Thread: How Are You Supposed To Become Lucid If...

Originally Posted by momoshun

I discovered LDing back in May, and in my non-lucid dreams I am never conscious. How am I supposed to do a DILD if I'm not conscious? If I am not aware, then how am I supposed to reason? For example, if in my dream I'm climbing a mountain in my PJs, how can I even accept what is happening to begin with? So, with that reasoning, how can I realize I am dreaming during my dreams?
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That's the idea of doing techniques to BECOME aware...

Take for example, the reality check. You do frequent reality checks during the day and it becomes a habit which carries on over to your dreams, you do a reality check in a dream and fail and then you become AWARE that you're dreaming. I don't think you do DILD when your unconscious...

That is a problem that has plagued many would-be lucid dreamers. Like Sythix said, the trick is to form habits in waking life that will carry over to you dreaming life, even if you're not very perceptive there. Lots of stuff happens in dreams that should tell us we're dreaming, but we often don't realize it because we haven't trained ourselves to recognize those as dream signs.

Makes habits of the following, and you'll improve your chances of a DILD by quite a bit:
1. Reality Checks - Something like try to breath through your nose while pinching it, or flicking a lightswitch on and off. Really pay attention when you perform and RC, and verify that you are, in fact, awake (or dreaming, as the case may be). Don't perform them without considering the results, or they won't help.
2. Keep track of things that reoccur often in your dreams. It can be certain settings, events, people, even entire dreams. Every time you see something similar in waking life, perform a reality check. Often, even realizing that you could be dreaming will be enough to spark lucidity.

Originally Posted by momoshun

I discovered LDing back in May, and in my non-lucid dreams I am never conscious. How am I supposed to do a DILD if I'm not conscious? If I am not aware, then how am I supposed to reason? For example, if in my dream I'm climbing a mountain in my PJs, how can I even accept what is happening to begin with? So, with that reasoning, how can I realize I am dreaming during my dreams?
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And thus all the problems and all of the Techniques... all of the FILD's

But many of the Techniques reduce down to various systems of Auto-Suggestion. If you suggest over and over again, repeatedly, that you will become Conscious in a Dream, to have a Lucid Dream, eventually you will.

Additionally, Autosuggestion used to work in dreams even before there was such a thing as Lucid Dreams. One could modify Dream Behavior and even Dream Content to some extent by the application of Auto Suggestion.

Thank you for the explanations.

I actually just had my longest lucid dream to date today! And I haven't had one in over a month.

What do you mean Scruffy when you said "Don't perform them without considering the results, or they won't help." what results are we looking for (sorry if this is stupid)?