Can't Seem to Attain Lucidity

**Minkaron** · 03-26-2012 09:31 AM

Namely, not having had a single lucid dream at all. I'm not really disappointed about it, since I have all the wildest and craziest dreams I could ever want, I just want to see if anyone could offer me any advice that might help. I have a physical dream journal that I write in and perform reality checks, but usually I have these long dry-spells that really get me nowhere.

I suppose if anything, I'd like to hear your ways of getting out of a dry-spells and any suggestion as far as trying out techniques or special reality checks or something! Anything, really! xD

**gab** · 03-26-2012 07:14 PM

Dream journals and reality checks are a great start. I would recomment you practice technique called MILD, that gives you dreams called DILDs. So add some http://www.dreamviews.com/f49/sat-sp...puffin-100798/ and some mantras. Read and think a lot about LDing to keep you motivated. Dream recall can flactuate, don't get discouraged because of that. I only had a long dry spell, when I was a little depressed or worried about something. But there are some threads and tutorials about how to get out of dryspell. Good luck and hope you have your first one soon

**Freda** · 03-26-2012 07:17 PM

How long have you tried? It took about two weeks for me, but i read about some person who had is first LD after 5 months of trying. Just trust it will be worth it in the end.

**Chewnie91** · 03-26-2012 07:25 PM

Gab's information is absolutely correct and probably the best outlet to use to overcome this dry spell of yours. However, I do have an alternative.

Adopt a polyphasic sleeping schedule for just a few days. Its kind of like a jump start. Here is the link to a thread I posted not long ago about this

http://www.dreamviews.com/f12/get-ov...d-hill-128835/

Basically in a nut shell your going to cut your sleep short by a few hours (around 3-4) and then catch up on that sleep between 2-3 naps during the day. Of course this technique only works if you have the time. Not everyone can fit a 1 hour nap in their schedule haha. But what this will do is pretty much set you right into REM sleep during those naps since you deprived yourself of anywhere between 2-3 hours of REM when you woke up early. Thus giving you the increased possibility of an LD, and of course dreams in general to recall.

**Minkaron** · 03-28-2012 03:33 AM

Hey Gab, thanks for the link to Puffin's guide, I don't think I've read that yet! I'll be sure to give that a read when I get the chance. I'll also give mantras a chance considering I've never tried those either.

@Freda: Haha, two years. I certainly hope it will truly be worth it in the end. xD

@Chewnie: I've looked into those, although it sounds like something I would try when I'm not in school. Right now I usually take a single nap when I get home, but it's more out of exhaustion than for my sleep cycle.

Thanks guys for all the advice!

**Zyangur** · 03-28-2012 04:19 AM

Keep trying!!!!!
Even if it takes 10 years, don't stop because being Lucid is amazing! It will come to you eventually no matter how long.

Also something I did that seemed to work (That I need to start doing again) is wearing a rubber band around my wrist, and every fifteen minutes snapping it against my wrist, ask myself if I was dreaming, do an RC, and look around and asked myself if everything was normal.