Thread: what if i couldnt lucid dream

what if i couldnt lucid dream at all? because i tried everything and it wont work for me. are there like ways that i can just feel my imagition without going to sleep? because i always wanted to feel like a superhero so bad.

What were you doing so far?

It took me a while too so don't give up! it's the worst thing you can do

how long have you been trying to LD?- it can take quite a while to achive one

i write in my journals, listen to mp3, trying wilds. They just dont work. i guess my will or my brain isnt strong enough or i dont have a good imagination.

has anyone ever tried b12 vitamins? do they work?

Keep writing your journals. Trying to WILD before being expirienced isn't a good idea IMO.
I would suggest the the WBTB+MILD technique, it's good for beginers, like me.

Everyone can Lucid Dream. Just keep trying, and tell your subconsious that you can and Will lucid dream!

Just really set your mind to it too.... HILD works good for me. Becouse it's like telling your subconsious you Are going to have an LD And recall your dreams, and sometimes I allso just slip into dreams.

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take a little break. maybe a week or so, just relaxing not stressing over LDing, and then try again in a week.

HILD definitely comes highly reccomended from me also.

You can lucid dream. I've known a few people to lucid dream without even trying, just because I happened to talk to them a few times about it.

I think that maybe some people who want to lucid dream try to hard and don't have enough patience to let it happen. When I first found this site, I started with the intention of maintaining a dream journal and only practicing dream recall. I was going to do this for a month before ever actually trying to induce a lucid dream, but I had my first within a few days of simply trying to practice recall. I think that this patient attitude is what helped me a lot.

Originally posted by MartinB

I think that maybe some people who want to lucid dream try to hard and don't have enough patience to let it happen. *When I first found this site, I started with the intention of maintaining a dream journal and only practicing dream recall. *I was going to do this for a month before ever actually trying to induce a lucid dream, but I had my first within a few days of simply trying to practice recall. *I think that this patient attitude is what helped me a lot.

I wish I was more like you.

Originally posted by MartinB
HILD definitely comes highly reccomended from me also.

You can lucid dream. *I've known a few people to lucid dream without even trying, just because I happened to talk to them a few times about it.

I think that maybe some people who want to lucid dream try to hard and don't have enough patience to let it happen. *When I first found this site, I started with the intention of maintaining a dream journal and only practicing dream recall. *I was going to do this for a month before ever actually trying to induce a lucid dream, but I had my first within a few days of simply trying to practice recall. *I think that this patient attitude is what helped me a lot.

I agree, some people are so obsessed with LDing for the first time they start to stress. Like HoppyPotty said takes some time out and try again a little later. One step at a time. Feel comfortable about one step before you move to the next.

Same here, I had my LDs without intending to.
Just keep your dream journal.

If you want to explore your imagination without dreaming, there's a bunch of *near dream states* that are also pretty cool plus they will boost your confidence. What you may want to try is to sleep while something important is keeping you from just blacking out. An example: you sleep at your job and dont want to be caught... You sleep in class in the morning, you take a nap, but have to get up 40 minutes later but you dont have an alarm on. I'm sure there are other things that may produce these near dream states..

So what happens as you enter a near dream state? Your consciousness blinks on and off - one moment you are laying in bed, in a split second you are in some other enviroment and you notice that transition a second later. You may see and focus on the objects behind your eyelids. Sometimes entire scenes form, I've had experiences where these scenes mimic the real environment - if you do this in class, you will see people sitting around your, the teacher and at the same time your eyes are closed. The only difference is light - it is much smoother..

All in all, it takes about 3-15 min to get into this borderline sleep/wake state, but there *has* to be something that prevents you from simply falling asleep...

Got any info on some *near dream states*?

two words...

posotive attitude.

hey if you do wbtb try to stay up for about 90 min cause that tends to get your mind awake enough to induce a lucid dream. although it makes it harder to fall back asleep the more awake you are when you actually fall asleep the more aware youll be in your dreams about whether its a dream or not. Do you have a problem with getting to sleep? Anyways, Good luck.

If there's one very impotant piece of info that i've learned from this site, it would be that learning to lucid dream takes time. Even though i've yet to become lucid in my dreams (although I had almost reached that point back in December), I try not to lose hope that someday, maybe tommorrow, next month,or next year, I'll have a lucid dream

keep a dream journal and stick with one meathod for inducing LDs for at least 2 weeks at a time

yeah, do what billybob said cause its good to have practice at one specific thing for a while before you switch techniques. i remember when i was just starting out i was anxious to hurry up and have a lucid dream so whenever something didnt work for me the first night i would look at another one and be like "well, this looks like it would work" and switch, never really getting good at any of them. it takes a little bit of time, but dont worry, i dont think it should take too long before it actually happens.