why I will never be able to lucid dream~

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Originally Posted by sivason

Good job on getting another one. I suggest next time that you not try to command anything. Instead just calmly repeat "this is a dream" while calmly looking at what ever is already in the dream. If you can do this for 30 seconds, then attempt to raise one of your hands and look at it. If you get that far try flexing your fingers. If you get that far,,, THEN try anything that seems fun, such as exploring or what ever.

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40 of my first 50 LDs:
I am lucid! run! find a goal! Run! try to fly! Run! wake up two minutes later tops. Slowing down was really hard at first.... Especially if there was a... person... of other gender around. FA's especially, since I wake up next to my hot wife ;)

Slowing down will make your goals get to you better and make it easier to stabilize.

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Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

40 of my first 50 LDs:
I am lucid! run! find a goal! Run! try to fly! Run! wake up two minutes later tops. Slowing down was really hard at first.... Especially if there was a... person... of other gender around. FA's especially, since I wake up next to my hot wife ;)

Slowing down will make your goals get to you better and make it easier to stabilize.

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This is a great point, BrandonBoss. (Great advice here from Sivason as well.)

This is something that I still struggle with because lucid dreams are so exciting and our brains are in a state where we have very little natural impulse control. (Which is also what makes the wife-related false awakenings harder to resist! :rolleyes:)

But in the last several weeks I've been trying to slow my tempo down, really make myself a part of the scene and just enjoy the LD for what it is before I go flying off into the distance shouting "yippee!!" like an 11-year-old. I've found that if I remember to do it, slowing down and really observing makes the entire experience so much more vivid and gives me a lot better chance at ultimately controlling where things go and steering the experience toward whatever goals I have in mind.

Thanks for the reminder of this, both of you.

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Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

40 of my first 50 LDs:
I am lucid! run! find a goal! Run! try to fly! Run! wake up two minutes later tops. Slowing down was really hard at first.... Especially if there was a... person... of other gender around.

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DILD #1: Yep!
DILD #2: Yep! (longer because there were no ... persons... around at the beginning, also managed a hands-rub stabilization at the start to counter unwilling impersonation of a balloon )

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Originally Posted by moocowgoesmoo

Other times however the dream is just so crazy that I KNOW that I am dreaming

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Actually, this was a lucid dream.
So you have definitely been lucid at least once.