Does this tactic even work? |
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It seems like the less effort I put into lucid dreaming the better I do. I hardly try as it is but it seems like when I'm not even thinking about lucid dreaming I seem to do better. I wonder if this is true for others who are trying hard to lucid dream but can't. |
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Does this tactic even work? |
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Well, I think that when you have experience, it puts you in a different category, because you didn't try to LD for 20 years before lding, and you didn't have many lucid dreams. |
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I feel like this has to be something to do with stress and trying to work too hard at trying to obtain lucidity. Sleep is pretty much about relaxing and not worrying on what to do next. |
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I've had prolonged success with this in the past multiple times. I'm not sure it would work for everybody, though, as with every other lucid dreaming technique. |
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Last edited by dolphin; 06-07-2016 at 09:23 PM.
There are so many variables and so much variability per person and so much delay involved between training and results that it's probably almost entirely impossible to evaluate single approaches. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
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I've had the same thing happen to me multiple times before, often a couple of weeks after kinda letting go of RCing and WBTB. Most of the time it motivated me to continue at it which might be your mind's strange way of telling you not to give up |
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I know what you mean. Same thing happened to me. Literally had my first 2 lucid dreams this week after 4 months. And the lucid dreams occured without me even focusing on lucid dreaming. I took a break like a week earlier and now I'm experiencing lucid dreams... I think it does have something to do with stress and thinking too much about it. |
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"Dream look real, but they're in your mind, so you realize that the physical world is also a construction, which shows that the mind can affect reality in more ways than you can imagine." ~Stephen Laberge
Now that I think about it, I suppose one has to try to LD if they aren't a natural. I'm not a natural so I have to try a little bit. |
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Hmmm... so I actually think that after reviewing what I do over the last 4 years, my technique is more incubation than induction, so this makes me wonder if that is why I am able to put so much energy into and get an equal amount of results, because I am not practicing intention or willpower, but incubation. Incubation is choosing what to dream of, so if I choose to have a lucid dream or dream of dinosaurs, or anything similar, I can now with only a little amount of time and effort, because I have practiced. However, the more I practice, the closer to bed time I start having them, and I can continue a dream through incubation as well, so if I start with a lucid dream through my first dream cycle, then I will have lucid dreams for the rest of the cycles, since it is like an extremely extended deild. |
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Last edited by Sensei; 06-08-2016 at 09:20 PM.
I think I'm going to jump on this idea of focusing more on dream intentions (or, as Sensei says, incubation) than actual lucid dreaming. I had my first couple of lucid dreams after a year of trying. I think I had "given up" for about a month when it came around. One of my favorite tips of lucid dreaming (that I've given anyone) is to just not think about lucid dreaming too much. It's really very fun to think about, but if there's anything I've learned it's that lucid dreams are not like your favorite fandom. If you think about your favorite fandom all day then it's absolutely likely that you'll dream about your favorite fandom at night, or at least a night or two afterwards. For a long time I figured that it would be the same for lucid dreaming, but it's really not. I think people who do nothing but think about lucidity all day would be far better off if they take breaks from it. |
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This is kinda weird, it happened to me too now. I broke my two week dry spell with not giving LDing much of a thought throughout the day nor at night. During the two week period I have been working kinda hard at getting lucid. Well, glad I'm at it again |
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