Thread: "Bored" in a lucid dream....

I know it sounds impossible, but after I get into a lucid dream, I get SO BORED after I enter it. I wanted to have a thrilling adventure, but that even sounded boring. It is so weird, I wanted to do this stuff in waking life, but it gets so boring after I enter the dream. Afterwards, I wake up, and regret my decision when I'm fully conscious.

Any suggestions? This morning, I did ToTM (still writing it on DV's DJ) and after I finished the advanced and bonus tasks, I got so bored of dreaming, I woke up on purpose.

*I have full control over any dream

Why not ask the dream to give you the experience of feeling full excitement? Something like that.

@Grumpy Thanks for replying...I'll try that tonight!

Try warping to a whole new area and see if you can find your way.

You can also ask some DC's what you should do. Just tell them that you can do anything and that they can tell you what to do. I got some really fun and interesting things when I did that haha.

Have you got something in life you are really passionate about? Like a hobby or study or even - if you're lucky - your job?
If there's something like that, maybe you could find a way to work creatively towards your personal goals in lucidity.
There are many stories of artists, sportspersons, scientists, whatnot - who describe how they found a fountain of insight and inspiration in their LDs, even enhanced physical abilities.
If you're that proficient - fooling around might just not be enough any more.
Try to use them as a tool!

It seems to me, Gaea, that, since you possess the incredible ability to enjoy "full control over every dream," whether you are bored or not is entirely up to you. Why not simply do what you would do in waking-life, and look for something to do? Look to your goals, maybe do some exploring, or just let the dream take you for a ride.

Being bored is a decision; try to make the decision to do something, and not be bored.

The way I look at it, it seems you don't recall what you wanted to do in an LD, seeing as how you regret it when you wake up. If remembering your goals is the problem here, then try the MILD technique. It's also a good long term way for lucidity!

I've had this problem before. I would have really exciting dream goals and then I would become lucid and think they were so boring. I even decided to just lose lucidity because I didn't feel like there was anything fun to do. After repeating this several times, when I was in my dream thinking about how boring my goals were, I decided to grit my teeth and do them anyway. It turned out to be really fun actually! Now when I think my dream goals are boring/not important, I do them anyway and end up having a good time. I don't know if that would help you at all, but it's worth a try!

Thanks for all these replies, I will try some to try and not get bored in a lucid dream! Thank you to everyone that replied.

I have an idea! Just think of all the people trying to get to your level of control and dream stability and duration (and recall?), you'll laugh your ass off If that's not enough tell DC's about it, you'll have a great time laughing at us noobies xD

I have a somewhat similar problem - when I get into a lucid dream I am surprisingly calm about the whole thing, and I am pretty much like "yeah, this is a luci dream, now let me see what I can do here";
and I may be the only one who feels this way, but I actually tend to feel a little bit uncomfortable with the fact that I am in a dream.
I mean, I have obviously got used to thinking of vivid, interactive environments as waking life, and it is a very strange realization when I realize that everything takes place in a dream all of a sudden.
This actually kind of gives me a desire to get back to waking life again, since this physical worl feels much more familiar.

I mean, I have certainly had lucid dreams where I have been able to do random stuff and enjoyed every second of it, but I often get that feeling like "wow, this is NOT waking life...?! what the hell? am I supposed to remain here? I feel really confused about this whole thing, it's really weird" etc.

Hi there. If you were bored again during the next lucid dream, you can pass it to me so that I can play around with a fictional character and showing the hots for them.
No, just fooling around. You can try my suggestion too when you get bored in the lucid dream if you were into that kind of stuff.

Yeah, i know how you feel. Thankfully not often - but i go through phases in my life where i am bored of everything. Life is boring and even my lucid dreams become boring. Maybe this is only a temporary thing that will pass. And you just need a little momentum.
I have included a link in my signature that will give you 99 ideas of what to do in a lucid dream. This helped me.

In waking life one cures boredom by doing something--even if they think that something is boring. This concept holds true in the dream world as well. I second what Sageous, and everyone else, has already said . . . just do something. If you just stand there and not do anything, then of course you're gonna be bored!