Learn lucid dreaming

I had one last night! It started as non-lucid, and turned into a falling dream. When I realized, mid-fall, that it was a dream, I made myself land safely, and from there until my alarm went off, I was completely in control! It was absolutely thrilling; I’ve never had a flying dream before, so that was the first thing I tried. Amazing.

Still at it. I was getting to be very aware of my dreams, which is great. But seem to have hit a plateau…

The last two nights I have remember my dreams:-)
And I’ve managed to recall lots of details.
All very new to me.

Okay so last night I realized that I was indeed having dreams and even waking up. But instead of writing them down like you’re suppose to do I tell myself – oh you don’t need to write it down of course you’ll remember, how could you not. I just want to go back to sleep so desperately.
I’m my own worse enemy when it comes to this.

Fifth night and nothing. Nada. I couldn’t remember a thing.
Tonight I’ll try again.

So last night was my third night in a row of simply trying to remember my dreams. And after doing some research I’ve picked one thing to think as I’m drifting off to sleep. It needs to be something you don’t typically see. So I chose a blue chicken.

Well not only did I manage to remember two of my dreams – both dreams had a chicken in them!
In one dream someone had some sort of bug problem in their yard and I suggested to them to just get a chicken to eat them all up. So my brain is trying to get those chickens in there!!!

I have to say I’m totally amazed.

There’s this technique I’ve been practicing lately which is to ask myself every now and then while awake “Am I awake or asleep?”. Even better is it if you can jump or test your surroundings in some sort of way, but it’s not always convenient to do so around other people, lol. It might sound a bit awkward, but whatever you do repetitively finds its way to your subconsciousness, so eventually you will start asking yourself this question in your dreams as well.

I’ve had two dreams lately where I figured out that I was dreaming. It was especially helpful in the second one where I in the end could confront my fear and the ones that were following me, and then they weren’t scary anymore! In the other one I was just playing around. I’m just hoping these types of dreams will occur more frequently.

Last night I just tried remembering my dreams. I woke up at 3:30 and all I could remember is “metal”. And this morning I remembered “pots”.

May not sound like much but I typically don’t ANYTHING at all. So it’s a good start :-)

I can’t even remember my dreams so this may take awhile.
I will start tonight and keep my dream journal handy.

I think my safest bet is to start my dream journal again. Being conscious and aware of my dreamtime helps build towards lucidity. It kinda started happening spontaneously a couple of years ago when I was paying more attention to my dreams, so I don’s see why it can’t happen again. I’ll keep you posted!