HEY, YOU! Can you help me create emotions?

**lucidadic** · 10-29-2011 01:19 AM

So... A little experiment in the title.

I know that the most important part of LDing is the belief and confidence. I'm hoping for some advice on how to feel confident when you haven't had a lucid dream for months. I don't logically belief that I will have one tonight. Other than remembering a time when I felt confident in the past, is there a way to feel confident about LDing even when you haven't been having them?

**MadMonkey** · 10-29-2011 02:18 AM

Just expect that you are going to have one. You have a logical reason, you are confident now.

**Raijin** · 10-29-2011 09:59 PM

If you have been doing some preparation: RC's, MILD or whatnot and you've had lucid dreams previously there is no reason not to be confident. Obviously for some reason you were unable to or chose not to pursue lucid dreaming for the last couple of months but that does not mean you have lost all your skill. Remember that doing something over and over improves the synapses in your brain meaning that you get better and better at it, not doing something for a couple of months means that those neural pathways are getting a bit weaker but you HAVE already established them by practicing lucid dreams before, therefore it won't take you as much effort as it would a newbie like me to start lucid dreaming again.

Simply, you know you CAN do it + you have been thinking about it + you WANT to do it = you WILL do it!

To me it honestly seems like you have no reason not to be confident!

**Solarflare** · 10-29-2011 10:46 PM

There is absolutly 0 reason to believe you wont have a lucid dream tonight. What reasons do you have to believe that

**Avalanche** · 11-02-2011 03:14 PM

Just knowing about this subject is enough to have one. I would be bet money, as would everyone else here, that you will at some point in the future will have a 3rd lucid dream. To make yourself confident, you need to take steps to prove to yourself that each thing you do, be it a technique or just thinking about it brings you closer to that next LD.

In a way, if you don't try, Ld's are just plain unavoidable. If you don't want to have one, then you won't. If you do want to have one, then you will.