Thread: Where do I start with Lucid Dreaming, I want to become very good at it. Personal help?

Originally Posted by n00bf0rlyf3

You can LD on your first try, people exaggerate how hard it is, and it's easy to get your first one. I do agree with your second sentence.

Of course you can, but if your focus is more on the result than on the process, you will not be able to make it consistent and you will get unmotivated and quit.

It happens in everything we do, if we start a Dream Journal and then have the goal of remembering as much as possible and start to strive to remembering long pages of dreams every night. Then the night where we don't remember as much, because it will happen some day or another, it will totally break us.
But on the other hand if the goal is to just do the best we can and have the goal of doing it for let's say 30 Days in a row, then it will become much more fun.

Another way to look at it is to use the perspective of stoicism: Don't focus on what you can control, only what you can control!

The result is barely in our control, we can control it to some extent but not fully control it. Sure you can say that you will have aa lucid dream tonight and have one, but can you do that tomorrow, or the night after that, probably not. But the process of doing actions is in our control!

I am not trying to argue with you, I am simply reinforcing my own beliefs, because I tend to jump between result-orientation and process-orientation.

Good day!