Thread: No LDs! How do you know you are progressing?

Originally Posted by Ant101

Hi tiktaalik,

Thanks for your post, this Is very helpful and reassuring. Since I’ve started utilising WBTB I have seen an increase in progress. My current approach is This : Mon + Tuesday very little day and pre- bed practice, wed-Thurs normal day practice and pre- bed practice. Fri,sat,sun usual day practice,pre bed practice and WBTBs. ( 2- 4 wake ups)

Fri-sun night practice : replaying my last and only Lucid Remembering feelings of how it felt ,
then visualising becoming lucid In a new lucid dream trying to create some body felt positivity/excitement/confidence and then as I fall asleep I say a mantra ( WILD) to edge my bets I had a dream recently where I felt like I had just nodded off before the dream and in the dream I was telling DCs “ yeah , I nearly did a WILD but I fell asleep As the dream began”

In short :
• focusing on being more self aware
•develop a positive strong feeling that I will LD tonight.
• trying to increase dream recall through out the week.
• RC - when I see something dream like or reoccurring DS.

I’m very keen to develop the level of self awareness so I can recognise the dream world rather than relying on reoccurring DS and LD without WBTB but on reflection For now may be that’s a Bit advanced and in the mean time I should focus on creating the habit of becoming lucid in the easiest way possible so my mind is familiar with how it feels what it looks like etc.

Happy you found it helpful and I’m glad you’re seeing progress. 🙂 The moment you describe where you were recalling your dreaming experiences to DCs is exactly the kind of thing that started recurring more often when I started to see success so again it’s a good sign that your mind I s thinking about lucid dreaming it’s just not quite got that spark of awareness yet that brings it on.

I think your bullet points are on the right track with what you should be concentrating on. I’m still fairly new and working on improving my awareness as well. From what I’ve read from senior members on here it’s the real key to improving lucidity but can take years to improve and perfect.

Currently doing this 7 days a week. Ive become a little obsessed though and not sure if this passion for it will last forever but for now it’s all I can think about and couldn’t bare to have a night off. I’m doing similar to you and around 2-5 wake ups a night and these vary in lengths depending on how tired I am. As I’ve said most success I’ve had comes in the last 2 hours of sleep and thats when the mind is most aware and the REM cycles are longer. My earliest lucid dream though came after 3.5 hours sleep but that has only happened once.

I usually know when I’m going to get lucid when certain things happen in the night.

1. I wake up more often in the night naturally.

2. My dreams are vivid and easily recalled.

3. The dreams have a lucid element to them (Talking about the subject in the dream or questioning things a bit more).

The mystery though is how I bring about these perfect nights when the stars seem to align! That’s what I’m still trying to figure out. As I’ve said I’m currently on 1 lucid a week (though I’ve just had my first week with 2!) I started to wonder if tiredness was playing a part and the night I woke more and recalled more was the night I became lucid and then the rest of the week I’m exhausted and catching up on sleep till the next one. (Just a theory). I’ve just been given some really helpful advice from Silence11 on a different thread about WBTB. May be worth a read. (Link below)

https://www.dreamviews.com/attaining...ny-advice.html