Thread: just out of basic training

Welcome back!

Start your dream journal. Depending on which technique worked for you, re-read some tutorials and get back in business. Read other technique tutorials too, you never know when occasion presents itself for your to try. You wanna be ready.

Think a lot about LDing, your dreams, read DV, set your intent. I'm sure you will be LDing in no time. Happy dreams

Just wanted to say hang in there. I started LDing when I was in the military, so it can be done. Your experience in boot camp/basic training probably reset a lot of your habits and routines, so it seems natural that you need to find a new way to live with that rhythm before you start LDing again.

I know exactly what you mean that the military does not seem conducive to LDers, but on the other hand, I found that if I made time to do things like yoga, reading Castaneda, and getting off base and see things like museums and cathedrals, then when I came back on base, the contrast really provided a sensual impression of waking up that helped my LD process.(Of course it helped that I was stationed in Germany next to some awesome sights, I know it might be more difficult out in the desert, for example.)

I don't know if that will work for you, but my idea was that I could use the sharp, "tough" military experience to my advantage as long as I did not take it too seriously.

I also decided when I was in the military that the most difficult form of discipline was to keep smiling no matter what happened to me. I never signed anything that said I had to look "tough" or serious, or forbidding in my expressions, so I smiled at everyone like I was a happy idiot. I noticed that my determination to smile and be happy exasperated a lot of the sergeants, but they never really felt they could criticize me for it. I soon realized that my practice of this discipline was more disciplined than their "tough" looks. (It seems a lot of folks in the military make a big show of being disgruntled and angry and it unsettles them when someone just smiles in return).Smiling also gave me space to be myself and feel that while I was a part of the military, it was not my entire identity.

Don't know if any of that helps, but hang in there and don't give up, you can find a way.