Thread: Losing LD as an abillity

I've been having LD for as long as I can remember. I didn't have any problems with it and it always just happens. Now, for almost a month, I haven't had any lucids. What's happening? I'm I getting too old, is my life too busy?

Are there more people who have experienced the same? Should I worry or will I have lucids again?

Hey im also in a cold spell atm, it sux. Iv also been roughly a month with no lucids. My recall was really bad too but thats come back in the last week and im sure i'll have another lucid very soon. Im planning one for tonight. Keep knowing your going to have one really soon. Every night tell yourself you will have one. If your a bit stressed out atm theres a good chance this could be having an effect. I just broke up with my gf of two and a half years and have a big project im working on so I think the stress is just killing it. Itl always come back though im sure! Just gotta keep at it

I haven't dreamed for two weeks now! I think it's because of school.

You might look at the phenomena historically. Prophets use to learn via lucid dreaming, and it was written that it would be taken from man for so long a time, men would forget what it was for. Then it came back, at a particular time in history for a particular reason.

If you understand what it is for, how to use it, you might find that silence is also a training tool.

You might try two references, these are easier to comprehend. One goes something like 'I shall cause a deep sleep to fall upon mankind ---' effectively, no more prophets for a long while, and a famine of the word, they correlate to when Adam was put to sleep.

Course, learning metaphor is not easy. Sometimes is is what happens during one's rest period that matters.

Anyway, it is a learning environment, and there comes a point one has to choose what it is worth striving to learn.

Look at that! Last night I did finaly break my dry spell of over a month. I was confident I would have a lucid dream and it happened. I hope you get back on track soon too Vranna!

That was easy Congratulations.

Haha thanks! Iv been stressing out about it and other stuff lately but just said fuck it im gona have a lucid, i need to keep to that way of thinking, amazing how much it helps!

Congrats haha

It can be a range of things, stress, depression, lack of motivation. Or perhaps it is what you are eating, lack of certain chemicals, or excess thereof can cause detrimental effects on dream vividness, recall, and even awareness which in turn reduces lucidity, natural or not. As for getting too old, if you are in your late teens or older, you are past the big decrease of REM, from now till death you will need less sleep, but your REM only reduces a very small amount of that per year, pretty much the same actually.

As for a question to others reading this, when do you have the most vivid dreams, and best lucids? Is it DURING REM, or around it, for example stages 3 and 4? I always thought it was in REM, but in a recent college psychology class they said that stages 3 and 4 are where you have the most vivid dreams, and it is extremely easy to wake up in REM. I question, because they seemed to be doubtful about allot of stuff when it came to sleep, so it would be nice to have some ideas from here. If the psych's were right, then I guess yeah lucidity goes down with age a LOT.