What triggered this?

[Vinje]

Alright, I've known of lucid dreaming for a few weeks. I managed to attain lucidity after 3 days, when I did a WBTB, then I sort of gave up lucid dreaming. Now, this afternoon I suddenly became lucid. After about one hour of sleeping (not remembering dreaming) I got the same feeling as first time, of realizing that I was dreaming. Its like you sort of wake up and state, Ah, I'm dreaming, and the gaze came like first time. This lucid dream lasted for like a minute until my father opened the door here, too bad. Anyhow, what I don't get is why I suddenly realized that I was dreaming, when I didn't really dream at all before this. I got a perfect dream recall, and I know that I didn't dream anything before I got this realization. I don't do any daily reality checks any more. I visited dreamvws.com before I went to sleep last night, and read something about dream signs, and realized that I always talk to people in my dreams, and that I should probably make it a reality check. Anyhow, I didn't think any more about this after I woke up this morning, and this lucid dream came in the afternoon. It was just like this the first time I got my lucid dream as well, I imagined a computerscreen with dreamviews.com and became lucid without dreaming first. This afternoon, I did nothing to try to become lucid, nor did I think about lucid dreaming except for yesterday, so what could be the trigger here? Would be nice to know, I want to find a way of attaining lucidty which works well. I really like just falling to sleep and getting a realization of dreaming before even dreaming first. Could a reality check each time I talk to people or see people (when I'm at places where its few of course) do this?

[nightowl]

It has been known that taking a break from trying to have a lucid dream can induce lucid dreams. Im pretty sure its a subconcious thing to. Example: Try to lucid dream for 3 weeks, but no success. Stop trying. The next day, BAM..lucid dream.. you understand what im trying to say?

[FMprime]

Originally posted by nightowl It has been known that taking a break from trying to have a lucid dream can induce lucid dreams. Im pretty sure its a subconcious thing to. Example: Try to lucid dream for 3 weeks, but no success. Stop trying. The next day, BAM..lucid dream.. you understand what im trying to say? ya gotta love how this works.