 Alright, so we've got a really good question from our buddy Brad and he's having difficulty with the wake-back-to-bed technique for inducing a lucid dream which in case you don't know is the technique where you go to bed, you set your alarm for two hours before you would normally wake up and this will interrupt your sleep during your REM sleep which is a rapid eye movement stage. This is the stage where lucid dreams are naturally much more likely. So of course waking up during that time increases your chances of having a lucid dream, you then keep your mind awake while your body goes to sleep and you're much more likely to experience a lucid dream. Brad is having some trouble with this, he says, I just keep going to sleep and experiencing a normal dream or just waking up a couple of hours later and not remembering anything. What do I do? This is a great question, thank you for that. So as you can see the four main things you should work on are focus, meditation, timing and practice so I'm going to go through each of those and you'll have to excuse me for not writing as much because I've learned that if I write while I talk it sort of slows the computer down and you may have noticed from some of my earlier videos it tends to lag the audio so it can sound very choppy, it's confusing so I'm only going to write when I absolutely have to. So focus is probably the most important one and this is tied in with meditation. So by meditating, and I'm going to put a link to another video about how to meditate, you increase your focus and you increase your ability to stay still in one place while keeping your mind active and alert. So this is obviously a key skill for the wake back to bed technique because you need to keep your mind awake. Essentially you're doing awake induced lucid dream at a specific time. So and the timing is key, this is why I've also put timing in. So the timing has to be you need to, it's different for everyone but roughly two hours before you would normally wake up is your REM sleep and this is the time when you're most likely to have a lucid dream. So this is a time you want to target with your alarm for the wake back to bed technique. So you need to meditate, I'll post a link, I'm not going to go into that in this video, you need to meditate every morning and possibly every evening just before you go to bed as well. And then after about a week or two you'll be experiencing a higher level of clarity, you'll be thinking more clearly and you'll be more focused and on track and therefore it'll be easier for you to keep your mind awake when you're trying to do the wake back to bed technique. It'll be easier for you to keep your mind awake because you'll be on like a another level of mental focus. So those two are very very closely linked together. Focus, meditation, the timing, make sure that you are experimenting with the time if it's not the right time. Maybe you need to try half an hour earlier, half an hour later, see what works for you. That might make a difference for you, it depends. And then obviously practice. Now practice, I've put that there because it really is important to stay consistent with this and to actually not just give up after the first however long you can do it, week, two weeks, whatever it is, it may not work at first and it is something that you would need to practice and just be consistent with and not just give up on it after it not working for a couple of nights because it will work, it is a proven technique and a lot of people use this technique with great success. That's why in my email series I think I mentioned this as almost a guaranteed way to have a lucid dream because majority of the time it does work but is dependent largely on your ability to stay focused and to stay focused whilst staying very still. So of course meditation is very closely linked to this. So if you would like to have a great way of meditating, I would highly encourage you to check out howtolucid.com forward slash go, go forward slash in aura with two ends. I'll write that out for you. That is a great meditation package, it will be by Newell Beats and I've explained this in a previous video, they really do help you to get a higher meditative state. So go and check that out. It is an affiliate link so I do get a small commission if you buy from there. So if you do, thank you in advance. I appreciate it. Again I'll put the link in the description to that meditation software as well. Thank you.