Thread: What would you have done differently?

I waited about a month to join here, I wish I woula joined right away.

I'm happy I stayed motivated and kept trying over the month before my first LD, otherwise I would have given up and never learned this awesome skill.

hmm...well, I would say not giving up so much on WILD when I was first starting out. Also to what go on the subject QwinsepiaSquared said, I wished I never left dream views. I used to have an old account back in 2004 but I stopped checking dreams views because I pretty much have the LD down.

Besides that I think I would keep everything the same.

I'm happy with what I did. I lurked around for half a year before I joined that way I could contribute a little bit. If I could have changed anything I would have hoped I could have found out about it earlier. I could have learned to wild a lot earlier in the game and stuck with it. Other than that I'm just glad I found this place.

If I could go back to the beginning (seven years ago in the good old year of 2001) I woudn't have bothered all the times when I tried MILD, WILD, and WBTB's. All three of those methods failed for me then, and they still do now.
I wish I would have known about reality checks back then because they have really helped me out. Since I have started performing reality checks at appropriate times, I have had TWO lucid dreams in the past two and a half months!

i would have NEVER taken a break. Sometimes breaks are good, but if they are too long, you just lose the ability

i didnt know that at the time though, leading to a loooooooooooong dryspell and alot of work to get up to par.

I knew about lucid dreaming for a year before joining here. I wish I had done it right off the bat. I also wish that I had been less tempted by sex during the early ones when I didn't have the skill to stay in them.

I started having these amazing vivid occasional lucid dreams when I was 5 or 6 so I probably would've tried to have them more often

I want to do everything exactly like I did back then, I had a lucid every 2-3 days. Actually I think it was just keeping a dream journal, I rarely used a reality check in a dream to become lucid.

When I started lucid dreaming I was a young child and I used it only to awaken myself from nightmares. I developed a technique of closing my eyes in dreams and when I opened them I would open my real eyes and wake up. I wish I had realized I could just change the dream because now waking up from closing my eyes is a deep seeded reaction that I have never been able to get rid of completely.

maybe you can help a noob out...

Originally Posted by freefire

i would have NEVER taken a break. Sometimes breaks are good, but if they are too long, you just lose the ability

Yes, I totally agree! It's hard for me to continue training myself to lucid dream whenever a new 'more exciting' interest comes to my attention. I've made such a huge progress these past few months that I don't want anything to distract me. Unfortunately my birdwatching season is coming sooner than expected so I don't think I'll be around Dreamviews for much longer But I know I'll be back, lmao!

Well I have wasted about 14 years of lucid dreaming, not knowing anywhere near what I know now - I never used it for anything worthwhile!

If only I knew there were no limitations back then, my mind was pretty closed and didn't realise what I could achieve! So if I could go back I would have tried to do a lot more, and also created Dv myself so I could be KING Mwahahahahaha!!

Originally Posted by freefire

i would have NEVER taken a break. Sometimes breaks are good, but if they are too long, you just lose the ability

i didnt know that at the time though, leading to a loooooooooooong dryspell and alot of work to get up to par.

Agreed. Summer was my chance to dream, instead I screwed up my sleep schedule and concentrated more on videogames. Only now am I getting my groove back. DX