Thread: annoyed

Originally Posted by apocalypse

Lucid dreaming is a skill you can develop.
Become familiar with your dream environment, their features and patterns. Learn to recognize them as dreams while they are still happening.
Hang in there - it will come.

Time limitations to lucid dreams are one's own motivation & effort.
It's easier for some, and not so for others.

You should also train yourself to not get over-excited when it does happen, or you'll ruin everything.

As far as things that might tip you off that it's a dream? Usually after being in a particular dream for a while things just start to add up that are out of place or seem strange. On their own, they aren't enough to make you go lucid but you might get a quick funny feeling, or tell yourself, "That's strange." In my non-lucids I often recall things that should have made me go lucid, most people that journal have this happen. Sometimes you can sort of sense it, a dream "feels" different sometimes.

My latest lucid came down to the fact that I realized "this has all been going on for a while." I was having a nightmare that I couldn't go to sleep (funny to call that a nightmare but it was) and all this stuff happened, and just due to all the things that had happened and time that had gone by, I somehow realized that this was out of place. That all my scared feeling was unnecessary. Later on, I went fully lucid.

When you practice dream recall and dream journalling, your dreams seem to get longer. Sometimes just having a really long dream it all begins to add up and you finally realize you are lucid. Either that or your logic center in your brain finally kicks in.