Thread: Consistency

Try to figure out what you do when you have a lucid dream. Did you go to bed early, try a certain technique, eat a certain food, play a certain game? If you find that you've done something almost every time you've become lucid, try doing that again.

Well jared, that's the trick, isn't it.

I think as long as you make it your priority at bedtime (without it becoming an obsession - that just causes some frustration), your chances are increased, obviously.

Journaling your dreams helps by giving you a goal or task that becomes part of your sleeping routine. You go to bed with the intention of remembering/becoming lucid in your dreams.

Other than that, I think it's just confidence and skill level that makes consistency.

ive been having the same problem....so this advice works for me too

I'm proud to say that I do keep a journal. I think one thing that could really help is better reality checking. I've only had one where a wierd thing actually triggered my "WTF" response. My others everything was mundane and normal, but I somehow got lucid anyway. But I think Webmaster's idea could be on to something. I'll give it a try.

Better reality checking? Or more frequent reality checking?
RCing frequently is good, but you might also want to find your dream signs. You said you've been keeping a journal, so try reading through it and see if you can find an element that appears multiple times. Such as heights, spiders, your room, etc. Then RC in real life when you see or think of one of these things. Since the dream signs were picked because they appear in your dreams, you should get lucid more often since whenever you see a dream sign in your dream, you are likely to do a RC.

I'm having more trouble finding my dream signs than I used to have actually becoming lucid. So far I haven't noticed any recurring elements or themes in any of my dreams. The closest thing I have to a dream sign is that sometimes when I have a dream where guns are involved, there is something odd about them most of the time. But these only happen once in a blue moon. I frequently dream about being at work, but everything is normal most of the time. I'm gonna be journaling for a LONG TIME before I find any dream signs.