To have more lucid dreams, ultimately, you would have to be proficient and being able to accept all the tools of the trade. And how you go about learning the mechanics of those techniques etc. as being routes towards lucidity, you'll realize they're just supplements. Of course, there's probably a few techniques we are all naturally able to be better at for various of reasons, but not allowing yourself to stick towards one technique alone can save you a lot of hassle in trying to take advantage of those chances of becoming lucid, whether it's:
- Doing an RC when you have abnormal set of emotions that you don't express as much in waking life
- Seeing a pig or animal talk and speaking fluently
- Or just knowing for sure you're dreaming
The thing is, when newcomers try to understand the concepts behind lucid dreaming (not assuming any of you are by the way), they tend to focus on what is the most minimalist type of method because they want the instant gratification of being aware of their dreams and doing whatever based on their level of willpower to make it so. And the more you get into understanding not just your lucids, but non-lucids, you will eventually develop a decent understanding of how you react to the environment, thought-forms/dream characters/figments of your imagination. Not only that:
- The lessons behind the dreams, even if they may be trivial
- Seeing near perfect projections of realities where it's easy for you to think you're really born into them
- Feeling pain and suffering that hopefully lets you develop some empathy and understanding of concepts about the nature of experience
- And much more
It's about knowing how your mind works, and how using things like mantras without adding substance to them most likely will leave you battered up in the end. You have to put a little more effort into this, not only because it's the practical thing to do, but the fact that you as the owner of your own state of being is expressing aspects of your mind that you find that doing these techniques, etc. will be beneficial to you. Because while you're saying a mantra over and over, the critical factor in your mind is going to go,
"Alright! Alright! I get it already, god dang it! I'll try to do something about it"
But if you attempt to put why you want to do this, how you'll do it, foreseeing yourself doing it, and being able to do it again after you've done it, the critical factor might say,
"Oh alright, I see where you're going with this, I'll try to slip it in for you and get back to you."
Of course, I was just using the conversation for the sake of an example, but hopefully you get what I meant. But yes, despite everyone having their own on and offs with which method works for them, a general idea is that if you show why lucid dreaming is beneficial to you to your mind, one goal at a time, in theory, you will have more lucid dreams. It's about the person developing a higher state of inward concentration that reduces the distractions to increase the chances of the goals becoming reality to them ;seeing yourself devoting wholly to a task one step at a time will help you grow as one who embraces both dreaming and waking life.
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