Lucid Dreaming Block

**ClearView** · 11-30-2010 04:09 AM

Hello Ladies, Gentlemen,

Let me start off by saying that I have rejoined the lucid dreaming community and will be active again.
But lets get to the purpose of my thread.

Recently, since I have started again, I have been practicing the Can-Wild/Mild method which I kind of mixed together. My exact technique will be posted below and hopefully we can go from there.

You may be thinking.... ok? what the hell is this thread about then.

Well I have been having a block from lucidity. Basically, I think it may be a mental block but I am not sure.

Here is what I mean:

"My Technique"

I go to bed keeping a mantra in my head that is this:
"When I wake up from my alarm I will not move, and recreate the past dream scene in my head."
I go to bed.

***CANWILD method

I set my alarm for 3:00 am because I have found this is the starting of one of my longest REM periods.
I wake from my alarm at this time, and everything goes accordingly.
I experience sleep paralysis, with vibrations and all the good stuff.
However, I keep the dream scene in my head, and I relax and let my body do all the work. But, my problem is that it goes on forever, it does not stop, or intensify or anything of this nature. Everything simply continues on and on at the same rate. I have been doing Reality checks and all have failed always, so I eventually give up and go to sleep.

I thought that maybe this technique maybe just isn't for me. However that doesn't seem to be the case. The only Lucid Dreams that I have had were very short DILD's that mean very little to me. I had basically very little clarity, control, and awareness.
I can do all the WILD's I want by the book, but simply I cannot transition into a dream.

That, I believe is my problem. I cannot transition into a dream. I don't know what I am doing wrong DV.

***NOTE:

For those of you not familiar with the Can-Wild method, you set an alarm that turns off by itself. You wake up from the alarm during your REM period and not move at all. You create a past dream or a dream scape you want in your head and you transition into that dream. Thats my understanding of it at least. I will post a link to that thread at the bottom of this one.

CANWILD tutorial

Thank you very much for helping out guys, I would appreciate all the help and advice.

Yours,
-CV

**Caden** · 12-06-2010 07:07 AM

Sounds like you just need a different method.

**Genin** · 12-06-2010 11:40 AM

While under sleep paralysis, have you tried to imagine yourself falling through your bed? Or rolling out of your bed? Getting carried away? My tip is to wait with creating your dreamscene, and simply try to connect with your dream body first, with any of the earlier mentioned methods. If you successfully, for example, rolled out of bed with your "dream body" you will find yourself in your appartment, but from there you can start imagining a new dreamscene, maybe outside your door or whichever. Most of the times when I do wild, I either do just that, rolling myself out of bed or I get the falling sensation and fall through my bed, which leads to me falling through the sky to the ground below. While falling I slowly gain control over my dream body and can open my eyes.

Im not saying THIS is how you do it, but this is how I do it. And I might also add, the one time when I didnt feel like getting pulled into a dream, I only saw darkness, I imagined myself being in a dark lake and started swimming until I reached the surface

Ive also been inactive for a few months, but Im slowly getting back to it now.

**Robot_Butler** · 12-06-2010 05:42 PM

It sounds like you are having trouble moving your attention away from your physical body. You need to move your center of consciousness into the dream. Try to encourage physical sensations in your visualization. Focus on your dream body moving through space and interacting with the dream environment. It takes a little practice.