Thread: 1 year, not a single LD

Laurelindo has good points.

I would like yo add, if you keep doing the exact same thing every night for a year. You are expecting to fail each night. Change things around little by little. Expect things to work.
Your subconscious expectation seems to be that you are not going to LD. When dealing with lucid dreams, subconscious expectation is a biiiiiiiig deal. Maybe the most important thing to lucidity.

Also, what are you doing for recall right now?

Originally Posted by Laurelindo

Do you find the quest for lucid draming fun?
Make sure you feel that it's something you actually look forward to and feel excited about, not just as something you "must" achieve.
If you try too hard then you will be more focused on the frustration itself, and this makes it harder to focus on actual lucid dreaming.

Also, I recommend that you sit down right now and make a list of things you want to experience in your first lucid dream.
One very common mistake is to strive for "a lucid dream" - what's that?
A "lucid dream" is not a concrete event, it's just a term, so make sure you specify exactly what you want to dream about or imagine an actual scenario.
One relatively easy affirmation or "mantra" could be to imagine yourself jumping into the air and flying, and then you can imagine that scenario while you are falling asleep and repeat firmly to yourself "I jump, and fly away..." or something similar that feels concise and to the point.
I actually recommend "I jump, and fly away..." because I like the sound of that mantra, it has a pretty nice ring to it.

Of course, it might feel like repeating a mantra will "only" lead to dreaming about something without becoming lucid - but you could actually become lucid from the event itself, since you might recognize it and suddenly say to yourself "hey, this was my lucid dreaming goal!".

I already have goals that i really want to achieve when LDing
they are goals that i will never forget, so my subconscious won't too

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

Laurelindo has good points.

I would like yo add, if you keep doing the exact same thing every night for a year. You are expecting to fail each night. Change things around little by little. Expect things to work.
Your subconscious expectation seems to be that you are not going to LD. When dealing with lucid dreams, subconscious expectation is a biiiiiiiig deal. Maybe the most important thing to lucidity.

Also, what are you doing for recall right now?

what do you mean "doing for recall right now"?

Originally Posted by Iriba

what do you mean "doing for recall right now"?

What are you doing to recall dreams? I don't understand what you mean. Do you not practice recall?