Who else is tired of failing |
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I've been trying to become lucid for over 2 months now and had only been lucid once and that only lasted a split second. Although I havn't had much success, I have improved my dream recall from absolutely nothing to about 3 dreams a night. I find that to be a big success. Naturally, after gaining interest in LDing, I have done a lot of research into sleeping and dreaming and I have better understanding of it, and that too is a success. Keep trying! It'll come to you when you least expect it! |
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mongreloctopus's adoptee!
Yeah, well is something that lasts only a few seconds really worth it? |
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YES. And what better use of time that you just spend sleeping anyway? |
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veteran of the darkmyst #dreamviews
Raised: Turkeh
I feel your pain, Daviid. I, too, haven't had success in attaining lucidity. However, I've heard it's extremely mind-expanding and pleasurable. Casually, I keep at it. |
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Don't get discouraged. Maybe give everything a break and come back to it later. Sometimes trying too hard can be counterproductive. |
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Hello Daviid, |
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"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes"
Recorded Dreams - 3412. Lucid Dreams since joining - 245.
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Shine on, you crazy diamond!
Raised: The Blue Meanie, Exobyte
Adopted: MarcusoftheNight
Right after this post, I got the closest I have gotten so far. Last night I took 1mg melatonin and 100mg B6 (together, which is a first). At one point in the night, I dreamt a huge test/exam was being passed around to my entire class. I realized that I was dreaming and didn't have to do it, so I woke myself up. It wasn't until morning that I realized how stupid I was for waking myself up |
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Atleast you finally realized you were dreaming. I've yet to do that. But congrats on the realization! That's a big step and I'm jealous but hopefully I'll get there soon. happy dreaming! |
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I'm mildly happy about it. The thing is, I've had that same situation a bunch of times throughout my life. It's nothing I haven't done before (that is, taking a test and waking up on purpose). |
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Well, keep on keepin-on. Once you get that first really good LD, you'll be hooked |
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veteran of the darkmyst #dreamviews
Raised: Turkeh
I used to have that experience all the time, especially as a little kid having nightmares. The key is knowing that you don't have to wake yourself up to get out of it, that you can just go do whatever you want instead. (I had one of these under a week ago when I saw my 1 y/o nephew puke all over my laptop. Unfortunately, in trying to keep the dream I ended up waking up.) So now that you know about LDing, it will be very easy for occasions like that. |
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---Lucid Experiences: 15---
"In my nightmare, I feel so alive
In my dreamscape, escapades
I make the grade, I save the day."
- Eve 6, Nightmare
"And through it all
How could you cry for me?
Cause I don't feel bad about it.
So shut your eyes,
Kiss me goodbye,
And sleep.
Just sleep.
The hardest part's
The awful things that I've seen."
-My Chemical Romance, Sleep
Stay with it and develop your positive new LD habits. RCs, WBTB (stay up for 30 minutes and read a book on lucid dreaming or review postings on this Forum or do anything that requires analytical skills such as chess, math problems, writing, etc), |
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Are you spending enough time doing RCs/thinking about LDs/recalling dreams? Ya aren't likely to see many results without these! |
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I think about my dreams all the time, as well as 'knowing' i'll have a lucid dream, and in the last week i've had 3 LDs, although it may be begginers luck, but persistance and determination is vital! |
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I don't know if this will help but in my own experience I've found that things from my waking life seem to take period of at least a month to cross over into my dreams. For example, if I've moved accomodation and am sleeping in a new room, it'll take at least a month before I start dreaming about my new bedroom instead of my old one. |
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Thanks for the support guys. And by the way, I've been using B6 which does wonders. |
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I have to say that they hit it right on when they said something about r/c's, and such. I used to stop about 30-40 times per day and literally say "Wait a minute I am dreaming" low and behold I started doing that in my dreams. then I got sick, and started work, and forgot about doing this.... lucids stopped. although I promptly seem to wake up, it is well worth it to me, because sooner or later, I will stop waking up, and that is when the fun will start. This does take daily work, and like most good things.... reward don't come without hard work and dedication |
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Last night I had my very first "real" lucid dream... I've been trying for about a year. |
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I think one of the most frustrating things that can happen in attempting to induce LDs is the false awakening. The number of times that I used to 'wake up' without actually doing so, and then cursing that the LD method I had used hadn't worked, only to find myself waking up AGAIN shortly after!! |
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I had great progress last night actually. I did some drugs so time slowed down, and I couldn't tell what time it was because the clock kept morphing into different things. That was then followed by a dream where I realized I was only dreaming I did drugs. Two good dreamsigns...so close.. |
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ive been starting to practice lucid dreaming on last week and i went lucid for about 5 seconds! i was proud! |
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