Beginner's Luck?

I’ve been waiting to do this for a while now, and I finally feel that now’s the time.

You’ve all heard the stories of people telling their friends about LDing and the friend goes home and has an LD, or maybe that was you. But soon after that first time, you don’t seem to have any luck after. You might call that beginner’s luck. You see that with many things, be it bowling or betting, the newbie always seems to do well.

Unfortunately, as soon as the beginner begins to look further and deeper into the subject, he seems to begin to do worse. The brain is an amazing thing; it works at incredible speeds and has the ability to store unlimited amounts of information. But when you try to overload it, or spread negative thoughts throughout it, even the simplest task becomes seemingly impossible.

This same principle applies to lucid dreaming. Before you ever lay eyes on this site, you could have thought that LDing is easy and have had one already. But when looking around here, I see so many topics of people complaining about how hard it is, or how they’re in a dry spell. I know personally, that I was trying too hard to have an LD, but then I realized that I was getting in my own way. Then suddenly, I had another one. Just like that. For those having trouble (myself included) why not just go back to the beginning when you believed that LDing was simple, that all you have to do is decide that you’d like one tonight, and just let it happen. Because when you get down to it, having a LD is really simple.

Good Luck…

p.s. – I’m not saying trying to bash the site at all, in fact, I really enjoy it

good advice.

That's kind of what happened to me. I heard about LDing, joined the site then about 3 days later I had a lucid dream. Then for about 3-4 weeks I not only didn't have any lucids but my dream recall was really crappy. I had a break, for a couple of months, came back and had a DILD lucid last night (my 4th day back). It's kind of like when you're looking for something, when you stop looking/thinking about it you find it! Now, I'm sure that this isn't true for everyone but for me it def. was :)

For me it's the opposite. I have had periods where I've had a lot of real life concerns and then I've stopped focusing on lucid dreams and then they've become rare. But in the periods where I really care about lucid dreams, like now, where I spend several hours each day reading about techniques and thinking about lucid dreams, I have at least one per night.

In my opinion it's about focus: When I spend all day thinking about lucid dreams, I get at least one each night. What's on my mind when I'm awake (lucid dreams) is on my mind while I'm sleeping (lucid dreams). All the negative thoughts in the world couldn't change that.