Thread: Help :(

Anyone ?

Hmm, I'm going to try to help the best I can.

You shouldn't have to give up anything to be able to lucid dream. I have kept the exact same schedule, in fact, added to it, since I started lucid dreaming with no side effects. Now, I don't know what kind of schedule you have, but if you can't afford to stop for just 5 seconds to do a reality check during the day then you defenitely need to quit a few things.

WOW shouldn't affect your LDing experience at all. In fact, you could turn the game into a dreamsign and benefit your LDing. A lot of nights I'm on the computer playing games and it has had no negative effects on my dreams.

I can't say I understand how LD's take you out of your social life - they happen when you're asleep, so you're not exactly chatting with your friends anyway. Maybe just focus about it before you go to bed - put LDs out of your mind during the day, if possible. I think you should try to get your subconscious to realize that there's nothing about LDing that can hurt you, or cripple your social life, it's just an event that occurs during sleep. And just practicing on the weekends is a good way to start too, until you get over your fears.

Hope this helps!

You can try meditating to focus your mind. In LDs, it can help you develop social skills, if thats what you're worries about. You can talk to DCs and get used to talking to people and getting along. The game playing.. well it MaY effect your dreams, like mabey you dream about orcs? or sprites? mabey Demon Warlords and stuff.. so you could turn them into objects to be used as dream recall.. whenever you see a demon warlord, you can ask am i dreaming? and soon enough in your dreams you may see a warlord and automatically ask am i dreaming? and realize, you are. You just have to focus your mind.

~R~

Wow thanks a lot for the replies

There are some methods that take more attention, like waking up after a certain amount of sleep and trying to go back to sleep the right way (WILD, I believe). But you don't have to do that. The simplest method I'm aware of is start a dream journal to improve recall, do reality checks, and think a little about paying attention to dreams as you fall asleep. Your dream journal can be really simple, reality checks take no time, and the thinking as you fall asleep happens when you would be trying to fall asleep anyway.

Paying attention to lucid dreaming can, however, make you more aware of your sleep habits. Crappy sleep habits will hinder your ability to achieve lucidity, but if that's the case, you're probably walking around in a fog of slight sleep deprivation every day, as many people do. Making time for a better sleep schedule is a side benefit of learning about lucid dreams. But you make a better sleep schedule because it's healthier overall, not just to have lucid dreams.