 I just wanted to talk about a lucidream I had last night which was very intentional and the intention behind it will actually probably be surprising to a lot of you, but what I do now, okay, so my sort of goes, every lucidreamer has an arsenal of techniques or methods they use at any given time. This arsenal of techniques will change over time depending on how experienced you are, what you want to try, what you're learning, or maybe if you're trying to refine a technique, you know, it will almost never be the same technique you're using every month for years on end. So what I'm doing at the moment is just a very, it's not even a technique really, it's just using a very strong intention of lucidreaming as I go to sleep and I've got, no, I've got it to the point now where I can just lay down and what I do is I visualize discovering that it's a lucidream. Okay, so what I mean by that, I lay down before I go to sleep and I strongly vividly visualize that moment where you realize it's a dream. I visualize looking down at my hands in a dream obviously and realizing that I'm not actually awake and just by visualizing that I was able to have a lucidream and I've been doing this for a few weeks now and at the moment this is my favorite technique just because it's so easy guys, it's really so easy. You don't need to, I don't need to do reality checks during the day for this method to work. Now I'm not saying this will work for everyone, maybe this is just because I'm fairly experienced or maybe I've been, maybe the intention is just that strong. I don't know what it is, you know, it could be a mixture of those things but I think you should definitely try it just when you lay down to go to sleep have a few minutes where you really strongly visualize being in a lucidream, you strongly visualize not what you're going to do in the dream because that comes later, you need to visualize the moment, the second where you discover you're lucid and for most people that involves looking down at your hands or looking around at something strange that triggers you to become lucid. Now don't get this confused, this is not a reality check, I'm not saying to visualize a reality check or there you can, I'm saying to visualize the moment of discovery, that instant moment where you realize oh I'm dreaming and for me that usually involves looking down at my hands so I'll visualize looking down at my hands while telling myself this is a dream, I'm dreaming. And it really works, you know, I just wanted to share this with you guys because it's really good, it seems to work for me. That doesn't mean it'll work for you but I invite you to try it nonetheless because it might work for you, you don't know. Now if you want to take this one step further you can combine this with visualizing doing a reality check and in fact I would advise you to do that because I had to do a reality check when I became lucid just to sort of stabilize the dream, I also used the method where you rub your hands together. Now I should add that for most of these or for some of these, probably over half, it was probably a combination of a wake back to bed and the intention before I went to bed. I can't say for certain and the reason for that is that what it felt like is that I woke up in my bed but not to the point where I got out of the bed, had thoughts looked around open my eyes. So I don't really know if it was a wake back to bed, it felt like I woke up just for a split second and then went back to bed but I don't remember opening my eyes and I certainly don't remember waking up and getting out of bed. So I don't know if you'd call that a wake back to bed or if you just called that a very very slight interruption of my sleep followed by a wild, I don't know what you'd call it and I can't really label it because I don't remember exactly what happened but I know for certain I didn't wake up and get out of bed. I just stayed there laying down, my eyes are closed but I remember thinking I'm awake now even just for a split second I remember thinking I'm awake now and then I went back to sleep. Now, so it could have been a wild, could have been a wake back to bed or it could have been, I could have dreamt the whole thing and the whole thing was induced by the intention the night before. Needless to say it was pretty cool, pretty low maintenance. I didn't have to do reality checks the days before. I've actually had a break from meditating the last three days so it really was low maintenance, low effort technique I guess if you could even call it that. This is just my experiences as I said and what happened when I was lucid is I used to do a lot of free running before I injured my knee. I used to do crazy things where I'd jump off like second story carparks and I'd run up buildings and jump off them and stuff like that. Nothing crazy but just high enough that when I got a landing wrong it messed up my knee for a few years and so what I like to do now is I like to practice free running in lucid dreams simply because there's no risk whatsoever. It's great fun and you can do more impressive things and this is a weird one for me because I've always been an advocate of like you should do something in a lucid dream but you should also do it in waking life and free running is one of those things that I could go out and do in waking life right now. But I just don't want to maybe I'm still a bit scared of injuring myself after the years of trouble I had with my knee. Maybe I just don't see the reward. Maybe I don't want it enough but I still want it enough to practice it in a lucid dream and just to experience it in a risk-free environment. So yeah that's what I've been doing recently. I think I thought I'd share with you guys what I'm actually doing my lucid dreams right now. I'm practicing free running and I'm using this intention expectation technique or method if you could call that to lucid dream with almost no effort at all. Now I know a lot of you will be thinking well it's all it's about the effort you know you need to put the effort in and to some degree I do and I have you know I've spent years doing reality checks so I've probably got that habit of critical awareness ingrained in my subconscious mind now to the point where I can induce a lucid dream simply by intending to lucid dream and a lot of people are the same I've been having lots of emails for you from you guys saying I can lucid dream just by wanting to lucid dream and that's great. But yeah for those of you who are watching this give it a try you know go to sleep with the intention of lucid dreaming but more importantly remember the intention of discovering a lucid dream not doing a reality check as such. You want to visualize the moment where you discover you're lucid usually that involves looking down at your hands. Well that was a long video anyway so that's it for today guys go ahead and subscribe and leave a comment letting me know whether you are going to try this technique if not why not.