Natural LDs with almost no technique

Dude, all my lucids come from this method. It totally works. I don't do it so often, I feel like its more of a spur of the moment sort confidence thing.. but I'll give it another shot tonight ay.
Like once I had my sister over, and I let her sleep in my bed while I slept on a matress on the floor, and I thought how funny it would be if I had a lucid on the bed on the floor, and I spose an instant of a moment with the idea, the visual of lding in that bed on the floor shot through my head, and that night I had an LD.
So yeah, its just these quick thoughts of absolute confidence. Seeing the bed your gonna sleep in before you jump in, visulising the idea of you LDing in it, then dropping the thought and falling asleep. It works for me. :)

i really like this a lot. im gonna try this tonight, because i always do my best to be a very positive person :) i think i can easily build enough confidence to LD. thanks for the advice, you and i think alike in a way haha.

I tried this last night... I didn't remember any dreams. I wonder if that's a sign that it worked and just altered my recall somehow? I can almost always recall anywhere between 2 and 5 dreams a night, but last night, nothing.

nice technique..eve tho it doesnt take very much effort in your case, its still a technique none the less:)
will try to incorperate this and see what hppens

Confidence comes with success and a knowledge of how success is attained. It doesn't seem possible to "build" confidence out of nothing, unless one is easily self-deluded.

Well, I must say, I now believe this works. I had my first LD Tuesday morning, and since I was so excited, I had another one last night. I'm feeling pretty good!

Its the power of positive thinking. Your subconscious doesn't know the difference between reality and lies - so if you do confidently say to yourself 'I am going to lucid dream tonight', and have complete confidence and belife in it then your subconscious will believe its true too, and work towards making this thing happen.
And the same goes for a lot of things in life. If you can thinking positively, if you can talk to your subconscious through postive thoughts and such, almost anything is achievable.

Wow. I only just read this thread, but I am now brimming with confidence! I mean, if this is all it takes then it will be fantastic! I just need to imagine what I want to dream... so many possibilities!

This thread I see has a lot of potential! I have an experience I'd like to share that deals with this topic.

It reminded me of a time one summer when I was confident about having a special "gift" (of course, this wasn't really true, but I was pretty young and believed everything everyone on the internet told me). So anyways, I was very confident about this idea, that I was "special". Well, after a couple days of believing I was some kind of psychic, I started having precognitive dreams (dreams that "show" you the future). I started seeing stupid stuff like christmas presents, when my friend's dog got a haircut, etc etc. They were almost always accurate. They came almost every night and I was sure that I would have a precognitive dream when I woke up in the morning. You could say all my dreams and the events that followed were a coincidence, and this could be true, but I highly doubt it. They were so dead on and almost all events happened the next day.

This went on for about 30 days until I started to doubt my "gift"(:P) and it stopped. I have had a few precognitive dreams as of lately after I started to realize why they've stopped, though they could all easily be dismissed as coincidence and hold no real evidence in my mind.

With some practice, this technique definitley has some validity. This is how I had my first lucid dream as well, so I'll be trying it again tonight for sure. I'll be sure to post back if I have success!

Thanks go to the original poster and everyone who posted their experiences. I definitely vote for this thread to be stickied :)

Well, I can confirm the glory of this technique! last night, after just 2 days of building confidence I had a brief lucid dream. Also, teh first night I remebered 3 dreams. last night I did as well. I also agree that it needs stickying

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Confidence comes with success and a knowledge of how success is attained. It doesn't seem possible to "build" confidence out of nothing, unless one is easily self-deluded.

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That pretty much nails everything I've been thinking in one sentence.

Even if I tried to convince myself I believe, there was always be an element of self-doubt there which, I'm sure, would stop this from working. An element of self-doubt seems rational to me.

I don't think this confidence is something that stems from the head, but from the heart. Just my opinion.

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I don't think this confidence is something that stems from the head, but from the heart. Just my opinion.

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Heart is a muscle. Oh wait, you were trying to be sentimental.

The power of intent is an amazing thing when it comes to the world of dreaming. I never use reality checks or any types of techniques anymore. When I have lucid dreams they tend to come at a time that I least expect them.

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Heart is a muscle. Oh wait, you were trying to be sentimental.

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Not sentimental, maybe poetic. Yes, I didn't mean the heart muscle, I meant the heart as something you simply feel rather than think.

Hummmm :?

Think I"ll give it a go...

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The power of intent is an amazing thing when it comes to the world of dreaming. I never use reality checks or any types of techniques anymore. When I have lucid dreams they tend to come at a time that I least expect them.

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And do you have them very often (only curious) ?

I'd just like to say, I thank everyone here. I had my first Lucid Dream last night after 6 months of trying. It was a DILD, and I had a major confidence factor last night that really helped. It really does help if you believe enough!

Did you mentally say anything to yourself?

I kept telling myself once or twice before going to bed, I will Lucid Dream tonight, I will reality check and it will be vivid. Something along those lines. Specifics don't matter. I really felt it, and was very confident last night. Make the night before seem special, FEEL IT! Ha ha.


AND. I woke up at 4:00AM, and was gonna attempt a WILD, but failed, fell asleep and woke up again at 5:00AM. Then I went straight back to bed and had the DILD, waking up again at 6:30AM for school.

So is this only a bedtime ritual or can you feel like this the whole day? That's what I'm trying to do.

I try not to think about it all day, cause then it backfires for me and almost overclouds my mind with LUCID DREAMING LUCID DREAMING LUCID DREAMING. I just want it to be in the back of my mind before I go to bed, and the last thing I think about before going to bed.

All right.

Yeah, thats how I do it too. Its like a sudden and rather quick burst of realisation and confidence. Like a mental visual flash of becoming lucid that very night and absolutely having no doubt its gonna happen! Then I forget the thought. It lasts not even 2 seconds. And those are the nights I attain lucidity.

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