Finally, some Lucid Dreams after a hiatus!

After probably a year with hardly a breath of Lucidity, finally the flood gates opened. I'm a regular Lucid Dreamer, I have usually 2 or 3 a week to some degree, but that sort of phazed out over the past 2 years with a stressful job, losing that job, living in a place where traffic is loud outside my window and disrupts my sleep cycles etc... To the point where it took all my conscious effort just to remember my dreams because my mindset was so disrsuppted when I awoke that dream recall was difficult.

However! I always kept the faith, studied various people's experiences, meditated and did what I could to at least keep aware of my dreams and what they told me. And the other night, in a pretty random regular dream, my awareness snapped open like my eyes after being asleep for a year.

In the dream I was yelling at someone in a cell phone on a street corner, crowded, lots of cars and noise, and I looked around and it just... Happened. So in the spirit of the dream, once I became Lucid I just lifted my whole body off the street corner and into orbit around the moon where things were much quieter, and after briefly telling the person on the phone that I had evolved and our conversation was no longer important, I got down to business.

The message here? If you're having a dry spell, no matter how dry, don't give up. Once a dreamer, always a dreamer!

Congratulation. ^^ I want to become reguler LDer. It's not easy, but I had few lucid dreams already. What kind of tech. do you use? Is it wild?

Congrats on your success and you are absolutely right! Persistance pays and though everything may not come as easy as most would like, it is all worth it in the end. I hope some of our beginners here read this post and it ispires them to keep working toward their goals. Congrats once again!

Hrm the tech I use most is just anything I can do, remember to do, and keep up that will enable me to keep remembering my dreams and what it actually feels like to dream. The more you familiarize yourself with the whole process, the easier it becomes to eventually hit that lucid realization, because your mind is constently comparing waking life and the dream world.

What I have been doing, is when I wake up I kind of force myself to lay there each time without letting the real world's stresses, thoughts and activities disrupt my recall. The funny thing about dreams is if you let them slip away upon wakening, they completely disappear from your memory and all you're left with is bits and pieces.

So, what the result has been the past 6 months or so are very vivid, easily recollectable dreams, several a night, always barely hitting the lucid mark but knowing if I'm patient it'll happen. You can definately speed the process up with a more disciplined regimin, (Dream journals, timed reality checks so your body actually attunes itself and searches for the hourly reality check and bam your in a dream) etc, but I've always had no problem with the usual "sitting awake after a dream and just trying to remember it, constantly".

Hope that helps, everyone can do it, I'm certain, the trick is to just familarize yourself with how the waking world feels compared to the dream world.

And thanks KingYoshi! I think it helps for anyone to share their experiences with Lucid Dreaming, it's all about raising awareness/concsiousness, imo!

For the traffic noises, try earplugs. I live in a noisy college dorm and I wouldn't be able to sleep without them. Try the soft ones that expand to fill your ears. They're effective and not too uncomfortable.