Thread: Dry Spell has gone into maximum overload

I can't tell you too much about meditation, but whenever I go through a nasty dry spell I usually put more effort into autosuggestion throughout the day. Not even necessarily telling myself that I will lucid dream, but that I will remember my dreams, have long and vivid dreams, etc.

I got a nice LD after learning about healing dreams in the book by Robert Waggonner. You can ask your dream characters for advice. Maybe just having the desire to meet your DC's and learn from them (get advice, a magical dreamsign from them, to help have more/better dreams, etc.?) would set up a positive cycle?

Originally Posted by beachgirl

I got a nice LD after learning about healing dreams in the book by Robert Waggonner. You can ask your dream characters for advice. Maybe just having the desire to meet your DC's and learn from them (get advice, a magical dreamsign from them, to help have more/better dreams, etc.?) would set up a positive cycle?

Wow, that sounds pretty neat!! Now if only I could be able to "Dream" to do
that.

try to improve your dream recall- it's important to remember that dream recall is not something beginners do and then forget

Sadly, it is pretty well known that stress can kill recall. You can do everything right, but if you're overworked and overstressed, it will still be very hard to have good recall and get lucid.

This happened to me about a year ago, when I went around 30 days without a single day off due to work and school. When I wasn't in class, I was working. I was often lucky to have 10 or 12 hours between shifts at work (no overtime for that either). They did so many thigns to us that there's now a big class-action lawsuit over it, which has been settled.

But getting back to the point--normally I had at least 2-3 lucid dreams per night, and remembered 5 or more dreams per night earlier that year. But in that time period I had the longest dry spell I've had in years (two, maybe three weeks). My recall was terrible, too. I would wake up and often remember almost nothing. What fragments I did remember never helped me remember the rest of the dream. It was very upsetting and frustrating.

Different people use different kinds of meditation, but I find the easiest for beginners is to learn correct breathing. That is, lay down on our back, and breathe deeply down to your diaphram. Your shoulders should not be moving, and your stomach should be moving up more than your chest. Simply doing this for 20 minutes can relieve a lot of stress. You can put on some relaxing music or sound, too.

Originally Posted by Naiya

Sadly, it is pretty well known that stress can kill recall. You can do everything right, but if you're overworked and overstressed, it will still be very hard to have good recall and get lucid.

This happened to me about a year ago, when I went around 30 days without a single day off due to work and school. When I wasn't in class, I was working. I was often lucky to have 10 or 12 hours between shifts at work (no overtime for that either). They did so many thigns to us that there's now a big class-action lawsuit over it, which has been settled.

But getting back to the point--normally I had at least 2-3 lucid dreams per night, and remembered 5 or more dreams per night earlier that year. But in that time period I had the longest dry spell I've had in years (two, maybe three weeks). My recall was terrible, too. I would wake up and often remember almost nothing. What fragments I did remember never helped me remember the rest of the dream. It was very upsetting and frustrating.

Different people use different kinds of meditation, but I find the easiest for beginners is to learn correct breathing. That is, lay down on our back, and breathe deeply down to your diaphram. Your shoulders should not be moving, and your stomach should be moving up more than your chest. Simply doing this for 20 minutes can relieve a lot of stress. You can put on some relaxing music or sound, too.

I agree wholeheartedly. Breathing is the most important thing in life.

I would like to add that before you go to sleep, tell yourself. "Ok, for the next eight hours, I release all my worry. I am only going to sleep and dream. "

When you meditate, allow negative thoughts, don't suppress them, but then, release them. Let them go. After awhile, your mind will relax, and you won't be thinking about all the crap that is bothering you.

Visualize a calm peaceful place, like a waterfall, the beach, or a mountain top.

When you journal, even if you can only remember a tiny part of a dream, a phrase like, "I was in a forest," write it down anyway.

Sorry to hear you are going through a rough time. I also am, in waking life.

what i do for meditation is sit cross legged on my bed, close my eyes, place my hands together like finger through finger and just have them rest on my legs, keep my back straight and my shoulders loose, then breath in through my nose for 4 seconds counting in my head then breath out of my mouth for 4 seconds counting in my head and when im breathing in i breath with my stomach instead of with my chest, youll know if you're doing it right if you see your stomach rising. and then just focus on your breathing and the counting and try not to think about anything else. and i usually do it for an hour, but if that seems too long for you id shoot for 30 minutes. if youve got any questions just ask

Originally Posted by Slick

Apart from trying to LD for 3 months, now I can't seem to dream at all, the last dream that occurred to me was 3 nights ago according to my DJ.

Trust me, you DO dream... When subject to sleep deprivation the body reacts by only having REM sleep (=> REM sleep, where 99% of all dreams occur, is essential/really important) and almost every people (except brain damaged/Alzheimer people I guess) dream in REM sleep. Naturally, don't sleep deprive yourself or overdo it... That wont be beneficial at all...

Try waking yourself up while in REM sleep using an alarm clock. That should help the dream recall a lot.
A REM-sleep cycle lasts 90 minutes +- 10-20 minutes, so if you wake yourself up 70 or 80 minutes into a sleep cycle you have good chances of hitting a REM period.

I have a dry spell too. It sucks