How can a natural avoid becoming lucid every night?

**Tanface1220** · 12-05-2008 06:22 AM

No offense, but if she has a lucid every night, how does she know how restful normal sleep is? Maybe she's just not getting enough sleep in general?

**archdreamer** · 12-05-2008 07:01 AM

Someone might have suggested this already (I didn't read the whole thread), but mabye she could try going to sleep again in the dream, with the expectation of having a normal dream?

Also, if you could get your friend to describe in detail what she experiences nightly (not including, of course, the content of the dreams themselves, just her experiences on falling asleep, waking up, entering and exiting dreaming etc), I think that the information would be very much appreciated by those of us who are still struggling to become like her, if it would not be too much trouble.

**Mad Stratter** · 12-05-2008 07:04 AM

Originally Posted by archdreamer

[...]those of us who are still struggling to become like her, if it would not be too much trouble.

one of those "grass is always greener" kinda thangs...

**Flying Spaghetti Monster** · 12-05-2008 08:31 AM

she should go to sleep in her LD's.
like..find a bed and nod off.

**Licity** · 12-05-2008 08:49 AM

Considering the evidence that constant lucidity isn't necessarily tiring, perhaps your friend is stuck in a self-fulfilling prophecy. If she believes that lucid dreams are exhausting, then they probably will be due to belief, which provides more evidence for believing it to begin with. Quite the vicious circle. She needs some way to break this chain, but I can't think of a way to do so at the moment.

As others have said, try losing lucidity on purpose. All she has to do for that to happen is become involved in the plot of the dream, ignoring the fact it is a dream. She should pretend that it is all real, and eventually she will forget she is only pretending.