Thread: What mindset do you need?

You should have a confident one, but not the overly "I'LL DEFINITELY HAVE AN LD TONIGHT, FOR SURE!" confidence. After all, if you don't end up having a lucid that night, it'll take you down a branch, if not consciously, because you worked yourself up too much in the hopes that you'd have one. A quiet confidence seems to help me a lot, just knowing that I have a very good chance of having an LD, but if I don't, the next one is just around the corner; if you keep telling yourself that, you won't burn out.

But that's the problem. After about 4 months my steam ran out and for 2 months now I have basically just been recording my dreams.
Even when one night I had a semi lucid dream thing, that was only once night and was terrible, and nothing has changed since.
I want to keep trying and eventually have one, but right now I'm getting really annoyed that it's taking so long and nothing is happening.

How do I make myself feel happy and confident and positive about the whole subject, when every night I just go to bed and barely care to give a think about what I would do in a lucid, then wake up and write down the 4 or 5 dreams I had that night?

I'd say that if you've become exhausted from the whole prospect of LDing, no matter how much you want one, you might just have to take a short break. I've been planning on doing this myself for some time because my recent lucids aren't the quality I'd like them to be, but I've just stuck stubbornly to my RCs, awareness, and DJing. But doing nothing for a short while, instead of constantly trying to push things back into motion, is probably better and less stressful. Saying this, if you do take a break for a few days or weeks, keep on DJing but do it as more of a recreational thing and not a chore.

Originally Posted by Origami

..to lucid dream?

inb4 positive one
inb4 happy one
inb4 focused on LDing

Elaborate on these if they are indeed the answer.

What you need to do, is set intent that you want it. Think about it, then forget it. Just know, think that it's something that isn't hard to do.

I tried the break and intent, neither worked. When I took a break I didn't have any dreams at all for 4 days, took 2 days afterwards to get back to normal.
I tried intent but that did nothing, that's what I want to find out though, how to think about this stuff properly and well. Because right now, when I think of lucid dreaming, I see it as something that isn't going to happen soon, and no matter what I do it won't work. I used to see it as something I might have tonight and be able to do all this cool shit, but now it's just another thing I'll never get to do, like going into space or skydiving or whatever.

Coincidentally, this was posted today http://www.dreamviews.com/f11/how-ta...eaming-120910/

Taken all the advice on board, it's just up to me now then.

I am beginning to talk about my own experiences now in a topic on this forum called "NEVER MIND!"
As I said there, these are just about my own dream phases I have been through and am still going through. I have never entered these states because I was intending to. In fact I had never heard of Lucid dreaming when I first started becoming aware of being in a dream while in the dream. I didn't like it because I knew I was dreaming and I wanted to awaken, and sometimes would think I had woken up, but it would just be another dream, and sometimes I would have several (maybe up to 5 in a row) before I would really wake up. That's when RG appeared as a dream guide and not only in dreams either, but in other completely lucid awakened states. She taught me a lot. I had a lot of lucid dreams after she helped me and they got always better and better, and I could do lots of things in those dreams. I could fly. I could ride Motorcycles in the sky, fly helicopters, dive into abysses, and overcome a lot of things that were probably subconscious fears before, and just plain have a lot of fun doing it. I met God, Jesus and the Dalai Lama once, and God taught me teleportation, and Jesus and the Dalai Lama told me they were the same entity in reality, and were here to teach me how to love God in everything. They also gave me my own superfast highway from Mexico to Canada along with a chauffer, and a whole lot of other things happened in that dream. It was a really Epic dream in many ways.

Those dreams, like the earlier dreams, had purpose and learning experiences for me. So, they were to benefit me at the time.

RG (who reminds me often of a Buddha in a smokin' Hot female image) was always big on telling me things like "This dream, this experience is right for you now, but as you grow and learn, their use is past and there will be new opportunities in ways you never ever have even dreamed of or considered yet"

You need to know that you are a dreamer without a shadow of a doubt and you will have lucid dreams. Thats all it takes.

@Mayflow- What are you saying to me? Are you just advertising your other topic or boasting about how well you do this? I doubt that's the case.

@Saltyseedog- To believe beyond any doubt? But to me that can only be attained once I have proven it to myself, I can't just believe in something that hasn't happened to me.

Forget I said anything.

It takes time to get to there. Thats what you should strive for though. Just have confidence that you can have a lucid dream. Believe in yourself. Don't over believe in yourself. Don't be like I'm going to have a bunch of lucid dreams tonight when you really doubt that happening. Just work with it where you are. Practice techniques at first. You got this dude. Stay aware. awareness is key. Be aware of life at all times. Try to ground your awareness more. It hard to be aware of life when your mind is wandering several different places at once. Meditation can help. Look up meditations. There are even guided meditations. And be focused. Whatever your doing focus on that only. Life is a dream. so stay lucid. And don't take it to seriously.

Focus, attention, awareness, confidence.

Let's do this

One thing I'd like to add is that you should NOT make the awareness a habit, or go about it half-assed. I've found what really helps me is actually completely stopping what I'm doing to look around, RC, etcetera. I totally take my mind off of what I'm doing to perform checks, not just do them briefly in the back of my head while still doing my activities. Good luck Origami!

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