Thread: Running out of ideas

Consistency. Most of us do dream work every day, whether it be DJing, daily awareness, WILD attempts--whatever. If you take long breaks in between bouts of interest, you aren't giving time for the practices to become a lifestyle.

Try this: Puffin's DILD Guide - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Good luck. I would also recommend starting a workbook in the DILD class. FryingMan and fogelbise are awesome teachers.

Originally Posted by ThreeCat

Consistency. Most of us do dream work every day, whether it be DJing, daily awareness, WILD attempts--whatever. If you take long breaks in between bouts of interest, you aren't giving time for the practices to become a lifestyle.

Try this: Puffin's DILD Guide - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Good luck. I would also recommend starting a workbook in the DILD class. FryingMan and fogelbise are awesome teachers.

Thanks for the advice, but when you speak of consistency, do you mean that even times when life gets stressful (aka exams for students or busy days for people at work) you don't drop LDing for a while? I always figured that during these times my dream recall would be too shitty and I'd be better off focusing on the important stuff. Unfortunately I've had too many of these since I'm a student so I had to drop LDing too many times.

So far, however, I have maintained a reasonable degree of focus of LDing over the past year and I'm noticing increasing results in dream recall compared to before but no actual increase in lucid dream frequency.

Originally Posted by Aziq

Thanks for the advice, but when you speak of consistency, do you mean that even times when life gets stressful (aka exams for students or busy days for people at work) you don't drop LDing for a while? I always figured that during these times my dream recall would be too shitty and I'd be better off focusing on the important stuff. Unfortunately I've had too many of these since I'm a student so I had to drop LDing too many times.

So far, however, I have maintained a reasonable degree of focus of LDing over the past year and I'm noticing increasing results in dream recall compared to before but no actual increase in lucid dream frequency.

Yes, I mean not dropping the practice entirely. The same can be said for any practice. If you want to be a skilled lucid dreamer, but only practice when free time appears, you will never be very good (barring innate ability). On the other hand, if you sincerely make an effort to maintain a maintenance level of awareness and reality checks, as well as performing autosuggestion for a few minutes before bed, you'll be able to pick up where you left off once time allows. Otherwise you will spend all of your free time just getting back to baseline.

Lucid dreaming is almost entirely practice-based. Theory is nice, but at some point it has to be put into action. The DILD class is mostly practice, but you have skilled LDers to help you along the way. Check out some of the workbooks:

http://www.dreamviews.com/dild/15493...-workbook.html

http://www.dreamviews.com/dild/14763...-workbook.html

Good luck.

Originally Posted by ThreeCat

would also recommend starting a workbook in the DILD class. FryingMan and fogelbise are awesome teachers.

^^^ THIS!!

What's the workbook in the DILD class all about exactly? If it's theory I'm all up there but the actual techniques just don't seem to do it for me.

Originally Posted by Aziq

What's the workbook in the DILD class all about exactly? If it's theory I'm all up there but the actual techniques just don't seem to do it for me.

On the contrary, you're probably thinking about LDing in the wrong way, which is preventing you from taking effective action.

Originally Posted by Ctharlhie

On the contrary, you're probably thinking about LDing in the wrong way, which is preventing you from taking effective action.

Well, LDing in general is not my profession, but rather a spare-time activity. Therefore I have to accept what others bring forth in terms of theory, of which I have read plenty. Could you explain in greater detail what you mean? If I really do think about LDing in the wrong way I'd like to adjust that.

Originally Posted by Aziq

Well, LDing in general is not my profession, but rather a spare-time activity. Therefore I have to accept what others bring forth in terms of theory, of which I have read plenty. Could you explain in greater detail what you mean? If I really do think about LDing in the wrong way I'd like to adjust that.

As far as I know, lding is a hobby for all of us on here. I do all lding and dream views things in my spare time. I however can say that you get out of it what you put in to learning it.

Originally Posted by Sensei

As far as I know, lding is a hobby for all of us on here. I do all lding and dream views things in my spare time. I however can say that you get out of it what you put in to learning it.

I guess what I learned today is, I'm probably not spending enough time into LDing instead of picking the right plan of attack.

To each of you who stayed with me to help out, thank you so much for your effort and advice. I've got some thinking to do for now.