Anyone here into lucid dreaming? I'd like to get into it.

[limbicnuminousity]

7. Seeing this late as well.

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.