Thread: The millionth tread by a frustrated beginner

Were your lucids caused by DILD? What are your dream signs? How often do you reality check? Do you lay still after awaking? These are all useful things to attempt if you haven't already.

I do all of these things.. noticing dreamsigns, quality RCs, and yes, all except one were DILDs. Suppose the other guys are right though, you just have to stick with it for a while until you get results..

I had my first lucid dream 15 years ago. After that I started researching and reading everything I could. I tried for years...seriously, years with no luck besides a few at random. I had my first High lucid in 2004 by pure chance. I have been fighting since the high lucid to have another lucid dream. It was the most amazing experience I have ever had, shear exstacy that is just not at all possible in waking life. I realized that I was stressing myself too much about having a lucid dream that it was just not happening.

Your thinking that it's not working or not going to work is building a mental barrier and preventing you from becoming lucid.

I work all sorts of crazy hours and definitely don't sleep enough or regularly enough. But I am now having LD's much more often in spite of that. After I realized that stressing myself over it was not helping I took a different approach. I continued doing several RC's every day but I did them as if it was just a natural thing to do like eating or drinking and not giving it a second thought.

I listen to my dream journal (voice recorder) every night while laying in bed. I fall asleep while meditating so to speak using the MILD tecnique Stephen Laberge outline. I also wake up after 5 or so hours of sleep and fall asleep using Mild. All whilenot stressing over whether or not it will happen.

I have been having great success by trying more but stressing far less about it. I had 3 LD's last night alone which is a personal best for me.

Mental blocks are your biggest enemy, you have to break down those barriers and just know that you can and will have success.