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

Dry spell over. 4 lucids, 6 days. It seems that anyone who's been here is breaking their dry spells. Maybe a bit of subliminal reverse psychology?

Ended a long-long-long dry spell just last night with one lucid I barely remember. I just recently got motivated to lucid again and I expect a lot more are on their way.

It may be because theres lots of newer ppl with little experience and not as many experienced ppl

Back on par having LD's every night again. HoooFreakinZAAA!

I've had a dry spell for months, then had a nice LD about a week ago, wanted more so I went on the Internet to look up techniques, ended up here and registered.

Haven't had another LD since then, though ...

Funny how when all the party/holiday season ends, we finish dry spells.
The alcohol/drugs etc have clouded us during this period.
Now we are more alert, we continue to LD.

I find when I drink alcohol I get little or nothing in the dream area.
If I go off alcohol, It all happens for me, and I have clarity and strength thought-wise.

This is a general statement only from these replies.

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."