Thread: Possible method to break dry spells - the "AILD"

let me know if it works thanks

It indeed is true that if we have some kind of undesirable thought and we try to do away with this and forget it, immediately a sort of automatic function of our consciousness is set in motion to retrieve the "forbidden thought" and shove it back into our faces. I've had this with many things.

It wouldn't work if you'd GENUINLY forgot apbout lucid dreaming though. You'd need to forcibly try to do away with the thought and for that I guess you'd need to GENUINLY want to do away with the thought. This is going to be tricky and can you see why? It's the same problem I've had with Autosuggestion/SelfHypnosis. They are basically a sort of way of "fooling" yourself and implanting beliefs in yourself. It's like you're trying to surprise yourself with an ambush: A little hard to do when you yourself know when, where and how you've set yourself up to run into an ambush...since you've set it up yourself. My problem with Autosuggestion explained in a nutshell.

The same problem kind of goes for this idea of yours.

It's still entirely conceptual. Really, it's only useful for breaking dry spells because it takes a fair bit of time before your subconscious throws you what you are trying to avoid. I don't recommend it as a general induction technique.

godam i couldn't resist DV right now. the temptation is too much.

I'm still going to have a ld tonight.

but deep down, allthough you play you're avoiding it, you desire lucidity. So you don't really try to avoid it. Your subconscious knows this. It only throws things at you that you're genuinly trying to avoid.

this may work, the last two LD's ive had were on the only nights I didn't listen to any LD mp3 or attempt to have one. you may be on to something

I think he might be on to something. Ive had one lucid dream and I have been trying for about a total of 4 months altogether. After the first two months I was tired of trying different techniques so I just quit. Then after about a month or so I tried another technique. And when I did this I got an LD that night. So he might be on to something, so somne of you should give it a try!