Thread: Dry Spell has gone into maximum overload

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. And trust me when I say, I really started getting into the habit, I do RC's, say mantras before I fall asleep, basically just think about Lucid Dreaming everyday.

In honesty, I think it is a result of stress/depression, the last couple nights
of I've been feeling kind of down, which is why no dream sequence is coming
to me as of late.

Can anyone give me some simple meditation tips to relieve my stress problems?
Possibly ones that's easy to follow?

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.