Frustrated: Losing ability to get lucid!

Quest for Lucidity
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Okay, so I have been able to LD all my life, to a certain extent. Even as a kid I was always really good at recalling my dreams and every so often I would realize when I was dreaming and be able to control some aspects of the dream but I wouldn’t be able to stay lucid too long. Over the past year I recently learned exactly what lucid dreaming was and pursued it more in depth, dream journals, reality checks and the like. I got pretty good at it, and it saved me from a lot of nightmares. (Like once I was having a nightmare that I was being chased by a horde of zombies, upon becoming lucid I turned them all into puppies wearing sweaters. One of my best achievements!)

Well, over the past few months or so my ability to recall my dreams has been dwindling and I am not able to have lucid dreams at all, no matter what I do it seems impossible. I’m really disappointed by this but still I persist in trying, even if it is to no avail.

So my question to you is, does anyone know why this might be happening? Does one lose the ability to lucid dream over time? Could it be stress?

I don’t know, but I’m a little disheartened by this development, I used to really enjoy sleep because of my wonderful dreams, now sleep is just something I do to get the night over with :meh:

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Hi! Sorry to hear about your dwindling lucidity.

It could definitely be stress related. Or perhaps you’ve changed your sleeping habits, diet, or something else significant in your life! If you’ve moved recently, that could also be it.

The good news is that once you get used to whatever it was that disrupted your lucidity, it should come back. Keep trying!

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If you have alot of stress in your life it could be a factor. Aside from that check your motivation, perhaps you haven’t been putting in as much effort as you were, also be sure to look for other changes in lifestyle, location etc. that could be detrimental to your dream recall and LD ability.

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And there is a posibility that you are willing yourself. I mean, you put a trought that you are losing your LDing ability so deep in your mind that you are really having problems with it. Adding to this stress, maybe something with diet, motivation like Lucidicy Master wrote, a lowering LD condition might be result of it all.