I've heard it helps to start by doing reality checks while you're awake. For example, looking to see if your hands look normal or checking if light switches work correctly every once in a while in real life will make it more likely for you to remember to do so while dreaming. Once the reality check doesn't work in your dream you should be able to lucid dream. The only lucid dreams I've had have resulted from just realizing that the events in my dream are absolutely ridiculous and I usually wake up immediately afterward, so it might take a few tries before you're able to lucid dream without waking up. Hope that helps!
Not sure what you mean by lucid dreams, but what I gather you want is to be awake while in a dream. This is in fact a two part process. First, your body needs to be asleep. In essence, what you need to do is will yourself into sleep without falling asleep in the process. With some minimal practice, your body should fall asleep on command. If you doubt whether or not your body is asleep, try to check for sleep paralysis. If it takes more than a whim to make yourself move, you're doing it right. Also, remember that if you apply your will, you can get up at any moment. The next step is arguably either the easiest or hardest step. Simply close your eyes and let your imagination do the rest. The problem is that at this point you are liable to fall asleep without getting to your goal, so you have to mentally keep yourself awake, and yet you still have to be able to vividly imagine your scenario of choice. Now, you might ask, why do you need the first step if you're just imagining something? The answer to that is simple. If your muscles can't feel it, it's not a dream. This is why you need your body to be asleep. This way it is much easier to have your body react to imagined stimuli, adding to the realism of the ordeal. The rest of the process is really just having the imagination to do whatever it is you please in your newly created dreamworld!
Lucid dreams are physiological state of mind where you are aware if your dreaming. it can happen in 5th stage of your sleep, which is around 4-5 hours into your sleep. there are 2 "tools" you can use to practice your mind for lucid dreams. 1. reality checks: when you're awake try making habit when anything unusual happens that you make few reality checks. 2. keeping dream journal: everytime you dream something, write it down while you still remember it. and from once a while read your journals. since in most people there are patterns in dreams, by reading your journals you'll be able to detect patterns, and easier to detect when you're dreaming. Also, if you have will and time for it, set your alarm 4-6 hours after you go to sleep, and when you wake up, it's most likely that you'll wake up in your dream and still remember it, so you can write it down. I've once managed to have lucid dream for few minutes. I remember there was some unusual situation (in my dream) and that I did some reality checks, and I tough: if I'm dreaming, whatever I imagine, it'll happen. I imagines sun going down and it happened. Then I imagined giant Pinkie Pie coming behind buildings, and she appeared behind buildings. too bad about that time I woke up.
Is there a way to begin to remember dreams more often? My dad says I have a dream every night and talk to myself in it, but when I wake up I don't even consider I was dreaming. I only remember a dream once every 5-8 months.
since you're dreaming between your 4th and 7th hour of sleep, if you sleep longer, there's bigger chance you won't remember your dreams. most chance to remember your dream is to wake up 5-6 hours after you fall asleep (and after you write it down, go back to sleep). I know on myself. usually during holidays when I sleep 13-14 hours, I usually didn't remember my dreams, but on collage months, when I sleep 4-7 hours, I remember my dreams at least 3 times in week. although, strongest memory is within first 10-30 min when you wake up, so that's best time to write it down
Alternatively, you could just not even bother with the whole process of going to sleep. Takes far too long, and is inefficient. (Doesn't work for me most of the time anyway.) There's a far easier and faster method out there. Simply repeatedly bludgeon your head against a large solid object until you lose consciousness. Also, it should probably be blunt, and not sharp. In order to dream of ponies, simply attach a printout or poster of ponies to a wall, and proceed to methodically bludgeon your head against that. Easy! However, if you don not wish to permanently cause head trauma to yourself, I would suggest a one of the alternatives given above this post. Spoiler: Disclaimer Do NOT under any circumstance try this at home. It will cause large amounts of pain. Nor will it necessarily yield success. You have been warned. :Trollestia:
Relevant to above post and personal experience: Remeber kids : Not sleeping for a month straight gets you chronic insomnia. So get sleepin', scallywags!
Quiet you. It was 3 months. But I did replace sleep with meditation. Which kind of worked. Only sort of though.
I start hallucinating around the 28th hour of being of awake. I suppose it's not the literal answer you're looking for, but the hallucinations are about as real as it's gotten for me. Sight and sound. I was afraid to go to sleep after having a 'waking nightmare' during a 36 hour stint.
Supposedly, you are meant to lie asleep in bed with your arms by your side and remain still, at a point during the night you will fall "asleep" with your eyes open and become lucid.
