Difficulty in inducing lucid dreams

[cesm23]

Usually the most techniques i see to induce lucid dreams is mainly doing a dream journal (absolutly not practical to me), doing several reality checks a day or doing affirmations at the night before sleeping.

I most say that unfortunately my dreams usually are always very very similar to my real life usually the only thing different is mostly the places i am and the people i see, but using the tecnique to see if it's everything normal around me on the dream doesn't work well because of my dreams always being quite similar to my reallife...

Is there any other means, for someone that hasn't any psychic abilities active? For me the most "confortable" way would be the suggestions but i don't know if that alone is powerfull enough, since i have been doing them everyday and maybe it's normal it takes several days to do effect?

By the way last night i had a psychic dream for the first time since several weeks (i know this because i usually always remember my dreams at morning, SPECIALLY if they are psychic) mostly because i did some energy work awareness in my spine in the heart chakra area, but that's odd every time i did that in the past, it ONLY induced a psychic or lucid dream in the first day, but then if i continue doing in the next days it never works anymore... that's real odd...

[Timandra]

Hi cesm23, try reading a book about lucid dreaming. Like this book, even before I was reading the chapters with techniques I already got 3 lucid dreams a week while before that I had only 1 or 2 a year. It has a lot of different techniques that you can add to your own. Good luck! 

http://www.scribd.com/doc/11791351/Lucid-Dreaming-Manual-M-Van-de-Keere

[cesm23]

hum... ok thanks for the suggestion, let's see if it's this time i finally get a technique working for me.

[Timandra]

I wanted to add that it is not only the techniques, but also reading a lot about lucid dreaming can improve your ability to get a lucid dream. This way your sub-conscious gets soaked with the material and it will give you more spontaneous LD's.

[cesm23]

Hum... yeah that's the law of attraction at work i think, the more i read about lucid dreams it only makes sense that it will attract them, at least i hope One of the main goals i have in lucid dreams is to find a way to develop psychic abilities or at least finding the most effective techniques with my specific case, have you any experience on this ?

Anyway i hope it's possible to get them without those ultra annoying reality checks or dream diary because everytime i tried that i was unable to continue for long, these two things are INCREDIBLY boring to me and take a long time to see results.

For example, in one of the times i managed to do daily reality checks (that thing of looking 3-4 times to the same spot to see if it changes) i only started doing it in the dreams about almost ONE ENTIRE month of doing them while awake, altough i was so tired of doing this while awake that i had to quit, SPECIALLY when in one of the times i did the reality check inside a dream, the spot i was looking at did NOT change, and of course i only noticed this when i awake, i tought to myself how the heck is that possible! From that moment on i just quit doing reality checks. By the way most of the reality checks suggestions i see, none of them seem to work with me, don't know why.

[Timandra]

Well I didn't really mean the law of attraction, but yes, that will probably also work. I don't have experience on developing psychic abilities in LD's, and I have never heard or read about it.

I do think that the reality checks are necessary, perhaps you can do some that you find not so boring. For me, I will do everything from the book if I have to, if it is going to give me LD's, even if I don't like to do it. (But I don't mind). Because LD's will give you so many benefits, also for your everyday life, plus you will get your own personal Holodeck!  
I keep a dreamjournal since 1995, before I even knew lucid dreams existed. But things really changed since I started to read that book, do reality checks everyday and started to meditate, about 6 weeks ago. I started having spontaneous OBE's and lucid dreams. This night I was instructing myself to have a lucid dream before I fell asleep and I had an OBE instead, lol.

So I hope you will find a way that is good for you but I think that you have to train for every goal you want to accomplish, including having lucid dreams. Perhaps there are other forummembers with more lucid dream experience who can give you a better advice. 

[radman32]

I'll have to read that book to get more indepth no my LD skills, even though i experience like one a week