Im a week in and its 1 step forward, 1 step backward. |
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jfriday11, |
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Im a week in and its 1 step forward, 1 step backward. |
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I have the odd time where I don't have any recall either. Don't let it phase you and let it go. |
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How do you remain motivated after a nights failure? Like some days I prepare so much for lucid dreaming and am excited to do so at night but then nothing happens and I get discouraged. Like no matter how many times I say I can do it, there is always this nagging thought telling me otherwise. |
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and btw, how long should awareness be done, I try to do it for like 5 minutes. |
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Artax is it on weekends your recall goes up and on weekdays it goes down? that would be about getting lots of sleep and being relaxed, that is the way it is for me, tho I can often recall like 2-3 segments from each of 4cycles during week nights, but on weekends and especially last cycle of night recall is good. |
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Sure LUCID DREAMS are all fun and games until someone loses a third eye.
Kamenriderbaron: |
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Truth, I find it fun to keep a dream journal and my dream recall is getting better. |
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Took me 40 years..mbut that was because I never heard of lucid dreaming 😊After I read about it in ETWOLD, 3 days. |
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Could school/work have an effect on attempts to lucid dream? Like I take a very rigorous school program and sometimes I need to get a good nights sleep before the test. Would attempting to Lucid dream may be have an effect on my schooling or the other way around. Should I set aside LD practice for school? |
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I honestly only got this far reading through replies so far but this one centence here interested me greatly and I felt I needed to have my part on it, even if just writing this reply out helps me to make sense of it myself and gives me a way to return to this comment with ease. |
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Certainly you might want to give up your WILD attempts |
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Sure LUCID DREAMS are all fun and games until someone loses a third eye.
I don't try WILD, just FILD, which shouldn't make me lose too much sleep. I personally don't think that could cause me any trouble. My grades are still fine. I go to bed at 9 and wake up at one to do so. I have to wake up around 6 though. |
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FILD ultimately is a variant of WILD as you maintain awareness from the waking state through to the dreaming state as opposed to DILD and it's variants where you gain your awareness from within the dream state. Maintaining awareness generally makes it harder to actually fall asleep. |
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I have been trying awareness some times during the day, but I kind of find it mentally exhausting. But I tend to visualize myself becoming lucid from previous dreams, so I hope that helps. |
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As well, should I still keep my dream journal along with focusing on school? |
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Absolutely. I work long and stressful hours and on busy days I don't have any dream recall but I still make the effort each morning to open to a fresh page, date the top and write what I tried, how I felt waking up, how many times I remember waking up (also a great way to realise your micro awakenings) and if I checked the time what times I woke and the final time of awakening. This alone can do wonders and you will start to see patterns, it will internalise in your subconsious aswell, as something important to you so that it can make a point of 'notifying' you when these things occur. |
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Thanks for the advice. I also tend to notice, that I think their is a part of me that thinks its way too good to be true to happen to me. Like when I imagine myself becoming lucid, I feel like its only a fantasy or something like that, especially when I hear all the cool things people do. |
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3 weeks for the first one then about 2 months for the second one. |
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Is there such thing as trying too hard btw? |
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No, but there is such a thing as stressing, which kills lucidity. If you are stressing, the odds of getting lucid plummet. This could be from work, school, friends, family, or just about LDing. When people work really hard on lucid dreaming they tend to stress and it works against them. The key is to work really hard and not stress. Or work as hard as you can without stressing. |
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Do you think trying to LD each day would be trying too hard? |
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Sure LUCID DREAMS are all fun and games until someone loses a third eye.
I succeed about 520 times last year, but that is wilds and DILDs and that number is getting higher. I wild about 104 times last year. |
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Thanks. Btw, what are some good Dream Journals I could read here for inspiration? |
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Last edited by kamenriderbaron; 03-19-2016 at 11:12 AM.
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