Thread: Woah woah woah wait...Is anyone having LD's anymore?

I've been reading a LOT of posts around here, and it seems like EVERYONE is having some kind of dry spell, including myself. The last LD I had was a while ago, and I also read a post with a bunch of people saying they hadn't had a LD in a while either.
What's going on? Only a few people are getting off with LD's now.
Discuss.

I've noticed sorta the same thing. I don't really count though because I've been out of practice for a while so I'm still trying to build up my recall. My guess is that maybe the holidays are a stressful time of year which makes actively persuing a LD hard. That's just me tho. Maybe more likely is that people that aren't having a hard time aren't posting all their experiances so you only see the people in a dry spell.

Actually, I just had my first lucid in a while a couple of days ago. Before that, I was stuck in a major dry spell (for lucids, I've been having 1-2 nonlucids most nights), but yeah.

hmm...Spiderman, that seems correct. Whenever I would LD I would never really post, I guess other people are the same way.

and Jet73L that's my point, a lot of people are having dryspells.


maybe it's because people have been out of practice like you said spiderman, I know I have. I figured that I would keep my LD's coming after I had one like every night. But I guess you have to keep doing a journal, RC's, ect

Definitely, I stopped practicing and not only did the LD's go but so did the recall. I don't know about you but I've got to really keep up on it. Good question tho.

I broke a dry spell last night!

Congratulations Ryu!
That's something else I have also noticed, that people are just now breaking them
I know I'm going to have a Lucid Dream tonight, so there goes my dry spell.
and hopefully if I don't mess around in the LD and decide to break out, what a [insert_holiday_here] present that will be

Dry spells have definitely been the norm for me, especially lately, but I had three short LDs in the past week or so.

We all hang out here too much and are getting on each other cycles hehe

It's probably from all the stress caused by the holiday season.

I don't know if it's a dry spell exactly. I notice that in my dreams more often I simply have all lucid abilities, but am following the dream. Sort of as if I am always lucid know to a very great extent. Hard to explain it.

I noticed this over a month ago (http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=68745) although if it's been that long then who knows, maybe no one is dreaming I did manage to get over my month-long dryspell in the past few days, though.

Originally Posted by Brandon Heat

I notice that in my dreams more often I simply have all lucid abilities, but am following the dream. Sort of as if I am always lucid know to a very great extent. Hard to explain it.

I do the same thing! I feel like I typically KNOW it's a dream, but most of the time I am pulled along by the narrative, rather than making truly conscious decisions and my dreamself does not control the dream.

Example: in a nightmare where a dog was trying to bite me, I tried to fly upwards to get away (my flying is more like a jump-to-float) I am thinking, "damn this dog, it can jump really high, but I should be able to fly higher and get away. F-ing dream!! What good is flying if my fear of getting bit doesn't let me get away!" I knew it was a dream, and that I was worried this flying business wouldn't work, and I knew that my fear was exactly why it didn't.

When I am just being pulled along and reacting to things according to the "reality" construct of the dream, I don't feel like it's lucid, whether or not I know I'm in a dream. The dream above could have been lucid if I had thought, "Hold up! This is stupid, I don't want to dream about this dog anymore."

I've been kinda not into lucid dreaming this whole month. I'm going to start trying to get back to the 3 per week I was at before, though. That was the best.

I had one this morning. Didn't last long, but it's a start!

I had one last night.

I've had 3 very short LDs in the past 2 days. I'm currently experimenting on a personal technique to increase the amount of LDs I have. If it goes well tomorrow, I may unleash this technique upon DV.

HELLS FU**IN YEAH!!!

Had 4-5 LD's last night one was short the rest were considerable in length very pleased there is hope yet.

WILD is definetly the way to go still works 99.9% of the time for me if done correctly. Guess I can't rely on DEILD's all the time like I used to.