Questions about my DILDs

Quest for Lucidity
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moved from lucid adventures

Hi everyone :content: first, i’m not a reaaal english, i’m french. If i do not speak properly you can correct me that would be great :smile: .

So, since I was 7years old, I discovered Lucid Dreaming (DILD).
I remember many DILD and I never tried anything else, all my DILD was only “oh, it’s a dream, try anything ! wait 2second” and wake up :sad:.

But that not the real subject that I want to talk. I tried to do Reality Test a thing like 2 month ago, I’ve done easily fifty reality test per day for 2 weeks(it was : hurting my right hand) but it never happened in a dream. Then I stopped, and two weeks after guess what ? A lucid dream. Normally, I have an average of 2 lucid dream per weeks but the reality test totally destroyed it … I stopped and I do lucid dream again.

So, my first question would be : Why can’t I do reality test ? O_O
My only way to realize that i’m dreaming is to say “dream” in a dream :meh:.

And for the second, it is more an interpretation of lucid dreams. All my dreams are strange and weird and everything, it’s normal. But my 2 last lucid dreams was … really weird.
The first :

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I’m in a … a box without any light anywhere. I just have a thing like ten of my friends around me, they surround me like a prison. But at this time, it’s just a dream. Then I talk to my friend called Denys, and I talk about dream. Then the dialog look like : “And you see in a dream … wait what, I just have to make this dream lucid !” from here i’m lucid, but … all my friends … keep their views focused on me (really creepy) like the dream knowed that I would be lucid and tried to kill me… so, I try to kill all the dream character’s arround me. But, I wake up at this time …

The second :

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I’m playing DiabloIII with my girlfriend and a friend… when I respawn (we die alot lol) I respawn in my home, I don’t know how can I come back into the game after this O_o but, I respawn like 2 - 3 times and the last time, I decide to re-join them by walking … so I go out of my home and I talk about dream to my friend. Here it is, I’m lucid. This time i’m afraid like "No ! This time I wan’t to keed the dream omg ! (All my DILD lasted 2seconds max) so I yell “I STAY IN THE DREAM !!!” a lot of time, and one time “LUCIDITY X1000 !!!” you see lol this is my first DILD that last around 10seconds. The “weird” is not here, all the environment is … beautiful. Instead of having an simple road I have a view of a wonderful jungle landscape everywhere … that is my first time that I can see a real landscape and focus on it. Yes, again, this is not the weird thing. The real weird thing is … the dream stopped because I tried to add a dream character with me (my girlfriend) but at this time I realized … i’m aloooone it’s emptyyy nobody, I can’t see any dream character O_O… and when I try to add my girlfriend so, nothing happen, so I try to add her behind a kind of dirt wall, so my subconscious can create her without I have to see the process. And here, I remember my last DILD, and I’m afraid, I have a pictures of a monster that my subconscious would create to kill me again. I wake up.

So here is my second question, do you think the first dream is really a kind of response from my subconscious ? (The same day before sleeping I tried to talk to him (yes I know it’s me but it’s weird anyway XD)) I tried to kill all the dream characters, is it the reason why I was alone ?

If you really read all this topic you’re awesome and thanks :happy: I hope you can answer :3
PS : I hope i’m not in the wrong section lol it is hard to understand where should I ask my questions XD

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Hy,

So even though you did experience lucidity in your dreams until now you never tried to achieve it but now you did try. That’s what you were doing, you were trying. It’s really important to give it a time. So when you stopped doing RC’s you did have a LD again. I guess you are not yet accustomed to them enough to experience them in a LD but they might also get into your way in achieving lucidity because it’s something different from what you were doing until now.

Second thing that you can try and I encourage you to do so is to pick another RC or maybe 2 RC’s. Try not using the one that you did use last 2 months and see where it takes you. I would suggest nose RC and hands RC.

For your second question I don’t think you were alone because you tried to kill all the DCs. In this second LD you stated big differences between the first one and the second like:

You actually tried to prolong the dream, in the first one you didn’t. You became lucid and immediately become focused on DCs because they were focused on you. So your focus was on DCs not the dream or ability to stay in the dream longer.

Again - focus. You maintained your focus on the dream and that’s what it made so beautiful.

And the last part of the dream - it’s quite common, normal to not succeed instantly when trying those things. You need practice and that’s all. But you made a mistake and trust me in the dream negative feelings and thoughts are much more powerful then you would imagine. I did that too for some time and here’s what I’m talking about:

You lost the focus of the dream and you started to worry about something that weren’t even the issue. The same scenario would be when you become lucid immediately thinking that you will wake up and you will because thought or a feeling is actually the most powerful tool in a dream.

I hope this answers you at least some of you questions… :content:

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Thanks db_FTS for your answer :smile:
For the RC i stopped because I realized that I did RC only when I did nothing important, when I am just a little bit focused on anything else, I forget xD.
And yes i’ll try to better manage my focus next time.

My first lucid dream was “I want a sword” it did not worked. A think like two years after, my first change worked, I tried to fly but I stayed in the air (I was 9 years old a thing like this) and I remember a lucid dream where I survived more than 5second (lol) and I totally managed to create a home, a new DC, a giant garden, while flying … that’s why I find suspicious of failing to just make a DC in front of me.
Anyway thank you, it doesn’t sound that significant but reading anything that I should do help me to remember to try this in a dream, things about focus etc ^^.

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That’s what means being lucid. If you are able to question realness of your surroundings even when you are doing something or anything means that you are lucid. That is the problem today, we are so much on the automatic mode plus we are not thought to question reality that’s why this is so much harder…

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Automatic mode ? Should I everytime be focused on what I am doing ? Frequently I just let my brain doing a thing and I just make myself think about every and anything…

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The idea of lucid living or all day awareness is to be aware of every action you do. When I mention automatic mode I meant on the bad kind of automatic mode, we do things like robots not even thinking, just doing…

Like while you were writing this post how many breaths you take, which song was playing, which sound you heard and so on. Of course when you are outside there is so much more things to keep track on but essentially the idea is to be aware of your actions while doing them.

Do a little research here on forum, you have tons of information on those techniques…

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k i’ll search for those things so, never seen any topics about this before, thanks :smile:

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I’m glad I could help! :content: