I remember when I first found out about lucid dreaming some years ago. I was so excited about it, and all the possibilities. I imagined myself meeting some of my favorite artists and composers, playing with them and discussing music with them, flying above the mountains, and all kinds of things. Now however, even though I still want to learn lucid dreaming, I can’t get as excited about it as I were before. Sometimes the only thing that gets me thinking, “I have to learn lucid dreaming,” is sex! It really frustrates me because I know there’s a lot of great things to do in dreams besides having sex.
Is there anybody else here who has the same problem, or has had it? Any advice on how to get more excited about lucid dreaming again?
Well. Even though you aren’t as excited as before anymore, try doing LD related things like keeping a DJ and talking here on the forums. And maybe think lucid related things when you go to bed.
But the same thing basically happened to me.
On my first attempt at lucid dreaming, I successed and got 4 Lucid Dreams on the same night. But the next day, I wasn’t excited anymore.
I was still motivated and all, but I was not excited at all. Not like on my first try.
But being here and getting more LDs have been a great motivation tool, even though I’m not really “excited” when I go to bed.
Have you had any lucid dreams yet? If you don’t, maybe you could just try and push yourself to do lucid related things and RCs and maybe when you get a lucid dream, you will get more excited about it.
I think that not being excited about LD’ing could actually be a good thing. I don’t always try to have lucid dreams and sometimes they just happen. I am also not super excited about them, which helps, because when they do happen I don’t go “Oh-Em-Gee, what do I do now, ack!!!” which usually causes them to fade.
I figure just do what maximus said and try to incorporate DJ’s RC’s etc to your normal life without thinking to much about. Statistically speaking an LD is bound to happen with or without your will encouraging it
I had the same experience, I started of with loads of motivation and excitement, but after a few 1 second lucid dreams about once every two moths and then a long period of not having any I kinda gave up hope. I still want to LD too but I don’t know how to get the same kind of motivation back. Lame, eh.
But on the good side I got and still have the ability to remember at least 1 dream most nights which, until I started trying to Lucid dream, I had lost.
I learned the hard way that (many times) getting all hyped up and exited about a certain thing all at once will make you loose motivation all the more quickly.
I agree with Rare and MaximumLD, in the fact that not neccesarily being oh so exited is the way to go. Not that its bad if you were, but the simple act of incorporating all these things into real life as often as you can, patiently waiting for it all to “click” may be the best way to approach the problem. You will probably get the most out of it like that as opposed to being thrilled, a little let down, then completely zonked and motivationless, because that almost brings you back to square 1.
Its like planting a seed: it develops, starts go grow, and before you know it you have a nicely growing little tree. Its small, but there, constantly growing and expanding on it’s own. I hope this makes sense, but its really the best way I can think to describe it.
good luck getting your motivation back!
I used to have the problem you have now. I would get extremely excited about lucid dreaming for about a week, then lose almost all interest for the next month or so. What helped for me was to set up a regular schedule. On weeknights, I use MILD. On weekends, I use WBTB/WILD. It’s just now become part of my regular schedule, so it doesn’t matter how motivated I am. I just did the methods every night until they became routine for me, so I’d end up doing them even when I wasn’t feeling so motivated. Not only has this increased my chances of having lucid dreams, but I find my motivation remains at a happy medium indefinitely.
Thanks for all the advice.
MaximumLD, I’ve had some lucid dreams, not the mind-blowing kind though.
I guess making LD-related stuff a routine is what will help in the long run. Last night I started writing down my dreams, which I intend to continue doing.
By the way, being here on the forum is also a great aid! 
The EXACT same thing happened to me. When I first heard about LDing, I was all excited and motivated, trying everything I could to become a lucid dreamer (with little luck). After a few months of this, though, I started to become totally unmotivated and stopped caring about lucidity. I cared more about the amount of sleep I was getting every night rather than the dreams I had. I stopped coming onto this site and I even stopped writing in my DJ.
But then, about two months later, I had a random lucid dream – my very first high-level lucid dream, ever. And all the reasons I loved it in the first place came rushing back to me, and…well, here I am to prove that I’m back into it!
I still wouldn’t say I’m as motivated now as I was the first time I started, but I’m determined. I’ve started writing in my DJ again, and last night (for the first time since I stopped), I actually woke up in the middle of the night to write down a dream I remembered. I was kinda proud of myself because it showed that my dream actually conquered my normal laziness!
Thank you SO much for posting about this, Larry Boy. I seriously thought I was the only one who had ever experienced that! I feel better now. 
I haven’t been trying to have LD’s for long, but already I feel the motivation I had lower a bit… I’m getting each time lazier and have less motivation to write my dreams and to get up to WBTB… 
I just hope it doesn’t get any worse, lol. And I agree that ld4all helps alot! Just coming here to the forums helps keep my motivation…
I think the “trick” is to never give up completely. Maybe give LDing a rest, a few weeks or months, but never think you’ll never think about LD’s again…
Well thank you for sharing your experience. Nice to hear that you’re getting back into LDing again, it makes me want to keep on trying myself. 
My problem is that every time I take a break, it tends to become permanent. Perhaps you need to decide on a minimum amount of effort every day. Like, writing down at least some fragments of your dreams every morning.
I agree, even when I’m the least motivated I try to think “I will have a lucid dream tonight” a few times before falling asleep. Hasn’t worked very well so far 
but I’m trying…
I had a lucid dream last night! It wasn’t the kind of mind-blowing, realistic experience you sometimes hear about (I never have those 
), but still, it was kind of nice. Basically, what I did was I tried to “stabilize” the lucid dream so that I could enhance the “reality” of it. I’m hoping that by doing this every time I get lucid, I will soon be able to experience the real stuff. 