Originally posted by Leo Volont
Lucidity can be attained by simple suggestion -- \"I will become Lucid\".

But the Books and Seminars have convinced this entire Generation to complicate their Suggestion with these picture puzzles -- triggers and reality checks. Instead of your dream presenting you with the idea \"This is a Dream\", you force your Dream Mind to provide these silly and most indirect little clues.

If you are going to use Suggestion, why not use a direct and simple suggestion instead of this silly roundabout stuff?

Instead of suggesting, \"I will examine my dreams for funny little inconsistencies which will allow me to discern I am dreaming\", why not suggest \"When I am Dreaming, I will know I am Dreaming\". Would that not be simpler? It is in both the same power of suggestion, so why dick around with silly overcomplications?
Ok, Leo. I can appreciate your points but I'm going to be honest with you: your bedside manner is really lacking. (No pun intended)

When I made this post, I was mostly just amused but figured, hey, it might help others. Instead of judging what happened to me as "overcomplicated" and "silly," perhaps you should politely state your experience and accept that not everyone's mind works in such a way that saying "I will become lucid" is enough. I know that, and that's why I posted this little dream.

FWIW, my technique is WBTB and repeating "I will have a lucid dream now." This particular lucid experience didn't have any set-up at all. The trigger itself was not deliberate and completely spontaneous. So I can hardly consider what happened to be "silly" (amusing, maybe!) or "overcomplicated" because it happened without any effort at all.