One year! No results...

**Alexm309** · 07-02-2009 05:01 AM

It was just about one year ago that I first read about lucid dreaming. Unfortunately, I've had only 2 LDs so far! It's kind of disheartening to think I might average 2 a year. I Don't doubt its a questions on weather or not I'm interested! I've kept a dream journal... uh... on and off... (Busy you know?) and when i didn't keep one, I always awoke consciously remembering my dreams, I just had no time to write them down. I feel like all it will take for me to "Get it", to understand how to continue from reading tutorials to no results, to 1 a week, 2 a week etc, is to have just one LD under controlled conditions. i.e. A RC initiated DILD (Both LDs I've had so far, i kinda just knew, i didn't do a an RC or anything, i was just like Woah, cool, dream!"), a WILD, or a MILD. And its not like I don't try! I'm up often at 3:00, and many times i feel I've gotten close but no cigar.

I was just wondering, any one else experience this kinda... wall? I feel like I'm so close to getting over the wall, all i need is one more LD! Anyone know what I'm talking about at all? Am I just crazy?

**StrangeDreamsGuy** · 07-02-2009 05:25 AM

I feel like this, but I've only been trying to 3 nights, so I'm doing pretty normal right now. It's such a weird thing, I think once I have one I'll be a lot better off.

**Shift** · 07-02-2009 05:28 AM

You know, I have known about LDing for 6 years now, and it was only in the past 15 months that I got anything over 1 or 2 lucid dreams per year. Trust me, there's hope

What techniques have you been trying, really, besides keeping a dreamjournal? There are so many different ones out there, maybe you're just focusing on something that is more difficult. Chances are there's a technique out there that, if you have the drive and are gonna put in the effort, will pay off.

I recommend these, just to get you started thinking about this topic.

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/...me-wild-dild_1
http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/...ue-is-best-you

Now, I had EWOLD for a year before I joined DV, and it didn't do me a whole lot of good. I think reading about LDing, thinking about different techniques, rationalizing how lucidity works, really helped me understand how I personally should try to achieve it and I think that's what helped me begin to have success.

**Dream scientist** · 07-02-2009 09:20 PM

4 and 1/2 years, shift? Damn, you are dedicated. I'll never look at your creepy smiley avatar the same again!

**Alexm309** · 07-03-2009 01:21 AM

I never knew such quizzes existed! Thanks! Well i took the first one WILD/DILD and got WILD, so i suppose the other one is less useful, but it took it and got "Reality Checks to Increase Awarness" I shall take both into account!

What I've sorta been doing is maybe for 2 weeks, i'll say "Ok, i'm going to do X" and i'll read topics here about it, i'll look it up in "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" And i'll sort of dedicate those to weeks to that one topic. Then when it doesn't work, i'll move on to a different topic. I'm constantly on google, over here, or other places on the internet looking for different things, but i usualy settle on doing RCs during the day, and either just trying that, or working on WILDs or MILDs at night (if i have time)

After actually typing that out, it sounds useless! I have to focus on one thing... You know WILDs are probably the hardest thing to do, but I've experienced SP before, and i say BRING IT!

**InvisibleMan** · 07-03-2009 04:25 AM

That is some bad luck you got. But you got to keep trying as hard as you can. Keep your mind set towards achieving your goal of an LD.
Take a good 2-3 months of full, 100%, motivation towards LD, see if you can get one, if not, keep trying.

**mattmuffler** · 07-03-2009 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by Alexm309

It was just about one year ago that I first read about lucid dreaming. Unfortunately, I've had only 2 LDs so far! It's kind of disheartening to think I might average 2 a year. I Don't doubt its a questions on weather or not I'm interested! I've kept a dream journal... uh... on and off... (Busy you know?) and when i didn't keep one, I always awoke consciously remembering my dreams, I just had no time to write them down. I feel like all it will take for me to "Get it", to understand how to continue from reading tutorials to no results, to 1 a week, 2 a week etc, is to have just one LD under controlled conditions. i.e. A RC initiated DILD (Both LDs I've had so far, i kinda just knew, i didn't do a an RC or anything, i was just like Woah, cool, dream!"), a WILD, or a MILD. And its not like I don't try! I'm up often at 3:00, and many times i feel I've gotten close but no cigar.

I was just wondering, any one else experience this kinda... wall? I feel like I'm so close to getting over the wall, all i need is one more LD! Anyone know what I'm talking about at all? Am I just crazy?

ditto bro. just keep trying. i've only had a few so far but like shift said, just keep going. it's way more common than you think, everyone develops at a different rate

**yuriythebest** · 07-03-2009 09:22 PM

Originally Posted by Alexm309

I've kept a dream journal... uh... on and off... (Busy you know?)?

too busy to spare 10-15 mins writing down dreams? watch one less tv show lol

I feel like all it will take for me to "Get it"

that's good! don't rush it- as long as you feel there is progress then there usually is. Continue trying!

**Hukif** · 07-03-2009 11:52 PM

Oh I experienced a wall, 8 years with no sucess at all... nothing other than of course the natural ones. I wonder, has you tried everything in the tutorials? Because maybe thats the problem, take the one that works best for you, work on it, modify it so it fits your style, then enjoy, thats what according to me works the best <.<

**InvisibleMan** · 07-04-2009 05:01 AM

8 years? How did you stay motivated?

**imj** · 07-04-2009 08:38 AM

That means you are not getting to know your dreams well enough to learn roughly how they work. You can pay attention to dream content and relate that to waking life content/actions and manipulate the incubation process from knowing how the dream got the 'theme' and from where. For me there are 2 parts to a dream..the base which is reality or real experiences in your lifetime and there is the other part which is non-reality and abstract and not part of my daily life. Knowing how your dreams work makes it easier to navigate and 'implant' reality checks.

IMJ