How do you get smart? By learning with trial and error and lots of practice. Just work on daytime awareness and you'll be getting lucids really soon depending on how much you do it, awareness is like a practice for something, but it's for LDs |
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the concept of lucid dreaming is so amazing, but i must have tried then gave up on it countless times by now. I just lose interest because of how difficult it is for me to see progress, and then i stop doing it, and when i want to get started again, i'm back at square one. |
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How do you get smart? By learning with trial and error and lots of practice. Just work on daytime awareness and you'll be getting lucids really soon depending on how much you do it, awareness is like a practice for something, but it's for LDs |
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Spoiler for Secret to LDing:
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I have been in what you experience now. For four years I've constantly been trying to learn and read and every night done everything in my power to find the perfect technique. |
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Last edited by Iapetos; 06-24-2012 at 08:05 AM.
like noob said just keep at it and you will get results. i also find it hard to fall asleep because i cant stop thinking about random stuff, so whenever my mind wonders i just repeat a mantra a bunch of times. hope that helps. |
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If you are getting trouble sleeping, you can always try meditation before sleep to help you, it will clear your mind and will relax you enough to sleep faster. The problem is sometimes that your mind will start to think a lot before you sleep, so thats why clearing your mind before sleep will help. Hope this helps |
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"Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep". Michel de Montaigne
LD Count since 23/05/12.
Instead of repeating a mantra try visualizing yourself doing stuff just like you are already dreaming. Essentially daydreaming with your eyes closed. If you can stay focused you can cross the wall of sleep and end up on the other side. Sometimes I simply visualize driving down a windy road at high speed (like your playing a video game) and try to imagine everything as if I'm already there. |
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It takes practice and dedication. If you find it overwhelming, try one thing at a time. The most important thing is to improve your recall. The more you remember, the more familiar you will be with your dreams. |
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meditation actually prevents me from sleeping because it makes me conscious of my breath and my thoughts. |
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what else is meditation? meditation is being aware of the present. awareness prevents me from sleeping, because the way i fall asleep is by daydreaming and drifting off without realizing it.. i can't drift off if i'm aware the whole time |
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Try meditating for awareness then and not for sleep. |
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Glaedr, the golden dragon from the Inheritance series.
-A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. (Got this from a fortune cookie)
5 DILDs/0 DEILD
I went through this aswell and I can tell you that the only thing keeping you awake is yourself. Constantly your thinking "i can do this" but in the back of your mind your thinking "no i cant". The only way to surpass this is by letting it become so natural feeling almost as if its part of the process of falling asleep. Also as stated earlier your not being patient enough, it might take 2 weeks until you can meditate properly. Once you start consistently meditating you will no longer doubt yourself and will automatically fall asleep. It just takes practise. |
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Everyone can meditate it doesn't take practice only realization. Just observe your thinking. As long as you don't try to attain something with it, it sounds weird I know but don't try to become lucid with meditation, get enlightened or as I used to do - time the meditation to break my own record. Only realize that you are already are and already have. |
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Last edited by Iapetos; 06-27-2012 at 12:02 AM.
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