How do you induce Lucid Dreams?

hi der... you may try drinking a glass of milk before sleeping... its proven to have a good nights sleep full of dream ^_^

Well, you may actually have lucid dreams, but not remember them! So, first you should try to remember as many dreams a night as possible. Most people remember only the last dream they had, but my highest dream recall was four dreams in a night (for eight hours of sleep, we usually have five dreams), so I can tell you remembering more is quite possible! But if you can remember just one from every night, that is quite good too. To remember your dreams, tell yourself you will remember them. A good time to do this is when you're getting ready for bed (brushing your teeth, etc.). Don't wake up suddenly. If you need to use an alarm, find one that starts off quiet and then grows louder slowly. When you wake up, keep your eyes closed and try to remember your dream. Keep a notebook and pencil by your bed every night to record anything you can remember. This notebook is very important! It sounds dumb, but it helps a great deal! If you wake up in the middle of the night and remember a dream, write it down before going back to sleep. It's a pain, but it works, and, believe me, if you don't, you probably won't remember the dream when you wake up again (if you do, it won't be in so much detail as just waking up). Something that helps when it comes to the notebook is typing your dreams out. If you go over your dreams slowly like this, you may remember more to the dream. Also, this kind of finalises your dream in your mind, making you remember it better. Not to mention that you may have written it quite messy, and you think you will know what it say later, but chances are you won't (I've done this A LOT). Don't forget to date them! Drink a lot of water, eat healthy, and get plenty of sleep! After you have decent dream recall, you can start attempting lucid dreaming. Just like you tell yourself you will remember your dreams, tell yourself you will have a lucid dream. Something like, "I will have a lucid dream tonight and I will remember it when I wake up," is fine. One very helpful method is called a dream check. What you do is check if you're dreaming--during the day. This sounds stupid too, but this method is the method that has gotten me most of my lucid dreams. There are several things you can do, but the two things I do are these: 1.) Attempt to fly. You don't need to jump off a fence or anything! Just tell yourself to fly or even try to lift yourself a little into the air. If you can fly, it's a dream! 2.) Look at the clock (analog, digital--it doesn't matter), look away, and then look back right away. The clock should not change in real life (except the second hand or something). If the clock has changed dramatically, it's a dream! The more you do these when you're awake, the more likely you will do them when you're sleeping. And if you do them when you're sleeping, you will know you're dreaming! Another method is setting your alarm for five hours after you fall asleep (so you probably will have to estimate). After the alarm wakes you up, stay up for about an hour or so, then go back to sleep. Doing this is supposed to help you have a lucid dream. I haven't done that before, not on purpose. I woke up in the middle of the night once, fell asleep after a second or two, and then became lucid in the dream after. That was the best lucid dream I've had! I remember falling into the dream (the image just melted over the darkness in my head--it was so vivid; so crazy!). There are other methods (go to Wikipedia--I think they have some under "lucid dream"), but these are the ones that have helped me. If you're having a hard time lucid dreaming, you may have a hard time maintaining your lucid dream. I usually have a difficult time. First of all, try to stay calm. My very first lucid dream freaked me out--I knew it was a dream, but I was seriously afraid for my life, so I woke myself up (I was panting!). Secondly, it may be difficult to control. I've had many lucid dreams that lapsed right back into normal dreaming, I've had some where I accidentally forced myself awake for real, and I've had some that I just couldn't control anything, even though I knew I should be able to. Keep trying, and you'll get better! Hope this helped! Momo http://www.ai-momo.net/