 wish i knew as a complete beginner in lucid dreaming now these are things that if i'd known these things when i was first starting out it would have made things significantly easier more fun i would have saved a lot of time and had a lot more fun so for those of you who may know i have been lucid dreaming for more than a decade and i've been teaching lucid dreaming for almost as long as well mostly here on youtube and on my site out at lucid.com so the things i wish i knew and i'm going to in no particular order i'm just going to break them down so that you hopefully don't have to make the same mistakes and you can just get the best results straight away the first thing arguably the most important is that it takes time and you need to be patient but at the same time although it takes you know time to practice and learn if you do the right things in practice the right things you can get results very quickly and very easily so this is i know it's kind of like contradictory a little bit but if you practice the right things and you're consistent you know you practice a little bit every day you will get results very quickly and very easily the key word being you need to practice the right things the next thing is that you need to avoid hype i wish i could tell myself this 10 years ago avoid the hype avoid the kind of like childish self-labelled experts on places like reddit and discord and really just listen to the people who when you listen to them talk about the subject you can hear that they know what they're talking about they actually know what this experience is like and how to do it and how to describe it they know how it works and they can teach you how it works another thing which i probably would have told myself is just to be aware and you know use ancient techniques techniques like the mild and the wake back to bed these are the sort of techniques that have been used for a long time mainly because they work so effectively and so reliably so don't waste too much time trying to learn techniques that they're kind of new and they're not as well proven things that people just kind of make up on reddit or discord or tick tock these techniques can work but you know there's no there's no track record really with a lot of them so you're kind of just guessing and seeing you're really just taking somebody else's personal experience and trying to make it work for you instead of actually using a science-based approach and practicing the technique that's going to work and the next thing and this is really probably the biggest thing that I wish I did know when I was first starting out is just to use things that just to analytically and logically break down what you're doing and why it works so when you lose a dream and I didn't know this at first right but you're you only dream during your REM sleep mainly and so and you usually only have your longest period of dreams during the last segment of your REM you know the last sort of sleep cycle within the night so say if you sleep for eight hours you have between four and five sleep cycles of about 90 minutes or so and the last one just before you wake up is the longest so what that means is that you're more likely to dream and remember the dreams and have lucid dreams in that period of time the other ones you're probably gonna forget the dreams unless you you know interrupt your sleep like I tell you how to do in the 90s and things like that you're probably gonna forget them so you may as well just focus on all of your effort on the last sleep cycle and then use that to target your things like supplements and dream teas and manual beats wake back to bed different alarms all that stuff makes it so much more likely you know that don't waste your time trying to do it that as soon as you go to bed because the chances are you'll either fall asleep and forget or you'll have a lucid dream or dream and forget it because you're just gonna it's just gonna be wiped out by the other four sleep cycles and you won't remember it I wasted so long trying to lucid dream by doing a wild as soon as I went to bed so like first thing as you try and go to sleep and from 99% of people it just won't happen so you might as well just not try with that technique at least or do it in the proper way which is wake back to bed where you target your last sleep cycle so you actually set an alarm for 4am or 5am and you try and do it then when it's 10,000 times more likely and also you'll remember it and it will also be longer so it's little things like that that I really wish I knew when I was starting out I wasted a lot of time trying the wrong things I heard something online or in a video tried it didn't work and it took me a long time probably too long to actually just take a step back think about what I'm trying to do and do it the right way anyway I teach all this stuff in my lucid boot camp which you can find in the description it's like it's like a step-by-step principle template tells you exactly what to do how to do it it's helped thousands of people all around the world actually now have their first and regular lucid dreams even if nothing else worked for them so you can check that out or you can join my brand new lucid tribe which is really more of a membership where I basically update and upload exclusive content there answering your questions I do live streams you have access to all of my ebooks for one very low monthly fee and you can cancel anytime so this is really quite a good place to be right now especially if you're just starting out with lucid dreaming or you want to just you know join a community get some inspiration help each other out and if you want to get your questions answered buy a lucid dreaming coach myself and you know there's a lot of other bonus things in there there's like a growing library of binaural beats tracks which is i'm always adding to it sleep tracks lucid dreaming induction audios everything like that it's all there so if you're interested in that it should be well it should be the first link you see in the description but if not just go to howtolucid.com slash lucid tribe all the words just the word tribe should redirect you to that and yeah you can see what it's all about and join if not let us find leave a comment let me know what you think about this and what you wish you knew about lucid dreaming when you first started even if you've only been trying for a few months or a few years