Thread: About to give up on lucid dreaming.

I have found that teaching new students the art of JuJitsu is complicated by one fact, that is that young people want to do the coolest things in the world "NOW."

JuJitsu is an art that is truely amazing, but as such, you should plan on it taking dozens of classes to even get down the most basic aspects,,, and years to actually be able to do JuJitsu with skill. Yet, studentas come in and want to jump straight to awesome things they see in movies,,, but nothing amazing and powerful works that way. They get bored by having to work hard for slow results,,, and quit.

Lucid dreaming is the same thing in my opinion,,, a complicated art that is both powerful and amazing. Is it even remotely reasonable to expect quick progress? You are wanting one of the premium life mystries handed to you, but you are not alone. Few will want to work hard and long, regardless of the reward.

That is saddly why, even though we are the largest LD forum in the world, we see less member activity in a day, then a reef keeping forum will see in an hour. A hobby like reef keeping can be bought, and exact details exist on how to suceed. It is therefore many hundreds of times more common to meet a reef keeper, than an acomplished LDer.

It is up to you what you do. Do you stick it out and learn one of the most complex and amazing mental disciplines readily available, or do you say "it takes way to much effort" and move on? Ask yourself though, how many years will you get to enjoy LDing even if you have almost no success for say 3 years? What, about 60 years? Probably worth it.

Originally Posted by sivason

I have found that teaching new students the art of JuJitsu is complicated by one fact, that is that young people want to do the coolest things in the world "NOW."

JuJitsu is an art that is truely amazing, but as such, you should plan on it taking dozens of classes to even get down the most basic aspects,,, and years to actually be able to do JuJitsu with skill. Yet, studentas come in and want to jump straight to awesome things they see in movies,,, but nothing amazing and powerful works that way. They get bored by having to work hard for slow results,,, and quit.

Lucid dreaming is the same thing in my opinion,,, a complicated art that is both powerful and amazing. Is it even remotely reasonable to expect quick progress? You are wanting one of the premium life mystries handed to you, but you are not alone. Few will want to work hard and long, regardless of the reward.

That is saddly why, even though we are the largest LD forum in the world, we see less member activity in a day, then a reef keeping forum will see in an hour. A hobby like reef keeping can be bought, and exact details exist on how to suceed. It is therefore many hundreds of times more common to meet a reef keeper, than an acomplished LDer.

It is up to you what you do. Do you stick it out and learn one of the most complex and amazing mental disciplines readily available, or do you say "it takes way to much effort" and move on? Ask yourself though, how many years will you get to enjoy LDing even if you have almost no success for say 3 years? What, about 60 years? Probably worth it.

True....lucid dreaming is a skill. Just like basketball or any sport,you gotta practice to be able to succeed with it. So I will keep on practicing in order to become a successful LDer.