becoming and staying lucid (was 'i have a problem')

becoming and staying lucid added to topic title

ok so heres the deal

iv had a fe Lds within th past year.
i have FA’s regularly
but for months whenever i know im dreaming i convinve myself that im not again straight away.

any ideas on how ths can be resolved?

when you realize your dreaming try flying. It may make it easier not loosing lucidety when your flying.

yeah, don’t just stand or think what to do, quickly start doing something.

Etheir that, or try to do RC’s frequently, to remind yourself it’s a dream.
Also try to avoid things that seem normal, try to make your dream as crazy as possible. That might help. :content:

Do something to increase your lucidity! Like really focusing on reality checks or something. Keep reminding yourself that you are dreaming! And, certainly, firmly resolve not to forget you are dreaming!

ok about RC’s do you do them through the day to remind yourself to do them in dreams
or do you just remember in dreams and do them there?

You do them in the day so you get used to doing them, and hopefully develope a habit that will carry over into your dreams.

That doesn’t work with me. It’s so weird, I can rarely fly when I’m LDing. I’ll know for a fact that I’m dreaming, because I can make thing disappear and reapper differently, but for some reason, I have trouble flying. I thnk Ive only flown like 3 times out of all the LD’s ive had so far. Are there any technques i can use? It’s like it just won’t let me.

Do u think it might have something to do with my fears? (even though I know in a dream you can do anything without consiquence)

Ive had the same problem sometimes. You could try jumping off a building, but sometimes it scares me to jump. I had a helicopter LD the other night, and I was going to jump from the helicopter, but was too scared.

Yeah i have like the worst fear of heights ever

what you need to do is have a dream journal after a while you will compile a list of common themes that appears in your dreams. For me one of them is violence despite the fact that I live a wonderfully peaceful life. so one of my RCs is am I doing something violent.

A more common RC is our your hands deformed. If yes you’re dreaming if no you are awake. But beyond all things you cannot remind yourself to do a RC in your dream because you’re not aware that you’re dreaming. You have to do them many times during the day. That way you do them in your dream by habit and stumble upon a LD as if by accident.

edit: I used the hand deformity RC just last night with great success :smile:

i deffinately have to try RC more now i think im gunna try the inger through hand technique.
if anyone wants to help me find my dream theme feel free to look through my DJ and pm me if you find 1.

isnt it wierd how evryone even dreams differently.
flying was the first thing i tried whist lucid and i succeded :smile: