Thread: Lucid Dreaming questions, without using Dream Journal or doing reality check often

Hello, probably you guys don't remember me as I posted about 2x here about ... a half year ago? So I wanted to share my experience, based on these last months. I don't know english very well, but I guess you guys will understand me.

So, as the title says I don't do a dream journal or do daily reality check, but the most accurate would be for me to say I barely do it. Dream Journal? I only wrote down 2 dreams, one months ago and one recent ( mostly because I am that much lazy). Reality check? Yeah, I do sometimes but likely twice a day when I feel like it. So far you guys noticed I am very lazy ... but here comes the most interesting thing: back then when I even created anaccount here I was dedicated on reality checks and such ( well ... the dream journal was mostly skipped ) and I begun to forget dreams. I don't know why, maybe it's because somehow I felt that it wouldn't work? Of course, I was doing reality check and tried dream journal because I wanted to have lucid dreams. Not sure if this is the right word, maybe my subconscious didn't believe much on it.

Still, I have had some lucid dreams that were very short. But the most realistic ( and I had thought I had very realistic dreams before ) was today in the morning ( about 4am), before I went to sleep I really did firm my thoughts "This time I will lucid dream, because this is something that depends on my will and I will make it happen this time", I was really serious. I went to sleep after 10 minutes I had thought about this and then I begun to dream in a place that I couldn't recognize, it was like a hallway with some stairs and I was like "Waaait! Let me calm down, I must be lucid dreaming", I tried taking off the pants ( I know, weird way to reality check ) and I really felt it going off and startled because I thought I was moving my real body, it had never felt so real that I even thought I was just half asleep taking off my pants for real ( ). With this I broke my concentration and awoke, my body was normal so it was just a lucid dream. Is it possible to make lucid dreaming occur just with my own will like I've done? If I am not wrong, most of my lucid dreams did occur when I really thought I could do it. Or just make it more stable by attempting this? Dream Journal and Reality Checking seen to have "reverse" effect on me.

Also, I noticed that about 2:30am to 5am I can have lucid dream with better frequency if I got at least sleep at 10~11pm.