Techniques I have used include:
- When you get there, don’t do anything too drastic, otherwise you’ll wake up. Don’t fly too high at first. Start small and work up.
- Practice while you are awake. Carry around a note and pull it out several times a day and read it. If you make this a habit in your waking life, you’ll dream it sooner or later. If the message is different, or you are unable to read it, you are dreaming.
- Speaking of reading, read everything around you when you are awake (street signs, billboards, etc.). After you read it, look away, and turn back to it and read it again. If it says something different, or it’s illegible, you are dreaming.
- If you are experiencing a lucid dream, and you feel yourself waking up, out stretch you arms in the dream, tilt you head back, close your eyes, and spin.
http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/lucid-dreaming-techniques.html
I was in this big house and Austin wasn’t born yet. I was still married to Kristin. All the ceilings in the house were very tall, 12 to 16ft. high. This is a lucid dream. I even walked over to a closet and opened the door. I saw shelves and blankets everywhere. Then I closed the door. (This was a conscience decision.) I walked back into the room and there were drapes over the drapes on the walls but about 4ft. down from the ceiling – some of them were falling off. I asked Kristin, “Why in the hell do we have these drapes on the walls”? She said this was her style. I kept looking up at the ceiling thinking this was real because I can control everything in this lucid state. Then I woke up – crying.
