Thread: why I will never be able to lucid dream~

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

40 of my first 50 LDs:
I am lucid! run! find a goal! Run! try to fly! Run! wake up two minutes later tops. Slowing down was really hard at first.... Especially if there was a... person... of other gender around. FA's especially, since I wake up next to my hot wife

Slowing down will make your goals get to you better and make it easier to stabilize.

This is a great point, BrandonBoss. (Great advice here from Sivason as well.)

This is something that I still struggle with because lucid dreams are so exciting and our brains are in a state where we have very little natural impulse control. (Which is also what makes the wife-related false awakenings harder to resist! )

But in the last several weeks I've been trying to slow my tempo down, really make myself a part of the scene and just enjoy the LD for what it is before I go flying off into the distance shouting "yippee!!" like an 11-year-old. I've found that if I remember to do it, slowing down and really observing makes the entire experience so much more vivid and gives me a lot better chance at ultimately controlling where things go and steering the experience toward whatever goals I have in mind.

Thanks for the reminder of this, both of you.

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

40 of my first 50 LDs:
I am lucid! run! find a goal! Run! try to fly! Run! wake up two minutes later tops. Slowing down was really hard at first.... Especially if there was a... person... of other gender around.

DILD #1: Yep!
DILD #2: Yep! (longer because there were no ... persons... around at the beginning, also managed a hands-rub stabilization at the start to counter unwilling impersonation of a balloon )

Originally Posted by moocowgoesmoo

Other times however the dream is just so crazy that I KNOW that I am dreaming

Actually, this was a lucid dream.
So you have definitely been lucid at least once.