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

I only found this forum a couple of months ago after a period of serious sleep paralysis drove me mad!

Ive tried lots and lots of different techniques in trying to attain lucidity but Id say the most effective thing is just to remember to question things in your head whilst dreaming. Since ive known about lucid dreaming ive achieved a lucid dream pretty much every 2 or 3 nights. Some of them have been amazing and some have been sketchy (I spent the majority of my last lucid dream trying to convince my mate who i was in the dream with that it was just a dream and he should go and fly off or something).

So as long as you can remember to question things in your dreams whilst you're there I reckon you're on to a winner

Good Luck!

forgot to mention that if you enter lucidity keep focusing on your hands if you think you may be slipping out of it! i have absolutely no idea why this works but it really does!

Hey there surfingspider.
That's some good advice. If I did that more often I'd be having a lot more lucid dreams than I have been lately.

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.

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.

Originally Posted by surfingspider

I only found this forum a couple of months ago after a period of serious sleep paralysis drove me mad!

Ive tried lots and lots of different techniques in trying to attain lucidity but Id say the most effective thing is just to remember to question things in your head whilst dreaming. Since ive known about lucid dreaming ive achieved a lucid dream pretty much every 2 or 3 nights. Some of them have been amazing and some have been sketchy (I spent the majority of my last lucid dream trying to convince my mate who i was in the dream with that it was just a dream and he should go and fly off or something).

So as long as you can remember to question things in your dreams whilst you're there I reckon you're on to a winner

Good Luck!

Thanks for the advice.

But in my dreams, I feel more that the whole dream is like a previously made story, and that I'm seeing it like if I was watching a movie. I don't feel much that I'm contolling my character while dreaming in most of the duration of the dreams. Feels more like if a camera is attached to your head, and you're watching the film later.

Yours