Thread: Can't train myself anymore

Think of lucid dreaming inductions as a football or a guitar.

If you want to get good at the sport football or playing the guitar, you can't just read how to do it, you need experience and practise.

However one night or a couple of nights isn't enough, you need to practise and learn from trial and error and most important of all, not focus on what you fail or are bad at, but focus on what you are good at and improve that and the rest will come naturally.

So you got the ball or the guitar, all you have to do now is to go out and play... Well nobody can become skilled like Messi or Jimmi Hendrix in a day, and I am not sure anyone can just by practising and reading. Although there got to be something you can do to improve faster.

And that my friend is analyzing your attempts. If you know you are great at shooting the ball to a specific target but are less skilled at dribbling the ball, or for the guitar example you can play the chords to a song easily but struggling with the solo, well then you know what you need to work on.

You can either work step by step and focus on each individual problem or you can look at the whole of things and try to understand the core of each skill, which in both of these examples can be said to be based on the muscle memory. So you can also focus on that and improve every aspect of what you are practising.

But ok to apply this to lucid dreaming... For lucid dreaming the core of every induction and everything you practise is awareness.

So you can either choose to look at parts, and step by step complete the puzzle of your perfect lucid dreaming induction.
You do this by analyzing each attempt you do, begin by looking at what went well, like did you remember more dreams? did you had vivid dreams? etc. then ask yourself WHY this was the case.
Did you do anything differently than usual? Like going to bed earlier or was lessed stressed and had a peaceful mind as you fell asleep? Be creative!
Then you look at what didn't go so well, you perhaps performed a reality check that didn't worked? or you didn't remembered much dreams or you didn't had vivid dreams?
Ask yourself again WHY this was the case. As you do this you will have exact steps to lucid dream, but the only possible downside is that you are dependent on these steps, without these steps you have no clue of how to induce a lucid dream at will. But that's only a problem if you see it as a problem.

You can also look at a whole perspective and find ways of how to practise awareness. I think that meditation is the best tool for that, but you can do what you think feels best.
How meditation relates to lucid dreaming can be found in my Dream Journal, if you think it's unclear after reading it you can just ask me and I'll see if I can make it clear for you.

I do however recommend that you read this entry, because in some regards I think the mindset is more important than the actual induction, but combined with the analysation it is extremely powerful:

Yoga Nidra or Conscious Sleep - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

In my Dream Journal you will find lots of texts that looks like guides, but is actually just a way to both analyze and share my attempts. If I can make other people understand and get useful information from my experiences, well it is also easier for me to do so. So don't misstake my advice as fact, it's just an opinion based on experience. Nothing is fact don't relay on methods alter them as much as you want and relay on yourself and your own experience.

I hope this information helps you Sweet dreams and good luck!

Namaste. Inlakesh