Thread: Looking For LD Help

There is no silver bullet. It is working on the fundamentals. Did you buy a good book like Exploring the world of lucid dreaming? Are you dream journalling and working on dream recall? Do you practice "awareness"?

No, actually, I'll download a book later on. I have very good dream recall, though, and my dreams are exceptionally vivid. I just don't seem to be able to realise that I'm dreaming.

Focus on spotting dream signs. That's what works for you!

Originally Posted by dolphin

Focus on spotting dream signs. That's what works for you!

Are there any good ways to train in this aspect? Whenever I'm dreaming I just seem to be unable to spot any dream signs, bar that one time.

1.First, find out what you dream about most. Find your major dream signs.

2.Reimagine past dreams where these major dream signs have shown up, only with you noticing them and becoming lucid. This is for exercising your memory, strengthening your intention, and to give you confidence that you can do it.

3.Fall asleep waiting for the dream sign or otherwise staying focused on lucid dreaming. If it's a major dream sign, it shouldn't take long for it to show up!

If you keep missing the dream signs, just continue step 2 to strengthen your memory.

Originally Posted by dolphin

1.First, find out what you dream about most. Find your major dream signs.

2.Reimagine past dreams where these major dream signs have shown up, only with you noticing them and becoming lucid. This is for exercising your memory, strengthening your intention, and to give you confidence that you can do it.

3.Fall asleep waiting for the dream sign or otherwise staying focused on lucid dreaming. If it's a major dream sign, it shouldn't take long for it to show up!

If you keep missing the dream signs, just continue step 2 to strengthen your memory.

Thanks for the info, that sounds very plausible.

There is just one issue- my dreams are very unstable. I tend to have very random dreams which range across many subjects. I've once had a dream about being in a mansion in the middle of the countryside where I went to the top room, and behind an old door I met the devil. Like the actual devil. that was a pretty weird one, very vivid. And then I've had ones about strange acid trip lands, ones where I was saving a little boy from drowning in Africa but then I fell down the hole and the woman in black was waiting for me, in short I have some really messed up dreams. I think it will be hard to find much consistency between them, but I'll try.

Write down all of the dreams you can and look for any patterns. There won't be a dream sign that occurs in every dream or every night but there will probably be one that occurs fairly often, like 4 or 5+ nights a week. Your dreams are based on your waking life. I'm sure your waking life is consistent in some way which leads consistencies in your dreams.

Remember, a dream sign can also a consistent idea, emotion, or sensation as well. Searching for dream signs beyond just simple images will help you find some. For example, I can see just from your 3 examples, two of them contained idea of a dark dream character.

It's hard to give advice on LD as we are all different and something that works for me may not work for you.

If you have very vivid dream and want to improve you DS spotting, I would recommend highlighting all DS in your DJ and then reading it before you go to bed, or even better when you wake up for WBTB. I often dream of my home country, where I haven't lived for 11 years, and I am sure to write "ITALY" in capitals and in red whenever I find myself there or I meet someone from there like family members or old friends.

The other key factor I believe is not stressing about the fact that you aren't LD at the moment. Too many variables are at stake each night and they all have to align for your to have a LD. Ultimately, if you are very tired, stressed and especially stressing about not having LD, you can be sure that your chances will take a hit.

As you mentioned you have been able to LD in the past, even when you weren't trying hard, so you have the ability to LD. Now focus on perfecting the techniques involved in this process as well as your routine. The rest will come by its own accord.
Good luck.