 So today we're going to talk about a different technique, which we haven't mentioned before. This is the reward-induced lucid dream, the riled. Now, what this involves is you're going to give yourself small rewards or treats every time you have lucid dream. Okay, and you might be thinking, well, why would I do that? Well, your brain, everyone's brain responds to certain stimuli. So when you do something, let's say when you eat, for example, your brain is built, it's created and designed so that it will reinforce that habit because it knows it's good for you. So you may have noticed that when you've finished a meal, you feel really satisfied and you get a small release of sort of happy hormones in your brain, which means you'll want to do it more again. Okay, and this is the same thing for eating, drinking, having sex, and unfortunately for some drugs as well, but that's a different matter. So what we're going to do with this is we're going to use small rewards, sweets, chocolates, whatever it is, something watching an episode of your favourite show, that sort of thing, to reinforce the idea of lucid dreaming and to make yourself, you're almost training your own brain to do it more in the future. So that's the basics of it, and so here's how to do it. So what you do is this, I should say this one's alongside any other technique you're going to use, so you could use this along with the way back to bed, the wild, the miles, whatever. It works with all of them and it sort of makes them all more effective. So what you do is every time, and every time you realise you've lucid dreamed, had a lucid dream, give yourself instantly a reward of some sort. Now this reward can be something small, it can be like a sweet, you could have a tub of chocolates or sweets by a bed, or it can be something else that you enjoy, it could be you booking a session of rock climbing It should ideally be something small and inexpensive so that you can do it a lot, but also something that you do enjoy and that you will look forward to getting. So you may have seen this when we were kids in school, they would give us some sort of sticker or treat or like a sweet or something, every time we were well behaved, every time we was able to do good behaviour. And the idea behind that was that it was to reinforce that good behaviour. I believe the psychological term is conditional programming or conditioning or something like that, where you reinforce a behaviour by linking it with something positive, with something good, with a reward. And it actually does work. So what I've found from my own experiences is that when I've linked lucid dreaming with a reward, I've rewarded myself for doing it. My brain responds to that and I end up having more lucid dreams because my brain subconsciously will think, oh, I need to have another lucid dream so that I can get that reward again. And this brings me on to my next point. This only works if you only have the reward when you have lucid dream. If you just have this reward throughout the day or whenever you want, or it's not only linked to lucid dreaming, it's not going to work. So it needs to be something that you only use for lucid dreams, something that you won't have at any other time. So it could be a particular type of sweet, or you could decide that you're going to allocate your favourite TV show to this, and you're going to say to yourself, I will only watch an episode of my favourite show when I have had a lucid dream. And that way it might actually be quite annoying. You might be thinking, oh, I really need a lucid dream so that I can watch the TV show. Then when you finally do have a lucid dream and you reward yourself by letting yourself watch it, then it's going to strengthen the idea in your mind and it's going to become more likely in the future. So that's it, guys. That's basically the technique. The only warning I'll give you on this one is that you shouldn't do it for a long period of time. So you shouldn't do this for, I would say, over four months at a time. This is something you should do maybe for a month or two in a row, max, and then reset it. The reason for this is you don't want to get too dependent on this. You don't want to make the link too strong, because then you're only lucid dreaming to get the reward. If you stop having the reward you might stop lucid dreaming, which is not good. So use it sparingly, especially if you've been in a rut or you've been struggling to have your first lucid dream. This is a really good way of breaking through that. But yeah, just be aware that if you do it too often, the link will become weaker and you'll find that it's actually slowing you down and not helping you to lucid dream. So yeah, be aware of that. And that's it guys, let me know how you get on, leave a comment, and please subscribe, and I'll see you next time.