3rd lucid = SUCCESS! Just a few tips that helped me and may help anyone struggling

edit: this is regarding DILD technique

Hey guys! Just had my third lucid, and man, what an experience! My current goal was to maintain lucidity for more than ten seconds, and the dream itself ended up being about 45 minutes! Anyways, I just thought I'd post some things I think helped me succeed.

1. Don't stress lucid dreaming: I don't know how many of you do this, but I had a big problem with overstressing it as I was going to sleep. As a result, it would keep me up. So, just go to sleep. That's the best thing I could do for myself. I think I induced a dryspell on myself the previous week just by overstressing

2. Don't get bummed, get excited! My dryspell last week was probably also a product of getting descouraged, and that can really hinder your ability to lucid dream or even dream for that matter. Get excited about lucid dreaming! I think one thing that helps is daydreaming. Imagine all you could do in a dream, and let your mind have fun. (I don't recommend you do this during work or class though :?)

3. Read Puffin's DILD guide. It's very thorough. And it helped me stay organized and aware during the day. Serioiusly, before reading that guide my reality checks were unvaried and sloppy, and I never really made a conscious choice to question my waking life.


These of course go along with everything you know about lucid dreaming and requirements for it that should be second nature (dream journals, RCs, etc.)

Hope this helps anyone struggling! Happy dreaming!

First of all, well done :)
And thanks for those tips.

I know the feeling of being stressed for trying to LD, man was my first four or five days discouraging. That weekend though, I know I needed real decent sleep, not that light, waiting for an alarm to go off sleep. Well when the alarm did go off, I woke up and fell right back to sleep without even mention lucid in my mind, and that morning I had two back to back lucid dreams! Good tips.

Nice post. Sometimes when we let go for a while, that's when the lucid dreams start flowing.

Looks like someone ripped off my avatar :D

Thanks for the tips! I think I'm getting close...!

Wow, was that a real 45 minutes, or a dream 45 minutes?

Great Work~! I often find that being over excited keeps me up alot. What was the dream about? Im guessing the 45 minutes was real time not in the dream time.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by TheSurrealist90

edit: this is regarding DILD technique

Hey guys! Just had my third lucid, and man, what an experience! My current goal was to maintain lucidity for more than ten seconds, and the dream itself ended up being about 45 minutes! Anyways, I just thought I'd post some things I think helped me succeed.

1. Don't stress lucid dreaming: I don't know how many of you do this, but I had a big problem with overstressing it as I was going to sleep. As a result, it would keep me up. So, just go to sleep. That's the best thing I could do for myself. I think I induced a dryspell on myself the previous week just by overstressing

2. Don't get bummed, get excited! My dryspell last week was probably also a product of getting descouraged, and that can really hinder your ability to lucid dream or even dream for that matter. Get excited about lucid dreaming! I think one thing that helps is daydreaming. Imagine all you could do in a dream, and let your mind have fun. (I don't recommend you do this during work or class though :?)

3. Read Puffin's DILD guide. It's very thorough. And it helped me stay organized and aware during the day. Serioiusly, before reading that guide my reality checks were unvaried and sloppy, and I never really made a conscious choice to question my waking life.


These of course go along with everything you know about lucid dreaming and requirements for it that should be second nature (dream journals, RCs, etc.)

Hope this helps anyone struggling! Happy dreaming!

---

Congrats man, that's excellent!! Sounds really sweet for a 3rd LD.
I'm definitely excited about the idea of LDing, never stressed, so I believe I'll be having success soon.
Agreed on Puffin's DILD guide, I loved it and I'm applying it faithfully.
So what did you do in your nice lengthy dream?

No anwsers?

After I gave up lucid dreaming for a while, I went to Florida. A day after I came back from my hotel after going to the circus, I was very tired and still had jetlag. That night I had a lucid dream. It was strange.