How does one remember to Lucid Live? I keep forgetting during the day 
When I do remember I get distracted after a while, which expected in the beginning, I believe. The problem is then it lakes me hours to remember to do it again! 
any tips? how do you guys do it?
Well, to put it in a way that’s close to us dreamers, you could start an experiment.
Resolve one morning that the whole day is gonna be one of your dreams (where you will be just following the plot 
and carry out your normal activities). If you’re concerned about lucidity, then you’ll have no problem remembering Put intention and effort in it, and I’m sure you will see some great results.
I do that from time to time, and it’s amazing to me how I can manage to keep my attention high this way, plus learn to appreciate things happening around me that much more, not to mention I’m just so more relaxed during this day, it being only a dream that will be no more after I “wake up”, or better, go to sleep again 
. It can be a little tiring at first, I won’t deny it, but it’s a wonderful way IMHO to go through an ordinary day.
When I was practising Lucid living I found the most important thing is not to be frustrated when your mind does wander. If you do get frustrated, your motivation will nosedive, you’ll get angry and give-up. I found it helped a lot to think, yay I remembered, well done me, now lets see how long I can keep it in mind this time. The time between each remembering got shorter too, although it took time for it to do so, the first times between remembering could stretch up to a day. I ended up getting wrapped up in life shortly after this and didn’t keep it up. I had to “focus on what I was doing or I’d make mistakes” 
Kinda ironic in a way. Resolving to make it something you were going to put effort into today, as tosxyChor suggested also helped me a lot too.
Thanks 
Yeah, I’ve been trying this. Just like meditation, it’s normal for the mind to wander I guess.
I feel I REALLY need something like Lucid Living to boost my lucidity… 
I have just realise what the idea of lucid living means and I was wondering why is everyone intent on doing it 100% of time. I just don’t really think that its possible.
I mean, surely just a few moments is special enough. Just now I was walking down the stairs pretending I was in a lucid dream when I just stood and stared out of window for a few minutes. The sky was inky blue and the orange street lights shone through the wings of a moth on the window pane, and it looked beautiful and peaceful. I never normally would have noticed something like this and it made me very grateful.
I’m going to resolve to practice this at least once everyday and good luck to anyone else trying to achieve lucid living 
lucid living is a deep thing
it is about a state of transformation and freedom
the best parallel i have to it is tai chi mastery
BEING HERE NOW in clarity
life is a dream in a different way than sleeping dreams, in that everything is still illusory and fleeting, and only the pure awareness of yourself existing and being eternal and not bound by time and space remains
the tai chi master stops time, transcends space ,
they know your thoughts and intentions , better than you do , and cannot be beaten combatively speaking ,
the yogi is also in this state, they call it the fourth dimension, or the fifth ,
the reason for thinking about life as a dream is to reclaim our innate sovereignty, the right to flourish and be happy, and take nothing seriously , so that, through selective attention, we will skip thru the mine fields of hypocrisy and ghosts , and find our way to our beautiful perfect life of our choosing, holding onto only what serves us
it would be like there is a straight line to a beautiful healing water fountain on a hot day and people keep pestering you along the way asking you to sign waivers and go on wacky adventures, but with lucid living you have the clarity to dismiss them and not take them seriously, and find only companions that will walk to the water with you
it is about thinking very deeply about the nature of realty not repeating affirmations all day long though those are useful
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example :
you have a dog, the dogs nature is confined to it being a dog, with dogness, but it can be shaped by your interacting iwth it into a “bad dog” or a “good dog”
and if yo9u are INSANE then your dog will do things that irritate “you” and you will react blindly and yell " bad dog" which creates the dogs infinite potential of being ANYTHING you wish it to be in your SOUL into being that which you are calling into fucs, i.e. “bad dog”
lucid living is the uncoloring of attachment and aversion to all situations and circumstances to gain a favorable sense of peace and freedom
when you realize the dogs behavior is not real then you can work with the dog to elicit and entrain proper and rightful patterns, and it will be healed but until you realize that there is no hope of changing the circumstances
every time we do anything we are looking at dreams, our col orations of thought-forms, if we send money we are having some sort of thoughts and feelings come up
and we can choose those differently and think and feel differently so as to believe different thoughts about money which then influence out future in conjunction with the types of thoughts, perceptions, feelings, imaginations, we are offering, through our focus.
Every time we spend money we can feel gratitude that we have some to use for our enjoyment, and ask that everyone has enough abundance to be flourishing in joyful happiness, and we can then strive to feel sure that this money will come back to us 1000 fold, because we intend for it to, and its our dream so why not ? This will make us eel good, and feeling good will create our future into congruence with the feelings.
so lucid living is an incredibly deep and simple thing
if someone says " money doesn’t grown on trees"
and someone is a millionaire and says " money comes to me with ease"
both are right, because its our individual liberty to create our experiences through focus that equates into lucidity
my typo of “focus” looks like a swear word, i didn’t mean to do that but it fits perfectly with the example, sorry
Nice explanation, thanks. But I’m still a little confused, are you saying that Lucid living gives us the freedom to shape who we are (like the dog and owner), or to shape the world around us (like the money analogy) or even both.
Is what you called Being Here Now, one of those moments when you suddenly realise how amazing it is just to exist and be you? I have these fairly often, I kind of assumed that lucid living is just like this feeling but all the time.
Also, I’m interested to know if you believe it is possible for an ordinary person to achieve it, I mean without say going into reclusion or something. Surely the real world is just too big and distracting?
It´s a little bit of offtopic, but I am reading this thread from the beginning and there is a term “pavlov’s reaction”. Can anybody explain to me what it means? Thanks!
Pavlov would ring a bell and give food to his dogs. After a few times the dogs would start to salivate just by hearing the bell. It’s the most simple conditioning, where the subject associates one thing (getting food) with another (bell). Crappy explanation, but I hope you get what I mean
Not to put a damper on such a great idea as lucid living, but what if your life is just too boring and quite frankly rather awful? I mean, I work all day doing a job I hate just to put food on the table. So lucid living for me would be lucid nightmaring! I guess my head is always in the clouds cause I put myself in zombie mode all day, just to get through it. After work I clean the house, take care of the pets, cook for the kids etc. You get my drift. It feels to me that I’m living a life I really don’t want to live. Don’t get me wrong, I do love my kids and enjoy being with them (even though they prefer to do their own thing), but at the moment this is not the life I had wished for myself. The only lucid living moments I can really enjoy are the moments on my motorcycle. I take off occasionally, just for half an hour or so and just ride! My happier life begins when I go to sleep! Responsibility does put a damper on many things. Still, I love Kauai, love the sound of the wind chimes on my porch, the beautiful sunsets (when I get a chance to see them) and many more little things. But fully Lucid Living I would not be able to deal with at this very moment, maybe once I figure out what it is I really want to be doing with my life I will. At the moment it’s just surviving and looking forward to any lucid dreams coming my way!
KauaiDreamer, I agree completely with what you said. I think of all my experiences as dreams (or at least I’m trying to think that way). Life, as with dreams, passes you by if you aren’t aware. Lucidity is to bring yourself into the present and experience what is happening. Just as with dreams, I only feel that I truly experience life if I’m aware. However, if I’m unhappy or uncomfortable, then I don’t want to be aware. For me, this reflects how, in some nightmarish dreams, my mind seems to resist lucidity because I have to focus on other things.
I don’t know about my nightmares, but in life, I feel that the resistance to lucidity can be solved with more dream metaphors. Fixing whatever makes one feel bad at the moment is what one would do in a dream, and is what one should do in real life. I don’t know just how much you can do to improve your situation right now, but doing something at all will help.
I recently got a new interest in Lucid Living, and I was wondering if I’m doing it correctly?
I was washing dishes a while ago and this is more or less how I kept going:
“I’m washing dishes. The water is hot, I can feel it running.
There is a glass standing in front of me; it’s blue, and hasn’t been washed yet.
But now I suddenly hear a car driving past the apartment; it sounds loud, and annoying.
What kind of car was it?
Oh who cares - now I feel the water again, it’s hot.
The walls around me are rather pretty - is this a dream?
Hm, probably not.
But I must check to make sure!.. nothing strange here.
I hear the water running; it’s still hot, which is not surprising, and I stand and clean a large, white plate; I can feel my hands holding it, and I will be happy when this is over, and I can watch it all done.”
And I went on like this, trying to focus on everything and pay attention to everything with all my senses.
Is this what you would call Lucid Living?
I know it’s a late reply, but it sounds right to me. I think lucid living will be easier to understand once you’ve had a lucid dream. Then you know how your mind changes when you become lucid. And you can try to recreate that transformation in the real world. Often words are not needed.
I would like to point out that I do not fully grasp the concept of lucid living yet so I would like someone else to confirm that you’re right.
I have been following the Topic from part One and after hours of reading I’ve finally finished.Lucid Living is a great idea and we have been discussing it so we can have LD’s .I want to know the progress you guys have made who are practicing LL.Has your frequency of LD’s increased solely relying on LL and not using other methods?
I think that I finally figured out what everyone means by saying that Lucid Living means living with awareness. I think that it means that you always need to be aware of the world around you. I think that you need to go through your RL always remembering in the back of your mind that you can be dreaming at anytime. You always need to be analyzing, and questioning every little thing that seems at all off or weird to you. If it just doesn’t make sense just a little bit you need to question the fact that you could be dreaming. I don’t think that you need to constantly thinking about lucid dreaming, but just be aware of what is going on around you. Be aware of the world. Be aware. The way we have ND’s is that we don’t have control of them. This is from a lack of us being in control of our lives. Of not being aware. Act don’t be acted upon. When we accomplish this way of living, that is when we become able to dream lucidly every night or at will.
Sounds like what everyone says 
congratulations . It’s still a little confusing to me (I never really understand anything till I experience it) but to me it seems a lot like meditating and the awareness you get from it.
I’ve just started trying to do this yesterday. I haven’t found any progress in it yet. Honestly, to me, it seems a bit distracting. I don’t want to keep the notion that I’m dreaming in my head all the time, because then I can’t pay attention to other things. I mean, lucid dreaming sounds fun, but I don’t want to have them if it means forgeting about the book report in English or what words mean what in Spanish.
On the other hand, just going throughout the day, wondering if your dreaming, is an amazing experiance. Looking at this and thinking Could this be a dream? I’ve had that happen so many times today. Walking through the halls of my school (Only dreamt of that once), a road with healthy trees on one side and dead ones on the other (I might have dreamt about that one… Not sure) or even looking at myself in the mirror (In most of dreams, I’m someone else… So seeing myself in a dream is a rare occurence!)
I’m gonna try and see how this has helped my DR and my ability to lucid dream. Hope it works!
I don’t think Lucid Living has to involve thinking about dreams like that. Someone who has never heard of lucid dreams could probably do lucid living too. Other than that I think you explained it well!
WASD: I think remembering your day is a big part as well. For me at least, I usually just appear at a certain location when the dream starts with no memory or thought about how I got there. Some of my DILD’s have actually come from trying to figure out why I am where I am. The chance of this happening goes up dramatically as I do that throughout my day in WL.