If you go to sleep like 90-120 min later than usual, then wake up as usual and go to sleep again about 60-90 min later, entering lucid sleep is very easy. You can even leave music going on, or some video playing. No need for any devices.
I don't think I've ever had lucid dreams, but I do fly in my dreams a lot, and the "skill" of flying specifically gets carried over kind of like continuation dreams, except the dreams themselves are different (e.g., sometimes the dream world has magic and sometimes not).<p>My dream flying is odd; my ability to control my altitude fluctuates depending on whether I'm "concentrating" too little or too much. I suspect I'm balancing some kind of "partial lucidity" where I know I'm dreaming/I can fly but I can't think too hard about it. Another analogy would be like thinking about the game, or thinking too hard about a skill that has already become second nature.<p>Dream mental states are intriguing because you can be "in between". I don't think I'm the only person who has had "in between" dream states when you're trying to sleep in a stressful/uncomfortable situation and you drift in and out of consciousness (or maybe I am?).
Apropos of nothing, non-lucid (i.e. regular) dreaming has become a great aid to my songwriting and story-writing over the past few years. I have really long and vivid dreams where I'm other people in other parts of the world - sometimes other worlds altogether. I've been gay, straight, woman, man. I've been an otter and a pelican. I've spent weeks holding off an army of zombies. I've fought in post-nuclear wars. Each dream can last days or weeks of dream-time. The high level of detail of the situations - and their total lack of relation to my quotidian life - makes me think I may have actually lived those lives in some other versions of the universe. But wherever they come from, I find they tell me things about my own life and help me answer questions, sometimes really practical questions about code, other times emotional questions about what I want to do. And they're a great source of novel creative material.<p>I've never tried to lucid dream, but I'm afraid that if I could control them my dreams would lose the thing that makes them so valuable to me, which is that from their strangeness and randomness, I get to interpret what my other selves are trying to tell me. If my conscious mind controlled them, I think I would lose insight into that; I even wonder whether losing those voices and other lives in my sleep would be a step toward going insane in waking life.
From my MedTec experience, this thing should be classified and regulated. Otherwise it is just another mumbo jumbo. The Lens org doesn't have any patent applicant by that name. So I would guess it is not what it seems to be.
If I really need to induce lucid dreaming I just use the proofen method of taking a nap ingest a high dose of caffeine and going back to sleep again. Depending on your fav way of consuming caffeine it runs from 1-3 dollars.
Straight out of <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21942866/" rel="nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21942866/</a><p>Which is a fun watch btw
I'm not sure lucid dreaming is all it's cracked up to be. I've experienced it every night for most of my life. It's all quite entertaining -- I have some really awesome dreams -- but the dreams are also very visceral and a negative[1] dream can leave me emotional throughout the day.<p>Unsure if related, but I rarely wake feeling refreshed. Need to get a referral for sleep study...<p>[1] Sadly, none of the dreams are positive.
> Dreaming of a Theory of Consciousness<p>> Everything that exists was once either a dream of man or a dream of God.<p>What a dumpster fire of hype!<p>On a serious note though did anyone try using sleep tracking smart watch for lucid dreaming? Allegedly it knows when you REM or deep sleep, seems like hooking up into that and sending some specific vibration pattern should do the trick?
Even if it is pseudo-science (I seriously cannot make the demarcation), it sounds cool! But as it stands, we now must also return seriously to the concepts of neuro-security and neuro-privacy (for lack of better terms).<p>Ref.:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38238813">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38238813</a>