Thread: Success!! Yippie!!

Hey, welcome to DV and congrats on finally getting back into lucid dreaming! And what a neat lucid, too Isn't it scary how quickly they can fade away? I am such a bum when it comes to keeping a steady DJ and yes, you benefit tremendously from keeping one Awesome job with the spinning though, I can never get that one to work but it sounds like you had some success Well, I don't think you'll ever have to worry about not having people to share your lucid dreaming with! In addition to the Newbie Zone there's even a Lucid Experiences forum, a Task of the Month forum, as well as all of the other on-topic forums and the chat

I never feel that way after a lucid dream, usually I feel very clear-headed and energized. On the other hand, whenever I listen to binaural beats I end up with a headache or migraine for at least half the day This has only happened a few times because after the third or fourth I realized even if it wasn't what was causing them, I could get lucid without them But hey, keep trying and work out what is best for you, it's different for everyone.

As far as improving induction skills, all I saw what that you kept a DJ and used some lucid aids. I'm assuming you DILD, but do you do any reality checks on top of keeping that dream journal? I find that reality checking is the key for me, and I don't think I have every heard of someone doing reality checks properly and not having success.

Another thing that caught my eye is that you had a problem I sometimes do, which is that you had a lucid and spent some of it debating what you should do. Usually I advise people to keep a list of Dream Goals, just 5-10 things that you would LOVE to do during a lucid dream, and make sure to have them VERY well memorized (during a lucid it for some reason can be very difficult to remember them). Don't have them in order of 1-10 by how much you want to do them, just have them memorized and always in the back of your mind so that when you do become lucid, you can say "Oh, I just want to sit back and observe how my dream characters interact" or "Ok, I've gotta make it all the way to the moon tonight, how can I view the sky from here?"

Anyway, hope some of that advice helps you out. As I've said, welcome to Dreamviews and I am looking forward to hearing more about your lucids!!!

Thank you, Shift.
Yes, I definitely DILDed, and yes, I had done some reality checks the previous days in waking time. Will focus on it even more and thank you for reminding me. I just checked the section, there are loads of good ideas.

Talking about reality checks, today something really funny happened: I was sitting with a friend in a restaurant we had never gone to before, a very strange place with lots of ugly colors, and all of a sudden I saw a man at the bar with lots of tatoos, a flower necklace, incredible 70s sunglasses, a HUGE sombrero and a bast-fibre skirt and I thought...whoooa..here I go again..!! This must be a dream!

It was so bizzar an unrealistic, until I realized that it was carnival season and that he was probably going off to a party later!! Still, I did a reality check (pinching), just in case

Good idea to make a list, I#ll do that , too.
This is so much fun.
Thanks again!