Was it beginners luck?

I started having a bunch of lucid dreams as soon as I tried using a timer (found on lucidology.com) in the morning with wake-back-to-bed. Actually, the first 3 days I used it I achieved lucidity. I would say I had roughly 5-8 LD in only a couple of weeks. Amazingly I even had a WILD that lasted a couple minutes, but most of my LDs come out of false awakenings.

Now (a couple of weeks later), I am unable to attain lucidity for some unknown reason. Even worse, I find it harder to fall back asleep in the mornings...perhaps due to the fact that I'm excited about having a LD or I'm thinking too much about it and not relaxing enough. I don't know if there is anything I'm doing differently or not, it's hard to say, but I do have this general feeling that something is just not right.

I'm not remembering my dreams nearly as well as when I began learning to LD. This may be the source of the problem. Why would it be harder to remember my dreams now after I'm more experienced? Do you really need to think about dreaming and LDing all through the day? Maybe I'm getting lazy and only attempt to tell myself to remember my dreams right before bed...but I thought this would be sufficient. Uhhgg...I'm tired at work now from the lack of sleep but I want to get my mojo back and have more lucid dreams! Do you have any recommendations?

you are getting too worried about it and that's what's preventing you from achieving your goals. be systematic, notice which things help you achieve your lucids and in your DJ write the exact circumstances/things you did to become lucid. Dream recall can be influenced by many things, including diet, eating before bed, even the temperature of your body. happy experimenting :)

I'd say you should take a break from trying to LD. But don't take a break from doing random reality checks. And try to remember your dreams when you wake up, and increase your re-call.

After I'd say 2 weeks you should start thinking about LD'ing. And hopefully you will achieve them like you did before :)

Maybe it's exactly the lack of sleep that is pushing you back. Get a fix sleep schedule of at least 6 hours, you can even try WBTB after this.

Thanks for the advice. I'm a researcher and should be more systematic, but then I just want to try a bunch of different things all at once to hurry the process. I think I will slow down, get back into the groove of remembering dreams nightly, and see what happens.

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Originally Posted by matt1039lp

Thanks for the advice. I'm a researcher and should be more systematic, but then I just want to try a bunch of different things all at once to hurry the process. I think I will slow down, get back into the groove of remembering dreams nightly, and see what happens.

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Smile, enjoy the ride. Only the curious have something to find. It sounds like you are doing fine. Let me ask you something. How open were you when you used the timer? Did you have heavy expectations? Do you doubt yourself or others now? Believe in yourself. All is well.

Blessed Be

I think I was very open to the timer, that is, I let the timer do the work and just relaxed and casually thought about lucid dreaming. I suppose I had pretty heavy expectations overall, but not on a morning to morning basis. To clarify, I expected to experience LDs within a few weeks, but for any given morning, I did not expect so. I surely don't doubt myself or others ability to LD...I don't think I ever really did...I'm pretty open like that. However, I believe your question was more rhetorical than anything, but just to be sure I answered you anyway :)

Happy lucid dreaming!

Looks like my LD-less streak is over! I had a couple OBEs this morning (I usually have an opportunity with false awakenings by doing the reality check of spinning your body in bed). Even still, there was a bunch of things that I thought happened in reality (such as my roommate coming home from vacation), but I managed to ignore such things and continue. I'm still having trouble with darkness/hard to open eyes during LDs. I'm not sure how to fix that, but I would like to know. On a positive note, I managed to float towards my ceiling and reverse gravity! T'was my first attempt at anything magical.