Mancon's Guide to Staying Motivated

**Mancon** · 09-05-2011 08:33 AM

Staying motivated when it comes to lucid dreaming is tough, but crucial. Everyone ends up having some sort of trouble with lucid dreaming, and sometimes have the urge to give up. How can you stay motivated?

Remind Yourself Why You Want to Lucid Dream

Remember why you want to lucid dream in the first place. Do you want to go on exciting adventures? Do you want to learn more about yourself and who you are? Do you want musical/artistic inspiration? Whatever it is, lucid dreaming is definitely worth sticking with!

Attitude is the Key

Stay positive! Remember, if you keep it up I promise that you will start to have more lucid dreams. It is definitely worth it! Be confident and remind yourself you will and can do it! Do NOT doubt yourself. Keep your head up, and it will be a lot easier!

Different Ways to Stay Motivated

1.) Read other people's lucid experiences and their dream journals. I find that reading other people's lucid dreams gets me excited and really motivates me. One of my all time favorite dream journals to read is Puffins. She describes all of her dreams in great detail, and organizes everything very well.

2.) Reward yourself when you accomplish a goal. You can reward yourself with ice cream, clapping for yourself, sending yourself a letter, or doing anything you enjoy doing.

3.) Imagine the next time you become lucid. What will you do? How will the experience be? Just imagining my next lucid dream gets me excited.

4.) Watch dream-related movies or videos. Inception, The Science of Sleep, Vanilla Sky, Paprika, Waking Life, The Matrix, etc are all great movies.

5.) Make friends here on Dreamviews! I found that friends on this site and in IRC keep me the most motivated to lucid dream. If you don't already I recommend you get in the IRC and talk with other people here on the site! It is a lot of fun!

Other Tips & Advice

-If you have been sticking with a technique for a long time, and you feel like it isn't working then you should consider switching up your technique. Different techniques work best for different people, you just have to experiment and find the right one for you.

-Think about all the other people on the site having trouble with lucid dreaming. You are not alone!

-Remember that everyone can lucid dream, you just have to stick with it!

Other Things You Should Check Out

-Featured Artists for Lucid Inspiration
-Why Lucid Dream?
-Dream Gallery
-Motivation Inspiration Thread

Anyway, I wrote this tutorial up at 1 AM so I'm sure there are a few mistakes! Please correct me if you see anything. I will be adding more to this thread tomorrow

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**Arch** · 09-05-2011 09:41 AM

Great stuff, the amount of times I've seen people give up or complain when not trying a technique for a week, persistence and practice.

**Marm** · 09-05-2011 11:48 AM

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**Marm** · 09-05-2011 11:49 AM

Awesome guide. Well written and user friendly

**Pandabear** · 09-05-2011 02:32 PM

Awesome thread!

Thank you.

**Solarflare** · 09-05-2011 05:57 PM

i also look up words on google like fantasy forest, fantasy space, and so on and close my eyes and imagine being in one of those pictures

**Raspberry** · 09-05-2011 06:08 PM

This is a really good tutorial. Good for the noobs who complain about not getting lucid after a week

**Matte87** · 09-05-2011 06:50 PM

You can also make charts with everything you've completed so far. Which kind of items you've found, statistics and graphs to see your progress. Very nice guide Mancon!

You sum it all up very well. Motivation is the key thing I teach in my class, and Lucid Dreaming is basicly about staying motivated enough to see results that you WILL get in time. The longer you keep at it, the better you will get.

**Puffin** · 09-05-2011 07:31 PM

Awesome thread - you've included some very useful advice!

**Mancon** · 09-06-2011 10:44 PM

Thanks everyone

**LucidRaider** · 09-24-2011 12:30 PM

Awesome.

thank you for this.

**fOrceez** · 09-25-2011 12:26 AM

Nice thread, Mancon

**yuppie11975** · 09-27-2011 08:07 AM

Great thread mancon

I've been having troubles lately, this definetely helped

**Csorax** · 10-09-2011 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by Mancon

sending yourself a letter

I immediatly thought of this..

But a helpful guide though^^

**Prancingwolf** · 10-09-2011 04:12 PM

A week! PFFT... I was lucid after two days. Because I''m so awesome, duh TIGER BLOOD!

Originally Posted by Raspberry

This is a really good tutorial. Good for the noobs who complain about not getting lucid after a week

**fOrceez** · 10-10-2011 10:39 AM

When should we expect Mancon's Guide To Getting Bitchez?

**duke396** · 10-10-2011 01:25 PM

I approve of this message sir. I've actually been having LDs more often lately for some reason, but the length of them is godawful short, like less than 5 minutes in dream time. I think it's just because I haven't been putting any real effort toward them like I used to. So pep talk appreciated

**dreamst8** · 10-10-2011 08:27 PM

Remember why you want to lucid dream in the first place.

This sentence is so solid. The reason for doing ANYTHING is the root of your motivation. Without a reason to do something, the activity itself seems useless -- especially if you're unsuccessful.

**dreamst8** · 10-11-2011 12:34 AM

Moment of Zen:

forceez: When should we expect Mancon's Guide To Getting Bitchez?

<3 Mancon likes this.

**mrbambocha** · 10-17-2011 11:41 PM

Great stuff. As matte said, I think motivation is really important so im waiting for this:

"I will be adding more to this thread tomorrow"

**siuol** · 10-18-2011 03:59 AM

Motivation is very importiant, I still have it but it is not nearly as strong as when I first started (In the beginning I had a lucid dream within a week and continued at a very good rate just on pure enthusiasm). This is something that is really importiant that makes lucid dreaming easier than almost anything else. It's nice to see a thread on it.