so for my i have to really work at it to have lucid dreams. this makes it very time consuming and mentally draining because i have to try a bunch of techniques, do tons of state tests, think about it a lot and so on, thus i usually give up after six months or so of perhaps fifteen lucid dreams and don't try any more for many months or a year or so and then come back just to give up again after the same success for a small amount of time.

i'm trying to create or at least find an existing method that is low impact that i can do for the rest of my life that would be functional. as it is there is a MASS amount of different methods on here and in books. you can't do them all, trying to do too many may work but will eventually become tiresome.

how about this:

1. do four planned state tests (reality checks) a day for reality reflection and for memory training. after passing the RC do a day dream in which i fail the test and then resolve to become lucid the next time i'm dreaming (roughly what's found in laberge, rheingold EWLD). so we have the critical reflective mind state, reality checks, and the power of resolution.

2. wake up after six hours of sleep every day, dream journal, then MILD back to sleep. so we have WBTB and MILD, and possible DILDs because of the state tests.


i think this should be enough to keep the skill alive without consuming much time or creating tiring mental habits where i'm state testing fifty times a day (which is fun at first but after awhile it's annoying). so i could plausibly keep this up for the rest of my life.

agreement? disagreement? ideas? thoughts?