Thread: Motivation to LD

For me, I want to do everything I can't do in RL (Really, just about everything), and I also want to talk to dream characters. I think that could provide a lot of laughs as well as some insight into my sub-conscious.

To discover my inner peace;something that can't be done so easily in reality. My perfect LD would be in a tranquil background with the sun-set sky paired with an ocean horizon.
Or like NJD said before. You can do things you can't do in reality. Just think of some stuff up carefully, and list 'em out. You shouldn't be obligated to LD if you have no motivation at all, so don't stress it out.

It's got to be a spark. As with most of my hobbies (fish, papercraft, gaming), I need a spontaneous spark of interest to get me going. For fish, it could be noticing a new phenotype just developed in some maturing fry. For gaming, it could simply be someone's pixelly avatar, or a new release. For dreaming... Well, that could spawn from another dream, or from reading my favorite journal entries. The best, though, is reading a really imaginitive (and not half-formed) thread on the forums.

the abilities to do anything I want in the dream. complete control, by just thinking about it.

For me my most serious use for LD is to get speaking in another language. This morning I awoke with the recall of a dream I had about speaking Spanish. I was in Antarctica at a kid's area in a mall and I was talking with Cheech Marin, in Spanish. I've been living in South America for a few years now and I know a lot of Spanish but I'm just a little intimidated to speak it out loud, I feel very self concious about doing it. I'm an English teacher and I know that most of my students feel the same way about speaking English. I'm thinking If I can change over to Spanish in my dreams it might be a good start to get speaking in Spanish while I'm awake. I also think if I can master the technique maybe I can teach my students about it, maybe it will really help them to get speaking too.

Last night was the first time I recall doing it but I'm thinking that since so much of language takes place automatically anyway, maybe recall isn't totally dispositive, but it does give me some more confidence as I remember what I said and it was correct. Well that's one of my motivations...

This dream wasn't lucid, but I have been telling myself to speak Spanish in my dreams. I had plenty of clues that it was a dream; the words on a woman's t-shirt changed when I looked away TTWW (Thought That Was Weird), my brother was holding up a giant Snow Flake TTWW, and I was walking barefoot at the south pole TTWW!

Oh boy! You need motivation!? Just watch The Matrix! Haha. But seriously, the idea of being able to do anything you want to is just incredible motivation in itself. Let me stress ANYTHING!!!!!!

Any sex you want, any powers you want, ANYTHING you want to do! And on top of all, it can be just as real as the waking world is. When you fly, you feel the wind, you hear it blowing by your ears, through your hair, making your eyes water. You touch water and you feel it's wet and unstable surface and watch as it ripples with it's own physics, giving your reflecting, cold and shiny on your hands. Oh my god it's amazing to experience in a dream, how realistic things can be.

Getting back to my point about being able to do ANYTHING! No consequences, no downsides, no restrictions! You can be the ruler of your imagination and you can experience it all just like you would in real life! The idea of lucid dreaming is enough motivation for anyone surely!!

Now look what you did, you got me all excited and motivated just writing about it!!!

About motivation... thats pretty a loong and neverending story. Motivation is something you are searching for only if you doubt what you are doing. You actually dont know, why to try lucid dreaming.

Even if everyone here wrote whats so motivating for him/her in lucid dreaming. That would be nothing for you. The best way would be just to sit down and think deeper about if you really want to do lucid dreaming. What would you like to do in a dream world. Is it really worth the time?

If you feel empty about lucid dreaming... Then before doing anything else, fill your hearth with it, not only your mind.