• Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views




    Results 1 to 13 of 13
    Like Tree8Likes
    • 2 Post By Scionox
    • 1 Post By realdealmagic
    • 3 Post By gab
    • 2 Post By Sageous

    Thread: Why i didn't get lucid?

    1. #1
      Dream newbie Achievements:
      Tagger First Class Created Dream Journal 5000 Hall Points Veteran First Class
      Iriba's Avatar
      Join Date
      Apr 2013
      Gender
      Location
      Portugal
      Posts
      278
      Likes
      49
      DJ Entries
      66

      Question Why i didn't get lucid?

      Hello DV, i don't know why i didn't go lucid today.
      because in my dream i performed the hand reality check, and saw
      that i had not 1 finger, and i just continued my dream as if that was normal.
      Why i didn't get lucid?

    2. #2
      Dragon Scionox's Avatar
      Join Date
      Dec 2012
      LD Count
      297
      Gender
      Location
      My lair
      Posts
      2,140
      Likes
      1398
      DJ Entries
      597
      Sounds like your awareness might have been low. Remember that not reality checks themselves get us lucid, but the awareness that we get when doing them properly. Remember to trigger awareness when you practice reality check in waking life, look around, completely believe that you might be dreaming, don't do it as just mechanical action.
      Iriba and matthewebbert like this.

    3. #3
      Dream newbie Achievements:
      Tagger First Class Created Dream Journal 5000 Hall Points Veteran First Class
      Iriba's Avatar
      Join Date
      Apr 2013
      Gender
      Location
      Portugal
      Posts
      278
      Likes
      49
      DJ Entries
      66
      Quote Originally Posted by Checker666 View Post
      Sounds like your awareness might have been low. Remember that not reality checks themselves get us lucid, but the awareness that we get when doing them properly. Remember to trigger awareness when you practice reality check in waking life, look around, completely believe that you might be dreaming, don't do it as just mechanical action.
      Well, everyday i take sessions to test my awareness.
      Every hour i do a awareness test then a reality check.
      And through the day i try to be awareness as possible.
      so i don't get it why i didn't get lucid. I wonder if i am doing this wrong?

    4. #4
      Banned
      Join Date
      Apr 2012
      Gender
      Location
      Sunny Scotland
      Posts
      545
      Likes
      353
      It sounds like you've been doing your Reality Checks too mechanically. As you are doing them, you have to be aware of your Reality Checks. Properly question your surroundings, and the reality in which they are kept. That should help you out.
      gab likes this.

    5. #5
      Member
      Join Date
      Apr 2013
      Gender
      Posts
      46
      Likes
      10
      WBTB is the best technique when you are going to start lucid dreams. If this technique is also not working for you then I can only say that do more and more practice.

    6. #6
      gab
      USA gab is offline
      Administrator Achievements:
      Made lots of Friends on DV Stickie King 25000 Hall Points Populated Wall Huge Dream Journal Referrer Silver Tagger First Class 10000 Hall Points
      gab's Avatar
      Join Date
      Oct 2011
      LD Count
      306 events
      Gender
      Location
      California Republic
      Posts
      9,589
      Likes
      10630
      DJ Entries
      787
      As most of the people here already said, just doing RCs in WL is not enough. Just think about how many things you do during day, every day, many times more than you do RCs. Yet, those everyday actions don't get you lucid.

      You really have to believe that RC will work when you do it during day, because you are in a dream. It has to be "oh boy, this could be a dream". It should startle you, shake you out of your comfortable rutine.

      Then this "oh boy, this could be a dream" feeling happens in your regular dream and it will give you an urge to RC. But often by then, you already know you are lucid.

      The difference between everyday actions you do and RCs is the level of feelings, sensations you put into performing them.

      http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...idnt-work.html

    7. #7
      Dream newbie Achievements:
      Tagger First Class Created Dream Journal 5000 Hall Points Veteran First Class
      Iriba's Avatar
      Join Date
      Apr 2013
      Gender
      Location
      Portugal
      Posts
      278
      Likes
      49
      DJ Entries
      66
      Quote Originally Posted by gab View Post
      As most of the people here already said, just doing RCs in WL is not enough. Just think about how many things you do during day, every day, many times more than you do RCs. Yet, those everyday actions don't get you lucid.

      You really have to believe that RC will work when you do it during day, because you are in a dream. It has to be "oh boy, this could be a dream". It should startle you, shake you out of your comfortable rutine.

      Then this "oh boy, this could be a dream" feeling happens in your regular dream and it will give you an urge to RC. But often by then, you already know you are lucid.

      The difference between everyday actions you do and RCs is the level of feelings, sensations you put into performing them.

      http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...idnt-work.html
      Yes but, when i do my first RC of the day i wonder if i am lucid, and throughout the day when i do the second time.
      I remember my first RC of the day that it didn't work and i wasn't dreaming, so why would i dream now if i wasn't dreaming
      before?

      This is how i feel literally:

      *Wakes up*
      Me - Wow! i can be lucid right now!
      *Feels excited and hope RCs to work*
      *Perform RCs with excitement*
      *After RC*
      Me - Nah! i'm not dreaming.
      *Comes the 2nd time to make the RC*
      Me - Oooah! i can be dreaming, OMG!
      My mind - Why would you be dreaming now, if you weren't before? -.-'
      Me - *My mind is right, but whatever, i'm doing RCs anyway! ^-^*
      *Excitement feeling fades away*
      *pretends to be dreaming*
      *pretends RCs to work*
      *Perform RC without any feeling*
      *after RC*
      Me - Nope, i'm not dreaming
      Last edited by Iriba; 05-20-2013 at 10:22 PM.

    8. #8
      high mileage oneironaut Achievements:
      Made lots of Friends on DV Stickie King Populated Wall Referrer Silver 10000 Hall Points Referrer Bronze Veteran First Class 5000 Hall Points
      Sageous's Avatar
      Join Date
      Jun 2011
      LD Count
      40 + Yrs' Worth
      Gender
      Location
      Here & Now
      Posts
      5,031
      Likes
      7154
      You might be missing the spirit of RC's, Iriba.

      RC's, or state tests, aren't supposed to be literal proofs that you are dreaming or not. Instead, they are meant to be vehicles for you to ask yourself if you're dreaming, and then do some simple function to prove or disprove your state. Every time you do a state test, your question, "Is this a dream?" should be the same, and, more importantly, your curiosity about whether it's a dream should be the same.

      In almost all RC's done in waking life, it's completely obvious that you're awake, and if you think about it as actual proof that you're awake then yes, you will likely not have a successful RC after that first one in the morning -- you will even feel a little dumb doing them! But, if you consider an RC as a way to train your mind to have a look around, regardless of where you know you are, and you use a test that will work for you in a dream, then the RC might work better in the dream. Remember, in the dream you have that same attitude -- that you are obviously awake -- so it doesn't matter whether you think the RC will work or not; if you're dreaming, it will work.

      Bottom line, don't take the RC's too literally. Instead, use them to train your mind to be prepared to both test your state during a dream, and to be interested in testing your state during a dream.

      I hope that made sense.

    9. #9
      gab
      USA gab is offline
      Administrator Achievements:
      Made lots of Friends on DV Stickie King 25000 Hall Points Populated Wall Huge Dream Journal Referrer Silver Tagger First Class 10000 Hall Points
      gab's Avatar
      Join Date
      Oct 2011
      LD Count
      306 events
      Gender
      Location
      California Republic
      Posts
      9,589
      Likes
      10630
      DJ Entries
      787
      Quote Originally Posted by Iriba View Post

      *Wakes up*
      Me - Wow! i can be lucid right now!
      *Feels excited and hope RCs to work*
      *Perform RCs with excitement*
      *After RC*
      Me - Nah! i'm not dreaming.
      *Comes the 2nd time to make the RC*
      Me - Oooah! i can be dreaming, OMG!
      My mind - Why would you be dreaming now, if you weren't before? -.-'
      Me - *My mind is right, but whatever, i'm doing RCs anyway! ^-^*
      *Excitement feeling fades away*
      *pretends to be dreaming*
      *pretends RCs to work*
      *Perform RC without any feeling*
      *after RC*
      Me - Nope, i'm not dreaming
      Never tell yourself that. After you do RC and you fully expect it to work, just say "next time I'm dreaming, I realize I'm dreaming". Don't come to conclusion that you not in a dream. Because then you will come to same conclusion in a dream.

      Don't pretend. Believe. You must have read how LDs can be realistic as waking life. What if this is one of those times?

      Without any feelings is not gonna work. Believe. Be excited. Can you get excited about other things? Like thinking of visiting a place you really want to go to? Lets say Tahity, or Moon, or Mars? You know, that you most likely never gonna get there, but you get excited when thinking about how cool it would be. Use same feeling when RCing.

    10. #10
      Dream newbie Achievements:
      Tagger First Class Created Dream Journal 5000 Hall Points Veteran First Class
      Iriba's Avatar
      Join Date
      Apr 2013
      Gender
      Location
      Portugal
      Posts
      278
      Likes
      49
      DJ Entries
      66
      Quote Originally Posted by gab View Post
      Never tell yourself that. After you do RC and you fully expect it to work, just say "next time I'm dreaming, I realize I'm dreaming". Don't come to conclusion that you not in a dream. Because then you will come to same conclusion in a dream.

      Don't pretend. Believe. You must have read how LDs can be realistic as waking life. What if this is one of those times?

      Without any feelings is not gonna work. Believe. Be excited. Can you get excited about other things? Like thinking of visiting a place you really want to go to? Lets say Tahity, or Moon, or Mars? You know, that you most likely never gonna get there, but you get excited when thinking about how cool it would be. Use same feeling when RCing.
      Yes, i get excited at the first time doing RC, but can't feeling excited anymore
      when my RCs "fail" after the first time. It's kinda hard to get this feelings.

    11. #11
      high mileage oneironaut Achievements:
      Made lots of Friends on DV Stickie King Populated Wall Referrer Silver 10000 Hall Points Referrer Bronze Veteran First Class 5000 Hall Points
      Sageous's Avatar
      Join Date
      Jun 2011
      LD Count
      40 + Yrs' Worth
      Gender
      Location
      Here & Now
      Posts
      5,031
      Likes
      7154
      Quote Originally Posted by Iriba View Post
      ...It's kinda hard to get this feelings.
      It can be hard, but it's worth the effort; you might consider giving it a try.
      matthewebbert and gab like this.

    12. #12
      Member
      Join Date
      Apr 2013
      Gender
      Posts
      46
      Likes
      10
      Yeah its hard but not impossible you need to give try for it no matter if you fail initially but regular practice will surely shows the results..

    13. #13
      Banned
      Join Date
      Nov 2012
      Gender
      Location
      In a dream.
      Posts
      154
      Likes
      24
      DJ Entries
      13
      lol, staring at your fingers aren't enough... you'll need to do better than that...

      <Removed the mention of site with sales>
      Last edited by Checker666; 05-21-2013 at 09:51 PM. Reason: Removed mention of site with sales

    Similar Threads

    1. Why didn't I become lucid
      By mcslurry in forum Attaining Lucidity
      Replies: 2
      Last Post: 01-16-2011, 10:48 PM
    2. Why didn't I lucid?
      By Spooner in forum General Lucid Discussion
      Replies: 4
      Last Post: 03-29-2009, 05:34 PM
    3. Why didn't I become lucid?
      By CorporalClegg in forum Introduction Zone
      Replies: 3
      Last Post: 02-27-2009, 10:51 PM
    4. Why Didn't I Go Lucid?
      By Amidreaming? in forum Lucid Experiences
      Replies: 4
      Last Post: 02-01-2007, 06:48 AM
    5. I didn't get Lucid, but...
      By AirRick101 in forum Attaining Lucidity
      Replies: 0
      Last Post: 02-01-2004, 06:25 PM

    Tags for this Thread

    Bookmarks

    Posting Permissions

    • You may not post new threads
    • You may not post replies
    • You may not post attachments
    • You may not edit your posts
    •