Originally Posted by BrandonBoss
Your first few LDs will start at the end of your REM because that is when you will have the highest awareness (99.9% of the time) so you will most likely lose it because of this. How many LDs do you have and what time do they normally come?
I've had about 25 LD's, over a year and a half, but every single one has been less than about 10 seconds, and all are just before I wake! Some are as short as one second.
I usually wake up after each dream / REM cycle, and it's then that I often have a breif lucid moment. It's usually in the morning an hour or two before rising.
I've had one DILD where I had only just started doing the nose pinch RC in waking life, and I spontaneously did a nose pinch while in a dream and had a few seconds of lucidity before I woke.
Most of my LDs have really good clarity - I guess so shockingly clear that I wake so fast I can't seem to stabilise.
The reason for the post was, out of frustration, I wondered if my left-handed wired brain is somehow going to find it more difficult to LD, but with you guys responding that has pretty much quashed that idea!
Most of my LDs have just come, as you say, at waking, where I am most aware. I think I need to concentrate on DILD, and awareness with mantras. I guess I haven't perhaps being doing the basics well enough?
I've tried WBTB/WILD and had a little success, with a couple of LDs that way, but again, as soon as I get lucid I wake up.
I've been trying supplements more recently, and had a close experience of an LD where I remembered to try and ground myself by rubbing my hands, and although it started to work, I still woke. I think it's because once my critical reasoning kicks in, it crashes in and wakes me. I can't seem to get that nonchalant balance of noticing and interacting without going "WOW!!".
The problem is, it really is "WOW!!".
I do seem to struggle with the awareness thing. I'm not the most observant person normally. Fryingman has given me a few tips about "continuous RC", and I am trying to notice gravity while awake, repatedly noticing how gravity feels.
The reson for this one is that I did also get lucid a short while ago by noticing that I was moving along without having to use my legs, sort of floating along. I thought "hey, I'm floating along without using my legs", got a very clear Lucid, drifted up into the air and then woke up!
Anyway, apologies for my rambling. Great to hear you lefties / ambies are also capable LD'ers!
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