What is lucid dreaming?
lucid dreamig is a dream during which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming. During lucid dreaming, the dreamer may be able to have some control over the dream characters, narrative, and environment. Ever seen the movie Inception? It’s kind of like that but without the machine.
How to lucid dream?
Keep a dream journal.
Keep it close by your bed at night, and write down your dream immediately after waking, or the emotions and sensations you experience right when you wake up. This will train you to remember more of your dreams, which is important for lucid dreaming.[1] Plus, there's not much point in controlling your dreams if you forget the experience before the morning.Use reality checks frequently.
Every few hours during the day, ask yourself "Am I dreaming?”. With enough practice, you'll start following the habit in your dreams as well, cluing you into the fact that you're dreaming. One of the techniques I use is looking and my hands and my feet and if you look closely you will know if you are dreaming or not.Repeat "I will be aware that I'm dreaming," each time you fall asleep.
Each night as you fall asleep, repeat to yourself "I will know I'm dreaming" or a similar phrase until you drift out of consciousness.Learn to recognize your personal dream signs. Read through your journal regularly and look for recurring "dream signs." These are recurring situations or events that you may notice in your dreams. Become familiar with these, and you may recognize them while you dream, and therefore notice that you're dreaming.
Drift back to sleep when awakened from a dream.
When you wake up and remember your dream, write it down in your dream journal, then close your eyes and focus on the dream. Imagine that you were in the dream, noticed a dream sign or reality check, and realized it was a dream. Hold on to this thought as you drift back to sleep, and you may enter a lucid dream.Consider purchasing a light alarm.
Go online and purchase a light-based, instead of a sound-based alarm, or even a specialized "DreamLight" designed to induce lucid dreaming. Set it for 4.5, 6, or 7 hours after you fall asleep, or set it to go off every hour if possible. While sound, touch, or other stimuli during REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep can also make a dreamer aware of the fact they're dreaming, one study shows that light cues are most effective.
Note: lucid dreams occur while the person is fully asleep, usually because they notice a bizarre event and realize they're in a dream. This is just an alternate trigger that starts off about 25% of lucid dreams.
Source: wikihow, wikipedia