I was good at this once, year long dryspell, can i return?

Few years ago i was an active participant in this forum, and a dabbling lucid dreamer.
The past years i have not had any dream at all, am i loosing my ability to dream?

I remember suddenly not being able to remember my dreams, forgetting to write them down etc, later i was completely demotivated, tried getting back using WILD's and bineural beats, but nopes, the WILD's did not work and i was getting physical angst from listening to bineural beats late in night. Then i stopped completely, had no dreams straight for atleast a whole year, save from very unclear dreams where my state of consciousness was too weak to actually discover the dream, then bad habits started, i played games late into the night, didnt drink any water at all, spended more time looking at porn than actually doing productive and fun things.

Can i return? I mean, what would it take? I forgot everything, and DILD's are impossible, MILD's are far beyond my patience and WILD's simply fail no matter how hard i try. And a few months ago i became completely skeptic about lucid dreaming, meditation, followed the wave of ignorant and stupid teenagers, "meditation is buddist bullshit wich dosent work at all" "lucid dreaming is stupid new age/wiccan/santaclausian crap" etc. etc. And now i just live a stressfull, dreamless, workhorse life with no content at all. Once upon a time i would dream every night and be lucid half of the times, but theese times are gone.

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Ground rules first. Don't tell yourself something is impossible. It is chess against your mind and you are going to lose that way ;) just gather all the patience you had when you first started and start climbing those steps again. It will come to you. Practice general awareness, so you get your mind on the right track again.

By the way, how did you became skeptic all of the sudden? Did you have LDs earlier?

Don't give up, I would recommend doing these steps.
1. Get into a normal pattern of sleeping. E.g. 11pm every night.
2. Improve your recall, write down your dreams every night.
3. Progress, learn and attempt lucid dreams.

Of course you can :)
be confident, persistent and patient, you can do eet

Do it with style! You're alot better off now than most newbies are, and you know how far you can go as you did it last time. You know how it works, how to do it and you know you can do it. Just start practicing and you'll be back in no time :)

Thanks man! I really like this forum for its helpfulness..

Of course it is still possible, if you did it once, it should be easier to get back into it, and I don't understand how you could become skeptical about LD'ing if you had them before. Just keep trying, writing down your dreams, becoming more aware of your waking reality, and soon you will find that you are remembering your dreams again and having LD's

In the past few months I've helped many people to learn how to induce LDs and OBEs on demand. Most of them enjoyed consistent successes, and many now are capable of having LDs/OBEs every night! In contrary to popular beliefs, WILD is not that difficult to learn at all. You just have to do it RIGHT. Take a look at my tutorial. I'm confident it will help you.

The article is titled "A Practical Recipe for Inducing LDs and OBEs" under the "Attaining Lucidity" section.

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Originally Posted by CosmicIron

In the past few months I've helped many people to learn how to induce LDs and OBEs on demand. Most of them enjoyed consistent successes, and many now are capable of having LDs/OBEs every night! In contrary to popular beliefs, WILD is not that difficult to learn at all. You just have to do it RIGHT. Take a look at my tutorial. I'm confident it will help you.

The article is titled "A Practical Recipe for Inducing LDs and OBEs" under the "Attaining Lucidity" section.

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I have succeeded two times with wilding and it seems so easy
but fail rate is like 99% anyway :(

Many WILD and OBE-induction techniques are indeed unnecessarily complicated. Sounds like you weren't in the right track.

Whay, i had a dream last night.
Cool, used my IPhone to record the dream journal.

For sure.. I "take breaks" all the time. Haven't posted here for a while. In fact, just took a nap and had an awesome DILD (nose plugging RC is my fav by far).

My issue is I go stretches where I'll like to have a couple drinks at night. Then I don't dream as much, and becoming lucid is near impossible for me. But lately I've been not doing that and WILDs and DILDs are getting much easier. Still working on control but getting better at that too.. and I've been doing this since college! (the 90s!)