Thread: Tell me what you would tell yourself if you had to start it all over!

-Stay positive, I don't think this can be stressed enough. You've had LDs before, you will have them again.

-Try adding in SSILD cycles, these seem to really help me.

-You want RC's to become a habit, but not a mindless one. Really make sure you're questioning, or when it happens in the dream you may not do your reality check correctly and you might miss an opportunity to become lucid. A nose plug does no good if you're already expecting a particular outcome.

-Drag yourself out of bed when you wake up during the night to write notes about your dreams, even when you only remember a tiny fragment and it's the last thing you feel like doing. You'll thank yourself when dream memories come flooding back as you write.

Originally Posted by amiana

-Stay positive, I don't think this can be stressed enough. You've had LDs before, you will have them again.

-Try adding in SSILD cycles, these seem to really help me.

-You want RC's to become a habit, but not a mindless one. Really make sure you're questioning, or when it happens in the dream you may not do your reality check correctly and you might miss an opportunity to become lucid. A nose plug does no good if you're already expecting a particular outcome.

-Drag yourself out of bed when you wake up during the night to write notes about your dreams, even when you only remember a tiny fragment and it's the last thing you feel like doing. You'll thank yourself when dream memories come flooding back as you write.

Excellent advice! The more you put into your DJ the more you get out of it. Especially about what mental techniques you use, how often, etc. This is invaluable stuff: a record of what gets YOU lucid!

About forcing yourself to get up and journal: Just the other night I forced myself to reach for my phone (voice recorder app is my choice for journaling, transcribing later in the day, I find I get way more detail this way) when what I wanted to do was just turn over and go back to sleep, after all, I only remembered a measely fragment. Halfway through rolling over to reach for my phone BOOM! two entire dreams came back to me instantly. I just froze there half-turned over and recalled the dreams, it was really an amazing moment. We lose dream detail so quickly, recording it right away is the absolute best thing to boost recall.