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determine if you could be dreaming. Since the odds are that you will often have friends in
your dreams, this check is very effective as long as you consistently practice it during the
day.
As mentioned earlier, these reality checks should be practiced regularly throughout the day. The more
they become embedded into your daily routine, the sooner they will appear in your dreams. If there were
one word that sums up what you need to develop in order to speed up the lucid dreaming process, it
would be awareness. Working on your awareness will have direct carryover effects into your dreams,
and once you become more skilled at lucid dreaming you will realize that your awareness combined with
your intent is your passport into the dream realm.
Step Six) Linking your Awareness to your Dreams
This last step is rather simple and easy compared to the previous steps, and due to its simplicity you
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should have no problem incorporating it into your daily regime. But before we move on, let s review
where you should be at right now. At this point, you have done the mental prep-work, you have been
increasing your dream recall, and you have been keeping your dream journal. You are becoming familiar
with your dreams, noticing your dreamsigns, and exercising your awareness by meditating and doing
your reality checks consistently.
The final step is to combine what you have learned about your dreams with what you have learned about
your awareness. Put simply, you need to merge your reality checks with your dreamsigns so that
whenever you encounter one of your dreamsigns you automatically start doing reality checks. If you
dream of classrooms or beaches or driving fast in a car, whenever you see a classroom or a beach or
whenever you are driving in a fast car you will be programmed to do a reality check. The end result will
be this: Inevitably you are going to dream about one of your dreamsigns (that is why they are your
dreamsigns) and eventually you are going to remember to do a reality check and ultimately you are going
to realize that you are dreaming.
It is helpful to stay updated on your current dreamsigns and dream themes. If you have been having
dreams of being chased for the past week, you need to activate a trigger onto the idea of being chased so
that whenever you are being chased you will realize that you need to do a reality check. By becoming
intimately acquainted with your dreamsigns and linking reality checks to these dreamsigns, you will be
laying the foundation for future lucid dreaming adventures.
As you can see, these six steps are all interwoven into one basic process. Leaving out just one step will
diminish the effectiveness of all the other steps, and in turn, it will decrease the actual results of the entire
process. Almost all of the other techniques and methods for inducing lucid dreams that will be mentioned
are based on this overall process to a certain extent. Often, the methods and techniques are offshoots of
this process or are limited versions of one or more of these six basic steps. Study them and internalize
them. Practice them diligently and consistently and your subconscious will become engrained with them.
Eventually these habits will carry over into your dreams, and hopefully the final payoff will be when you
say, "Yes, I am dreaming!"
By simply following these six steps, you will inevitably have a lucid dream, but to maximize your
progress, let s go over several other methods that you can use in conjunction with these six steps. By
experimenting with these steps and with the following methods, you will discover which techniques
work best for you.
OTHER METHODS:
There are many methods to induce lucid dreams. Some are more effective than others, but luckily you
can start by incorporating several different methods into your daily routine. This will maximize your
results and over time you can determine which approaches are best suited for your lifestyle. The
following list contains all of the effective methods that I have encountered, and I have personally
experimented with each one to ensure that they are worth learning and practicing. By following the Six
Basic Steps and adding these methods to your daily routine, you will be having lucid dreams in no time.
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Here is a list of methods and techniques commonly used to induce lucid dreams&
Utilizing the Hypnagogic/Hypnapompic States: This method is so important that it almost transcends
being labeled a method. Hypnagogic and hypnapompic states are just fancy names for the period of time
right before you fall asleep and the period of time directly after awakening from sleep, respectively. If
you have ever stayed awake and momentarily had a real quick dream and then flashed right out of it, then
you are already somewhat familiar with this altered state of mind. When you are in a hypnagogic state
your body is slowly shutting itself down for the night. Chemical processes are occurring which slowly
demobilize your body for the night so you don t actually swing your arms in your bed just because you
are swinging them in your dreams. While dreaming, your eyes are a few of the only body parts that
remain mobile as we mentioned earlier when discussing REM sleep. Not only does your body shut down
due to this process of sleep paralysis, but due to the lack of external stimulation, your mind starts to go
through changes as well.
As you approach the threshold between waking and sleeping, your brainwaves slow down from a waking
bustling beta through a relaxing alpha and into a highly visual theta. Once you have entered into the theta
zone you are experiencing hypnagogia as you teeter at the edge of full sleep mode. After awakening from
a dream you still have a predominance of theta as long as you don t flood yourself with external thoughts
of your daily plans and concerns. These kinds of thoughts will draw you into a beta mind-state like a
brainwave fire alarm sparking the mind to "get with it". This is why you need to wake slowly and not let
your daily concerns flood your mind upon awakening. Whether you are about to fall asleep or just
awakening, the idea is to try and remain in that hypnagogic state of mind for as long as you can. These
in-between regions, these borderline zones, will be the ideal place to practice your induction methods.
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