Thread: Losing the ability to lucid dream?

Originally Posted by Neo Neo

I was going to post about this, but there's already a thread so ...

This is exactly me right now. I can't seem to have lucid dreams by intent anymore. I mostly just have them at random and they are usually short. I know my mind is focused on other things, like learning kanji and Japanese, but basically I'm just regular dreaming nowadays lol. I haven't been doing RCs, but I also can't really wrap my mind around RCs anymore. It seems pointless to me because "waking" reality is just another part of the universe like dreaming reality. Also living abroad and I don't want to add to myself questioning my sanity . So I don't know, perhaps its just mental blockages that aren't going away? Not bad that I'm not lucid dreaming as often, but I'd like to have them more lol.

Your post is a little confusing to me. By what you wrote it sounds to me like you're lucky to be recalling dreams at all, and a having a few random lucids here and there. By your own words you say you are focused on other things, and you think it's pointless to question your reality, to put the work in to induce more lucidity. Then you say you wish you were having more. Then you say you can't induce lucidity by intent. It sounds like it's not that you can't it's that you don't want to... I mean most of us wish we could just be getting lucid all the time without having to do anything to make it happen. But I actually like that I have to work to induce them. It's why I put the statement that I put into my signature. I feel like I'm getting a lot more out of it, by putting the work in, and the tranquility and peace it brings to my waking life. Than if I never had to think about lucid dreaming or recall, it just happened all the time without a thought put to it.

There is always the option of supplements for those that have trouble with, or lack of desire, to put more mental effort into it. But I've not ever played with that other than for taking a little melatonin, or B6. So I can't give any advice on supplements.