Thread: When I First Started Lucid Dreaming, I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me...

QUOTE from synopsis "giving it up takes a decision, "it's no longer worth it"
The more you get, the more you realize what it's going to take"

Only in the low 40's but I don't think that having a focus only on luicd dreams will be conducive to continuing. When you work on journaling and recall, it shouldn't be oh well only a fragment of a dream, so I'm pretty sure no lucids were forgotten, I think I'll just not try to recall some other worthless non-lucid stuff. When you wake up from a dream where you got to see cool stuff or do cool things, or noticed things that were impossible but didn't trigger, I don't think... drat only cool non-lucids this sucks.

I am in the middle of a dry spell and I am one of those people that almost only lucid dreams on weekends, (probably a stress thing), so I'll likely be heading into week 5+ of dryspell after tomorrow. I don't think drat, I'm going to go to sleep and dream and it won't even be lucid. I know that whether or not I lucid dream I will dream (I'm sure I dream almost every night) and because its a weekend I know I'll remember several dreams or at least fragments. I can look forward to those. So lucid dreaming isn't the only reward for trying to have and remember dreams.

Lucid dreaming is a skill and we will all get at least somewhat better at it if we continue to try. As for people leaving, I think that one of the biggest advancements is EILD, which is not far from making Lucid dreaming much easier for those with the skill. Lets say I'm a non lucid dreamer with a thousand bucks in my pocket and I hear the big news that the frontier has finally arrived and I have no skill at all, I put the thing on my head, I go to sleep, I set it for the first dream to alert me on the first second and low and behold I wake up inside my dream, it is blurry and I don't know anything and I lose the dream, or wake up throughout the night with lame 2 second lucid dream after lame 2 second lucid dream. I toss the thing in the trash and go back to sleep.

Now imagine all those people who left dream views at 25+, they hear the news they spend 500 bucks on a less awesome innovation than the 1000 buck one. They set it by their bed side, the set their alarm, they wake up oh drat it now I remember I'm gonna do that lucid thing I gave up because it was so hard. They do what ever WBTB things they used to do, then they put the thing on their head, set to go off a few minutes into the dream. 20-40 minutes later, they realize something isn't right. What do they do, they stabilize, they take control, and they have a great lucid dream. They will be rewarded for the skills they learned now when it was hard, as surely as the technology will fail those who think it will be easy with their new toy and no effort.

Counting every lucid dream is something that I do (at least all the ones I remember I have recovered 2 lost lucid dreams after waking up from 'not dreaming'), I did credit myself with 5 historic lucids from childhood (of course I don't know how many I really had but I remember several clearly). My current total is 41 so does that mean that I had 36 awesome dreams in the last year, no. I would trade many of the 5-15 second variety and even many of the 3 min variety for the good ones. Also I have had Lucids in which I couldn't gain the control I wanted and actually tried to commit dream suicide so I could just wake up and start over, of course looking back they were both awesome experiences.

For me I know that when the technology comes I will be able to take advantage of it. And I will not just trigger because I am becoming aware at the end of a dream and am about to wake up. I know it will often be more like when something familiar and dream-like causes me to become lucid early in a dream when I don't even need to stabilize and a cool 10+ minute dream is on the way.

I think perhaps sometime in the next 2 years you will see a return of people to luicid dreaming that just needed a bit of techno help.

Even if I can't remember any dream fragments, I can still enjoy other peoples dream experiences on Dream Views, the threads on "ways I missed becoming lucid" alone are often awesome. Hearing others people's lucid experiences is great fun too.

So I would put it this way, what if you had played basket ball with a bunch of great people, and made great friends, but never won a game, would you tell your son, don't do it boy it is good but it sucks at the same time, a bunch of great friends isn't gonna light up the score board, go join the coin tossing club at least you'll win half the time.

With an attitude like that focused only one the awesome, it dooms you to mostly failure. I can just see your son in the future telling your grandson "Sure boy I called a lotta heads, and I won half the time but I could'a been out there chasing tails instead, it wasn't worth it, all those tosses and I never even landed an edge"

As for me I doubt I'll give up one of my dream goals is to toss a coin and land it on edge I'm sure I'll make it. If not now then when the Germans hook me into their lucid dreaming induction device in Frankfurt