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post oyur best lucid dreaming advice year 2 and still going for a full on lucid dream this thread is rhetorical. Everyone's mind is different but i am willing to try new techniques

What are you having problems with? Becoming lucid? Staying lucid without waking up? Controlling the dream? I find reality checks are best for becoming lucid. It has to be a habit and you have to be very careful when you do it. Every time. If you say to yourself "I know I'm not dreaming now so I'll skip it or do it quickly" then you'll say the same thing in your dream. To stay lucid without waking anchor yourself to the dream. Physically shout "I want to stay here" or otherwise involve yourself in the dream world. Though try to remember why you're doing it or you risk slipping back into the dream. Control can be tricky. You need to do what works for you. Don't expect that your subconscious will immediately jump to your every whim and don't be afraid to use tools as cues for it. A lot of people do something like have a dream phone with apps to help you do what you want or similar. Remember it's your subconscious, go with what you think is appropriate.

>>607 i have had a lucid dream the last night, it was appropriate and enjoyable. at one time, in the mountain forest, i was running down the hill, the cliff. it was an Autumn soil, dryly so. the trees were high and their branches too high. i knew some doomful abomination was chasing me, so i was in a panicked hurry. yet i stopped a little and looked at my hands, i looked down, and i realized. it was a few seconds of my time to contemplate consciousness within a dream. but the feeling was too great and i succumbed to instinctivity, and, perhaps, my subconscious self. i would like to know how to move from here.

>>608 What happened? You say you succumbed to instinct, did you wake up or fall back into the dream? If you woke up, which is the most common reaction, see the above advice. If you fell back into it you just need to be careful about it. It's like forcing yourself to stay awake at anytime, it takes presence of mind and force of will. A nightmare is one of the hardest times to do this. Fear is the mind killer. Stick at it though, most people will only be lucid for a few seconds their first time. With a bit of time and practice you'll find it no problems to stay lucid in the dream.

Only once have I ever been lucid (and remembered it) I was in the front yard of my parents' house and saw several huge (4-5 foot tall) snails around me, their heads were weird shaped as well. I think I just realized that it was too surreal of a thing to be reality and realized I was in a dream. In the dream I remembered reading somewhere that allowing yourself to fall backward will change the setting or help you stay awake, but I panicked because I didn't want to wake up. I threw myself at the ground over and over but just bounced back up to a standing position. I try to reality check pretty regularly, sometimes forget but I'm working on it. I barely ever remember dreams anyway. I'm trying to get into recording my dreams and sleeping habits but I always lose my motivation. Any other things you would recommend that have really helped you?

Anyone have any tips on how to do a w.i.l.d with restless legs or should I just give up and focus on reality checks etc??

I'm gonna repost this from a past year thread. My way is simple, but you gonna need some time off to implement it properly. You will need to alter your sleep pattern, sleeping for two hours then staying awake for two hours and go on continuously with this pattern for at least 2 weeks. Everytime you get up, you will probably have one last image of the dream. Picture that scene as seen from a different viewpoint, that will force your visual cortex to recreate the dream environment, helping you to remember. Write down all you can remember and go on with your normal activities during your two hours of wake time, drink and eat at your leisure, go outside for a walk, but avoid watching tv/internet or using weed or other drugs if possible. Listen to music or read books to stimulate your imagination. Everytime you go to sleep again, choose another position (a good one is the David Bowie method, with your arms extended over your head) or change place to sleep in (bed. couch, floor, garden, bathtube) At some point you will get false awakening, maybe even more than one or two in a row, for this you will need a wristwatch (best type is classic watch with hands, the information is more visual) and a wall clock for reality checks. Synchronize them. If you watch and another one gives different times everytime you confront them, you are still dreaming. If your watch and the clock on the wall are giving the same time, you're likely to be awake. Realizing you are dreaming will almost certainly make you panic and wake you up, otherwise your dream will become lucid from that point on. When you can remember a dream in full detail upon awakening, you can go back to your normal sleeping pattern and retain the ability by keep using the dream log and watches. This method worked for me and it was worth the time I spent at home to implement it (in the global view of my personal researches on the nature of reality) I've been teaching it around but I never knew if it worked for somebody else, or if someone else ever even tried

>>3683 bump. I need an answer to this one, but I'm trying the WBTB method. Haven't had any luck yet. Just try and stick it out.

>>4166 My sleep latency has always sucked and as a result I have never been able to achieve an actual WILD. Honestly to me the line between WILD and MILD during a WBTB seems to be blurry. I've gotten real close to WILDing by doing MILD when I've woken up around 3am

The only lucid dream i ever made was a few month ago. I havent really tried since, but i think now ill have higher chances as i have a better sleep schedule and very clear dreams i track regularly. I accidentaly woke up around 5 a.m and i decided to do some lucid dreaming inducing, wispering that i will lucid dream to condition myself. In the end it worked. I gained lucidity for a short time. I had someone near me reasuring me to make sure i dont wake up. Dont remember were i read that, but i heard this advice at the time. It worked so im glad. Unfortunately i went too much woth the flow of the dream and lost lucidity. So yeah, it was kinda like a WBTB plus self induction, and it worked well. I might try it again now that i have higher chances of being lucid.

>>604 i ended up reading journey to ixtlan on someone's recommendation book was alright but i found it pretty easy to lucid dream the book's advice was "look at your hands until they start to morph shape and then focus your attention on something else" so i did that, something in my head reminded me to look at my hands and i did and began to lucid dream the next step is to walk somewhere, which i did though it was extremely slow i could jump really high and look around the area my second lucid dream i dreamt i was watching my cat run around the house and i saw a bug skittering across the floor, so i knew to stare at the bug and i began a lucid dream that way

>>604 these https://www.dreamviews.com/induction-techniques/