Thread: Counting your way to Lucid Dreaming Technique

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apple juice drastically increases Dream Vividness

You serious? By how much? I have apple juice, I can down a gallon before bed. BTW, accepted friend request.

Don't drink too much it may make you uncomfortable later in the night, worse still you may decide to go the toilet in a non-lucid.

I never really feel the need to get up at night to go. I will try drinking about 3-4 glasses right before bed, see what happens. I will report back to this thread with results. Won't help me get lucid, but it might make my dreams more vivid.

Originally Posted by Origami

I never really feel the need to get up at night to go. I will try drinking about 3-4 glasses right before bed, see what happens. I will report back to this thread with results. Won't help me get lucid, but it might make my dreams more vivid.

This you all over Origami, you try all the techniques you can but you don't really believe they will make you lucid. If you want apple juice to help you attain lucidity, it will. The b6 vitamin definitely will aid you're other techniques, and dream vividness can only help in making you lucid.

But.. how can a dream just being more vivid make me realize in a dream that I'm dreaming?

I don't even

You must must MUST believe the techniques work. That is absolutely required to become lucid. I drink apple juice all through out the day in little sips. And one full glass at night.

btw okay

EDIT: You dont expect to become lucid in a dream that is blurry as fuck and you cant remember anything whatsoever now do you????

Well I.. but whenever I....

WHAT THA FUUU

Okay...

Apple juice makes you lucid then? Cool.

btw Origami, when you try this technique, are you trying with WBTB or as you go to sleep for the first time?

I will drink them before I go to bed. Like I will drink them, go upstairs, clean my teeth, then hop into bed. I can WBTB, but not drink during the WBTB.
I will try drinking the juice, then doing a WBTB tonight after about 5 hours sleep.

nono when you count, is it during WBTB or just as you sleep.

Wait, what? Counting? Oh right. Well before I just counted as I was falling asleep for the first time. I will count after my WBTB is over though.

hmm kays thx

For my sake, I hope this does SOMETHING. Even if it's just a really vivid dream, something. Because so far, in about 2 months of writing down my dreams and trying methods, all I have to show for it is 2 S.P.s and maybe a 2 second false awakening.

Last nights dream for me was actually kinda cool though, I really hope I can maybe copy it for tonight or something. It was vivid enough, and best of all it was 1st person. You see my avatar picture? Thats from a game called "Vanquish". Look it up on youtube if you want, but basically I was the main guy in it, and fighting robots. It was pretty awesome, if a bit skippy and short.

Originally Posted by Origami

For my sake, I hope this does SOMETHING. Even if it's just a really vivid dream, something. Because so far, in about 2 months of writing down my dreams and trying methods, all I have to show for it is 2 S.P.s and maybe a 2 second false awakening.

Last nights dream for me was actually kinda cool though, I really hope I can maybe copy it for tonight or something. It was vivid enough, and best of all it was 1st person. You see my avatar picture? Thats from a game called "Vanquish". Look it up on youtube if you want, but basically I was the main guy in it, and fighting robots. It was pretty awesome, if a bit skippy and short.

look at my username

OF COURSE I KNOW WHAT VANQUISH IS

How could making your dreams more vivid not help you become lucid?
Firstly, by making your dreams more vivid you will be more likely to see dream signs, secondly, you will notice improved recall, thirdly, when coupled with ADA, increased vividness will help you notice the differences between reality and your dreams.

Okay okay, sheesh, I didn't know, but now I do! GET OFF MA CASE

Sorry for being a bit over-bearing there, just trying to get my point across Good luck and remember, tonight is always THE night.

Believe me, I know how to focus and convince myself that things are true, or real, or possible. I have done that. But this is too steep, especially after all this time. I can't get myself to KNOW that tonight is the night. How can I make myself believe that this is the night, and that all my past failures and lost chances are okay? If that is the key, then how am I supposed to reach it?

You are in full control of your thinking, emotions and attitudes. Your opinions on your ability to lucid dream aren't based on any physical situation or characteristic, but rather the self-defeating thought that you are incapable of lucid dreaming. Convert your attitude into a more positive, adaptive, position. For instance, hold in your mind that belief is the key, also remember that there is nothing setting you apart from the rest of the population that is influencing your ability to dream lucidly (negatively or otherwise). There are many who take months, years even, to get as far as you have in the past weeks. Remember these things and whenever you catch yourself thinking negatively, reinterpret your situation in a different light.
I'm not talking here from some spiritual or philosophical thinking, this is cognitive psychology

Ok, well, I will focus more on that aspect then.

Apple juice, ADA, WBTB and Positive thinking.

I guess I will try "this" technique" for the next week... it probably won't work but I'll try it -sigh- WRONG!!! No technique will work with an attitude like that.

that is corrrrect!

YOU CAN DO IT!

Okay, well success and failure. Failure because I stayed up too late (about 3 am) and then woke up at 10, so I totally messed up my REM or whatever, and I only had one, decent dream.
Success though, as that dream was fairly long and sorta vivid. The apple juice, I would say, worked. If I had gone to sleep at a better time, I'm certain I would have had a lot of good dreams. Trying again tonight.

Counting works I tried it, but its not my favorite. I get bored with counting and by like 60 something I fall asleep. It has worked for me 2 times before I joined I just think it is harder then other things you can do.