Thread: lucid dreaming beginner mistakes?

- Not doing WBTBs - newbies often try to avoid WBTBs at all costs, only doing pre-sleep techniques. But WBTBs are the single strongest amplifier to whatever you do.
- Getting obsessed about timing, trying to know your REM etc. - it really isn't that important.
- Underestimating the power of intention - yes, you can get natural wakings/WBTBs with just an intention. And sometimes the only thing needed to get lucid is to really want it.
- Underestimating the power of specific goals - have goals, think about them before bed and every time you wake up at night. Wanting to do something specific can be more powerful than just wanting to get lucid.
- Seeing your practice as separate attempts - it is all one practice, a lifestyle. A single night isn't a success or a failure.

Originally Posted by IndigoRose

- Not doing WBTBs - newbies often try to avoid WBTBs at all costs, only doing pre-sleep techniques. But WBTBs are the single strongest amplifier to whatever you do.

NOOOooo!!! Haha you're right of course. I absolutely detest the notion of squandering my rapidly dwindling drowsiness during a waking on purpose. WBTB works, period. But DAMN.

- Underestimating the power of specific goals - have goals, think about them before bed and every time you wake up at night. Wanting to do something specific can be more powerful than just wanting to get lucid.

Yep yep yep!

- Seeing your practice as separate attempts - it is all one practice, a lifestyle. A single night isn't a success or a failure.

Yep yep yep -- LD practice is a being, and much less doing (even though you do "do" things).