Thread: What should I do next to achieve lucidity?

I took 3 pills of this stuff last night, and admittedly, my dreams were a lot more vivid, and I felt another step closer to LDing. I even got up at about 4, got a drink of water, and went back to bed, but the dreams were still just dreams, (albeit awesome ones).

What should I do next to achieve lucidity?

try different techniques, a good one is MILD

Now record your dreams in a dream journal and find out something thats you always notice and stands out in your dream (for me all the places like my house, my school, my friend's house look different). Whenever you notice that odd thing in your real life/dream do a reality check.

I've done that for a while. But I can't record every little thing in my dreams.

I just can't LD, and I don't know why.

I started forcing myself to count my fingers/do a different RC every time I walked through a doorway. When I finally got in the habit of it in a couple of weeks, I got 2 lucids in 4 days - both times when I walked through a doorway in the dream. Try it!

when starting to Lucid Dream, it's best to try as many techniques as you can and as many variations of those techniques. Never just do what the tutorials tell you. You need to modify each technique to fit the way you sleep. (for example, if a tutorial tells you to stay awake during WBTB for 15 minutes, don't do it if you know you won't be able to fall back asleep. some tutorials say that all you have to do is get out of bed, even for only a little while, but I never get out of bed for WBTB otherwise I can't get back to sleep)

you also need to stick with the technique for a while. Don't try it once and give up because you didn't get a lucid dream the first time. You might spend a week getting nowhere, and then out of the blue it will work for you because you just finally got the hang of it. Also, if you feel like you're making progress, keep trying until you really feel that you need to move on.

Originally Posted by DorjeDarby

I've done that for a while. But I can't record every little thing in my dreams.

I just can't LD, and I don't know why.

Patience is the hardest part of LDing, but probably the most important. It took me months and months to get my first lucid dream. I got so unbelievably frustrated. But once I found a few techniques that worked for me, it came a lot easier. And they were techniques that I had tried many times before. I just didn't really get the hang of it until I had practiced.

and writing in your dream journal is also a vital part of lucid dreaming. It's surprising how important it can be, even when you don't think it is. My recall is really good, I can remember 2-3 dreams upon awakening, but if I don't write them down it doesn't do me any good at all. Just because writing is good for recall doesn't mean that's its only use.

sorry that was so long, but it's some important info. Good luck!