Anyone ever feel like they need to take a break from AP for a while?

[vipassana]

My problem is not from overdoing it with AP, but that I only have a lucid dream about every 2 - 3 months. I think I've become so wrapped up in reading about AP and all of this other metaphysical stuff, but yet rarely having an AP or lucid dream experience, I'm just frustrating myself and I'm getting tired of being frustrated about it. I've had a few really good lucid dreams, but that's it.

I work with a woman who tells me about these dreams she has that sound like AP to me. She describes consciously talking with people/beings and doing all sorts of thinks like flying, fighting off aliens, etc. She says her mind is totally conscious when she does it. It's normal to her and happens almost everynight. But she thinks they are just dreams. I tried to explain to her what APs were, but she just blows it off. It's annoying because it happens to me so infrequently and she could care less about it happening to her everynight.

So did you ever get to the point where you felt like you needed to tune out for a while? Just completely walk away from it? Honestly, I don't think it will matter for me. I think I've always had lucid dreams and perhaps even really projected. I just became conscious and immediately woke up, whereas now, in the few that I've had, I recognized it and made some things happen. I don't know. 

[justin35ll]

Never had the feeling that I needed to walk away from it, but I have taken breaks for a couple months to half a year in the past.
It's not that I don't want to keep doing it, sometimes I just lose interst and then after a couple months go by something sparks my interest and I'm anxious to get back into it.

[Psilibus]

You might be trying too hard. Taking a break from AP won't necessarily hurt but you should always exercise your imagination and will. Practice meditation and develop/maintain focus and concentration. The frustration alone could be working against you. There are practices to help you develop awareness in dreams that are actually quite easy. All of this takes time and patience. Don't rush it. Lower your expectations so that the experiences you do have will be all the better. I dunno, did that help? 

[Xanth]

Simply put, stop having high expectations.
Just go about practicing and just allow it to happen.
Don't get frustrated... don't get upset...

Whatever happens, happens. 

~Ryan

[Asi911]

I don't know if you can tune out from it even you want to. I think its a natural part of our existence.

My greatest projections happend to me spontaneously during sleep without the intent to do it.
I do agree with the previews comments that you may need to lower your expectations in order to not get frustrated.

If most of your LDs/APs happen to you during night while you sleep (like it is for me), than my advice will be to go to sleep accepting the fact that it just might not happen tonight. These kind of thoughts help me relax my expectations and actually increase the chance of having a projection.

Hope this will help you to! 

[vipassana]

I guess I could never walk away form it. I've spent so much time reading and thinking about it and what is going on in the world and trying to tie it all together that I'm kind of burned out from it. I need something to spark a new discovery. I've noticed that I have vivid lucid dreams when I also have one of those "Holy sh*t!" moments, like when I learned about the new world order (no intention to start another thread about that subject). Believe it or not, reading this forum and learning about AP through books and personal accounts that I've read has led me into a whole new understanding of reality in this world and to be honest, it has been a bit overwhelming. I'm constantly on the lookout for signs of the so-called "shift" or whatever you want to call it associated with 2012. I'm not convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that something enlightening will come of it. It's a nice thought, but I'm skeptical. What really keeps me interested in that subject is that the current world situation is unsustainable. Whether this is realted to some kind of coming event is yet to be seen. I think this is why I am burned out. I basically need to get a life again and not let this consume me. I think my job is to wake others up to what is going on by suggesting that they look into it for themselves. I connected the dots on my own. I believe with what I have learned so far, that I'll be a dot for someone else.

So I hope to have a truly great AP someday. The life changing kind that puts reality into a whole new perspective. I'm going to take everyone's advice on here and lower my expectations, practice and just accept what happens. I am dropping out for a while though, but I totally expect to be back on this forum at some point.

Xanth and Personalreality, you guys have been a major influence. Thanks!       

[Stookie]

My life is ebb and flow - sometimes my physical life is dominant, sometimes my inner life. I have no problem putting my meditation/AP on hold and absorb into physical life for a bit. Because I enjoy both. And coming back, I'm always stronger. I honestly believe that balance is the key in this situation. If you try to ignore the importance of physical life and enjoyment, your inner life is going to get weird and mystical, and probably fill with aberrations and incorrect perception. If you ignore your inner life... well, I don't think I have to explain. There are enough of those people.

[Inico]

I've only been interested in this field since Christmas, and I'd taken a break of a month.

But at this point, there's barely a moment of the day where I don't feel vibrations. As time pass they become stronger, and stronger, and stronger. As I speak my head is spinning.

Only after a night of sleeping do I wake up reset without any vibrations. By nightfall they're at their strongest.

So I don't think I can walk away from this even if I wanted to at this point.

[Psilibus]

Inico

Wow. I remember those days. I would lay my head on a pillow and immediately be off in a rush of vibrations and whoosh I'd be off. This actually became burdensome for me. I started feeling like it was not in my control. After a few years I started moving away and resisting. Now after about a ten year hiatus with only a couple experiences a year I wish it would come back strong like that. It isn't. Getting back does become harder, I guess for me it did. My recent successes have been very pleasant and memories are flooding back. Perhaps you could find that happy medium which will keep it readily available. I hope it is like that for you.