Thread: I remember my dreams, but never seem to get lucid.

You have to dedicate yourself to becoming Lucid and really want to. Expect to. For some it takes days, for others months. You'll get Lucid eventually and you will get more and more after that.

Try doing reality checks on a daily basis, if you do it enough it will carry over into your dreams.

This was sort of happening to me for a while. I would remember my dreams pretty well, and ridiculous things would happen, but nothing could really trigger my lucidity. Luckily last night, I had a very vivid dream, and I became lucid, although only for a short while. I just recommend sticking with it, keeping up with your journal, and doing reality checks. But what really made the difference for me last night was confidence. Whenever I have had a "gut feeling" that I would be lucid that night, I normally have been. Confidence plays a big part in attaining lucidity for me. Good luck, and stay patient.

I'm gonna go ahead and report my dreams in this thread until I get a few more posts.

In a dream I went into a store, went through a trap door in the ceiling that led me to this jungle-looking place. In the background there was a narrator talking about some ship that sunk long time ago, meanwhile some mini velociraptors were trying to bite my fingers off, I wasn't scared because I simply shook them off.

I've been practicing ADA and reality checks AND I STILL DON'T TURN LUCID WHAT THE HELL MAN NSDNSKGLKFHB

/end of rant

I can't remember to do reality checks, so that wouldn't work for me.
I'm currently trying a method called WILD. It's when you enter sleep paralysis and then enter directly into a dream knowing that you're dreaming.
It's a tricky one. xD

Originally Posted by Tenant

I'm gonna go ahead and report my dreams in this thread until I get a few more posts.

In a dream I went into a store, went through a trap door in the ceiling that led me to this jungle-looking place. In the background there was a narrator talking about some ship that sunk long time ago, meanwhile some mini velociraptors were trying to bite my fingers off, I wasn't scared because I simply shook them off.

I've been practicing ADA and reality checks AND I STILL DON'T TURN LUCID WHAT THE HELL MAN NSDNSKGLKFHB

/end of rant

I know what you're going through. I can recall up to 7 dreams a night, but it's all groggy to me, sort of like I'm watching through tunnel vision. It's annoying.

Now I'm a man of science, so the placebo effect is impossible for me to achieve, I have to know how it works, I can't just blindly convince myself. However I have taken a look into the concept serotonin & sleep with the brain, under the notion of increased vividness. So far I've concluded that 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) and Pyridoxine (part of vitamin b6) go hand in hand; simplified, eating one banana a day (LOADED with vitamin b6) should help make your dreams seem more real & less linear (if you're low on tryptophan, take some 5-htp pills, otherwise don't).

The idea is that the pyridoxine metabolizes the tryptophan into serotonin, which not only helps with sleep (supposedly increasing vividness) but also makes you feel happy. It's sometimes referred to as the body's "happy drug".

Lool, you're mad because you have been so far unsuccessful, yet you have only been trying for almost a month? HA! I laugh at your noobness.

But seriously, 1 month, 2 months, 3 months are all too soon to realistically expect results. Unless you can dedicate entire days to staring at your hands or are a natural, you are not going to get lucid for a long time. That being said, you don't HAVE to endure the long wait to lucidity. The more you try, the shorter the time. That simple.

Although if you over stretch yourself you will fall flat and be set back a few days, I know this from experience.

When people say keep trying, stay patient, be confident and remain diligent, they mean it because it's what works. Lucid dreamers are not a club that picks and choses it's members by misleading people.

One more top tip I learned from people here: 1 method may be dynamite for some people, or even a lot of people, but if it's not right for you, then ditch it. Try out as many methods and techniques as you can, and do them as well as you can. If you can honestly say you can do that, then I can honestly say there is no reason for you not becoming lucid sometime soon.

Don't just go through the motions of doing your reality checks; you really have to stop yourself - literally - and really take a few moments to question whether you could be dreaming. Once you look around a bit, seeing how gravity feels, if you can properly see the textures of objects, if peoples' conversations are making sense, now's the time to do a reality check.

RCs that you simply do as a habitual thing might carry over into your dreams, but it'll go something like this: you're flying, you randomly decide to plug your nose and see if you can breathe, then you keep going on about whatever you were previously doing. Reality checks are more to confirm that you're dreaming than anything else.

^^^Totally agree. It's not really the reality check you need to concentrate on, it's the awareness and information you get when you do them.

I know what you mean Puff, that's why I mention I'm also doing ADA.


Firebat- I'm gonna go ahead and assume you go to 4chan, what boards do you go to?

You're here because of the lucid dream threads aren't you?

Originally Posted by Tenant

Firebat- I'm gonna go ahead and assume you go to 4chan, what boards do you go to?

RULES ONE AND TWO!

Just kidding.

Originally Posted by Tenant

I know what you mean Puff, that's why I mention I'm also doing ADA.


Firebat- I'm gonna go ahead and assume you go to 4chan, what boards do you go to?

You're here because of the lucid dream threads aren't you?

Ah, I see. Using ADA, you should probably have your first lucid very soon.

Try the WBTB technique, it's best for the first few times. It gets your focus on LDing and your actual dreams much closer together.

I wake up at around 6:30 or 7:00 in the morning and I usually just write in the DJ and enjoy the morning, I'll try that too ninja

Not to offend or anything but that green color the dream guides have reminds of weed, it's pretty funny.

Originally Posted by Origami

Lool, you're mad because you have been so far unsuccessful, yet you have only been trying for almost a month? HA! I laugh at your noobness.

don't be mean to the kid lucid dreaming happens at different times for different people, some people can get a lucid the first try, some it takes them a year, its not "noobness" because it doesn't even take HALF of a month for some people to have a lucid dream.

Originally Posted by Tenant

I know what you mean Puff, that's why I mention I'm also doing ADA.


Firebat- I'm gonna go ahead and assume you go to 4chan, what boards do you go to?

You're here because of the lucid dream threads aren't you?

Believe it or not, I actually don't go to the boards, I just linger around "know your meme". Gotta stay hip and young in this here internets.

Originally Posted by Puffin

Don't just go through the motions of doing your reality checks; you really have to stop yourself - literally - and really take a few moments to question whether you could be dreaming. Once you look around a bit, seeing how gravity feels, if you can properly see the textures of objects, if peoples' conversations are making sense, now's the time to do a reality check.

RCs that you simply do as a habitual thing might carry over into your dreams, but it'll go something like this: you're flying, you randomly decide to plug your nose and see if you can breathe, then you keep going on about whatever you were previously doing. Reality checks are more to confirm that you're dreaming than anything else.

i got this same advice from someone on this site and i am 100% sure it was what made me able to have my first LD

Originally Posted by erible

don't be mean to the kid lucid dreaming happens at different times for different people, some people can get a lucid the first try, some it takes them a year, its not "noobness" because it doesn't even take HALF of a month for some people to have a lucid dream.

If you read down a little on my post I said I was joking. I'm not THAT much of an asshole.