Hi all, I’ve been keeping up to a mostly successful practice for the past month and I’m now achieving roughly 1 lucid dream a week (Usually DILD). Obviously I’m quite happy with my success given I’ve only been practicing for just over 2 months but I feel I may be missing 1 piece of the puzzle that could make things easier as my current routine is becoming quite exhausting.
My routine:
Through the day I may practice the odd RC and do some ADA but my work and home life is rather busy currently so my practice is mainly based in the evening. Before bed I spend a good hour or more getting excited about lucid dreaming. This involves reading threads on here, reading my DJ and doing dream analysis and researching techniques and other related things. Then when I’m in bed at 10:30pm I will relax, clear my mind and set an intention before bed to “Wake up in the middle of my dream and remember it”. Then I will do some light visualisation until I drop off around 11pm.
Throughout the night I usually wake between 3 - 5 times and I’ve managed to learn how to do this without an alarm. Usually when I wake I’ll remain still and recall a couple of dreams during each session. What I remember varies from fragments to very vivid dreams. I normally have more success after 4 hours of sleep. After I have recalled what I can which usually takes 5 - 10 minutes I will turn over and repeat a mantra. I’m still working on finding the best mantra for me but usually I do “Stay aware, look for the dream”. Then I fall back asleep and repeat this process multiple times throughout the night until I wake up to my alarm at 7am (8 hours sleep approx. total) Then I record everything in detail in my dream journal.
I have done this consistently for a month now and as I mentioned I’ve had some good success with a count of 7 DILD’s and two spontaneous DEILDs in total since I began. I’m also able to recall between 2 - 10 dreams a night.
It’s not always smooth sailing though and sometimes during my recall sessions I can become too awake and lose up to an hour or more sleep whilst trying to fall back asleep and that results in me feeling exhausted in the morning. When I’m tired my recall suffers also and so do my chances of getting lucid so sometimes I have to take a break to recover.
Overall I feel like this routine works mostly for me. The problem is I can’t seem to get past 1 lucid dream a week and by the end of the week I do feel exhausted which is understandable given how much sleep I probably lose each night. So I’m wondering if maybe I’m over doing it? Am I prioritising dream recall too much over actual sleep? Are the multiple WBTBs aiding me or hindering me? Am I doing too much? Or too little?
Im curious what people’s thoughts are on this and if you’ve had similar issues? This is my first post on here so I really appreciate any help you can give me. Thanks.
My routine:
Through the day I may practice the odd RC and do some ADA but my work and home life is rather busy currently so my practice is mainly based in the evening. Before bed I spend a good hour or more getting excited about lucid dreaming. This involves reading threads on here, reading my DJ and doing dream analysis and researching techniques and other related things. Then when I’m in bed at 10:30pm I will relax, clear my mind and set an intention before bed to “Wake up in the middle of my dream and remember it”. Then I will do some light visualisation until I drop off around 11pm.
Throughout the night I usually wake between 3 - 5 times and I’ve managed to learn how to do this without an alarm. Usually when I wake I’ll remain still and recall a couple of dreams during each session. What I remember varies from fragments to very vivid dreams. I normally have more success after 4 hours of sleep. After I have recalled what I can which usually takes 5 - 10 minutes I will turn over and repeat a mantra. I’m still working on finding the best mantra for me but usually I do “Stay aware, look for the dream”. Then I fall back asleep and repeat this process multiple times throughout the night until I wake up to my alarm at 7am (8 hours sleep approx. total) Then I record everything in detail in my dream journal.
I have done this consistently for a month now and as I mentioned I’ve had some good success with a count of 7 DILD’s and two spontaneous DEILDs in total since I began. I’m also able to recall between 2 - 10 dreams a night.
It’s not always smooth sailing though and sometimes during my recall sessions I can become too awake and lose up to an hour or more sleep whilst trying to fall back asleep and that results in me feeling exhausted in the morning. When I’m tired my recall suffers also and so do my chances of getting lucid so sometimes I have to take a break to recover.
Overall I feel like this routine works mostly for me. The problem is I can’t seem to get past 1 lucid dream a week and by the end of the week I do feel exhausted which is understandable given how much sleep I probably lose each night. So I’m wondering if maybe I’m over doing it? Am I prioritising dream recall too much over actual sleep? Are the multiple WBTBs aiding me or hindering me? Am I doing too much? Or too little?
Im curious what people’s thoughts are on this and if you’ve had similar issues? This is my first post on here so I really appreciate any help you can give me. Thanks.
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