I made a promise to myself, that I would practice the art of LDing for atleast 5 months, I havnt been keeping up with my DJ, but I remmber having some awsome dreams, but I dont remmber much of them, because Im not writing them down. I guess its all up to me, but I figure someone could give me some advise.
I allso have the fear of loosing the ability to LD, if I dont keep up the practice of LDing. I think that effects my motivation.
i have lost a lot of motivation, been having a terrible time sleeping, new uncomfortable bed, nightmare, stress… dreaming is not as natural as it should be for me anymore.
i’ve lost all motivation to have an ld within a set timeframe.
perhaps that is your problem, setting a finite date like five months can lead to trouble. if you do not achieve ultimate command of your dreams by that time it will be great cause of discouragement, instead of setting a time such as five months, try settinga simple goal that isnt relative to time. there are to many factors that affect your abibility to ld in five months, for example, my inability to sleep for more then two hours in a row.
try something like
“i am going to practice ld’s until i become profiecient at them” or “i am going to do this until i can fly to paris and tumble down the eifel tower”
it is tough, it is frustrating when things do not come as easily as they probibly should… have patience, all things will come in time
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Kavaa, if you made a promise to yourself, then you HAVE to write down your DJ for 5 months. It’s a matter of discipline. Some of your personnality tendencies are trying to trick yourself. It’s just the same in any practise which requires some discipline, like sport: “I feel I’m good enough, I won’t train today” or “Anyhow, I won’t reach the level I want to reach, so why to train today”, etc.
But if you think you REALLY can’t restrain yourself to LD’ing during 5 months, just put the bar not high so much, and try to LD during 2 months for instance.
One way I keep motivation is to imagine participating in video games or movies.
Try thinking of all the things you could do in your dreams that you couldn’t do IRL.
ive had the same fear about WILDing ability and LDs
but nope, still wilded after many months of never trying
its not like building sandcastles on low tide, or anything so temporary…if it were better to focus on more important things
an ablility is an ability, and while you can get out of practice, you won’t ever lose it
If your loosing motivation, take a break. If its not fun or seems like a chore then why are you doing it? I think a break, or an LD vacation as I call it is the right thing to do, because you can always come back to it when your motivated again, plus you have the added advantage of going over your previous progress and revamping your techniques.
I just had another dose of insparation to keep practicing, her name is Forest… 
Although an LD holiday may help, you should make sure it’s not so long it makes you lose interest, just long enough to give you a break from doing and RC every 3 seconds.