I Cant Have Lucid Dreams, HELP!!

**LionDude12** · 03-04-2017 06:13 PM

I have been trying for a year!! what have i been doing wrong??
i have a dream diary i do my mantras!
help?

**Eamo24** · 03-05-2017 01:03 AM

Have you been using any specific techniques other than just dream diary and mantras?

**dolphin** · 03-05-2017 01:55 AM

By trying to lucid dream, you are trying to identify a dream as such it is happening.

Usually, you can identify a dream as such the moment you wake up from it. This is because you have learned to associate the experience of waking up with the fact that you were dreaming. You have made this association due to the fact that you always wake up after dreams. It's worth noting that if you dreamed of waking up in bed from a dream, you would still be able to identify the dream that happened before, so therefore it is not the fact you are awake that allows you to identify dreams after they happened, it is the association between waking up and dreaming that you have.

To lucid dream, what you need to do is associate things you experience during dreams with the fact that you are dreaming. You need to learn that some things known as dream signs only tend to happen during dreams. That way, when you experience dream signs during dreams, you will be able to deduce that you are dreaming.

You develop associations between dream signs and dreaming by paying attention to the relationship between the two. For example, there is a clear relationship between waking up and dreaming: you always wake up after you dream. Although it is less clear, there is also a relationship between dream signs and dreaming: dream signs tend to only happen during dreams.

It can be easy to overlook the relationship between dream signs and dreaming. I think this is because upon reflection of the dream state, the events of the dream tend to be more important to us than the fact that we were dreaming while we were experiencing them. What the dream state is like tends to be relatively unimportant to us, so it gets overlooked.

Learn how the dream state is different from the waking state by analyzing your dream experiences for differences between the two states that occur. Once you know the difference between the two states well enough, lucidity will follow naturally.

**cooleymd** · 03-05-2017 06:40 AM

RC by day, WBTB by night?

I recommend drinking a lot of water to cuase you to wake thru the night,
and RC upon all awkaenings (or is it a false awakening

)

this will focus your work towards the prime time of LD, just before and at usual wake time, be sure to nap in on weekends a bit