 If you only watch this one video you'll be able to lucid dream more reliably more often than 90% of the people out there. So I'm going to share my favorite lucid dreaming techniques tips you know low hanging fruits things I've learned over the several years of teaching thousands of people how to lucid dream all around the world. So if there was one video that you would pay attention to it should be this one. So I would encourage you to turn off your phone you know put notifications on silent close your other tabs and just pay attention to just this one video right now and you'll learn more about lucid dreaming than you probably have in the last five years. Okay so like I said I've spent the last 10 years or so teaching people how to lucid dream from all around the world. Okay I've managed to get this channel to over a hundred thousand subscribers my articles videos work has been read by people in almost every country in the world and more than that I've had thousands of people go through my programs and learn to lucid dream when they couldn't before. Now the reason that's happened is because I'm really passionate about this topic and I really do enjoy teaching lucid dreaming I enjoy the mind spirituality consciousness and psychology and I like to kind of fusing them together into one kind of holistic approach. So hopefully that comes across in this video make sure you leave a comment if you don't understand something I will try and reply to everybody and beyond that just enjoy yourself and stick around for the whole video. So firstly I want to start out with the basics but I'm not going to go and explain you know the absolute basic things I have said in many other videos okay I'm going to explain the basics with a twist let's call it beyond the basics so not only do you want to make sure okay that you are meditating for at least five minutes you want to make sure that you're meditating every single day and if you haven't learned how to meditate I do have other videos about that on my channel it's actually pretty simple to meditate all you need to do is just count your breath from one to ten and just focus on your breath that's all you need to do you don't need to focus on you know any kind of mantra or affirmation if you don't want to especially if you're new to meditation you should probably just do what works for you what's actually going to keep you lucid dreaming for the longest period of time so just do a really simple meditation but make sure you do it every single day. Now of course reality checks okay we should all be doing reality checks I have a free lucid dreaming app on iphone and soon to be android which will give you like reminders random reality check reminders that will tell you to do reality checks at specific times that should help you to remember but if not you can do any kind of reminding technique right you could write it on your phone lock screen okay are you dreaming you could go as far as me and just tattoo it on your thumb literally like a reminder that says you know are you awake or not or you can just write a note and put it on your fridge put it on your mirror okay there's many different ways you can go with this but the key is you need to be doing reality checks often okay so every day and often but you also need to be doing them every time you see hear or feel something strange that's probably the most important time to do them because those are the moments that are more likely to sharpen your dreams it's not the mundane stuff you know it's usually the things that are different to what you normally experience strange unusual this is why at least for me I lucid dream and have more vivid dreams much more often when I'm traveling or when I'm doing something you know something unusual something I don't usually do and those are the times when I have the most lucid dreams randomly or you know seemingly randomly because that's when I'm more likely to remember those experiences when I actually you know go to sleep and dream about them so make sure you reality check when you see or experience something strange now if you are going to focus on a technique okay just make sure you focus on one technique only and in that case focus on the mild the mnemonically induced lucid dreaming technique is probably the most effective technique and it certainly is the one there in a recent study was shown to be pretty much the only technique that was really effective for beginners compared to the control group and that being said it's also one of the easiest techniques because you don't have to you know set a crazy alarm wake up in the middle of the night feel tired and then try and hit the perfect timings for when you like fall back asleep and you don't have to do any of that you rely on your prospective memory which is your ability to remember something in the future this is the most powerful way to lucid dream if you have to learn any technique it would be the mild so you should also focus on and this is really important you need to focus not just on awareness and lucidity at night but during the day as well it's been referred to as all-day awareness now all day awareness is basically the ability to be self-aware and I guess you could say lucid all the time not just in the nighttime so the benefit of that is that you by being self-aware all the time you're much more likely to randomly lucid dream because you have that foundation of awareness all the time all day awareness I think it's called ADA technique is really powerful okay so and a good example is when you're commuting to work most people are sort of in autopilot mode they're not really paying attention to what they're experiencing they're just letting themselves go through emotions right and we all do this at some point you know whether it's when we're listening to someone speak that we don't like or when we are commuting to a job that we don't like maybe even when we're getting changed at the gym these kind of boring moments which we've experienced so many times before we can tend to go into autopilot during those moments and what that does you know the more we do that the more moments we have that are on kind of autopilot the less likely we are to lucid dream because we'll lose that sense of awareness just being aware of what you're doing like knowing what you're actually doing and being really present in the moment it's going to go a long way to helping you lucid dream and this is what I believe separates the kind of natural or random lucid dreamers that everyone thinks are so lucky from people who struggle and it's just that they tend to be natural lucid dreamers because they're actually practicing that all their awareness even if they don't realize they're doing it they are very self-aware now some of the students that have gone through my breakthrough course are killing it with this technique so all you need to do to get started with it it's just to really focus as often as you can during the day on awareness being aware of what you're doing think about why you're doing it and just being kind of grounded in the present moment so there's a few things you can do for example you can routinely ask yourself where was i 10 minutes ago where am i going right you know in 10 minutes in the future what am i doing now how is my body feeling what sounds can i hear just being present in the moment is going to go a long way to helping your lucid dream all right ninja tip number two is motivation we all struggle with motivation from time to time but with lucid dreaming in particular you've got to remember that this is a complex skill that you can't really learn in one day you can't even learn it really in one week you need to practice the techniques and really get to feel what works for you what doesn't work for you you know and what you actually are going to practice on a long-term basis what techniques are going to become part of your life and part of your habits now the only way to do that really and to stick with it long enough is to be motivated so you need to keep yourself motivated and this goes beyond just you know thinking about what you'd like to do thinking about what you might want to experience in the lucid dream it goes beyond that you have to have some kind of reason some kind of why as in why are you trying to learn how to lose a dream this is what separates lucid dreaming from let's say playing a new video game with a new video game you know you don't really have to have a reason for buying it you can just see a trailer for the game think oh it looks kind of cool you know maybe that would be fun i'll give it a try it's very different to lucid dreaming because with the video game you can just play it immediately and like you can immediately get the results you can just buy it download the game play it right now and let's say tomorrow you're bored with it you move on to the next thing lucid dreaming is not like that because it takes longer than a day to learn it it takes longer than a week to learn it and so you need a motivation or a reason to actually want to stick with it and learn it because otherwise you just give up and there are so many people in the comment section of my videos and reddit and facebook groups who they got excited at one point about the idea of lucid dreaming but then they just lost the interest completely and they got bored they didn't stick with it and so they didn't do it they didn't stick with it long enough to actually experience the results so motivation is really important and there are several ways you can keep yourself motivated but firstly just scroll down at this moment while you're still hearing my voice right now and just comment in the section below i will lucid dream just to kind of affirm your intent to learn how to lucid dream just say i will lucid dream or i can lucid dream affirmations are a really powerful way of actually you didn't scroll down and commented you but affirmations are a really powerful way of train i don't want to say tricking but training your subconscious mind to actually change its belief system okay so by telling yourself the same thing over and over again in this case i will lucid dream i can lucid dream i can control my dreams by telling yourself that over and over again eventually you'll start to believe it your subconscious mind will believe that to be true and the thing about the subconscious mind your subconscious beliefs are the foundation basically for everything that you do in your life so if you have a subconscious belief that you can lucid dream your mind will constantly look for ways to confirm that truth whether it's you know putting more effort into the techniques or trying harder or just maybe just flick that switch in your brain that makes you be able to lucid dream because your subconscious mind wants what we call congruence okay it wants your beliefs to match your conscious beliefs and your thoughts to match your actions to match your results and there needs to be what we call congruence between all of these different things otherwise we have what's called cognitive dissonance or you know some kind of discord in your brain where you believe some things at a subconscious level but because you're not experiencing it your conscious mind and your subconscious start to think but hold on a second but i can lucid dream i believe i can so why am i not doing it and so by having that focus on the belief that you can lucid dream you don't really need to understand how it works but it just does okay your subconscious mind will start to shift uh to actually making that true so another way you can keep yourself motivated is to be immersing yourself in inspiring uplifting positive and motivate yeah i guess motivating videos about lucid dreaming so sci-fi movies fantasy movies superhero movies in particular i was recently watching all of the x-men films again they're really good for this kind of thing because they physically show you what it's like to have a superpower to be able to do crazy things like fly teleport run really fast i've got a couple more really powerful tips and kind of a really important concept i want to share with you but first i want to tell you a bit more about this course dimension earlier which is the lucid breakthrough course i won't talk about this for very long but basically it's a super effective video course that i made specifically for people who have actually tried other things you've tried books you've tried you know courses and systems and even by neural beats and supplements but nothing is working for you reliably because the thing is you want to be able to lucid dream reliably and whenever you want basically right you want to actually have the experience and learn the skills that will let you do that and so this course is specifically for that it's a high quality video course you'll get like a members area pdf notes for every lesson you can study and keep yourself motivated there's also audio downloads for each lesson so if you want to listen while you're walking the dog or climbing a tree at the gym you can do that and there's also kind of several bonuses and things to keep you accountable within the system so the lucid breakthrough course you can click the link in the description and go and check that out i believe that's the best solution for you if you struggle to lucid dream or if you've tried other things but they've not really works for you and the thing is you could figure this out yourself but it might take you years you know you might never figure it out so that's why this course has been specifically designed i've had conversations with countless people probably thousands of people all around the world to really dig into why they can't lucid dream and i've really you know brought it out to the surface and made this course specifically to address the things that stop most people lucid dreaming so that in theory if you follow this this course if you follow these steps you will lucid dream no matter what has been stopping you before even if you've been struggling so please go and check it out the link is in the description and it will really support me in this channel if you were to get on board the course so if you do that i highly appreciate that and thank you so much so let's get back on with the video all right so the third kind of section that i want to break into here is your mind so when i'm talking about your mind i mean your expectations your beliefs the kind of expectation of time frame and how realistic it is that you'll learn and also whether it's scary dangerous real or whether you can get stuck or any of that kind of stuff so your mind and your subconscious mind like i said really are a key part of whether you can lucid dream or not if your subconscious mind does not believe you can lucid dream it's going to constantly stop you from doing it so the first focus really needs to be on affirmations making sure that every day you're writing down i can lucid dream you know 10 20 times there's a reason that it was a punishment for kids when they were in school they had to write lines because they knew that if you make someone write something out again and again i will not throw paper in class i will not throw paper in class eventually it's going to be pretty much stuck in their brain and so they will believe that statement and it works the same for lucid dreaming so just write down your affirmations again and again on a piece of paper try and do this every day okay but if you can't then at least you know at least a couple of times a week would be really good you also need to master your expectations about lucid dreaming and i've made another video about this you can check it out on my channel if you haven't seen it yet but you need to remember that like any skill lucid dreaming takes time and compared to other skills lucid dreaming is quite difficult i mean it's not the most difficult thing to learn but it's also not the easiest thing to learn it's not like just plugging in a video game and learning how to control the character it's actually a lot to do with your self-awareness your being able to do reality checks prospective memory and also your dream recall is another big part of this which i'll get onto in a minute but it's a lot about your expectations and if you go into this thinking oh i'm going to learn how to do this in one day and then you don't do it in one day obviously because not many people can do it i've asked your subconscious mind is going to suffer a bit of a a blow there because you went into it thinking oh i can do this quickly i can learn this it's going to be great and then you didn't have that experience and so now you're thinking what's happened did i do something wrong maybe it's not for me maybe it's not real maybe it's too difficult okay and then you give up this is why i mentioned motivation and the breakthrough course is actually really good at keeping you motivated there's a whole section on that explaining in detail how to do it but you need to keep yourself motivated because if you're not motivated you'll give up before you've had the chance to actually build up the skills and be anywhere close to uh lucid dreaming properly and the same can be said for people who think or people who i should say people who've read experiences about lucid dreaming like on a forum or something or maybe you've read a blog post or some comment somewhere from some person where they've said oh i tried to lucid dream but it was terrifying it was really scary and i had this nightmare and it was it was a bad experience if you read those things it's going to subconsciously make you expect those things so whenever you read a comment about lucid dreaming good or bad okay you need to constantly remind yourself that everyone's experience is different it's a very subjective thing okay only you can decide what your experience is going to be so if you read a comment from someone saying oh yeah i tried to lucid dream and then i got stuck in the floor and then some dragon tried to eat my arms off that's their experience okay who knows maybe they are a horror fan they've been playing too many video games they were staying up late drinking red bull and then that's the dream experience they had that doesn't have to be your experience but it will be if you read a comment like that and then expect that to happen so every time you read a piece of information or a comment ask yourself do i want this experience and this applies not just to lucid dreaming but to any information you consume any headline you read you need to ask yourself do i want that to be true if the answer is no then you need to really make an effort to say okay this is what i'm experiencing this is the headline this is the comment this is the story but that's their experience that's not my truth that's not my reality and that's super important to understand now there are a lot of questions that i get in comment sections and you know emails and messages and things like that so the first one is is lucid dreaming scary or really they ask is lucid dreaming dangerous now the simple answer is no lucid dreaming is not dangerous because you're not really doing anything other than experiencing something in your own mind while you're sleeping that being said you are connected to in some cases to your higher self and to other dimensions and guides but it's kind of like a consensual thing you have to open up to that in order for it to happen and if you don't open up to that you're basically just laying you're sleeping you're having a dream uninfluenced by other things so no lucid dreaming cannot be dangerous the only way it will be dangerous is if you were constantly interrupting your sleep again and again trying to do the wake back to bed method and over time you just had sleep deprivation and then that led to you not being alert enough while you're driving your car let's say then it will be dangerous is it easy to lucid dream the truth is no it's not easy to lucid dream because when you're as with any skill when you first learn it there is what's called the learning curve the learning curve is basically how fast you can go from knowing nothing about the topic to knowing enough about the topic to be able to self correct yourself and know where you're going wrong and kind of improve over time lucid dreaming has quite a high learning curve but you can make it a lot easier by just picking the low hanging fruit stacking the odds in your favor and doing the basic things in the right way which is basically what I cover in my videos on my channel so you should go and check out the other videos and subscribe by the way if you haven't already so what are the main benefits of lucid dreaming why would you want to lucid dream there are several reasons why you would want to learn how to lucid dream okay and I have made another video explaining this but the main reasons you would want to learn how to lucid dream is you were asleep for a third of our lives okay now that doesn't mean we can dream for a third of our lives but we can dream for a percentage of that third which is still a long time and you were going to be asleep anyway you were going to be not doing anything anyway in that time so you might as well lucid dream right it makes kind of perfect sense when you think about it like that secondly you can practice real life skills and actually improve at those things in waking life this has been documented there was a study done about this it's a pretty interesting thing that I think is mind-blowing I mean the ability to practice something in your dreams and then be able to really improve at that thing is pretty incredible in my opinion you can also and this is you know let's not downplay this you can do anything you can possibly imagine any experience any fantasy any adventure you can do that and it will feel so real and so vivid that you'll never want to stop lucid dream it has been said that lucid dreaming can improve your sleep quality now that's kind of a great area because it really does depend what normally happens is by focusing on certain things meditation being aware calming your mind down before bed avoiding blue light before you go to sleep by doing those things you will improve your sleep yeah but it's not because of the lucid dreaming it's because of those things so that's kind of a great area so does lucid dreaming make you more tired firstly before I answer this just scroll down and leave a comment letting me know what you think do you think it makes you more tired or actually just leave a comment saying the myths that the craziest myth or statement about lucid dreaming that you've ever heard and I'll try and reply to them all later so does lucid dreaming make you more tired the answer is no but the reason that people ask that question so often is because if you do it wrong so specifically I'm talking about the wild technique and the wake back to bed technique if you do those techniques too often then of course you'll feel tired because those techniques involve waking yourself up I think it's like 3 a.m. or something like that 3 to 5 a.m. depending on your sleep cycles and your specific timings it's never the same for everyone but if you do that every single day if you constantly interrupt your sleep like that then of course you're going to feel tired but it's not the lucid dreaming that's done that it's the interruption of your sleep you could very easily lucid dream without waking yourself up and being able to lucid dream without waking up is a good skill to learn that's what I would say to focus on is the mild technique if you do the mild technique it won't make you more tired if anything it will improve your sleep quality but when you do the wake back to bed in the wild you're going to have a bad time if you do them every single day so why is lucid dreaming so difficult lucid dreaming is difficult because like any skill when you first learn it there is a learning curve you need to build the skills up that will let you actually do it right and most people lose motivation way before they even get to that point the second thing is there's a lot of misinformation out there people think they know how to do it and they'll be posting in forums posting in groups and reddits and stuff based on their personal subjective experience instead of actually what's been studied and a quick note on that is that the mild technique has been studied and shown to be the most effective so if you're going to focus on any technique it's really be the mild and secondly you've got to remember that this is a lucid dreaming is a skill that if you're new to it it's a skill you've not used before being able to be self-aware and to trigger your prospective memory and even to remember your dreams which I'll get on to in a minute that's something that most people don't try and do they in many cases have never tried to do those things so it's a new skill and like any new skill you're always going to suck at the beginning because it's new but like the famous saying goes neurons that fire together will actually wire together meaning that the more you do something the stronger the connections in your brain will become and the easier it will become as well so I hope that makes sense by the way if you want something to follow that it's just a simple proven system just click the link and check out the lucid breakthrough course it will take you step by step through everything you need to learn everything that you've been struggling with it will explain everything and break it down for you in very simple stages so I've got a few more questions but first I want to just go over one thing which is really important and that is dream recall being able to remember your dreams and firstly as I'm doing this just scroll down and leave a comment saying how often do you remember your dreams do you remember them every night or every morning I should say most people don't and the reason for that is that just like anything if you don't practice it or if you don't try and do it you won't be able to do it you use it or lose it so if you don't practice writing your dreams down and trying to remember them then you're not going to be very good at it because you're not practicing it so you need to every single morning specifically when you wake up really really set the intention to remember your dreams actually set the intention before you go to bed that the next morning you're going to remember your dreams when you wake up take out your journal and the first thing you do should be to try and remember your dreams in as much detail as you can most people don't actually do that they wake up and if they can remember their dreams great sometimes they write them down but most people don't set the intention before they go to bed and they don't you know set aside five minutes of time to really try and remember their dreams okay I mean think back to the last time you tried to remember your dreams but couldn't how long did you keep trying for the chances are you woke up and you thought oh okay I can't remember any dreams fine let me continue with my day that's not the way to do it you need to have set aside three to five minutes and then for that time all you're going to do is focus on remembering your dreams even if you go that whole five minutes without remembering anything the fact is you sat down to try for that time so the next day your subconscious mind will think will say okay last time he sat down for five minutes and we didn't remember anything so let's try and do a bit better today and then over time you will actually remember more and more dream so what is sleep paralysis this is a question I get asked quite often and sleep paralysis is a I don't want to say it's linked lucid dreaming because it's not really but what happens is that when you try and lucid dream by learning some of the techniques and by trying some of the methods you will actually end up experiencing sleep paralysis more often than not because it's just how it works you know by interrupting your sleep you're going to eventually interrupt it at a point when you're trying to enter sleep paralysis sleep paralysis is when your body paralyzes your muscles to stop you acting out your dreams it's very useful if we didn't have it we would be running around and this is some sleep disorders are actually like where you're sleepwalking or you're kicking things in your bed or you're tossing and turning and hitting things and it's dangerous right especially if you share a bed with someone so sleep paralysis is actually a good thing because it stops you physically moving around in your sleep however where it gets tricky and scary is that if you are aware and awake during sleep paralysis it can be quite scary it can feel like you're obviously paralyzed because you are paralyzed but there's really nothing to worry about there's nothing scary you know although it can feel scary just tell yourself that nothing bad is going to happen nothing can harm you it's going to be over in a few minutes and you should be fine so what is the best thing to do in a lucid dream the best thing to do in a lucid dream to be honest is the thing you actually want to do the thing that you're most excited about doing because by doing that you're going to be motivated to make an effort the next day and to try and lucid dream again so just focus on whatever is the most exciting thing for you and you'll have a very very easy time keeping yourself motivated to learn in the long term leave a comment letting me know the most insane thing that you have done or would like to do in a lucid dream so the truth is if you're struggling to lucid dream the lucid breakthrough course i really believe will be the best thing for you and you can find the link to that in the description there's even a little video that explains a bit more about it and how it works but i truly believe that will be the best thing for you so if you have enjoyed this video please give it a like share it you know leave a comment maybe share it on your instagram your facebook whatever and i'll try and reply to everyone's comments and if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe to the channel you probably have subscribed already because who would watch like a 45 minute video without subscribing i mean maybe you haven't but i don't know so i'll see you next time and hopefully this has helped you to learn how to lucid dream