>>38597956If you make it as natural as grabbing the door handle, then while you're dreaming your dream self will begin to do it as well without you having to think about it. So, in my case, I'd go to open a door, try to blow through my nose, and... wait a minute, it worked! I'm in a dream!
Then, you have to keep yourself in it.
If your first time is anything like mine, your subconscious will realize that you now know you're dreaming and things will be weird and quick. In my case, every character did a 180 neck rotation to stare at me, told me
>"you figured it out?"and then I woke up.
Chances are, most of your first few lucid dreams are only going to last a few seconds, either due to your subconscious, getting too excited, or just not knowing how to maintain the dream state, so try not to get too frustrated!
There are, once again, a few methods for staying in a dream, but I'll go over the ones I'd do.
First off is staying calm and in control. Start getting too excited and you'll accidentally kick yourself out of the dream by waking yourself up, which is always annoying.
Second is doing reality checks, like the breathing through the nose thing I mentioned. I always rubbed my hands together, I'd zone out of whatever was going on, and focus intently on the feeling of rubbing my hands together. The texture, the gentle heat from friction, and within no time everything would be nice and stable again.
As you get more confident in your dream world, you can do things like pushing your fingers through the palm of your other hand or demanding that your subconscious bring more clarity to the dream. These require you to genuinely believe they're going to happen though, and even then they aren't perfect.
There are other ways too, like spinning around in the dream world, but YMMV. Spinning always woke me up, honestly.
It's all about experimenting until you find out what works for you.
And that's a brief overview of how I would lucid dream! Feel free to ask me anything
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