Wake Back To Bed (WBTB)

To perform the WBTB technique, do the following:

Step 1:
Set the alarm on your clock or cell phone to wake you up at a later stage of your night's sleep. Setting the alarm to wake you up 1/2 hour before you usually wake up is optimal. This is because you will likely still be in the REM stage, which is where most of your dreams occur.

Step 2:
Get in bed and go to sleep at night as you normally do.

Step 3:
When the alarm wakes you up, turn it off and get out of bed.

Step 4:
Try to stay awake for at least 15 minutes (but not more than 1 hour) and repeat to yourself "I will have a lucid dream". Repeat it over and over as a mantra. You may consider doing 10 repetitions of an aerobic exercise to get your mind awake a little bit more than normal.

Step 5:
Now climb back in bed. As you close your eyes and go back to sleep, continue repeating "I will have a lucid dream" to yourself. Visualize yourself being conscious in your dream.

Step 6:
After about 5 to 10 minutes of this, do a reality check to see if you are still dreaming. Look at some text or numbers and check to see if they change when you look away and look back at them. If they changed, you are now lucid dreaming!