I mentioned here before that when I first found out about LDing I had a sort of beginner's luck, where the reality checks and at least once just having the topic on my mind led to lucid dreams quite quickly.
My last fully lucid dream was near the start of this year. It was a long and quite vivid dream and I eventually got lucid when I was talking to a DC about why a school lesson kept moving location all the time, which is a big DREAM SIGN for me. I had a dream about four months later where I just seemed to know it could be a dream (out of a window, thought if it was a dream I could fly, but gave up because it seemed too dangerous), but didn't manage to do any good RCs. I'd call that one semi-lucid.
Since I started posting on dreamviews just under a month ago, I tried to really ramp up the frequency and intent of my RCs, I tried to read a bit of this site every day, and I've even changed my computer's wallpaper to remind me about lucid dreaming and what to do when I get lucid. Maybe I'm impatient, but so far I've had just about no luck at all with these new techniques.
During my dreams, my critical thinking seems to be bad at the moment - I know in the past I've managed to ask a lot more questions in my dreams. I find it odd how it comes and goes. Anyone got any ideas about this? I've noticed when I start to enter a hypnogogic state whilst talking to myself in my head, sometimes logic seems to completely break down and I start thinking nonsense sentences. It might be something like "If I can just tighten that bolt ...then the elephant will be happy ...through the mail box." I feel at each instant like I'm reasoning logically, but it's like the start of the sentence escapes my memory as new parts of it form. Is that typical of hypnogogia?
I've very occasionally had dreams that are almost as incoherent and illogical as that. Obviously I need the logical part of my brain to be as awake as possible to get the best chance of lucidity. Any idea how I can improve that? Does fresh air help?
I also wonder whether stress and poor sleep quality could be holding me back at the moment. I've been trying for a WILD almost every night. The trouble is, although my dream recall is pretty good, lately I've been unable to remember the beginning of any of my dreams after attempting a WILD - so for all I know, I could have had lots of LDs but just not remember them! I just wish I could get up early enough or sleep late enough to try for more DEILDs. It's just too busy and noisy around here to have much luck with that unfortunately. I do remember when I was younger, I think before I even knew about LDing, I concentrated on a dream I'd woken up from and did manage to resume it, so I know I can do it in the right circumstances.
Am I on the right track or could I be trying too hard? Shall I just give it a few months and see what happens? I know you can be doing or thinking about something every day and it can take months or years for that to show up in your dreams, but sometimes I wonder how much my subconscious is actively working against me here.
My last fully lucid dream was near the start of this year. It was a long and quite vivid dream and I eventually got lucid when I was talking to a DC about why a school lesson kept moving location all the time, which is a big DREAM SIGN for me. I had a dream about four months later where I just seemed to know it could be a dream (out of a window, thought if it was a dream I could fly, but gave up because it seemed too dangerous), but didn't manage to do any good RCs. I'd call that one semi-lucid.
Since I started posting on dreamviews just under a month ago, I tried to really ramp up the frequency and intent of my RCs, I tried to read a bit of this site every day, and I've even changed my computer's wallpaper to remind me about lucid dreaming and what to do when I get lucid. Maybe I'm impatient, but so far I've had just about no luck at all with these new techniques.
During my dreams, my critical thinking seems to be bad at the moment - I know in the past I've managed to ask a lot more questions in my dreams. I find it odd how it comes and goes. Anyone got any ideas about this? I've noticed when I start to enter a hypnogogic state whilst talking to myself in my head, sometimes logic seems to completely break down and I start thinking nonsense sentences. It might be something like "If I can just tighten that bolt ...then the elephant will be happy ...through the mail box." I feel at each instant like I'm reasoning logically, but it's like the start of the sentence escapes my memory as new parts of it form. Is that typical of hypnogogia?
I've very occasionally had dreams that are almost as incoherent and illogical as that. Obviously I need the logical part of my brain to be as awake as possible to get the best chance of lucidity. Any idea how I can improve that? Does fresh air help?
I also wonder whether stress and poor sleep quality could be holding me back at the moment. I've been trying for a WILD almost every night. The trouble is, although my dream recall is pretty good, lately I've been unable to remember the beginning of any of my dreams after attempting a WILD - so for all I know, I could have had lots of LDs but just not remember them! I just wish I could get up early enough or sleep late enough to try for more DEILDs. It's just too busy and noisy around here to have much luck with that unfortunately. I do remember when I was younger, I think before I even knew about LDing, I concentrated on a dream I'd woken up from and did manage to resume it, so I know I can do it in the right circumstances.
Am I on the right track or could I be trying too hard? Shall I just give it a few months and see what happens? I know you can be doing or thinking about something every day and it can take months or years for that to show up in your dreams, but sometimes I wonder how much my subconscious is actively working against me here.
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