Sleep doesn't come easy

**Terrin** · 12-06-2011 03:53 PM

I don't know if I'm too anxious or what.. but ever night I even think about lucid dreaming I barely sleep.. nor remember a dream.. I feel as if I'm being blocked lately.. I'm trying to have patience but lucid dremaing and astral projection is all i think about.. I can't sleep most of the time.. then when I do sleep it's not enough to induce any techniques.. i wake up after 6 hours fully rested.. why is this? I'm so pissed off I want to just quit this all together.. I don't know what to do anymore.. one day I had 3 lucid dreams in a row.. then the rest of that week nothing.. couldn't even remember a dream... why does it seem so easy for everyone else who don't even read or do as much research as me? I had a question but I guess I'm just venting now.. sorry

**Spyguy** · 12-06-2011 04:27 PM

If it is really going that bad, stop trying alltogether for a week or 2. The chance of you getting lucids in that period of rest is actually quite big. Working too hard (wanting it too much, thinking about it too much, too much research, etc.) actually makes it a LOT harder to LD. Take a break and then focus on finding a balance between effort (which is ofcourse required) and rest. I've heard many stories of people trying to LD, failing for a long time, who then stopped trying because they got too frustrated, and had an LD the very same night.

**Graves** · 12-06-2011 04:27 PM

I'm going to assume you aren't very familiar with lucid dreaming by your post.

For one, everybody is different. It took me a few weeks until I had my first lucid dream after finding out about the phenomena, and then after that I didn't have another for one for at least 2 weeks or so. I also went through a phase where I got lucid at least 3 days a week and had multiple lucid dreams on each of those days, but now it's a rare occurrence. I think seasons play a part in all this too.

Having the subject of lucid dreaming fresh in your mind while going to sleep is a good thing; we tend to dream about the things we think about while drifting off a lot of the time, so it's not uncommon to be more prone to becoming lucid. However, if it's causing difficulty sleeping, become more passive about it. In terms of techniques, you could become lucid during your first 90 minutes of sleep due to a DILD (or any point after that) which can then be chained with a DEILD and so on, so don't worry about that too much.

Next time you wake up ''prematurely'', try to catch yourself in the process and don't move anything to the slightest degree. See what happens; perhaps your body will think the mind is still asleep and go into paralysis, making dream-entry more than possible. If you keep at it you'll get somewhere - it's inevitable. All that is required is patience and determination.

**Terrin** · 12-07-2011 05:46 AM

Originally Posted by Spyguy

If it is really going that bad, stop trying alltogether for a week or 2. The chance of you getting lucids in that period of rest is actually quite big. Working too hard (wanting it too much, thinking about it too much, too much research, etc.) actually makes it a LOT harder to LD. Take a break and then focus on finding a balance between effort (which is ofcourse required) and rest. I've heard many stories of people trying to LD, failing for a long time, who then stopped trying because they got too frustrated, and had an LD the very same night.

thanks for the response... I definitely will do that.. I stopped last time and nothing happened for a while.. I'm nervous to stop again is all..

**Terrin** · 12-07-2011 05:48 AM

thanks and actually I'm very familiar.. thanks for the advice though.. i actually just stumbled across a technique similar to what you described.. definitely goin to take it easy from now on