Mancon's Guide to Staying Motivated

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Staying motivated when it comes to lucid dreaming is tough, but crucial. Everyone ends up having some sort of trouble with lucid dreaming, and sometimes have the urge to give up. How can you stay motivated?

Remind Yourself Why You Want to Lucid Dream

Remember why you want to lucid dream in the first place. Do you want to go on exciting adventures? Do you want to learn more about yourself and who you are? Do you want musical/artistic inspiration? Whatever it is, lucid dreaming is definitely worth sticking with!

Attitude is the Key

Stay positive! Remember, if you keep it up I promise that you will start to have more lucid dreams. It is definitely worth it! Be confident and remind yourself you will and can do it! Do NOT doubt yourself. Keep your head up, and it will be a lot easier!

Different Ways to Stay Motivated

1.) Read other people's lucid experiences and their dream journals. I find that reading other people's lucid dreams gets me excited and really motivates me. One of my all time favorite dream journals to read is Puffins. She describes all of her dreams in great detail, and organizes everything very well.

2.) Reward yourself when you accomplish a goal. You can reward yourself with ice cream, clapping for yourself, sending yourself a letter, or doing anything you enjoy doing.

3.) Imagine the next time you become lucid. What will you do? How will the experience be? Just imagining my next lucid dream gets me excited.

4.) Watch dream-related movies or videos. Inception, The Science of Sleep, Vanilla Sky, Paprika, Waking Life, The Matrix, etc are all great movies.

5.) Make friends here on Dreamviews! I found that friends on this site and in IRC keep me the most motivated to lucid dream. If you don't already I recommend you get in the IRC and talk with other people here on the site! It is a lot of fun!



Other Tips & Advice

-If you have been sticking with a technique for a long time, and you feel like it isn't working then you should consider switching up your technique. Different techniques work best for different people, you just have to experiment and find the right one for you.

-Think about all the other people on the site having trouble with lucid dreaming. You are not alone!

-Remember that everyone can lucid dream, you just have to stick with it!

Other Things You Should Check Out

-Featured Artists for Lucid Inspiration
-Why Lucid Dream?
-Dream Gallery
-Motivation Inspiration Thread

Anyway, I wrote this tutorial up at 1 AM so I'm sure there are a few mistakes! Please correct me if you see anything. I will be adding more to this thread tomorrow :).

Great stuff, the amount of times I've seen people give up or complain when not trying a technique for a week, persistence and practice.

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Awesome guide. Well written and user friendly :P

Awesome thread! :D Thank you.

i also look up words on google like fantasy forest, fantasy space, and so on and close my eyes and imagine being in one of those pictures

This is a really good tutorial. Good for the noobs who complain about not getting lucid after a week ;)

You can also make charts with everything you've completed so far. Which kind of items you've found, statistics and graphs to see your progress. Very nice guide Mancon! :) You sum it all up very well. Motivation is the key thing I teach in my class, and Lucid Dreaming is basicly about staying motivated enough to see results that you WILL get in time. The longer you keep at it, the better you will get.

Awesome thread - you've included some very useful advice!

Thanks everyone :)

Awesome. :) thank you for this.

Nice thread, Mancon ;)

Great thread mancon :D
I've been having troubles lately, this definetely helped :)

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sending yourself a letter

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I immediatly thought of this..

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But a helpful guide though^^

A week! PFFT... I was lucid after two days. Because I''m so awesome, duh TIGER BLOOD!

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This is a really good tutorial. Good for the noobs who complain about not getting lucid after a week ;)

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When should we expect Mancon's Guide To Getting Bitchez?
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I approve of this message sir. I've actually been having LDs more often lately for some reason, but the length of them is godawful short, like less than 5 minutes in dream time. I think it's just because I haven't been putting any real effort toward them like I used to. So pep talk appreciated :thumbup:

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Remember why you want to lucid dream in the first place.

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This sentence is so solid. The reason for doing ANYTHING is the root of your motivation. Without a reason to do something, the activity itself seems useless -- especially if you're unsuccessful.

Moment of Zen:

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forceez: When should we expect Mancon's Guide To Getting Bitchez?

<3 Mancon likes this.

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Great stuff. As matte said, I think motivation is really important so im waiting for this:

"I will be adding more to this thread tomorrow"

Motivation is very importiant, I still have it but it is not nearly as strong as when I first started (In the beginning I had a lucid dream within a week and continued at a very good rate just on pure enthusiasm). This is something that is really importiant that makes lucid dreaming easier than almost anything else. It's nice to see a thread on it.

haha I often clap for myself. sometimes even roaring applause. jk

Waking Life and Inception ALWAYS inspires :D
great guide Mancon,
and ill make sure to clap for myself when i achieve results :P