1. Remember your ordinary dreams.

To start remembering your dreams try this simple

technique -- each night before drifting off to sleep,
repeat the phrase ‘I will remember my dreams as soon
as I wake up’. Say this phrase over and over until you
fall asleep, after a few days you will start to remember
your ordinary dreams.

2. Keep a dream journal

Even writing a few short sentences about your dream is

enough. This will get you into the habit of remembering
your ordinary dreams and to start looking for dream
signs within your dreams.

3. Pick out dream signs

A lot of your ordinary dreams will have objects or

people in them that could act as a cue to you waking
up in your dreams.

4. Notice your waking world

To be conscious in your dream world means you have

to be conscious in your waking world. Being consciously
focused means looking around you and saying what
you see, feel, hear, smell and touch and voicing it. If
you start to consciously focus on the world around you,
you will carry this over into the dream world.

5. Ask yourself; ‘Am I dreaming?’ Ask yourself just

now ‘Am I dreaming?’. Your obvious answer is to say
no, of course you are not dreaming. How do you know?
Try and think about why you know you are not
dreaming. This again will carry over into your dreaming
world and you will start asking the same questions in
your dreams.

6. Your first lucid dream

Many people have their first lucid dream simply by

reading about it. You might find that you become over-
excited and lose the lucid dream. However, your first
lucid dream will be remembered for years to come.

7. Staying lucid

By far the best technique is calming yourself down with

self talk and dream spinning. If you find that you are
losing your lucidity, you can talk to yourself to calm
yourself down and just start noticing the things around
you in your dream. Dream spinning means when you
feel you are losing control of your dream, you mentally
spin like a tornado to stay within your dream. This
focuses your mind on staying lucid.