Preparing to get lucid, several days ahead

**Matte87** · 01-24-2011 05:33 PM

Hi!

I, like many others, have a demanding job that requires me to get up early, and only get a few hours of sleep each night during the week. I try to sleep 7 hours each night, but this is barely enough for me to have more than two dreams, and to get lucid during those puny fragments of dreams? I think not.

It has happened though, but it is very rare, so basicly I realised that my chances of becoming lucid during the week isn't the greatest, and I started focusing on weekends instead. All week long I would go do RC's, some mantra work before bed (but not much) and meditate. Plan what I would do on Friday or Saturday when I intended to become lucid and it usually works!

Does anyone do the same? Since I rely on becoming lucid one or two nights a week, if I fail, I get very disappointed and might be disheartened. This is why I haven't recommended this technique to any new people, but who knows?

So, feedback please. Have you tried this? Did it work?

Keep on dreaming!

**slash112** · 01-24-2011 05:38 PM

Well, the majority of my lucid dreams happened 2 years ago when I just started. So about 16-18 of them.
And all of that was because of what you're describing.

Through the whole week, I'd be telling myself in my head all these things. Just constant auto-suggestion (mantras), and RCing and stuff.

So basically, yea, it's pretty darn effective. At least on me anyways. But it takes effort. I was literally thinking about it constantly in my waking life, and as I fall asleep too.

**Matte87** · 01-24-2011 05:45 PM

True, it takes effort, I've had a slow but steady progress when it comes to LD'ing. I think about it very often during the day, and if i hadn't had the "need" to have thoughts spinning in my head and my hyperactivity, I guess I would get tired of it easily. But I guess the same rule applies to most techniques overall: The more effort you put in, the more results.

**NoctemConArtist** · 01-25-2011 01:48 AM

I think I might start doing this. I've had the idea of focusing on weekends for a while, and I've had an LD last and last last weekend (but none this weekend, because I stayed up too late). I have school on weekdays so it's difficult for me to even have recall, although I'm improving on this by going to bed earlier and doing WBTB. But I do aim to have LDs on weekends more than I do on weekdays. I might start preparing myself with this method during the week.