[Rodas]

I've tried for a while but I'm unsuccessful. I really would like to have lucid dreams, would be like an awesome videogame!

[Bluerose]

Have you tried going to sleep thinking of what you want to dream about?

[sallgood]

You DO NOT want a lucid dream... trust me... you wake up all confused thinking people have died or that all of your friends hate you... its not a blessing I promise. If it means that much though... depression meds give me mine...

[Thomas1970]

There are some very good books available on the subject. One I can personally recommend highly is "The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep" by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, though there are other more well known books from a considerably more Western orientation.
Good luck. Take care. :)

[Capuchin]

One method is to do something during your waking life, like checking your watch and making sure the time makes sense.

If you can make that a habit, then you may try to do it in a dream, and you'll realise that the time doesn't make sense, and that's when you realise you're dreaming and your dream turns into a lucid one.

It's quite hard to keep lucid dreaming, because you do have a desire to open your eyes.

I think sallgood isn't describing a lucid dream. You can make anything you want happen in your dream as long as you know how :)

[Capuchin]

Hi liza, no I don't use that method, but I have read it's a good way to do it. You need a reality check in the dream, and if you're in the habit of looking at your watch and making sure it makes sense during the day, then you should do it in your dream too (and it won't make sense in the dream and hopefully you can catch it).

Of course there are cases where you might look at the watch and it says HELLO in big letters and you assume it's perfectly normal - that is the nature of our mind in a dreamlike state. But I've read it's been useful to many people trying to achieve lucidity.

I have obtained a lucid dream a few times, but I've always found it hard to keep my eyes closed. Each time the lucidity was created by me tweaking something unusual - for instance if I could breath underwater.

I don't really have the discipline to begin forming a habit to try and provide more lucid dreaming, although I would love to do it if it was easier - being able to control your dreams is vastly liberating - even from the short sessions I've had.

[Geoffersonairplane]

I had one of these the other night. I have only as far as I am aware had this type of dream 3 times in my lifetime. It was an extremely strange experience and something I would love to know how to actually instigate by choice. As far as I can remember it, I was consciously aware of my being asleep and was also able to choose the possible outcome of the dream to an extent. I was telling myself to pick objects up in the dream and for things to appear in the dream. Like Capuchin said, there is also a desire to wake up and I woke up as far as I remember 3 or so times and was able to drift back to sleep supposedly in the same lucid dream.. A strange feeling I had was the point at which I was waking up and it was almost as if my dream body was becoming weak as my true body in reality was coming to life (so to speak)... Can't really explain it properly as it is as I say a strange experience.

I know it sounds far fetched for someone that has never experienced them but hand on heart, this phenomenally strange form of dreaming is possible. Don't ask me how you do it though because I have never consciously thought about it happening, it just happened. I think relaxation or reaching some kind of meditational state helps. As I say, I believe I have only experienced this 3 times in my life so it is a rare occurrence unless there is a proven technique to it but that is beyond me.

[Capuchin]

I find that you have to realise that the dream is a dream, and that's when you gain consciousness.

There are some good ways of doing it, the clock one supposedly works well. There are quite a few sites dedicated to lucid dreaming, I'll see if I can dig a few up sometime.

[kalymanKe]

Check dreamViews page, have really good techniques that might help

[QUE_SAGE]

Good suggestions by others!
1- reality checks
2 dream journal
3 wbtb technique
4 try try try again!
5 read books and around forums for techniques and aids to lucid dream!