Thread: HELP please- I need motivation!

I've been very into lding for about a month now, and at the beginning of that time, I used to do RC's and think about it all the time and actually look forward to going to bed that night. I had two ld's, each within 3 weeks of each other.

But now I have lost a lot of interest, I rarely write in my dream journal as soon as I get up, it's all a mess.

So, I was wandering if anyone could help me get motivated? It would be much appreciated

Thanks

I'm the same way. But I still write in my dream journal once in a while to remember certain dreams. I'm only doing reality checks in the morning now because I've been having a ton of false awakenings lately. Which I became lucid on one. But I'm just going to focus on awareness because I've missed become lucid in a few dreams now that were pretty obvisouly dreams. It like my subconsious is like, hello, your dreaming dummy, can't you see. But my lack of awareness in my waking life is pretty bad. Sorry can't help that much

Hi, I was also very motivated one month ago when I had may first and only LD after having practiced RC´s and writing a dream journal. As my journal was getting too big I decided to write only LD`s and then I´m in a dry spell up to now. I thought the records I had were enough to help identify dream signs but the problem is I don´t remember to do RC´s or pay attention to dream signs whem Í´m dreaming even if I repeat aloud before sleeping or spend the day doing RC´s. I tryed vitamin B6 and choline which were completely useless but in the end my ability to remember dreams is far better. In short, the fact that you had 2 LD´s in three weeks should be taken as an achievement. Congrats. My main motivation is the thought that by practicing lucid dreaming we can improve our mental capacity, memory, attention, concentration and, I would risk to say, the ability to handle stressful situations in life.

Well, I guess you'll lose out on lucid dreaming, which you can do anything you can imagine, literally.

some things i do to get more motivation:
Read stephen laberge's book or at least parts (you can find a PDF file on the internet)
Imagine like i need to protect my dream world like a superhero (and have an epic battle!)
Set goals (i know boring right?) make it like a challenge like learn to fly in 1-2 weeks or something
pretend like i care (act how you would if you cared and really try to do so)

the last one is actually effective for me i almost fake myself into believing im motivated in fact im feeling more motivated already

It may be hard but really try i gave up for half a year and i really regret that.
good luck

I'd suggest trying to reconnect with the reason that you first wanted to become lucid, what is it that excites you? Another thing that you could try is to keep more stats in your dream journal to let yourself see how many little steps of progress you've made, especially for those times when you feel you're getting nowhere fast with it. For example, I clearly state intentions before I sleep and record if I got any, at the moment the opening of my journal reads:

Dreams recorded: 24
Lucid Dreams recorded: 2
Intended People: 10
Intended Scenario: 3
Intended Place: 3
Intended Emotional Response: 3

Now I've only had a full set once, but being able to change those numbers each morning (I word process my journal for ease, but actually tally works ) makes me feel skilled to some small extent, even if I don't have time to write up the actual dreams til after my other waking life commitments are fulfilled. Good luck

Willpower and excitement won't last forever. You will need to develop habits to maintain your commitment for the long term. It's like learning to drive or tie your shoes. At first, it's hard and you have to be focused and careful at everything. But in time, the individual skills become automatic habits and you don't even have to concentrate or remember to do them.

So develop some small habits that will maintain your LD practice. Here's a few small things that are easy to do consistently if you don't have the time right now to write out entire dreams in your journal.
- count and record just the number of dreams you recall each day
- interpret your dreams while in the shower, brushing your teeth, eating breakfast, or the like
- before going to sleep spend a few moments to pick one place, one person, and one activity you hope to dream of that night

Originally Posted by sisyphus

- before going to sleep spend a few moments to pick one place, one person, and one activity you hope to dream of that night

Try to dream like Cluedo or Clue, but without the murder.