Having trouble Goin Lucid

[bellylard]

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please,anyone?

[cainam_nazier]

Have you tried afirmations.  If not try it just before you go to sleep, after you have made yourself comfortable and all.  Think of something to say that is short and to the point.  It seems to work better if you use a present tence sentace like "I am", not "I will be".  Some thing like..."I am lucid when I dream."  Or "I am aware when I dream."  These kinds of affirmations helped me with a few things actually.

[kozzi]

Absolutely!  Affirmations really do help a lot.  I say to myself, "I am going to become aware of the fact that I'm dreaming tonight."  That's different from saying "I am lucid when I dream".  I like that, Cainam_Nazier.  I will try that sometime.  Anyway, I tend to respond well to any type of auto-suggestion such as these, and with combining auto-suggestion (affirmations) with keeping a dream journal and doing reality checks during the day I tend to have more lucid dreams.  Here's something you guys might not have thought about, and it works really well for me.  Do your auto-suggestion all day!  

Kozzi

[V00D00]

hmmm... how does lucid dreaming works when i don't want it? it happened once to me but i thik that i was too aware...

[bellylard]

I tried the affirmations and still had no luck.  But I always remember like 2 dreams and last night i remembered 3.  I always remember my emotions and thoughts at certain points and i swear everyone is real as could be.  I just can't get my mind to realize its dreaming and become aware.  I don't know what else i could do.

[cainam_nazier]

Have you tried just not thinking about it for a while?  Say a couple of weeks.  It kinda sounds like you maybe putting too much thought into it.  You know, trying too hard.

I have noticed that from time to time I require a break from all this spiritual stuff.  I seem to need the break to allow information to soak in properly.  Then things just kinda pick back up by themselves.

Just sleep and think about regular dreaming.  Tell yourself that LDing is not something you have to do.

[bellylard]

Well when i go to sleep i get relaxed and stuff, the i am lucis when i dream stuff, but my mind just go off to other stuff after a few minutes and i don't even notice it then i kinda snap back and try it a little.  I don't think im trying to hard, but I could try not thinking about it at all.

[LogoRat]

The meaning by "trying too hard" is this:

If you think that you are unable to become lucid and think too much about it.. then you WILL create a blockage for yourself.
Its not so much of trying too hard, its the thought you have about it that is blocking you.
When you think "I cannot have a lucid dream" you create a fear of not getting it.
You create a fear of not becoming lucid.
Its that fear that is keeping you out of it.
Somehow you are angry, afraid, annoyed, sad of Not getting lucid .. and those feelings are creating a blockage for you.

[Tombo]

Have you tried getting up in the night then after maybe 15 minutes going back to sleep with the strong intention to have a lucid dream? It works best in the morning hours. Just keep tring you'll find something that works..[]

[Spirit_k9]

Here's what I suggest to everyone that asks me how to get to lucid dreaming;

Start a journal, wether it be on tape or written by hand in the wee hours, you just have to do this! What this does is help your recall of your dreams. Write in the journal the instant you wake, and make a habit of it. As your recall expands, it sort of 'pulls' your awareness into shape as you are dreaming, since you are remembering it better. Odd, but that's the best way i can think to put it.

Then, once you have good recall of your dreams, start making a habit of testing your reality....all of the time, waking hours, drowsy times, and eventually this will carry into dreamland. Affirmations will work 100% then, but affirmations alone will not do it.

Other common sense things;

You have to be getting the RIGHT amount of sleep for YOU. Too much and too l ittle will ruin it.

You have to have uninterupted sleep. No eating 3 hours before bed, and no big ole glasses of water right before either. Pee as much as you can before you hit the sack.

NO DRUGS. This doesn't help lucidity one bit, in dreaming OR waking. All it does is give you WIERD dreams if you even remember them. Learn to shift your awareness without the darn drugs. Drugs are a LOSERS way out.

Is this enuff? It's a start anyway, hope it helps!

[bellylard]

Hey.

I've been trying to go lucid for awhile now and just haven't bena ble too.  I've been asking my self if im dreaming during the day,mostly at night though.  And i've tried the light switch thing too.  The past week i've been keeping dream logs and I can usually remember 2 dreams a night in pretty good detail.  I never feel as if im connected with my dreams, like it just happens then I remember it.  I have never been able to know im dreaming, but I remember them pretty clearly.  I've been trying to relax before i go to bed too.  

If anyone could give me some more pointers or anything that would be awesome.

thanks