Lucidly

Use Lucidly as part of a nightly routine to practice becoming aware inside dreams. Before bed, you set up a session on your iPhone and wear your Apple Watch to sleep. During the night, the watch tracks your sleep signals and the app times gentle taps for periods when you’re most likely to be dreaming. The goal is to notice the cue in the dream, perform a quick reality check, and stay calm so you don’t wake up.

A common workflow is to start with light, short cues and review how often they wake you. If you sleep through them, increase intensity or change the tap pattern. If they interrupt your sleep, lower sensitivity, shorten the alert window, or reduce the strength. Many users pair this with a planned mid‑night wake-up: after returning to bed, they run a more active cue setup to support techniques like WBTB or WILD. Others keep it simple and use subtle prompts all night to encourage DILD-style awareness.

After a few nights, you can look back at sleep and vitals data in Apple Health to spot patterns, like when REM tends to happen for you. That feedback helps you shift the timing and tune settings so cues land closer to your dream periods. Over time, the practical outcome is a repeatable process: configure, sleep, get timed taps, adjust based on what happened, and gradually improve your odds of recognizing the dream state without disrupting rest.