Thread: Relearning Lucid Dreaming

I began lucid dreaming over a year ago and went through a reasonably successful period of basic lucidity, actively dreaming a couple of times a week. Unfortunately, with increased work load and inconsistant sleep patterns, I lost my way with it and before long it had escaped me all together.

So now, a year on, I'm beginning to wish I'd kept at it and often wonder how good I'd have been had I made more of an effort. With my thinking about it, lately I've been having not-so-fun, quite bizarre, semi-lucid dreams.

When I wake up I *think* I lucid dreamt, but there's something telling me I never actually achieved lucidity and instead merely dreamt I had become lucid. Sounds strange, but basically the dreams lack the vivid awareness of being 'awake' and I have FAR less control over my dreams than I once had. For example a year back I could do sums to make sure I was awake, whereas now I regret that I never did a conciousness test, but it never enters my head while dreaming now.

This is really annoying me and I think it would be lovely to recapture my studenty days of watching waking life and staying up late to lucid dream. Question, is it easier to RE-learn than it is to learn from scratch?

awesome question and I think i'm in the exact same boat as you... let's keep this alive till we get an answer!

You guys should be able to pick it back up much easier now that it's your second attempt. Start a dream journal, you can do it! You're much more familiar, go for it!

This is my second attempt at lucid dreaming and i'm getting more lucid dreams now.

yeah start a dream journal, do regular RCs, and read this forum alot, that helps me alot!

What a coincidence, I haven't done anything in LDing for months and I come back to the forum for a second to spot this topic.

Good luck.

Well your better off than me, It was less than a week ago that I found out about lucid dreaming. I've gone all-out in that time and had 1 semi-lucid dream.

I'm pretty sure its like anything else (riding a bike for example), you learned once so its not going to be nearly as hard to learn it again, and I honestly believe that brother.

I read this forum every night before i go to bed to help me get dreaming on the mind

I read this forum every night before i go to bed to help me get dreaming on the mind [/b]

lol, so do I, but I read it so much I don't get to bed till 4 am haha