The best way in my in my experience so far, is to keep a consistent dream journal. This is important because even if you do become conscious during a rem period, it won't matter if you have bad dream recall. Also, the habit of keeping a regular dream journal, tells your subconscious that it's important to you. Your dream recall will improve dramatically after awhile, and you may begin to notice patterns in your dreams which may become dream signs to trigger lucidity. I have found for my self that keeping a journal alone often leads to lucid dreams.
There are other techniques as well, which I've placed in the OBE/PK thread of the specializations section:)
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"Worry about self delusion, after you have succeeded." -Owltwelve
One thing I do is program myself or set my intention. I relax and look inside myself to my core. I say I am going to become lucid during my dream/construct period. Another thing a little more complicated is to focus on the future dream that you are going to have. Time is an illusion, fastforward the Earth rotating around the Sun, imagine two hours have passed, remote view your physical self laying in the bed, enter your future self, give your sleeping self a suggestion to 'wake up this is a dream/construct'. Then in the morning when you get up, try to remember one thing from your dream. If you remember that one thing, you may be able to access the rest of the dream. Sometimes, when I do these things, dreams I am having trouble recalling will start coming back to me in pieces throughout the day. It is important to keep your journal handy so you can quickly record it before it dissipates.
There are some things that I've realized when I'm dreaming. First of all, You are much awarer. You can feel everything.
Second, never think of negative thoughts, they WILL come true. (Example: You approach an old mansion and think it's haunted, but for some reason you go there. When you are about to open the door, you think that something will pop out of there. It will. If you are about to do something like that, forget fear and thoughts of it before proceeding, otherwise it will turn into a nightmare.)
Third, I don't know why, but i had this experience. When you start to wake up, you lose your powers sometimes. Anything you imagined disappears.
(If you want to exit a dream, forget everything. Works for me most of the times.)
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Are you familiar with Schroedinger's cat? Everything is a dream and nothing is a dream, or everything is real and nothing is real. So your powers within your dream are real and reality is a dream.
True. But then why do we wake up from the dream if it's the true reality? And why are we dreaming right now?
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~In order to gain something, you must present something of equal value.~ ~There is no such thing as good orevil. They are the same thing, just with a minor difference.~
Then why does this "dream" has to be so long? and why can't be the reality be longer than few minutes? I would like to spend more time in the real reality.
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~In order to gain something, you must present something of equal value.~ ~There is no such thing as good orevil. They are the same thing, just with a minor difference.~
