After trying to MILD for a week, i decided i didn’t have a chance of having a lucid dream (even though i was doing RC’s everytime, everywhere ). I realised i had a really bad dream recall, so i focused on improving that. I’ve been trying to inprove it for the last month with no apparent success. I only recall a dream like once a week or more if im lucky. And even when i do, it’s just a moment or a few moments from it.
I have started my DJ althought it’s empty, and i focus on remembering it, and don’t move when i wake up.
Is there a book dedicated to Dream Recall, or some tips i could have?
Use autosuggestion before going to sleep. Ask yourself to remember your dreams, don’t force your brain into it, just generally ‘suggest it’.
When you awake, don’t move, just simply review the night, any memorys, anything that you can possibly remember. (Moving makes your dream memorys vanish quicker)
Once you have a few dreams in your Journel, read through some of them before going to bed, it helps remembering in the morning. (It’s especially good re-reading dreams that you had a long time ago, because you forget them very quickly)
I wouldn’t give up on a chance to lucid dream in just a week. It takes time and patience. Just be cool headed about it and not try too hard.
Believe me, going straight on and trying ‘too’ hard makes it take longer, It took me nearly a year for my first LD because of this.
because when you don’t move, you either have to stay wide awake, or go into a lucid dream, or doze in and out of light sleep for a very long time.
its rolling over after waking which destroys lucidity.
now this seems tricky but its not, next time you wake up, just say “okay lets dream” and imagine that your hands are touching a wall, and image what it looks like, and tell yourself what you want to dream about.
This weird thing happened to me a couple of nights back:
I went to sleep, and then woke up for absolutly no aparent reason, looked at the clock and it was one hour before i usually wake up. I didn’t think much of it back then and just went back to sleep again (So i went straight into the REM period).
The thing is, i had a dream and when the dream ended it was like jumping straight from it to my bed so i had it fresh in my mind, and i could remeber it fully! I jotted it down on my DJ.
This was really random as i don’t usually wake up at that hour or remeber my dreams so well as i did that day, i really wanted to do it again!
Even though im not trying to MILD anymore, im still focused on DR, i still do RC’s throughout the day, in hope of having a lucid dream.
I just need to make this experience happen every day before i move on to actual LD’s.
How ?
I am no expert, but I guess the only reliable way of making sure you get up at that time is by setting your alarm to th exact time. If you wake up like, an hour before you normally do ( I may be wrong), you could try a WBTB, recall your dream, journal it, read some stuff on LDs for about an hour and then go back to sleep, concentrating on the dream you recalled earlier.
Lately i’ve been remembering more and more dreams, like one each three days
I guess this isn’t good enough for LD’ing, but here’s a few general questions i have,to keep my motivation up (there’s no point in making another post).
1: Can you summon real life people as a DC in your dream? (A few people i’d like to “speak” to
2:If i’ve slept my full 9 hours of the night but when i wake up, go back to sleep again, am i still in REM?
3:Do you feel pain in a LD?
4:What’s the hardest thing to do in an LD?
And finally, I have a technique i’ve been using to do RC’s, tell me what you think:
Draw a shape in your hands both on the palm and on the outside of both hands, and in your mind say:“Whenever i see this, i will do an RC.” Eventually, you won’t need the symbols, you will just look at your hands and do it
Since i’ve said to myself that i’ll remember my dreams a few times before I go to sleep, and keep a dream journal, I have recalled all my dreams i’ve had since i’ve started.
I read this and had a good feeling about it. So I tried it and it worked! I woke up two times in the dream and did the same thing to get back in. I had another two DILD’s and great DR… I’m impressed, specially because on weekdays my DR drops to almost zero. The weird thing is that I found it so… easy! I just hope it wasn’t luck! I’ll try again tonight.
Yes. Quite a easy thing to do. Find a area that isn’t visible by the eye, just think to your self ‘My friend Alvin is going to be around the corner’ Believe it. Then when you walk around, you’ll see him. If he isn’t there, then another way is to find a door, and believe when you open it he’ll be there.
Yes, I’ve had quite a few dreams after falling asleep in the morning (Sleep at 11 PM, wake up 9 AM) I then sleep a few times until 10 AM, you do get dreams.
YES. Believe me, I know from experience, the pain you feel in dreams is alot diffrent to real life pain, it’s more being ‘uncomfortable’. It’s more a strain in the area where you’re hurt, however, you get over it very quickly (Also you’re able to survive things you wouldn’t in real life) I’ve been shot, stabbed, eaten, my…personal area attacked by Dogs (Seriously, most weirdest thing i’ve ever felt and I wanted it to end very quickly, luckily I woke up).
It depends how confident you are with the specific task, if you ‘know’ you can do it, then you’ll do it. Doesn’t matter what task you’re performing.
Though I think running from someone in a dream is hard, they ALWAYS seem to catch up with you.
). I realised i had a really bad dream recall, so i focused on improving that. I’ve been trying to inprove it for the last month with no apparent success. I only recall a dream like once a week or more if im lucky. And even when i do, it’s just a moment or a few moments from it.
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(there’s no point in making another post).
I just hope it wasn’t luck! I’ll try again tonight. 