Thread: Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut

I love you and silverbullet now.
But I feel for some (like me) this knowledge can be harmful to your strife.
'Knowing' that I will lucid dream tonight is tough. The doubts only come to me because I don't want them to.
When school ends I will dump a ton more of effort into this though.

Originally Posted by Aeolus

I love you and silverbullet now.
But I feel for some (like me) this knowledge can be harmful to your strife.
'Knowing' that I will lucid dream tonight is tough. The doubts only come to me because I don't want them to.
When school ends I will dump a ton more of effort into this though.

I can't see how knowledge can be harmful. In many situations in life it's useful to be able to 'step outside' of your circumstances and see things from a more objective viewpoint, such as when you're in a job or relationship that isn't working out. Recognition of a problem allows you to take active steps to change things.

It's ok to doubt, we rationalise things to make sense of the world, part of that is to take alternate viewpoints and questions things. You can doubt, acknowledge that doubt, and then return to (what should be your default) stance of relaxed and utmost confidence. When I'm on a roll (more than 3 nights of consecutive lucidity) I can doubt and still believe and still achieve a lucid dream that night. It doesn't really take any effort, it should be the kind of knowledge and confidence that you have in the self-evident truths of the world; the earth is round, the sky is blue, etc. Lucidity can be something you don't even need to think about.

I'll stress again that the key is to find a technique you enjoy and are comfortable with, and that means not too mentally taxing, you can't expect to lucid dream (or achieve much else in your life) if you're mentally exhausted from reality checking every five minutes, and then direct confidence on yourself not the technique.

The simplest advice I can give you is find your own technique and then follow the steps outlined in Silverbullet's thread.