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I find some ppl struggle with diffent things in LDs so my question is whats the hardest part for you.
For me id say i dont have one coz they are all easy but if i had to pick it would be patients while attemping Wild though that can be easy if im tried enough. well what about u guys/girls etc... = )
I CAN NOT WILD, I can't ever reach SP, I've tried a bunch of times but even when I exit a dream and stay completely still, it just never happens
I haven't had a WILD. I've not found that balance between awake enough to stay conscious but not end up staying up all night. Usually I'll end up awake from the time I start (2-3 a.m.) until about 20 minutes before I have to wake up (7 am). Then I'm just upset about losing almost a whole night's sleep.
On a couple occasions I've made it to the point of my body starting to vibrate/hum, at which point I get excited and wake myself up.
As far as DILDs go, I have a hard time getting around my dream logic where everything makes sense no matter how ridiculous.
I would have to say right now would be maintaining lucid-ness after consciously attempting, and achieving, a LD. Things have been progressing well... practice makes perfect.
Hardest thing?
Achieving lucidity:)
WILDing is pretty tough for me but i managed it a few times both times i had my longest, vividest, most lucid LD. So i stick to it :)
True datQuote:
Originally Posted by rookybeats
the hardest thing is WILDing for me also. Seriously, I can NOT wild.
For me, for DILD, its realizing I'm dreaming...
But I think once I hit Lucid it will be just that hard to make me go back? o_O Can't wait to pop the thought "That makes no sense... I must be dreaming!"
Im just hopefully waiting to be put into an event where my senses go "... I wonder what time is it" like in class at school. ( Its a good place to realize your dreaming right? ) Its like "I wonder what time is it.." -Looks at clock- "Thats not right, School at 3 AM? I must be dreaming!" <- I am just waiting for that :)
Other than that, I can be very gullible ( Flying jets when I don't really have one... And shooting down enemy aircraft just doesn't send me the message :( )
The hardest thing about LD'ing?
Having one, definitely.
Currently the hardest thing for me to do is the ability to keep flying, even when DCs chase me. If no one is bugging me, I fly just fine. But the moment a DC tries to catch me, I have the hardest time staying up!
I have issues WILDing and summoning people. Those two I have huge issues with.
lol just like everyone else its WILDing but last night i got to SP so im getting there. the most annoying thing is to not think about WILDing when your WILDing.
The hardest thing for me is trying to stay aware all the time in real life. I hope that once I can do that it will carry over in my dreams. I have just given up wild for now. :)
Get motivated. For me its the hardest part. As i observed in recent days. It helps, when i have some goals and when i am really happy about them. That helps, but thats the hardest part for me.
If i am motivated {i know, what my lucid dream should be about and be pretty happy with it}, lucid dream simply comes. And thats fine.
:D
I'm just to lazy to use my dreamjournal, thats it.:P
The hardest thing for me would be the final stages of WILD. I get excited because I know I'm close, and invariably it goes back to square one. Frustrating yes, and frustration and WILD don't go to well together for me. Though a few of my "failed" WILD's end up me getting up out of bed from frustration, INTO a LD/FA, quite humorous actually when I think about it. Other than that, Pure Laziness on my part! :)
Staring dreamily into space ~ Smee
Remembering to do stuff. It's so hard to do a task, like the task of the month. I swear, I have ADD or something when asleep, I just end up doing whatever I feel like at the moment.
The hardest thing for me is finding a good time to work on lucid dreaming.
If I'm in the right mood and there are no interruptions lucid dreaming isn't hard at all.
Chalk another one up for WILD. I get vibrations and that's it. One time when listening to a bwgen preset I lost my sense of hearing. It lasted for like a second, but that was the farthest I've ever got.
Stuff really started to get a whole lot easier control wise lately. WILD occasionally late at night/early in the morning, really can't be bothered to set an alarm. Biggest problem though: Staying in the dream after an orgasm. This is pretty much impossible for me, but a DEILD usually works to get back in:)
I can't go thru solid things like walls and ceilings. I can finally go thru glass every time, and maybe a door, but I can never just blast up out of a room if I get stuck. I sreem to be getting weaker too; I used to get part-way thru, with my hands stuck in the ceiling, but last time I tried I just cracked it.
I think it's motivation. Since I can't recall my dreams very well now I kind of started losing motivation. Also, when I get lucid the hardest part for me is to keep it. Staying lucid.
1) Staying calm while first entering a lucid dream.. I usually always end up waking myself up after 2-3 seconds because I'm too excited.
2) Not jumping out of almost entering SP
Same here.Quote:
Originally Posted by gthom
Well I haven't tried I just started my journey but I think it's going to be recognizing I'm dreaming and taking control because I never have thoughts while dreaming I just go with the flow, any thoughts on how to break this?
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by james_jlc
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 :(
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by james-25:22pm
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 :P
But yea, if I could get more lucids, I guess I would become better at the entire power thing.
avoiding the "fade to black"