How to get back the passion?

Its been awhile since I've had a LD and I want to get back into it. But it's hard for me to rekindle the same passion for it when I first started a year or so ago. You'd think it would be easy since I've had LD's and all sorts of crazy experiences before but now I can't even get myself to do RCs throughout the day. Someone give me some encouraging words. How can I say to myself that I will no longer LD? I'm going to dream every night so I might as well be awake in them, right?

I have been thinking about it more lately and my dreams have been slightly more vivid. So I guess just gotta try again, for the first time. :lol:

Ive been wanting to do it alot more often like I used to but for some reason it seems like its out of my control. I had one last week and the other day I almost had one but woke up. Ive had them almost every day before then gone month and months without one.

Sorry to say this, but it looks as though you'll have to begin again at square one. If you don't have a dream journal already, start keeping one. If your recall sucks, improve it. I'd go ahead and forget RC's in favor of autosuggestion. Most importantly, stay motivated any way you can. Come up with a list of awesome things to do in your dreams, think about being an omnipotent demigod, whatever it takes to stay motivated.

I suppose you're right :)

Don't get stressed about following routines unless they're for improving the dreams (like a journal for recall. I actually just use plain memory walks through the dreams as an easy replacement). If you keep focused on the dreams, and have already LD'd before, I think you should be alright getting back on track.

Start thinking about why you want to lucid dream, and the things that you can do in them. Don't think of doing RCs, and the techniques as work, but as something that can help you have a really fun and worth while experience. Some people don't care enough, and lucid dreaming isn't for everyone. But just that you would ask this proves that this is not the case for you.

check out my thread http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=84718

its really aimed for people that plan on giving up, but i think it could give you some encouragement.

I can't say much about rekindling passion. That's going to have to come from you. I can recommend this though: in anything you do, you should enjoy the process. Joyless striving towards lucidity might get you lucids, or it might not. Either way, you will not be passionate about it. It has to come from love.

To give you an example, something from my own life. I love foreign languages. I desperately want to speak (and think in) one other than English. Except if I just studied all day, not enjoying it, just 'keeping the eye's on the prize', then it would be passionless. I can tell you some of the most fun nights I've had were just sitting in front of the TV and studying a bunch of new words.

One thing that helps to rekindle the passion for LD is to hang around and participate in this forum.

There is nothing better than a community that shares and supports your interest in LD. :)

Setting specific goals that you think will challenge you are a good motivator. I have 3 or 4 now that are pretty ridiculous for my level of dream control, but they give me something to be excited about. I have lost the passion as well before, but after a short time of regular visits to Dreamviews it really stays with me now.