Thread: Inability to Lucid Dream?

Reality checks are exactly what they sound like; you check for reality. There are things that you can do that won't work while you are awake, but while you are sleeping will. In a dream, if you plug your noise and try and breathe in, most of the time you will be able to do that. They're mostly used to confirm that you are in a dream after you suspect that you may be dreaming.

Have you tried WBTBs? If you're not familiar with the acronym, this is the "wake back to bed" method where you sleep several hours until you're primed for REM, wake up for a period of time (you'll have to experiment to figure out how long works best for you), then go back to sleep. On returning to sleep you can try any number of additional methods to increase your chances, but WBTB is the structure in which pretty much any method (at least the ones intended to be performed while falling asleep) is going to work best.

I'm not sure what "blams" are (clarify?) and crystals and essential oils are unlikely to accomplish much beyond a placebo effect (which evidently isn't working for you), but it sounds like there's still a lot that you haven't tried. Browse through these forums and you'll find lots of ideas! And the granddaddy of print manuals, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge, can be picked up cheap on Amazon and will explain a lot to you -- it's put a lot of people on the right path, plus you can access it offline.

Lucid dreaming requires incredible dedication and constant practice, even after you've been doing it a long time (unless you're one of the rare "naturals"), but it's worth it! So don't give up, keep experimenting...