Thread: New User with Questions

Welcome, Lucretius!

I'll try to answer your questions:

1. All you have to do is go to sleep. Lucid dreaming is simply having a dream, and at some point during the dream, realizing that it's a dream. It sounds like maybe you're attempting the WILD method, which by all accounts is the most difficult. Also, it won't usually work unless you've already had several hours of sleep. I would suggest using the WBTB and MILD methods -- they seem to work best for me. Check the tutorials section for more info on these. The best position? The one in which you're most comfortable, and are most likely to go to sleep.

2. This varies from person to person, and I think that other things happening in your life will have a big effect on how often you can LD. First of all, you have to be getting enough sleep. Personally, I usually have 1-3 per week, but often go a week or two without any.

3. It's pretty much like any other dream, except that you are aware that it is in fact a dream. I always dream in the 1st person, though others report 3rd person dreams. I don't know for sure if I believe in OOBEs, but I assume they would always be 1st person.

4. Again, it sounds like you're attempting WILD. If there's some noise that would disturb you enough to prevent you from sleeping, then that's a problem, WILD or not. I usually wear foam earplugs when I sleep. They muffle sounds enough to prevent most such noises from being a bother.

5. This is another WILD thing. I've never done WILD, so I'll let someone else answer this one.

Glad to have you on the site -- hope you stick around, and good luck to you! If you have any other questions, just ask -- there are plenty of folks here willing to help.

I am drunk so I will only answer one of the questions of my choosing..... And it will be the one about the heater and noise being made while attempting to lucid dream... I love to have "white noise" while I am trying to fall asleep, otherwise it is too quiet for me and I start to think about all kinds of annoying things that tend to keep me awake and distracted from my goal. A fan or A/C or heater going often helps me to fall asleep and after a while you should be able to ignore it all together.. Its the other "random" noises that fucken annoy me, like birds chirping, or my dog barking, or telephones ringing, I hate that shit, but a constant noise that doesn't alter from its patern is music to my ears, it just really depends on the individual.

1) How long do you have to lay still to get into a lucid dream? Sometimes I feel like I lay there for an hour and nothing happens… Is one position better to lay in than another?

ummm u have been laying still doing nothing for like an hour waiting to have a lucid dream?