Hi Mikeyy109, |
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I need help. I seem to be going backwards, I first found out about lucid dreaming about 2-3 weeks ago. Since then I've read countless DV posts, read a couple of books pretty much anything i can find on the subject. I reliased pretty quickly im not going to have much success until i improve my dream recall significantly, my dream recall has been shockingly bad most of my life. I have a dream journal plus practicing mantras before bed etc to improve recall which i thought was helping as i had a few days of vivid short to long dreams soon after starting. |
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Hi Mikeyy109, |
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Thats good to hear, I know ive read too much effort/expectations can be bad and i have been trying to be consistent but without pushing myself and expecting too much. This morning really with the first time ive felt frustration towards it as last night i was sure id have some results today. Thanks ill give that a read aswell and i understand what your saying. I know once i see some results ill be able to have a huge boost in confidence and motivation, its just getting that first result. Thats interesting, i heard coffee is bad for dreaming in general, ive mostly cut those for the sugar aspect, green tea i have zero sugar, everything else its 2 teaspoons standard. |
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Is it worth my while setting an alarm throughout the nite to wake me up and practice recall? Rather than sleeping straight through till morning? |
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"Trying too much" is a common reason of failure. You don't need to hurry up! Slow and steady wins the race. Don't worry. |
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in the best case you practice to notice your microawakenings and tag your dreams... big boost in recall and more overall awareness thruout the night. we wake up every 90-110 minutes after every sleepcycle. normaly we just turn around and fall instantly asleep again but with a little practice and intentionsetting you can notice these awareknings and remember everytime one or some dreams, tag them shortly (to not stay awake to long maybe 5-10min) set your intention to lucid dream again maybe visualize something while falling asleep and repeat trhuout the night. the chances are pretty high to get lucid in the later hours then. |
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Thanks RelaxAndDream. Im going to try this, do you suggest practicing waking up naturally or can i set vibration alarms every 90 mins to help at first then try naturally? |
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hm i for my part dont like alarms that much. i used them at the beginning to do a major WBTB after 4-6h of sleep but in my opinion its not that hard to notice the awakenings with enough intention and its way more natural. you wake up after REM and most of the time wil lremember dreams without to much effort (just dont fall asleep while remmebering again xD). with alarms you probably wont hit the exact moment so you wake up during a rem or something so your recall will suffer and it breaks up your sleep more in my opinion. but i read that a lot of people use alarms and it seem to work too... |
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Hi there Mikeyy and welcome to DreamViews! |
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What RelaxAndDream said! |
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Thanks for the advice everyone, im going to try waking in the night, i have a fitbit which can vibration alarm briefly then shuts off by itself, ill use this but try doing it naturally aswell. I will do it eventually, ill have to just slow down like you all said and not put too much pressure on myself. |
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You don't have to try to wake up, you already do. What you're trying to do is notice yourself waking up. You often wake up after your dreams. |
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Ok, how do i do that? Im normally out like a rock all night, i tried to drink lots of water before bed a couple times and ended up waking up to my alarm normal time but busting for toilet or needing to go before i even fall asleep fully. Would that be apart of mindfulness training? Or just telling your self to do this every single night until one day it starts happening? Would the subtle alarm idea not help in making learning to wake up after cycles faster? Thanks dolphin |
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Okay, so how I started noticing my micro-wakenings was through dream recall, you say you have trouble with this but before I re-learned what LDs were I had the same issue and never recalled dreams unless they were completely out of the ordinary and because they were dreams discarded the memory of them. |
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Dream activities:
Teleport, Fly, Transmogrification, Telekinesis, Conjure, Summon, Create a dream world and return to it regularly.
Find out what the Girl In The Red Dress' name is finally.
Find out if she is my dream guide.
UNICORNS ARE REAL!
Sleep more. The more you sleep, the lighter your sleep will be. If you don't have time to sleep more, you could also try to fit in a nap during the day. |
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That would be amazing if i could lol. Unfortunately i have a 2 year old thats obsessed with me, plus another one on the way. Currently i have to get up at 6.30 every morning to give me 10-20mins for recall practice and journal writing before he starts calling for me. So best i can do is get to bed earlier, which is currently 10.30 earliest, any earlier and im not tired/losing all my free time :/ |
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That's okay, you can still make it work with less sleep, you just have to be extra aware while you're sleeping. It's tough for me to describe awareness in any other way than simply paying attention. |
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