How to master lucid dreaming?
in Psychology ·
Sure – lucid dreaming is something you actually have to practice. It’s not really possible to just stumble into a lucid dream out of thin air, despite what some people above are claiming. It’s a conscious process where you have to maintain awareness even while you're sleeping. The first step is basically telling yourself within the dream, "Wait, I know this is a dream," and then you can start tweaking things or programming the environment however you want. A solid exercise to trigger that realization is trying to read numbers or letters while you're dreaming. If the text looks blurry or impossible to decipher, that’s usually your sign that you're dreaming, and that's your opening. Checking your palms or looking at your fingers works pretty effectively too. You basically need one of those "triggers" to flip a regular dream into a lucid one. I personally spent a long time practicing lucid dreaming and experienced all sorts of things, but I eventually stopped because I started waking up feeling exhausted.