My Absurd, Pointlessly Long Dry Spell

**iAstro129** · 06-21-2013 09:10 PM

I figured I might as well post this. It's interesting enough.

I haven't had any lucid dreams in an extraordinarily long amount of time. Well, that's not particularly true.

In September of 2008, I had surgery on my small intestine. While I was recovering in the hospital, I had several vivid lucid dreams, one of which I still remember today. I was at a water park which replaced my school's track. I'm pretty sure I completed a "task of the month" with this one. The problem is, it's been five years, five years, and since then, I haven't had many... interesting... lucid dreams. I'm pretty sure the best I got was realizing I was lucid but not actually remembering that I can actually do something in my dreams. I kind of just let them play out how they are.

Other than those dreams, the next best things I've had are lucid dreams where I wake up pretty much instantly.

I can't really blame anything for this except myself, for I haven't made an effort to keep a dream journal in a very long time. Maybe I'll start one again.

My question is- what was your longest dry spell, what instigated it (if anything) and how did you break out of it? I'm curious to know how other people respond.

**LucidSandman** · 06-21-2013 10:19 PM

Just wondering - During those five years, did you consistently practice and use methods that worked for you?

My longest dry spell? Around three months. I wouldn't really consider it a dry spell though since I fell out of habit and practice. So it was my own fault that I was not having lucid dreams.

**iAstro129** · 06-21-2013 10:33 PM

I never really had methods that worked for me, other than dream journals, of course. I used a dream journal in early 2008 and then stopped after awhile. Other than those, it's just been random DILDs with the hope that I'll do one in a dream.

Somehow, though, I can just tell when it's a dream and I don't need to do a DILD.

**gab** · 06-21-2013 11:05 PM

You know, lot's has changed since 2008. You may wanna check out our dreamviews recommended induction techniques Induction Methods and Techniques. Just to see what you could add to your practice. Good luck

**JoannaB** · 06-22-2013 02:25 AM

I used to lucid dream a lot mostly probably around 1992 or so, then I remember briefly returning to the hobby as part of coping with a major life crisis in 2000 (but that was a brief return), and then came back in February 2013. However, I don't think dry spell is accurate, because my understanding of dry spell is when someone is trying but can't succeed, whereas I was not trying during those years of no LDs.

Why did I leave the hobby? Alas I do not remember, my memory is foggy, and I forgot way too much. However, I tend to get obsessed with one hobby at a time at the exclusion of others, and so maybe another obsession superseded LDing? Also I know when I was young I was much less patient, and maybe I lost patience and was not willing to keep putting in the effort. I also tend to get periodic depressions, and it is possible that I got depressed, and forgot to care about LDing any more. This last time I had a depressive like time of too tired all the time with mental fog and low self esteem, I actually used joining dreamviews as a major part of the solution, and LD practice has spurned on many related self improvements. I hope I will not regress again, but if I ever do, I hope I will remember quicker to turn to self awareness and LD to pull myself out.