Thread: Snap out of it!

Originally Posted by The Narrator

I am having a bit of a problem with staying lucid. What seems to happen almost every time is that I realise I am dreaming and then struggle to stop and think about what I really want to do, instead I try and carry on with what I was doing in the dream because I was enjoying it and lose lucidity quite quickly. It's a stupid problem really; my dreamself doesn't seem to find being lucid as incredible as I do!

You know the feeling you get sometimes when you wake up in the night and think "I won't write the dream down, I want to re-enter it!"? It's the same kind of feeling I get when I'm lucid. I either struggle to think logically about how I can achieve what I want to in a lucid dream and give up or get overly involved with what I was dreaming of anyway and forget I'm lucid.

Help please!

You';/ve probably read it and heard it many times. Intent, intent, intent ! The stronger your intent and desire, the more likely you'll follow it through.

I have dreams like you explained as well. You have the realization, and fall back into it. After assessing what happened, I figured out it was the result of being a little bit lazy. I'm working on that, and hopefully it will carry over to my personality while dreaming

Do you have trouble with motivation to prepare for stuff that's outside of your routine in real life. Things such as a lack of motivation planning for a trip, etc?

as soon as you realize you're dreaming, you need to really try to stop and focus. No matter how interesting the dream was before, just forget about it for that one moment and even talk to yourself if you have to, and tell yourself that you're dreaming. Just make sure that you ground yourself (also by rubbing your hands together or dream spinning) before you continue doing whatever you were doing.

I concur with lagunagirl: talking to yourself really does help. I think (talk) to myself in every dream-I don't know why or how-but it's helped me in so many ways. If you happen to think, "I'm dreaming," try not to lose focus on that thought. Try shouting! In my last lucid, I said "I'm dreaming" twice, but I wasn't able to shift awareness until I shouted it.

Originally Posted by allthings

In my last lucid, I said "I'm dreaming" twice, but I wasn't able to shift awareness until I shouted it.

I was walking around in Target the other day, and did one of my randon RC's. I thought "If this were a dream, I'd shout "I'm dreaming!!" and climb up in the racking"

...The last time I did one of those 'jump for joys' in an LD, it really brought me to attention.

The only thing is, you'd better do some serious RC's if you're out in public like that. What a mess you could make if it were a mis-fire