Three Different Methods

Wake-back-to-bed (WBTB)
The wake-back-to-bed technique is often the easiest way to encourage a lucid dream. The method involves going to sleep and waking up five to six hours later, focusing all thoughts on lucid dreaming while staying awake for an hour, and going back to sleep while practicing the MILD method. This technique has had a 60% success rate in research. This is because the REM cycles get longer as the night goes on, and this technique takes advantage of the best REM cycle of the night. Because this REM cycle is longer and deeper, gaining lucidity during this time may result in a lengthier lucid dream.
Wake-initiation of lucid dreams (WILD)
The wake-initiated lucid dream "occurs when the sleeper enters REM sleep with unbroken self-awareness directly from the waking state". There are many techniques aimed at entering a WILD. The key to these techniques is recognizing the hypnologic stage, which is within the border of being awake and being asleep. If a person is successful in staying aware while this stage occurs, they will eventually enter the dream state while being fully aware that it is a dream.
Cycle adjustment technique (CAT)
The cycle adjustment technique, developed by Daniel Love, is an effective way to induce lucid dreaming. It involves adjusting one's sleep cycle to encourage awareness during the latter part of the sleep. First, the person spends one week waking up 90 minutes before normal wake time until their sleep cycle begins to adjust. After, this cycle adjustment phase the normal wake times and early wake times alternate daily. On the days with the normal wake times, the body is ready to wake up, and this increases alertness, making lucidity more likely.

Mnemonic induction of lucid dreams operation

The MILD technique is a common technique developed by Stephen La Berge used to induce a lucid dream at will by setting an intention, while falling asleep, to remember to recognize that one is dreaming or to remember to look for dream signs when one is in a dream.
• One easy-to-apply method is to count yours or other people's fingers during the day, making sure it is done diligently and reaches the expected number. If this is done frequently when awake, similar behavior may continue into the dream.
• Another method is to look at text (such as a digital clock, or a road sign), turn away, and then look back. If the person is dreaming, the text may change to something else.
The dreamer would then realize he or she is dreaming and the dream could become lucid.
A key element in MILD is reviewing in memory the dream from which one has just awoken. When a point is reached in the dream at which an obvious dream sign occurred (e.g., a man with two heads walks past) individuals performing this technique depart from actual memory and instead imagine they became aware they were dreaming.

Dream recall

Dream recall is simply the ability to remember dreams. Good dream recall is often described as the first step towards lucid dreaming. Better recall increases awareness of dreams in general; with limited dream recall, any lucid dreams one has can be forgotten entirely.
To improve dream recall:
• One can keep a dream journal, writing down any dreams remembered the moment one awakes.
• An audio recorder can also be very helpful. It is important to record the dreams as quickly as possible as there is a strong tendency to forget what one has dreamt.
• For best recall, the waking dreamer should keep eyes closed while trying to remember the dream and that one's dream journal is recorded in the present tense. Describing an experience as if still in it can help the writer to recall more accurately the events of their dream.
• Dream recall can also be improved by staying still after waking up a dream, recalling the dream becomes easier.
• Similarly, if the dreamer changes positions in the night, they may be able to recall certain events of their dream by testing different sleeping positions.

Induction methods

Many people report having experienced a lucid dream during their lives, often in childhood. Children seem to have lucid dreams more easily than adults. Over time, several techniques have been developed to achieve a lucid dreaming state intentionally. There are some common factors that influence lucid dreaming and techniques that people use to help achieve a lucid dream.

Near-death and out-of-body experiences

In a study of fourteen lucid dreamers performed in 1991, people who perform wake-initiated lucid dreams operation (WILD) reported experiences consistent with aspects of out-of-body experiences such as floating above their beds and the feeling of leaving their bodies. Due to the phenomenological overlap between lucid dreams, near death experiences, and out-of-body experiences, researchers say they believe a protocol could be developed to induce a lucid dream similar to a near-death experience in the laboratory.

Three ways different ways of lucid dream

A lucid dream can begin in one of three ways:
• A dream-initiated lucid dream (DILD) starts as a normal dream, and the dreamer eventually concludes that he or she is dreaming.
• A wake-initiated lucid dream (WILD) occurs when the dreamer goes from a normal waking state directly into a dream state with no apparent lapse in consciousness.
• A mnemonic-initiated lucid dream (MILD) can happen when the dreamer intentionally affirms to himself or herself that he or she will become lucid during the upcoming sleep. Reaching lucidity can sometimes occur due to dream-signs or spontaneously upon remembrance.

Lucid Dream

A lucid dream is a dream in which the sleeper is aware that he or she is dreaming. When the dreamer is lucid, he or she can actively participate in and often manipulate the imaginary experiences in the dream environment. Lucid dreams can seem extremely real and vivid depending on a person's level of self-awareness during the lucid dream.

Nightmare

Nightmare is also known as the unpleasant dream. Nightmares cause strong unpleasant emotional responses from the sleeper, typically fear or horror. ...Sometimes it happens due to any unexpected fearful experiences of our life or sometimes from for watching any horror movie or serial.
It does not only affect children’s mind it also affect many grown up people; even sometimes many people have died of heart attack due to fearful dream.

Sweet Dream

Sweet dream is known as a peaceful dream. Here we see those things, which we like to see. It can be the happy moments with our dear ones, or the sweetest memories of our childhood life. It also can be our dream world, even sometimes we imagine a fairy world where we want to live or wish to go.
It is something like the ending of a fairy tale like- HAPPILY LIVED EVER AFTER...

Types of dreams

We all see dreams when we sleep sometimes we remember sometimes we don’t.. It can be many types specially we know about two types –
• Sweet dream
• Nightmare
But there is also another type of dream which is known as –
• Lucid dream

Impossible and Improbable Things………..

As a rule, in our sleep all kinds of events seem to happen which in our waking hours we should know to be impossible. In our dream we seem to see and converse with friends who are at the other side of the world long ago or have been long dead. We may even meet historical or fictitious characters that we have read about in books; or someone who even does not exists.

Even we often lose our identity and dream that we are someone else. Space, time and order to the dreamer lose their reality..