Thread: About to give up on Lucid Dreaming? Don't.

WBTB is effective for me since all (I think) of my lucids were after it. I always combine WILD with WBTB and I feel I could be successful with it, but the dream just doesn't seem to come. I don't attempt WILD frequently because intentions need to be well set and motivation high - something hard to do with a busy schedule. I stick with the DILD techniques because I believe they fit my lifestyle the best and could allow me to have consistent lucids without much effort.

Lucid dreaming is weird, though, because most of my lucids have come when I've just had a kind of feeling that I know I will lucid dream tonight, but it's not exactly like that. It's hard to describe but I imagine this feeling is the key to lucid dreaming for me and, possibly, many others. I've tried to recreate this feeling many times with no success. One way I've tried is by using a mantra - "I can lucid dream." I've used this for about a month now but had no success recently so I'm not sure it's working. I guess this all boils down to something probably well know with experienced lucid dreamers - it's all about the mindset. Of course I could be wrong about this, but this is my take on it so far I wonder if experienced lucid dreamers think something similar. though, because most of my lucids have come when I've just had a kind of feeling that I know I will lucid dream tonight, but it's not exactly like that. It's hard to describe but I imagine this feeling is the key to lucid dreaming for me and, possibly, many others. I've tried to recreate this feeling many times with no success. One way I've tried is by using a mantra - "I can lucid dream." I've used this for about a month now but had no success recently so I'm not sure it's working. I guess this all boils down to something probably well know with experienced lucid dreamers - it's all about the mindset. Of course I could be wrong about this, but this is my take on it so far and I wonder if experienced lucid dreamers think something similar.