Hi, dreamers!

Ok. So, I've been attempting to lucid dream for a little over a year and although I have had some success, I feel like it's been very minimal.

An accountabilty partner of mine asked me a few questions a few days ago and really put things into perspective. But, I'm still not sure where to go from here.

So, I'd greatly appreciate it if all of you successful lucid dreamers could give me some input.

Here are the questions with my answers:


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So how are you feeling about lding?

I still want to do it. It just seems like I'm doing something wrong.


How many have you had so far?

So far, I've had 7 lucid dreams.

The 24 hours before my first lucid dream (which is a DILD) I was just constantly announcing my actions to myself in my head (ex: I'm walking to the kitchen; I'm opening the fridge; I'm drinking water; etc.).

But, in the lucid dream that I had the next morning, I didn't become lucid because I was announcing my actions to myself. In the dream, I actually started out thinking about motivation and about how if people want success, they need to wait for it and they need to work for it. Then, all of a sudden, I got out of my head and was looking at my sister's dog who had just died a few days before. I was really confused as to how this was possible and then realized that this is a dream.

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The 24 hours before my second lucid dream (which is also a DILD), I acted as if I was sent into dream world by an organization that collects data on dream world through lucid dreamers and that I was one of the lucid dreamers that was sent into dream world who was transferring dream data to them by saying, "NOW", in my head whenever I'm transferring dream data to them while doing simple dream experiments. (ex: my dream experiment would be to see what it's like to make a peanut butter & jelly sandwich in dream world. So, I would look at the jar, the peanut butter, the jelly, and think "NOW" when I look at each one, knowing that I just sent the dream data of that those objects back to the organization in waking life. I would also act as if everything I was doing was completely new and I had never seen it before because it is in my dream and I would be describing it to the organization who is back in waking life.)

But, in the lucid dream that I had the next morning, I didn't become lucid because I was thinking, "NOW". I started out in the dream in a bed at my church and for whatever reason, I thought to myself, "No way that this is a dream. But, you know what, let me walk around just to check." I eventually looked at my hands, saw that each hand had more or less than 5 fingers and became fully lucid.

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The 24 hours before my 3rd and 4th lucid dreams (which were a DILD and a WILD/DEILD), I did the same technique for my 2nd lucid dream.

And again, I didn't become lucid because I thought, "NOW" in my dream. The dream started out with me waking up from my dream bed and going to my door to turn off the light. I notice scabs on my body (which was weird), but I didn't think of it as weird. Then, when I flicked off the light switch, the light didn't turn off. Then I looked back at the light switch to see if I switched it down, which I did. I was confused for a moment because this doesn't make sense to me and now I realize this is a dream and become lucid.

When I woke up, I went back to sleep and continued my dream resuming where I left off laying in my bed and already knew that this is a dream since I meant to enter it lucidly.

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The 24 hours before my 5th lucid dream (which was also a DILD), I again didn't become lucid because I was doing the technique in the dream.

This lucid dream started with me "waking up" in my bed. I spoke to my brother who was somehow floating outside of my window. Then, I walked to the foot of my bed and randomly decide to do a reality check. I'm seeing one of my hands has an extra finger and realize that this is a dream.

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The 24 hours before my 6th lucid dream (which was a WILD), my technique was to always be prepared to know what I would write in my dream journal if I were to wake up from this dream right now, no matter what I was doing, whether it was the beginning, middle, or end, I would know what I was doing or experiencing before I woke up and be ready to write it down in my dream journal.

But, once again, I did not become lucid because I was doing my daytime technique in my dream, which was dream journaling to myself. Once this dream starts, I "wake up" in my bed and my body just feels weird. It's kind of like a weird, tingly sensation all over that I don't ever feel in waking life. I just know that this is a dream and go about testing out my dream experiments. I didn't reality check or anything. I just know that this is a dream and that is that.

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The 24 hours before my 7th lucid dream (which was also a WILD), all I was doing was being NOW. I wasn't thinking "NOW" or dream journaling. I am just in this moment right now.

For this dream, I "wake up" once again in my bed and things just feel weird and I already know that I'm dreaming, just like my last lucid dream.

Is there a new tech you want to try or do you need to revert back to an old one?

I honestly don't know what I need to do to get lucid on a regular basis. I just want to know what it is and do it.

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So, I'd really appreciate any advice feom experienced lucid dreamers on what I should do for my technique(s).

Thanks in advance.