Thread: A Few Tips

Look forward to your dreams, lucid or not
I originally read this tip from Redrivertears, who stated it in detail in one of his threads a few weeks ago. I'll proceed by saying more about it here, you could say "more of the same"..

As a result of looking forward to my non-lucid-dreams, they started getting exciting. Why am i so excited suddenly then?
The reason is that for YEARS, my dreams consisted of walking around somewhere or talking to someone about something boring. Such lame experiences turned into action-packed, strange and interesting experiences only by changing my mindset. I'm talking about extremely weird things, a fight against someone else, quickly grabbing the hands of someone aiming at me with a gun and shoving their hand away, going through a slightly creepy but thrilling experience. It was last night, that i experienced one of the weirdest dreams i have ever seen! And i'm sure, after around 4 days of holding onto this mindset, that this is no coincidence.

I finally also found the reason for the dry spells that i was caught up in.
I placed too much attention on the fact that i wanted lucid dreams that i forgot that i just had to focus on my normal dreams and be aware during them.

Originally Posted by Redrivertears

So lesson learned, for me. Don't get hung up on what isn't there. Work with the dreams you have and build from there. That's my way to lucidity.

Furthermore, there is one more thing that redrivertears pointed out about this mindset..
Increasing awareness about something means paying attention to it. What happens when you stop paying attention to your "Non-lucid dreams", and label them as failures? When you don't care?
Yes, you lose quite a lot of potential awareness on your dreams. Why doesn't everyone lack lucidity then, even when they don't normally see their dreams as special things?
Simple enough, they probably do induction techniques, which in one form or another, places their attention on the dreams.

Last but not least, this is most effective when combined with normal awareness techniques such as SSILD or the others to get a much higher chance of actual awareness.

Also, techniques are vehicles to lucidity. You should use techniques as tools, but never forget that you have to rely on yourself too.. if you use a tech for awareness, don't forget to also try to be aware yourself.

You either go to your destination with your car, or send it there by itself and just walk to it.

This concludes what i wanted to add. Maybe i'm just saying the same things all over again, but that doesn't matter so much now.