So its been 1.5 months and no lucid dreams

**Enz** · 05-05-2016 05:47 AM

From my 1.5 months of trying to lucid dream I get a dream every night but usually only 1 to 2 sentences long in my dream journal. My watch reminds me every 30 mins to reality check. With a message "I can do it" that I watch scroll across the screen 3 times then I look at the time and look away and repeat 3 or 4 times.

I usually wake in the night at around 12:30am and 4:30 or 7 am. Ive done wake back to bed at 3am but I didn't like it or find it effective

I've got the following supplements: spirulina ,lechithin ,B Complex , b6, multi vitamin, magnesium citrate

I'm not sure where to go from here

**FryingMan** · 05-05-2016 01:20 PM

Be patient and keep working! It's good that your dream recall has become regular, next up it sounds like you could work on establishing a closer connection with your dreams. Try paying attention during your waking life, and try to remember several parts of your day in vivid detail in the evening before bed. This is great practice for recalling dreams in good detail. Dream recall is not just about remembering your dreams, it's about paying attention to them. Ideally you want to start to get very vivid dreams where you can write much more than just one or two sentences in a DJ.

Also, while RC alarms are fine to help you get started, I would move away from it now. In dreams, there is just our mind with your intention and memory to help us to get lucid. You should get the "urge to RC" solely from within yourself, from your memory and your intention to get lucid in dreams.

There are some great threads to read here: I'd start by skimming them all quickly to get an idea of what they're talking about, especially the short summaries of how to LD, then go back and read in more detail.

Good luck! The only way not to succeed at LDing is to stop trying: so keep trying, and keep researching, and keep experimenting! WBTB in particular is highly effective for most, perhaps experiment with a different waking times and varying amounts of time spent awake.

**Tipharot** · 05-05-2016 02:44 PM

Reality checks are a great way to get lucid if you already have experience lucid dreaming, but I would honestly never recommend reality checks as a method for getting your first lucid dream. Yes you should do them anyway, but they're not as effective as bringing you lucid dreams as active techniques are.

Reality checks just increase your overall frequency of getting lucid, and give you a chance to get lucid in your regular dreams - but the most success you'll have, will come from performing methods that are designed to get you lucid there and then.

My favourite method that I teach beginners is perhaps the easiest method you can do, but still has a pretty high success rate (If you do it for 3 nights, you should get lucid at least once on average):

- Set an alarm to wake you after 6 hours of sleep. If you take say 20 minutes to fall asleep, then set it for 6:20 after you sleep. You want to get at least 6 hours sleep, NO LESS, but no more than about 6 hours 30 minutes. This'll put you in REM stage, allowing you to get lucid when you perform the technique.

- When you wake up, simply repeat the following phrase (or something similar) 20-30 times: "I will be lucid in my next dream"

- Go back to sleep.

That's it. It's really that simple. I still use this as my primary technique because most nights when I wake up after 6 hours I'm too lazy/tired to perform a more advanced technique. It still works like a charm, requires like.. almost zero effort, and the great thing about it is because this method is so simple literally the only thing you could do wrong is setting the alarm too early/too late. So it *will* work for everyone when performed enough times.

Try it out!