Thread: Running out of ideas

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