Thread: Maybe I just need motivation...

I would recommend checking out this thread for encouragement or motivation. Also! Think about all the things you want to LD about and write them down. Read them before you go to bed to keep up enthusiasm.

http://www.dreamviews.com/f11/lucid-...gement-138953/

I also like to come onto DV and get to know people of like mindset (LD mindset) so that I have more encouragement.

If you are sick of everything about LD you could of course take a break, but I would recommend DJing during so that you keep up recall. This takes time though. good luck. I hope you stay on the lucid path.

I also suggest you take a break. LD'ing can't be something you need to force yourself to do, that way you don't have any real enthusiasm towards achieving goals and that will affect your chances. Find the motivation somehow, it's pretty hard to tell someone exactly how, but take a look at that thread. Like Brandon said, try to DJ atleast when you're taking a break, or you risk losing your recall.

Try this, read about a lucid dreaming method and don't get motivated becuase of the fact that it can induce a lucid dream, get motivated by the fact that the method can be fun to do! Like if you want to master ball control and get better at soccer, you might kick a soccerball against the wall and you have fun, but as you do it you don't think "Ok I am doing this because I want to master ball control and then master soccer" and if you think like that you might even get frustrated and angry because you notice that you don't have the skill to control the ball at all times...

However if you approach the game with just having fun, kick the ball, against the wall and perhaps not getting restricted to the fact that you only do this to practise ball control with your feet, then you can create a little variation by kicking the ball against the wall and then catch it on your chest or nick the ball.
And as you directly have fun, you are indirectly practising ball control!

My point here is that when you read a method you shouldn't get restricted, by so called "facts", because first of all facts doesn't exist and second of all if you try "impossible" things you might discover new possibilities. And my second point is that sometimes you get a little to hard on yourself as you practise and forget to make it fun.

So see the value in the method itself by using IT to have fun, and don't let it use YOU to imprison you as a free being in rules and false belief-systems.

By doing this you directly have fun, but are at the same time indirectly going torwards lucid dreaming mastery.

As I have said before, often progress in lucid dreaming have little to do with what you DO and more to do (perhaps only!) with what you THINK.

If you need help to see the value in reality checking itself I can help you with that, and if you need help to see the value in dream journaling itself I can help you with that as well. So just ask ^-^ Although if you don't think it's fun to reality check and to keep a dream journal, then it's no point and you should stop, because then you are controled and forced which as Yoda would say leads to anger -> hate -> suffering (of not getting the desired result.)

I can tell you what I do right now. I try to see the value in awareness and sleep itself and even non-lucid dreams, and because of that I have fun and my normal dreams get exciting and lucid dreams pop up every now and then on it's own

A little thing to keep in mind though as you choose your lucid dreaming induction:

DILD Inductions: Indirectly Inducing Awareness within a dream - Is the practise of trusting (yourself) your subconscious.
WILD Inductions: Directly Inducing Awareness withing a dream - Is the practise of trusting (yoursellf) your conscious in the now.

I stay motivated through fanaticism, constantly reading DV, and LD articles. When I'm not reading DV I'm reading a book about LD'ing written by Stephen LaBerge. I also set an alarm to wake me up every single day 4 hours after I sleep, this way I make sure I attempt a WBTB everyday.

When I fail or feel down that I'm not getting any LD's I read my old dream journals to remind me the pure joy I experienced from past LD's. I changed my smartphones background to say REALITY CHECK, so each time I check my phone I get reminded to do an RC.

Also I found reading through some of the experienced LD'ers dream journals on these forums really encourages me to meet their level of skill (Mancon, Xanous, and Sivason have some really wild DJ entries).

That's how I stay motivated... I took a break from it once and stopped for 8 months, taking breaks makes you lazy and weak, be hardcore to the point where you eat, breathe, and drink lucid dreaming. Convince your self that you are a lucid dream, be the lucid dream.

EDIT: In case anyone wanted the background, its customized for Galaxy S2 but you can always crop it to fit your needs

Try this : If you wake up in the middle of the night from a dream simply lay there and visualize the dream you were having. Try to 'see' it again in your mind all the while remaining positive you will become lucid in a dream. Our big human brain really does like to complete dreams as dreams are symbolic of what is being processed during sleep from our waking hours. For me, this method is the easiest way to attain LDs.

@ Mastermind
Are you a practicing Buddhist??

Originally Posted by akshay

@ Mastermind
Are you a practicing Buddhist??

No because of the simple reason that to say that I am a Buddhist would put me in a box. Because Buddhism have rules attached to it.
Rather I would say that I like Buddha's teachings and I learn from his experience.

I like Jesus words as well, but if I said I was Christian I would also be put in a box with rules attached to it.

And last but not least I like science, but once again there are rules and belief systems attached to it.

So I would like to say that I like to get inspired by each and every box of belief systems there are out there, however I put primariy trust in my own experiences, because that is my knowledge.

And that is what you should do with my words as well, put them in a box "The MasterMind Box" and get inspired by it, but feel free to look if the data and information I provide you is correct, and when you do regardless of if the data was resonating with you or not, that is your knowledge.

Thanks everyone for the help c: I will try to focus more on the good things about LDing, and hopefully will continue to have more LDs, and eventually learn how to make them last longer. Thanks again, and good luck to you c:

Good luck, glad to see you sticking with it! It saddens me when people stop LDing, I see all their dreams dying in front of me.