The difficulty of learning how to have your first lucid dream.

[AcedBaldrar]

Hello, i am a new user on this forum and this would be my first post on dreamview's but probally the most important one i will ever make, ever since i was a child i've had blurry dream's where i could not control my body at all nor realize it was my body to begin with, those years are over but still the same happens in my dream's blurry confused state. still unable to control anything including my dream body, i've tried to lucid dream for 3 year's and i cannot by all mean's i have REM dream's as i remember my dream's. but everytime i try to lucid dream i fail, i made this post because i realized a lack of these particular type of post's i have heard of people not being able to lucid dream for month's but I've tried for year's with no result's if anyone would know how to help me have my first lucid dream ever i'd be eternally gratefull. my sentence structure is not very good so bare with it. and if anyone has this problem or solution post in this thread. i thank all who read this.

[HawkeyeTy]

How many different techniques have you tried? Have you tried lucid dreaming supplements to increase the vividness of your dreams? How much effort have you put into trying these techniques? I've been having a dry spell, at the same time I've notice my efforts have lessened over time. Have you tried increasing daytime awareness? Awareness while awake can transition into your dreams and cause lucidity. I recently posted something in the forum that might be of help to you. Check this post out and let me know how it works for you.

[n00bf0rlyf3]

Lucid dreaming isn't very hard, it's all about motivation and since you made this post you aren't very motivated. I would suggest watching a couple movies or videos about lucid dreaming to see how cool it really is and hopefully that will motivate you, just the thought of doing anything I want (if you catch my drift...) motivates me.

[Sivason]

Welcome to Dream Views! This is the place to be for anyone wanting to learn how to lucid dream. There is no quick answer to your question, but the Dream guide team is here to help you navigate the forum and answer questions. We all have 3 green stars above our avatar. Click on our user name and you can then select private message if you have a question, or you can start new threads. Don't worry about starting threads that have been started before, just try it out, if it ends up in the wrong place one of us can move it for you. One thing you can do in a post is place a link to another thread. I have done this below. You can click on the colored words to see the new thread. Start with this extra basic one, it will help you read the acronyms in other posts, http://www.dreamviews.com/showthread...92#post1962592 After that one the very first thing you should do is check out basic tutorials. This one covers most of the terms you will see members using in much more depth, so start here, http://www.dreamviews.com/f20/beginn...eaming-124786/ Also be sure to check out the DVA Dream Views Acadamy, click on this link to get there, DV Academy. Matte , our Dream Guide team leader runs a general lucid dreaming class, and you can join in contests where you gain points for dreams you have. General Lucid Dreaming (Matte87) Gab , another Dream Guide runs a class that is very valuable to beginners on MILD/DILD, which is by far the best method to start with. DILD (Hukif and gab) Finally as far as the DVA stuff goes, there is a class on introduction to lucid dreaming. This is a great place if you are just starting out and need a little personal help. Intro Class (OpheliaBlue, RareCola, CanisLucidus, Chimpertainment, Xanous) Now, on the lighter side, you may be excited to learn to fly! Here is a thread where people explain how they went about learning to fly, http://www.dreamviews.com/f14/can-u-...u-learn-40468/ Then just for a laugh here is a thread where people list all the things they want to do in an LD. It is mostly light hearted and supposed to be funny, http://www.dreamviews.com/f11/1000-t...-dream-104556/ Have fun and good luck with your dreaming!

[MasterMind]

Welcome AcedBaldrar. I know what you mean with blurry lucid dreams. (I think). You realize it is a dream and experience something, although when you wake up it feels like it wasn't like physical reality and you start to think that a stable and perfectly controlable lucid dream seems to be nothing but a .. dream? (huhu) - Atleast this is how it felt for me in the first 2 years of my practise. First of all remember that being on this forum will make you progress much faster than most people and even Stephen LaBerge! It took Stephen LaBerge 24 years and many other authors about the same time to learn to actively induce lucid dreams and have stable adventures. Well with this community I am planning to shorten that time! But it's motivating and wise to keep that in mind. Anyway back to your question, this is just an answer based on my experience so it may not appeal to you. But I hope that it does. Let's say that I induce a lucid dream with the DILD technique with a method like MILD. Ok so I am in a dream it feels a little blurry, many things is distracting me everything from sexual temptations, to just fly away or what ever you can imagine, fear is common as well. What I would do here is not to focus on the dream itself, in my experience that will only increase the vividness of the dream and not the awareness in itself. Not my dreambody either because that is just a part of the dream not my awareness, I don't need to reality check either I already know it is a dream. What I want to do is to just close my eyes, focus on the awareness itself be in nothingness. How to do this is partly learned from meditation (I'll provide a link). And don't worry about waking up, if you do wake up it's great because on the awakening your brain acually starts to activate the aminergic system (dopamine, norepinephrine etc...) and those chemicals basically makes the brain more critical logical! I would like to say aware, but well it's very hard to define awareness and it's a too ambgious word so I am happy by just saying it makes you think critically. Then you can lay still and have closed eyes and chain the dream and the moment you enter the dream the cholinergic system (acetylcholine) the chemical that goes to the pinealgland, will basically increase activity and the dream will feel more vivid. Just see this as a simple beneficial reason to critical thinking and dreaming, not as complete facts. Anyway if you don't wake up while being in the meditated state, you will be in complete nothingness and this state is basically like a matrix room. Instead of a white room with weapons you have a nothing room that you can filll with more than just material intent! Think and it will be! Altough before entering the lucid dream and nothingness I suggest you already have made up your mind of what you intend to experience, otherwise you will have to think and analyze about what you want to experience when you are already in the dream and that can make it hard to concentrate. If you intend to get to the physical world as just awareness it can be the case (Also caleld OOBE although it's another topic..) You can intend anything! But you can also intend the adventure of your dreams. This is both a form of dream control and control the critical thinking and vividness. Mind over "matter"! I hope this wasn't too complicated and that it inspired you. Have fun! Meditation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE9S4ll1j4s Although I realize now that this post seems veeery off topic, but meditation is my answer to how to induce a lucid dream as well. Fall asleep while meditating and fall asleep peacefully and not being stressed, and you will have peaceful dreams that in turn is easy to become aware of. My point of this (at first look) very complicated post, is to make you realize that the only thing you need in order to be aware of your dreams, is to stop being aware of everything else as you go to sleep. Don't think of school, don't think of stress, don't think of your body or anything, meditate and be in nothingess and if you fall asleep you will notice your experiences easier. So an important factor to all lucid dreaming inductions is Peaceful sleep.