Thread: just out of basic training

So I just got out of basic not too long ago and I was an avid lucid dreamer before, but the military not being such a good place to continue, I wasn't able to keep up with the techniques so I lost my touch. I know there's no real short cuts but is there any techniques I can use to help me get back given my prior experience? Anyone snap back into it with some kinda trick?

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.