Thread: Unsuccessful at lucid dreaming please help

Originally Posted by tofur

What awareness training are you doing? It's a staple of dream yoga, and those buddhists have been at it for a very long time. Becoming more present, grounded, and self aware will lead to being more present in your dreams. My first lucid came after a few weeks of vipassana meditation and I didn't know anything about lucid dreaming at that point, and had never had one before.

Don't put much stock in reality checks done while awake. Just my opinion, but they are most useful when confirming that you are in fact dreaming, once you're aware in a dream. It can be really convincing and you can be not fully lucid, a reality check is what brings full lucidity in. The only use they have in waking life is to get you to be present/aware.

The only awareness training I am doing is meditation from the learn to meditate app, which I am not doing daily and know I should as I have a hard time finding time and mostly a peaceful place for it without distractions, and the daily RC. I started reading a book called conscious dreaming by Robert moss but didn't find it very informational and would love some suggestions on what books to read about dreaming or being more aware as that is also my goal is spiritual awareness.

Originally Posted by Zephan

The only awareness training I am doing is meditation from the learn to meditate app, which I am not doing daily and know I should as I have a hard time finding time and mostly a peaceful place for it without distractions, and the daily RC. I started reading a book called conscious dreaming by Robert moss but didn't find it very informational and would love some suggestions on what books to read about dreaming or being more aware as that is also my goal is spiritual awareness.

Stay away from Robert Moss. Not at all helpful. Check out LaBerge (EWOLD) and then read the book by Daniel Love (Are you Dreaming?) and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep). Those are my top picks.

Originally Posted by ThreeCat

Stay away from Robert Moss. Not at all helpful.

I think you are being too hard on Robert Moss; arguably he's not the guy to read for lucid dreaming, since he is opposed to taking charge in lucid dreams - instead favouring the "learn what the dream has to teach" approach. But for anyone whose objectives go beyond merely treating lucid dreams like a magical playground, Moss has a lot of very good ideas.

But I think your warning is quite appropriate for beginners in lucid dreaming (including the OP).