Reddit reviews Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life

I love it. I can't help you, but I love it.

I used to work on lucid dreaming intensively, about 6 months in after all my techniques & known lucid dream producing practices I was able to achieve a state of lucidity while asleep each night. I believe in you friend!

Do you have a dream journal? They can help you begin recognizing your dream patterns.

Other than that I also highly recommend using the hand/face method. In dreams you have more or less than 5 fingers. While in a dream if you look at your hand and notice you have more/less than 5 fingers you can sometimes bring yourself lucid but it takes practice to not wake up immediately from noticing/excitement. Another thing is we don't dream faces, our subconscious fills them from the personalities our brains are thinking of, try and look at the faces (or lack-thereof) of the people in your dreams to remind yourself you're dreaming.

I'm working I tried to make the tips coherent as possible, sorry for any errors there may be.

There are a few books on lucid dreaming I highly recommend, I'll get you the names once I'm home.

It's something you have to keep at every night, but it's so worth the time it takes to achieve. Thanks for this post, I'm going to start getting back into it. Once you can reach lucidity while dreaming you get to live two lives and it's so rewardingly beautiful & fun. If you have any questions feel free to ask :)

Edit: Book #1 & Book #2 / Book #3

Those three books are all great ones for lucid dreaming, I only used the first two (Stephen LaBerge, very smart guy) initially but I added the third book to my repertoire later on and I highly recommend it as well. They're all pretty cheap on Amazon!

I bought the book Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide a while back, and found it to be very helpful. The author, Stephen LaBerge, has been researching and developing techniques for lucid dreaming since the 80s. I think he is considered one of the pioneers on lucid dreaming and lucid dreaming techniques.

A key first step is to start a dream journal. As you document your dreams, you will start to notice certain patterns, and this observation aides in dream recognition; that is, being able to tell that you are in a dream while you are dreaming.

Anyways, the book goes into a lot more detail, I'd highly recommend it!

Lucid Dreaming? If so these are some of the best:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Exploring-World-Dreams-Stephen-LaBerge/dp/034537410X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407068859&sr=8-1&keywords=lucid+dreaming
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lucid-Dreaming-Concise-Awakening-Dreams/dp/159179675X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1407068881&sr=8-4&keywords=lucid+dreaming

Better late than never.

The method the image describes is called WILD (Wake-induced Lucid Dreaming). There are a few things the image missed:

1. Don't focus on the hallucinations right before a dream (hypnogogic hallucinations).
   
   
2. WILD works best with the Wake/Back to Bed method (WBTB). Drink a moderate amount of juice or water before bed (enough that you'll have to pee in a few hours, but not enough to keep you awake). When you wake up, you'll be just out of REM sleep. Stay up for about 15 minutes, go to the bathroom, and perhaps get a drink. Think about lucid dreaming and focus on it. Then, when you eventually do the method in the image (or another one), you will have a much higher success rate.
   
   
3. WILD doesn't work for everyone. There are many other methods, such as DILD (dream-induced lucid dreaming) and MILD (mnemonic-induced lucid dreaming). If WILD fails, then try one of those two.
   
   If you want to learn more about lucid dreaming, there's an active forum at Dreamviews with a number of good resources. I also highly recommend Stephen LaBerge's Lucid Dreaming.