Thread: Doing dild effectively

I think it depends on how common the dream sign is , Its best to take a few which appears in a lot of dreams . doing RCs on too many dreamsigns can be an nuisance and may make you dread seeing them , so take 2-3 most prominent ones to RC on.

I still recommend doing a full length proper RC with complete awareness and engage your senses after you get out of bed and go to sleep though.

I was looking back through your posts and I saw you recently asked for advice on how long you might try techniques for; like Sageous answered in that thread, I think it's reasonable to assume that technique mastery is not about giving it a set amount of time or anything like that, and looking back on when I started out with my interests in lucidity, I can tell you that I went through trying several different techniques for unspecified amounts of time, and can relate to how you might feel about not finding success in a technique.

Speaking from my experience with reality checks and dream signs, even when I've been highly aware of my dream signs and trying to make affirmations to myself about it before sleep, there was no guarantee that it was what actually helped me become lucid. But for some people, it's a lot of help, it just doesn't work as well for me, probably because I have memory issues and therefore anything relating to prospective memory becomes ineffective for me.

SealedOrion's advice here is solid. Any dream induction technique can be a good strategy. I would personally say that it's more about how much effort you want to put into each one, while bearing in mind that some people just seem more prone to lucidity anyway and that simply putting in more effort is no guarantee of anything.

I don't mean to sound discouraging, if that's my tone here. I would simply like to reaffirm the potential value of letting go of any impatience or expectations about becoming lucid, because you might actually feel better for it and find that becoming lucid is less about metrics and more about something that language can't describe very well, but which relates very much so to intuition rather than to intellect or rationalisation.

It's okay to cycle back through techniques you've already tried, too. Just because they haven't worked before, doesn't mean they won't work for you in the future. I know it can feel difficult to go back to something that didn't seem to work at all, but it's always possible that something else in your life was making that specific technique ineffective at that time.