how do I have lucid dreams?

>>936737757 (OP)
Not suffering from any level of aphantasia is a start.

>>936737757 (OP)
you have to develop certain habits called "reality checks"

do these two things randomly throughout the day

1. Count the number of fingers on your hand
2. poke the palm of your hand with your other hand
3. turn a light switch on and off

failed reality checks means your fingers dont match, the light switch does nothing, Or that you can't touch your palm.

those are indications you are in a dream. It doesn't make sense while awake but once you finally attempt your habits in your dream. You will understand.

>>936738124
This is a good start. When you do these actually try to think if you're awake or not. Ponder it for a bit and look around you trying to see if anything is "off". Do this regularly. In time you'll start checking your hands in your dreams and when your fingers start to stretch you'll realize you're asleep.

Also keep a dream journal. The best way is to keep a recorder next to you at night. Every time you wake up record what you remember no matter how short or mundane it may seem. You'll start to find recordings you don't remember of dreams you don't remember. Each morning listen to the recordings and write them down in the journal. Be sure to include feelings, colors, thoughts, and anything relevant to the previous days.

Another method used by Einstein is to hold a ball in your hand. Keep your hand raised in a comfortable position. When you fall asleep the ball will fall. It takes some practice but will help you catch that moment in between sleep and waking.

All this will train your mind to know when it is asleep. Lucidity has levels. Sometimes you'll be lucid but still be bound by the rules of the dream. You'll know you're asleep but not quite awake. You have to train to wake up in the lucid state. When you have these, the next morning go over the dream and recognize the difference between how awake you were and how awake you are now.

When you do get there remember to stay calm. Suddenly realizing your dreaming and can do anything can be a massive rush. You scramble to think of something to do before you wake and your mind is forced to wake up loosing the moment.

Stay calm, don't think. To do anything in the dream you cannot think about it. This is opposite of how dreams function. Simply know what you want without trying to make it happen or saying it in words. It will just happen. Instead of trying to make something appear behind you and turn and make it come to you, simply know what is going to happen. Turn and hold out your hand and it will.

>>936741850
OP, when you do finally get there, try to find me and I'll help you develop.

>>936737757 (OP)
There was literally a Bob's Burgers episode about this. Go watch it.

>>936737757 (OP)
I kind of lucid dream when i go to sleep but i'm not really tired, so i'm half woken and half sleeping and somehow i figure im not awaken. I don't know why but if i try to have sex in a lucid dream i wake instantly

>>936743252
It's mainly because you're trying. Dreams are our mind, it already knows what we want and it understands greater things than we can imagine. If you want to experience something just let it happen. Don't try to make it happen. Do you tell your fingers to type? No. You know what you want to say and the fingers take care of themselves.

If you really want to learn what can be, follow the red rubber ball.

>>936737757 (OP)
Lsd

You can

a) Set an alarm for the middle of the night, as you fall back asleep try to stay aware of dreaming

b (hard mode but works) lay in bed flat on your back with legs straight out and arms at your sides, resist any urge to move, itch, twitch, anything

Once i realize im dreaming my world shakes and i try to hold it but usually wake up to sleep paralysis and glowing numbers/symbols as my spine reconnects

>>936737757 (OP)
Just don't be a nigger

>>936737757 (OP)
Let yourself doze off, but figure out ways to convince yourself you're still awake. Once you feel the shift and your body feels lighter or some other strange sensation, look around the room if you're even in the same "room" you fell asleep in.

>>936747014
lucid dreams are one of the very first kinds of dreams you'll have

I found a way into it back with the pandemic and remote work.
Remote work basically required you to show you were actively on the computer with a green dot. Depending on the software version the green dot would go to yellow AFK after 5-15 minutes.
I trained myself to keep smashing the enter key on an empty open Excel file every 5-10 minutes for several hours.
Noticed that the line between unconsious sleep and barely concious awake for a few seconds merged into a weird state where I could run my dreams.
Didn't get to pick the setting/topic, but could direct how things evolved and shut down annoying shit