i have been tryen to lucid dream for foreverrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hi yea'all i have been tryen to lucid dream forever, i have for at least for 6 months and havent lucid drempet once!!! and im MADD lol. ne way this is what i do i think about dreaming or somthign i will do a "reality check" and i will think about: where am i going ? how did i get here? how am i goen there?(is this actualy my car... ect) and somthign that i rember that is differnt about today than otheredays and some tiesm i wil ltrace my self back to when i woke up and try to rember littel things and also look around me and make sure everythign is normal and i know where everythign came from adn what it is used for.

now i usualy can rember one or two dreams a night and have a dream log when i wake up i will rite them down so i can look back on them(now im tempraraoly out of paper lol) but ne way

i dont knwo why i havent "woke" up in one of my dreams and it really disterbs me because iwant to it soooo bad i just cant even imigain ahhaha

each night i get from 6 - 8 hours of sleep a night soem tiem a lil less


PLEASE HELP ME :)

Hey there, welcome to the forums! :D

You've come to the right place. I suggest you check out the adoptions section, too, for some one-on-one help.

Anyway, don't stress. It will come. It takes longer for some than others, and that's perfectly fine. Have you tried any other techniques, like WBTB/MILD/WILD, that sort of thing?

no, i havent really tryed any of thoes othere ways, i dont like waken up in the middel of the night although it might work. i should try it but i need all the sleep i can get

Hey nate,

Welcome to DreamViews :D

Firstly .. yes... dont stress. Trying too hard can ruin it too.
Its great that you already have a dream journal, etc

Can you give us more info on when and how you do reality checks?
Dreamsigns? Wristwatch (timer)? Just forced habit?

And what happens at the moment, do you simply not notice its a dream?

Don't worry about it. It took me 3 weeks to get my first LD and guess what happened: 8 seconds later (while I was thinking of what to do) it just goes back into a regular dream. Haven't had one since. But don't stress. I find that stress causes me to sleep more poorly and either dream less or just kill my recall. Really, try WBTB. Make yourself get up and stay up. It's not as painful as it sounds.

You'll be fine.

-Amé

humm lets see i just do reality checks when ever i rember , i try to connect them to things like recently i try to think of death and when ever i do i do a reality check (isent really worken ) also for some odd resion i always think of it when my radar dector goes off(at like safeway or somthing)...

Hey nate. As amethyst said, it takes time. and stress doesnt help.
Also, even if you dont use WILD, or any of those, waking up after 5 or 6 hours for a half hour or so... does work very well for dreams.

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This is one way to do it, and the more you do checks and think about 'Is this a dream - How did I get here - What am I thinking' - the better.

However the problem with this is that you will only normally remember to do an RC (reality check) when you've got a chance to think.
Most dreams usually flow in a way that you dont have that much time to think about things.
Not to mention how hard it is to collect your thoughts in a dream.

So in short, doing it when you remember to, is very hard to get right. At least without learning complete awareness of yourself and surroundings at all times (not easy)

A much easier route (initially) is to look for dreamsigns (like you started to)

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Well the problem here is that you won't hear or see death all day long.
At least I hope not :shock:

You need to find dreamsigns that (1) happen often enough and (2) that actually happen in your dreams a lot too.
Go through your dream log/journal and look for something that happens reasonably often. And try to make that your dreamsign.
And the more dreamsigns, the better :)

There are other dream induced methods though. Eg. do you have a wristwatch that can make a beep every half-hour or so? Nothing too loud.
If so - then turn this into your dreamsign.
Every time you hear that beep, do some RC's.
Leave the watch next to your bed at night, and you will hear it in your dreams too.

There are lots of variations - but you can call that last one 'externally triggered' dream induced lucid dreams. :P

Remember that its important to find what works best for you...

like a watch at walmart?

Well, this is my cue....

Have you tried the WBTB method? Theres a good WBTB tutorial in the tutorial section.

yea i have tryed it i tryed it last night and i get this weird thing that happends t oem my back liek goes numb or somthing and i feal like my head is right above my hips or feet adn i feal real short. err soo weird and it get reallly anoying so i move around idk what it is


(i did wild) tryed*

Woah, sounds like you were close to a WILD...why do some people get freaked out by all that wierd stuff happening? I cant get enough of it. I woukdnt give up though. SOunds liek you were close.

Heres a tip: Focus on how happy you'll be when you have a lucid dream instead of how mad you will be if you don't have one...

humm, so this bakc numbing is a good thing and it feals kinda weird soem items i like it but soem time it is jsut weird adn makes it so i cant og to sleep cus i htink aobut it so much

ne one knwo hwere i can get a 10$ watch that will beep every 30 min?

At a store -.-

lol ya i know it was a stupid question i jsut relized it after i posted alerday.i need ot get one them!!!!i woke up last night a 3:30 for soem resion maby i was just getten done with a dream cycle i was tryen mild then once i woke i tryed wild and like i said above my back was like goen numb lol weird.. lol ne way i went to bed that night at like 1 am or so

not to be mean or anything, but when you post, try to make it coherent enough for others to understand you

Things to do that are impossible
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Everything in the world is possible except for one thing...

understanding people who use "u" and "r" and "lol"

lol, im sorry i do it out of second nature, i will try to use ,(lol i jsut wrote use like youse)(ijsut woke up form nap)you instead of "u" and such i will also try to make my posts more legbal.

i jsut took like maby hour and 15 or 30 min nap and had the weirdest dream was rally stresfull, i havent had a stressed dream in a while maby cus im tryen to hard to LD ?

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Originally posted by dagr8n8
lol, im sorry i do it out of second nature, i will try to use ,(lol *i jsut wrote use like youse)(ijsut woke up form nap)you instead of \"u\" and such i will also try to make my posts more legbal.

i jsut took like maby hour and 15 or 30 min nap and had the weirdest dream was rally stresfull, i havent had a stressed dream in a while maby cus im tryen to hard to LD ?

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How about this, if you mix how hard you try to write and how hard you LD, you would try semi decent.

I don't know what legbal means by the way, and that refers to handwriting.

I think what you meant was... "Haha, I'm sorry, I do it out of second nature. I will try to use (haha, I just wrote use like "youse", I just woke up from a nap) you instead of "u" and such. I will also try to make my posts more coherent.

I just took like an hour and 15 or 30 minute nap and had the weirdest dream. It was really stressful. I haven't had a stressful dream in a while, maybe because I'm trying to hard to LD?"

^^ How you should post.

As long as people can understand you you'll probably get along fine with people here, but right now you sound retarded.

Wasup has a point. :P

Type a little slower, that may help. And reread through your post before you post it, will ya?

ok, sorry i will type slower. i cannot tell if words are spelled wrong i will just read over them and not notice err sorry:/

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Originally posted by dagr8n8
ok, sorry i will type slower. i cannot tell if words are spelled wrong i will just read over them and not notice err sorry:/

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See how well you can do when you try?

Gooooooooooooooooo job.

lol, im jsut about to go buy a watch!!!! that beeps every hour!!(i dont know many that beep every half hour)

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Originally posted by gameover
Woah, sounds like you were close to a WILD...why do some people get freaked out by all that wierd stuff happening? I cant get enough of it. I woukdnt give up though. SOunds liek you were close.

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I know exactly what you mean. The other day I tried a WILD but accidentally snapped off it during the paralysis stage(I lost my concentration and felt my paralized body for a second, which threw me off). I then thought I was aware enough to just roll over fall asleep and become lucid. I was wrong. I didn't become lucid but I still think staying up for an hour was justified by how far along I got in the WILD. I love all those sensations!

Welcome dagr8n8!!!! I wish you luck in your journey, and am glad you are working with us on the grammer issue(its kind of the board's official pet peeve :wink: )

thanks!!! i will try agin...:) im gonna get a watch also that beeps ever hour adn do reality checks on it!!! looken forward soo bad u odnt even know :-D

Believe me, I know. I feel it too, many a times... :wink:

umm... i would like to know where you can get a watch that beeps ever hour.... think of this from a buyers point of view, who in the world wants a watch that beeps every hour??


mine is a remote that can opperate any form of IF controlled devices, aka it has presets for the name brand TVs and VCRs and has a "learn" function :D man, my watch has all of yalls pwned

you have just been
pwned
humbly,
lord soth

just be patient my young padawan. in time you will learn to control your feelings.
and medetate this saying
sag evah ton lliw i
and be mindfull of your feelings young one
may the force be with you



sag evah ton lliw i
i will not have gas

lol thanks

Hey dagr8n8! Any luck yet with the reality checks?

Wow... all those functions? You must have the greatest watch in all of the universe!#11! Oh yeah, I'll bet it can time travel, clean your car, eat for you, and wipe your ass too?

Too bad it doesn't tell time. :D

Seriously, hourly chime functions exist on every watch I know, so yours must have one.

And dagr8n8, just keep at it! It took me forever and a day to have my first lucid dream. ;)

sry i havent, i took a nap today and i thought about bennen asleep in my dream, i was on a rolar cosster but then i told my self i wasent cus i could feal my breath on my pillow, but once i woke up i knew i was dreaming.


i just bought a watch that beeps every hour although it is not very loud, will i still be able to hear it in my dreams?


what is the point of the watch, it is to bring me out of sleep a littel or have a noise that i assoiate with reality checks?


thanks for all the input!!!

hey maybe if you could feel the breath on your pillow while you sleep your one of those people who can hear/feel external actions.

the watch sounds like a great plan!

that the thing i dont know if i imagianed it or if i actualy could, i think i can but not shure. the same kinda thing happened today during my nap

(lol i take alot of naps cus i dont get alot os sleep during the night maby 5-7 hrs more or les, nad am very active during the day)

Use the chime for reality check reminders. What you do for RCs is up to you. However if you can hear the chime while sleeping... more power to you. :)

just wonderen what are some good RC's? liek a lots of differnt ones that work good or good time/ reminders to do rcs (like what do u do)

I pinch my nose and try to breathe through it.. that seems like the best one for me. I have a little post-it note above my computer saying, "Am I dreaming?" and so I remember to do a RC every time I come on the computer. ;) Looking at a watch/clock/text, looking away, and looking back at it works too.

ya i do the luck dream posted note above my computer also, but when u try to breath through ur noise can u actualy breath ?(in a dream)

Yeah, you can! :shock: That surprised me the first time it happened, since I figured.. if I'm so used to not being able to breathe through my noise, why should I suddenly be able to in a dream? But like I said.. it worked! :P We're just very.. strange in dreams.

THe breathe throught rh nsoe RC is my favorite. It feels so amazing when it works....

ok i jsut added it ot my RC list when i do my RC's hope it works for me also :D

latley i have been waken up in my sleep and i think it is because when i do the plug hte noise and breath i wake up because im excited? ne way i rember one dream jsut hte end part i did the noise thing and then i woke up finishing the deep breath in.. it is a good RC for me i think i jsut need to beable to control it

never mind now i can rember my dreams but i cant seam t obecome ne ware neer lucity.... :( ug the watch was worken but i dont know how to run the chime on and i lost the manual :(

I've been having trouble maintaining my lucidity after realizing i'm in a dream. So i'm adding the fact it's _MY_ dream to my RC. "Is this my dream?". That way hopefully I'll stay conscious in the dream for longer by telling my self it's my dream during the realization.

I've had 5 LDs that were all shorties no longer than 10 seconds. Discouraging but still progress. I wish you luck, it took me about 3 months to get this minor success. So with your commitment I'm sure you'll eventually make it.

thanks!!!!!!!!!!!! i need some good RC's the noise oen seamed to work but i dont think it is ne more ?

My first LD came about by putting my index finger through my palm, a common physical RC. I didn't really practice it much in real life but really put it to use in my mind by imagining that action during my mnemonics reciting, often before bed and while trying to sleep.

that sounds cool ill give that a try!!!

my advice is to stop trying every night or stop trying as hard. it works for me . i just stop trying to ld every night and some times it will work and try telling your self some nights that you will have an ld and you will stay in it over and over.