Igniting an object in lucid dreaming just by staring at it requires a strong desire to heat up and set fire to the object. Performed successfully, an object will smoke, distort, darken and then burst into flames.

Do It No Matter What. When performing lucid dreaming entrance and separation techniques, put your all into them and concentrate on them as if they were your life’s goal and mission. Chomp at the bit to leave your body.

Be Aggressive. Put all of your enthusiasm and desire into the techniques. The desire to get the techniques to work should be coupled with full aggression in achieving that result.

Be Self-Assured. During attempts, be as sure as possible of the results. When making attempts, lack of assuredness in yourself and the results will substantially lower your probability of lucid dreaming entrance. Nearly all lucid dreaming entrances are accompanied by self-assured thought like "I’m going to do it now", while unsuccessful attempts involve thinking "I guess I’ll try, but I doubt it’ll work".

Do it Robotically. Don’t think about anything when completing the technique procedure. You already have the instructions. Just carry them out, not matter what things may seem to you or what thoughts enter your mind. Robotically is also understood to mean exactly. The indirect technique procedure has been honed by work with thousands of practitioners all over the world, neglecting any detail isn’t worth it.

It Worked!

If you were successfully able to employ the indirect techniques and enter lucid dreaming at least 3 to 5 times, then you can gradually move on to the advanced textbook in order to flesh out your practice. Now you’re a man or woman of the future, and all that remains is to hone your new ability!

To perform this technique, the practitioner should peer from a distance at a minor detail of the desired location. The greater an intention to see an object’s detail, the quicker the arrival at the object’s location.

A drawback to this technique is that this type of translocation is possible only for places that are already visible, albeit from a great distance.

Being generally acquainted with the indirect techniques as well as the elementary rules of deepening and maintaining lucid dreaming may be considered the threshold level of practice. Detailed knowledge of the technical aspects of the practice may be considered the basic level. To be discussed now is the higher level of practice, which differs substantially from lower levels on every front.

If a practitioner is still unable to intentionally enter lucid dreaming at least several times a week, then he should not read this section. It may cause his mind additional confusion and distract him with things that are not yet necessary and difficult to understand. If he decides to read on anyway, he does so at his own risk and fully responsible for the consequences of his decision.

When mastering the practice of lucid dreaming, the process is sequential: one starts with simple background knowledge and techniques, and then works one’s way up to increasingly difficult things. However, once a certain level is reached, the process goes back the other way: one’s entire approach simplifies as one discerns the underlying principles. One cannot start off from those principles, as they can only be discerned through individual practice upon having mastered the basics. This comes naturally for many practitioners. The aim of this section is only to highlight things that will be realized consciously or subconsciously by a person constantly practicing lucid dreaming.

If a practitioner’s mind and attention-span become inevitably overwhelmed with a large body of theoretical knowledge, no need to worry – everything with become simpler with experience, and the discipline of practicing itself will bring much more enjoyment. Perhaps only the discipline in its higher form should be considered the real practice of lucid dreaming, as only then does it harmonize with real life and bring no discomfort.

A high level practitioner can achieve the following:

Indirect techniques work no less than 90% of the time.

Consciousness while dreaming can be obtained 80% of the time that one desires it.

Direct techniques work no less than 60% of the time.

Deepening takes a minimal amount of time and is performed while accomplishing a plan of action.

Maintaining is less energy-consuming and its effects more prolonged.

lucid dreaming can be applied in one way or another as soon as one desires to do so.

Even a moderate-level practitioner can enter lucid dreaming many times a day (3-6 times, not counting secondary entrances). At a high level of practice, this should be normal.

If a lucid dreamr has not reached such a level in every aspect, then he is still making some fundamental mistakes and therefore has something to work towards. If he has reached a high level, then he is already living in two worlds, and before him lies an unlimited Universe, where now only he alone can determine his actions and find meaning in them. He is at a point where no one or anything can make any substantial corrections to his experience.

The techniques for lucid dreaming entrance via becoming conscious while dreaming are based on reaching consciousness and self-awareness during a dream, which, regardless of dream quality, can be transitioned into a fully realized lucid dreaming experience. Contrary to popular opinion, having an out-of-body experience through dreaming differs little from other techniques. The outcome is still categorized as a dissociative experience: being fully conscious while removed from the perception of a physical body.

The realism of a lucid dream induced through becoming conscious in a dream does not differ from lucid dreams entered using other techniques, and, when deepened, lucid dreaming offers more vivid and lucid experiences than those of everyday life.

If a practitioner becomes aware of a dream while in it (usually accompanied by a clear realization that it is “just a dream”), then lucid dreaming is experienced from that moment forward.

Beginners often confuse the notion of becoming conscious while dreaming with induced dreaming. An induced dream is the dream of a specific topic, provoked on demand; this does not presuppose consciousness. Moreover, not all practitioners clearly understand what it means to be fully conscious while dreaming. Consciousness while dreaming is always present to some extent, but it is necessary to be as conscious as one would be in a wakeful state. Awareness is not possible as long as the plot of the dream continues. When full understanding occurs that everything around is just a dream, a person drops the dream and starts doing only what he wants to do at that very moment. And after awakening, he should not think that what happened was absurd or unexplainable.

During the process of becoming conscious in a dream, a practitioner’s actions must be completely subordinated to the desire to experience a quality lucid dreaming. This is why, upon becoming conscious in a dream, proceeding to techniques related to deepening and maintaining is crucial.

Techniques for becoming conscious in a dream differ very much in nature from other techniques, and there are good reasons why these methods are differentiated from other practices, like so-called astral projection or out-of-body experience (OBE). However, their characteristics differ very little in terms of results.

The technique-related peculiarities rest in the fact that specific actions are not required to produce immediate, concrete results. All technique-related elements are performed outside of when consciousness while dreaming occurs. This is because it is impossible to take some action if you are not conscious and do not realize that you are dreaming. All efforts are directed at making that very realization somehow occur.

Interesting Fact!

Even if a practitioner pays no heed to the techniques for becoming conscious while dreaming, but applies direct or indirect techniques, on average each third lucid dreaming will still occur through becoming conscious in a dream. This has been statistically proven at seminars of the School of Out-of-Body Travel.

Many strive to achieve consciousness during each dream over the course of an entire night; however, this is rarely possible due to physiological barriers. There is a good reason that sleep and dreams are an important part of a human life. There is an important need to switch off not only body, but also consciousness, so that it may unconsciously sift and process the vast volume of information obtained in everyday life.

The timeframe for achieving conscious dreaming is very difficult to estimate due to the nature of required actions. Intensity and intention definitely exert heavy influence. A practitioner may become conscious in a dream when first lapsing into sleep, regardless of when it occurs. Or, with regular attempts, this could happen in two weeks to a month. Nevertheless, these techniques promise a much higher likelihood of success than direct methods, and can be compared with indirect techniques – inferior to the latter only in terms of the speed at which results are achieved and the amount of effort required.

Techniques used to attain dream consciousness should not be combined with other types of techniques. It is better to focus on one thing at a time. Interestingly, when a technique is practiced on a regular basis, there is nearly a 100% guarantee that dream consciousness will spontaneously occur. A practitioner must know how to react when this happens.