Thread: If you're new to lucid dreaming and are struggling...

you see here i get confused
you say that to attain lucidity (to be conscious in a dream) you should question yourself whether or not your dreaming. but doesnt this presuppose the belief that youre already conscious?
does it not seem paradoxical?

To be honest it is hard to remember to carry out reality checks during certain actions such as everytime you visit the bathroom.
Does anybody have any advive on developing my prospective memory?

but dont you have to become more aware to make yourself question things in your dreams? You have to control yourself to ask yourself questions, which is what we're trying to do to get lucid in the first place.

exactly luv2dream
i cant get me head round it either

LOL that kinda sounds like the matrix "We are all just dreams, images woven by almighty machines". Thats what your telling him in your dreams.......you just dont know it yet and need to free your mind

Originally Posted by oasis07

you see here i get confused
you say that to attain lucidity (to be conscious in a dream) you should question yourself whether or not your dreaming. but doesnt this presuppose the belief that youre already conscious?
does it not seem paradoxical?

What you do is, you just get in such a habit of doing RC's during the day that sometime you will do one while you are sleeping, and then you will know that you are lucid. This is hard to do, but if you do RC's like every ten minutes all day long, you will keep doing them in your sleep, and then you will get lucid. I tried it once (I'm sure I didn't do it every ten minutes, just as often as I remembered on a day I didn't have to go to work) and it worked.

More practically, if you get in the habit of doing RC's whenever you see a dream sign, or see something really bizarre, hopefully you will automatically do one in a dream. You don't even have to suspect that you're dreaming, you will just do it because it is a habit.