Thread: What are we doing wrong?...

Just thinking about dreaming a lot and having it in the back of my mind during the day. Journalling and recognizing dream-signs helps too.

I agree, if lucid dreaming is on your mind then it greatly increases the frequency of lucid dreams.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Just thinking about dreaming a lot and having it in the back of my mind during the day. Journalling and recognizing dream-signs helps too.

Cooladoola. Perfect response. Thanx.

But as you probably know me. I am not as easily letting this topic be. My question would be...

How do you bring yourself to think about dreaming during the day, when there is a lot work to do? {sorry about this, but would be glad if you overlook the overimportant aspect of dedication and find other ideas}

How did you start, whats your schedule, what do you use to remind yourelf?

Originally Posted by adraw

How do you bring yourself to think about dreaming during the day, when there is a lot work to do? {sorry about this, but would be glad if you overlook the overimportant aspect of dedication and find other ideas}
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Why not occasionally think about how you would finish your work, etc., if you were dreaming?
Maybe if you're a guy who does heavy physical work and you've got to move this big crate from A to B, for a minute think about what you could do to finish that if you were currently dreaming. And throw in an RC for good measure, too.

It would only take a minute or so and would keep the idea of dreams in the back of your head.

i know this isnt much help but for me if i want a LD alot of times i get them.

There also gets to be this chain effect where you'll have one good lucid, then be pumped up the rest of the next day and think about it a lot, causing another lucid that next night, until you start regularly thinking about them and having them, which gets you confidence as well. Also, having a regular sleep schedule can be more important than it seems.

Originally Posted by adraw

But as you probably know me. I am not as easily letting this topic be. My question would be...

Yes I should have known....

Originally Posted by adraw

How do you bring yourself to think about dreaming during the day, when there is a lot work to do? {sorry about this, but would be glad if you overlook the overimportant aspect of dedication and find other ideas}

It's kind of like I got obssessed with it for a long time. Originally I stuck post-it notes up all over the place and set my watch-alarm to do RC's (which I still have set for hourly). Now I've got pics of some of my dream-signs stuck to various places (bathroom mirror, computer monitor, car dashboard, at work) to remind me to do RC's when I see them. I have a key chain with a dog-tag that says "Are You Dreaming" which I carry in my pocket and set next to me while I'm working. I look around for good places to fly to whenever I go into a large room or outside (I mean where I would fly if it were a dream). Try to be aware in groups of people if things seem normal, since there are often so many people in my dreams. I used to try and do an RC every time I ate, but I've kind of let that one slip; I should start doing that again. Some people do RC's everytime they go to the bathroom, that might be a good one too.

Another thing that can help is explaining lucid dreaming to people. Talking about it a lot seems to help, but people get sick of it after a while. Reading about it before bed is good.

Just stuff like that. If you get obssessed with it, I think it helps a lot. It is hard sometimes when you are busy, but it just takes a couple seconds at a time.

Even so, turning the obssession into a lucid can be very hard sometimes. But it helps.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Yes I should have known....

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Just stuff like that. If you get obssessed with it, I think it helps a lot. It is hard sometimes when you are busy, but it just takes a couple seconds at a time.

Even so, turning the obssession into a lucid can be very hard sometimes. But it helps.

Nice post. That was very helpful.

I know this thread seems to be more about how to indroduce random dilds. but the title needs to be addressed too. Those that think they are doing something wrong are probably more likely to not succeed as much as those who are confident about what their doing, it's a hard disopline to keep doing what your doing after getting so few results, but thats the hardest thing about lucid dreaming, it isn't like a sport where you see the results everytime you go to practice.

Originally Posted by LucidDreamGod

I know this thread seems to be more about how to indroduce random dilds. but the title needs to be addressed too. Those that think they are doing something wrong are probably more likely to not succeed as much as those who are confident about what their doing, it's a hard disopline to keep doing what your doing after getting so few results, but thats the hardest thing about lucid dreaming, it isn't like a sport where you see the results everytime you go to practice.

Nice. thanx.

If I could add one small think into this. It would be...Hmm. It works, when I really try. I know myself as being somehow slow at making changes. And this night I found one video on lucidipedia, which helped me a lot. It told me the things i already knew, but it was so simple to follow the instructions, that i simply followed them. And then I god two lucid dreams, that were so vivid and so long. I even had problems to leave the dream world when i wanted to wake up, so i recall at least something out of the long chain. Now to the point:

What am I doing wrong (IMHO):

1. I read about too much stuff and dont practice diligently
2. I misanderstood what motivation really is. Motivation is not pure wanting to have a lucid dream, but wanting to have lucid dreams where I will .....

Dreams are comming slow. And I learned, that techniques are good vehicles to transport me further, but ... actually I dont need them. My dream world is talking its own language and I should just listen and make it come.

Just be slow, just slow.