What am I doing?!

I’m a little bit confused at the moment. I do MILD and RC throughout the day but the times that i have been successful and become lucid have happened pretty spontaneously. I mean, all my dreams are quite weird anyway so if it occurs to me at all that i’m dreaming it just hits me… i’ve never become lucid by doing a RC (or even done one whilst dreaming!) - i’ve just kinda gone ‘oh i’m dreaming’ for no apparent reason at all.

My question(s) is - does anyone else relate to this? Why do you think it happens this way? And, more importantly how do i build on this? Is there a way that i can use this to my advantage or to induce future lucid dreams? :plotting:

Hope that makes sense! :confused:

how do you MILD throughout the day? MILD is meant to be done when you go to sleep?

My Question to you is: how many times do you RC a day and what do you RC on?

Maybe you do too many RC’s and/or RC wrong thing :eh:

My suggestion is that you decide to RC on a specific thing you see (I for example RC just on uncommon events or if I wonder if Im dreaming) and try to hold down the RC’s a little :cool:

And be patient, it takes time for the RC’s to work :tongue:

Maybe i over do them a bit? I RC whenever i think about it, and also when my digital watch beeps once an hour (unless i’m so involved with something that i don’t notice it!). If i did it just everytime something seemed weird that would almost never happen - i send quite a bit of time at home with the kids.

When i RC i look at my hands, or try and breath through a blocked nose, or i read something and then read it again, try and fly or check the time with my watch and other clocks around…

I’ve never gotten lucid from a random RC! I usually only use RC’s to be certain I’m dreaming after I suspect it :tongue: I also have many dream where I just get lucid out of nowhere, no RC needed…

Most of my LDs are spontaneous, also. I find that the more I focus on LD’ing, however, I get more spontaneous LDs. Especially during, say, an LDing challenge. :grin:

She possibly might have had an error in her semantic. Or falsely assumed autosuggestion and MILD are the same thing (deja vu… :tongue: )

how do you MILD throughout the day? MILD is meant to be done when you go to sleep?

Yes, sorry - my bad. Teach me to post in forums when the kids are acting up! I meant i do reality checks throughout the day and then do MILD or some other form of induction when i go to bed. :shy: