Argh... frustrating!

[jasstar]

I was doing so well.. having a lucid dream every couple of nights since I started trying a couple of months ago. Now it's been two weeks without one and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I do my reality checks throughout the day and my dream recall/dream journal is pretty good (I can remember at least 1 or 2 dreams every night).. But nothing. I think maybe I'm trying to hard...?? Or maybe I'm not trying the right things..? Can anyone suggest anything that might get me back on track? JaS

[gab]

Don't worry, we all go through that. It will come back.

[Sensei]

Yeah, sometimes you just hit dry spots. Just ignore them and keep up confidence in yourself. You have to be confident that you will LD tonight! Good luck to you. I had a couple weeks last month that the same thing happened to me. I do not wish that on anyone. LDing is too awesome to take a break.

[sisyphus]

During a dry spell, to keep up my motivation, I just try to enjoy my non-lucids. You could be trying to hard, focusing too much on lucidity and dismissing non-lucids as "failures." This is not a helpful focus. Any dream can become an LD, so I try my best to keep my recall strong and have as many memorable dreams as possible. Eventually, the LDs will come.

[Sensei]

Yeah, some non LDs are dinner than LDs. For instance, last night I had a 2 minute LD where I just flew around, it was fun, but not as fun as the zombie apocalypse dream I had before this (I lost and got bit haha), or running from the mob after that on a four wheeler (got away on that one )

[jasstar]

You know, I think just posting the fact that I was struggling might have even done the trick. Last night I had 2LDs.. .1 of which only lasted for a minute because I was just so excited at having it, and the other that turned out to be my target dream, pretty much playing out just as I wanted it too. Thanks for all your support! JaS

[sloth]

You know, I think just posting the fact that I was struggling might have even done the trick. This sounds very believable.

[gndiego]

You know, I think just posting the fact that I was struggling might have even done the trick. Last night I had 2LDs.. .1 of which only lasted for a minute because I was just so excited at having it, and the other that turned out to be my target dream, pretty much playing out just as I wanted it too. Thanks for all your support! JaS Congratz. We all had that someday!