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Has anyone succesfully done this? Any recommendations?
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Yep, I have. And I've programmed myself to do it successfully before I went to sleep. All I did was believe that I could make it happen and told myself that I was going to make it happen. Waking yourself up in this situation is very easy, a little too easy as if you even sort of feel like waking up, you will. It's kind of fun, but I haven't done it a bunch because it was mildly entertaining.
I happened upon my first lucid dream accidentally. The events that occurred were such that I just thought, "This is BS, I must be dreaming," and then realized that I was. On later occassionas I took control of the events in the dream. I figured I'd be able to control the events as the events in a dream are generated by the brain.
YMMV