 So today, I'm not answering a question at all, I'm actually going to teach you a technique. And this is, I'm going to start doing a little series on lucid dreaming induction techniques. And this is the dream-induced lucid dreaming technique, the dialed D-I-L-D. And as the name suggests, it involves becoming spontaneously lucid when you're just in a normal dream. So you're in a normal dream and something triggers your lucidity and you become lucid. And that's something is what we're going to get into in this video. So there are actually several ways you can do a dream-induced lucid dream, believe it or not. One of the ways, the first way is you can spontaneously realise that you're dreaming. And this is something that will happen as a result of practice and reality checks. So example would be you're in a normal dream, you're running along. And that's the thing with dreams. You always seem to find yourself right in the middle of the action. You can never really start somewhere, you're always, you know, running or you're having dinner with someone. How did you get there? You know, you always seem to start right in the middle of the action as if you're sort of playing tape, starting halfway through the film. So spontaneously you'll be running along and then you'll fall over, look at your hands, realise that something's not quite right and realise, hang on, I'm dreaming, this isn't real. That is an example of a dream-induced lucid dream. You're in a dream and then you became spontaneously lucid. And the way you will have that happen more is by reality-checking more and being more aware of everything. So it's like a holistic approach, it's just your general level of skill with lucid dream. The more you become aware and the more you practice awareness, meditation, reality checks, dream journaling and affirmations, this is part of the next technique I'm going to share with you. The more likely you will have a dream-induced lucid dream and experienced lucid dreamers tend to have these quite a lot. This is almost like our average night's sleep, especially for me. I mean, I'll go to sleep and more often than not, I will just naturally have a lucid dream, even if I haven't done reality checks throughout the day and even if I haven't been reading or thinking about lucid dreaming, I will just naturally, most of the time, not all of the time because no one's perfect, but naturally I will just drift into a lucid dream and something will trigger the lucidity. So that's the first sort of stage or step, if you will. The other thing you can do is by, and this is kind of linked to another technique called a mnemonic-induced lucid dream, M-I-L-D, and this is where you combine reality checks with affirmations and visualizations. So this is something you would normally do about an hour before you go to bed and then obviously when you're laying in bed. So the reality checks throughout the day as you have done, as you do normally, and then you will do affirmations an hour before you go to bed. So you'll say things to yourself, either out loud or in your mind, like, I will recognize that I'm dreaming. When I dream I will know that I'm dreaming. Tonight I will have a lucid dream. I will wake up in my dreams tonight. Things like this, and you'll just repeat these to yourself about an hour before you go to bed. And then when you're laying down and you're getting ready to sleep, you will visualize the dream. So you'll spend a bit of time just thinking about the dream that you'd like to enter. So you might visualize like a beach and then an island in the distance. And you're on one island here and you can see the next island and you can feel the breeze on your face. And you can hear the birds and see them flying above and you can see the little cloud. And just focus on details and just sort of paint the picture for yourself of the dream that you'd like. And as you're visualizing this, of course, keep going with the affirmations and say, I will recognize that I'm dreaming. This is where I'll be. I'll be on this island. OK, so that's obviously the dream and lucid dream technique linked to the mild technique, the mnemonic and lucid dream. And the, yeah, that's really all we're going to share today. This is the dream and lucid dream technique. And it's really just a basic sort of, I guess you could say, your indicator of your lucid dream and skill. So if you're experienced, you will obviously have more dream and lucid dreams. If you're less experienced, you'll have less. And this is a way of you to sort of gauge your skill and your progress. If you start having dream and lucid dreams more, and by this, I mean spontaneous lucid dreams, then obviously you're becoming more skills, you're improving, you're improving your ability, your skill. And obviously, if you're not having many at all, it's apparent you need to work on things like reality checks and awareness. Now, before I go, there's just one more stage I'd like to share with you with regards to the dream and lucid dreaming technique. And that is dream signs. OK, so I haven't mentioned this before too much. But this is something heavily connected with your dream diary and your dream journal. If you haven't started keeping a dream journal and if for some reason you've never heard of the idea, basically a dream journal is where you write down your dreams every morning. You write the date, what happened in a dream, that's it. As soon as you wake up, you write down your dreams and you highlight important things like people, places, events, feelings, details, like numbers, addresses, this sort of thing. You do this every morning regardless of whether you can remember a dream or not. You just write no dreams were called. It trains your mind to remember dreams, OK? That's as detailed as I'm going to go with the dream and journal because it's something you should have really heard about before. Yeah, so dream signs. In a dream, there are typically a handful of things or objects or people or places that are consistent throughout most of your dreams. Unless you are aware of them and you write them down on your diary, this is why the diary is so important, it won't help you. But by being aware of the things, the specific places, objects or people that keep coming up in your dreams, you can use those things to trigger a lucid dream. So let's say, for example, that every time you dream, you see this object. It's a little bull statue. It doesn't matter what the object is. Let's say that you see this. Maybe it's on a shelf or it's a huge statue on the side of the street. Maybe it's walking down the street. There's an actual bull. And whenever you see this gold bull, a bronze bull, you can use that as a trigger, like a reality check, but more of a sort of instant, like instantly, I see that thing, OK, I know I'm dreaming. You can use this. And the way you do this is by writing down the details in your dream diary. And when you establish a dream sign, this is something that keeps popping up that you've had more than once, maybe more than five times. When you've established what your dream signs are, highlight them and focus on them. Look for them, OK? You know, throughout your, if it's something that is in your waking life, every time you see the object, let's say it is this, and let's say it is actually on your shelf, like it is with me. It's not my dream sign, but let's say it's on the shelf. Every time you see it, you ask yourself, am I dreaming? You use it as a reality check. You use it as a trigger for you to do a reality check. So you would look at this and say, right, that's a dream sign. Let's do a reality check now. Am I dreaming? OK. And you can use this, because dream signs, more than likely, if they've happened in the past more than once, they're going to happen in the future. And you're going to notice these things, and you're going to do a reality check, and you're going to realize you're dreaming. So it doesn't matter what the dream sign is. It could be a person. It could even be a color or a place. Let's say you dream and you always see something green. You might see a giant green statue or maybe one of the skyscrapers is green every time you notice that. And also, before you go to bed each night, think about your dream signs. Remember what your dream signs are as you're laying in bed ready to go to sleep. This is important. So let's say your dream sign is a giant orange cat. Before you go to sleep, visualize a giant orange cat walking down the street, and then visualize or imagine yourself seeing the cat and doing a reality check and becoming lucid. Because this is what you want to happen. You want this to happen in a dream. You want to see the cat, realize that you're dreaming, and go ahead and have a lucid dream. So that is dream signs, that they are another way of having a dream-induced lucid dream. It's a spontaneous and a natural feeling technique. It's something that I would recommend to beginners, but it's not something that you can really physically force to happen. I mean, no technique really is something you can force to happen. The only, I guess, sort of forced technique, I guess, is the weight-back-to-bed technique, because you're interrupting your sleep cycle and then deliberately trying to have a lucid dream. Whereas this is a more natural, free, soft approach. So this is the first technique video. I'm going to try and keep these videos in about 10 minutes in length, so they're not going to be too long. They're not going to be too short and too vague. If you have any questions, any comments, anything I've missed, please. That sound that you just heard there, sorry, I was going to cut this video short, but that sound that you heard there is a lucid dreaming reality check reminder, and I have this set off to go every 40 minutes. And whenever I hear that sound, I ask myself, am I dreaming, am I awake? And I'll do a reality check, so just a little interesting note there for you. So yeah, if you have any questions, any comments, anything at all, leave a comment, email me. 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