Wanted to add a technique that can help achieve this when first starting. Use a body part you usually do not use to when interacting with the world. Hands are the most difficult by far to use because of the training we have given our mind subconsciously (that nearly everything it touches is solid).
For example stand next to the wall and start by bashing your shoulder into it. Another good one to use is the back, stand close to the wall and do a free fall backwards. The shoulder is easiest to learn, but the back can be fun, sometimes you’ll fall through multiple dreamscapes if you release into the free fall.
Going through walls usually results in a dream transition so it is a good time to start thinking about what kind of dream you’d like to be in next. It will influence the transition.
Or walk through and see what pops up. It’s like a box of chocolates, never know what your gonna get.
Thank you, querida BlessingsDeers for your encouragement.
At present I am dreaming more and more of the same: houses and buidlings, people, people and more people and cars, buses and roads. Seemingly nothing important happening - just a multitude of frentic, buzzing comings and goings - movements… And ‘me’: deeply asleep, fully identified, apparently not a miniscule free attention to become lucid.
places is a great dream theme and it is many times associated locations in other realms
Yesterday I watched an incredible movie that will be in the cinema theaters on the 8th December in the USA, but it’s already here:
Just felt it might inspire you and keep the process highly inspiring that’s the most important
The other day, I was asking myself why I found it so meaningful, and I had the insight of this pic is a great metaphor for lucid dreaming, and the spiritual path.
Finding the access to the subconscious and beyond requires a great deal of patience and persistence, but eventually the barrior will thaw, and allow you access and rewards.
Looks like a very cool movie. What speaks to me is the kind of unsettling atmosphere and light (or rather lack of it), the run-down buidling (so often appearing in my dreams) and the dispair in the main protagonist’s eyes - at least that is what I see/project
Just reading through this thread, and your post here caught my eye. It took me about 6 months of lucid dream / dream yoga practice to have my first lucid dream. Don’t give up! I felt discouraged at many points.
Oh, I am so happy to read this. It really goes up and down and in between I am getting discouraged, but still continue with my daily practice knowing that eventually it will work. And reading posts here, and reading books, and listening to podcasts…it all feels like supportive. Thank you!
-Writing my dreams down after waking up in the morning, looking for themes
-Vipassana meditation
-Mindful dog walks - 10km a day - asking “am I dreaming”, “Is this a dream…?”
-Checking for weird stuff and again asking myself if I am dreaming
-Reality checks (jumping and hands)
-Before going to sleep practicing yoga nidra and telling myself that “I am a really good lucid dreamer”, “lucid dreaming comes easily to me” and that I will remember to ask myself in my dreams “Is this a dream?”
…and I am doing the 10-day-practice with Dr. Clare Johnson. (Today day 5). Just for fun. I have read and heard it all before, but it’s more to just stay in this vibe of lucid dreaminf and Clare is cool.
» to do in the hypnagogic state,
» already in bed and very sleepy,
» saying at least 21 times
» after having slept three cycles of sleep - after around five hours of sleep, and after writing your dreams. this is essential because the sleep cycle composition changes after the first three cycles, where the REM sleep becomes bigger which is where lucid dreaming happens. I do this organically, surfing the natural wave when I spontaneously wake up after, at least, five hours of sleep.
Here they go:
» The Bodhichitta (heart of the awakened mind or the essence of awakening) - “I Lucid Dream for the benefit of all beings” and falling asleep with this deep intention to lucid dream for the benefit of all beings.
» The Shamanic one - “I am a dream warrioress. I keep conscious and lucid in my dreams” the warrior here is because there are no filters and we need courage to confront ourselves with ourselves at this level of authenticity AND because it also requires discipline, that I can see you have
Another hint:
Not just looking for themes in your dreams but DREAM SIGNS - cause that’s what gives you lucidity: you recognize “Ah… I’m dreaming”
And ‘me’: deeply asleep, fully identified, apparently not a miniscule free attention to become lucid.
and keep the process highly inspiring 
that’s the most important 
