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    Probably the worst way to start my DJ

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    jcallinor
    , 01-14-2011 at 03:21 PM (533 Views)
    I suppose possibly the worst way to begin my dream journal is to share the absence of a dream. I have been trying to have a lucid dream for the past two weeks and have only succeeded once for a few minutes. Since then I have been needing that feeling like a meth addict going through withdrawl

    How I prepare each night for a DILD attempt is to watch a subliminal video about lucid dreaming, then to meditate on lucid dreaming for around twenty minutes while listening the theta binaural beats, then go to sleep and hope some time tonight my daily reality checks will come to something. I then wake up to 3 different timers first at 3 then at 4 and then at 5:30. Yet so far all of these dreams have been non-lucids but have been so fantastic that I feel like a failure when I forget to perform reality checks

    Last night I took some advice that I have heard about on DV that involved scaling back my attempts at a lucid dream, but that still produced the results you are seeing now.

    But I am committed and look forward to the period in which LDs will be prevalent. However far away that may be

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    1. OwlDreamz's Avatar
      I am new at this, but I'm guessing that many of us start this exact way - in the absence of a lucid dream, searching wildly for one. Your post sounds familiar to me, very very familiar indeed.
      Take heart and chin up, jcallinor. You got at least one under your belt, and that's a fabulous start! Your brain knows how to do it, that's so important - or at least it seems important to me in my lack of any LDs. I love your analogy - meth addict exactly how I feel! Hang in there.
    2. Matte87's Avatar
      When I first started doing this and only got a lucid or two each month at most, I was just like you. I'm still very into lucid dreaming but I had to take a break and come back to start appreciating it again. My advice is to slow down and take it easy for a while. It sounds to me like it's a big chore for you atm, and you're putting huge amounts of pressure on getting one. Starting to have frequent LD's takes time, and to keep the motivation for that time, you can't overdo it. Good luck!