Help me please

**Troy** · 03-25-2004 11:51 AM

Hello all.
I've been trying to have lucid dreams for about a week now, but im really not getting very far. I've started a dream journal and recently I have started to remember my dreams a lot more and more clearly. I just dont understand how you become lucid though. I've read on a lot of lucid dreaming sites that you have to learn to recognise your dream signs, so when you are dreaming you can notice them. However I don't have a chance to do this when im dreaming. I just dream and wake up, I have no chance to think or do reality test.
Good bye.

**Aphius** · 03-25-2004 12:49 PM

The reason you dont do the tests is because you are not conciously aware so you cannot do the tests at will. You have to do the tests EVERY time you see your dreamsign in wasking life, so that it almost becomes a conditioned response to seeing that thing. Also, don't expect to achieve lucidity overnight. It takes a while for most to get the hang of doing it.

One more thing...

Welcome to the forum Troy!

**Seeker** · 03-25-2004 02:13 PM

Welcome on board!!!!

Hey, don't get discouraged! It take a little while, but don't give up. It is really worth it!

**Identity X** · 03-25-2004 03:08 PM

Yeah, wait a little. I got my first lucid dream without any reality checks at all, indeed, all but one of my lucid dreams so far did not have reality checks in. I recorded my dream for about 3 weeks before my first lucid. Word of advice: when choosing a signal for a reality check, don't choose birds. I did, and they hardly ever appear in dreams, at least for me.

And be calm during your first lucid. Take things slowly. You can fly, that's quite easy, I managed to shrink a house on my first lucid. Just don't do anything that would usually excite you; don't summon a member of the opposite sex on your first try! I am unable to maintain lucidity after that, after six lucid dreams.

**Troy** · 03-25-2004 03:35 PM

Thanks for the quick responses peoples. I'll keep trying and hopefully soon succeed.

**Identity X** · 03-25-2004 03:39 PM

Yeah, you just have to find which methods suit you best. You'll just have to have a lucid dream first. I personally wake up on Sunday at 5am, go back to slep, and then I often have a lucid.

**YULAW** · 03-25-2004 04:20 PM

Originally posted by Identity X
Yeah, you just have to find which methods suit you best. You'll just have to have a lucid dream first. I personally wake up on Sunday at 5am, go back to slep, and then I often have a lucid.

Thats excellent just utilize that to futher your abilities and you will be fine.