So you want to learn how to lucid dream. Well you've made the right choice by coming here. I would first like to say that lucid dreaming is not something easily learned by most people. For many, it takes weeks, months, sometimes years to have just one lucid dream. To be able to have LDs on a regular basis, or on command, takes years of practice, patience, and knowledge. Some people are naturals, others will have to work very hard. I will go over a brief introduction on how to go about inducing a lucid dream.

The first step in the path to lucid dreaming is to increase your dream recall. Some people may say they never dream, but what they really mean is that they never remember their dreams. Every night a person has an average of 3-5 dreams regardless of whether they remember or not. The most effective way to increase your dream recall is to keep a journal. This tells your brain that dreams are important, and to pay attention. This also lets you recognize your dream symbols as you can easily see commonalities from dream to dream.

After your recall has been improved to at least one dream per night, its time to start attempting LDing. There are two basic types, DILD (Dream Initiated Lucid Dream) and WILD (Wake Initiated Lucid Dream), although there are many sub categories and techniques like the DEILD, FILD, EILD, MILD, etc. My advice is to pick one technique and stick with it. To go about learning these techniques I suggest googling every acronym I listed above, but I will provide you with a good first stop.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lucid_Dreaming

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