Is There A Cycle For Lucid Dreaming?

[Adrenaline Junkie]

Hey, i am still waiting for my third lucid dream, i am trying to be as patient as possible but is there a rough period of time that it happens, every two months, i cannot properly induce dreams yet purposely so i will probably have to wait for another one to sneak up on me. any suggestions?

[anomanderis]

a while back i had a 9 day cycle of lucid dreams, where i had about 4 lucids after every successive 9 days, but apart from that there has been no consistently noticeable lucid "cycle". I have them when i have read a lot of stuff about lucidity in one day or when i am forced to wake up for a time at night so DILD'ing gets extremely easy as my mind is more awake when i'm dreaming. And of course there are those haphazard DILDs that just occur. The method i have found as 100% effective for me is the WBTB method. Then i know that i will notice if i am in a dream or not, but since it robs me of an hour of sleeping time and is a real prick in general since i don't want to get up from my warm bed in the middle of the night, so i have abandoned this method and am currently practicing dream re-entry.

[Adrenaline Junkie]

a while back i had a 9 day cycle of lucid dreams, where i had about 4 lucids after every successive 9 days, but apart from that there has been no consistently noticeable lucid "cycle". I have them when i have read a lot of stuff about lucidity in one day or when i am forced to wake up for a time at night so DILD'ing gets extremely easy as my mind is more awake when i'm dreaming. And of course there are those haphazard DILDs that just occur. The method i have found as 100% effective for me is the WBTB method. Then i know that i will notice if i am in a dream or not, but since it robs me of an hour of sleeping time and is a real prick in general since i don't want to get up from my warm bed in the middle of the night, so i have abandoned this method and am currently practicing dream re-entry. [/b] I've heard good things about WBTB method, say if i went to bed at about 12 midnight and set my alarm for 6 in the morning, stayed up until 7 concentrating about lucid dreaming and maybe posting on these forums, then at 7 i go back to bed with the constant thought that i will have a lucid dream, would this work? i'm not entirely sure about what you do in it, thanks for any help.

[anomanderis]

what you do is entirely up to you and you also have to find the period of time that works best for you. I was up for about 45 minutes, which is the time it took me to watch an episode of Smallville or Supernatural. I did go to sleep with the intention to lucid dream, but i just found that after WBTB my mind is a lot more awake in a dream, meaning that i notice those wtf moments when i am dreaming. Since I wake up several times a night, I have no need of setting an alarm clock, but they usually say you shuld wake up some 5 or 6 hrs after going to sleep. My ideology in general would abolish the usage of concentration, but that's just me, since i've also found that i cannot force control while lucid, but believing makes it real. Don't try to bend the spoon. That is impossible. Instead realize that there is no spoon and that it is you that bends. (but it would help if you did something in connection with lucid dreams)