Can't ever get anything done in lucid dreams

Lucid Adventures
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My last lucid dream was a very long one. One of my longest in fact, which should have been great, but the sad truth is, I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as I should. In fact, every lucid dream I can remember has left me feeling frustrated.

The dream in question, while very eventful, felt more than anything like a race against the clock. I was trying to find a specific dream character in a high-rise apartment building, but the fear of waking up made the journey extremely stressful. I successfully stopped myself from waking up several times by rubbing my hands together, and progressed closer and closer to my goal, but when I was nearly there, I knocked on the wrong door, and a dream character with a crazy-looking beard answered and cursed at me for waking him up, which in turn made me wake up, and too quickly for me to prevent it.

This dream is similar to all my lucid dreams. They are all a struggle to get some task done, which I don’t enjoy at all, and then I always wake up before I get it done. Always

Yes, I could have taken a shortcut to the target DC, by teleporting or whatnot, which didn’t occur to me in the dream for whatever reason, but really, I’ve even tried that before and failed. I can never seem to be able to fly in lucid dreams, and every attempt has lead to me waking up. Even one lucid dream where I was actually able to make it to the lucid crossroads ended in disaster when the two receptionists gave me this long speech as soon as I arrived which resulted in me waking up before I could actually do anything there.

I’m beginning to feel lucid dreams aren’t really worth the effort, for there is always the constant worry of waking up, which makes the journey difficult to enjoy, and it feels I am never able to reach the destination.

Do any of you have any advice for overcoming this problem?

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I think that maybe you’re taking lucid dreaming a little too seriously. The whole idea, at least for many people, anyway, is to have fun and do things you could never do in real life. I think you might consider your goals for lucid dreaming and if you feel that you can’t reach them, maybe make new ones. Easier ones. And also, even though this is kinda lame advice, I think you may need to just relax and try not to be stressed about it. Maybe realize that there’s always another dream if you didn’t get done what you wanted to in that one.

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hey, wait a sec! I say, perhaps, lucid dreams aren’t worth the effort if there is always the constant worry of waking up.

So you just have to get rid of the constant worry of waking up (I have the same problem :sad: ). Realx and let go. I find the more of a hurry I am in, the more stressed, the quicker the LD ends and the chances I get something done are really small. The more you worry about waking up the more your SC gets the idea of “waking up” and that’s what ends up happening :neutral:

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I’m having similar problems but not as intense as you. I suggest you try relaxing as mattias said.

I’ve had about 100 LDs. And those i have today are almost always longer then those i had a year ago. When you are a beginner you easily wake up from excitement, but that haven’t happened to me in a long time. Lucid Dreams are becoming common for me and when i have them i know that relaxing is the best thing to do.