Thread: Tips on focusing my intentions while lying in bed?

Hey there,

I've engaged in lucid dreaming on and off throughout my life, but one of my recurring issues is difficulty focusing my intention to LD while lying in bed. I'll start out repeating my intention to myself, or visualizing, but my mind wanders away from that quickly and I start thinking about something else-- maybe things I have to do, relationships, philosophizing, etc. I do meditate, which helps somewhat, but I still wander quite a bit during the meditation process as well.

Do I need to remove distractions and complexities in my waking life? Should I stop reading books in bed perhaps? I'm curious what those of you who LD consistently do to focus.

Does anyone have advice on how to sustain the intention so that it takes up my entire awareness?

Thanks!