I feel like I lucked into it one or twice years ago but haven’t been able to duplicate it

besides something about putting a glass of water next to your bed or something. There are a few books on the subject. Check out amazon's used section for reviews.

Castenada divided people into warriors and dreamers, if i remember correctly.

Personally, i have always been a lucid dreamer for many years. Can't really do it on purpose per se, it just happened.

You might try Superior Source sublingual melatonin...it makes for more vivid dreams and more memories of them. Start LOW. with the 1mg and be careful. If you start having nightmares, just quit!

FWIW, i stopped having bad nightmares when i stopped eating meat. Coincidence or causation? But i'm happier.

BTW, why do you want to do lucid dreaming? Is it for a particular purpose (like talking to someone) or more for entertainment?

Blessings and good luck

The Institute of Noetic Sciences, founded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell, often has webinars on lucid dreaming.

I don't want to do it as, when I finally do get to sleep, my dreams are such a rich part of my waking life, often giving me direction and messages.

https://www.coasttocoastam.com

enter "lucid dreaming" in the search engine, found at the top of the site.

I think you can listen to the first hour of any of the programs at youtube. However, I don't advocate paying them for any of their programs because they're a right wing site. If you follow the links from your search there, though, you'll get a fairly comprehensive list of the people who research and write in this area.

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re lucid dreaming, I do it a lot. If you have any questions, I'll try to answer them.

something terrifying was happening and it was like I woke up and said "hey, I'm in charge here." After that, I knew that I was the "director" for the dream.

but I have lucid dreams at times. All I can say is when you're dreaming, realize you're dreaming and then you can do anything in that dream. I almost always fly. Many of my dreams are precognitive. I call those Watcher dreams.

I never could fly. But I could levitate if my dream self slept and dreamed that it was running on a beach. The moment the soles of the shoes stopped leaving marks in the sand was when levitation took off.

I flew so high one time I looked down at the Earth, and became scared, so I plummeted back to Earth, and easily navigated to my home.

Another time I was swimming in the ocean, when I suddenly became aware I was in a dream, and said to myself 'I can't breathe underwater, oh wait, I can!' and swam through coral reefs, and then deep into the ocean with sharks and everything. It was wonderful.

The Watcher dreams are just that; I watch and see.

I only had a few running dreams. Since I can't run now, that would be wonderful....and across a beach no less!

I spent a fair bit of life to more esoteric pursuits in younger years. Lucid dreaming was certainly on the list of things I aspired to. It felt like I came close a few times, hovering right at the brink of snapping to 'awareness' mid-dream.

Most of what I picked up conceptually came from Castaneda's works. Honestly, Taisha Abelar (one of Castaneda's 'disciples') wrote a better instruction manual although she didn't go deeply into lucid dreaming. The Sorceror's Crossing is the title although, again, she's less about lucid dreaming and more about lucid dreaming-adjacent practice if that makes any sense?

My routine was simple. Light exercise (Tai Chi, yoga) followed by transcendental meditation for 30-60 minutes. Go to sleep with the intent to: a) dream, b) remember the dream, and c) regain awareness in the dream. You use the light exercise and meditation to calm the mind. You then use your "intent" to dream to make the rest fall in place. Don Juan instructed Castaneda to try remembering to look at his hands in his dreams. That's probably less about seeing hands in the dream and more about focusing your mind on the anticipation; i.e. focusing "intent" in Castaneda's lexicon.

At the very least it leads to more vivid, more frequent dreams with better recall afterwards.

seems to want me to read Castanada. I have lucid dreams though. They started at about 8. They're a bit sparse though, of late. I've had about 3 in the past few years.

Z told me to tell the poster to look at their hands in the dream to become lucid.

My dreams are incredibly vivid and beautiful, intensely so. I love to go to bed and dream.