Thread: Running out of ideas

Verre, while I agree on the solution, I don't think we'll ever truly regain our initial level of excitement and curiosity. Nonetheless, we can certainly get damn close to that and we can remind ourselves of why it is why want to have LDs.

For instance, there's been a thread floating around for 4 and a half years now in which people share their ideas of what to do in LDs. A quick 15 minute look through that rewarded me with a list of my own of 30 things I would like to do in LDs. This in and of itself felt great to me because I had forgotten that LDs offer (near) limitless control of everything, and I had kinda forgotten about my goals but instead just focused on basic stuff such as flying or whatever. As a result, my dream recall skyrocketed and that gave me a boost of confidence I could do this.

Originally Posted by Aziq

Verre, while I agree on the solution, I don't think we'll ever truly regain our initial level of excitement and curiosity. Nonetheless, we can certainly get damn close to that and we can remind ourselves of why it is why want to have LDs.

For instance, there's been a thread floating around for 4 and a half years now in which people share their ideas of what to do in LDs. A quick 15 minute look through that rewarded me with a list of my own of 30 things I would like to do in LDs. This in and of itself felt great to me because I had forgotten that LDs offer (near) limitless control of everything, and I had kinda forgotten about my goals but instead just focused on basic stuff such as flying or whatever. As a result, my dream recall skyrocketed and that gave me a boost of confidence I could do this.

I think you're definitely right that planning tasks and experiments is a huge boost to the likelihood of getting lucid. But by a couple years into my lucid practice, mine were multiplying to the point where I so many ideas swimming around in my head that it got harder all the time to focus or decide on a particular one! That's why I love this site. The aspect I've found most helpful to my dream practice is the sense of community and shared goals fostered by the TOTMs and TOTYs, and the fact that they eventually expire is a great motivating factor to getting lucid and getting them done within the right time frame!