Thread: I CANNOT get lucid.

I read in a book[exploring the world of lucid dreams] that for some people, they try incredibly hard to build themselves up to lucid dream that they think of it as something incredibly hard to attain and therefore make it this way for themselves.

Maybe you want to lucid dream so badly that you have made it so hard for yourself because you're trying so hard?

I would suggest keeping up with a dream journal/reality checks but put a hold on trying to lucid dream for a while? I had this problem for a while myself, and after I took a step back and stop trying so hard they started to come to me.

You sound very defeatist mate; almost as though you don’t want to succeed because you want to prove to everyone that you’re hopeless and you fail at everything. Not saying that’s what it is, but that’s the impression you’re giving, which isn’t going to help things. I also agree with the above poster – seems like you’re trying too hard at the moment, to me. It can be like trying too hard to get to sleep – the harder you try, the more difficult it becomes.

Don’t despair; I doubt there is any such thing as a person who can’t LD – it just comes easier to some than others.

I've been trying for months and no results. And the other day, I was talking to a friend of mine, and I explained to her what Lucid Dreaming was. Then she goes, "Oh that? I do that every time I dream. *pause* Isn't that normal?" I then proceeded to bang my forehead on the wall.

Yah. Does someone have an actually success story? Like, they never LD'd before and finally, after WILDing or DILDing got one?