Thread: Disabled and need help becoming Lucid

Personally I don't think not being able to lie on your back is a problem; all my lucids have been Dream Induced (i.e. I realised I was dreaming while having a non-lucid dream) and I get much better rates of success with this if I don't worry about my sleeping position...in fact I'm pretty sure I fall asleep on my side most of the time.
If you've read the basics then I'm sure you're aware of the apparent importance of keeping a dream journal - don't worry if that's too problematic for you though, it's absolutely not necessary as long as you still take time to recall of your dreams in as much detail as possible in the morning.

That's really all I can help with...if you want my favourite technique, that'd be All Day Awareness. And I always say this to new people and link them to this tutorial, because it works wonders for me and for me at least is much easier to do than WILDing (slipping into a lucid dream immediately from being conscious)
http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...kingyoshi.html

Originally Posted by Mystycal

Personally I don't think not being able to lie on your back is a problem; all my lucids have been Dream Induced (i.e. I realised I was dreaming while having a non-lucid dream) and I get much better rates of success with this if I don't worry about my sleeping position...in fact I'm pretty sure I fall asleep on my side most of the time.
If you've read the basics then I'm sure you're aware of the apparent importance of keeping a dream journal - don't worry if that's too problematic for you though, it's absolutely not necessary as long as you still take time to recall of your dreams in as much detail as possible in the morning.

That's really all I can help with...if you want my favourite technique, that'd be All Day Awareness. And I always say this to new people and link them to this tutorial, because it works wonders for me and for me at least is much easier to do than WILDing (slipping into a lucid dream immediately from being conscious)
link

Thank you Mystycal, I shall try and train myself with ADA and see what happens. I am just worried about remembering my dreams, I wake up and think about my dream and i get nothing accept random images of my life. I tried DILD I think last night and I was so relaxed, but I could not fall asleep, any tips for actually falling asleep?

Originally Posted by jackc45

Thank you Mystycal, I shall try and train myself with ADA and see what happens. I am just worried about remembering my dreams, I wake up and think about my dream and i get nothing accept random images of my life. I tried DILD I think last night and I was so relaxed, but I could not fall asleep, any tips for actually falling asleep?

That's normal when you start out. With practice you'll remember more and more of your dreams, first maybe snippets and then you'll get better. Recall of dreams is a trainable skill, it rarely appears out of nowhere
As for falling asleep, just do it. I'm sorry I can't explain myself better than that, but everyone has slept many times in their lives so there is no way you don't know how to do it...just don't try to do it, because as we all know when you try to fall asleep sleep doesn't want to come. I'd say just do whatever you want to do before falling asleep like mantras or visualisations or whatever, and then forget about them and just go to sleep. Seems to work for me at least

Originally Posted by Mystycal

That's normal when you start out. With practice you'll remember more and more of your dreams, first maybe snippets and then you'll get better. Recall of dreams is a trainable skill, it rarely appears out of nowhere
As for falling asleep, just do it. I'm sorry I can't explain myself better than that, but everyone has slept many times in their lives so there is no way you don't know how to do it...just don't try to do it, because as we all know when you try to fall asleep sleep doesn't want to come. I'd say just do whatever you want to do before falling asleep like mantras or visualisations or whatever, and then forget about them and just go to sleep. Seems to work for me at least

Your really helpful thanks. You actually explained it better than you thought and has gave me more motivation.