Becoming joyless about LDing, how to get excited again

I rediscovered lucid dreaming about a month or so ago, and I was absolutely amazed at the concept and intensely excited about experiencing it again. I have had a few lucid dreams over the years but none in quite a while, and until I began researching it recently I had no joy about it. After falling ill with a rather brutal cold, I took to accepting any sleep I could get and just passing out rather than trying to induce lucidity. I was so sick that I even dropped my dream journalling and have stopped having these great conversations about lucid dreaming with people. It's really sad! To think how motivated and happy I was, and now I'm sort of flatlining.

I know this is common in people who have a stretch of failed attempts, but any suggestions for how to get excited again? I don't know, tell me how great it is!!

Maybe it's a matter of seeking out the sites that present it in a mystical and magical way, or reenforce how brilliant it can be. This might be a good thread to drop here, I'm sad for myself to have lost the joy and it'd be good to assure other n00bs that you can get it back! :D

Think about getting to LD and punching Paris Hilton in the face!! That should get you motivated!! Lol!! Also try reading DC's say the Darndest Things!!! That would get anybody motivated, just so they can pay attention the the stupid Dream Characters!!

2 words :

LUCID SEX

The DC thread is good. Also the entire Lucid Experiences forum! Just read around in there, about all of the incredibly awesome things that can be done!

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Originally Posted by Tmer

2 words :

LUCID SEX

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Yes, I suppose that'll get anyone motivated :banana:

You could read this thread http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=24102 it has over 200 things to do in a lucid dream

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Originally Posted by iwishicouldld

Think about getting to LD and punching Paris Hilton in the face!!

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That just remotivated me. :lol:

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Originally Posted by Tmer

2 words :

LUCID SEX

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Is that so nice for u. I barely even feel it.. And it makes you go awake too easy. There are fckin better things to do - things that u wont be abe irl.

How could you become joyless about LDing there is so much to do LOL

Anything you can imagine :D

Did you ever have anything that you wanted to do in Real Life that you couldn't do or were too frightened to do - or just want to experience something you always dreamed about doing.

I am sure your joy will come back :D

Namaste

* Why not make Punching Paris Hilton in the face the Lucid Task of the Month!

just think about this:

In an average life of 80 years, we spend about 1/3 of it sleeping. = waste about 27 years!!

There's so much things we yet dont know, and life is so short...

If I were you, try reading Castaneda's books so you can get some fresh air about the whole subject, trust me, even if you think its fictional, they one of the best books, and which have opened my eyes...

Just my 2 cents!

Dude, you can do anything you want.

I have become bored by LDing a lot of times. A good thing to do is sit down and write out all the possibilities. :D

I tried for 9 months. Then I gave up. Help me.

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Originally Posted by Namaste

How could you become joyless about LDing there is so much to do LOL

Anything you can imagine :D

Did you ever have anything that you wanted to do in Real Life that you couldn't do or were too frightened to do - or just want to experience something you always dreamed about doing.

I am sure your joy will come back :D

Namaste

* Why not make Punching Paris Hilton in the face the Lucid Task of the Month!

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I like that idea!

hey, this'll get you motivated: look at "100 things to do" in general discussion. quite odviousely, it has onehundred things you can do.
:banana:

That would be an awesome Task of the Month. Someone PM Seeker :cheeky:

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Originally Posted by Truffles

I tried for 9 months. Then I gave up. Help me.

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Sweet, someone who's doing as horribly as I am!

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Originally Posted by Grunkie7

Sweet, someone who's doing as horribly as I am!

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9 months? :eek:
What methods are you guys trying? I really want to help if I can, so if you just post what you're doing, I'll do my best to help out :D

Hmm, for the first 5 months or so I just did RC's, a DJ, and waking up at night. So Dilds pretty much. I took a break for a long while after that. A month or two ago I picked it up again and tried an assortment of techniques, mainly wbtb/wild.

I'll admit I'm in kind of a rut of 'half-assery' right now though so some of the failure is probably my fault :D

So so far, in about a year, I've had 1 dream that MAY have been semi lucid when I was sleeping on the couch. :whyohwhy:

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Originally Posted by Namaste

How could you become joyless about LDing there is so much to do LOL

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It's just my nature to become completely obsessed with something and pour my energy into it until I ultimately get frustrated or drained and back off. But I know intellectually how fantastic LDing is, I don't want it to be another thing to chuck on that very long list. I wish I hadn't gotten so sick, but then again maybe I got sick in the first place because I was obsessing. :lol: :roll:

I've also been having a stream of really shitty and vague dreams that I can best describe as "furry" which doesn't help.

polmc- Thanks for reminding me about Castaneda, I have been meaning to check out some of his work, from what I've read it seems like just the sort of thing to get me excited. :)

Cheers for the suggestions everyone!!

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Originally Posted by Webmaster

9 months? :eek:
What methods are you guys trying? I really want to help if I can, so if you just post what you're doing, I'll do my best to help out :D

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Tried everything for at least 1 week. I've had 4 LD's, none very vivid. Closest I've came in WILD is SP. PM if you want to adopt me or something like that, I'd come back on here again if somebody was willing to help me.

You're lucky you've just discovered LDing for a month aniseed.
I've lost my passion for a couple of years now. :embarrassed:
The dream journal routine is really what annoyed me.
I got interested again only recently. And seeing as this is my first post in any LD community, I'd like to say hello to everybody here.:banana:
It's quite hard getting back to it though. So far I've hit only one LD last week.