Thread: Reality Checking...

Originally Posted by hapkidoman

Have you ever noticed though, the harder you try to have a lucid dream the less likely you are to have one?

Whenever I want to have a lucid dream, my dream recall diminishes, and I don't do an RC in the dreamscape.

However, when I could care less about lucid dreaming, my dream recall skyrockets and I do a ton of RC's (which fail)................


UGHHHHHHHHH so frustrating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

It's so frustrating, it seems God does not want you to pry into His secret world. What do u think?

I don't know if we need to get G O D involved in this thread but that's just my opinion


I definitely agree with the reality check technique of only doing them when something out of the ordinary happens. Also, i think putting too much effort into LDing will result in failure. I am constantly thinking about it and I'm one of the lucky ones who have had lucids all my life (didn't start controlling them until I found this site about 2 months ago) but even if I try too hard and mess up my sleep too much to LD, I fail.

I also wanted to add in another RC technique I use... I write a small "A" for awake on the palm of my hand and whenever I see it I do a couple RCs, in hopes that in my dream I'll see a "D" for dream or at least see the "A" and trigger a RC.

Another thing I do is use a ring I wear. It is a silver ring with a very funky stone in the middle which reminds me of a hypnogogic image so I call it my Lucid Dream Ring and whenever I wear iit and see it, I do a couple RC's. This one worked for me once, I was in a dream and I saw the ring
on the floor in front of me, I put it on and immediately went lucid.