Hello!

**Meldmac** · 11-08-2012 02:13 PM

Hello!

I've just recently gotten a bit more serious about trying to master lucid dreaming.
I first learned about it about 15 years ago and tried for a while but never had any success other than good dream recall, which is pretty awesome in itself.

Half a year ago I had a period of about a month where I was a little bit more serious about getting lucid and actually managed a short lucid dream, but then there was too much stress at work and I totally lost focus.

Now I've been trying for about two weeks and the other day I had my second ever lucid dream. Now that I found this forum I'm hoping it will help me stay focused and motivated. Hopefully I'll be able to, in some way, at some point, help somebody else.

Step one is to improve my dream recall which sucks at the moment.

I'll see you around!

**meistersomnius** · 11-08-2012 05:21 PM

Hey there! I'm quite new to. I had most success with the WBTB method. You should give it a try. WILDing has never worked for me so far.

**~~MasterMind~~** · 11-08-2012 06:50 PM

Welcome Meldmac!

Good dream recall is a big first step on the way to mastery. To master something you have to understand it, to understand it you need to have your own experience and knowledge.

And one misstake that many people make that stops their progress is that they put too much trust on methods, this is what I did as a beginner as well so it's nothing to blame yourself for.
What I mean by putting to much trust I mean that they stop giving themself credit for their success and also stop learning by themself.

I just want to point this out because this realization is what I think is the biggest reason for my progress today.

Methods is really useful, but should never be considered as fact, it's easy to understand when you watch a bad explained youtube video tutorial, but it's harder to be alert when you read a well written guide here on this forum. I am not saying that the guides are bad, they are probably really good but if you think that lucid dreaming can be learned and mastered by reading exact instructions written by someone other than yourself, your gravely mistaken. The reason for this is that everybody are different and every night is different.

So see the guides and tutorials as inspriation and they are just there to give you some kind of direction of how things generally work and what you have to work with, but as you practise learn to adjust the methods for your own liking and success and put the credit in yourself, but also remember to learn from the "failures" and not get dragged down and discouraged by them.

I am sure you will find your way though

But if you ever feel like you would like some inspiration or help don't be afraid to ask.

Namaste.