Thread: Having Troubles

Hmmm... Well progress took me a while., but time didn't seem to matter much, so much as what I knew about LDing.
First step:
All I knew was a crappy tutorial online that basically said to just lay still and imagine a dream scene. Became lucid first try. Forgot it for a year.
Second step:
Read lots of online tutorials started sleeping 8 hours a night. No LDs for a little more than a month.
Third step:
Found ETWOLD, read ETWOLD, got an LD 2 weeks later.
Fourth step:
Started DJ, started analyzing everything I did and what it did to my dreams (DJ system in sig) started to have weekly LDs.
Fifth step:
Found DV. Jumped from aprox 1 LD a week to 18, 13, and ten a month.
Sixth step:
Through analyzing realized that before tring to LD I had LDs through short WBTBs. Tried them. Through analyzing remembered that all my first LD was from was intent. Tried them. Start of January. Stop DJing.
Final step:
Hukif. Helped me out more than anything. Inspiring well of*knowledge. Learning about him and talking to him. Since the beginning of the year I have had 24.4 LDs a month and that number is rising.

I don't DJ anymore unless I feel like it. I still have to sleep 8 hours a night. If I want to keep my current pace of LDs I could with just sleep and intent (micro WBTB is a part of my sleep now) but in order to progress I must keep learning, analyzing, and looking for things that inspire. I really couldn't have skipped a step. I use almost everything I learned. A lot of things mix over into others, like dream incubation, visualization, day residue, and RCs, and through learning about all of them I realize that they are all different angles of the same thing and knowing why something works is a great way to overcome it and master it. So always learning.

Now looking at all this I know that I could have had more LDs. Paid less attention to some hobbies, maybe not stayed up all night talking with my wife a few times. Hanging out with friends too late. Even when I am doing things like this I know I am ruining my LDing for at least one night, but as amazing as LDing is, my goal is to find a way to LD every single dream, without losing anything from any relationships in waking life. my biggest reason to LD is that I simply hate sleeping. I have a wonderful life, and I simply can't go through it so tired and the only thing that can make me sleep as much as I need (approx 8 hours a night) is LDing. I only use it to enhance waking life. So I dropped a lot of things that help me LD because they weren't as effective as others and the amount of time they took out of my day was damaging. Like DJing, having 6+ dreams a night puts me at 30 minutes with a pen. Too much time. Hope this is the detailed type of thing you want. To be honest sticking with something like this and honestly trying your hardest every night is difficult, but it is well worth it. I am not the type of person that thinks that "everyone learns at a different speed at LDing" I think that everyone learns at a different speed in life. Learn how to learn faster and everything in life will come easier to you, sports, video games, work. Read everything you can about a subject to understand it more. If you can't read very quickly, than learn how to. There are books on how to do all this. Good luck. Hope this helps. Haha. I get a little crazy when asked questions about LDing. This was all typed on my phone by the way, so it took a little while to type out, any problems with spelling or grammar I blame on that.

Edit:
Also mastermind said:
The technique that works for the many may not be the technique that works for you.

I would recommend looking at techniques that work for the many first, but not being stumbled if they don't work. Scour the land for techniques. If a tech works for you, figure out why it worked, take that part of it and screw the rest of it. look for people like hukif, naiya, or lucidis that have multiple LDs a night and figure out what sets them apart from the many. Take into account where you get the information for everything, and weigh it that way, but also realize that any technique that got anyone lucid ever, can work. They might have terms wrong, but it did work for them, so it would be worth it to read all the tutorials you can find ever. Good luck. Have fun. Count the cost of LDing before starting so that you don't fall by the wayside.