Thread: Cannot seem to become Lucid again!

Originally Posted by Baco

- I go to sleep around 11:00 - 11:30 and wake up at 6:00AM every morning for school. I have been setting my alarm for 3:30AM and then again at 5:30AM to try WBTB initiated LDs but to no avail.

Try this nifty little trick. When you wake up at 3:30 AM stay still and try to visualize the last dream you can recall... even if it is one from another night. Good luck to you!

Originally Posted by faceonmars

Try this nifty little trick. When you wake up at 3:30 AM stay still and try to visualize the last dream you can recall... even if it is one from another night. Good luck to you!

I will try that tonight. Thanks!

Any more to visualizing it? Should I try to 'make' my new dream landscape with reality signs for me to see or should I just visualize it as best as I can?

I saw an outrageously bright white light when I was hanging out with my friends, I asked them, "Am I dreaming!?", they replied yes, and THEN I checked my hand.

Reality checks are just used to check to see if you are dreaming. In most cases, the dreamer realizes he's dreaming and then does a reality check, not the other way around. That's natural.There really is no shortcut when it comes to lucidity, you just have to work for it. Seems like you're on the right track, you may even have a lucid tonight.

Originally Posted by Anthonyyy0

Reality checks are just used to check to see if you are dreaming. In most cases, the dreamer realizes he's dreaming and then does a reality check, not the other way around. That's natural.There really is no shortcut when it comes to lucidity, you just have to work for it. Seems like you're on the right track, you may even have a lucid tonight.

Ahh I see. Well thanks for clearing that up.

I hope so I'll post if I do for sure!

Just to clean something up, you CAN become lucid, like everyone can. Saying you can't can make a placebo effect and you don't want to make it.

Second, you're on the right track, don't think you are not. Some have got their first lucid dream many months after trying, so don't discourage yourself. Just keep on, practice and practice, one day you will make it! You have to believe with all your heart you will LD if you wanna LD.

Originally Posted by SarcasticIndeed

Just to clean something up, you CAN become lucid, like everyone can. Saying you can't can make a placebo effect and you don't want to make it.

Second, you're on the right track, don't think you are not. Some have got their first lucid dream many months after trying, so don't discourage yourself. Just keep on, practice and practice, one day you will make it! You have to believe with all your heart you will LD if you wanna LD.

Wow that actually hit home. Thanks buddy. I'll make sure I keep telling myself that

I CAN become lucid! Let's go!!

Originally Posted by Baco

Wow that actually hit home. Thanks buddy. I'll make sure I keep telling myself that

I CAN become lucid! Let's go!!

Thats the spirit! Good luck. :3

Just for reference...

I DID visualize the dream I had last at 4:00AM this morning and I went back into the same dream (well, not exactly, but same dream friends etc), so that is definitely in the right direction. Now I just gotta catch myself in the same dream.


Thanks all for posting.

Well done your making progress!
Though its different for everyone, and some even prefer less sleep, personally i dont feel 100% unless i get a FULL 8 hour sleep - I have to be up for 07:00, which means be asleep by 11:00, which means go to bed around 10:30-10:45, before the time i need to be asleep, If i dont manage that then my whole day is effectively ruined as im tired throughout most of it. What is even worse is if i go to sleep late and wake up in a deep sleep phase, im so groggy its a massive struggle to remember my dream let alone write it down fully, later on in that day ill get a deja vu of my dream and think fuck, why didnt i remember that when i woke up. Lost 3-4 lucid dreams in like the past month because i didnt remember them when i woke up. Just thought id share seeing as you only seem to be getting 7 hours sleep, and even less than that due to waking up for wilds which = less rem sleep. Though like i said its different for everyone, anyways, stay positive and confident and you WILL get there!

Originally Posted by ShadowOfSelf

Well done your making progress!
Though its different for everyone, and some even prefer less sleep, personally i dont feel 100% unless i get a FULL 8 hour sleep - I have to be up for 07:00, which means be asleep by 11:00, which means go to bed around 10:30-10:45, before the time i need to be asleep, If i dont manage that then my whole day is effectively ruined as im tired throughout most of it. What is even worse is if i go to sleep late and wake up in a deep sleep phase, im so groggy its a massive struggle to remember my dream let alone write it down fully, later on in that day ill get a deja vu of my dream and think fuck, why didnt i remember that when i woke up. Lost 3-4 lucid dreams in like the past month because i didnt remember them when i woke up. Just thought id share seeing as you only seem to be getting 7 hours sleep, and even less than that due to waking up for wilds which = less rem sleep. Though like i said its different for everyone, anyways, stay positive and confident and you WILL get there!

Usually the reason I dont remember my dreams is because I never feel like writing them down in the morning. It's a bad habit to fall into.

Yeah, I just recently went through my first dry spell myself. (At the end of which I had a TON of Lucid Dreams. I probably should update my profile.) Don't get discouraged, you'll get lucidity again soon. And when you do... your lucid dreams will likely become steadily more frequent and vivid.

Originally Posted by ShadowOfSelf

Well done your making progress!
Though its different for everyone, and some even prefer less sleep, personally i dont feel 100% unless i get a FULL 8 hour sleep - I have to be up for 07:00, which means be asleep by 11:00, which means go to bed around 10:30-10:45, before the time i need to be asleep, If i dont manage that then my whole day is effectively ruined as im tired throughout most of it. What is even worse is if i go to sleep late and wake up in a deep sleep phase, im so groggy its a massive struggle to remember my dream let alone write it down fully, later on in that day ill get a deja vu of my dream and think fuck, why didnt i remember that when i woke up. Lost 3-4 lucid dreams in like the past month because i didnt remember them when i woke up. Just thought id share seeing as you only seem to be getting 7 hours sleep, and even less than that due to waking up for wilds which = less rem sleep. Though like i said its different for everyone, anyways, stay positive and confident and you WILL get there!

Thanks for sharing that! I honestly am fine on 6.5 - 7 hrs a night, although that may not be best for LDing. On weekends I sometimes sleep 10-11 hours, but funny enough I hardly remember dreams on weekends.

I'll try to sleep more though because I need all the REM sleep I can get!


Yeah haha I love it when something in real life automatically triggers a dream memory and then more memories come flowing back into you

Originally Posted by Anthonyyy0

Usually the reason I dont remember my dreams is because I never feel like writing them down in the morning. It's a bad habit to fall into.

Exactly. I do that sometimes as well. Sometimes I wake up after an amazing dream, then I'm like, "meh I'll write it down later." And later turns into falling back asleep and forgetting it! Or such as yesterday when I was late for school, I had no time to write down anything + the stress of being late made me jump too fast.

Originally Posted by Din

Yeah, I just recently went through my first dry spell myself. (At the end of which I had a TON of Lucid Dreams. I probably should update my profile.) Don't get discouraged, you'll get lucidity again soon. And when you do... your lucid dreams will likely become steadily more frequent and vivid.

That's what I was thinking. I feel like it's some sort of plateau that I need to just get over... and once I do, I'll be having much more lucid dreams than before.

If its a WILD attempt I would try to visualize what I can remember from my last dream. Our big human brains like to finish dreams.