I tried this and it worked. thanks
I had gone a week or more without a Ld and wanted to try something new. I tried it 2 or 3 nights and no results except I kept losing count as I drifted into sleep. Two nights ago I woke up and tried to count like this as I was falling back asleep. At some point I became aware of walking through this labyrinthine concrete aqueduct system and thinking to myself "Goddammit I lost count again, what number was I on?" Obviously I realized I was dreaming. I had a very interesting, although somewhat puzzling discussion with a dream character about what prevents us from dreaming.
Anyhow, I also wanted to say that I had gone to bed that night with the attitude that I didn't really care whether I became lucid, I just wanted to get some solid sleep that night because I was tired. I have had this happen a few times, where I relax, chill out with a good movie and a good cup of tea and go to bed saying who cares if I have a lucid dream, and then I have one anyways. So I would postulate that just being relaxed about lucid dreaming is more important than trying to tell yourself that you are certain to have one.
Don't get me wrong, I often tell remind myself that I am certain that I will continue to develop and grow in my lucid dreaming. But I don't try to feel certain about dreaming so much as I try to go to bed in a state of ease, relaxation and enjoyment. Of course feeling certain about lucid dreams may be some people's way of doing that. If it works for you great, but perhaps some people just need to relax a little, admit that tonight might not be the night, but the night is coming. Just a thought.
But its definitely possible to have a lucid dream on a night when you don't think its gonna happen;)
