Dream Frequency and Intensity

Hi everyone, since it's my first post on this forum =)
I've been reading this thread and I'd like to share my knowledge about lucidity, which I've breen into recently.

So at first, performing reality checks. This technique, as someone here mentioned, is said to work but appears it don't. I have some friends trying LD who tried doing reality checks, but no one admited it helped him. In my opinion performing reality checks can drive u nuts rather than help with LD.

There's also idea of using subliminal messages, like 'my dreams are lucid'. I've seen software that prints such a messages on the screen, so fast that they can't be seen.

The best technique I found is just being suspicious. When you're dreaming you've got to realize that you're actually inside the dream - often increadibly stupid things happen and we tend to accept them as real right away. The solution is changing attitude to dreams, thinking about them when awake.

Having a journal with dreams helps a lot. Even without writing it down, recall the dream and try to gather as much details about it as you can right after awakening.

Very efficient technique is using brain waves. There are some presets that are said to induce lucid dreams, but they induce dreaming at all rather than LD. Once, I have listened to various brain waves for about 2hrs while reading a book. In 15 minutes I went to bed, felt asleep after while, had a dream and woke up. So be careful with brain waves =)

About having dreams at all - it's theoretically connected with stress and inner tension. LD won't be succesfull for a person who's stressed (sometimes we don't realize how stressed we are!).

Good luck with Lucid Dreaming =)

How ya doing, buddy?