Thread: Wow This Is Really Difficult

I tried to talk to myself in my head to get lucid, and it wouldn't work, even worse I had to sit up and think of the dream I had. How long does this usually take? I have began since the end of August to now.

Originally Posted by Mguy

I tried to talk to myself in my head to get lucid, and it wouldn't work, even worse I had to sit up and think of the dream I had. How long does this usually take? I have began since the end of August to now.
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It's different for everyone man. I had my first lucid within two weeks of starting to try. Don't lose hope because you WILL succeed. You say you "tried to talk to yourself in your head" I am not entirely sure what you mean. Perhaps you should try a different method. There are literally tons of methods and one of them is bound to work for you. Are you keeping a dream journal? How good is your dream recall? What method are you trying to use to become lucid?

Originally Posted by Leixor

It's different for everyone man. I had my first lucid within two weeks of starting to try. Don't lose hope because you WILL succeed. You say you "tried to talk to yourself in your head" I am not entirely sure what you mean. Perhaps you should try a different method. There are literally tons of methods and one of them is bound to work for you. Are you keeping a dream journal? How good is your dream recall? What method are you trying to use to become lucid?
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Well, lately my recall has been awful. I have tried MILD and WILD as far as I know I believe. I know I can do it, but it takes a lot of time. I've only had one lucid experience which was for a brief 8 seconds, and I came here because I wanted more out of it. The lucid experience I had is the first one in my Dream Journal, and I have one, but I don't write in that because it is just little bits I can remember only.

Originally Posted by Mguy

Well, lately my recall has been awful. I have tried MILD and WILD as far as I know I believe. I know I can do it, but it takes a lot of time. I've only had one lucid experience which was for a brief 8 seconds, and I came here because I wanted more out of it. The lucid experience I had is the first one in my Dream Journal, and I have one, but I don't write in that because it is just little bits I can remember only.
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Speaking from personal experience, the thing that causes me to become lucid the most is a combination of MILD and lots of reality checks. I do reality checks as often as it occurs to me, more the later it is in the day. When I'm going to sleep I often see hypnagogic imagery. Usually that means I will be asleep within 2-3 minutes, so I make it a point to tell myself that I am going to sleep and soon will be dreaming. This is what is most successful for me, resulting in roughly 1 lucid dream every 3 nights. I'll get better the more I practice, as will you. Remember to stick with it, because it is worth it in the end. Try to keep a dream journal, even if you only write down small fragments. Then read over those fragments a few times. When I do that I am very good at remembering more, and filling in the gaps. If you only remember what you were dreaming immediatly before you wake up, try remembering where you were before that. Play it backwards so to speak. One of the important things about keeping a dream journal, I think, is it lets your subconcious know that you are interested in your dreams. You WANT to remember them. I found the more I journaled the better my recall got. Lately I haven't really been keeping a dream journal like I should because I've been busy in real life. I've written in it 3 times in as many weeks. My recall has suffered as a result. It can take a lot of work to train yourself to get good, but you CAN do it and it IS worth it. I think so anyway. If you have any other questions you can PM me. My knowledge may be limited, as I'm pretty new myself but I have lot's of theories and have read a lot on the topic.

Oi dony worry man.... I've only been here like 2 weeks but on my first week I had a short like 5 secound lucid dream and it only lasted that long because of a FA... since then... I can only remebr 1 dream per night sometimes... I got close to WILD once but I cant get that close again... so I just stopted trying to get luicd and just aimd for 1 thing at a time.. like dream recall and its working sofar

^-- if that makes scence lol

if i were you id be immensely thankful that i even had ONE lucid dream. some of us are starting completely from scratch.

Most people do not become lucid in dreams because they are basically 'asleep' when they are awake. What I mean is: the more lucid you become during you wake state (by continually doing RCs and other of the like) the more you will become lucid during your dreams.

Become familiar with your dreams (for example a DREAM SIGN for me is that if I ever have loose teeth - I'm definately asleep - know what YOUR dreams usually encompass/have in them.)

The more you ask youself if you are asleep while awake (don't make this become passive - 'yeah...I'm awake' {become AWARE OF YOUR AWARENESS!!!! } then the more you will 'pass it on'/have it transfer to your dream 'habits'...

Some things depend on the person, just try a few techniques (or all of them) for longer than a week or a month before saying 'this doesn't work' - if it works, it'll take longer than a week on average