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Lucid Dreaming – Tutuorial
Introduction
Hi there, my name is Tim Post. I am the founder of the Lucidipedia project and I'm glad
you've discovered Lucidipedia.com. During my time as a lucid dreamer, I have come
across many other lucid dreamers and do workshops on lucid dreaming at other
universities in The Netherlands. Please allow me to introduce you to lucid dreaming
personally.
Every heard of lucid dreaming? Lucid dreaming is simply recognizing that you are
dreaming while you are still within the dream. This fascinating phenomenon enables you
to take control and manipulate any element of the dream to whatever fashion you like.
You can change, influence and manipulate anything in the dream when you know you are
dreaming. The range of application is virtually limitless. More importantly, the experience
of every single lucid dream is astonishing realistic and immersive. Most of the time it is
even hard to distinguish dream reality from waking reality. Lucid dreams occur naturally,
especially at the age of childhood, but can just as easily be induced by use of official lucid
dream induction techniques, primarily designed by Dr. Stephen LaBerge at The Lucidity
Institute. These techniques are discussed in Lucidipedia's learn section.
As many other lucid dreamers will tell you, lucid dreaming is like entering the Star Trek's
holodeck, a virtual reality game or The Matrix.
Although you might recall dreams as stories you have been

'observing' passively, like daydreams, REM-sleep dreams
are actually as realistic and vivid as waking reality. Most of
the time, you have your own body, you view the world from
your own eyes and can enjoy all your senses. The thing that
comes the closest in describing the realism of dreams is
surprisingly 'this moment', right here, right now when you
are awake. Just like you feel your breathing right now, the
way you feel yourself sitting on a chair, seeing, smelling,
tasting, and hearing ... is exactly the same sensory
experience as you would have in an ordinary dream or
induced lucid dream. So, just for fun, imagine you are
dreaming right now. Take a look around. This is how
realistic every dream you experience every night feels like.
Every dream has the same multi-sensorial richness as any other dream, but because
most of us don't experience dreams consciously at the time we experience them (then it
would be a 'lucid dream') we do not recall any of its realistic properties.
So take a moment and just imagine and summarize what you've just read. On the one
hand, lucid dreams offer you complete control of the dream content which enables you to
experience anything you can imagine (literally!). While on the other hand, that
experience feels paradoxically as realistic and vivid as waking reality.
Wow. Think of the possibilities. You can become anyone you want.
How would it feel to have a lucid dream in which you could take-off like Superman and
fly around some clouds on a warm summer day in your hometown?
Believe me, nothing you have ever experienced before! And a nice advantage is, that
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lucid dreaming is completely safe, fun and free of charge.
Dreams are worlds that you can explore consciously and be present in. Talk to people in
your dreams, visit other cities, rehearse things like presentations or extreme sports, have
sex with anyone you want, be a hero like Superman or Spiderman, meet your pop or
movie idol, be the richest person in the world ... whatever you can imagine, you can
make your dreams come true as a lucid dreamer.
Lucid dreaming will boost up your life.
Flying like Superman is not just limited to only experiencing

'flying', it also involves feeling what it is to save people you
care about, of feeling self-confident and strong.
Imagine how some additional practice can enrich that

experience...
And that is where Lucidipedia kicks in. Lucidipedia wants to

support your dream explorations. Lucidipedia's slogan "love
what you dream. Dream what you love" is what lucid
dreaming is all about and is central to Lucidipedia's mission.
We like you to share your experience and knowledge of lucid
dreaming with others on the site.
I'm not going to end this talk with Lucidipedia however, you decide how this story will
end. If Lucidipedia wants to become a home for novice and expert lucid dreamers, users
must create a community where knowledge and experiences of lucid dreaming are openly
shared and cherished. I hope that Lucidipedia can provide this support to you all out
there.
Thank you for visiting Lucidipedia,
Tim.
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Contents
Introduction ........................................................................................................ 2
Contents ............................................................................................................. 4
Introduction: Lucidipedia Matrix ......................................................................... 6

Wake-Back-To-Bed ....................................................................................................................... 6
Learning goals ........................................................................................................................... 8
Why lucid dreaming? .................................................................................................................. 10
Some Examples and Ideas .......................................................................................................... 10
Flying ....................................................................................................................................... 10
Breathing underwater............................................................................................................. 11
Getting rid of nightmares........................................................................................................ 11
Meeting a passed away family member ................................................................................. 11
Secretly in love? ...................................................................................................................... 12
Discover your true potential ................................................................................................... 12
Being invisible ......................................................................................................................... 12
Telekinesis ............................................................................................................................... 13
To the moon ............................................................................................................................ 13
Strength................................................................................................................................... 13
Telepathy ................................................................................................................................ 14
Materialization ........................................................................................................................ 14
Deliberately wake up .............................................................................................................. 14
Defending yourself magically .................................................................................................. 14
Walking over water ................................................................................................................. 15
Mind control ........................................................................................................................... 15
Teleportation .......................................................................................................................... 15
Lesson 1: Recall dreams .....................................................................................16

Step 1. Recall dreams.................................................................................................................. 16
Step 2. Get out of bed. ................................................................................................................ 18
Step 3. Feel excited. .................................................................................................................... 18
Lesson 2: Discover dreamsigns ...........................................................................20

Step 4. Write & analyze. ............................................................................................................. 20
Step 5. Motivate. ........................................................................................................................ 22
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Step 6. Plan your lucid dream. .................................................................................................... 22
Lesson 3: Recognize dreams ...............................................................................23

Step 7. Recognize dreams. .......................................................................................................... 23
Step 8. Get into bed. ................................................................................................................... 25
Step 9. Visualize. ......................................................................................................................... 26
Conclusion .........................................................................................................27
F.A.Q. .................................................................................................................29
1. What does 'lucid' mean?..................................................................................................... 29
2. Is it safe? ............................................................................................................................. 29
3. Does it interfere? ................................................................................................................ 29
4. Does it get you tired? .......................................................................................................... 29
5. Is science involved?............................................................................................................. 30
6. How do you learn it? ........................................................................................................... 30
7. How long would it take? ..................................................................................................... 30
8. Can you control anything? .................................................................................................. 30
9. Does it effect my waking life? ............................................................................................. 30
10. Ok, I am in! And now? ....................................................................................................... 31
Recommended Reading .....................................................................................32
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Introduction: Lucidipedia Matrix

As I introduced to you earlier, learning lucid
dreaming consists of three basic lessons:
(1) Recall dreams, (2) Discover dreamsigns
and (3) Recognize dreams. Of course these
three lessons consist on their part of an
additional three-layered structure that I
have designed myself: (A) Mind, (B) Body
and (C) Heart. The resulting "matrix" covers
9 cells in total that represent 9 steps, based
on those three basic lessons (columns) and
three factors (rows); constructed
exclusively on the basis of the most
effective lucid dream technique around: The
Wake-Back-To-Bed technique or the
Napping Technique as The Lucidity Institute
calls it. In addition to this core technique,
The Lucidipedia Matrix completes itself with supplemental tips and tricks, based on my
own experience, addressing not only the mind as the primary focus of attention but also
integrating the body and heart to the effectiveness of the program. To my experience,
you'll get lucid dreams the quickest when you use the human body as a whole.
Use Lucidipedia's Matrix as follows: Start with cell number one, go down to number two
and work your way around sequentially until you reach cell number 9. Because the
learning program consists of three learning goals that are represented by the three
columns (1) Recall dreams, (2) Discover dreamsigns and (3) Recognize dreams and are
elaborated with a mind-body-heart component, every column/learning goal has a total of
three steps. These lessons are actually sub-procedures of the overall WBTB procedure
that the Lucidipedia Matrix beholds. You can use this matrix as your easy-to-use lucid
dream checklist when attempting the WBTB technique yourself.
Wake-Back-To-Bed
I have designed the Lucidipedia Matrix on the basis of the famous

Wake-Back-To-Bed (WBTB) technique that is designed by the
Lucidity Institute ("The Napping Technique") as one of the most
effective means to induce lucid dreams, as I also found out
myself. In summary, this technique recommends you to go to
sleep at usual bedtime, wake yourself up an hour earlier than
your usual wake-up time, recalling dreams, discovering
dreamsigns within the hour and going to sleep again at the time
the 60 minutes are up: delaying your original last-hour sleep for
one hour later. Interrupting your morning sleep this way,
enhances your chances of reaching lucidity like 20 times. Using
the WBTB technique enables you to have lucid dreams virtually at will. Apply this
technique whenever you want or start practicing the individual cells separately and
sequentially. No dogma here. Some might like to start right away, while others prefer to
practice first. Either way, the most important thing is to enjoy it.
One study of The Lucidity Institute showed a 15 to 20 times increased likelihood of lucid
dreaming for those practicing this nap technique over no technique. This technique
requires you to wake-up one hour earlier than usual, interrupt your sleep cycle with a
brief period of wakefulness of 60 minutes or so, then go back to bed again. The WBTB
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technique is central to Lucidipedia's Matrix. Wake up an hour earlier than normal and
start working through steps 1 up to 9 until you have induced your lucid dream.
Amazingly enough, this "delayed nap" as it is called, has proven to primarily consist of
REM-sleep (dreams). Because the transition of wakefulness to dreaming is so quick when
going to sleep again this way, recognizing dreaming is much easier. Not only because
you have had the time to refocus and re-motivate yourself just before the event, but also
because your brain still emanates wakefulness during the delayed nap. Because this
delayed nap is actually postponed to the time you would normally get out of bed and
eating your breakfast for example, it is like your brain is waking-up while you go to bed
again, still making up your lost REM-sleep due to the interruption of your sleep cycle
earlier on. All these mechanisms aim to make you dream as close to wakefulness as
possible in order for you to recognize dreams much easier. This wakefulness does not
affect the quality of the lucid dreams you will induce. It is possible to have lucid dreams
of 30 minutes or even longer this way that feel as real as waking reality.
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Learning goals
This learning section covers the experiences and skills I have

logged and archived in the last seven years. Since then, I have
come a long way and am eager to share my skills with you.
Obviously, my advances in lucid dreaming could not be possible
without me benefiting from the invaluable lucid dream research
that is done by the Lucidity Institute. Let me introduce you to this
useful research along the way.
Learning lucid dreaming consists of three basic lessons: (1) Recall dreams, (2) Discover
dreamsigns and (3) Recognize dreams. You can see these lessons on top in the
submenu, feel free to access them whenever you want. Be sure to stick to the structure
of this learning section however if you are a novice lucid dreamer and don't have much
lucid dream experience yet. To become an expert lucid dreamer, you'll need a clean fresh
start and a reliable basis of knowledge, skills and other factors to rely on. It is also
recommended for more experienced lucid dreamers who still have trouble inducing
lucidity, to start from the very beginning and stick to the structure: Do not skip any
learning content if you feel you haven't mastered it completely. Only move on if you are
satisfied with the results you are making. In short, keep practicing, practicing and
practicing.
Every lucid dreamer needs to be proficient in recalling dreams, discovering dreamsigns

and recognizing dreams. These three learning goals are processed sequentially. With the
recalled dreams, you can analyze them for dreamsigns and use those particular
dreamsigns to go to bed prepared, remembering to recognize those dreamsigns the next
time you encounter them. Learning lucid dreaming is as simple as that.
Check out the learning goal descriptions below to get a better understanding of them:
Learning goal 1. Learn to recall your dreams

The first thing you need to do is to learn how to recall your dreams, otherwise you would
not remember your lucid dreams in the first place. That is why your first question upon
awakening must be “What have I dreamt about?”. Keep lying still and keep your eyes
closed, have patience. Try to think of particular genres like love, adventure or drama.
Think about friends, people from work or your family. It is a nice habit to write down
your dreams every morning using a special journal like Lucidipedia's online lucid dream
journal, for example.
Learning goal 2. Learn to discover dreamsigns

When you know what you are dreaming about every night, you are able to discover
recurrent themes. Can you discover the cues in your dreams that could have told you
that you were dreaming? These cues are called dreamsigns. The encounter of a pink
flying elephant would be one for example. What kind of dreamsigns do you have? Use
your journal to keep track of them. By living your everyday life more consciously, you
increase your chances to become lucid during the night. Are you sure you’re not
dreaming right now?
Learning goal 3. Learn to recognize that you are dreaming

By the time you get track of your recurrent dreamsigns, you are able to prepare yourself
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for them before you go to bed. Say to yourself, “the next time when I encounter a pink
flying elephant I will remember that I am dreaming”. Research has shown several
techniques that can help you to become lucid more quickly. At the moment you know you
are dreaming, you can start practicing for dream control.
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Why lucid dreaming?
It is very important you have an idea of what you are

going to do when you've become lucid. Why are you
motivated to have lucid dreams? What are you planning
to do when your first lucid dream arrives? Most novice
lucid dreamers fail having lucid dreams because they
strive for 'lucid dreams' instead of an 'experience' they
want to have BY USE of a lucid dream. This failure is
based on the fact that the mind cannot focus on such an
empty concept like a 'lucid dream'. In does however can
focus on the experience you want to induce by use of
lucidity; meeting Tom Cruise, flying, visiting another
planet or overcoming fears. So be sure you have an idea
of what you want to do the moment you become lucid.
Be as specific as possible. Draw a picture of it, watch
related movies or listen to music that inspires you.
So ask yourself, "What am I going to do the next time

when I become lucid?". Do you want to fly? Visit another planet? Try to bring attention to
more deeply rooted desires that you cherish. Don't stop at superficial ones, but really try
to make contact with your inner longings. This perspective or approach really focuses
your attention and meaning to the right place. It also justifies the nature and application
of lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is not meant as a goal on itself, lucid dreaming
becomes a tool to induce experiences that enrich your waking life.
Once you become lucid, your imagination is the limit. You can experience anything you
like.
Some Examples and Ideas
Flying
As you might have guessed yourself, flying is a very popular lucid dream activity.
Because lucid dreams feel as real and vivid as the
waking state, imagine how a brief flight through some
clouds would feel like. Feel the wind running through
your hair. Feel the rush of excitement flow through
your belly while you take-off like Superman. Feel the
sun's warm rays touching your body. And strangely
enough experiencing this miraculous flight while
knowing you are actually asleep and lying in bed with
your eyelids shut. Wow. You gain extra-ordinary
experiences you could not have had in your normal
everyday life. So although the lucid dream by its very nature is still "just a dream"
because it doesn't have any external value in the world we are living in, the experiences
you could gain BY USE of lucid dreams are very real and very meaningful.
Although a computer gamer from the future could still acknowledge the next-generation
multi-sensory virtual reality Nintendo or XBox world as an illusion, computers could still
generate 'games' or 'experiences' for the gamer that enable memorable realistic
experiences, although the gamer knows it's just a game. More interesting is the thought
to what extend 'knowing it is just a game' empowers the joy, meaning and potential of
the very experience itself in the first place. How could an attack of some soldier be
experienced differently when the gamer knows 'it is just a game'. The gamer knows he
can try out many different approaches to deal with the situation, try as many times he
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likes, quit at any time he likes or use cheat codes to magically succeed. It enables a form
of discovery learning. How would you act differently when you know that a nightmare
monster you encounter is actually a part of a lucid dream? It would only make the reality
far more interesting! First of all it means you are completely safe, no matter what
happens or how you might act. Secondly, the lucid dream enables you to use any kind of
dream control (magic) to face the situation. The lucid dream challenges you to become
far more flexible and creative on an emotional level, without ever losing the realism and
vividness of the reality you are in.
Breathing underwater
Ever tried breathing underwater? Well, in lucid dreams anything is
possible. Start an adventure in the deep blue sea or experiment
with overcoming the anxiety to take a conscious inhale of water but
consciously expecting it to be fresh air instead of water. It is
interesting to break laws of physics that govern the human body.
Can you even speak of 'the human body' in this sense when talking
about lucid dreams? Even your identity in your lucid dreams is
totally imaginary. In the end you're just the consciousness that is
aware of the experiences you have in the lucid dream. You could
transform yourself to your friend, with a different face, voice and
body height but still feel yourself having this exciting lucid dream.
Experience the freedom of exploring new sensations and overcoming rules and
boundaries of your everyday life and experience.
Getting rid of nightmares

Do you get frustrated lately of recurring nightmares? Use lucidity to get rid of them. And
although you might think immediately of magically
defeating or attacking that horrible evil monster that is
tracing you, consider giving it a big hug or a kiss!
Lucidipedia dares you! This way you might discover that
that horrible monster actually beholds some part of
yourself that is by itself in need of love or friendship.
Lucid dreams can be astonishing realistic experiences.
Overcome fears and transcend to new spiritual realms.
Imagine the positive influence that those kind of lucid dreams could behold for your life
experience.
Meeting a passed away family member

Do you have any relative that has sadly passed away, but
you still would like to have had the time to say something
in particular to that person? Use lucid dreams to finish up
any unfinished business. Although you would not actually
speak to the real 'ghost' of your loved one, reports show
that the people who have used lucid dreams for this
matter feel they have really had a second chance for a
nicer and more comfortable form of closure. The same
implies to lucid dreaming in general. Although dreams are not real, you can still benefit
from the very realistic experiences the lucid dream generates, even throughout the rest
of your day. Because lucid dreams enable you to consciously direct the experiences you
want to gain in the dream, you are able to use lucid dreaming for a much more
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meaningful application than just 'flying' for example. It could potentially function as a
"closure simulator" so to speak.
Secretly in love?
Of course you can use lucid dreams to make love to
someone you secretly love in the waking world. Go
even beyond the experience of having sex, and find
out how it feels to be more close to that particular
person. Would you like to express your true feelings
to this particular person but are afraid you don't
own the courage for it of expressing your feelings in
waking reality? Try using a lucid dream and induce
the anonymous experience of practicing. And how
did it feel afterwards when you've expressed
yourself in a lucid dream? Would it be easier now to try to speak to that person for real in
your waking life? Experiment and use lucid dreams to not only enrich your dream world
but potentially enrich your life as a whole. Use it as a preparation tool or simulator.
Discover your true potential

Go on a journey to discover who you really are
beyond your physical and psychological conditions at
this moment. Experience a journey where you meet
the people who can tell you all about YOU (they can in
a certain way, because you could represent them as
'voices' or 'thoughts' of your own mind). Can you
imagine what kind of empowering uses this journey
could behold for improving your waking life? Meet
your true Self on a intergalactic journey through the
universe. Meet your spiritual guides and let them tell
you about hidden feelings of strength and love that might be of good use to you. Again,
although dreaming seems to be 'just' an imaginary state that is 'just' fake by definition in
the end ... the highly realistic multi-sensory experience of for example meeting someone
in a lucid dream (not only speaking to him or her, but also touching, smelling or tasting
the person) is remembered as a realistic experience. Although dreams are not 'real' in
the absolute sense of its definition, the multi-sensory properties of lucid dreams make
the experience 'feel' just as real as the waking world. The brain responds
neurophysiologically the same to dream world experiences as it would do in waking
reality. The brain doesn't know the difference between waking and dreaming (otherwise
we would be lucid naturally all the time). Experiences induced in dreams and lucid
dreams are transferred into the waking state. Feel blessed in a lucid dream, feel blessed
when you wake up. Learn lucid dreaming and learn to control your emotional state.
Being invisible
This is a great way to observe dream characters within your dreams
without them noticing you. Or magically hide when you play hide and
seek. It is also challenging to think about your dream body in this way.
If you are able to be invisible and you are able to make your body
disappear, why do you as the conscious awareness don't disappear as
well? What are you then? A spirit? Consciousness? Nothing? Feel free to
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use lucid dreams to endeavor on a more philosophical trip to experience more of the
deepest nature of the mind itself. What is 'identity', what is 'reality', who or what is
actually 'lucid' in a lucid dream?
Telekinesis
To be able to move any object without touching it
physically is a nice skill you can use in several
occasions. It is a great way to refurnish your
dream home for example, or to be able to defend
yourself in nightmares. It is also a relatively easy
challenge to work with when you first start
applying dream control in lucid dreams.
Understand how your idea and expectations of
gravity could challenge you to lift a sky scraper
just as easily as a small rock. Of course, 'weight'
has no value in your dream world, it is all imaginary. But still your mind expects certain
things to feel heavy or light-weighted when you try to lift them up. Do you own the
flexible mental state to overcome these boundaries and lifting up entire planets without
breaking a sweat? Free your mind at Lucidipedia.
To the moon
Ever stood on the moon and watched an 'earth-
rise'? It is a great way to start exploring your own
universe. Fly further into space and check out
other planets or even other civilizations, witness
super nova explosions from close up or be a
super nova exploding star yourself. Although this
might sound silly, imagine how your brain would
fill-in the multi-sensory experience of such an
marvelous experience. An outbreak of energy? An
overwhelming feeling of love maybe? Make
friends to aliens out their or let them teach you new foreign dream control techniques
that you can share with the rest of us in the Lucidipedia's Library or at the forum.
Strength
Try to pick up a car, a house or an airplane. In your lucid dreams
you have all the strength you'll ever need. Although you can not
actually train your real muscles in your dreams, you do train the
nervous impulses that are needed to stimulate the particular
muscle groups you are simulating using at that moment. In other
words, the brain activity of walking in a lucid dream (or non-lucid
dream) is the same as the brain activity of walking in the waking
state. The nerves just don't fire at the time they reach the
particular muscle groups that are responsible for walking. So
rehearse extreme sports, tennis moves, soccer games or martial
arts. You can use your lucid dreams to train yourself in all kinds
of physical domains.
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Of course, strength can also be formulated as an inner attitude towards certain situations
you face during your lucid dreams. Do you have the strength to tell your girlfriend or
boyfriend in your lucid dream you don't love him or her anymore? Experiment.
Telepathy
Visit a dream character in your lucid dream and try
to talk telepathically with each other using only
thoughts to communicate. Everything is possible in
lucid dreams, so why not try out this one? It comes
pretty handy when you want to invite a distant
dream character to one of your lucid dream parties
in the middle of paradise or at some other place in
the universe.
Materialization
And in times you are in need of some object that you cannot
find or don't have at the moment; try materialization. Just
materialize the thing you need at the place you are right now.
Do you need a key? A girlfriend? Or a planet? You own the
power to magically let any object appear that you want to be
here at this moment. Experience how it feels to materialize an
unlimited amount of money in your pockets. Experience how it
would feel to materialize a certain product you want to buy in
real life but don't have the money in real life to buy it just yet.
Use your lucid dreams to create paintings or other designs that
might inspire you to be more successful at work in waking
reality.
Deliberately wake up
If you find yourself at the end of your most beautiful lucid
dream, deliberately wake yourself up in order to write down
the dream as soon as possible in Lucidipedia's DreamJournal.
If you would like to escape a terrifying dream instead of
confronting it (the latter would have the preference!),
deliberately wake yourself up. This is paradoxically done by
doing just the opposite; falling asleep in the lucid dream. In
most cases this would result into a false awakening, either
way, you are in another place again.
Defending yourself magically

During your dream explorations you might encounter a
few monsters. Are you prepared to magically battle
them? Or do you simply fly away? Well, either way, if you
like to battle evil, practice some nice moves you have
seen from your favorite movies. Stop bullets like Neo did
in The Matrix movie. Transform into a Super Saiyan like
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Goku in the Dragonball Z series. Mutate into a giant more terrifying monster yourself to
overpower the very evil your are facing. Turn into James Bond and shoot your way out.
Transform into that super hero you've always loved to be.
Walking over water

Want to impress your dream friends? Well, walking over
a giant lake should do it. It is also a nice challenge to
overcome the laws of gravity. Consciously try to
overcome your expectations of gravity. Think this one is
easy? Try walking on top of spikes without harming
yourself. Try walking through fire or walking on invisible
stairs.
Mind control
Control the minds of your dream characters and let
them do whatever you want them to do deliberately.
It's also a nice skill to "set-up" an actual real-life
experience you have had. It is a great way to re-do
or reflect on past experiences from you waking life
by letting your dream characters act the same as
they did in waking reality at that time. Now you
suddenly have a second chance to act different than
you did in the past. Experiment how different
behavior or actions could result into a more positive
outcome. Use lucid dreams as the "life simulators" to relive some parts of your life you
would have like to lived differently.
Transformation
Ever experienced being a tiger or a dolphin? Lucid
dreaming provides the freedom to be one. It also could
be interesting to transform into a house or a chair.
Whatever you can imagine is possible in the lucid
dream world. How would your dream mind make you
'feel' like a chair? Would you still have the sensation of
breathing? Would you still feel cold or warm? Try it
yourself! If you have any animal you would like to be,
this is your chance. Sprint as fast as a cheetah, dive as
deep as a whale or fly as high as an eagle. Gain more respect for nature by being
different creatures of the animal kingdom yourself.
Teleportation
Traveling in your dream world could mean you have to
travel great distances. Instead of flying, teleportation could
really be the thing for you. Instantly transport yourself
from one city to another, from one country to the next, or
from our galaxy to one at the edge of space.
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Lesson 1: Recall dreams

Ok, we have arrived at our first lesson. Are you ready to start
practicing?
Overview of lesson 1
We start working through steps 1, 2 and 3 that are part of the
first "Recall dreams" lesson/column in the Lucidipedia Matrix:
(1) Recall dreams, (2) Get out of bed and (3) Feel excited. I
have cropped this column into a new picture on the right side
here. Looks familiar? Good. Also know that you start using
Lucidipedia's Matrix the moment you wake up one hour earlier
than normal wake-up time. So note that you've already set
your alarm clock the previous night. This is central to the
whole idea of the Wake-Back-To-Bed technique.
The moment your alarm clock wakes you up (don't use the
radio feature to wake yourself up; use a gentle and clear alarm
sound), you start with step 1: Recalling dreams. You don't go
out of bed yet. First you recall as much dreams as possible.
Once you feel you have recalled a sufficient amount of dreams,
get out of bed. We have just moved on to step 2. The idea is
to stay awake for one whole hour before you go to bed again
at the moment you would have normally woke up. Therefore it
is important to gradually become fully awake in the next hour.
The "Recall dreams" column uses about 30 minutes of this
"intermission" time. From the moment you stand up straight
next to your bed, maybe have yawned a bit, immediately
connect with the excitement of applying the WBTB technique: Feel excited (really feel
this energy throughout your body) to spend time training to induce your lucid dream
experience BY USE of a lucid dream. Connect with your personally selected lucid dream
experience and really see yourself having that particular lucid dream in about an hour.
View any remaining drowsiness as the very thing you need to face with wakefulness and
alertness. Don't resist it, use it to focus. Just notice the drowsiness.
That's all for the overview of lesson 1: Recall dreams. Continue reading and learn how to
properly apply the tasks I just mentioned in this overview.
Step 1. Recall dreams.

Recalling dreams is not that difficult. It demands the most effort at the very beginning
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when you try to familiarize yourself with this new nightlife that you want to recall.
Eventually dreams just pop-up naturally and spontaneously at moments you wake up
during the night and in the morning.
At the moment you wake up, don't move a muscle and keep your eyes shut. Only turn
off your alarm clock but immediately return to your previous sleeping posture (slow and
easy!). Refocus and address different sensory features that might trigger the recalling of
a dream; does your current mood remind you of what you just dreamt about? Maybe
some line that some dream character spoke to you just now, a picture or genre of the
dream? Use a piece of paper to write down some of the details of each dream so you
don't forget them during the recalling process. If recalling doesn't work, start initiating by
remembering what you've done yesterday and might have processed in your dreams.
Most of all, have patience.
Have patience
Your mind is responsible for recalling any dream fragments that pop-up in your mind.
Your job is to recognize these fragments and consciously use them to recall dreams in
full-length. Especially novice lucid dreamers will need to rely more on patience the first
couple of times they are learning to recall dreams. Be ready to lay 30 minutes in bed and
discover how dreams eventually present themselves if you keep concentrated enough.
Eventually, dream recall will occur very naturally each time you wake up during the night
or morning. You just can't help to recall them.
Associate
Having recognized a dream fragment, you can start associating. Which other dream
fragments could have led up to this one? Which other dream characters could have been
present at the time? Which feelings and emotions accompanied those meetings? The
moment you remember any seemly insignificant dream fragment, start walking through a
number of properties that might trigger the dream as a whole: locations, persons,
feelings, events or talks. It's also a nice habit to use genres to recall the overall feeling or
setting of the dream itself: adventure, drama, action, science fiction, romance or just an
ordinary dream? Once you start associating, the dream recalling process starts and
eventually more and more dream fragments cluster together as dreams. You could easily
recall five dreams every morning.
Think backwards
Multiple dreams occur in single REM sleep periods during your every sleep cycle. You can
put this insight to good use by recalling additional dreams that might be dreamt in the
same genre or setting as the previous dreams you have recalled. So for example, if you
have recalled a dream about war, maybe your previous dream was related to a robbery
or shooting incident? This way it becomes easier to recall more dreams that might have
occurred during the same REM sleep period.
What did yesterday look like?

If no dreams come into your awareness, start recalling the things you've done yesterday.
Some dreams can be quite identical to real life experiences you've had the previous day.
If you have experienced something memorable yesterday, maybe you have dreamt about
it just now?
Use recurrent themes

If you start to discover recurrent themes in your dreams by browsing through your
dream journal, you can use those themes as secure points to start off you recalling
process. If you dream a lot about action related experiences for example, start
associating based on that genre or setting.
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Step 2. Get out of bed.
Once you have recalled a couple of dreams, maybe wrote down some fragments of each
one that enables you to recall them in full length, it is time to get out of bed. Step 2 aims
to really wake you up. This is done by leaving your bed, put some other clothes on and
maybe drink some tea. The way in which you prefer to wake up
differs from person to person. Experiment with the things that help
you to wake up as quickly and comfortable as possible. Turning on
some music or visiting Lucidipedia to record your recalled dreams
are good ways to get active and present quickly.
Wake yourself up
The whole idea of the WBTB technique is to interrupt your normal
sleep cycle with a brief period of wakefulness. It is therefore
necessary to get as wakeful as possible. There are a lot of things that can be done to get
more awake in short span of time. You could do some physical exercises, eat some
breakfast or listen to music. Experiment with what works best for you.
One hour earlier than normal

The Lucidity Institute states, based on their research results, to awake yourself one hour
earlier than normal for applying the WBTB technique. Although this might be the prime
time to induce lucidity, I've noticed that experimenting with different times might be
more effective. It is important to find a balance in setting your alarm time just right; you
don't want to be too drowsy but also not too awake so you don't fall asleep again. This
could mean you want to set your alarm clock 2 hours earlier than normal, staying awake
for one or two hours and then create that artificial nap. This experimentation is based on
individual differences in sleep cycles and personal preferences. So I'll recommend you to
start applying the WBTB technique the original way, but if no significant results show up,
to try experimenting with different wake-up times.
Disturbances
Keep in mind that the later hours in the morning will produce more environmental
disturbances like noises and sunlight due to people that go off to work. It could be
therefore more comfortable to set your alarm time earlier in the morning (prior to most
people go off to work) and subsequently go to bed earlier the previous evening to make
up for your rescheduled sleep cycle.
Step 3. Feel excited.

Use your lucid dream experience, the experience you want to induce the moment you
become lucid, to activate your excitement. Really visualize yourself having that
experience in about an hour when you go to bed again. Aren't you excited that chances
are you reach lucidity soon and are able to fulfill your planned lucid dream experience! It
is a good habit to not overlook or ignore the mood you wake up from in the morning,
before attempting to get excited. Just as rapidly ignoring sadness or replacing it for joy
isn't really healthy and effective, the same goes for this step in the
Lucidipedia Matrix. Use the mood/state-of-mind you woke up from
to transform/evolve it into the excitement that accompanies your
lucid dream.
Notice moods
Just as joyful experiences in lucid dreams are transferrable to the
waking state at the time you wake up, the mood of your last
experienced ordinary non-lucid dream is also transferrable to the
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waking state. You can use this mood for recalling dreams that might be related to the
particular mood you wake up from, because it's most likely the very reason why you
have this mood in the first place. Notice your mood when you wake up. Don't mistake it
for drowsiness but relate it to some kind of particular emotion. This gentle awareness
clearly shows that even ordinary dreams are just as realistic experiences as actual
experiences in waking reality. So don't ignore or suppress any initial feelings or moods
you might have at the time you wake up to do the WBTB technique. Just notice it to be
there.
Visualize planned lucid dream

Visualize the lucid dream that you want to have and let it activate your excitement. Do
this by transforming the "wake up mood" into the "excitement mood" by becoming lucid.
Just like the "wake up mood" is rooted from within a previous non-lucid dream, try to
imagine you becoming lucid and transforming this mood into a lucid one: excitement.
Funny enough, this mood elevation is exactly the same as it would happen from within a
dream. Truth is you can do this while you are awake too; visualize yourself becoming
lucid and using the accompanying excitement to elevate the mood you have woke up
from.
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Lesson 2: Discover dreamsigns

Once you have recalled a sufficient amount of dreams, it is time to write them all down in
order to discover dreamsigns. Lesson 2 is all about dreamsigns. Dreamsigns are actions,
forms, contexts or inner feelings in dreams that could have told you that you were
dreaming. Obviously, if you recognize one while dreaming you most likely become lucid,
which we address in lesson 3.
So after completing step 3 in the Lucidipedia Matrix, we proceed
to step 4 "Write & analyze", the first step of "Discovering
dreamsigns". Again I've cropped this column/lesson out of the
Lucidipedia Matrix at the left side of this page. Step 4 is aimed
to transfer your voice recordings or notes to your dream journal
and write down your recalled dreams in full length. By use of
those recalled dreams you can do an analysis for dreamsigns.
After completion, the remaining time you have left before you
go to bed again is spend on motivation (step 5) and planning
your lucid dream (step 6). Motivate yourself by inspiring
yourself with multimedia that remind you of the excitement to
dream lucid. Eventually pick one of the most vivid dreams you
have recalled this morning, copy-paste it to some text editor if
you journal your dreams digitally, and re-write the ending in
such a way you see yourself recognizing a dreamsign and
executing the lucid dream experience you want to have. Really
rehearse this re-written dream by visualizing yourself
recognizing dreamsigns, becoming lucid and doing the things
you have planned to do. Script this planned lucid dream as
specific and vividly as possible. Example:
"...suddenly I realized the talking bear was actually part of a

dream; I'd become lucid! A burst of excitement rushed through
my body. I shouted 'This is a dream!' and really enjoyed
shouting this out loud. No time to waste, I immediately
reminded myself to be Superman, and take-off towards the
moon. I bended my knees and, ... etc."
This concludes the overview of lesson 2. Continue reading to learn more about the
various methods I've just mentioned in this overview.
Step 4. Write & analyze.

Writing down dreams is fairly easy. The main thing is you take the
task seriously. Many dreamers give up on dream journaling
because it demands time on their part. Unfortunately, they lose
their appreciation for ordinary dreams and solely focus on lucid
dreams. Of course ordinary dreams are essential if you want to
have lucid ones, so they eventually fail to have lucid dreams and
blame the techniques instead of their own lack of discipline and
understanding. I can still be amazed by the way some
(unsuccessful) lucid dreamers depressively talk about non-lucid
dreams as if it were garbage that doesn't contribute to lucid dreaming at all. I quickly get
more amazed when I hear they 'just want to have lucid dreams'. Lucid dreams are no
different than enriched ordinary non-lucid dreams. So in short, you'll need them!
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Moreover, your job is to actually recognize ordinary dreams to become lucid by definition.
Not wanting to pay attention to ordinary dreams is cutting yourself in the finger. Take
dream journaling seriously and your dreams will do the same for you. To become an
expert lucid dreamer, an expert in recognizing ordinary dreams, you must become
intimately familiar with them and thus be a disciplined dream journaler.
Title
Assign every dream a catchy title that really represents your experience of the dream.
Don't use titles like "Dream 1" or "At school". Get more specific or get symbolic.
Other relevant data

If you are planning to do some additional analyses using your dream records, it might be
useful to start keeping track of other data that accompany every dream. Things like sleep
time, dream characters, lucidity levels and ratings are very useful. If you are using
Lucidipedia's online dream journal you automatically use the most relevant ones.
Moreover, you will be enjoying all planned software upgrades that add new neat features
you can use. For example, it's now possible to use YouTube movies as supplemental
material for dream journaling. We have a lot of other ideas we are currently working on.
Keep a close watch at our news section.
Story telling
Writing down your recalled dreams in full length, is fun to do. You'll notice you will recall
additional fragments while writing its content. Still, it is important you be as complete as
possible; addressing not only what you've seen, but also addressing things you have
heard, touched, considered, thought about, felt, etc, etc. The more specific you are
during this writing process, the more familiar dream experiences become to you, and
consequently the easier it gets to recognize them the following night.
A good way to evaluate whether you've done a good job is when other lucid dreamers
cannot only imagine what you have dreamt about, but really understand what you've
experienced during the dream. This doesn't mean you have to write a thousand words
per dream, and it also doesn't mean you have to be short ... be complete. Use
DreamJournal's public dream feature to share your dreams with other lucid dreamers on
Lucidipedia.
It's also a good habit to distinguish between considerations and thoughts you have had
while dreaming the dream, and the reconsiderations and thoughts you have while
journaling. Use DreamJournal's comment section to comment on the dream and prevent
mixing it up with your dream descriptions. This makes any future analysis of dream
records easier and more effective.
Journaling for life?

Once you become familiar with the "sense" and nature of your dreams, it is not
necessary to journal every dream, every morning. Although I have recorded thousands of
dreams in the past just for fun, I'm now only recording the most valuable, inspiring and
meaningful dreams and lucid dreams I recall in the morning. Distinguish between
recalling dreams and journaling dreams. Recalling dreams is a very good habit;
something I still do every morning when I wake up (I just can't help it, I love dreams).
The more dreams you can recall in the morning is the proof of increasing awareness IN
your dreams. How could you otherwise recall experiences if you were not aware of them?
So the more dreams you can recall every morning, the better. Just pick out your favorite
ones to write down. Only novice lucid dreams should journal as much dreams as possible
to gain the insight and 'feel' of their dreamworlds. Once you have acquired this "feel" and
already have had some lucid dreams, it is fine to only write down the favorite ones. Your
success in lucid dreaming is about dream recall, not dream journaling.
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Step 5. Motivate.
Once you've finished writing and analyzing your dreams, it is time to
motivate yourself to become lucid. This is done by using all kinds of
media that inspire yourself of the lucid dream experience you want
to have in the next hour. Start collecting material like YouTube
movies, music or pictures that do the job. Every time you do the
WBTB technique you can rely on the material you've collected and
get motivated real quickly.
Feeling the body

To reach a level of peak performance, the mind, body and heart need to be charged with
motivational energy. It is not enough to plainly know why you would like to have a lucid
dream, really connect with a certain vibrant feeling around your bellybutton. When you
put your attention onto this spot, while visualizing your lucid dream experience, start
noticing how this vibrating energy gradually expands throughout you whole body. Really
make this energy flow freely around. This very energy will help you to sustain your
awareness to recognize dreams much more easily.
Step 6. Plan your lucid dream.

The last thing you do before you go to bed and start the "Recognize
dreams" column/lesson, is planning your lucid dream experience.
This is done in such a way that you pick your most vividly recalled
dream you have recalled this morning and re-write the ending so it
fluently flows into your planned lucid dream. Copy-paste the vivid
dream to some text editor and delete the ending and really
continue writing as if you were re-dreaming that same dream
again. Only this time you'll recognize a particular dreamsign,
become lucid and decide to do whatever you have planned to do in that lucid dream. Be
as specific as possible; colors, people that are with you, the way you feel, the way you
consider what to do, etc, etc. Be as complete as possible and keep writing until you feel
you have successfully written down all the things you have wanted to do in your lucid
dream.
Rehearsing your lucid dream in real life

Another way to vividly rehearse your lucid dream, is by rehearsing it actively in waking
reality. Just imagine you are not awake but actually dreaming now. Go to some place
special and comfortable somewhere near you and act as if you were actually having a
lucid dream; YOUR lucid dream. Although you cannot rehearse any magical activities in
waking reality, you can however become more familiar with the sensation of experiencing
a place and setting that could be a dream location. Really select a location than seems
creditable to you. Now, reflect upon the way you perceive this moment to be the very
moment you decide to have your planned lucid dream experience. How does it feel? Do
you still know what you wanted to do? And if so, how could this imaginary dream setting
be integrated into that lucid dream plan? If you have planned to fly for example, could
you see yourself take-off on the very spot your standing now? Just imagine and visualize
yourself executing your planned lucid dreaming from within the environment you are
present now. Train yourself to be creative, implementing your lucid dream plan into all
kinds of different environments and situations.
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Lesson 3: Recognize dreams

Ok, we have arrived at my final lesson before we continue to the "Conclusion" section
where I provide you some remaining tips and tricks to officially sign off. This does
however mean that inducing that lucid dream really needs to happen in this part of the
Lucidipedia Matrix: Recognizing you are dreaming. All six steps we've previously
discussed so far have all led to this part of the learning program. Keep focussed.
At the time the 60 minutes of "Recall dreams" (column 1) and
"Discover dreamsigns" (column 2) are properly spend, it is time
to go to bed again. Prevent any potential disturbances for the
next hour. Relax and lay comfortably in bed. Close your eyes.
The part of the brain, that is responsible for remembering to

recognize dreamsigns is called the dorsolateral prefrontal
cortext (DPC). This part of the brain that is located at the front
of your head, is responsible for all kinds of short-term memory
activities. The one we need to focus on is called "prospective
memory", the intention to remember to do something in the
future. It is this DPC part of the brain that is relatively inactive
during normal REM-sleep, but suddenly becomes active when
you are lucid in your dreams. Your success in recognizing
dreaming is therefore highly related to your prospective
memory skills. Knowing which recurrent dreamsigns you have,
having a specific lucid dream plan ready, feeling motivated and
excited, and your ability to visualize yourself becoming lucid are
all related to stimulate the DPC as much as possible before
going to bed. So as I mentioned earlier on, all six steps we've
previously discussed in the Lucidipedia Matrix have led up to
your success in prospective memory.
While visualizing your lucid dream plan, rehearsing yourself

recognizing dreamsigns and becoming lucid, you gradually fall
asleep and lose consciousness. Hopefully your DPC has been
stimulated enough in order for you to recognize your first dream
as quickly as possible and enjoy a lucid dream.
Step 7. Recognize dreams.

Recognizing dreams (recognizing dreamsigns) is based on your
proficiency in applying prospective memory skills; the power of your
intention to remember to do something in the future. Dr. Stephen
LaBerge has done some fabulous research on this part and discusses
his research and designed techniques extensively in his book Exploring
the World of Lucid dreaming. Based on the technique he calls MILD:
Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams, he eventually designs the
Napping technique (which most lucid dreamers call the Wake-Back-To-
Bed technique nowadays) that addresses the interruption of your
normal sleep cycle with a brief period of wakefulness to greatly enhance your effectivity
in lucid dreaming. The Lucidipedia Matrix is based on this popular technique, as we've
talked about earlier. Step 7 or cell number 7 is a summary of that MILD technique;
recognizing dreamsigns based on prospective memory skills. Refresh your mind and
direct all your attention and body energy to one single thought: "I'm soon going to
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recognize that I am dreaming".
MILD: Mnemonic Induction of Lucid dreams

Visualization is a very important element in inducing lucid dreams, as you might have
noticed already. It plays its part in virtually every step of Lucidipedia's Matrix. Dr
Stephen Laberge has designed the MILD technique to help you apply visualization and
intention techniques to become lucid much easier.
While returning to sleep, concentrate single-mindedly on your intention to remember to
recognize that you are dreaming. Feel that you mean it. Imagine yourself becoming lucid
in your future dream. See yourself becoming aware of some dreamsigns that you might
encounter. Feel the excitement of the fact that you will be dreaming soon.
Integrating excitement
Something I've noticed during the times I practiced MILD, is to really get connected with
the excitement to have lucid dreams. Being motivated in your mind is one thing, but
being charged with motivational energy throughout your body is really something else. It
is kind of like your body is helping your mind to remember your intention to stay alert
and goal-driven.
So while visualizing, as the MILD technique states, try to integrate the feeling of
excitement into your visualizations. The phrase "visualizing" seems to be primarily
related to the mind, and although that is essentially true, really try to gently move your
attention towards your bellybutton to connect with any excitement while visualizing
yourself becoming lucid. It seems like a task that might distract you of visualizing
properly but in fact, if done right, the excitement should be in perfect alignment with
your intention to become lucid. Imagination would be the way the mind prepares itself to
recognize dreamsigns, while excitement is the body's way to prepare itself for this
prospective task. So remember to use your body as a whole to become lucid, not just
using the mind itself.
Training prospective memory

Recognizing cues in the future at which you perform a specific task, is based on your skill
in prospective remembering. Remembering to do something in the future. In our case,
remembering to check whether we are dreaming or not the next time we encounter a
possible dreamsign.
You might not be aware of it now, but prospective memory is an essential piece of
memory that everyone uses every day: "Help me remember that when we meet Peter,
we need to tell him about our holiday plans." Unfortunately, not everyone is as skilled in
prospective remembering, especially nowadays when we have all these sophisticated
calendars and to-do lists that ring a bell at the time we need to perform a specific task.
To become an expert lucid dreamer, YOU need to become your own "alarm clock". The
next time you encounter that recurrent dreamsign again, that thought has to 'pop up' in
your mind that reminds you to do a Reality Check to discover whether you are dreaming
or not. No one else can do this for you. YOU need to remember to recognize dreamsigns.
The good news is, because you need to use the same prospective memory for lucid
dreaming, your skill in applying prospective memory tasks is learnable in waking life. Be
an expert in recognizing prospective cues in waking life, be an expert in recognizing
dreamsigns: It uses the exact same parts of the brain (the 'dorsolateral prefrontal cortex'
included).
Possible training schedule:
Step 1:
Set up a few cues that chances are you encounter during the next day (preferably, one of
your own recurrent dreamsigns that can also occur in waking life!)
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Step 2:
Change these cues once a week based on those four dreamsign categories we early
talked about. So, once a week, set up 'cues' for one of the four dreamsign categories: an
action cue, a form cue, a contextual cue and an inner cue.
Examples:
* Action: when someone opens a door, when the TV is switched on, when you hear your
name, etc.
* Form: every time you see a bird, a close friend, something disgusting, etc.
* Context: you get surprised, you're at a party, doing a examination test, etc.
* Inner: when you are laughing, when you feel angry, embarrassed, afraid or
disappointed, etc.
Step 3:
State the specific task you will execute the minute you recognize one of your set up cues.
Preferably, performing a Reality Check and ask yourself whether you are dreaming or
not.
Step 4:
Start the day and try to recognize as many predefined cues as possible. Keep track of
how your skill in prospective remembering improves over the following weeks to come.
Notice how your effectivity in recognizing prospective signs is greatly influenced by
visualization.
Tip 1: Ask one of your friends to train along with you.

Tip 2: Try to pre-simulate the recognition of a cue and discover how that empowers your
success when you practice for real.
Guided Reality Test

Occasionally during the day, "incidentally" state that you are dreaming. Act as if you
have just done a Reality Check and have deduced that you are dreaming. Visualize
yourself enjoying a dream activity from within the specific environment you are present
at the time. State that you are lucid and carry out a (feasible) lucid dream activity.
Conclude this playful simulation by stating "Although I have just acted to be lucid
dreaming, I will recognize the next time that I am dreaming for real".
Dealing with failed recognition

As Dr. Stephen LaBerge clearly prescribes, is that if you use missed dreamsigns that you
have recorded in your journaled dreams to learn that you are too unreflective, stupid, or
simply lacking the capability to become lucid; you learn exactly what you do not want to
learn. You want to learn how to have lucid dreams, not to fail having them! So, firmly
resolve that if you ever encounter that particular dreamsign again, you will realize that
you are dreaming. Don't suppress your failed recognition, acknowledge it. Next time you
will become lucid.
Step 8. Get into bed.

Highly motivated and focused on your prospective task, you go to
bed again. Your job is to relax the body completely but keeping
your mind highly focused on becoming lucid. The past hour of
wakefulness and exercised intention and motivation techniques
really enhance your chances for success. It has all led up to this
moment when you go to bed again. So be serious about it,
recognize those upcoming dreams!
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The 61-point relaxation technique
Dr Stephen LaBerge's Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming also mentions a technique
that enables you to become relaxed very effectively. Let me give you the main idea
behind this technique.
As the title shows, the body is made up of 61 points of attention that all need to be
progressively tensed up and relaxed. By sequentially moving through these 61 points of
the body you gradually become more relaxed and enter a kind of meditative state that is
perfect for lucid dreaming. Start giving attention to your forehead and imagine it to get
heavier, once felt that way move up to your chest and do the same, etc, etc. I've used
this technique primarily at the very beginning when I've just laid down in bed. You relax
the body this way until you start to do MILD and visualizing yourself becoming lucid.
Step 9. Visualize.
While gradually getting more and more relaxed, almost like in a
meditative state, it is time to visualize your rehearsed lucid dream
as vividly as possible. You will notice your brain starting REM sleep
very slowly and distracts you with other unrelated impressions of
people, talks or locations. This doesn't matter at all, use those
"distractions" to refocus and implement your lucidity in the very
thing your mind has distracted you with, and visualize your
rehearsed lucid dream in that very distracted imagination again. So
be sure not to suppress any thoughts or imagination that is not related to lucid dreaming.
Be sure to refocus and visualize becoming lucid by recognizing a particular dreamsign
WITHIN that imagination. This way you keep focused on your intention to remember to
recognize dreamsigns while being intimately involved of starting REM sleep. Eventually
you'll fall asleep and hopefully recognize you're dreaming.
This is your moment

Get serious and focus. A lot of novice lucid dreamers fail recognizing dreams because
they feel the techniques they've just applied should be responsible for attaining lucidity,
so they let down their guard and just fall asleep while trusting on some magical event
that makes them lucid. All existing methods and techniques, including the ones The
Lucidity Institute has designed, are aimed to foster your awareness of recognizing
dreamsigns, not to replace it. This means that these techniques are still relying on YOU
to recognize the dreams coming up ahead, although they do help you to reach lucidity
much easier. So again, get serious when falling asleep doing MILD and really keep a look
out for any generated dreams for you to recognize. Lucidity is something YOU are, not
something that overcomes you while having an ordinary dream. YOU have to become
lucid, not the dream. So feel responsible when visualizing YOURSELF becoming lucid
while your brain is simply generating ordinary dreams.
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Conclusion
Congratulations, you have successfully completed Lucidipedia's learning program.
Glancing at the complete Lucidipedia Matrix again on the left here, hopefully reminds you
of a better understanding of how to induce lucid dreams. Of course, now you have
obtained the knowledge of inducing lucid dreams, the fun really begins. Start planning
the most daring lucid dream adventures and start journaling online, start sharing your
experiences at our Share section and use the comment feature in DreamJournal to
provide useful feedback to others who have posted their public dreams. There is really a
lot that can be done to contribute to the lucid dream community. Or feel free to let us
know if you have any recommendations to make Lucidipedia even more suiting for
learning lucid dreaming in the future. Listen to a 90-minute recorded broadcast of
Stephen LaBerge talking about lucid dreaming on a radio station. This is a fun way to
recognize and summarize your learnings.
Well, I hope you have enjoyed this learning program as much as I've enjoyed sharing my
skills and experience in lucid dreaming with you. But before I let you sign off just yet, let
me remind you of your remaining time as a lucid dreamer. The thing that personally
drives me in keeping perfecting my lucid dream skills is the way lucid dreaming has
become an integral part of my life.
Your ability to control and influence the dreamworld seems natural

within the context of lucid dreaming; the dreamworld is nothing more
than the product of your own fantasy, right? But as you have
learned, "you" as a lucid dreamer don't really control this seemingly
"external" dreamworld within your dreams. There is no difference
between this 'you' and the 'dream'. You are actually controlling
yourself in order to control the dreamworld. It's learning to
understand that self-control is the core of lucid dreaming. Controlling
yourself is controlling the dreamworld. The dreamworld IS you.
To what extend does this insight apply to life as a whole? Life IS

you. Just as the "mood" of a dream is simply the mood YOU are in,
life is simply resembling you. Lucid dreaming is learning to own
feelings and thoughts and by doing so learning to own the
interconnected reality surrounding yourself. Lucid dreaming is to
change circumstances by changing your own attitude towards
them. As I discovered to what extend I create my own reality like
every day, when I go to school, visit friends or think about life in
general. Once I understood the core nature of lucid dreaming not only my lucid dreams
reached a completely new level. I learned to boost up and enjoy life. I recognized myself
in life, just as I recognize myself in dreams.
Discovering your true potential in life is just the same as it goes for lucid
dreaming: you are not apart from reality. You are not "a part" of it,
either. Discovering the open secret of lucid dreaming is letting go of this
concept called 'you'. Intimately immerse into reality. Just wait and see
how life changes accordingly when you drop yourself and BE life, just as
the ultimate lucid dreamer IS the lucid dream.
Wow.
This is why I would very much like to thank The Lucidity Institute for making this
phenomenon of lucid dreaming accessible to the world and producing such an inspiring
edition of Dr Stephen LaBerge's Exploring the World of Lucid dreaming. Without the
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invaluable research that is done by the Lucidity Institute, lucid
dreaming would still be some underrated experience with
absolutely no educational support whatsoever. So in addition to
their efforts, Lucidipedia aims to contribute by spreading the
word of lucid dreaming and offering every interested and curious
visitor high quality online learning material. We are passionate to
keep up the work that needs to be done. Feel free to join us.
So gently consider lucid dreaming to be a integral part of your life too, just as it became
a passionate part of mine, and discover the true power and potential that lucidity
beholds. Turn into a lucid phenomenon yourself and boost up every aspect of your life.
Thank you for visiting Lucidipedia.
Hoping to read your public lucid dreams at our Record section soon,
All the best,
Tim
www.lucipedia.com
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F.A.Q.
1. What does 'lucid' mean?

The phrase 'lucidity' is a synonym for 'clarity' or 'consciousness' and is used by Frederick
van Eeden (1913) to address the phenomenon of "lucid dreaming". Another phrase for
'lucid dreaming' is 'conscious dreaming', simply meaning that the dreamer has acquired a
conscious knowing that he or she is in fact dreaming.
2. Is it safe?
Yes, most of all because the phenomenon occurs naturally. Many people experience their
lucid dreams in childhood. You might have had yours some time ago. But as with many
things, if you have personal reservations or are currently undergoing any psychological
therapy, we recommend you to thoroughly investigate the full extend of your
reservations before you continue. Use Lucidipedia's forum to post any questions you have
to the hundreds of lucid dreamers that journal their lucid dreams at this website. We
base our reasoning on science and experience.
3. Does it interfere?
No, lucid dreaming is nothing more than dreaming with the awareness of the dream
state. You still generate the same REM-sleep and still get a nice healthy amount of sleep.
It is at this stage impossible to state anything scientifically about the possible function of
lucid dreams because science still has difficulty defining the function of ordinary
dreaming. Keep in mind that lucid dreams also occur naturally. The most important
notion is the fact that current scientific research on sleep and dreaming indicates it might
not be 'dreaming' that humans need to survive and function properly but REM-sleep that
is vital. People who are deprived of 'dreams' are not effected at all. This in contrast to
people who are deprived of REM-sleep that suffer immediately. In other words, dreaming
might be a by-product of REM-sleep and so 'dreaming' is not key to a healthy and proper
amount of rest and sleep. It's REM-sleep that is crucial. So whether you manipulate and
transform dreams when you are lucid does not matter at all, the thing is that you still
generate REM-sleep and that's what counts.
4. Does it get you tired?

Dreaming is also described as 'paradoxical sleep'. Dreaming is paradoxical because the
brain is as active during dreaming as during the waking state, while strangely enough the
body itself is completely inactive (paralyzed). Lucid dreaming doesn't add much
additional brain activity to the already highly active brain in REM-sleep. If you have had a
stressful dream about some examination test you failed to complete, you wake up
depressed. If you on the other hand wake up from a lucid dream where you have
recognized that examination scenario as a dream plot and instead decided to kiss
someone you secretly love (just an example), you wake up excited and energetic. So
lucid dreaming does not make you more tired than your ordinary dreams. Potentially,
based on how you use your lucid dreams, lucid dreams let you experience positive
emotions associated with joy, excitement and love.
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5. Is science involved?
All techniques we address here at Lucidipedia are actually designed by passionate lucid
dream researchers around the globe (visit The Lucidity Institute or download a research
bundle we've collected from their website here). It is only since the eighties that 'lucid
dreaming' has been acknowledged as an scientific psychological phenomenon. Now more
and more people get to know about the use and fun of lucid dreaming and are starting to
see the benefits and meaning of it as a way to enrich personal experience.
6. How do you learn it?

Learning lucid dreaming consists of three basic steps: (1) Recalling dreams, (2)
Discovering dreamsigns and (3) Recognizing you are dreaming. Anyone can learn lucid
dreaming, no matter your gender, age or personal traits. Check out the Learning section
to start your training right away.
7. How long would it take?

Of course, some have talent to start off with while others take more time to induce their
first lucid dream. On average, learning to have lucid dreams takes about four weeks. But
if you are motivated and goal-driven, you could easily have yours tonight. After the first
one, you get more acquainted with the trick of it, and will easily induce multiple lucid
dreams a week.
8. Can you control anything?

Anything. Anything your imagination can conceive. Fly, transform a tree into a house, be
rich, make love, eat or drink, overcome nightmares, control dream characters, sports,
learning, personal development, transcending, playing music ... anything. Lucid dreaming
challenges you to go beyond your imagination and experience anything you want.
Although the physiological fact remains that dreams by their very nature are still
unstable. So you could intentionally transform a closet into your girlfriend, but it wouldn't
take long before your subconscious transforms it into something new. You could easily
re-transform it into its original state or of course keep concentrated. In most cases you
won't even notice. Moreover, the unstableness might be something you greatly enjoy
during your future dream adventures. It enables the same surprises that waking life can
offer sometimes. Even lucid dreams can still surprise you with old friends suddenly
knocking on your dream door to visit you, changing rainy weather into sunny weather,
gaining interesting thoughts by talking with a dream character or whatever; without your
conscious effort to induce these surprises. Dreams and lucid dreams will still be
unrehearsed, unprepared, which is a fabulous factor in the fun and joy of lucid dreaming.
What would you do if you suddenly had gone back in time to do your graduation all over
again?! Or what would you do when your girlfriend just walks into the room where you
are kissing Lara Croft or Orlando Bloom? Lucid dreaming teaches you how to become
flexible, self-confident and inspired to face any unrehearsed and unprepared situation
imaginable. But in contrast to waking life, enjoy the ability to use all of your magical
powers.
9. Does it effect my waking life?

Yes, and this is the most wonderful discovery of lucid dreaming. Although every dream is
in essence an illusion, the experiences you acquire while lucid dreaming are as real as
life. When you wake up from a lucid dream where you've just saved your best friend
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from a disaster, got promoted at work or flew like Superman ... you will transfer that
positive experience to the waking state. Nothing special in a sense, just the same as you
transfer the mood of an actual experience in waking life from work to home, for example.
The same goes for lucid dreaming. Because every dream is so realistic, the experience
you gain feels just as real and meaningful. Things you learn there, things you feel and
experience are very realistic and memorable, although the lucid dream in essence still is
just a playful simulation.
10. Ok, I am in! And now?

Great! First, create your own account. Afterwards, you want to check out Lucidipedia's
DreamJournal at the Record section. Have fun and happy lucid dreaming!
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Recommended Reading
1) Exploring the World of Lucid dreaming;
2) Lucid dreams in 30 days;
3) An introduction to the psychology of dreaming;
4) The conscious exploration of dreaming;
5) Sleep and dreaming;
6) Creative dreaming;
7) The human brain.
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Although you might recall dreams as stories you have been

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Lucid dreaming will boost up your life.

Flying like Superman is not just limited to only experiencing

Imagine how some additional practice can enrich that

And that is where Lucidipedia kicks in. Lucidipedia wants to

Thank you for visiting Lucidipedia,

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Introduction: Lucidipedia Matrix ......................................................................... 6

Lesson 1: Recall dreams .....................................................................................16

Lesson 2: Discover dreamsigns ...........................................................................20

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Lesson 3: Recognize dreams ...............................................................................23

Recommended Reading .....................................................................................32

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Introduction: Lucidipedia Matrix

I have designed the Lucidipedia Matrix on the basis of the famous

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This learning section covers the experiences and skills I have

Every lucid dreamer needs to be proficient in recalling dreams, discovering dreamsigns

Learning goal 1. Learn to recall your dreams

Learning goal 2. Learn to discover dreamsigns

Learning goal 3. Learn to recognize that you are dreaming

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Why lucid dreaming?

It is very important you have an idea of what you are

So ask yourself, "What am I going to do the next time

Some Examples and Ideas

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Getting rid of nightmares

Meeting a passed away family member

Discover your true potential

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Defending yourself magically

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Walking over water

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Lesson 1: Recall dreams

Step 1. Recall dreams.

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What did yesterday look like?

Use recurrent themes

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One hour earlier than normal

Step 3. Feel excited.

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Visualize planned lucid dream

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Lesson 2: Discover dreamsigns

"...suddenly I realized the talking bear was actually part of a

Step 4. Write & analyze.

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Other relevant data

Journaling for life?

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Feeling the body

Step 6. Plan your lucid dream.