Quote Originally Posted by RavenOfShadow View Post
Yea I'm with the others one this one... (Oh hey everyone), you can't truly BELIEVE something right off the bat, its just lying to yourself. However belief mixed with practice and experiences does breed KNOWING. I have just come out of a few month hot-streak of lucid dreaming where every night I wanted to I knew I would lucid dream.

Lucid dreaming is not difficult. Motivation is. Thats all lucid dreaming and most other hobbies are - keeping motivation and faith for long enough to see it through.

So yes, belief is very important, but belief with nothing else is nothing.
Thats why intention was apart of the technique as well. The importance of that is in my reply to ThreeCat. You cant "want to know", that doesnt work. You have to know, with 0 doubt. I can see where you're coming from with the whole "lying to yourself thing" but that is part of that mental block that most lucid dreamers have taken. But my god, we are talking about DREAMS here, you have them every night, no doubt. It shouldnt be as hard of a task as alot of people make it. It doesnt make sense.