Night Routine Help

[simpsin]

Is it very important to make sure that Lucid Dreaming is last thing on your mind before you go to sleep? When i decide to work on my LDs and don't watch T.V. when i go to sleep, I repeat to myself " The next thing I see will be in my dreams. I am going to have a Lucid Dream". I just forget to say it because i am so peaceful in my bed, and I go to sleep with a clear head and wake up with pretty good dream recall, but no LD. Help anyone?

[bigunit224]

Hey simpsin, I find it's a lot easier to waking induced lucid dreaming, (wild) in the middle of the night. That way your already in REM sleep and when u fall back asleep, it's a whole lot easier to fall into a dream. A lot of times when u first go to bed for the night, it takes approximately 90 min to fall into "dream sleep" by then youre not thinkin about lucid dreaming. So set your alarm clock for the middle of the night sometime and when it wakes you up, focus on falling back asleep in a dream. That should help you out tremendously. bigunit

[l3xicon]

How are u doing on ur reality checks? For me the easiest way 2 LD is being able 2 locate my dream signs. Have u picked out any of those?

[Anelior]

I have found that the most important thing to lucid dreaming is the waking state you maintain for the day. When you go to sleep, all the "surface chatter" in your brain dictates what will fold into a dream image. If you have a very stressful day, and there are things in your life that you can't cope with, then that will be subconsciously in your mind and no level of thoughts about being lucid will prevent that from expressing itself. Reality checks are a good way of reminding yourself that you are, in a sense, in a big dream of sorts. If you can convince yourself when awake that this is all an illusion, and everything happening to you is part of a very large depiction of your higher mind, the mind beyond this reality, then this invokes neural pathways that, when you are dreaming, permit higher levels of perception while unconscious, including those necessary to have lucid dreams. Lucid dreams do not necessarily mean you have complete control, but, simply put, you are, at the least, aware of them as dreams. This is the basis of the technique I use, called Threading. It's extremely potent and involves much more than dreaming. Instead of asking yourself simply, "am I dreaming?" throughout the day, and before you go to bed, tell yourself, "I am the thinker and this is my thought," (something similar that suits you; that mantra/phrase is what I use) and understand the full implications of what that means. Of course, you won't necessarily "master" this waking reality, but the whole purpose of it is to bleed through into your sleeping state. If any of you would like guidance on this, pm me, and I'd be happy to share more on it.

[simpsin]

Thanks for the help. I am acutally trying WILD for the first time tonight. I just woke up after 5.5 hours of sleep and have been awake for about .5 hours. Now im gonna try it. Hope it works =).

[Seeker]

Great advice Anelior! It is about lifestyle, living the lucid lifestyle is more than just trying to force a lucid dream each night, it is a way of life and a way of questioning reality!