Ended up just waking up..

**tjones730** · 01-05-2015 03:54 PM

So last night was my first night in a while really attempting lucidity. I went to bed with the mantra, "You are dreaming" in my head. I ended up just having an unrestful night, where I would wake up, do a reality check, and fall back asleep. As far as I know, none were false awakenings. This happened like 13 or so times. I do remember dreams, but do not remember any lucidity. Is there a better way to go about this so that my waking mind isn't stuck in the real world? My goal was to communicate with my unconscious.

**WaltersDreams** · 01-05-2015 06:51 PM

If you're prforming a reality check in a dream and it fails, you are not concious enough while preforming. Are you Really questioning reality? Is your mantra meaningful? If so, try napping mid day or adjusting your sleeping hours; you're more likely to remember your dreams without alarms waking you up, meaning you're getting the most out of sleep and you just stay in bed for a while after waking. Someimes, mantras just don't transfer until a few days, or you simply don't become lucid.

Also, don't ever doubt yourself. REALLY believe you Can do this! Remind yourself through out the day that you are a lucid dreamer, and maybe preform a realitycheck.

**OneUp** · 01-05-2015 07:46 PM

A good way to communicate with your subconscious is by listening to certain music before bed that has dialogue in it. For instance, I listen to this one track every night created by Stephen LaBerge, and in the track it constantly says "The next time I'm dreaming, I will realize that I am dreaming. Am I dreaming? Is this a dream?". Listen to this long enough, your subconscious picks it up. Then after some time you take out the music and go to sleep. This has been known to cause random moments of lucidity for alot of people. In a way, it really works as an effortless MILD.