Hi everyone, I don’t know if this question has been asked before, I tried searching on the forums but couldn’t find anything related.
First of all, I’m very new to lucid dreaming and this site as well, and have only been practicing for about a week and a half now. I have been reading that autosuggestion, keeping a dream journal, and maintaining a lucid state throughout the day seem to work in order to attain lucidity in a dream. I’ve been doing all of those consistently (without results) but noticed now recently about some differences when doing autosuggestion.
You see, throughout the day I consistently keep saying to myself that I’m going to attain lucidity in my dreams, that I’m going to see my hands in my dream and realize that I’m dreaming. However, no matter how much I keep repeating it, nothing happens in my dreams that make me attain lucidity and I just wake up, frustrated for having another normal dream.
On the other hand, just when I’m about to go to sleep for the night, I say to myself that I’m going to remember all of my dreams for the night, and recall them. I say this no more than just 5 times before sleeping and proceed then to rest. Now, all of a sudden this specific autosuggestion decided to work! I think it does, because now I seem to wake up in the middle of the night and recall my dreams, then I go back to sleep and awake myself again just a few hours later, before morning. This continues on and on, until I finally wake up at my normal rising time, having recalled many dreams for the night. And this seems to work now for the rest of the days as well, without failure (as of now).
So, long story short, my question is, why the difference in results between both autosuggestion attempts? Why did the first one (and most important one for me), having it repeated throughout the day like a parrot, yielded no results whatsoever? Like if my mind either forgot about it or decided to dismiss it. Then why is the later attempt, having it repeated no more than 5 times before going to sleep, managed to work? I’m rather confused about this and would like to hear your thoughts on this.
Sorry if the post is too long, but I couldn’t find a way to explain my situation. Thanks in advance, happy dreaming y’all.