Lucid Dream Instructional E-Handbook

Preface

Dreams are a wondrous phenomena that only become

more jaw dropping with the increase of knowledge and

awareness about the states of consciousness within them, such

as one can experience while lucid dreaming. This is a small

tutorial, a possible bedside handbook that gives you a glimpse

into the world of lucid dreaming and what it can do for you.

Everything here has been condensed and simplified as to not

overwhelm or bore anyone with too much information on any

given area. I strongly encourage everyone to seek out other

teachers, books, movies and any other educational sources on

lucid dreaming once they have decided they want to engrain

lucid dreaming into their lives. It’s truly a wild ride that leaves

ordinary waking life in a far placed second!

How do the supplements help?

The supplements help to “prime” the mind to be in the right

state for lucid dreaming to be present and possible. The bottled

supplements aid in increasing serotonin and acetylcholine levels

and put one into a deep-sleep faster - and an initial non-REM

sleep, which produces a REM rebound effect later on in the

night or early morning in which dreams are usually much more

vivid and longer with more mental clarity and easier waking

recollection. The combination of these types of ingredients and

the effects they deliver are a great platform for increasing the

likelihood of Lucid Dreaming!

What is lucid dreaming?

Lucid dreaming is simply enough, being aware that you

are dreaming while in a dream. Very occasionally some people

can just sporadically become lucid, which is quite lucky for

them because the art of lucid dreaming is one that usually

involves a lot of time and effort. The amount of awareness is not

a given, It can vary greatly from person to person and one

dream to the next. The supplements on LucidDreamShop.com

can give you a real edge on obtaining your first or thousandth

lucid dream as they work hand-in-hand with this handbook to

prime your mind for lucid dreaming.

Levels of consciousness

At the bottom of the Lucid dreaming totem pole is just

having a brief glimpse of self awareness in a dream which may

not last for longer than an instant before you wake up from

excitement or quickly and unintentionally slip back into the

dreams’ previous storyline. Somewhere in the middle of the

levels of lucid dreaming awareness is having the insight to know

that you are dreaming and be able to tell that things you are

experiencing in your dream are not actually real and you may

be able to alter certain aspects of the dream but it is not fully in

your control. At the highest point of consciousness and control

of lucid dreaming the “world” is your oyster; you can do

anything that YOU can possibly imagine even if it is completely

impossible in waking life. Your imagination, or lack thereof,

being the only thing that can hold you back from experiencing

the truest feeling of freedom ever felt. The concept of being

able to manipulate the inner workings of your self-conscious is a

momentous one, knowing that every person you interact with in

your dream is just a figment of your imagination and that you

are actually talking with yourself while talking with anyone else.

A person who possesses the ability to have complete control of

a lucid dream also usually encompasses the power to

“downgrade” their control and more or less go along with the

flow of the dream only to manipulate certain scenarios at will.

That being said, even the most experienced of lucid dreamers

will usually encounter scenarios in their dreams while being fully

lucid that they did not plan-out or create, being that even

when you think you have control of “everything” the

subconscious can and will throw you some curveballs to make

for a more interesting joint-creation dream experience.

Why have Lucid Dreams

There are innumerous reasons why one would want to

harness the ability to control their dreams. The sheer excitement

that awaits potential lucid dreamers before bed is enough to

keep them up while dreaming about going to sleep! It is hard to

comprehend the ability to do “anything possible” in your

dreams, mostly because this dreaming form of “anything

possible” is not the same as the waking life version that we all

have always known. Things such as seeing vibrant colors in a

dream you’ve never seen before in real life or even

experiencing tastes, smells and feelings you’ve never previously

encountered. Dreams are not held back by the laws of nature,

physics or society and have simply no bounds. The following are

just a handful of reasons to put forth the effort it takes to

become a seasoned lucid dreamer.

Action and adventure is a top priority for most new lucid

dreamers. The understanding that you are actually sleeping and

anything that you choose to do while dreaming will have no

actual consequences upon yourself leads many to experiment

with dangerous and risky behaviors that they normally wouldn’t.

Flying, sexual escapades, racing, fighting, breathing

underwater, transporting, traveling, transforming one’s self or

surroundings and many other activities are all up for grabs for

those that have the skills necessary.

Practice and rehearsal is a lesser known advantage of

lucid dreaming but has so much more payoff in waking life than

just goofing around in fantasy land. I personally taught myself

how to do back flips, front flips and other acrobatic maneuvers

when I was about fifteen years old while lucid dreaming. During

this phase of my life, learning these skills were very important to

me for whatever reason, but I was too timid to try them in

waking life for fear of breaking my neck if I were to mess-up. So I

rehearsed them while Lucid dreaming night after night (when I

wasn’t flying around) and finally got them down solid enough

that I built up the courage to do them in real life; executed

flawlessly right off the bat. I’ve also used this skill to help lessen

my anxiety while public speaking by practicing in front of huge

dream-audiences or groups of people very important to me.

Lucid dreaming can be a problem-solving and life inspiration

incubator, anything that you would like to learn how to do or

get better acquainted with is at your fingertips with this built-in

practice system installed in your head. The tools are already

there, you just have to figure out how to use them!

Learning how to overcome fears and nightmares is an

invaluable tool in the lucid dreaming arsenal. Nightmares can

be held up to the light and seen for what they are really worth.

Once a nightmare or fear has been faced and addressed in the

dream world, it usually empowers the individual to overcome

whatever was frightening them and move on. This is actually

how lucid dreaming was first presented to me at the young age

of 6. I can remember it clear as day, as these constant identical

nightmares haunted me for years before then. Every morning

before I awoke, I would be falling through near darkness inside

of an eerie tornado-looking tunnel that would jolt me out of bed

frightened, sweating and screaming. One morning after having

this nightmare, I decided I’d had enough and when the next

one came I would know that it was a dream and it wouldn’t

scare me. Sure enough, the very next time it happened I

immediately became lucid for the first time ever and I crossed

my arms and fell and fell and laughed at my minds attempt to

scare me and how it just wasn’t going to work anymore. Not

only did I never have that nightmare again, I’ve rarely ever had

anymore nightmares hence forth as I usually have the tools to

realize it’s just a bad dream on the spot. This ability is also

partially from mental conditioning and dream cues in which I

taught myself to perform reality checks any time something

bad, unusual or fearful happens in waking life so that I am

accustomed to doing the same when it happens in a dream to

always see things for what they really are.

Another great use of lucid dreaming is to explore your

subconscious and learn about yourself from within to achieve a

new level of personal growth. I experienced this by “accident”,

while dreaming one night and it changed the way I looked at

lucid dreaming ever since. In the dream I was having a good

old time goofing around and running down a hallway in my

childhood house when I ran into an acquaintance of mine who

just didn’t belong there. I asked him what he was doing in my

house, in which he responded “I’m not actually here, you are

dreaming.” Needless to say this blew my mind and I

immediately became lucid and filled with excitement and

questions to ask this person who was obviously just a fabrication

of my own imagination. He informed me that everything he was

saying to me was actually my own subconscious speaking to

myself. He urged me to ask him deep, meaningful questions

about the world, religion, myself and his mission in my dream. I

asked him tons of question and was very intrigued with many of

his answers, half of which were in the form of a riddle of sorts. It’s

almost as if he was not allowed to tell me the answers directly

but I had to figure them out for myself, possibly at a later time.

This opened up my mind to the powers of the subconscious and

I now talk with anyone who shows up in my dreams while I’m

lucid to find out why they were put there and what they can tell

me.

How to have lucid dreams

There is no clear-cut answer to this question and different

techniques vary greatly from person to person and even time to

time. The supplements can help a lot but they are not the solve-

all for always lucid dreaming night after night, effort is also

needed on your behalf. Much of it depends simply on how

much you actually want to be able to lucid dream and the

effort you decide to put into it. Remembering to take a capsule

at night is huge in its own because not only do you have the

advantages of the supplement in itself but it is also obviously on

your mind because you remembered to take one before bed.

One trusted place to start is by studying and focusing on

the subject of lucid dreaming in general and especially putting

effort into dream recall while in everyday waking life. Just

reading this right now and actually taking the time to process

the information is helping your chances of having a lucid

dream. I’ve introduced many a friend and colleague to lucid

dreaming and after conversing back and forth about it for some

time most of them were able to have one of their first lucid

dreams shortly thereafter. It is because it interested them, they

were excited to hear about the possibilities and even more

eager to experience them, and it transcended over to their

dream world.

Learning Dream Recall

Dream recall is a great place to start because it is much

easier to see nearly instant nightly success as opposed to trying

to master lucid dreaming in the same short amount of time.

Being able to recall your dreams from the night before is a

monumental tool for stepping into the lucid dreaming arena. It

also starts with keeping dreams on your mind in waking life and

then taking the time to awake slowly every morning and think

hard about what happened in your dreams that night. It may

seem silly, and some may want to skip this part, but it makes

perfect sense that if you want to start lucid dreaming, you ought

to start by trying to remember more of your dreams, as all

dreams, even lucid ones can easily be forgotten once awake

and back in the daily grind. Start by getting a good night’s rest

and awake calmly out of your sleep, try not to move much, or

even open your eyes if you can and try to think backwards from

where your very last dream ended. If you can wake up to a

more peaceful sound than a blaring siren-esq alarm clock that

can help a great deal with dream recall as well. Practice not

thinking about what you have to do that day or what you’ll

wear or anything of that sort. Just spend a few minutes relaxing

and solely concentrating on your dreams. Think about how you

got to the last place in your dream that you can remember and

usually it will start to slowly come back to you. Many people

think that they just simply don’t have dreams, and as science

has proven this is just not the case, they just don’t remember

them. A method that has helped me obtain better dream recall

and occasional lucid dreams is to set an alarm a few hours

before I would normally wake or just at some point in the middle

of deep sleep. The idea is to have it wake you right out of a

current dream and therefore have a fresh recall and be able to

jot it down then go back to bed with dreams on the mind

again. This strengthens the ability to recall dreams at all waking

hours and is not required to be performed all the time for

dramatic dream recall unless you choose to do so. It is also

helpful to some to not just turn off the alarm but snooze it a few

times as this will bring you in and out of dreams repeatedly and

therefore increase your chances of realizing that you’re

dreaming or at least remembering a portion of a dream.

Consistent practice with dream recall can yield great results in a

very short amount of time; it is amazing what the brain can do

once it knows what it should be doing.

Dream Journal

With your newfound abilities to remember more and more

of your dreams it is very helpful to keep a dream journal. Did you

ever notice that once you wrote something down as to not

forget, you didn’t even have to look back at it to remember

what you had written? It is the same principle here, except

tenfold because dreams, unlike daily thoughts during waking-

life, are extremely fleeting. Try to immediately write down

dreams that you can remember even if it’s just small fragments

of many dreams or immense detail of a specific dream. This can

be done in the morning while gathering your thoughts on what

you dreamt about the night before or upon waking in the

middle of the night. It is good to note that you may wake at

night and remember a dream so well that you don’t write it

down because you are certain it will be retained upon waking,

but morning comes around and the only thing you can

remember is your very last dream. Many times the most present

dream memories replace older dream memories, so write it

down if you don’t want to lose it. If no dreams can be

remembered, its ok, happens to the best of us, just keep your

goals in mind and sometimes throughout the day, maybe in the

shower or driving in the car it will come back to you - just don’t

forget to eventually jot it down.

Dream signs

Remembering and writing your dreams down helps you

become more familiar with your specific dream attributes and

patterns. This is crucial in learning to lucid dream because it will

strengthen your ability to detect a dream while it is happening

by noticing clues from your individual dreamsigns. A dreamsign

is anything that triggers a thought in your conscious mind -

whether in a dream or not, that alerts you to a possibility that

you are currently dreaming. Specific dreamsigns are unique to

each individual, although there are many dreamsigns that seem

to provide results for many people. Dreamsigns can change

from time to time for an individual or completely disappear only

to resurface again years later. It is an ongoing consciousness

you must maintain, to be as aware as possible to what your

specific dreamsigns are for that particular time in your life. Once

a dreamsign has been detected in a dream, reality checks are

performed to make certain if one is dreaming or not.

Reality checks

Reality checks are the bread and butter of lucid dreaming

and once you successfully perform one in a dream and

determine you are dreaming, it’s an adrenaline rush of shear

excitement so intense that it can immediately end your dream

and wake you up! When you first start lucid dreaming and

realize the limits are limitless and absolutely anything is possible,

you question; what’s going on, where will I go, what will I do?

Many other thoughts can race into your mind of all your hard

work and everything that you’ve studied and endured to get to

this point. You’ve now switched from the unaware subconscious

state of ordinary dreaming to using your conscious mind and It is

so powerful of a feeling for most novice to intermediate lucid

dreamers that it can knock them right out of the dream and

have them cursing at their awoken state, but we’ll cover how to

successfully combat that later.

Reality checks are a two-part skill that first involves

engraining reality checks into your waking life and then having

them cross over to the dream world where they will be applied

to obtain lucidity. The list can go on and on for the types of

reality checks that one can come up with and although there

are many that appear to be staples of success which will work

for most everybody, it can vary greatly for each individual. They

simply involve asking yourself if you are dreaming and then

following your query up with a reality test of your choice to

provide an educated answer. You may not always get the right

answer with one test, so try to learn a few of these and perform

them whenever you get a gut feeling that something is not as it

seems or just sporadically throughout the day. Many require

taking a look at something, analyzing, and then looking away

and back again to detect changes or inconsistencies. This is

very common with the things we see or use most in our life and

are very familiar with such as our hands, words, numbers and

simple laws of physics. Some common reality checks are as

follows:

Digital clocks and watches- Illegible or not constant with times

Text on paper or signs- Illegible or changing letters/numbers

Common sense- Why is there a dinosaur outside my window?

Patterns- Change or move while being viewed

Light Switches- Do not work, common with most electronics

Mirrors- Often does not show a true reflection

Holding your breath- No need for oxygen in dreams

Focusing on your hands- Can reveal major discrepancies

Trying to fly- Start with jumping as high as possible

Pushing through- Put your finger through solid objects

How did you get here?- You often can’t quite recall

Looking at the sky or ground- Look away and back again

- and analyze differences

A Simple Lucid Dream Example-

Let’s say you’ve been working with many of the

aforementioned methods for a while now and are making some

progress. You fall asleep one night and dream of being in

school, but you’re not actually in school anymore and nor have

you been for the past “x” years. You suddenly remember that

from practicing your dream recall abilities and jotting down the

commonalities of your dreams in your dream journal that

“school” is one of your dreamsigns, you always dream of being

in school. Now this could still be real life, right? It seems so real, I

mean right there’s Timmy with the missing front tooth sitting two

desks across from you.

It’s time to get to the bottom of this with a few reality

checks that you’ve been rehearsing in waking life. So you look

around for anything very out of the ordinary but nothing stands

out. Then you remember to try and read your digital watch and

it appears to be just LED-garble floating all around the display

and now you look over and tiny Timmy is your Aunt Heidi. Boom!

You’re dreaming, stay calm, collect your thoughts and think of

what you want to do with your newfound lucidity. Why not ask

someone why you always end up in this class while your

dreaming? Dream characters are absolutely fascinating to talk

to, knowing that everything they respond with came right out of

your subconscious mind since it’s all in your dream anyway.

Now this was just an example to put the pieces together a

bit more for everyone. Things obviously don’t always happen

just like this or in this particular order and you might even lose

your glimpse of lucidity you almost had by being swept back

into the course of the dream. Contrarily, many experienced

lucid dreamers who notice one of their dreamsigns while in a

dream become immediately lucid and have no need for the

reality checks.

My personal go-to dreamsign is water, especially blue-

tinted, crystal-clear, deep water. Whenever I see water in

waking life I think of dreaming and reality checks - this familiarity

between the thoughts transcended over to my dreamworld

and has been the number one factor for me achieving lucidity

as I always seem to dream about water related activities. Most

of the time while dreaming I can just see the water, remember

to ponder about my state of consciousness and then upon

realization, immediately become lucid. Occasionally, the dream

does a very good job of hiding the truth and I don’t get the

“gut” feeling that I’m dreaming like I usually would and I have to

perform a few reality checks to decipher my state of

consciousness. Very few times has a reality check actually

fooled me into thinking a dream was reality, once I have the

inclination that I’m dreaming while in a dream, it usually doesn’t

take long for me to prove myself right.

Aside from that last sentence it is also important to note just

how forgiving we are of the dreamscapes design flaws and

obvious inconsistencies. Did you ever wake up from a dream

that was so bizarre that you wondered how in the world you

actually thought it was waking life? We are much less scrupulous

of the details in our dream world and could very easily go along

with whatever our mind throws at us while dreaming and this is

precisely why knowing your dreamsigns and using multiple

reality checks is sometimes absolutely necessary to figure out if

you truly are dreaming.

It is very important that you learn to combine all of the

aforementioned methods and information into one simple,

cohesive package which you can easily work on at any given

time throughout your days and nights. You should be keeping

lucid dreaming on your mind, taking the supplements, talking

with friends about it and delving deeper into the subject. You

need to be practicing your dream recall techniques and

consistently writing in your dream journal while paying close

attention to any oddities or patterns that may emerge which

could alert you to a new dreamsign specific to you at that point

in your life. Remember to do an occasional reality check every

so often especially around seeing your potential dreamsigns

and don’t be afraid to mix the tests up a bit. If you just take

home one thing from this paragraph let it be this; you must link

your reality checks to your own specific dreamsigns so that

when you stumble upon one of your dreamsigns you

immediately proceed to doing reality checks without hesitation

when you are dreaming as well as awake. This is a very simple

connection and when it is engrained into your mind you

eventually will dream of one of your dreamsigns that you

previously learned through dream recall techniques and dream

journals and therefore automatically do a reality check and

finally realize you are actually dreaming!

How to prevent waking up once lucid

Waking up immediately after becoming lucid is a common

problem for many dreamers. The culminated excitement of

finally becoming lucid after however long you’ve been working

towards the goal can easily jolt you right out of the dream and

awake in bed. Awaking from a lucid dream does not always

happen right away, some lucid dreams just begin to “fade out”

for no obvious reason, although some blame over-excitement.

There are a few methods used to combat waking-up that

usually involve using a repetitive motion of your body or hands

which helps your mind feel the sensation of movement even

though your visuals may have disappeared. One such

technique involves spinning in circles like a child to create this

sense of motion and avoid awakening until a new dream scene

has started and feels more secure. Many have reportedly had

success restoring their lucidity with these motion-based

techniques, but they can be difficult to perform for the novice

lucid dreamer. The supplements can help a lot with deeper

sleep and dream stability but remaining calm is usually the key

to preventing awakening before it ever starts to show signs. One

must learn to control their feelings and emotions especially at

times of heightened excitement or arousal. They must relax with

the dream and not let it take control of them, after all it is their

lucid dream and near-total control is always just a reach away.

REM sleep

REM (Rapid Eye Movement) is the fast paced movement of

the eyes behind closed eyelids while dreaming. The eyes are

the only part of the skeletal muscular system that are not shut

down by the dream states’ temporary paralyzation. This is

actually how lucid dreaming was scientifically proven factual

using memorized horizontal eye movements (i.e Right-Right-Left-

Left-Right-Left-Right) acted out by participants while lucid

dreaming with EEG brain activity machines proving they were

actually asleep in a controlled lab environment. REM sleep is

known to be the most abundant period of sleep for lucid

dreaming. The supplements help to increase REM sleep later on

in the night or early morning when it is most common for lucid

dreams to occur.

MILD

Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams, also known as MILD

is a simple technique used to help dreamers become lucid by

carrying your awareness of lucidity back into your REM sleep

after awakening and hopefully start out lucid or become lucid

shortly after induction of sleep. It involves waking after a dream

(or at least sleep), and focusing your mind on going back to the

dream you just left (or of a recent dream), but this time

imagining that you are lucid in the dream. While drifting into

sleep you should imagine yourself shortly becoming lucid and

keep your mind set on obtaining lucidity while telling yourself

“next time I am dreaming, I will remember I am dreaming” or

any other mantra that conveys the same message. The object is

to carry your most current thoughts right into your next dream as

to make it much easier to notice you are dreaming once

asleep. If you find yourself thinking of something else,

immediately switch back to the technique as to have it be the

very last thing on your mind before you drift over to the other

side. WILD (Wake Initiated Lucid Dream), is very similar to a

combination of MILD and WBTB and therefore will be omitted.

WBTB

Wake-Back-To-Bed is a very successful technique used to

induce lucid dreaming and it is quite similar to MILD and WILD

with a few small changes. You simply fall asleep as usual and set

an alarm clock to go off (with a pleasant tone) about 4-6 hours

after falling asleep. After awakening from your slumber, stay up

for 30 to 60 minutes with your mind set on lucid dreaming then

go back to bed using the MILD technique described earlier. This

is said to be the best time to have lucid dreams as REM sleep is

most abundant right before awakening and with the addition of

the MILD technique, success is greatly enhanced.

With that said, there is another time when REM sleep is very

easily achieved and the possibility of lucid dreaming more

feasible. Napping at any time in the day always yields me

amazing dreams and sometimes I find lucidity with very little

time and effort. Many lucid dreamers find that after awakening

in the morning and staying up for a few hours, that a small nap

mid-morning is a good time to have a lucid dream. I agree, but

find that naps always work for me at any point in the day as

long as you have your objectives at hand with becoming lucid

and hopefully practice MILD directly before falling asleep.

“Dream Enhancer” is a good supplement to try here instead of

“Lucid Dreams” because of the shorter duration of sleep you will

be having.

Binaural and Isochronic beats

Binaural and isochronic beats are digitally produced beats

that are used to induce lucid dreaming by theoretically

changing brain frequencies to those seen during dreaming.

There is some controversy as to whether or not they are

effective for expeditious brain frequency modification and if

they can actually induce lucid dreaming. While they may or

may not, they do allow most to enter a relaxed, meditative

state much easier than without. Meditation is very closely

associated with lucid dreaming and can greatly enhance the

ability to be more aware and conscious while awake which can

help lead to more lucid dreams while sleeping. They have beats

for relaxation, enhanced clarity, migraine relief, sedation,

dreaming, energy and many others. Overall they cannot hurt to

allow them a try and most are very intriguing when given a

listen.

Conclusion

With the combination of the lucid dreaming supplements

and the methodologies previously described, success for

attaining a lucid dream is GREATLY increased. Make sure to take

the supplements as close to going to sleep as possible (with

water) and always have lucid dreaming on your mind before

finally drifting off. If you can’t get even a glimpse of a lucid

dream while trying everything offered here - then you probably

aren’t trying hard enough. Be honest with yourself about the

actual amount of time and mental space you are allotting for

lucid dreaming. Try the “Dream Enhancer” if you selected

“Lucid Dreams” or vice versa – they are both oriented towards

the same goal but formulated with different ingredients as

everyone can respond more to one than the other. Most of all

don’t give up and have some fun with it, Lucid Dreaming IS

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, and it will change your life for the better.