Help on motivation getting back into LD

Hey everyone,　I wanted to get advice from peoples' experiences on how to get back into LD after a long rut...

Pretty much back in the early part of the decade I discovered LD and was big on it. I perfected it to having WILDs with ease and I had started learning about meditation. To make a long story short, the recession hit, I had work issues, etc. and this combined with my frustration on not being able to induce certain dreams and prolong my LDs made me decidedto take a month break from LD. Since the issues took a while to sort out, this month break has become years (until this day).

I want to get back into LD and meditation because I think I am more disciplined now but I feel the early excitement and passion (and impatience) has gone and I am having trouble motivating myself to even keep my dream journal.

I know I have to find "my own reasons" for motivation but does anyone have any tips on how to get out of long ruts? Any goals that helped motivate LD? Thanks for any help.

You can come up with some things that you might reaaaally want to do in a LD, like speak with a loved one who has passed away for instance.

My biggest motivation to date has been LaBerge's book. Just reading it got me really excited about lucid dreaming! :D And this was during a time like you described - where I finally had some time to do this but wasn't all that excited about it.

Strap a bomb to your chest that will detonate in a week unless you can find the deactivation manual in your dreams.

A mentor helped me get motivated. And the first night that I had him I had a LD so idk how that works.

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Originally Posted by Axel

A mentor helped me get motivated. And the first night that I had him I had a LD so idk how that works.

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I'm still a her! :P

And isn't just the excitement of having a lucid dream a motivation? :D

if you ever got a LD before, just think of which the greatest feeling you ever had was like, and when did you have it (probably in the LD :twisted:)

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Originally Posted by DreamFlow

I know I have to find "my own reasons" for motivation but does anyone have any tips on how to get out of long ruts?

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Re-read your own lucid dreams or read about other people's lucid dreams via their dream journals on this forum. Sometimes just recalling the emotions felt during a past lucid or relating to someone's will get me motivated.

I think motivation comes from having the right perspective. This modern world has done its best to diminish the role of "dreaming" in our lives - the very word itself associated with meaninglessness or something which isn't real. But, obviously, many cultures knew (and still know) the significance of this "other life" we have.

Even those who value the experience tend to get caught-up in modern terminology and perspectives. The bottom line, however, is that for a significant portion of each day we are freed from the prison of consensus reality and become, essentially, omnipotent. We become gods. Or, rather, we return to our natural god-like state, for that is who "we" are. It's definitely something worth remembering as we read light-hearted articles about "lucid dreaming" or purchase supplements from our local store!

So... for periods of our "life" we are omnipotent. We can instantly create personal realities and destroy them at will. What greater motivation do we need? What "more" is there than this? The catch, of course, is that no one will tell us when these periods are occuring. We have to keep checking for ourselves. Needing to know, therefore, leads to the practise which some call Reality Checks. Again though, it's all about perspective. Personally, I tend not to question whether I am dreaming or not, but whether I am omnipotent or not (perhaps by trying to move furniture with my mind or manifesting a beautiful female). The inherent desire to do this (to be omnipotent) is obviously greater than the desire to know whether one is "dreaming" or not. The motivation and the practise are therefore one and the same.

We have the ultimate power within our grasp; we just need to know when it is that we are grasping it.

Just like previously stated, find something you really want to do. Or try some new stuff. I recently started trying WILD, and while I might not get a LD, it is still deeply calming and a very good experience.