Thread: Lucid dreams nearly every night.

Patience, practice and persistence

Yes... I am aware of that...
I was asking which method I could use.

You could use any method.

Originally Posted by Forg

You could use any method.

So you're saying that ANY method can get me to have approximately 1 LD pr. night?

Pretty much.

The method you actually use to induce lucid dreams hardly even matters as long as it works for you. You first have to choose one, try it for a few weeks (yes, a few weeks) and if you don't get one by then, switch it up. If you do get one, and you decide you like the method, you can finetune your method and practices and as you get more and more experienced over time. 1 LD a night is plausible as long as you keep it up.

What I'm trying to make clear is that achieving a high LD frequency, or really, any LD frequency, is less about the method you use and more about the effort you put into it. You have to integrate lucid dreaming into your lifestyle and make sure you're thinking about it everyday, keep up a dream journal to enhance your dream recall, and have lots of patience because your first LDs won't happen overnight (ha, ha) and an LD frequency like that will take even longer.

It's less about figuring out a method--choose what works for you--and more about putting effort into mastering that method and enhancing it so that you can achieve that LD frequency with your own experience and efforts.

I've been doing a few WILDS and my first attempt was slightly successful. For the most part, I've been having to rely on dream signs and recall.

Patience, practice and persistence

Yes, this is pretty much it. Do not underestimate the importance of patience: treat LD practice as a journey (lucid living) rather than a destination (lucid every night), celebrate successes, and don't sweat the occasional dry spell. Keep building confidence and more and more abilities, which with persistent practice, will absolutely grow.

For practice, I recommend:

1) build and maintain excellent dream recall -- get "close" to your dreams and be highly aware of them -- Sensei calls this "dream awareness."
2) Cultivate continuous mindfulness (of your self: your thoughts, actions, reactions, and your state: dream or awake) -- pay attention, whenever you realize you've "zoned out," just "tune back in". Meditation is excellent practice to build and maintain mindfulness.
3) realize that at any given conscious moment, you could actually be dreaming, especially at the moment of returning to being "tuned in" after being "zoned out" for a while.


If you're an absolute beginner I'd recommend starting with a pure LaBerge approach before jumping into #2 and #3. Get some DILDs under your belt first, and build strong dream recall. I didn't start #2 and #3 until about 8 months into my practice, at which point they really made a lot of sense to me.

You may need to wrack up a few hundred non-lucid dreams in your DJ and get a few dozen DILDs before #2 and #3 make sense to you ( not just intellectually, but viscerally, really *feeling* how important they are).

But if you "get it" earlier, don't hold yourself back and jump right into them!

Even if someday you be able to LD every night, you should allow some off nights to have non lucid dreams to maintain the function of the sub-conscious mind. Many experienced LDer prefer to have LD 3 times a week.
anyway, if you find that super technique to have LD every night, please share us!

I have a friend and it took him a year of dream journals and reality checks to get a lucid dream every night.

As far as methods go, if you can get extremely skilled at WILD and can get it right every night, it's a guarenteed lucid. It takes extreme amounts of practice to even get there, so GL. DILD seems like a better method to get them everynight, but pick whichever you are good at. Goodluck.