Thread: Do you think im close?

Sometimes it takes a while, but stay with it. It's worth it, I promise.

Sorry to say, but dream recall is only the first step in having good lucid dreams.
The next is to increase your awareness in the dream, so you're going to have to experiment with different techniques. Most people go with dreamsigns and reality checks (RCs)

If you train for having dream signs and doing reality checks, you have to do it long enough that it becomes a habit that you do instinctively. Only then will it happen in your dreams.

A big mistake that newbies (to LDing) make is to just 'do RCs when something wierd happens'
That doesn't work!
Why? Because in a dream, flying pink elephants seem completely normal to you.
You need to train yourself to do RCs on more specific dream signs.

Good luck

thanks for the advice, good stuff!

I think once you have better recal, and you can experience more vivid dreams, then you can say you are getting closer. One technique which is quite popular is 'wake back to bed' (WBTB) - this involves you waking up for a period of time, then going back to bed to sleep - when I do this I stay awake for just 5-10 minutes and have great success with it. Others stay awake for 30-60 minutes, maybe longer.

Anyhoo, good luck

Adam.