Hello Mike! Welcome to DV (though I am most probably newer than you). |
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Hey everyone! I've been lurking here for AGES and I finally decided to register an account so I could discuss a few things. I've been trying to Lucid dream now for 365 days now. Yep, one whole year. Most of these days are consecutive, unless I'm sick and am really not up for the experience. In my dream journal, I have recorded 344 days of dreaming and not one of these dreams have been lucid, which is is why I've decided to register. Is there any hope left for me to achieve a lucid dream? |
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Hello Mike! Welcome to DV (though I am most probably newer than you). |
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Finding your way to self-induced lucid dreaming can be rough. We are all different. I noticed from your post that you are in the design business. This would suggest that you have the ability to visualize. When we visualize we use the same area of our big brain as when we dream. This is not hokus-pokus BS but a scientifically proven fact. We imagine and dream in the secondary visual cortices of our occipital lobe. I would suggest DEILD (randomly waking from a dream and then immediately visualizing that very dream as you slip back to sleep) . I have been using visualization to induce lucid dreaming for almost 10 years. IMHO, it is a form of self-hypnosis. Maybe it can work for you, too. Good luck to you! |
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hi and welcome to DV |
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It also took me more than a year to have a lucid dream once I set an intention on it. |
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“Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.” - Carlos Castaneda
Don't give up. I have this account from 2009 and around 2011 I had just stopped caring. I started talking to more and more people whom try to lucid dream and decided to come back. My first week back, I had two lucid dreams. Just keep yourself interested but don't try too hard. If you try too hard, you won't have any success. |
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Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon.. must inevitably come to pass. - Paul J. Meyer
It sounds like you are doing everything right. Something must be off. How often do you WBTB? Have you had any success at all pairing it with MILD or WILD? How many dreams do you remember on a typical night? |
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I've been trying to WILD for over a year now and nadda, trying all the techniques etc. But from DEILDing I know it's worth it! Some people pick this stuff up quickly, others do take a while, even LaBerge took a couple of years to get it if I recall rightly and he had specialised training. |
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first of all. don't try to hard! it will happen |
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Maybe it is time to try something new. Try some new supplements, or read about astral projection or dream yoga, or something. Attack it from another angle. |
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TL;DR |
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I guess if you can't do it, you can't do it. |
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