Thread: The hardest part of LDing for you

if you'd asked me, it would be a mistake to answer this question.

A negative attitude really doesn't help anything with dreaming. Just makes things harder.

Even though I could think of something, Im not going too

Originally Posted by james_jlc

if you'd asked me, it would be a mistake to answer this question.

A negative attitude really doesn't help anything with dreaming. Just makes things harder.

Even though I could think of something, Im not going too

I tottally agree! i'd have to say (from the standpoint of newbies anyway) that finding good INFORMATION on lucid dreaming is probably the hardest thing to do. If you practice LD'ing diligently with good methods you will see results fairly quick.

yeah...if you use words like "the hardest thing"....you give this 'challenge' an elevated status.

Congratulations to those who've posted here! you've put your goals on a pedistool. Happy climbing!

Strangly enough, WILDs come much easier for me than DILDs. I just can't realize I'm dreaming most of the time. I'll actually wake up and remember myself doing a reality check and still not knowing I was dreaming

Originally Posted by james-25:22pm

yeah...if you use words like "the hardest thing"....you give this 'challenge' an elevated status.

Congratulations to those who've posted here! you've put your goals on a pedistool. Happy climbing!

It's funny, because when I try to break thru a wall or ceiling, I really have no doubt at all that it will work. I'm always surprised when it doesn't. I don't think saying that it happens a lot is really going to make it any harder than it already is.

For me, things like that just take time. I tried for a long time to go thru glass, and it would stretch like plastic and not break. Finally it became like saran wrap, then like nothing at all. I really have no doubt that walls and ceilings will eventually become instubstantial too. It's just practice, I think. I used to get stuck in rooms a lot, but that doesn't happen as much anymore, so I have less opportunity to try it.

Heres a tip. while you're awake, visualize yourself in a lucid dream doing the things you find "hard" to do with ease. Repeat this process over and over for a few minutes at a time. Do it every day. Because the mind cant tell between imagined actions and real actions it will aid in changing your beliefs in order to make it easier for you to actually do those things in LD's. Instead of wasting time in LD's having to practice them in order to slowly change the belief. Consider it a shortcut.

Without a doubt, the most difficult part of lucid dreaming is the fact that even though I talk about LDing with almost everyone I know, and it occupies a lot of my thought space, I still go 11 days without having one (my current dry spell)

worrying about dry spells and identifying them as "dry spells" only helps to prolong them.

+ 1

you're not 'really' in a dryspell until you say 'halp, Im in dryspell'.

For me, that word is a taboo!

The hardest part, is probably getting lucid while dreaming, and then actually having some power. Keeping stability and lucidity is usually not that much of a problem, I know how to keep my cool

But yea, if I could get more lucids, I guess I would become better at the entire power thing.

avoiding the "fade to black"