Another New Guy

[ybm]

Hey DV! I used to lucid dream when I was younger and for some reason, I lost touch with it and lost most of my memory of dreams throughout high school. Around my senior year in high school, I decided I will try to remember my dreams and it all started coming back. After finding out lucid dreaming is what was happening when I was younger, I strive to have it happen again. I've lurked the forums and read some tutorials on LD techniques and haven't had much progress. The only progress I seem to have is recording my dreams in a DJ I have. I understand that learning to LD is a time consuming process, but I would like to be able to at least be lucid once a week before I leave for basic training in the Army in 36 days. I've been trying to do RCs often, but I know they are truly half-assed and my motivation falls after about a week. So, I have made an account and hope that you guys, the community can help me achieve my goal. Any tips or tricks that anyone can help me with?

[paigeyemps]

Hey ybm, welcome to the site! Have you ever done a WBTB? That can really help boost your chances. Another thing is overall awareness. You don't have to do physical reality checks all the time. You can just mentally question "what if this is a dream?", etc. at random times of the day, or whenever you remember. Lastly, i would suggest you write up a list of lucid goals you want to achieve. And be specific, so you have an idea og what you really wanna do. Read them a few times especially before bed. That helped me get lucid a lot, and not only that, but it gave me something concrete to do once i got lucid. Good luck!

[Buhl]

As Paigeyemps said above me. Also, the fact the you made a DreamViews account can also really help you to get into the right mindset for lucids. Just reading the forums and other peoples experiences will make you think about lucid dreaming during the day, telling your brain that this is something important to you. If you HUNGER for lucidity, try the DEILD technique if you ever wake up in the night or in the middle of a nap.

[MasterMind]

Welcome ybm! What if I told you that the only thing required for dreaming and lucid dreaming is, wait for it... SLEEP! Oh what a shocker! ^-^ The thing is that this should be obvious! But still I see people running around trying each and every method there is and get frustrated over themselves! But I don't blame them... I used to do the same. Instead of seeing lucid dreaming methods as a flick on a switch and mastery as understanding of the switch, that is to say a perfect instruction of how to lucid dream and mastery as understanding these instructions, try to see it as a personal journey, because I hate to break it to you, there are no perfect lucid dreaming inductions that works for everyone 100% of the time! If there were, we wouldn't need this forum and well lucid dreaming would probably be called "Playstation Virtual" or something like that. Lucid dreaming is an art of controling the awareness and the ego (subconscious, memories and emotions) so in a sense lucid dreaming is an art of controling yourself! To master yourself sounds weird, but is it really? To master yourself simply means to understand yourself. But how does one get understanding? By experience! So first of all, choose one of the techniques that you like, or both! There are only two techniques DILD and WILD, Indirect and Direct entry to a dream. Everything else is just variation of these techniques and are called methods. So then choose a method you like, but don't observe the method and think "Ok this method doesn't work" instead think "Hmm when I did this this happend" and think of both negative and positive results, like "oh my dream recall got better when I did a WILD attempt before bed" or "Oh my dream recall got worse when I snoozed with my alarm in the morning" but then ask yourself "Why?" and you can both learn by experience and understand by analyzing. Also don't see things you read as facts, because you should relay on your own experience not others. I for example, perform a WILD attempt every night AT bedtime because I have found that my dreams get super vivid and I can sort of explain it with brain chemistry, however that is MY theory and MY experience, you can let it inspire you, but you shouldn't let theories control you! People tell you to not try the impossible, although I like to try it to find new possibilites. To round this of, my point is that you should learn from your attempts, not get dragged down by them. This is the path to mastery! One tip or trick I can give you though, that got my awareness in dreams kick started (also thanks for reminding me by asking), is the practise of your short-term memory. Because the thing is that you might have many awesome experiences non-lucid or lucid but it's just that you forget it. So to practise your short-term memory you will both become more aware and remember the experience of your dreams. And here is a thread I think can help you with both: http://www.dreamviews.com/f15/if-you...ams-try-93005/ If you have any questions though, feel free to ask. But remember my answers will only be inspiration and not factual information