Thread: I am really doing something wrong, but what?

Originally Posted by FryingMan

There is a pattern to your answers: it seems clear you do not spend the time to really carefully read and consider the advice you're getting. "I"m already doing all of that!" you say. If you were really doing everything that everybody has advised you, after 3 years you'd be lucid with excellent frequency.

My advice to you was: forget everything you THINK you know about lucid dreaming, and start over. Because what you THINK you know DOESN'T WORK.

5 periods of RCs during the day is very few. Don't do a series of 4 or 5, stick with ONE. If you love hands and really think it works, then do hands. I prefer nose pinch and do it exclusively, it works great.

To really get lucidity going you need to be thinking about dreaming and the very real possibility that you are dreaming RIGHT NOW, very frequently during the day. Like no less than every 10 minutes, even more can be better, if you can do it without getting exhausted.

I was quite serious about my original advice. Try to cultivate the mindset that you don't know about lucid dreaming, read and follow LaBerge "A Course In Lucid Dreaming" along with Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, and you will be lucid within a month. Do NOT think "Oh I already know this" while reading. Assume that you don't know it, and read with a fine tooth comb looking for nuggets of golden knowledge.

How is at least 20 reality checks per day very few?
lol, and why forget what i know about lucid dream?
what would be the point of that?
and my reality checks are always done with the real intetion
that i might be dreaming.

I really don't want to start everything over and over again.
i mean, this 3 years was nothing but a joke?
i feel my dreams had evolved in their clarity and stuff
and for this 3 years i learned how to take advantage of them
but if you're telling me to start all over again, my motivation won't be the same.
per more hard i try to start over i will never forget this harsh 3 years.

Originally Posted by Wolfdog

Would you mind explaining us what your practice consists of to get you lucid? Specifically, how do you practice for lucid dreaming? What techniques have you practiced, for how long, how consistent, explain the how you do them? The best way we can help you is if you share with us the information of what you've been doing all these past years in relation to lucidity in dreams. The more you can detail your situation, the easier it is to get a workable solution to your problem.

I mean, I look at the people here who have offered countless of suggestions and possible solutions that you can apply to overcome your situation, yet you keep saying that you've done all which has been suggested. From what I've seen from personal experience, a method should be practiced at least 3 - 6 months to see if it yields results, if not, then the practice should be changed. For example, I've been practicing one method of lucidity for the past two months, and I'm willing to practice it for a couple of months more before I can judge whether it worked or not for me. That's one technique; if I were to follow each and every suggestion that's been said in this thread, then it'll easily take me more than 3 years to effectively test each and every one of them and evaluate the results.

So, ask yourself, have you been doing each and everything that's been suggested here for a reasonable amount of time so as to see whether it worked or not? If so, have you been doing each and every practice consistently every day, with diligence and determination? If your response to any of these two questions is a NO, then you should review again what's been advised.

i practiced ADA + WBTB + MILD
for 3 years.