Thread: New to lucid dreaming, help with beginning

I have known lucid dreaming for about a year now, but i havent made much progress

I have TRYED to Do DILD, as everyone said It should be the entrance to lucid dreaming, so I did over 10 RC/day, and wrote down a couple of dreams for a week, but I didnt have any lucid dreams, so I gave up. This was about a year ago

So now I want to lucid dream desperately, but I dont plan on using DILD, i plan on using WILD. So my question is do i still have to write down dreams and perform reality checks daily, or i dont need to do these as they may not be required for WILD?

They're not explicitly required, but writing down your dreams can not only help you remember any lucids you do have, but can lead to better understanding about dreams and sleep cycles, which can improve future attempts. As for reality checks, they can help if your lucid dream happens to start in your bedroom and you're not entirely sure whether you've actually made it to the dream world or if you've properly woken up. Another use is in case you fail a WILD attempt and go into a non-lucid dream, you could still have a reality check and start DILD, giving you two potential tries for the price of one.

First of all, I definitely feel your pain in not having a lucid dream. It took me about a year to have my first one, and I didn't have that particular one until I gave up on it. Go figure.

Continuing up on what splodeymissile said, dream journaling and RCs are very important. We have multiple dreams per night and dream journaling helps with recall. You don't want to miss a lucid dream just because you decided to stop writing down your dreams, right?

And of course, for RCs, you never know when you might have a false awakening (again, as splodeymissile said).

Keep both of 'em up and going, but don't ignore your WILD practices.

Good luck!

In addition to above posts, I would recommend starting with clean slate. Read some new tutorial, like our Dreamviews recommended http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-methods-techniques/

I would not give up on DILD just yet. Give it another shot. DILD will teach you everything you will later need for a WILD, like mental preparation, awareness and everything else.

Important thing to remember is, that when you RC, you need to believe, that you are dreaming at that moment. And adding awareness training will also help.

Here is little bit about everything you need for DILD http://www.dreamviews.com/dild/13212...ods-dilds.html

And here are a few links on RCs and awareness:

http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...ml#post1953139
http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...idnt-work.html
http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...you-lucid.html
http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...intervals.html

Good luck

I got mine with the DILD, i didn't even did anything for it... I was just in a dream when then, i could think of something.
"Am i really seeing this ?"
Well yeah, try to dream of yourself in a place you know with a clock, try to look at it, and then check if it change time.

Thank you everyone, I will try my best

also try listening to binaural beats while going to sleep if you're gonna do the WILD technique. I think it's very effective since it really triggers lucid dreaming in my case.. Just search it on youtube and convert it to mp3 so you can listen to it using your earphones when going to sleep..

My first LD experiences were DILD and after that was WBTB.. and after that, I came to WILD which is easier for me.. Remember that if you experience sleep paralysis and you're aware of it (since all of us experience it but we're not aware because we're asleep), don't fight it or try to wake up.. It's frightening at first but its normal.. On that state, just try to visualize something and your lucid dream will come.. and triggering LD is just the first challenge.. Once you've accomplished triggering Lucid Dreaming more than once in a week, then you're on the next step. Good luck

It took me 45 days using real techniques in order to LD. A week is really nothing in the scheme of things. Most people recommend doing a technique for a month before quoting, but this can be extended if you are not having any recall. In my personal opinion sleep schedule >experience (until you get toooons of experience)> technique. I would recommend 7+ hours a night.