Why haven't I had a lucid dream yet??

**Wyvrn** · 09-15-2011 04:54 PM

I have been trying to lucid dream for around 13 nights now. I read through EWLD in practically 2 days. I remember around 6 dreams a night, I have recorded(in my DJ) over 60 dreams in the past 13 nights. I RC throughout the day, I examine things that happen observe how people act, and how I act. I have lookout through my recorded dreams and listed all my dream signs and categorized them and I think "ego action" is my category or something. Most of the time I go to bed at 8:00pm and can lay in bed for while remembering my dreams after I wake up. I a lot of the time wake up after dreams, and sometimes I have a few alarms. Most of my dreams take up half a page to 2 pages long, and its starting to just take up too much time to write them all down. Last night I just was not trying very hard to concentrate on remembering my dreams before I went to sleep and when I woke up did not try very hard and did not spend much time trying to remember any, and I only remembered 3, one took up about a page. So I know that my recall is pretty much just me trying. Although they are not very vivid. Sometimes I do that journal thing where you write down everything that happened that day, that seems to improve my recall somewhat. I am very motivated and very confident, but my confidence is diminishing. Any tips? I don't know why I haven't LDed yet!

**funnky** · 09-15-2011 05:59 PM

just believe u can do it. maybe try to do some wilds or something.

**Bobblehat** · 09-15-2011 06:31 PM

All I have to say is, 13 nights is not many nights at all. Has the content of your dreams become more dream related - or lucid dream related - at all?

**Avalanche** · 09-15-2011 06:32 PM

When I clicked to look at this topic, I was praying in my head "Please let him be a few weeks old, please let him be a newbie".
Lo' and behold, here you are. Joined this month, almost two weeks ago.

Delightful. You are not going to have a lucid dream in the drop of a hat. People say to keep your hopes up, but yeah, not really going to happen. People do reality checks and dream journal and all this stuff all day, and people say you might have one just by knowing about it? Yeah, no chance.

Funnky said it straight up though, keep at it. And keep at it long, it's going to take a while. Or it may not, you could have one tonight.

But yeah, keep at it.

You won't have one if you give up or let off the pressure now will you?

**siuol** · 09-15-2011 07:58 PM

Someones impatient =D keep at it, if the dj gets too long, write down key phrases that will jog your memmory of the dream, and don't loose enthusiasm

**Arch** · 09-15-2011 09:06 PM

I'm not sure what exactly to target, but try these tips.
Go to bed at the same time every night.
Do Mantras, RC during the day, All Day awareness (the more the better).
Teach yourself to DEILD.
I wouldn't recommend WILDing.

**Wyvrn** · 09-16-2011 02:25 PM

Thanks guys! And guess what, I just had a lucid dream about an hour ago. And it was from RCing with my watch. I woke up at 5:00 or 5:30 and remembered just 2 dreams, did not try very hard. They could have been the same.. Anyways, went to the bathroom and wrote them down. The did MILD as I was falling back asleep:
I said to myself that I will have a lucid dream and I will remember it and I will be aware in my dream and know its a dream over and over and over
Then thought of one of my dreams that I just woke up from and looked for the dream signs in it. And if I thought of any other scene I would think "this is a dream" and slowing go back to just telling myself I will have a lucid dream.
It took awhile, but finally fell back asleep. I'm hoping that this all might help out another newbie searching around on the forums. In the dream I saw my brother and thought "I see him in my dreams a lot, maybe I could RC everytime I see him". So I RCed and the seconds were messed up, I thought "no way". Everything was so real, I saw the sunlight on my arm and watch, and then I looked back at my watch and saw all the numbers were messed up. During the day, whenever I RC I try to truly and honestly consider whether I am dreaming and kinda imagine my watch messing up. Which I think really helped. Anyways, I thought "Now Isaac(my name), cool it, don't get too excited" and remembered to stabilize the dream its good to spin and go to a new scene. So I started spinning and closed my eyes and thought of my bathroom. Then I thought if I open them I might wake up in my bed, and I was not sure what to do, and kept spinning, then I smacked my hands on the counter in the bathroom just before opening my eyes and found myself in the bathroom. I looked in the mirror, did not see my reflection, did not want to try for fear of waking up and I saw the window was more square as apposed to rectangular in real life. I opened the door and looked out in to the hall way and thought of how real it looked. I walked out and into the dining room and thought "I gotta try flying and get outside!". So I went out the door, ignoring that it opened in the opposite direction its suppose to. I tried flying and thought "well wow this is dull and boring and not near as fun as I thought it would be" then I noticed I was still on the ground. So I ran around to the front yard and heard a radio and thought I was starting to wake up. Then my dad was walking towards me and I had a false awakening and thought I had slept walked to the front yard. As my dad was talking to me, I saw a black dot above a mound of hay or something and and wondered if it was a kittin, it was and it meowed and walked to me and it looked and sounded real. Another one and Miles(one of the older cats) came. Then I woke up for real.

Well hope I helped someone

and thanks again guys for your replies. And I agree with Arch that WILD is not a good idea for, I think, newbies like me. Every time I tried, it did not work and I tried so many times.