Let’s discuss 4 simple ways to hack your mind to lucid dream. Within a month or less of consistently following these recommendations, you should be able to remember your dreams and lucid dream.
1. Keep a Dream Journal
2. Perform Reality Checks
3. Use Affirmations
4. Read about Lucid Dreaming
1. Keep a Dream Journal
By keeping a dream journal, you’re establishing a mental cue or a reason to remember your dreams. Write what you remember as soon as you wake up in the morning. Even if you can’t immediately remember something, enter the date and the time you woke up. Then write that you don’t remember anything and follow it with a mantra such as, “I will remember something soon” or, “The next time I wake up, I will remember my dreams“.
This mantra will seep into your subconscious and help you remember something about your dream later in the day or simply reinforce your ability to recall your dreams soon. Remember to write down anything you can remember, even if it’s just a small detail that makes no sense- write it down. You may find that one small detail expands into other details until a greater picture of the dream emerges and then BOOM! You remember the whole dream.
2. Perform Reality Checks Followed by State Tests
Ask yourself at least 10 times throughout the day if you’re dreaming. Try to spread out the times you ask yourself throughout the day by setting an alarm. You can set the alarm every hour or every two hours. If you’re around others, you don’t have to ask out loud and feel weird. You can simply ask yourself if you’re dreaming in your head. When you ask yourself the question, also analyze your environment for anything strange. If you notice something strange, you may be dreaming so you’ll want to follow it up with a state test.
The old fashioned state test is pinching yourself to see if you’re dreaming, but there are others that don’t require you to bruise your skin. You can pinch your nose shut and try to breathe out of it while it’s shut or push your finger through the palm of your hand to see if it goes through it. If you can breathe with your nose pinched or if your finger goes through your palm then you’re obviously dreaming.
Remember to be skeptical and consider that you may be dreaming at any time; this is the only way reality checks will work. Keep in mind that in dreams we don’t question our reality even in the oddest of circumstances; this often leads us to assume that we’re not dreaming. If we make an effort to really analyze our environment in waking life while remaining skeptical, then that same effort will transfer into our dreams and make us realize that we are dreaming. If your reality check indicated that you weren’t dreaming, use a mantra like, “The next time I’m dreaming, I will realize that I’m dreaming“.
3. Use Affirmations aka Mantras
Before bedtime, tell yourself that you will remember your dreams that night. You can also tell yourself that you will become lucid and realize that you are dreaming. Affirmations can really stick to your subconscious and surface while you’re asleep and dreaming. Use the affirmations aka mantras described above to remember your dreams and to get lucid.
4. Read about Lucid Dreaming
Nothing like reading about lucid dreaming to boost your mind’s ability to lucid dream. Chances are that reading about lucid dreaming itself will get you lucid faster. Check out the link below:
And that’s it! This should be enough to at least get your dream recall to improve. Good dream recall paired with reality checks and affirmations can really boost your chances of having a lucid dream. Lucid dreaming is an unforgettable journey into your mind! Life is too short to only experience it while awake.
“When the eyes close and the muscles of the body are in complete relaxation, the soul takes a journey through the mind of the beholder. The journey is known as the dream.”
~ Excerpt from The Lucid Traveler
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