Hey all just wanted to introduce myself after stumbling on this glorious site.
I’ve had lucid dreams naturally on and off since childhood and never really understood what they were or researched about them until this year, and since then I’m having mixed success and failures with certain things, some of it due to trying too hard I think (after reading all the info here), but it’s still fun as ever nonetheless.
My lucid dreams can only happen under specific conditions, though, and it’s a tad annoying. Basically WBTB is the only way for me, but it’s almost always 100% of the time, whether it’s a 4 second failure of a lucid dream or a prolonged one, I usually go straight from wakeness directly into lucidity. My new work schedule is great for this too, as I don’t have to be at work until 2pm, so I can WBTB every day if I want to, which is partly why I’ve gotten back into this and registered here.
Like I said I’ve been having them since I was little, but they have been sparse and there are many quirks I have to work on, and I’m still a novice to all these terms and techniques floating around here.
My biggest problem I really, really need to work on so far, is not throwing myself out of lucidity with excitement. Initiating the dreams are no problem, but maybe half the time I’ll toss myself out in under ten seconds because I’m so excited. A big, annoying problem. I’ve tried spinning and looking at my hands, but my mind just gets a bit overworked and obsessed with hanging onto it, and so I lose it.
Anyways that’s basically me, and I would EVENTUALLY like to have nocturnal lucid dreams and work on that, as I’ve never had one before.
Pleased to meet yah.
AfterHours! I’m also an on-and-off natural LDer. Many people, including me, have your problem with over-excitement. Your best bet is to make a list of all the stuff you want to do in LDs, with the stuff you want to do most on top. As you LD, work your way down the list, knowing exactly what you want to do when each dream comes. Eventually, you’ll reach a point where you’ll automatically be calm when your dream starts, and then you can feel free to do whatever you want without a plan.
I know it seems a bit rich me posting adice when I’ve only 3 posts to my name but I’ve been having trouble also but more with focusing my attention in order to stay with it. What I’m currently road testing is the idea of performing a task. My RC of the minute is rubbing my hands together; not only can I use it as a Dream Signal but if I end up DILDing then once I’ve said to myself ‘ok I’m lucid’ I have an immediate task to perform which should prevent excitement from taking over.
