Hey everyone, I’m “new” but I’ve been a member of this site before. I got busy with school, life etc. and had to postpone my lucidity quest. I since forgot my account and had to make a new one… typical…
Anyways, I have never had a lucid dream. I try really hard and have yet to get any success. After I first achieve a lucid dream, will it get easier to have more, or is it always going to be a struggle for me? I’d like to get to the point where I get at least one a week, I’m not sure how realistic that is?
Sure, it’s realistic. It does get easier after you’ve experienced it once, because then you can use that experience to help you remember the feeling of being lucid and thus your subconscious knows better what you want.
Also, if you’ve been trying really hard, some people have their first LDs if they decide to take a break after trying a lot. Also, if your “trying really hard” includes using every technique you can try, I’d recommend sticking with maybe 2 or 3 and keeping a routine. There’s a reason habits stay with you longer than random stuff that happens.
My LDs are more frequent when I’m more interested. They’re more random for me since I don’t really use techniques, but they tend to come in bursts lately because of my bursts of interest. If I was always keeping my interest up, then yes, I could have one or two (or maybe more) a week.
Keep it up! Don’t get discouraged. Being discouraged never helps. Scuffing your shoes on the ground because you’re upset doesn’t get you anywhere, or at least it doesn’t get you there very fast.
yess it will get alot easier once you have your first one! and here is just an example of what ZRVera said. So i had had about 4 lucid dreams and they were amazing. Then- i know this doesnt sound like much but for like 2 weeks i didnt have one. and i REALLY wanted one. Then later that day i got sick and stayed sick for about 4 days. During this time i felt so bad that it was too hard to write my dreams down and think about dreaming so for that time being i kinda took a “break” Then after that sick period i felt better. That very night i hoped to have a lucid dream and bang! that night i had a lucid dream
On reason why is that it will make you believe stronger that you can have an LD. Believing you will have an LD will affect your SC and make it more likely that you do have an LD. That is basically the goal of almost every technique. The different techniques are just different ways to tell your SC that you want an LD.
The other reason I can come up with is that you learn how to do it. If you find a technique that works you will stick to that technique and is is likely to work again. Just like with anything you are trying to learn. Once you manage to do a hard trick on the skateboard it becomes easier to do the next time.
The more you know yourself, the easier it gets. You’ll learn what works for you by listening to your body, not forcing yourself into a technique that might just not work for your way of sleeping.
Thanks guys, I was getting pretty annoyed but I feel a little more confident now.
What would you say is the easiest technique for a beginner? I tried WILD twice before in the early morning, and then realized I was a little ahead of myself. Last night, I awoke after about 6 hours of sleep and I had 3 hours left. I decided it was a good time to try for a lucid dream… but then I realized… I had no idea what to do.
I think my best chance is to get in the habit of doing reality checks. But I need help in figuring out when to do a reality check. I have no alarm watch, and my phone can’t be going off every 10 minutes in school. Do you guys have any ideas of what I could make my “trigger” for doing a reality check?
I personally only do RCs if I find something a bit confusing, strange, or if I really think I might be dreaming. I find that even RCing at really little stuff helps me if I remember, because I’ve passed off little inconsistencies like wondering why my contacts were weird in a dream before. I don’t use a timer or similar because what’s going to guarantee that the alarm will show up in a dream? Remembering to do the RCs is the key, rather than doing lots of them. So really, lots of RCs help, but your goal is actually wondering if you’re dreaming, not just getting lots of them done. Also, if you’re keeping a DJ, you can look for dream signs. If you find a common theme in your dreams that you might perhaps run into IRL, RC whenever you run into it IRL. It’s a bit tougher when you only run into something in dreams, like flying, but you can set your intention to recognize that dream-only occurrence and so realize that it’s a dream. That’s how some people first started LDing… they learned to recognize their nightmares, for example.
Well, guess my rambling this time included some stuff about RCs and some stuff about… I don’t know… DS? Well, I hope it’s helpful, even in the chaos that I wrote that I already forgot…
typical…
Scuffing your shoes on the ground because you’re upset doesn’t get you anywhere, or at least it doesn’t get you there very fast. 
