Benjamin Baird

Everyone's good, I'm good, I'm fine.

If you're like me and never had a lucid dream before, but think it sounds groovy, is it possible for me to learn how to do it myself? Benjamin Baird of the University of Wisconsin has found that evidence suggests that lucid dreaming is a learnable skill that can be developed by training with various induction strategies, which include prospective memory techniques, external sensory cues, and interrupting sleep with short periods of wakefulness.

The prospective memory technique is also known as the MILD technique, which stands for Pneumonic Induced Lucid Dreaming.

This technique asks the sleeper to recite a phrase like, I will have a lucid dream, over and over as they fall asleep.