I was invited over to my friends house the other day to play games with him and beating him like crazy (25-3 kills in halo...that was his best game...) And of course there was plenty of friendly ribbing going on, but his best one was, "I may be terrible at halo but at least I've had lucids" He really has had them, three consecutive nights. I figured my talking about it is what triggered him to have lucids, what's interesting is he says that after he started trying to do RCs and induce them he's been having increasing difficulty with them.

His situation got me to thinking if I should try to just go to sleep without trying to do any techniques. I did it last night, and while I did have a dream about reading an IM post from Sythix, nothing else came back to me.

I'm wondering if perhaps I should try a little reverse psychology? I've constantly told myself that tonight I will have a lucid dream. Should I instead tell myself something like, "you're an idiot to even try and LD mom said that this was just a waste of time and that dreaming keeps you up at night...etc." You see it's like when I tell my concious mind something my sleeping mind does the opposite, so if I tried the opposite would I get a positive effect? Or is it impossible to fool my brain like that when it knows I have ulterior motives. The motive to try and actually induce a lucid.

What do you think?