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>Remember your dreams.

        >When you go to bed at night, intend on remembering your dreams.  Your subconscious will recognize your need to remember, and you’ll be more likely to remember when you wake up.  Make yourself believe that you will remember by repeating, “I will remember my dreams.”  Saying this over and over will program your subconscious.

        >Try getting your tulpa to help remind you of your dreams.  Tulpas can have a great influence on memories and dreams, so use this to your advantage.

        >When you wake up, stay completely still and focus on what you dreamt.  Moving will make it harder to remember, but if you are in the same position you were in while you were dreaming, it will be easier.  Don’t try too hard to remember, just let it come to you naturally.

        >Once you have a good idea of what you dreamt of, write it down in a dream journal.  Dream journals help you recognize patterns in your dreams and it will be easier to remember the more you write.  Do not wait until later to write down your dreams.  You will forget the details of the dream as time goes on, it’s best to write down your dreams immediately after you wake up.  If you wake up in the middle of the night, make sure you have a pen and a notebook to write with, you are likely to forget a lot about your dreams once you go back to sleep.  Try to write anything you remember, even if it’s just one thing.  Make it a habit to write down your dreams, as well.  If you skip writing down your dreams for a few days, you will begin to have a tough time remembering.

>Do reality checks.

        >The point of reality checks is to make it a habit so that when you are dreaming you do it and realize you are dreaming.  You have to be serious about this because in real life you know you are obviously not dreaming and you don’t question it, but it is important that you question it like you would a dream.   Actually think to yourself, “Am I dreaming?”  Dreams are only real enough to make you believe it’s real until you focus on something and start thinking.  Reality checks are supposed to make you focus and think logically, something that will make you lucid in a dream.  Decide on a trigger that you will use to make you do a reality check.  Your trigger should be something that you do a lot, like walking through a door, checking the time, et cetera.  Anytime you come across your trigger in the real world, do a reality check.

                >Plug your nose and try to breathe through it.  Nothing in dreams can make you stop breathing but yourself.

                >Check the time twice.  Look at the time and then look at it again.  In dreams, when you go back to look at something, it has probably changed in some way.  When you look at the time the second time in a dream, the numbers should be different from when you first looked at it.  Words and numbers usually aren’t consistent in dreams, so pay attention in the real world for this.

                >Look at your hands.  You know the phrase, “I know it like the palm of my hand.”  In dreams, things get a little bit disoriented.  If you notice your own hands look different, then it will trigger lucidity.

                >Think with logic.  If you think logically in a dream, odds are you’ll notice something off about it and become lucid.  If you see something weird or unusual in real life, question it and do a reality check.

                >Look for details.  Dreams aren’t usually very clear, the delusions are just enough to distract you.  If you focus in on details throughout the day, it will increase your awareness and vividness in dreams later on and you’ll be more likely to become lucid.

>Re- read dream journal entries.

>As you re-read entries, note that some things are the same between dreams.  These are patterns, or what is commonly known as dream signs, that can help you tell if you are dreaming.  Everyone has different dream signs because everyone has a separate mind and they all work differently.  If you really want to become lucid, you have to find out what your triggers are and look out for them during the day.  It is very important to raise your awareness, and doing this helps with that.  If you make it a habit to look out for dream signs, then it will probably carry on into your dreams and you may notice something and become lucid.

>You should probably organize your dream signs to help you remember them.

                >Awareness – Thoughts, emotions, feelings, or your perception in the dream is different in some way.

ie. As I was walking through the temple, I became half-lucid for a second.  It felt like it wasn’t reality, like I knew I was dreaming and I wanted to become lucid, but the feeling quickly went away as I continued to walk

                >Physical – Physical impossibilities.

ie. I have never been able to punch like that in a dream before.  Usually my punches are hopelessly weak, but this punch knocked him right out.

ie. I was only half lucid, but then it hit me and I realized that it was a dream.  I think the giveaway was that was running really fast.  The speed I was running at is impossible to achieve in real life.

                >Form – The environment and people look different or strange, or something is out of place.

ie. There were two lines of lockers and in between them was a door with a glass window; which makes no sense because it’s a locker room.

                >Context – Anything that doesn’t usually happen or and impossible situation.

ie. The door instantly opened and I was on another floor, but we didn’t move at all.  At that point I suspected I was dreaming, but pushed it off.

>Re- read guides.

        >There are many methods to lucid dreaming.  One may be easier than another, but that depends on you.  Familiarize yourself with the methods that you like the most.  For any guide to work to its best ability, make sure you have decent dream recall and have done reality checks throughout the day.

                >Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreaming requires you to repeat a mantra like, “I will have a lucid dream tonight,” over and over again while you fall asleep.  You have to make yourself believe that you will.  This will program your subconscious to let you become lucid while you are dreaming (like when you told yourself that you would remember your dreams).  It’s important that while you repeat the mantra, either out loud or in your head, that you focus on nothing but wanting to become lucid.  This will most likely carry on into your dreams and help you become lucid.  When you are feeling relaxed, begin to visualize what your dream will look like.  Think about where you want to be and what you want to do and imagine yourself becoming lucid within the dream.  Planning out your dreams beforehand will help you become lucid because you may recognize that where you are in the dream is where you wanted to be when you were awake.

                >Dream Exit Induced Lucid Dreaming is when you wake up during your REM cycle and go right back to sleep, immediately becoming lucid.  For this to work, you must have already had 4 to 6 hours of sleep prior to waking up.  It’s best to try to wake up naturally, you can do this by telling yourself you will wake up in the middle of the night as you fall asleep (like in the previously mentioned method and when you told yourself that you would remember your dreams).  After you wake up, stay completely still, don’t move at all.  Moving will activate motor functions in your brain that you need to keep off while doing this method and will bring your consciousness into the waking world.  While you are lying in bed, visualize the last dream you had.  Imagine yourself going back into that dream while being completely aware of everything around you.  Think about what you saw, heard, and felt and recreate those feelings in your imagination as you go back to sleep.  After this, your awareness will go completely into the dream.  You might feel like you have fallen into the dream.  The dream will be very vivid because you had gone from the waking world right into the dream world while being aware.

                >Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming is very similar to Dream Exit Induced Lucid Dreaming, instead, you wake yourself up completely.  Keep yourself awake for 20 minutes to an hour.  During this time, it’s best to keep your mind on the intention of having a lucid dream.  This is a great time to re-read dream journal entries, review your dream signs, and think about what you want to do when you become lucid.  When you return to bed, lie completely still and relax your body.  The point of this method is to keep your mind awake and let your body fall asleep.  It’s probably easiest to lie on your back for this.  You will feel the urge to move around, ignore it because it’s just your brain seeing if you are awake or not.  You have trick your brain into thinking that you’re asleep, so don’t move.  Think of absolutely nothing and clear your mind.  You have to go into a very meditative state for this to work.  After a while, your will lose all feeling in your body, become numb, paralyzed, and feel like you are floating.  You may begin to hear and see things behind your eyelids.  This is completely normal and part of the process, so don’t be afraid.  You have to let yourself become hypnotized by the colors and patterns that you see so that you can bring your consciousness into the dream world.  Once you feel almost completely detached from the real world, begin to visualize your dream.  Try to see it behind your eyelids and imagine yourself going into the dream.  After that, your consciousness should be completely in the dream world.

                >Wake Back To Bed is just waking yourself up completely for 20 minutes to an hour after 4 to 6 hours of sleep.  Doing this alone helps you become lucid because of that period of time when you are completely aware in between the periods of time when you are unconscious.  At this time, you should be in REM sleep, but you are awake and aware instead.  It helps you recognize a dream easier just by waking up for a little while.  When you go back to bed, you’ll go right into REM sleep.  You should also try doing the Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreaming method before falling asleep.  It’s not required, but it definitely helps.  

                >Dream Induced Lucid Dreaming is whenever you become lucid in a dream randomly.  This is usually triggered by you noticing a dream sign.  Dream signs are anything that points to the dream being a dream and not the waking world.  Dream signs can be things like being able to breathe underwater to noticing something that can’t happen in real life.   Everyone has different dream signs and patterns, so be aware of everything while you are dreaming.  DILD can also be triggered by reality checks, MILD, and WBTB.

>After becoming lucid.

        >Stay calm.  If you get too excited, you’ll wake yourself up, so keep your emotions under control.

        >Rubs your hands together and move around the dream.  Movement helps you stay aware in the dream prevents you from waking up.

        >Ask the dream to be clearer if it’s not very vivid.

        >Look at your hands and try to focus on the details.  This makes the dream more vivid overall, and you will see details in everything that you don’t see in a non-lucid dream.

        >Do some simple math in your head.  This gets the logic in your brain going.  You can stay lucid longer if you are thinking logically.

        >Remind yourself periodically that you are dreaming to maintain lucidity.  If you get too caught up in the dream you’ll lose your lucidity, so make sure that you’re aware you are dreaming by thinking, “I am dreaming,” every now and then.

        >Set up an intention for the dream.  If you’re focused on doing something in the dream while you are lucid, you are less likely to lose control of the dream, so plan out what you want to do.

>If you start to feel the dream slip away.

        >Spinning around helps stabilize the dream.  This may make the dream go black.  If that happens then just visualize a new dream scene and continue on.  If you wake up, make sure it’s not just a false awakening, you could still be dreaming.

        >Falling backwards stimulates movement and movement helps you stay aware.  Again, you might wake up, but it’s probably a false awakening.

>In the dream.

        >If you want to make someone appear, visualize him/her behind you or around a corner.  Once you can feel his/her presence and expect him/her to be there, turn around or look around the corner.

        >If you want to change the scene, visualize where you want to be behind a door and open it.  The point is you have to truly believe that what you’ll find on the other side of that door is what you want to see.

        >If you want to find an object, imagine it in your pocket, behind you, under a rock, in a drawer, behind a tree, above you, in a box, or pretty much anywhere out of sight.  You’ll find your object as long as you believe it’s there.