Ive been trying to LD for the last couple nights. first found out about it when i was in a dream about 3 nights ago, and i realized it was all a dream. I don’t know what made me realize but i pretty much started flying across the pacific ocean. i just recently got back from a trip to hawaii, and every dream ive been having takes place in hawaii. so im keeping that connection now im back. telling myself if im in hawaii, im dreaming. ive been practicing dream recall too. when i write down something that happened in a dream that is completely silly, or even impossible i make a note of it now, hoping ill realize. ive been less lucid every night i think i think about it too much when falling asleep. what i need to do is look for the signs.
Looks like you may have the same problem as I.
I always want to fall asleep thinking about lucid dreaming, but I can never fall asleep like that.
The way i do it is remebering how physically it FELT at the point of becoming lucid. To me it feels like when you have one of those “eureka” moments when you realize a solution to a problem.
The way i think about trying to remeber to be lucid in a dream is as im falling to sleep just GENTLY think about lucidity. The way you would think about what you want to buy stuff at a supermarket - you dont give youself a headache thinking about what shopping you want to buy, you just gently keep a list in your head as your walking to the shops - almost not thinking about it.
Thats the way i do it anyway. The trick is to not to try TOO hard as for me this seems to defeat itself. Hope this helps
I think I am the same as you guys too, I am forever trying to go lucid and find my mind is not alert enough to realise the signals whilst asleep. These past couple of nights ive had loads of opportunities in my weird dreams, but there is just no go. Maybe if I try a herb or something maybe that will help.
My biggest problem is acting aware when doing RC’s, I’ll do it sometime and others I wont but maybe there just not spilling in to my dreams like I’d want them. But sometime my dreams wont be realated at all to what I’m thinking or whats in my mind. I got a really good, funny dream which took place in Hawaii too, a few days ago though. It was fun and crazy.
I can never realize I’m dreaming either. Most of my dreams are sooo weird, if only I would pay attention to things I would have thousands of LD’s by now!
Just this night I dreamt I was in a hammock, looking in a mirror, and instead of me this italian guy was in the mirror! At first it scared me half to death lol but then I looked again and it wasn’t so scary anymore (although he was still in the mirror instead of me). And I even though “hey, that’s not me in the mirror!” AND when I do RC’s I check mirrors to see if I look any different, and I still can’t realize I’m dreaming when things like that happen. I am just hopeless lol.
Dream on. // Olesia