I think I've been finding myself in a remarkably similar position. I just went through the highest point of dream recall and LDing ever over the last 2–3 years, but it seems to be winding down. With the closing of this month, my monthly LD count has just hit its lowest point since July 2014. Yikes! I suspect that this is largely due to being busy with other things in waking life and somewhat lower motivation. It's still there to some degree: I've come tantalizingly close to goals I've been struggling to achieve for way too long, and I really want to keep going, but to be completely honest with myself, I think there are other things in my life right now that simply feel more important to me, like it or not.
Another hindrance is indeed the fact that I don't really enjoy spending long hours dream journaling every day anymore. During my high points, I was obsessed with recording every little thing, and my DJ became absolutely huge, far bigger than I ever anticipated. That was really cool, but it came at a big sacrifice of time and effort. As time passes, I'm finding myself cutting back more and more and being more selective with what I write down. And frankly, while I don't regret the cooler stuff I went through the trouble to capture then, not all of the material seems super-interesting or impressive now. But I do try to make an effort for the really important stuff.
I'm currently looking for ways to regain my energy and enthusiasm (skimming back over my more awesome LDs seems to be helping somewhat), but otherwise in the meantime, I'm trying not to worry about it. Maybe I simply need a break for a while. I went through a low point around 2011–2013 where I never completely left LDing, but it dipped to very low levels. After a while, I finally realized I wasn't getting anywhere and decided to come back to Dream Views (since first being active around 2007–8-ish) to see what I missed. I learned a lot of stuff I never knew, and that brought a lot of motivation and caused that huge peak I recently went through. Well, I'm still here, but things have dipped again a bit. Possibly going over some old, inspiration threads might help. But no matter what, I've heard this stuff tends to wax and wane, so perhaps the next “big one” is just around the corner.
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