Quote Originally Posted by Katniss View Post
I've been trying for a lucid dream for a long time and I still can't lucid dream. It's really annoying and I just want to be able to. I keep a DJ, I do RC, I am trying! Every once in a while I'll have a freaky experince, and I know I'm really close. I get sleep paralysis often, and I know people have told me I can turn it into a lucid dream, but while I'm in on the moment my brain just doesn't process this until afterwards when I really wake up. I've come really close to having an OOBE but then I get scared and back away.

Part of the problem is anxiety for me I think. I feel scared even though I know I'm safe. It's frustrating I can say the least. Anyway, I already dream every night, and last night I had a dream where I was sitting in school talking to my friend about lucid dreaming. I was telling her how wonderful it seemed and everything. What would it have taken for me to have done a simple RC? Even when I dream of lucid dreaming it just doesn't seem to happen.

Any advice would be really nice, I've been reading over some tuts, but any advice on my situation would be great. Thanks for reading!

-Kat
Stop wanting to be able to lucid dream and just pay attention to whether or not you are dreaming. Just ask, "is this a dream?"(you have to do this all the time, and really do it. Be curious and really aware. Enjoy the fact that you can test what kind of reality this is, have fun with it). Eventually it will be and then you'll be lucid.

As for anxiety, you might try meditation.