Losing almost all motivation? Any remedy for this?

Hey LDers!

It's been a while since I've been on this site and I figured I'd come back and post a thread. At the beginning of January of 2011, I became so engrossed in lucid dreaming that I could think of nothing else. I did reality checks and the works. I even got up to having 12 LDs with tons and tons of regular dreams as well. Now, it seems as though I've lost all motivation. I haven't been getting that much sleep because of school and I need to get on that, but I want to be able to want to record my dreams again and all that. I just don't get the point anymore. I haven't been remembering my dreams and I haven't had a lucid dream in almost 2 months.

If anyone has any tips to boost my motivation, please let me know!

Instead of a dream journal try a digital tape recorder.... also try simple visualizations while practicing deep breathing. Also: lucid dreaming, for me anyway, comes in waves. Theres always a dry season. Good luck to you! :shadewink:

You're probably going to hate me for saying this, but try taking a break.

Worked for me (as a DILDer)

Your motivation should come out you wanting to have more LDs. You said you've experience 12 of them, was it worth the effort for you? Keeping a dream journal and doing RCs throughout the day doesn't take much time or effort at all :P

You said you don't get the point of it anymore, so maybe you just need some legitimate reasons why LDing is beneficial?

Read this: Why Lucid Dreaming?

I must relate to this. After being able to get 30 LDs in 30 days, I also entered a dry spell at the start of college. I've been trying to figure out what happened for years. I know how to dream lucidly. I preach it to others. I want it. Yet the motivation to work on it as hard as I used to is not there. At most I can maintain it for a few days. This is why I'm working on a lucid dreaming aid device/app. Maybe relying on an outside device would help me.

Here are some hints:

1) Change in diet, stopped taking supplements consistently(melatonin, B6), crappy college food -affected recall.
2) Taking a break from lucid dreaming forums. I went from posting daily to posting weekly to posting rarely at all. Over 3-4 months I almost stopped getting my daily "fix" of motivation, encouragement and most importantly pushed lucid dreaming to the back of my mind. Community matters !
3) Consistent sleep schedule matters. I started going to bed at all odd hours of the day, and it ruined my recall, I could no longer practice techniques after 5 hours of sleep, because it was light outside.
4) Weird as it may sound, I might've persuaded myself that my subconscious does not want me poking around and revealing the deepest secrets. Every time I want to talk to my subconscious mind while at high lucidity, I get a horrific dry spell that lasts for weeks. I've been explicitly kicked out of my mind twice for trying to talk to my subconscious.
5)Having roommates - prevented me from sleeping as lightly as I used to. I had to sleep very deeply to get any sleep at all with a bunch of night owls in the same room and next door....

The search continues. The problem appears to be pretty complicated.
PS. I wouldn't recommend getting a voice recorder. In my experience, my voice sounds very weak, it is hard to speak and maintain the dream in mind at the same time. :/

Read people's dream journals. Someone who you respect on dreamviews :)

Do you have any goals? Find something that you REALLY want to do. That's what keeps me motivated.

You need other people to give you tip's to become motivated? Dude.. if you don't want to LD badly enough then don't do it.

The reason I strive to LD is because waking life is boring -- Might as well have some fun in your dreams eh?

Thanks so much guys! Just your comments have motivated me to get back into the forums and to start thinking about becoming lucid again. Thanks!

Glad to hear it! If you want you can join perlinfalcon's personal lucid task club. Helps me to keep track of my LDing so I don't forget to do reality checks and what not

Here's the link if your interested:
http://www.dreamviews.com/f13/person...k-club-111321/

Motivation can sometimes be a tricky thing. In my cases it can be because I lost sight of what I was seeking for in the first place. I've been one of those people who went on and off with lucid dreaming, usually starting up during breaks and vacations and falling off when school or college started.

I think I found a nice balance. I have a schedule that I am very comfortable with. I don't always get enough sleep and my recall is sometimes little or non-existent. However, so long as I am enjoying my life, and loving the experiences that are coming my way (even if it is something I might not exactly appreciate like exams :O), I usually am stress free and calm. This aids in my recall. Almost every night I can recall something. So that's the part of "seeing this as just one more thing to do on your already intense list of responsibilities." It's not just another "thing you do" that takes up time if you are enjoying each experience and have a schedule that allows you to record your dreams every morning (stress free and not cramming it in the schedule).

The other part is your goal or goals. Goals tend to be one of the the driving forces behind everything I personally do. Goals that I WANT to accomplish, not goals that are imposed on me (for example, school can feel that way sometimes with the more irrelevant classes for me; I fortunately get to choose the classes so I can learn about what I want to learn about). Set yourself some goals. Do you want to experience a new, yet somewhat consistent reality? Like an adventure that is pretty stable, containing DCs you can interact intelligently with and other stuff, kind of like a virtual reality video game (sometimes stable dream laws in a dream universe can add challenge and be fun). Do you want to see what all this shared dreaming stuff is about? Do you want to see what your subconscious has to say about your most inner thoughts?

I hope some of these ideas help add to your motivation. Not every goal is for everyone, but if you find something YOU love, you'll have even more motivation! :)