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So I was really obsessed with lucid dreaming over the summer holidays, starting it in May. I was cranking huge amounts of DILD's (the only way I got my lucid dreams) and besides my lousy dream recall and bad control everything was going pretty good. Eventually, school caught up and I didn't really care about lucid dreaming anymore. I stopped writing in my dream journal altogether at mid September, and I haven't written in it since.
But, despite having almost a month with no lucid dreams after that, it's like my mind adjusted to it and the lucid dreams started coming back. I usually just used the nose RC, but I didn't pay much attention to the lucid dreams. But, they kept coming back. In fact, all of my recalled dreams (now down to one a week) were lucid dreams. And now, I've gotten 3 in the past five days, which is pretty cool. It's going to make me start (finish) lucid dreaming where I left off and hopefully I will be able to complete a WILD if I can get around my "Mind Must Wander To Fall Asleep" problem.
Anyway, I just thought I'd write about this because I think it's pretty cool.
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Yeah, I've wondered about that. I suspect and really hope that lucid dreaming is an ability that once awakened, stays with you for life. I've found that even when I don't try, I still get a few a month.
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I had the same problem as you but it seems that im getting better at it now and im getting rid of those nasty nightmares. I'm not sure why it happens but its probably that your mind just needed a rest from getting to hyped up about it where we should of gently pushed forward.
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I would assume that once you build a neural network in the brain for lucid dreaming you wouldn't have to have them very often to keep the network from breaking down. It may not even break down at all. Sort of like learning to ride a bike. (neurons that fire together wire together).
I could be wrong though.
Rich
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I used to have a lucid dream every few months when I was young. Three years ago, when I had first heard about lucid dreaming, I thought: "Hey, I can do this too, but I want to be able to experience it more often." My lucid dreams did only last for 10 - 20 seconds usually, but still, it was better than nothing. I started studying lucid dreaming for a few days, but eventually I forgot about it. I still got a lucid dream every few months, but three months ago, I started lucid dreaming again. However, this time, I'm not going to stop. My goal is to be able to experience lucid dreams every night (and longer lucid dreams too).
All these years I didn't know about lucid dreaming, nor did I really knew what was really happening, I still kept the ability to lucid dream now and then. So yeah, I think it's possible to keep lucid dreaming once you've awakened your power to lucid dream. :P
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I'm think as Axe555. Even dream recall. When I forget to "prepare" myself everynight I can find that when I wake up I remember the dreams and most times there's no need to use the DJ.
As you sleep every night this is an everyday exercise, so it takes easy to make it "part of you". Is just like practicing martial arts everyday. You begin doing it as an exercise and finally you do the movements in a natural way. :content:
PS: I find hard to express myself in English, hehe :roll:
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I know what you're talking about, and I totally agree with it. However, I think it's still good to keep doing the exercise. You might even want to heighten the difficulty of the exercise, in order to become even more proficient with dream recall, for example.
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And I agree with you. I try to keep doing the exercise all the time. The DJ is a necessary tool.
You know, if you do some exercise when you can is better than never doing it, but if you do it everyday, you'll be the best, hehe :wink: and if you don't train with a "routine" you'll be just in the middle of the way, never walking backwards nor forward.
