hour-long very vivid dream. Does NOT guarantee lucidity, something I still struggle with.

That seems like a very good result from meditation. You might want to look into Buddhist meditation ideas, as it directly talks about things like this, and related useful things. Heart Sutra, Dhammapada, or this is always good: https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Dance-Display-Self-Nature-Dakinis/dp/0877738858.

Theres no magic pills or things you can buy to make the process any faster. Just follow the The Three Steps for Learning to Lucid Dream. Good luck.

EDIT: actually after a search on amazon apparently there is a pill that will help you out, still i recommend trying it the normal way for at least a month before buying this pills.

Multiple effortless WILDs when I hadn't even come close for years beforehand, crazy and powerful dreams both lucid and non-lucid. They have an impact, they aren't magic pills that'll get you lucid every time if you don't do any LD work/prep but for experienced practicing LD'ers they get a legit 80-90% success rate from them, they increase awareness and memory in dreams.

Can get both off amazon. Also good to take some choline along with. Start with 4mg Galantamine, 300mg GPC, 250-400mg choline then if that doesn't do it for ya double them all. Take at least a night or two off in between doses to avoid tolerance buildup, take during wbtb.

https://www.amazon.com/Alpha-Choline-Supplement-Pharmaceutical-Capsules/dp/B00XWQSD7G/ref=sr_1_4_s_it?s=hpc&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1493492389&amp;sr=1-4&amp;keywords=alpha+gpc

https://www.amazon.com/Relentless-Improvement-Galantamine/dp/B00NEQ9MVA/ref=sr_1_2?s=hpc&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1493492420&amp;sr=1-2-spons&amp;keywords=galantamine&amp;psc=1

if you are into LD, yes, they are not going to break your bank account, and can deliver big on your LD experience. Of course, everybodys income levels and budgets are different, etc, but compare it to the cost of going to the movies or eating out. ´

This bottle of 60, 8mg Galantamine capsules on Amazon is about $47.00, so about 80 cents a pop. Average cost to see a movie in US, $8.80. That´s $.80 vs $8.80. Or, 60 possible LDs for $47.00 vs. 60 movies (some possibly crap) for $528.

https://www.amazon.com/Galantamine-60-x-8mg-Capsules/dp/B007769QZK

Do you have a dream journal yet? I recomend buying an actual journal and writing instead of typing on your phone. I made a post about This journal on Amazon which has helped so much

MILD is a great starting technique for beginners, also I'd recommend trying SSILD that's one of my favourites.

If your interested in learning MILD I've just made an app to make the process a little easier (it's free) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=studio.victorylapp.mildtrainer

Yes, I know one technique that can help you to get lucid dream. When you got sleep paralysis, try to move your hand without using muscles. Just imagine it. In one moment you will feel that your hand is actually moving, but you're in a dream already.
Also you can use visualization techniques. Imagine how you peeling a tangerine and slowly eating each slice. Try to feel it as real as possible.
If you want more techniques and tips, you can try my android app <strong>Lucidly</strong> :) It's really useful for beginners

Hi. That's a common problem. I can write for you two tricks that helps for me:

1) Imagine you have a magic wand. And it can do whatever you want. This trick is famous enough, but maybe you didn't know about that :)

2) You should not believe that you can do something, but you should already know that you have done this. For example, you want to summon some person behind the door. And you should know that this person is behind the door. Not believe, just know. 0% doubt.

Since you asked for more tips, I can advise you my mobile application for lucid dreams - <strong>Lucidly: Dream Journal &amp; Lucid Dreaming Helper</strong> (Google Play*)*. It has a lot of functions, but the Personal tips feature will be most useful for you. You can also read about this app on Reddit

I hope you will find it useful :)

Daylio would be great for that, because you can personalize it a lot. It's usually for keeping an actual diary but I don't see why you wouldn't be able to use it as a dream diary. You can change the moods to dream types, add more of them and stuff. Also you could use and edit the activities to suit dream patterns or other things you analyze your dreams by. Plus it has really good and useful statistics and graphs.

Edit: english is difficult + link to Google Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.daylio

Don't worry. I had the same problem. This is not even a problem, it's more like a period of time. Just keep working, you need some time to join the work again.

If you really need help, you can try my Android app for Lucid Dreaming - <strong>Lucidly: Dream Journal &amp; Lucid Dreaming Helper</strong>
I have over 8 years of experience and I have made this app as useful as possible for both beginners and experienced. Hope you will find it helpful :)

I have a smart watch, so it works great. I use Luci by Sam Ruston, a really good app by a really cool developer. He's also done a number of other swanky apps.

well, apparently there is another way without rooting I actually think this could be a nightmare, but you could use this app as well.

Good luck buddy!

Second that been using the pro version for years. Tons of features like shake to silence and the auto time out you seek. Looks like it's Android only tho.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alarmclock.xtreme.free

By learning to pay attention to the present moment. Most people spend their days caught up in a permanent state of distraction that always leads away from what is actually happening right now: replaying the past, fearing/planning for the future, anticipating happiness will come from maximizing likes and shunning dislikes. The push/pull and automated reactions to attractions and aversions keeps us constantly off-balance and never able to actually see and experience the present moment.

In summary, it's mindfulness. There are several books I highly recommend. One is general mindfulness practice in everyday life, the others are focused on lucid dreaming/dream yoga.. All are excellent. The dream yoga practice of course comes from a Buddhist tradition but almost all the points are still relevant for a secular practitioner as well:

"Wherever You Go, There You Are -- Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life" by Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep" by Andrew Holecek

"The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep" by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (especially the practice section)

How do you do it? You just start it. Just like learning anything, you resolve to practice and improve on a daily basis. The first obstacle is realizing that you're stuck in a rut of constant distraction, and resolving to begin going against this overwhelming habitual flow and have more and more moments of paying attention.

Read the short (2 pages) section of the book I reference in my post above. Mindfulness is simple but also subtle. It's not so much your actions, but actions are a part of it, but rather, how you interact with experience. Do you do so mindlessly, on auto-pilot, or are you awake and aware throughout your experiences, and a master of your response to them (as opposed to your reflex reactions controlling you).

First comes awareness in the moment of experience, then once you're good at that comes awareness in the moment of reaction to experience, and then you'll be starting to get more aware in dreams. It's the Tibetan dream yoga approach. There are some excellent books on mindfulness, lucid dreaming, dream yoga, & awareness that I've posted about many times before:

"Wherever You Go, There You Are -- Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life" by Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep" by Andrew Holecek

"The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep" by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

"The Ultimate Lucid Dreamer’s Manual: From Basics to Beyond" By Marc VanDeKeere https://repo.palkeo.com/esprit/paranormal/r%C3%AAve%20lucide/Marc%20VanDeKeere%20-%20The%20Ultimate%20Lucid%20Dreamer's%20Manual%20-%20From%20Basics%20to%20Beyond.pdf

> i would appreciate any books on how to proceed!

I believe the highest levels of lucid dreaming come when you (are on your way to) achieve high levels of waking lucidity / awareness / right attention via mindfulness. You may want to put these in your back pocket for now but I heartily recommend reading them at some point. I was not ready for them until about 6 months into my LD practice, once I'd racked up hundreds of dreams in my DJ and began to understand firsthand through that experience the relationship between awareness and dreaming.

Note that the dream yoga books are closely tied to Buddhism practice in some ways -- but you do not need to be a Buddhist or even spiritual at all to extract the incredible nuggets of wisdom relating mindfulness and attention/awareness to lucidity. You can just skip the parts that don't seem relevant.

"Wherever You Go, There You Are -- Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life" by Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep" by Andrew Holecek

"The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep" by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (particularly the practice section and its introduction)

edit: here's another good one off of the beaten path. Particularly portions of the introduction discussing awareness: https://repo.palkeo.com/esprit/paranormal/r%C3%AAve%20lucide/Marc%20VanDeKeere%20-%20The%20Ultimate%20Lucid%20Dreamer's%20Manual%20-%20From%20Basics%20to%20Beyond.pdf

My go-to resources: general mindfulness: "Mindfulness In Plain English", "Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life".

Specifically for lucid dreaming: "The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep", [TYoDaS] "Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep". These two are so full of critically important observations about awareness, mindfulness and lucidity that I think they should be essential reading for any practitioner, regardless of their spiritual (or lack thereof) traditions. With TYoDaS, you can skip the first section on Buddhism, but I found it approachable and very informative. I think everybody should understand the Buddhist formulation of grasping and aversion as a source of suffering.

I think it helps to have several months of LD practice under you belt with the standard Western approaches, e.g., LaBerge's Exploring The World of Lucid Dreaming.

I found that after about 8 months of LaBerge-y approaches and scouring sites like dreamviews for hours a day, I was ready to consider mindfulness. If you're already getting into mindfulness, no need to wait. I definitely did not start out with a mindfulness-aware approach to LDing, but have fully converted to awareness-focused living after about a year of practice.

Having regular vivid dreams and semi-regular lucid dreams really changes your notions of consciousness and awareness. You realize that it is really true: at any conscious moment, you could be in the dream state. Internalize this and ponder it a lot and you'll convert a lot more dreams to LDs.

Another pro tip: you will be different after several months or years of practice. Re-reading these (especially the dream yoga) resources every few months or once a year or so and you will find new things, and cement the realizations you've started to come to.

1) Become sensitive to being zoned out / on autopilot. Once you know what the opposite of awareness is, you can focus more on creating awareness proper. 2) Pay attention to your life experiences. Live in the present moment. Reflect upon your experiences, and practice recalling them. Get a good book on mindfulness/meditation, especially one focused on lucid dreaming, like Tibetan dream yoga, Andrew Holecek has a new book out that I really like. But pure mindfulness books like "Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life" and "Mindfulness In Plain English" are also both excellent and approachable. Summary: pay attention, reflect, recall, day and night. Enjoy!

Attention meditation is generally the place to start. Mindfulness of breath. Google will give you tons of details. I like the book "Mindfulness in Plain English." See Andrew Holecek's recent Dream Yoga book for discussion of a practice focused on lucid dreaming.

No. At least, not if you're using the definition of traditional mindfulness that is close to Buddhist practice. Read some good books on mindfulness for more in-depth discussion ("Mindfulness in Plain English", "Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life"). At its heart, mindfulness is about determining the truth of your present experience, and freeing yourself from conditioned reactions so that you may choose behaviors that are positive and profitable, rather than strengthening the cycle of reflex grasping and aversion.

Contrary to what some replies mention, the goal of mindfulness is to have it activated all day. It takes time to get there, but that is the goal.

For lucid dreaming, mindfulness is particularly useful, since if you achieve seeing through to the reality of your present experience frequently, you will get lucid in waking and dreams frequently, since realizing what waking/dreaming state you're in is one of the core aspects of your present experience.

Mindfulness focuses on self-awareness, ADA focuses on immersion in minute external stimuli.

They have some similarities, in that one is paying attention to the present moment, but the focus of that attention is pretty drastically different.

Summary: train yourself to pay attention, on purpose, to yourself in the present moment, all throughout the day. Your thoughts, emotions, and yes, sensory experience (but realize it is you noticing the sensory experience, emphasis on you, and you don't need to dive into the minute details of it) Feel yourself present in the now. It's more a relaxation and opening yourself up and quieting your mind, letting it settle: not a tightening or intent focus. When you are not constantly caught up in the winds of conditioned reactions, you can actually start to notice the reality of your present state: for lucid dreamers, this includes noticing whether you are in the waking or dreaming state.

Some excellent books on mindfulness are "Mindfulness in Plain English" and "Everywhere You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life." They put it so much better than I can.

One way to start that may be easier is to become aware of the opposite of mindfulness: learn to notice when you have been zoned out/on autopilot/zombie mode. It's like that feeling you get when you finish watching a program/movie and you "come back to yourself" and realize that you've been "somewhere else" for a while. Tune in to that, and you'll start to more and more notice these times. Pretty soon you'll want to avoid entering the zoned out mode as remaining present, actively participating in life is so much more fulfilling.