Frequent Dryspells

[Draco77100]

So, I know dream recall and lucidity fluctuate, however, I see a very annoying pattern starting. I have about three weeks to a month where my efforts to become lucid can actually pay off, and then my recall drops like crazy all of a sudden, and I don't have a lucid dream for three weeks. This is highly discouraging when this happens. Is there any way to change this? I've tried many methods for breaking dryspells, but none of them have worked. But more than just breaking the current dryspell, is there a way to change the pattern that's forming? It's so difficult to still try to LD in the middle of a dryspell. Please help

[MasterMind]

Dryspells doesn't exist in my book. If I not lucid dream some night, I just think "Ok if there is a bulletproof method of lucid dreaming, well then I obviously didn't do everything correct this night". Instead of blaming yourself you should ask yourself "What did you do differently this night, but not only that also what was differently this night?". Let's say you are playing soccer and one day score a perfect goal, but then another day you do the exact same movements, but this time you miss the goal. You can either blame yourself and think "Why didn't it worked today? I am a failure I should have scored that goal I used the perfect technique..." or you can realize that there was something different this time, perhaps it rained or the goalkeeper was better this time. Although now you can see what needed to be done and learn from it and ADJUST. Back to lucid dreaming... Instead of rain, the problem might be that you was more stressed than usual? Or that you went to bed later but still blamed yourself. When you have identified the problem you can either choose to adapt or adjust. Should you try to find a way to lucid dream even though you choose a later bedtime? Or should you just keep this in mind and choose to not blame yourself for a "failed" attempt when you choose a later bedtime. That decision is up to you. But the important thing is to learn from your attempts, not get dragged down by them. When things doesn't go as we want, we shouldn't see it as a bad thing, it is only a bad thing if we choose that perspective. If you choose a perspective of love and welcome everything you can instead learn from your misstakes. This is how to make bad things a good thing, however don't forget to look at the positive sides of an attempt as well, it might be things that you aren't even aware of because you are too focused on the lucidity goal. Perhaps this night you remembered MORE dreams than usual or you had more VIVID dreams than usual, now you can ask yourself why this might be and learn from that, and even though you didn't got lucid you still had a successful attempt. It was this kind of thinking that led me to make this thread: http://www.dreamviews.com/f15/if-you...ams-try-93005/ Back then I was trying to find an objective method that worked for everyone, but there is no such method because we are all different and there is always a different kind of situation. However this method seemed to help many, that's just a happy consequence. But if I had just thougt that this attempt was useless well it wouldn't have helped these 50 people... You will perhaps not learn anything new each night, the important thing is that you atleast try but remember, there is always a new night. This positive mindset is important and by chosing this perspective there will be no dryspells and you will slowly but steady go towards the knowledge of how you lucid dream at will. And also remember that you shouldn't be dependet on methods and techniques, feel free to alter them as much as you want. I used to believe that WILDing at bedtime without WBTB was impossible, but I opposed that idea because I wanted it so bad, after a couple of failures but active analysation I realized that I was more aware in my dream when I did a WILD attempt before bed, and one night I even succeeded the WILD. So see the methods as GUIDELINES and believe in yourself instead! I hope this informations helps you, but if you have any questions don't be afraid to ask Namaste.

[gab]

We all do get dryspells. There is no guarantee, that once you have LD, now you have to have them x amount of time per week. Even the best sports team doesn't win every game. And that doesn't mean, that you doing anything wrong. You are mentioning a pattern. Can you think of any pattern in your waking life that could be causing it? A big test at school at the time of dryspell? It maybe just a natural course of things, but on the other hand, don't read too much into it, so you yourself don't create a pattern by believing that you have it. Just don't think of it as failure. Accept it as that's how it is. Be gratefull and thankfull for what you get and express that to yourself.

[Sensei]

So, I know dream recall and lucidity fluctuate, however, I see a very annoying pattern starting. I have about three weeks to a month where my efforts to become lucid can actually pay off, and then my recall drops like crazy all of a sudden, and I don't have a lucid dream for three weeks. This is highly discouraging when this happens. Is there any way to change this? I've tried many methods for breaking dryspells, but none of them have worked. But more than just breaking the current dryspell, is there a way to change the pattern that's forming? It's so difficult to still try to LD in the middle of a dryspell. Please help seems like the most frequent dryspells occur when not DJing or not getting enough sleep. If you are not getting 7-8, It can hinder you. If you are only getting 5 a night, then lets say after 3 weeks or a month your body is more tired than ever (maybe just mentally tired, which a lot of people don't notice). Then you sleep for the same amount, but with less consciousness. A tired body and an active mind are good for LDing! Very Basics LDing: DJ get enough sleep If you do both of these, then I don't know what to do. Listen to Gab and MasterMind. People seem to skip out on the fundamentals after they have a few LDs. Sweet Dreams!

[h1nchm4n]

This somewhat happens to me occasionally. I usually recall my Lucids very well. But sometimes, I'll recall non-lucids VERY vividly, and I won't be able to recall lucids at all. It's weird, but it only happens once every few months. Its probably due to a lack of sleep/weird sleep cycle because of mass amounts of university work.