Re: TIPS

Hi.  I'm new here and so I'm just sort going through some posts.  I'll tell you what always worked for me as a trigger.  In my very first lucid dream, I put my hands up about six or so inches in front of my face.  Every time I felt like I might be losing control, I'd repeat it.  It got so that I'd just automatically do it every few minutes within these lucid experiences.  It seemed to keep me grounded.  I will say that my first lucid dreams were wake induced lucid dreams.  I had never had one from within a dream before.  I was having these WILDs every day and was having the experiences where I'd feel as though I'd woken up but was actually still dreaming.  I began doing this hand check during the day when I was awake because I found it easier to tell the difference between when I thought I was awake and when I was actually awake if I did these checks during the day when I KNEW I was awake because until I started checking during the day it was really hard to tell.  I'd look at my hands very often in this same manner during the day and ask myself "am I dreaming?" even though I knew I wasn't.  This action started slipping over into regular dreams.  I'd find myself doing this action from a non-lucid state in a dream and it would immediately put my into a lucid state where I could have the control that lucid dreams always had for me.  An interesting note: I never had the same amount of control coming from a sleeping dream state as I did from a WILD...it was always more muddled and I had a harder time with control although it was definitely lucid.  From a dream I would have to sort of follow the dream I was already in to a point.  I found it harder to change my environment and the like.  From a WILD I would have almost complete control.  I hope this is helpful.