Hi everyone!
It was a log time ago since I was an active dreamer and member of the forum. Nowdays my lifestyle has changed and I need some advice of how to get back in to LD’ing again.
Back in the days I was a student and I had pretty mutch time on my hands. I could go to bed and awake when ever I wanted, and i did not have a snoring girlfriend. I was also quite good at meditating.
Now I work fulltime and more which often means lack of sleep and little time to take naps during the day. Often when i go to bed I start to plan my next day in my head. It is really annoying becouse I don’t want to think about work when I go to bed but it just pops up in my mind and I find it hard to focus on LD’ing. The biggest problem is probably my alarmclock tho it wakes me in an instant and BANG! I can’t remember my dream.
Anyone who has och have had the same problem?
Ideas and suggestions are very welcome!
Thank you!
I’m also a bit out of LDing right now, anyway if your problem is remember your dreams when you wake up I have a hint for you.
When I wake up if I don’t remember any dreams I stay still with closed eyes and usually dreams start to appear in my head.
Don’t know if it can be useful, I hope so
Bye
Set your alarm for when you have to get up, and try to wake up before that to remember and write down dreams.
Plan your next day before you go to bed. Try to take up meditation again.
Thanks everyone!
I will try to wake up BEFORE my alarm clock tomorrow morning and report the progress.
i know how you feel a long time ago i dropped out of lucid dreaming as well and only a week ago did i decied to pick it back up, sinse then i have retained my lding so its all good.
with your alarm clock, i suggest using your mobile. Put it under your pillow or next to your bed, set it 10 minutes before your alarm clock and put it on vibrate.if you are a light sleeper then it should wake you more gently then the alarm clock. remember your dream for 5 minutes reinforcing it in your mind and then when your alarm goes off, switch it off write your dream in dots or in full and do waht you normally do.
you said you had time when you were a full time student lol in that case i resent you, i feel as a ful time student i have less time then when i have full time work over the 3 month breaks.
With getting back into lding you have to have a reason, the whole oh i want to have a ld probally wont cut it after you have had a few and have lost that motivation.
My desire was to clear my head, to get a space to escape. and ofcourse lucid dreaming helps with that. As mentioned above try and meditate a bit before bed, just run through your day 10 minutes before you go to sleep, get all that out of the way and make sure when u r doing that that you are not doing it in bed or in your room, because you will start to fix your room in your mind with thinking about work and that is not good for sleep.
once your head is at least a little more clear, give your self seom time to read the forum, think about a dream you have had or would like to have and make it really really exiciting to break out of the same old day to day of life. With that in mind it should help you to focus on that dream. The trick is to want it again, but as for wanting anything, its all personal
Good luck.
btw, dont stress about work too much, if you like, think of lucid dreaming as that holiday away every night