Hello, I was wondering how often you have lucid dreams? Also what is your favorite method? Have you found a connection between smoking spice the day before you take a nap?

I have lucid dreams every single night. Most everybody does. Its not hard to have lucid dreams, most the time they happen by themselves. The hard part is called Dream Recall. That is remembering the dreams you had haha.

One technique I use which is particularly useful is to keep a dream journal. Make sure you keep the journal beside your bed and right down what you remember of your dreams AS SOON as you wake up. Writing your dream entry's asap from the time you wake up is essential because they slowly start to fade away into the day. Also, write your dream journal entry's as if they were happening in present tense.

If you really start to get into experiencing and analyzing your lucid dreams your gonna have to start working on your Dream Recall abilities.

Best of Luck, I'll see you at the staircase in the dream world.

Haha our methods are very similar. Only I do the Wbtb method multiple times a night.

For JellyFox, correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you mean everyone simply dreams at night and not "lucid dreams" every night? From what I've read and researched AND practiced in the field of lucid dreaming is that yes you do dream, and dream recall can be quite difficult, but what makes it lucid is the fact that you are aware of your dream state, during your dream state. The average human has dream sequences every 90 minutes or so, but usually only recall one, maybe two each morning. When a human lucid dreams, he or she KNOWS it. It's such a bizarre and unique experience.

No I truly believe that people lucid dream every night. It's really hard to remember but it happens, even though you still experience that weird feeling of being aware that your in a dream. From all the dream experts and people I have talked to they reassured me that Being aware that your'e inside a dream is not difficult and is something everyone does, but rather being able to remember it thats is the hard part.

heres an excerpt even from wiki

"For some people, sensations from the previous night's dreams are sometimes spontaneously experienced in falling asleep. However they are usually too slight and fleeting to allow dream recall. At least 95% of all dreams are not remembered. Certain brain chemicals necessary for converting short-term memories into long-term ones are suppressed during REM sleep. Unless a dream is particularly vivid and if one wakes during or immediately after it, the content of the dream is not remembered"

so when you have those intense lucid dreams where you are really in control and interacting with the environment obviously they are much easier to remember, but some of the less intense (but still lucid) ones may not be as easy to remember unless you train yourself to.

I lucid dream once every couple of months. It's not in any way regular, but it's a nice little surprise when it does happen.

One thing I find strange about lucid dreams is that, for me, the entire experience is extremely erotic. I identify as asexual, so this is weird to me. I'm not doing anything specifically sexual in my dreams, but rather, the very state of being in a lucid dream is sensually very...strange.

How does one tell the difference between a true lucid dream and a dream that one is lucid dreaming? I don't remember my dreams very often, and lucid dreams are even more rare for me. Sometimes I wonder whether or not I'm actually lucid dreaming, or if my dream self is merely imitating the thoughts of a lucid dreamer. How does one know if they are actually in control in a dream as opposed to just having the illusion of control, if not also the illusion of conscious thought? How does one distinguish between illusory conscious thought and real consciousness? I don't think it's possible, even when awake, but I'm just throwing that question out there.

haha thats deep hixidom, I think that the only way to distinguish between having control or not having control is making decisions and interacting with the environment. Determining whether that control is illusory or real isn't necessarily important while you are in the "dream".

And nathanial "I identify as asexual" hahahahah me too!

This thread reminds me of a good Syd Barrett song "jugband blues".
last lyrics of the song are "what exactly is a dream?, and what exactly is a joke?".

very often to every night..and have for my entire life.

Thank god jamie knows what im talking about hahaha.

Meet me at the staircase........

I'm with Jellyfox.

I lucid dream every night, and I believe most people do as well... they just don't remember. As my fellow oneironaut has said, recall is immensely difficult, and even when you have a journal and wish to remember, and think about recall immediately upon awakening... it is only possible to recall a tiny fraction of what went down. If you wake up and have responsibilities and are not fundamentally interested in your dream life... you will be lucky to remember anything at all.

Now, let us clarify what is meant when we say lucid dream. Any dream where you question whether or not you are dreaming is a lucid dream. Naturally, this is not the full blown, absolutely sure you are dreaming and become a godlike being with vast control over the dreamfield stuff... but it is a spectrum. One that ranges from "Hmmmm... maybe I am dreaming." to creating entire dreamworlds and playing SimUniverse with them... and beyond.

I won't go off here and drop a huge info dump here now, but I will say that there are supplements and vitamins you can take to increase recall and vividness. There are also various yogas and techniques you can do, such as the Wbtb technique mentioned by the OP, as well as the Wild technique and numerous others. If dreaming is something that is important to you, you will find access to the information and achieve the mastery you seek. Just be persistent and don't give up. Being an oneironaut is not so different from being a psychonaut. Both require a lot of the same skills and focus. They dovetail rather nicely as well.

As for connections between lucid dreaming and spice... well, it is somewhat hard to say. The only real connection I can say is that if I spice up a lot, it is likely that I will also use spice in my dreams. (whether lucid or not) And, for the most part, spice works the same in both settings. The main difference for me is that if I am dreaming I can turn hyperspace on and off with or without actually consuming the spice. Thus I can have super short dips into hyperspace and abort instantly once I got what I needed... or have epic, endless voyages that go on and on... simply by thinking about spice.

This dream spicing is a true luxury, and the creme de la creme of tripping for me.

There you go,
HF

Watching the film Waking Life is like Lucid dream 101 too hahahaha.

Heheehe. Gotta love Richard Linklater. His other rotoscoped film, A Scanner Darkly, is also well worth watching.

I'm in the camp that believes you do it every night. If I have to get up at 6 am for work and I wake up around 3-4 for what ere reason, I can pretty much guarantee a lucid dream that ill be able to remember almost every time. This has increased I. The two months I've been off Vyvanse/adderall. I feel like the fuller day (more activity) then the better I dream now.

It's fun reading everybodies opinion on whether or not you lucid dream every night. In my opinion you don't, before I started habitually lucid dreaming I would remember my dreams but it wasn't till later on I was able to go lucid.

Occasionally yes - not every night; I wish I had more. I posted mainly to say that a charismatic American guy stood in our town shopping centre a couple of years ago signing people up to his own lucid dreaming workshop. I signed up and attended his house along with about 15 others. I told this guy that I often find myself flying (not like flapping my arms like a bird in flight but you know...flying) in dreams, and he told me that to maintain that for longer if I willed myself to spin around (in mid air) quite fast for a short while, that would increase the longevity of the experience of flying. I dreamt that night I was flying (bear in mind these dreams are occasional for me) and I did indeed will myself to spin around and it did, in my opinion, significantly increase the duration and to be honest the whole experience. I have done that only once again since (spinning, not flying) a few weeks ago. The whole thing was a little bit surreal. When I was 14 I found I was super masterful at lucid dreaming...creating landscapes, stories, characters. But lets leave it there

Personally i've only had maybe four or five real lucid dreams that didnt last very long, the way i finally got it was with binaural beats. look up I-Doser for more info that's what i used. basically with this program, you can listen to these frequencies as you go to sleep that put you in a meditative state and induces lucid dreaming. its worth a try, weather it really works or not a placebo effect might be enough to do it. it worked for me.

going to sleep right after a heavy mushroom trip has also done the trick for me, but im not too sure if i was really asleep and dreaming, or awake and still tripping to be totally honest. still worth it though!

Like some of you I lucid dream every night.
I found out that the easiest way to do it is to do reality checks while you are awake (something as simple as checking my cell phone for messages.... When you are dreaming your cell phone looks funny and it's almost impossible to read it!!!) .

To help my dream recall I write a journal during the day at random times. And as a result of that when I'm dreaming I try to write in the same journal knowing that it's very hard...... but it helps me consolidate the memory of the dream at a deeper level making it easier to remember.

Finally I would like to add that when in your dream you become aware of your awareness, something beyond lucid dreaming and very unique happens, impossible to describe.... I hope some of you relate to it and know what I'm talking about.

What plants or drugs may help induce a lucid dream? I have plenty of dreams but im not in control of them.

Calea ternifolia. Makes a WORLD of difference to the intensity, lucidity and recall of dreams.
Cheap and legal as well.
Highly suggest you smoke it, as a tea tastes terrible (on par with cactus tea, and syrian rue tea).
I don`t dream that much lately...smoking pot diminishes that, in my experience.