Thread: Having trouble becoming lucid

Hi I keep having trouble becoming Lucid. I've tried the Dild, Mild,
Fild techniques but no success. It's been 4 weeks total since I started trying. I tried the WBTB last night but it didn't work, any suggestions?

Hi Revelationz!
Seems you are like me, you want quick results!
When I first started trying, it was more than 2 months before I had my first lucid - and I was so impatient... Then gradually I had them more often - with large periods of no lucidity - and I could be having them daily by now if I was consistent. But I kept - and I keep - changing techniques all the time...
So, the most accepted route is to be patient and be consistent, and results will come. Read Naiya's DILD tutorial, it's the basics...
But if you can't wait any longer and want lucids in the next days, there is something you can do - and I would be very lucky if I knew it back then....
In order to try it though, you should not mind experiencing an Out-of-body-like sensation...
So, there is a method (Raduga's DEILD) that works great in the beginning - it can give immediate results, so you will experience your first lucids in the next days, even though after a while it seems to loose effectiveness (for me it worked amazingly but only for the first times). There is a free e-book. But then you can of course resume your DILD attempts...
Good luck!

Make sure you do reality checks, sleep enough (8 hours), and do WBTB every night or even multiple times in one night. Do MILD or another fairly easy technique and I'm almost sure that you will be having your first lucid dream that week.

Revelationz! i know where this thought of gaining fast results from DILD and so on has arose.

unfortunately, hundreds of LD products on internet convince us that by following these techniques we can be a lucid dreamer in 2 or 3 weeks. they tell us this only to sell their rubbish to us. of course the main techniques are valuable but the only thing that make them rubbish is that they never tell us the true. the truth is that LD methods need lots of dedications and practice.

for example, you said you practiced DILD for 4 weeks (something that should give result according to some LD product sellers) but i have to say that 1 month of DILD practicing is NOTHING. even 2 or 3 month of DILD practice is NOTHING too!

i am practicing DILD for 8 weeks now and i had only 1 proper LD. that is normal....

some of the DILDers in this site told me that it took them many months of DILD practice to give them their first results. so you are not wrong...this is the process of LD that is time consuming. in fact, the process related to adapt our awareness to having LD is time consuming.

but if you want to have some fast results with LD (which are not consistent and will not give you regular LD) then you can try DEILD and so on as SearcherTMR said. even they need sort of practice too.

if you don't have LD that's because you are not ready. nothing is wrong about anything. if you practice too long then you are promised to have regular LD.

at the end, please forget the word "TEST or TRYING " a method. every method will work if you put time and effort on it. the perfect word for LD is the word " PRACTICING" not "TESTING or TRYING".

I was so close to lucid dreaming once. I was about to go to bed, then I started having hypnagogic hallucinations. I felt my body transitioning into the dream world. It felt like I was walking, but at the same time I felt my body laying down. It was pretty weird, I don't know what happened that night lol

Great dream recall is without a doubt one of the most important skills, because if you have a poor dream recall then you are very likely to miss several lucid dreams simply because you forget them.

Also, you should always aim to feel excited about lucid dreaming, not frustrated.
Excitement and patient expectations - in other words, allowing it to take some time - is the best way to enjoy lucid dreaming.

I have pretty good dream recall actually, I can remember 3-5 dreams a night.

I try to be mindful of keeping expectations at bay. That's not to say I don't have goals, but I've learned to focus on the tasks at hand required to reach that goal. Attend to them and the goal comes to you, which is quite a different mindset than reaching for a goal that seems to always be out of reach, and constantly changing directions thinking your not on the right path.