My quest for lucid dreams
Hello,
I'm new to this forum, but not new to the concept of lucid dreaming.
In short my (frustrating) quest for Lucid Dreams...
Through an article in a magazine, which discussed different states of consciousness, I began searching on the Internet for more information.
That's how I stumbled over the subject of lucid dreaming, read differents sites and forums (including this one)
After reading some information, I decided to give it a try too. I liked it at once.
This was already back in 2000!
Like many others, I could barely remember my dreams, in fact I couldn't remember them at all. My first action was of course to recall and write down my dreams.
You already guess it...
Like many other people, I had - and still have - trouble remembering my dreams.
In the very first beginning I began remembering my dreams after a few days, but I couldn't take the discipline to write down those dreams. (to sleepy :/ )
So I wrote those dreams down after I got up, but half of these dreams where already faded away.
I do had some periods where my dream recall was good and could write them down without much effort. This lasted only for 1 or 2 weeks, so there are many gaps in my dreamjournal.
Nevertheless, I have had a couple (4) of dreams where I become aware that I'm dreaming (occurred in the last 4 years). These lasted only a split second, and the level of lucidity was very low. My last lucid dream was in February 2005 , which lasted a little bit longer than my previous ones. Although I was more aware in this LD than the other LDs, the dream was still a bit blurry. So in the end I didn't remember much of it.
I tried different techniques (MILD, WILD, VILD etc) to get more lucid dreams, but none of them seems to work.
True lucid dreams seem far away for me...
Last year, after trying several techniques, I decided to go back to the basics.
I would only concentrate on remembering and writing down my dreams, but till today without much success.
It is even getting worse...incidentally I remember my dreams, but most of the time I'm to sleepy to write them down during the night.
And the ones that I do write in mine DJ are just snippets of the dreams. (Only a few words)
One reason that might caused my inability to remember my dreams perfectly, was the fact that I was getting to little sleep.
Going to bed late and (must) get up early. I am also a deep sleeper.
One thing I did to improve my dreamrecall was to adjust my sleep cycle to a more regular cycle. I'm now going to bed around 23:30h, and get up at 6:30h at workdays, but this doesn't seem to work. Even at the weekends, when I sleep for about 10 hours.
Looking back after 6 years of trying, I must say it is very frustrating for me to read how other people achieve their first lucid dream very quickly and continue to have them.
That's my story so far. :)
Maybe I will find her some new insights.
Thanks for reading.
