Have you ever wanted to lucid dream? Maybe you’ve always been curious but didn’t know where to start? Maybe you’ve done it before but are having a hard time getting back into it?

Whatever your situation, if you’d like to have a lucid dream, the time to start is now. Below you can learn about and download every FREE lucid dreaming software program there is to help you on your journey. Feel free to document your experience by leaving a comment on this post

Happy Dreaming!

Free Lucid Dreaming Software Infinity Paradiso Lucid Dreaming Digibook LucidWarp Lucille 2.0 Reality Check BrainWave Generator You Are Dreaming Lucid Weaver Daldom Discreet Reminder Lucid Dreaming Assistant

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Infinity
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DreamPort Home Page
Official Description:

“The purpose of Infinity is basically to allow the user to have lucid dreams in the time frame of 1 to 2 weeks. The idea is for people to use this to get out of dry-spells or for new-comers to use this to have their first lucid dream. ”

“It’s a day to day plan where you basically keep adding on more and more activities to a routine that you establish. The idea is to put your mind on over-load so that you have a lucid dream no matter what. By no means will this program give you the ability to lucid dream at will; however, it might put you in the right direction. By using this training software to have much needed lucid dreams, you’ll obtain more motivation and will be much more fit to persue the art of lucid dreaming on your own. Think of this as a powerful kickstart to get you going.”

Note: The Goods must be installed on your computer for Infinity and Paradiso to work. You only need to install it once. You need to have Adobe Flash Player.

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Paradiso
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DreamPort Home Page
Official Description:

“Have you ever wanted to construct your own dreamscape, full of anonymous objects and pleasures all from your choosing? Not only that, but would you want to have that dreamscape appear whenever you wanted to, whether you were lucid or not? Well, I’m hear to tell you that this task is not an impossible one, but rather a simple and fun one.

As more and more lucid dreamers enter this realm of dreamscape creation, many others are desiring the same satisfaction of being able to construct their own world. The problem is, many don’t know how, or where to start. Thus, I’ve created Paradiso, which provides descriptions, techniques, and advice on how to make all of this possible, leaving the user with one awesome result.

With this, you can create your very own extensive environment, and you can put anything you want in it. You could even put dream characters and signs up that have the sole purpose to tell you that you are lucid. Start the dream out in this environment all the time, then you can guarantee paradise and lucidity right from the beginning!”

Note: The Goods must be installed on your computer for Infinity and Paradiso to work. You only need to install it once. You need to have Adobe Flash Player.
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Lucid Dreaming Digibook
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DreamPort Home Page
Official Description:

The Lucid Dreaming Digibook “is a compilation of all techniques popular and unpopular for the sole purpose of allowing the user to have a solid reference when needed.”

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LucidWarp
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DreamPort Home Page
Official Description:

“ Lucid Warp is a seven day training course that transforms you and your mind to allow yourself to Lucid Dream at will. Many people have called this idea the “Holy Grail” of Lucid Dreaming, and to be honest with you, it is.

You learn to believe and expect various things to happen by experimenting each day with new things. Every day builds up on top of the other, and end up giving you the ultimate power to lucid dream. You will also figure out how to control your mind, rather than have your mind control you, which can help you in so many things other than lucid dreaming.

You know what the best part about all of this is? It is that you only have to do this method ONCE. After that, as long as you keep the same state of mind as you did during the 7 Days, you will have a very successful lucid dreaming career; you could even lucid dream every single night if you wanted to!

During this course, all you have to do is believe, and you will be able to accomplish anything you set your eyes on.”

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Lucille 2.0
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Lucille Home Page
Official Description:

“Lucille is a mostly hidden application that pops up questions to help you doing reality tests. The questions can be customized. The look of Lucille can be changed through so called skins.”

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Reality Check
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Red Byte Home Page
Official Description:

“Use this program as a “random” alarm clock to remind you to do reality checks. This is a free program – share it with your friends. This program may help train you to be more aware of lucid dreaming.”

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BrainWave Generater
Click Here Download BrainWave Generator 3.1

BrainWave Generator Home Page
Official Description:

“Want to relax? Meditate? Learn faster? Focus attention? Increase your awareness? Try self-hypnosis? Just put on the earphones and let BrainWave Generator take you to the state of mind you want. The sound and visual stimulation functions of BrainWave Generator help you prepare for stressful situations or challenging tasks, improve learning results, alleviate sleeping problems and headaches and much more! BrainWave Generator generates binaural beats that change your brain frequency towards the desired state, be it relaxation or enhanced attention. In addition to using the more than 20 built-in brain wave entrainment programs, you can create your own programs (presets).”

Additional Info:

Brainwave Entrainment for Lucid Dreaming – A concise guide to tweaking the Brainwave Generator settings to create programs for lucid dreaming, hosted by the DreamViews forum.

Lucid Dreaming / Sleep / Dreaming Presets – User-rated presets from the BWGEN community.

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You Are Dreaming
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YAD Home Page
Official Description:

“Hi I made this silly little program I call YAD ( You Are Dreaming ) for Windows-XP. When you run it, you will see the words “You are dreaming” moving across the screen, it’s small and gray so you may not notice it at first, it should be near the top of the screen. To change the Y location of it you can edit the yad.ini file, set a different location, and run the program again. To stop the program, double click on it ( it’s a little difficult to hit it because it’s a transparent window, so you may need to double click several times ) or use the Task-Manager to close it. The purpose of the thing is to subliminally put it into your head that you are dreaming.”

Notes: A bit more info on this program is available here.

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Lucid Weaver
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(directly to cellphone)

Lucid Weaver Home Page
Official Description:

“LucidWeaver is the world’s first lucid dreaming training software for mobile devices.

Lucid dreaming means knowing that you are dreaming while it is happening. It is a learnable skill that allows you to decide what is going to happen in your dream. LucidWeaver includes Dream alarm with sound cue which can be adjusted to a personal REM-sleep cycle for improving dream recall and lucidity training. Randomized reality tests can be set and it can be used as regular alarm clock.

With LucidWeaver as your constant companion in your mobile phone, learning the art of lucid dreaming is easier than ever.”

Note: LucidWeaver is free to try as a demo and then costs $19 euros.

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Daldom
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Daldom Home Page
Official Description:

“Daldom is a cross platform audio lucid dream induction software.”

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Discreet Reminder
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Discreet Reminder Home Page
Official Description:

“Discreet Reminder is a great tool to help you do reality checks, when spending time in front of your computer.”

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Lucid Dreaming Assistant
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No Home Page – This is some old DOS software!

Official Description:

“There are two versions of this program. A real existing version that you are (probably) using right now. And there is a version that only exists when you dream!”

Note: After using this program once, I had a lucid dream that night. You can read about the experience here.

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I guess it’s old news since the patent is from 2003, but I see that Stephen LaBerge, the most famous lucid dream researcher and lucid dream author in the world, has a patent on “substances that enhance recall and lucidity during dreaming.”

Patent number 20040266659, to be exact.

Here’s a summary of his patent, in his own words:

“This invention relates to the field of Lucid Dreaming and the enhancement of dream recall and dream lucidity through memory enhancing drugs, including the class of substances that comprise Acetylcholine Esterase inhibitors (AChEls). Lucid dreaming involves dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming. AChE inhibitors (AchEl’s) inhibit the normal metabolic inactivation of Acetylcholine (ACh) by inhibiting the enzyme, Acetylcholine Esterase (AChE), leading to accumulation of Ach. AchEl’s are most commonly used to enhance memory, particularly in patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Ach is also well known to be important in REM and thus is suggested herein to enhance dreaming and lucidity.”

Whoa! What did that just say?

(This makes me think of the movie Lawnmower Man, where the doctor gives Jobe drugs and then makes him a genius by combining it with virtual reality games.)

Pretty amazing stuff. If there’s anyone out there who could invent a lucid dreaming pill, I’d put my money on LaBerge.

You can read all the details of Stephen LaBerges lucid dreaming drugs patent here.

This got me curious – what other patents are there related to dreaming and lucid dreaming?

Quite a few actually.

We’ve got a patent for Equipment and methods used to induce lucid dreaming in sleeping persons, with LaBerges name attached to this one too.

This looks like a patent for the Nova Dreamer device, which detects REM and flashes a light with the idea that it will show up in the dream, and the dreamer will recognize this signal and know he or she is dreaming.

On a similiar but-this-probably-won’t-really-work idea, someone filed a patent titled Dream State Teaching Machine, which detects Rapid Eye Movement and then plays a prerecorded message in your ears via headphones, with the idea that you’ll hear it and become lucid.

There’s a not-too-exciting Dream Detection & Method System patent. Eh, next.

Ohhh – what’s this? Somehow someone got away with filing a patent for a Device that Records Dream Recollections ; also known as a tape recorder, or in this case, a digital recorder. What makes this different than a normal recording device? Not sure. Maybe because it looks like an alarm clock and sits by your bed?

Then this last one I found is pretty neat:

It’s called an “Apparatus for facilitating analysis of dream activity.” In more exciting terms, it detects your REM states, signals a sound to wake you when an REM period is over, and contains a voice activated recorder. The device is attached above your bed on the wall; the idea then is that it gently wakes you up once your dream is over and you can record your dream without even getting out of bed simply by using the voice-activated recorder.

I’d use it!

This theory has been put together by psychologist Joe Griffin, co-author of the book Dreaming Reality, as well as the Director of Studies at MindsField college, and a big player in the field of psychotherapy in general, evidently.

I encourage you to take some time to read the entire theory as put forth on their website. I found it fascinating, well thought-out, and thought-provoking. I also appreciate that the theory specifically addresses lucid dreaming as a real phenomenon.

So What is the Expectatation Fulfilment Theory of Dreaming?

The website states 3 premises that summarize the theory:

• “Dreams are metaphorical translations of waking expectations”.

• “But only expectations that cause emotional arousals that are not acted upon during the day become dreams during sleep.”

• “Dreaming deactivates that emotional arousal by completing the expectation pattern metaphorically, freeing the brain to respond afresh to each new day.”

Below are the most interesting points I see in regards to this theory of dreaming.

Read up on the Why We Dream website and join in with what you think!

On Dream Interpretation and The Meaning of Dreams

“The key to identifying what the dream was about is its emotion.”

I think this is the most meaningful advice ever in regards to dream interpretation.

On Lucid Dreaming

“Theories of dreaming that do not allow for occasional lucidity are, necessarily, incorrect or incomplete, because lucid dreaming is an acknowledged phenomenon. Our view of the REM state and the function of dreaming does not exclude lucidity in dreams.”

“However, lucid dreaming is a fairly volatile and rare phenomenon, even for those who have experienced it, and so such hopes have not been realised.”

“Lucid dreaming occurs in the REM state like any other phenomenon involving memory, metaphor and imagination. The same effects can be achieved through hypnosis, a focussed state of attention that artificially accesses the REM state. Knowledge of how to do this has been around for perhaps 40,000 thousand years.””

Ah! Finally – a theory that actually addresses lucid dreaming without dismissing it!

But wait! Doesn’t that last bit almost sound like a dig at lucid dreaming?” i.e. “The same effects can be achieved through hypnosis…” Huh?

On FLYING in Lucid Dreaming

This one caught me off guard!

The author implies that flying in a lucid dream is common because we are touching upon an ancient, pre-mammalian template in our brains for…swimming!

To quote:

“They describe their limbs as pulling or propelling them through the air, as though swimming. It’s as if an ancient premammalian template for swimming, left over from a time when our far distant ancestors lived in the oceans, is still able to be co-opted by the brain for a metaphor.”

On the Similarities Between Dreaming and Hypnosis

They state 3 similarities between the two states:

Amnesia – Time Distortion – Trance Logic

I love this last term, trance logic.

It aptly describes how when dreaming and when hypnotized, people accept whatever is going on. It’s as if there’s no backdrop of what’s normal to compare the experiences against, and thus everything is accepted as it is, without question, no matter how absurd.

Side note : Based on these three points, this list can also be expanded as similarities between dreaming, hypnosis, and tripping.

On The Relationship Between Dreams and Depression

This theory states that excessive dream sleep and “reduced slow-wave sleep” causes depression. Check out their video about dreaming and depression.

On Dreams Being Actually Not All That Bizarre

This one surprised me too. The author claims that dreams are actually overwhelmingly NOT bizarre; most dreams are dreams of our routine experiences. We simply tend to remember the incredibly strange dreams, and forget the rest.

Unless it’s just true that I forget most of my dreams because they’re boring, this one just doesn’t vibe with what’s in my dream journal, so I have am skeptical about this one.

On Dreaming and…(not) Going Insane?

One point that is actually pretty funny is that Joe Griffin claims that dreaming keeps us from going insane. By derousing the autonomic nervous system every night, our stress levels don’t overwhelm us to the point of insanity. Whew – That’s a relief.

Questions I have about this theory

If this theory is right, it would be possible to create a scenario to cause an unfulfilled emotion that would then, by default, be fulfilled within that night’s dreams.

So couldn’t we purposely create unfulfilled emotions to cause a certain metaphor in the dream? To in effect, pre-emptively control our dreams?

But then how can you create an emotion and not fulfill it, for certain, before going to bed?

And then how can you actively measure if an emotion is even fulfilled?

Questions I would like to ask Joe Griffin in an interview

1) Is there a relationship between the mechanism behind dreams and the mechanism behind individual psychedelic experiences? Could the content of the “trip” be determined in the same way our dreams are i.e. from the days un-fulfilled emotional arousals to the nervous system?

2) Is there a connection between having many dreams each night and then waking up with headaches? Could I actually be causing my headaches by intensifying or prolonging the REM state with my intention to have, remember, and control my dreams?

3) Can you explain what you mean when you equate the effects of lucid dreaming and hypnosis? Are you saying that the experience achieved through lucid dreaming can be achieved through hypnosis?

What do you think about this theory of dreaming?

I’m really glad I’ve kept up with this. I’ve recently organized and printed up 6 months worth of dreams into a binder! I can’t tell you how neat it is to have this at my fingertips. I’m able to see more clearly the overall landscape of my dream self. It’s interesting to see what people / issues / emotions / places continually pop up, too.

I’ve picked up a few tips and tricks along these many months of dream journaling, and that’s what I’d like to share today.

1. Begin writing down your dreams AS SOON AS YOU WAKE UP.

This is the mother of all tips for helping you remember your dreams. I write down my dreams on my computer in notepad before I do anything else. I’m often half asleep. I even will type with my eyes closed.

2. Use keywords or shorthand to quickly jot down important details that will later allow you to recall more details.

Dreams slip out of our waking minds like sand falling from a closed fist. Before the details are whisked away, it is helpful to quickly jot down whatever details you can from as many dreams as possible. This can be anything from writing down keywords, half-sentences, or quick summaries; the important thing is to “plant the seed” of the memory of the dream, so you can then go back and expand each dream using the keywords as triggers to help you recall more details.

3. Give each dream a title.

Don’t worry about grammar or a “good” title; the best title is the one that sums up your dream nicely. You can title the dream before or after you’ve written it down. Titling your dreams becomes a helpful reference point once you’ve got a lot of dreams written down.

4. Write your dreams down from a first person perspective and write them as if they are occurring now.

This is useful for two reasons: one, it’s easier to recall details if you imagine them in your head as if they are currently happening, and two, it gets quite cumbersome writing and reading dreams from a past tense third person perspective.

For example, what do you think is easier to read and understand?

“Last night I dreamed I was sitting over a bridge and that I was watching the water below me move by. I then dreamt there was a person nearby, standing by a tree. In the dream he might’ve been looking at me but he didn’t seem to notice me.”

“I’m sitting over a bridge, watching the water below me move by. I can see a person nearby. I think he’s looking at me but doesn’t seem to really notice me.”

Hopefully the second example is easier to both write and read!

5. Keep a list of emotions related to each dream.

There is often a disconnect between the simple details of a dream and then the emotions you felt during the dream. Quickly adding a line for “Emotions” in your dream journal for each dream will allow you to note all the emotions you felt during this dream. This will be even more helpful later on when you are reading your dream journal.

6. Write down the events in your waking life that triggered aspects of the dream.

I find it helpful to note any instances or connection between the dream and recent (or past) experiences. I call these triggers and at the end of each dream I simply include a line titled “triggers” and I jot down whatever connections I see from the real world into my dream. It is interesting to see what experiences tend to carry over into your dreams and this will also make dream interpretation easier.

7. Use a dream question template to help capture all the details of the dream.

Dreams are notoriously strange experiences; often simply writing down the main details fails to capture the heart of the dream due to the disconnected, non-linear, or bizarre details of the dream world.

I’ve written up a long list of questions to use as a basis for nailing down all the various pieces of a dream. My advice is to try it out and then customize it for yourself and your own dreams.

You will be amazed at how many details you will get out by going through a dream question template for each dream.

You can view my dream question template by clicking here.

8. Don’t read dream dictionaries or dream interpretation books.

Avoid them all and analyze on your own. Do not rely on a mass-produced opinion to tell you what your dreams mean!

9. Print up and organize your dreams into a folder.

This will make reading your dreams a breeze. Common themes will become more apparent and it will be easier to make connections between dreams and waking life when you can take in many dreams at once. Having all your dreams together in a bind is like giving yourself a present for all the time you’ve spent logging your dreams.

Please add your own comments and suggestions on this list. What has helped you with dream recall? What do you do that helps you keep a consistent dream journal?

To help with this, I’ve been working with a series of questions that penetrate various aspects of the dream to help nail down everything going on – the people, the place, the hidden meanings, the plot, the dream signs, the emotions, and so on.

For me, I’ve found it to be very worthwhile to take the time go through these questions!

So I want to share my dream question template with you. When I’ do this I skip around to get to only those questions that apply. You should feel free to do the same!

Here are the questions. You can copy and paste them as a whole and save them to use as you wish. Let me know if this was useful for you and feel free to suggest any new questions.

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Emotions

Emotions / feelings associated with the dream (write, don’t think.)

Was the emotion present in the situation in the dream?

(ex. ackwardly leaving a friends house whose parents didn’t want us their anymore)

Or was the emotion more of a general overall backbone to the dream

(ex a terrifying shadow/invisible presence in the living room)

People

Who all was in the dream?

Was anyone someone but actually not themselves?

Does anyone represent someone or something else?

Places

Broad geographical location, if any (ex. Indiana)

Specific location (ex. A 2 story 3 bedroom house in the country)

Does this place exist in objective, physical reality?

Have you dreamed of this place before?

Was this place realistic? If not, describe what was unrealistic.

Other

Ultimately, what do you think this dream is about?

Note any connections to real life / recent events / thoughts / experiences.

In the dream, did you notice anything out of the ordinary?

Or was the extraordinary taken in stride, unacknowledged by your dream self?

Did you experience any electronic failure in the dream?

(Ex.Devices working incorrectly, etc.)

Does this dream remind you of anything?

Did you see any dream signs?

Any additional thoughts or information about the dream you want to note?

Lucidity / Conscious Awareness

At any time were you aware that you were dreaming in the dream?

How did you become aware that this was in fact a dream?

Were you able to control any aspect of the dream?

No? Did you try?

Yes! What were you able to change?

How did you manifest this change?

Either way, what did you do upon becoming lucid?

What was it like interacting with dream characters?

What did you say to them / how did they react / what did they say back?

How long do you think the experience of lucidity lasted?

What techniques did you practice to remain aware and/or gain additional control over the dream?

Do you know how you ended up losing awareness / control of the dream?

Did the dream continue on post-lucidity?

Stumble It!