Dream Guides
Explore step-by-step guides to enhance your lucid dreaming skills.
Explore step-by-step guides to enhance your lucid dreaming skills.
Set reminders to perform reality checks throughout your day.
Track your emotions before and after your dreams to notice patterns.
Try different techniques and record their effects on your dreams.
Create and customize your own dream landscapes and scenarios.
Track recurring dream characters and their personalities or symbolism.
Visualize your dream activity over weeks and months with a calendar view.
Collect and interpret dream symbols to find deeper meaning.
Track your sleep cycles and optimize your timing for lucid dreaming.
Select a technique below to explore detailed tips and tricks.
Reality checks are simple, habitual tests to help you determine whether you're dreaming or awake. Because dreams often distort reality, these checks can reveal dream-like inconsistencies that trigger lucidity.
Common reality checks include:
If you make this a regular habit while awake, it will eventually carry over into your dreams. When a reality check fails in a dream (e.g., your finger goes through your hand), you’ll realize you're dreaming.
Tips: Pair the check with the question: “Am I dreaming?” and do it during transitions or emotional spikes.
The WBTB method involves waking up during the night—usually after 4 to 6 hours of sleep—staying awake briefly, then going back to sleep with the intention of becoming lucid.
Steps:
This works because REM sleep becomes longer and more vivid later in the night, increasing your chances of lucidity.
The MILD technique uses memory and intention. As you're falling asleep, you mentally repeat a phrase like: “Next time I’m dreaming, I will realize I’m dreaming.”
Visualize yourself recognizing you're dreaming, either in a recent dream or a made-up scene.
Best paired with WBTB: After waking up mid-sleep, recall a dream and rehearse becoming lucid as you drift off again.
WILD involves consciously transitioning directly from wakefulness into a dream. This is done by keeping the mind aware while the body falls asleep.
Techniques include:
It requires practice but can lead to vivid and stable lucid dreams. Often most successful during WBTB.
VILD is based on visual repetition. You imagine a dream scene over and over in your mind before sleep — usually one where you become lucid.
Example: Visualize yourself in your room, seeing a dream sign, and saying, “I’m dreaming!” — then repeat this loop.
Over time, this visualization embeds into your unconscious and makes lucidity more likely when the scene appears in an actual dream.
Tip: Be as detailed as possible with your imagined scenes. Add color, emotion, and movement.