Success in LDing?

Quest for Lucidity
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I started getting in LDing a year ago but I got bored of it because all of my dreams were so short and/or not worth it.

I was trying practically the same set of tehniques(at the same time) I am now that I’m trying again:
-MILD
-MILD+WBTB
-21 reality checks
-dream journal

So I’m asking you for some suggestions since I’m pretty clueless as of what to do next.

(note that I can’t use WILD because I never fall asleep in less than 20 minutes)

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:eek: 21 different kinds of RC’s or do an RC 21 times while awake? Either way sounds a little excessive to me (no offense :happy: ) so I suggest:

Maybe take to entertaining yourself with dream-related media? Like a book on dreaming to dip into and skim-read… could be a reference book on getting lucid, or fiction like any prose spinoff of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman (or whatever else comes recommended if that’s not to your liking :wink: You should find something you like.)

Or relax one night --doesn’t have to be a marathon, or even scheduled --in front of The Cell, Vanilla Sky, or Waking Life (though in my opinion only the last one is worth the time,) and then forget about it.
Or at a random time every day browse a different lucid dreaming website for a few minutes, ponder what you read or saw, let it free your imagination, then forget it.
Listen, or even half-listen, to lucid dreaming podcasts.
Things like that.

I found that it especially helps the length of the dream to have a clear goal, so list the top 3 things you really want to do/happen in a lucid dream. Be wary of the increase of false awakenings, though. What to do next is, pretty much, just let things click together. Hope this helps, and good luck! :cheer:

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I personally think that you shouldn’t try inducing it too much. Just go to sleep knowing you will have a LD. Start making plans of why you want to have one and how nice it will be. As you drift of to sleep, think about being in that dream, think about being lucid, experience that.
Take that state of mind with you as you fall asleep.

About WILD.

I will definitely recommend to try it.

As someone who had very problematic sleeping disorders, I can tell you, WILD helps. It really teaches you how to go to sleep easily even if you’re not so tired.
Quite useful.

And also, once you figure that out completely, you can change it a bit and go explore other places ^^

cheers