I Remember All My Dreams But I Cant Lucid Dream

[PokerDude422]

I have been trying to Lucid Dream for about three weeks now. I have a really good Dream Recall. I remember about three dreams a night but so far I have only had one very very small Lucid Dream that was basically me realizing I was dreaming looking down and then I woke up. I havent had anything even close to Lucid since then. I get about 9 hours of sleep a night and I try to go to bed in a state of mind that I am going to be dreaming but nothings is working. Can anyone help me out here?

[Tornado Joe]

hey poker, Yah, lucid dreaming isn't the easiest thing to get a good grip on. But, you're doing pretty good by having good recall. Are you also keeping a record of all these dreams? Keeping a journal is important so that you can find dreamsigns, or patterns in your dreams that can tip you off or make you question whether you are dreaming. All I can offer you right now is just not to give up. You already know you can do it because you've done it before. Extending lucidity would be your next goal after having one or two more lucids and getting the feel of being in a dream.

[Marvo]

What techniques are you trying?

[PokerDude422]

I have been keeping a dream journal, and like i am waking up in the night after my REM periods and writing down the dreams I had. Im not setting an alarm or anything but I just find myself waking up after each dream so I write it down. And I have been trying to go to sleep every night with the mentality that I need to realize that I am dreaming. As for dream signs, I thought I figured out that my dreams always took place in a foreign place i had never been to each time but then last night I had my first dream that i was outside my house. I cant really figure out any other dream signs or patterns to my dreams.

[taihen]

Don't worry, it will all come with time, looks like you're off to a good start, especially with waking up after REM. Continue on your path and try a bit of MILD. You'll start having lucids in no time! And about the dreamsigns, my first lucid wasn't triggered by a dreamsign or reality check, it just happened. In time, I got better at recognising those thighs, but don't worry for now.

[Spamtek]

I'm about as SOL as you on the LD front, but I'll try to assist. You said that you go to bed telling yourself that you "need to realize that you are dreaming." Maybe it's just semantics, but telling yourself that you need to LD tonight places a lot of undue stress on your subconscious, telling it that it must do X such a thing or else, which gives it a lot of room to freak out and fail. Maybe a nicer approach would simply be to say not that you need to, but that you will. Anyone have any thoughts on the wisdom of this? I just think that the term "I need to have an LD tonight" places great expectations on the subconscious and sets you up for a lot of subtle thoughts of failure if you don't in fact have that "needed" LD.

[PokerDude422]

yeah ill start tryin some different techniques. what is MILD? im reading the book "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreams" but im only like 70 pages into it and i have read over some sectionbs on this page and stuff so yeah im still learning i guess which may be one reason i cant lucid dream