Share your wisdom! Community- Based Lucid Dreaming Tip Superthread!

[diggitydoggz]

Hey all, I think there's a lot of great information on the web for lucid dreaming but I also think there's a lot of things that people do to improve their recall/improve chances of attaining lucidity that we've discovered on our own and aren't listed under any method or on the web. And lots of things that ARE on the web but that we feel are more important than these sources make them out to be. So I think it'd be a good idea to make a thread like this where everyone can just share their wisdom and post the number one most valuable, amazing, helpful thing they've learned since starting this journey. I'll go first. I started practicing dreaming a little over a month ago and I went from zero recall to multiple recalls a night. One really important thing that I've discovered is not to get discouraged right away when you wake up and can't remember your dream. This happens all the time. Or I'll wake up and remember it and then lose it and then think it's gone forever. When you wake up and don't remember your dream, don't give up, and don't give up after just a few minutes either like I'm sure a lot of people do. Also, if there's something you think you dreamt about and you keep thinking about it and nothing comes, then you probably didn't dream about that thing and you shouldn't waste mental energy thinking about it. What you should instead do is concentrate on FEELINGS. I often get a "sense" of what happened... but the sense is unexplainable in terms of either words or pictures, it's just a feeling. I just concentrate on this feeling and a lot of the time I suddenly will recall. Last night, I had two pretty good recalls but they both started with me waking up remembering nothing. It took me a good 5-10 minutes to get the initial recalling going on and from then on it just landslided and I remembered a hell of a lot more at the 15 minute mark, even remembering one scene in which I went lucid. Another thing is that when I first started dreaming, I'd wake up and realize I had already been thinking about other stuff and I'd get discouraged and think I blew it because I hadn't been thinking about recalling the dream (it's often stressed, and rightly so, that you should wake up and immediately start thinking about recall). I've finally discovered though that those thoughts I thought I was having were actually occuring while I was still asleep and that more often than not they were either thoughts I had in my dream or were very very closely related to the dream. By concentrating on these thoughts and not getting discouraged (frustration = instant death of recall) I've recalled a lot of dreams. That's all from here... looking forward to what others have to say! I'm sure many of you are itching to share your tips.

[mrdeano]

I don't want to dishearten you but this forum is sort of like a super thread in its self. There's several forums for people to share their wisdom on lucid dreaming. This thread isn't really needed =/ In my opinion anyways.

[diggitydoggz]

lol, i'm not disheartened, though i'm worried that people who see this thread will read your post and decide not to reply. anyways in response to what you said: the vast majority of threads here are questions or shared experiences. how many tips threads do you see on the page of this forum for example. i dont think its unnecessary at all, and def not unnecessary to the point where there'd be any reason for me not to make the thread. think of it as a "post the number one thing you've learned about lucid dreaming" type of thread

[mrdeano]

lol, i'm not disheartened, though i'm worried that people who see this thread will read your post and decide not to reply. actually the vast majority of threads here are questions or shared experiences. how many tips threads do you see on the page of this forum for example. i dont think its unnecessary at all, and def not unnecessary to the point where there'd be any reason for me not to make the thread. You share your 'wisdom' by answering the questions being asked in this forum. Simple as. If you have experienced something worth mentioning, then make a thread about it in 'Lucid Experiences'

[diggitydoggz]

or i could just make this thread, and if you don't want to participate then you don't have to. there are different ways to share knowledge and this one's as valid as any. where is the rule that you have to share wisdom by replying to question type posts and that you're not allowed to try to assemble one thread with lots of tips?

[mrdeano]

or i could just make this thread, and if you don't want to participate then you don't have to. there are different ways to share knowledge and this one's as valid as any. where is the rule that you have to share wisdom by replying to question type posts? Fair enough.

[Shift]

I agree with Mr. Deano. On top of that, there are quite a number of threads posted like this on the forums already.

[BNW]

i dont know... i kinda agreed with diggitydoggz and wa skinda glad that he made a thread like this because there is other ways to gain knowledge that asking questions. I might not even know i had a specific question about something so i wouldnt ask it and then when i saw a helpful tip thread and read tips i could better my knowledege of LDing and fill gaps in my knowledge that i didnt know exsisted. But on the otherhand i see where you are coming from. People just learn differently... some like taking others advice and inncorperating it with their own knoledge and others like to ask questions and use knowledge from those answers. Both are valid though Either way i dont think it is fair to say that this thread isnt nessasary.

[psychedelicdreamer]

im with diggitydoggz!! i havn't been lucid dreaming that long and this would be a good thread just to look up other peoples methods and see what wokrs and doesnt work.

[kr3wskater]

But people have already made these threads in the past so its still a bit redundant