Thread: Believing You Will Succeed

That is something i would like to know.

You just have to make yourself believe you will. Just think that all the months of failure were just a test to see if you were serious enough to stick with it. And now, you will lucid dream.

I was laying in my bed trying to WILD the other night, and I just believed / expected myself to fall asleep, and within seconds I felt sleep paralysis coming on. However, the next thing I knew, I woke up having just had normal dreams.

Belief is a powerful tool. Especially for controlling your dreams.

hey. my advice to you is to keep at it. i know that's obvious but you gotta step back from yourself and ask "what am i doing wrong?". a simple technique change might work. try the wake back to bed technique (WBTB). believing is crucial but by far it's not all you have to do, you need to see what works for you. i had a dry spell that lasted almost 3 weeks and used the WBTB technique. i used it twice so far and even managed to do a WILD which i've been trying to do for the longest time. all you need to do for this technique is wake up an hour before you usually do and stay up for an hour thinking about being lucid in a dream, watch movie clips that inspire you or read about it, or just think about it for an hour. then just go back to bed and while you're drifting back to sleep think about what you're gonna do in the lucid dream, and think about lucid dreaming in general.
remember wake up an hour early. stay up for an hour. go back to sleep. and believe.

p.s. you might need to do this over the weekend or when you have time because this does take up extra time.

believing got me like half my lucid dreams!

Originally Posted by Schmaven

You just have to make yourself believe you will. Just think that all the months of failure were just a test to see if you were serious enough to stick with it. And now, you will lucid dream.

I was laying in my bed trying to WILD the other night, and I just believed / expected myself to fall asleep, and within seconds I felt sleep paralysis coming on. However, the next thing I knew, I woke up having just had normal dreams.

Belief is a powerful tool. Especially for controlling your dreams.

Last night, I wholeheartedly believed that I would get a lucid dream. And I think I did. But I didn't remember any dreams at all, so I have no idea.

keeping a dream journal has helped me be able to remember my dreams exponentially better. If you can't remember them, all the lucids in the world go to waste.

Depends what you mean by failure. Could you define your goals a little better?

But yes, belief plays a major role, at least in my ability to LD

like everyone said before, belief plays a major role in obtaining a lucid dream. just know that everyone in the whole world (including you) is completely, 100%, capable of having a lucid dream. to me it's not really a matter of who can have LDs and who can't, it's who thinks they will, and who has the slightest bit of doubt...

Oddly this never worked for me. I have gone to bed completely convinced that I would have a LD, but it never works... Then again I have never gotten "brain suggestions" to work for me either. Maybe it is just me.

hmm strange. try thinking that you know it's just possible, that your mind is capable of having an LD, and not, it's going to happen tonight for sure,

Originally Posted by DarThDreAmeR

like everyone said before, belief plays a major role in obtaining a lucid dream. just know that everyone in the whole world (including you) is completely, 100%, capable of having a lucid dream. to me it's not really a matter of who can have LDs and who can't, it's who thinks they will, and who has the slightest bit of doubt...

Most definitely, its all about the confidence. Everyone can do it. Just put yourself into the mindset that the months of failure will be over tonight. If there's any doubt, shake it off and reassure yourself.

Well sometimes when I'm going to sleep I tell myself, I'm going to have a lucid dream this night. I just make sure I'm positive. As long as I don't worry too much it isn't hard to believe. Don't think about the failure.

It's hard to communicate how to believe.

the hard for people is that you truly must believe. telling yourself you believe is just not enough. you must TRULY BELIEVE you will have a lucid, now thats not saying you will have one the night you truly believe. but if you do believe it and not just keep telling yourself, you WILL have a lucid dream I promise! but you REALLY have to BELIEVE in your ability!

Yeah. The first night, I didn't remember my lucid dream.
The second night, I woke up after a dream, and had a hard time getting back to sleep (never did sleep deeply after that).

Tonight is the night.
And I believe I can.
I have a five second DILD in the past that I ruined with excitement.
My goal is to go lucid for a relatively long amount of time with a reasonable amount of vividity.

Originally Posted by Super FZL

If you completely believe you will have a lucid dream, then you will. Or at least this is what I have been told.

But how do you convince yourself that you will succeed after months of failure?

It's not entirely true. The entire notion works as an autosuggestion to do the planned action in this case a reality check in the dream. Sometimes the belief to do the reality check becomes so strong that it directly instructs the subconcious to carry out the action. But for that to happen you will need 100% faith and intent. From experience to maintain 100% faith and intent is very tiring and not possible. To lucid dream regularly you will still require an objective method/technique that will work everytime whether you belief it will work or not so it's not just "I believe I will and I will"...it's not that simple.

IMJ

Believing really does work ^_^
I mean I say to myself:
Let's see...I will wake up at 8 am and then I'll fall asleep again and then I'll wake up at 11 am. And repeat it a few times.
I did this today and when I woke up I thought that it didn't work and that it's already 11. But then I looked at the time I realised that it was 9 am XD (I might sometimes wake up a hour later or earlier, but this time it was probably because I thought that waking up Exactly at 8 am wasn't really important) Then I went to sleep and woke up around 11 am.
I didn't have any Lucid dreams, even though that was my motive to wake up earlier
But then I said to myself: "what I didn't have a Lucid dream? bah! That's nothing to worry about! ^_^ I mean if I didn't have a Lucid dream tonight I'll surely have a one the next night!
I don't say that on purpose, it's just something I think automatically.
And after some time I do have one (like once in two weeks).

I suppose that people didn't exactly mean that all you have to do is believe you will lucid dream and you will. I think they just meant that along with all the other techniques you do, thinking that it wont work is only going to make it harder, so you should keep a positive attitude about it while attempting to lucid dream as you normally would. as others already mentioned, believing is very important, but that alone can't get you lucid.

This is probably the reason I always succeed when I try a new technique. I read a new guide and feel excited to try it, knowing it will work for me.

It doesn't matter that it is basically the same thing I have been doing for years, in a new format. It also doesn't matter that I am aware that the newness is what will make it work. I'm ok lying to myself like that.

Originally Posted by lagunagirl

I suppose that people didn't exactly mean that all you have to do is believe you will lucid dream and you will. I think they just meant that along with all the other techniques you do, thinking that it wont work is only going to make it harder, so you should keep a positive attitude about it while attempting to lucid dream as you normally would. as others already mentioned, believing is very important, but that alone can't get you lucid.

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Originally Posted by lagunagirl

I suppose that people didn't exactly mean that all you have to do is believe you will lucid dream and you will. I think they just meant that along with all the other techniques you do, thinking that it wont work is only going to make it harder, so you should keep a positive attitude about it while attempting to lucid dream as you normally would. as others already mentioned, believing is very important, but that alone can't get you lucid.

Well no, a couple of times I have gotten into bed, said to myself, "I am going to have a lucid dream!", rolled over, gone to sleep (no techniques whatsoever), and woken up inside my own head.
Of course, that doesn't work all the time It's happened maybe 3 times to me.

well no matter what happens during the night, before i go to sleep i tell myself i will lucid dream. haha everynight. do i become lucid everynight? i wish.... lol. i think the moral of this thread is to believe in your ability to lucid dream, and it will aid you, where as debating whether or not it will work will hinder your lucid dreaming experience....

yeah believing is crucial MOST OF THE TIME. i have gone to bed totally believing that i WON'T have a lucid dream, and i did anyway. maybe a part of me believed i would LD anyway because i never actually told myself "i won't have a lucid dream", i just accepted failure. believing just makes it a lot more likely that you will LD.