3 Months And Still Nothing

[Primus7]

Ive been looking through many-a websites to find the best way to become lucid... 3-4 months so far i have been doing "occassional" handchecks, today i just started doing them more. I went to try one of those videos/sounds i can put on my ipod but i cannot find a download link (i did not use the search button, do not get to mad please ) I have tried one before that was just one sentance that i loop, just "you are dreaming" but i could not go to sleep while i had it on... I have been using melatonin before i even found out that it helps increase my chances for lucidity. nothing has been seeming to work, i can remember dreams occasionally, i am going to start a dream journal soon. any tips on things that helped you get your first LDs?

[Burns]

Definitely start that dream journal NOW - why wait?? It will help develop your recall. For all you know, you could've already had an LD and just didn't remember it. Really concentrate on improving your recall first. Try some different induction techniques. See the tutorials for more info. Everyone's different so you'll just need to try different things. Really put effort into it - don't just try it once and discard it as a dud. It can take many months for someone to attain lucidity - it just depends on the person. Though I bet once you start a journal, improve your recall, and try some different techniques, you'll see A LOT of improvement and probably lucidity.

[Casualtie]

i am going to start a dream journal soon. [/b] thats probably your problem. a dream journal is supposed to help recall DRAMATICALLY. and you can't have a lucid dream if you cant dream recall can you?

[FreeOne]

yes start a dream jornal! I am living proof that they work lol. I could recall only like 1-2 dreams a month before my dream jornal. Now i get like at least 1 every night.

[lord soth]

hehe, easy way to LD, incentive! examples: dont sleep until you have an LD... oh, and dream journals are a must... its like step number 1, and they arent optional

[OmnipotentTitan]

hehe, easy way to LD, incentive! examples: dont sleep until you have an LD... oh, and dream journals are a must... its like step number 1, and they arent optional [/b] how do u LD if u arent sleeping

[Neruo]

3 months... that's not cool. Just try to get really hard-core. You seem to be really wanting it, so just really try to Do an RC every hour. Do autosugestion every night. Do WBTB alot. Do start a dream journal. Just try everything, and do it alot, and I am sure you will succeed

[Bonsay]

I did lots of reallity checks everytime I remembered them. And in a week, the first time I had some long sleep, I had 2 controlled lucid dreams.

[Lyla]

I've been trying and trying for a month and a half, and for the last month I write daily in my DJ. I've been doing RC about 10 times a day or more in the last week and I've realised that I'm very obsessed...my dreams have become very vivid but no trace of lucidity... So there you go, you're not the only one who's got this problem...I know it sucks, but hang on there! Every time you get up in the morning or in the middle of the night and feel too lazy to write what you dreamt think of how much you want a LD...constantly think of how much you want a LD! Do that and do a RC whenever the thougt comes into your mind, look at your hands! (Right now! Are you dreaming?...). And in the weekends, sleep as much as possible and try as many induction techniques... My brain stopped now. I hope my advice will help you even a little bit . I wish you the best of luck!

[Primus7]

ATTENTIONS! i have started a dream journal and picked up a lucid dreaming book (basically gives you step by step ways to lucid dream&#33 Dream recall : 2 dreams the first night, waiting for tonight to see if i get anything else thank yall for your help!

[EVIL JOE]

I have been trying to lucid dream since I joined this place and still haven't. I started a journal about a week before I learned about LDing and have had it ever since. The journal has helped me out some but not quite enough. Here is my weekly lucid dreaming schedule: Sunday - Fall asleep at 10 PM, wake up via alarm clock at 4 AM, go to sleep, wake up via alarm clock at 7 AM for school. Monday - Same as Sunday. Tuesday - Same as Sunday. Wednesday - Same as Sunday except I take 200mg of B6 after waking up at 4 AM. Thursday - Same as Sunday. Friday - Stay up late and just go to sleep whenever. Saturday - Stay up until about 2 AM, take 200mg of B6, go to sleep, and wake up whenever (usually around 11 AM). I have just recently started doing this because of school. Also a lot of the time I have this LD induction CD (http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/inde...howtopic=22467) looping on a CD playing in my stereo and I have a small fan on. While sleeping my head is pointed East. I barely ever do reality checks because 1. I can't remember to do them and 2. I am at school for half the day and someone might think I'm weird if I plug my nose and try to breath (yes, I know there are other RCs I could do). Should I stop doing the B6 because it could be screwing with my dream recall? Should I urge myself to do RCs (I know you are going to say yes but I'm asking anyways so that when you do say yes it motivates me so say yes)? Should I try WILDing (I tried it a few times but never got anywhere with it)? I think that if I don't have any LDs by December I will try the not-talking-until-I-have-a-lucid-dream technique during winter vacation. This is the first time I actually had a lucid dreaming schedule and actually devoted myself to it so if I just keep doing what I am now then I might just have a lucid dream. You don't have to read the following: I have always been facinated by unexplainable/paranormal things. For a time I was interested in the moving rocks at Death Valley, CA. Why would I be interested in some rocks in a desert that move extremely slowly you ask? Because it is something that has no proven reason for doing what it does. I then found out about astral projection. Going out of your body and exploring the earth and beyond. While learning about it I read about lucid dreaming. Being able to control your dreams. Well that sound really boring. So I tried to astral project but eventually I cam to the realization that I am too impatient for astral projection. Then this summer I found a link to DreamViews.com. I read through it and realized that lucid dreaming isn't just controlling your dreams. It is being able to experience things, go anywhere you want, and much much more. Also the thing that said that the average human sleeps for 22 years of their life blew my mind. I joined the forum and read these amazing stories. Lucid dreaming is pretty much virtual reality except without a bunch of wires and you can actually feel. It's like you go to a whole different place when you sleep. Not to mention all the paranormal type things that may or may not be real but would be fun to try (example: shared dreaming). Lucid dreaming isn't just dreaming. It is like a super power that most other people don't have. If you have a bad day you can just cheer yourself up by skipping through a field of daisies or maybe unleash some built up anger by going on a killing rampage in a dream town with The Fonz. You can do anything you can imagine. And you get better at it over time. The greatest thing is that it's free, doesn't take up much of your time, and it isn't bad for you. The only thing you need to do is practice. I felt like getting that off my chest. Edit: I think this is the longest post I have ever made on here.

[EVIL JOE]

*cough*

[Primus7]

*cough* [/b] sounds like you got carpol tunnel after typing all that ! but, you seem to be liking dreaming fairly well, keep it up! thanks for your opinions!

[Nightmare]

Lucid dreaming comes faster to some than it does to others. Dream journals are necessairy, but keep your intentions clear and make sure you stay motivated. I dream vividly almost every night, and it still took me almost TWO long years before i had a lucid dream because my focus would come and go. Some weeks i'd be really into it, and some weeks i'd like totally forget about it. Becoming lucid in the dream state is one of the most beautiful, powerful, surreal and moving experiences i have come across. No drug can compare. Don't stop trying.

[Primus7]

Lucid dreaming comes faster to some than it does to others. Dream journals are necessairy, but keep your intentions clear and make sure you stay motivated. I dream vividly almost every night, and it still took me almost TWO long years before i had a lucid dream because my focus would come and go. Some weeks i'd be really into it, and some weeks i'd like totally forget about it. Becoming lucid in the dream state is one of the most beautiful, powerful, surreal and moving experiences i have come across. No drug can compare. Don't stop trying. [/b] I know, there is one problem i have though. When i dream, i do not see it as a movie, i see it as a past memory... I cannot change what has already happened, when you become aware, does it feel like you just lept back in time? and, i can remember dreams only when i say "i will remember my dreams" before i got o sleep, adding things onto it makes me either a : not able to fall asleep cause im so concentrated on repeating 2 things at once or B: i fall asleep and i do not remember my dream, or i remember very little. last night i woke up at 3:30 with no alarm clock, no reason... i thought i had a dream, but i could not remember. I kept repeating, 15 minutes past, then 30... then it was 4 o clock, i couldnt sleep, i just stayed up.

[TweaK]

I know, there is one problem i have though. When i dream, i do not see it as a movie, i see it as a past memory... I cannot change what has already happened, when you become aware, does it feel like you just lept back in time?[/b] Not to demotivate you, but that's what I have.. And I have never had a Lucid Dream. I've been going at it since end 2005 (December). In fact, today is my 9th month no-LDs anniversary. I don't know/think if we can DILD, seeing our dreams don't occur "realtime", and/or experience it like a real life experience (actually being there). WILD will be something that WILL work fo sho, but I'm unsure about DILDs.

[Primus7]

Not to demotivate you, but that's what I have.. And I have never had a Lucid Dream. I've been going at it since end 2005 (December). In fact, today is my 9th month no-LDs anniversary. I don't know/think if we can DILD, seeing our dreams don't occur "realtime", and/or experience it like a real life experience (actually being there). WILD will be something that WILL work fo sho, but I'm unsure about DILDs. [/b] yea, but i have been reading this book, it should help me, has 7 days of exercises, then it starts explaining how to become semi aware, then fully aware, then finally how to control everything.

[TweaK]

Yeah, but that's not very useful if you can't do anything at all because it's a memory and you can't change memories when they have already occured, can you? If anything works for you and you can somehow get a DILD, please... Let me have your babies. After that, teach me how. EDIT I mean, a "true" DILD. I've had loads of DILDs where I went lucid and did stuff I would have done in a normal lucid dream, but I wasn't actually there realtime, it was still experienced like we experience normal dreams.

[TweaK]

Bump? Because this is really important (For me too) >_<

[Primus7]

Bump? Because this is really important (For me too) >_< [/b] thanks for the bump lol yea it is, we should ask someone to make a tutorial on the whole basics of lucid dreaming and then give links as it goes through&#33;

[OmnipotentTitan]

thanks for the bump lol yea it is, we should ask someone to make a tutorial on the whole basics of lucid dreaming and then give links as it goes through! [/b] there are tutorials all ove the site

[TweaK]

thanks for the bump lol yea it is, we should ask someone to make a tutorial on the whole basics of lucid dreaming and then give links as it goes through! [/b] Noooo. That's not what I mean. I mean, people who experience the same as we do. There are tons of tuts out there :/

[Jess]

I don't know/think if we can DILD, seeing our dreams don't occur "realtime", and/or experience it like a real life experience (actually being there). WILD will be something that WILL work fo sho, but I'm unsure about DILDs.[/b] That's no different to everyone else. It is just a memory when you wake up. Even a lucid dream will be a memory when you wake up because its in the past obviously. We're all the same, mostly, don't think its any harder for you! Most of my lucid dreams (not many) have been from reality checks. I started trying way before I knew about these forums, using EWLD. I think the reflection-intention technique on p.70 works best - after doing a reality check you form the intention to become lucid (basically). If you really really want to become lucid you will.

[TweaK]

That's no different to everyone else. It is just a memory when you wake up. Even a lucid dream will be a memory when you wake up because its in the past obviously. We're all the same, mostly, don't think its any harder for you! Most of my lucid dreams (not many) have been from reality checks. I started trying way before I knew about these forums, using EWLD. I think the reflection-intention technique on p.70 works best - after doing a reality check you form the intention to become lucid (basically). If you really really want to become lucid you will. [/b] When you wake up, it's just a memory. But when it actually happens, you are actually there, right? Well, we arn't.

[Primus7]

When you wake up, it's just a memory. But when it actually happens, you are actually there, right? Well, we arn't. [/b] omg... omg omgomg im freakin out, i think i just had my first minor LD i wont go thru the whole dream, but i walked up to a girl from my school at one part and said to her "you are dreaming"... then she said she was drunk and walked away (wtf?) and then it went black for a second and my eyes opened in real life. i remember i was looking for someone to tell that to, i knew it was not real life, but the thing is... i never had a trigger to tell me that.