7 days since last Lucid Dream

I started my dream journal on December 20th, when I had my first lucid dream. This is what brought me here and what propelled me to keep a dream journal. I have had lucid dreams in the past but recently I became interested in lucid dreaming again full time because I already graduated from college and have more time on my hands to focus on lucid dreaming. What I'm wondering is why my lucid dreams haven't increased the more I've written in my dream journal. The way I see it is, the more dream recall and more reality checks I would expect more lucid dreams. This month alone I've had 4 lucid dreams which I guess is not so bad considering some people's lucid dream count. But It's been 7 days now and no lucid dreams even though I have immersed myself in lucid dream reading and exercises. You'd think I'd have more lucid dreams. One week two weeks ago I had 2 lucid dreams in one week but now it's been 7 days. I wonder why? I have all these plans I want to realize in my lucid dreams and can't wait to do it. I hear about people have lucids everyday. I want to get to that point.

I would advise you to take a look at this chart:

http://library.macewan.ca/lucidity/I...s/image002.jpg

This chart shows the number of lucid dreams Stephen LaBerge had per month when he attempted to increase his number of lucid dreams during his studies at Stanford University - and he was very motivated, and used MILD, recorded his dreams, practiced reality checks and so on.
The interesting thing here is that his lucid dream frequency was just the same as yours during the first 6 months, and on one occasion he "only" had one lucid dream in a whole month - but look at his frequency a couple years later.
Suddenly his frequency had increased to something around 50% on average (which is really good, when you think about it), and on month 29 (marked with C) he had lucid dreams almost every night!

You can imagine that you have just started the same journey towards very frequent lucid dreaming, and that you are now on the first months on that chart.

Also, in case you are wondering, the bars marked with A, B and C are the months when he actually practiced lucid dreaming in the laboratory and needed to have lucid dreams in order to be able to study them, and his lucid dreaming frequency clearly skyrocketed during those months.
So you can see that motivation is extremely effective and important for lucid dreaming.

Just keep practicing, there is nothing wrong with your LD frequency.

Wow thanks. That was actually pretty interesting. It was also interesting to see how his dreams decreased for some time and then went up again. Then that sudden increase too. Very interesting. Thanks! I might want to make a graph of my own. It provides a great visual that allows a better glimpse of the pattern.

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Originally Posted by starletdreamer

Wow thanks. That was actually pretty interesting. It was also interesting to see how his dreams decreased for some time and then went up again. Then that sudden increase too. Very interesting. Thanks! I might want to make a graph of my own. It provides a great visual that allows a better glimpse of the pattern.

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You're welcome. :content:
Yes do that, sometimes new approaches and methods can trigger your curiosity and enthusiasm in new ways, and this can actually have a powerful effect on your lucid dreaming frequency. :)