Never give up!

About January of this year, I first got into the idea of being able to Lucid Dream. I read a load of material and came to this place, read all the guides I could find.

I couldn’t do it the first night (obviously) and slowly it seemed to slip out of my head. But I kept a notepad beside my bed and any day I did remember a dream, I wrote in it little phrases and notes that I could remember. I didn’t have a chance to do this every time I remembered a dream, though; but eventually from odd days of doing this I built up a steady and consistent dream recall. This was over about six months.

I never really thought of LDing. That’s the wonderful thing; don’t try too hard to get it. Focus on other things as well, and they will just come out of the blue. Around September time I had my first proper LD after a really good day. I realised I was actually in bed, but that I was also in my lounge. I saw the two images superimposed on top of one another and then just looked on.

I did wake up, but I was ecstatic I had had an LD! But I knew that I should let it drift from my thoughts. The past couple of months I’ve had pseudo-LDs, and on/off, wavy things I couldn’t recollect in the morning.

But last night I had three seperate dreams I can remember! And at least one, maybe two, possibly all three were Lucid Dreams. At one point I was flying and I thought: I need to look out for dream signs, always gotta look out for dream signs… then it hit me: I was IN the dream! So with that, I entered some sort of hall and did whatever I could think of. I stayed calm, and didn’t wake up.

I remember all three dreams as clear as day, and I really have found the breakthrough. Saying that, perhaps I could have achieved this a long time ago. But I was so excited at the beginning. I wanted it so much, but it didn’t seem to happen. And now it has. I got pretty sceptical as to whether I could achieve it, and in the end I have.

So what this post is about: don’t give up on this. On the reverse, don’t spend all your time focusing on LDing, let the thoughts of them come to you. And keep working on your dream recall, think about what your dream signs are, and eventually you WILL Lucid Dream!

Thats a good point. Many thing come to you whe you least expect them…
I too have found out that its nearly impossible for me to have an LD when I’m trying too hard. But that also doesn’t mean that I have LD’s without practicing some techniques…

welldone I admire your persistance.

You didnt give up and for six months, to be honest, I would have given up.

So basically the lesson is to stick at it

I’d say the lesson is don’t start at all. Giving up suggests to me that you’ve really tried and tried, which he didn’t. I seem to have no real luck with either way… :neutral: