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Ok so i've been doing a dream journal for a couple months now and i'm getting to the point where I am pretty good at remembering my dreams( a few per night ) but am having trouble becoming lucid. For example I was dreaming that I was looking for something in a pond and I was in the water but not getting wet. The closest i would have to say i've gotten is actually hearing a water fall once but thats it. I've read the tutorials with no sucess. What should I do.
Reality Check, Reality Check, Reality Check!!!
Always, always ask yourself "Am I dreaming? Is this real? Does this world exist?" and always pay close attention to everything around you, and be aware of things happening. Be aware of your surrounding. Pay attention to colors, sounds, images, shapes, people, and things happening.
What some people like to do is look at their hands and ask themselves "Am I dreaming?" thus making the hands a dream sign which will turn you lucid.
But always reality check. Make it a habit, like biting your nails, to ask yourself if your dreaming, and make it habit to always have "Am I dreaming?" on your mind. Always question reality.
This way when you see something that is off in your dream, you'll be able to click in.
Good Luck! :)
Do you preform reality checks? If not then you should start this will help( habbits in the wking life are habbits in the dream world). So you have read the tutorials, but have you tried any methods. For me it took a while of trying different methods, and changing them a little bit to better suit me.
So If I keep doing reality checks then eventually it'll cary over??
yes that is one method
however, it is best supplemented by using one of the other methods
like mild
(its deifntely good for begginers)
and there are plenty more techniques
I storngly suggest the tutorials section on this forum
Imran
Just curious, when you started trying to remember your dreams how often did you remember them? I still very seldom remember my dreams and I'm looking for hopeful stories to, well, give me hope. I'm keeping a dream journal and taking B12 cause I heard it gives you good dream recall. But I have no idea what to do when I don't remember my dreams because What am I supposed to write down? Also when I wake up my mind is in disarray and just going nuts and hard to focus sometimes.
My personal method of getting dreams on my journal is I have to wake up at 6 for school so I set the alarm for like 5 am or 4:45 and write down what ever I can on a notebook by my bed I try to keep thinking of everything I can about the dream and after like a month you'll be remembering more and more.
at first i had trouble with the journal but i slowly figured out how to get my mind to click into lastnights dream
after im awake eanough that my thoughts make since, (usually 5 min or so) i lay with my eyes closed and let my mind wander - trying too hard to remember the dream usually ended with me getting frustrated and getting up - so your letting your mind wander and its like a plant growing it starts with a seed something your thinking about or that your family says downstairs or someting that you saw yesterday will pop into your head and all the sudden you will have this vague memmory of an emotion or sight or something that you know was in a dream and that leads to another thing which leads to two more things and the memmory of the dream sort of blosems (sp?) into your head then all thats left is the simple task of writing it down in your book
also, dont just doodle it on some scrap paper, go buy a nice moleskin or something that you will use specifically for the dream journal and keep it by your bed at all times
I have reallly bad recall atm, so I'm not having any LDs, but the method that has resulted in all my lucid dreams is just sleeping in late. Go to bed relatively late on a day when you know you don't have to get up in the morning. Do whatever you do to remember your dreams, and then when you wake up in the morning, try to stay sleepy and go back to sleep, thinking about your dreams and about lucid dreaming.
Sometimes I manage to kind of half wake up, and I'm not awake, but not asleep either. I can then kind of push myself back into dreaming and stay lucid (I swear it's not WILDing).
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