Thread: My Question to You!!

Judging by your join date, I can assume it is safe to say this. You most likely will not get a LD after one night of trying. So many different things affect your chances of getting your first lucid!

If your main focus technique is a DILD, then you should reality check A LOT. A DILD is basically a random chance to reality check in a dream, and prove to you, if you are in a dream or not. Everybody is different. If you do a lot of reality checks throughout the day, then your chances of reality checking in a dream would be higher than someone who does not reality check casually through the day.

If DILD is not your focus, please tell what is.

Originally Posted by Muggler

Judging by your join date, I can assume it is safe to say this. You most likely will not get a LD after one night of trying. So many different things affect your chances of getting your first lucid!

If your main focus technique is a DILD, then you should reality check A LOT. A DILD is basically a random chance to reality check in a dream, and prove to you, if you are in a dream or not. Everybody is different. If you do a lot of reality checks throughout the day, then your chances of reality checking in a dream would be higher than someone who does not reality check casually through the day.

If DILD is not your focus, please tell what is.

Well I was doing the DILD method...but I keep forgetting to reality check in real life...like i do it when I go into my room, but it feels like a joke to me sometimes...maybe i dont have the right mentality...do you have any other methods that you find easy to use??

Originally Posted by the007feed

Well I was doing the DILD method...but I keep forgetting to reality check in real life...like i do it when I go into my room, but it feels like a joke to me sometimes...maybe i dont have the right mentality...do you have any other methods that you find easy to use??

Definitely not the right mentality

I usually get LDs from DILD... I don't really have a 'method' yet, other than I'm just getting a lot better at recognizing dream signs, but I do my reality checks every day. If it helps, set your watch or your phone to beep every hour. When you hear that beep - reality check. Try to do 3, because in dreams, RCs can fail.

My RC is to check the time (ask if it's logical and also I ask myself if I can remember what I did before this point), I pinch my nose and try to breathe through it, I try to push my fingers through my palm (while doing these two, I fully believe that I will a) be able to breathe and b) my fingers will go right through my hand) and then I check the time again.

mm Thanks ill be trying this tomorrow!!!
Ill post what i can tonight

Originally Posted by eternalstar01

Definitely not the right mentality

I usually get LDs from DILD... I don't really have a 'method' yet, other than I'm just getting a lot better at recognizing dream signs, but I do my reality checks every day. If it helps, set your watch or your phone to beep every hour. When you hear that beep - reality check. Try to do 3, because in dreams, RCs can fail.

My RC is to check the time (ask if it's logical and also I ask myself if I can remember what I did before this point), I pinch my nose and try to breathe through it, I try to push my fingers through my palm (while doing these two, I fully believe that I will a) be able to breathe and b) my fingers will go right through my hand) and then I check the time again.

How long did you do this until you had an LD?

Originally Posted by the007feed

How long did you do this until you had an LD?

Well... since I joined DV, it took about 3 weeks for my next LD. Since then I get one almost weekly. It's probably good to note that I've been able to lucid dream for about 13 years, just never at the frequency that I get them, now.

I'm working hard on awareness, I'm also working hard on my dream signs and recognising them in dreams. Unfortunately, they don't come up alot, so the biggest thing for me is keeping myself aware of how things are in waking life compared to how things are in my dream life.

My dream journal has been infinitely helpful in that.

The biggest part of my reality checks is the logical part of it. Is where I am or what I'm doing logical? I managed to catch something a few nights ago that has never made me lucid before (I was naked in my dream)... I knew that I don't walk around naked in public (one should hope!) and from that point my brain and I struggled with each other on whether I was dreaming or not. Unfortunately, my brain decided to win by default by waking me up, but I still consider it a success, overall.

To this date, doing a reality check has never bled into my dreams. I've never even performed one yet, when I've gone lucid. I've only done stabilization techniques once I get lucid. But that said... one of the best reality checks you can do for yourself is to ask yourself, "Am I dreaming? What did I do last? Is where I am right now something that logically make sense?" And really consider the questions and answers. Don't just ask yourself this automatically.

I once did that in a dream and missed an opportunity to be lucid. I was having issues with my cell phone and thought to myself that it had to be a dream. I looked around (I was standing outside my apartment, and everything looked the way I should). I thought, "I should reality check," but I just looked around and thought, "Nah, everything looks too real, this can't be a dream."

What I should have done was asked myself, "What did I do this morning? Where am I going (since I'm outside)?" And well, I should've done those reality checks, since I thought about them

My new thing now is mantra/visualization. Mantras tend to work very well for me in terms of when I'm having a draught of anything (either recall, or dreaming in general). I just tell myself, "I will remember my dreams" over and over while I'm falling asleep. The key is believing that statement is true. So far, I haven't gotten lucid from that yet.

Last night, I was daydreaming and the day dream (well, the characters, anyways, not the plot, unfortunately) popped up at the very end of my dream (sadly, the alarm clock went off. I would have been lucid, cos my DG was there). So... tonight, I'm going to work on visualizing a dream sign.

Sorry for the long rambles, I hope this helps!

No this information is very helpful...hopefully with all this i can do more...thanks a lot!!! I know who to go to if i have any questions!

To be honest, if you want the kick ass answers, I'd point you in Naiya's direction. She's a dream guide, she gets a few lucids a night, and I learned most of this from her tutorial

Clarification: Naiya is a forum dream guide... not my personal one