Lack of lucidity

[90sjesus]

Hey everyone, I'm Gary. I became really interested in lucid dreaming around two years ago and visited many websites and read as much as I could, and tried learning some techniques to help induce lucid dreams. This worked, and I had quite a few, but only a couple of which lasted longer than ten seconds. Those experiences were amazing, and have stayed with me. I can visualise them more easily than I can what happened last week, lol, I'm a firm believer in the hyperreality some dreams can bring However, I became really busy with A levels and was never able to devote enough attention to lucid dreams and, although I didn't lose complete interest, the lucidity wore off completely. I finished my A levels a few weeks ago, and decided to start reading up on lucid dreaming again, and am as enthused as ever. But it's been about three weeks now, and only one lucid dream that was very fuzzy and not clear at all. What I'm confused about is whether I'm trying too hard, or not trying hard enough, it appears to be quite a fine line. I've read somewhere that wanting it too much can decrease the possiblity of them and my brain is frustraitingly stubborn to me at all times, I am known to have long arguments with myself Do you think I should try not to think about it during the day and see where my dreams take me, or try learning new techniques? Any help would be very welcomed, this website looks so cool.

[Leixor]

Originally posted by 90sjesus What I'm confused about is whether I'm trying too hard, or not trying hard enough, it appears to be quite a fine line. I've read somewhere that wanting it too much can decrease the possiblity of them and my brain is frustraitingly stubborn to me at all times, I am known to have long arguments with myself Do you think I should try not to think about it during the day and see where my dreams take me, or try learning new techniques? Any help would be very welcomed, this website looks so cool. You sound so much like me, I indeed would describe myself as wanting it too much, for the last 4 days its pretty much all I've thought about. I don't know if it's detrimental or not but it's certainly hard to suppress! I really don't have advice as I am grappling with much the same dilema myself. I have kinda taken the path of letting my thoughts go where they will go. If I think about it during the day, so be it. If I don't I don't, the main thing I think I am beginning to learn is you can't really force anything to happen. Hope I have been of some help!

[90sjesus]

Hey thanks for the reply. Yeah, I think i'll be taking the same approach. This website has been a great use, i've just downloaded a couple of mp3s that i'll be burning to a cd - music plays a massive part in my life, and I'm hoping this will be the key. Good luck to you, come on, bring on the lucidity tonight! lol

[Leixor]

Originally posted by 90sjesus+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(90sjesus)</div> music plays a massive part in my life, [/b] Haha! Mine too as I almost always have some kind of music playing, I love all music. Not while I am sleeping though, I used to listen to music when I slept but now I find unless it is perfectly dark and perfect silent (save for my fan which is white noise) I cannot hope to sleep. <!--QuoteBegin-90sjesus Good luck to you, come on, bring on the lucidity tonight! Good luck to you as well!