I am wondering how important the quality of meditation is to me when it comes to LDing. I have only put in a half effort in meditation and to be honest I just found out about meditation and its importance last year. However when I do meditate, I found in the past that I have more frequent LD's. Usually I will try to meditate for around 30 minutes at least 3 times a week. What I found is that this is just not enough for me. Even when I do meditate the quality of the meditation is not good at all. What I mean by this is that before I start my meditation session I can go all around the house and make an announcement telling everyone that I am going to meditate AND please do not disturb me AND please cut down on the noise AND please do this for me for just 30 minutes. My family will still go on talking at the same loud volume, I can hear the phone ring, I can hear someone getting something to eat because the microwave keeps going off, I can hear someone laughing hysterically, I can hear someone yelling at the game on TV, and so on...

So I questioned myself, "If I put in an effort to meditate at least 30 minutes a day without anyone being home or meditate when we are all asleep in the middle of the night (during my WBTB), what difference would that make in me having LD's and what would the quality of the LD's be?"

I have paid so much attention to ADA, RC, and RRC's that I have given meditation the short end of the stick. I really want to do an experiment and focus on the quality of my meditation sessions and see if this will have a positive effect on my LD's (on top of my ADA, RC, RRC's). So here is my game plan:

Experiment will start this weekend (February 21, 2015) and continue until March 31, 2015

1. Continue with ADA, RC, and RRC's
2. Continue documentation of dreams in dream journal
2. Meditation session at least for 30 minutes focusing on breath 5 out of 7 days a week.
3. Mediation session must be when there is no chance of being interrupted (i.e., no one home, or during the middle of the night when everyone is asleep like during a 3:00am or 4:00am WBTB)
4. Must get enough sleep! Must go to bed at a decent time and obtain at least 6 total hours of sleep time. If doing a WBTB, then sleep at least 4 hours before attempting a WBTB, meditate, then go back to bed.
5. Try to determine when I actually do start to dream and document this time (i.e., if I meditate after my WBTB around 4:00am, then I go back to bed, I should be waking up around the time a dream finishes...so I want to document this time for future reference).
6. Continue with regular healthy diet, exercise, and doctor prescribed medications (never have taken supplements).


Currently I may average 2-3 LD's a month but I have been known to hit a dry spell after coming off of a really good month, so this can vary. Also, the quality of my LD's are pretty weak (unstable, dark or total blackness, extremely short and fragment). I want to have good quality LD's (clarity, strength, vividness, length, etc.). My goal is really not in the number of LD's I may have but in the INCREASE IN QUALITY OF THE LD that I do have. With this experiment, it doesn't matter to me how I get the LD's (WILD, DEILD's, DILD, etc), my desire is to just maintain high quality LD's, no matter what the method is. In my meditation sessions, I will document the start time and end time, any problems I may have had, and any body symptoms I may have while meditating. I will pay special attention to all dreams whether lucid or non lucid and document all findings here in my workbook.

My lucid dreaming goals have always been to summon, time travel, telekinesis, astral project, teleport (again), and so on. This WILL NOT HAPPEN with unstable, shaky, fragmented lucid dreams. As stated, I will be following meditation techniques that focuses on breath and using certain techniques listed here in DV Forum Attaining Lucidity in the Meditation sub-forum.

I have never really done an experiment on myself but I am looking to improve in my lucidity instead of just hoping "I will lucid dream tonight!" Feel free to follow my progress at http://www.dreamviews.com/intro-clas...ml#post2148904 (yes, I say progress because it can only get better from here) and please feel free to offer me any helpful advise! Time for me to get serious "I know I can...I know I can...I know I can"