Some Advice for Specific Difficulties in Lucid Dreaming

[Windekresstard]

Hello there. I'm new to the forum, so I apologize ahead of time if I'm posting this to the wrong subforum. So, I'm having a bit of trouble attaining lucidity and was wondering if I could get some help. I've always had very vivid dreams as a child. Vivid to the point I know specifics, I can read things and hear people's voices, I feel the pain of barbed wire cutting into my leg, and so on. In my teen, I became aware of premonitions I was having in my dreams. They were usually small this, conversations or a particular scene happening. It was then I started researching dreams and found out about lucid dreaming. I'm currently in my 20s and capable of dream walking (well sort of. There is a problem with it as we'll that I'm trying to fix but am hoping it can be fixed with the real problem I'm having) My main problem is that I'm only able to dream walk (which is a form of dream lucidity from what I read) right between when I'm asleep and awake still. For instance, I will lay down for sleep and close my eyes and concentrate and I can get into dreams, consciouses etc but unless I maintain a strong concentration, I will slip into blackness and fall asleep. When I'm in dreaming states, it's as if I am my dream self and my dream self's subconscious is aware that I am dreaming but my dream self isn't listening to it's subconscious. After I wake up I know that in that dream I was aware that that was a dream but dreams self isn't aware. I've been working on it for awhile and just can't seem to get it Do you have any tricks you suggest? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance!

[paigeyemps]

Hey again Uhmm I'm quite confused by the dream walking thing x) When I'm in dreaming states, it's as if I am my dream self and my dream self's subconscious is aware that I am dreaming but my dream self isn't listening to it's subconscious. After I wake up I know that in that dream I was aware that that was a dream but dreams self isn't aware. To me, it seems like you just need an extra push to actually get you lucid. It's like those times when you kind of inherently know it's a dream but you never quite fully grasp it, so you end up treating the dream like you're lucid but you're not really. Not sure if I made sense but yea. I'd say work on your awareness in waking life more. Pay attention to your surroundings as much as you can and use your sense as much as you can. Keep questioning your reality, and double check or triple check when you do so. That way, when you dream, you do the same and boost your awareness in the dream as well. That might give you the extra push you need. Good luck!