Establishing Your Own DreamSigns
Now you have a bit of knowledge on what dreamsigns are and how you can categorise them, you will be able to establish your own to aid you in achieving lucidity. Below is a proven 5 step process that will get you on your way to establishing and benefiting from your own dreamsigns.
1. Keep A Dream Journal
Unsure on how to go about recording a dream journal? Click here. It's paramount that you keep a dream journal consisting of your many dreams that you can use as a reference to establish your very own unique dreamsigns. Once you have recorded around a dozen dreams, you will be good to move on to the next step.2. Catalog Your Dreamsigns
To effectively catalog your dreamsigns, you will need to go back through your previously collected dreams and highlight your different types of dreamsigns. Simply underlining them or writing them under a title of 'My Dreamsigns' will work just fine. Be sure to get into the habit of doing this at the start of each day under your recorded dream for that night.
3. Classify Each Dreamsign Using The Dreamsign Inventory
Next to each dreamsign on your list, appropriately put them into their respective category. For example, if you dreamed of your friend with a pigs head, this would be in the form category.
4. Pick Target Dreamsign Categories
Count how many times you have experienced each dreamsign category (Inner Awareness, Action, Form and Context) and rank them by frequency. The highest occurring should be the next dreamsign you aim for. If you have a tie, choose whichever most appeals to you.
5. Practice Looking For Dreamsigns While You Are Awake
As you know, humans are creatures of habitual behaviour. Therefore, it's good practice to get into the habit of doing particular activities throughout your waking life to make it more instinctive while in the sleeping state. With this in mind, make it a habit to look for events from your dreamsign category. For example, if your target category is form, study the shape of physical objects, people, their clothes and often, their usual hair colour.
These five steps have been proven over and over again, conjured by the Lucid Dreaming guru - Stephen LaBerge. If you take your time to accomplish each one, focus and really make it a habit to search for your established dreamsigns in waking life, it will correlate with your results in the dreamworld acting as one of your main cues to lucidity.
Another proven method for achieving lucidity and sometimes, higher levels of lucidity, is Performing Reality Checks.
