Newbie at LD

Hello, I Am a begginner with LD and I Need someone to help me out.
I am able to WILD lucid dream but every time i notice myself slipping into waking sleep I get exited. It ruins my chance of LD so bad I wake up from it this happened 3 times already. this is a problem when i get exited i feel my heart beat fast

Any help?:?
because it would be a shame if I gave up and spent the rest of my life wondering what LD is like :(

I Really want lucid dreaming because we spend so much of our lives sleeping, I wanna be awake for both. because LD is stay up all night without needing an exessive amount of drugs lol

I had the same problem, and my solution (as it seems to be turning out to be) is to just... give up.
As in give up on the fantasy of epic battles and flying and having cool powers and being in a lucid dream all night then waking up refreshed in the morning. That just doesn't happen, especially not for newbies. Anything close only happens after months of trying, for the lucky people.

Once you get over the novelty of the concept, you find you don't really care as much. So when you do start to fall asleep, instead of "OMG ITS GOING TO HAPPEN I JUST NEED TO CONCENTRATE LONG ENOUGH..." which makes you fail, you end up thinking "falling asleep again, let's try to get some good recall in..."

Once you have that frame of mind, you slip into dreams and lucid dreams much easier, as you are not as excited. This happens to me right now, after about a 2 or 3 months of trying. When I started I was like you, and all it led me to was frustration. Once you take the laid back route, the lucids start to fall into place.

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Originally Posted by Avalanche

I had the same problem, and my solution (as it seems to be turning out to be) is to just... give up.
As in give up on the fantasy of epic battles and flying and having cool powers and being in a lucid dream all night then waking up refreshed in the morning. That just doesn't happen, especially not for newbies. Anything close only happens after months of trying, for the lucky people.

Once you get over the novelty of the concept, you find you don't really care as much. So when you do start to fall asleep, instead of "OMG ITS GOING TO HAPPEN I JUST NEED TO CONCENTRATE LONG ENOUGH..." which makes you fail, you end up thinking "falling asleep again, let's try to get some good recall in..."

Once you have that frame of mind, you slip into dreams and lucid dreams much easier, as you are not as excited. This happens to me right now, after about a 2 or 3 months of trying. When I started I was like you, and all it led me to was frustration. Once you take the laid back route, the lucids start to fall into place.

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I definitely agree. My lucid rate really increased when I focused on my recall, and I was much calmer in my lucids, which in turn were more stable.