There are at least several others here experiencing something similar. I had gotten used to having two or more lucids each week last year. Now I'm lucky to get two a MONTH - though when they do come, I usually have fantastic control. |
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I've been around here for a while, almost a year, but I feel that lately, I have been unable to concentrate on Lucid Dreaming for myself, and only am able to give advice to other or discuss in general. I had a good streak of Lucids a while ago (maybe last mayish, i don't know), but then my recall fell, and I have been unable to achieve any good streaks and imrpovements. I know I can improve, and was almost able to get some control, but I am currently on a long dry spell, with almost no recall (haven't kept up my DJ in forever), and though I've had a few LDs in the last months, where I had better control than before, they were all about 6 seconds long. I really want to get back into LDing, but i don't know how to motivate myself to do it. Also, should I start from the ground up?, or just start RCing again and hope to have an LD? |
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There are at least several others here experiencing something similar. I had gotten used to having two or more lucids each week last year. Now I'm lucky to get two a MONTH - though when they do come, I usually have fantastic control. |
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On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.
--Chinese Proverb
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Hey PenguinLord, glad to see you back. The frequency of my lucids is much less than I would like it to be too, despite trying every trick there is, including wering headphones all night and my latest, the DreamMask. I am coming up to a year of trying too, and I thought by now I would have mastered it. Unfortunately, it seems like everything works once, and then I can't use it successfully anymore. So even tho you have sort of put it aside, and I have worked like crazy, we are in about the same place. Lately I asked a new member (ivey) who is an experienced LD'er, what her method was. Luckily it wasn't WILD (I've only successfully done that 1.5 time); she said the she has spent whole days doing RC's; like every 10 minutes or so. I don't know if I can do that (today is Sunday tho....I could try today.) So maybe I am coming full circle. I am going to go back to really concentrating on RC's. So I guess that is what I would recommend to you too. |
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Yeah, the RC like crazy trick is what started getting me success, but then I burned out after a few weeks and got sick of constantly grabbing my nose, or looking at my hands during class. My Dream Recall was also suffering, so I couldn't remember any non-lucids (which inspire me to get lucid). Yay!, I just found one motivation. I'm starting my DJ again tonight.. I actually have time to RC like that as I have february vacation, and I just need to do it. I will also use the lucid task as inspiration (that brought about my last induced LD, in november, though I've had a couple random ones since). Funny how I wrote a big guide on how to do great RCs, and I'm not doing them now, but I think I am ready to lucid dream again, so starting now I am RCing like crazy. |
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Good Luck! I bet you'll get it back in no time! |
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I am in almost the exact same situation. Only my dryspell has been going on for about ....10 months or so. I am trying to get back into it. Trying to get the DJ back up and running again. My recall has really been crap, so that is what I need to work on first and foremost. |
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Neruo: "Expect for me ofcourse, I am special. lol. I really think that. I am rather intelligent"
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Why is everyone having these dry spells? |
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I don't know if I should agree with that. Ataraxis said in some post somewhere around here that a healthy attitude is to consider it easy - which I sort of agreed with because, by considering it easy, you have more confidence and confidence equals optimism which I know is good for lucid-dreaming. On the other hand though, I'm also starting to think you're right by saying "never take someone else's advice as fact, until you experience it for yourself". |
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Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going To California with an aching in my heart.
Led Zeppelin
Hey, I limit myself to 2.5 hours max Seriously though, I am not here that much lately (hadn't posted for more than a month until last friday) except the last couple days since I have nothing to do, but you are right about a lot Billy_bob. I think that though I am pretty knowledgable I do have to accept to myself that I am a beginner and always will be until I am an expert. Know that I think about it, my dry spell beginning corresponds to when I started thinking of myself as not a "Lucid Student" anymore, and more of a "Lucid Student" who is almost a "Lucid Tutor" (I miss those titles). While I do think that if I say LDing is hard, LDing is hard, then I will never LD, taking it for granted and thinking about it as just "time to have an LD" is doing it wrong, and not following through with the necessary actions, not starting from the ground and building up, is a waste of time. |
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My dry spell has nothing to do with arrogance. I fully know how much work it took to get the few LD's that I have had. Having a newborn child, while working night shift is what stopped me from having LD's. Too many things on my mind all day, not enough sleep.... etc. |
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UNBAN LEO</span></span>
Neruo: "Expect for me ofcourse, I am special. lol. I really think that. I am rather intelligent"
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Currently practicing WILD. I quote Kaniaz who said it best: "The point of WILD is to piss me off". Though, I have not given up, far from it.
Penguin, you started like 5days or something after me on this forum i remember. |
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Well, I finally had another LD. The dry spell has been broken. I have been doing more reality checks lately. I have also been listening to the "Gateway Experience" tapes for the last 3 days. I don't know what exactly helped, but I did have one so it is good to know that I can still do it. |
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UNBAN LEO</span></span>
Neruo: "Expect for me ofcourse, I am special. lol. I really think that. I am rather intelligent"
So you left for a few months? I remember your old siggy with the sleep chart (that was you right?). I was wondering if you still posted here. |
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Ha, no the guy with the "dream chart" which was pretty cool was phillip fry, i think he still posts here.. |
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Woohoo! I am happy to say that my dry spell is over I think, and I am now super-motivated to recall dreams and get lucid thanks to having 3 lucids last night! You can read them in my dream journal if you want. |
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