What do you find hard in LDs?

I tried to go through a mirror once to see what was on the other side but it was just a big black void on the other side… :neutral:

Lol same here :smile: I once flew into a mirror, it was pitch black and I felt like someone poured hot and cold water at the same time over me. So that’s also one of my main problem in LDs: going through mirrors without waking up in the end. Another minor one is to cut off my feet with rusty axes or knives (I use this to test the level of my lucidity). Even when pretty lucid, I’m still afraid to hurt myself one way or another :bored:
One other major problem is the fact that I always fail to truly realize that the dream “out there” is never separated from me, the dream ego. No matter how lucid I am, I always fail to realize that, and yet, becoming aware of that is essential to reach deeper levels of lucid consciousness.

For me it’s always like a replica of the first side of the mirror, except in reverse, as if the mirror’s a window rather than a reflection. But everything’s different outside of that one room - it’s like having stepped into a different world entirely. I thought it was pretty straightforward, actually, but I guess it’s different for different people.

Inever had any problems with flying. In fact, with me it seems effortless. I do have problems with materializing objects or making people appear. I’ve even tried what some of the experts say by trying to find the object in a natural way like searching for it or meeting people by saying “when i walk around the corner i will see gilbert gottfried”. I’ve also tried to shoot a laser from my finger which didn’t work either. But i like to think of such situtation as someone like a wizard honing his magic.
kinda of topic but i’d like to grab the space in front of me and tear a time rip or black hole im my next LD.

Flying is a bit of an issue for me - losing my grip on the ground seems to make my dreams start to fall apart quicker.

I can’t seem to do anything sexual either - I don’t have enough time in my dreams (~5 min, this really sucks) to find a girl, so I try to create them… and this only results in the creation of random objects. Extremely random objects. When I do run into a girl, doing anything sexual results in the breakdown of the dream.

Last night, I was dreaming I was at the beach, and decided to try to create some girls in front of me - instead, I got a huge pile of fish. So I said screw it and had a barbeque :content: and had no trouble creating the BBQ, beer, lawn chairs…

When I was a kid and dreaming, i used to think this was because I didn’t have any sexual experience to use as a template - which seemed to make sense - but now I have experience galore, and dream sex still doesn’t work.

I have trouble remebering to do things other than fly, I get lucid and I think, yay, I’m gonna fly. Also I can’t take off from the ground I have to jump off something even if it’s just a chair.

Changing gravity and going through solid objects are tough for me; Flying wasn’t too hard (I flew like superman in my first ld!)

I find hard pornography in my lds:)

The hard thing for me isn’t making things appear, but making them stay. Also, it is hard to make new locations, they have a tendency to look like somewhere I already know.

Flying isn’t hard for me. What’s hard is confronting my fears. I faced a few spiders once and then lost it. Or I’ll be up really high and lose it too. Ironically, I can fly no prob but standing on a cliff or something is too hard.

I have problems flying… I did it once, by jumping off a sky scraper. I fell pretty far before I flew over the street at an incredible speed.

heh only 1 LD so far so I can’t say what’s hard or not…

but flying wasn’t hard at all…I just jumped and started to fly.I couldn’t teleport myself though :smile:

what i find hard is gaining height in flying. At one point i will become scared i will fall down, so i usually stay at about 20 metres above the ground. That is, if i can get that high, i often seem not to be able to gain height.

At least you’re able to get off the ground. :tongue:

If you guys have trouble flying, maybe this website will be of help…

members.aol.com/caseyflyer/flying/dreams10.html

Interesting link Josh Thanks!

No promblemo :ok:

My only problem is that my LD’s are too short…

I find it hard to do just about anything in LDs.
I can’t find any DCs, I don’t have any super powers exept flying (and flying usually wakes me up), I get distracted by things I wouldn’t find very interesting IRL (I have wasted too many LDs on looking at trees), I have tried making food and DCs appear, but nothing happens and then I wake up.
Besides flying, I think I have only done something cool in my LDs a few times. I’ve gone through the mirror twice.
The first time, I ended up in an amazing psychedelic vision and then I woke up. Second time I just came out through the same mirror at the same time I stepped through.

i actually flew in my first LD, but not very far, high, or long :bored:
In my next LD, I walked through a wall, and in my third i
materialized something. My biggest problem is that i’ve never
really been able to match the “level” of my first LD…

I’m sure that if i just get aware enough, i would have no
problem whith flying better.

(A little off-topic, but my next goal in LDing is
trying out what it’d be like to be god :dark: )