What are you currently doing for lucid dreaming? Personally I have 1 dream each night (I do MILD eveyr night for dream recall) and I do these two RCs every few minutes literally, which is what got me my first lucid dream! They are:
Closing one eye and checking if I can see my nose through the other one
Sealing my nose and trying to breathe through it (best IMO!)
Everyone’s different. Sometimes it takes a few days for a person to experience their first, and sometimes it takes a few months. It does largely depend on how dedicated you are to achieving success, and what methods you frequently practice. It’s great that you’ve built up your dream recall - this is largely regarded as the most important step when starting out.
Do you keep a journal? It’s a good idea to write down a few details about each dream when you wake up in the morning. This allows you to identify your own personal dreamsigns, which are just commonly occuring events, places or characters that could be used to trigger the realization that you’re dreaming. Once you’ve developed have a short list of dreamsigns, you can use them together with MILD to ‘prepare’ yourself for when you next notice them in a dream.
Also, do you ever perform reality checks during the day? Most of the lucid dreamers I know (myself included) had our first after the topic of RCs came up randomly in a dream. If you do them frequently enough, it’s only a matter of time.
Anyway, good luck with your quest. You might find it useful to check out some of the other common induction methods (WBTB, WILD, VILD) to keep yourself interested. You just need to find what works for you, and that means trying absolutely everything you can.
thnx, i do everything you guys have suggested except doing reality checks every two minute (and i have never tried the RC’s you use r3 but i might now). and i have never heard of VILD. thats saying alot since i’ve read everything i could find on lucid dreaming since october.
i keep a journal but not a written one. i have a mini taperecorder by my bed which i imediately reach for when i wake up. it seems more convinient.
i do a modifed version of mild in which i repeat this mantra at different times in the day: " it is very important that i have a lucid dream, therefore the next time i’m dreaming i will remember the i’m dreaming. all reality must be questioned." then after that i do a reality check. i also make sure to put urgency behind my words…(i listened to myself saying it once and i sounded pretty desperate…lol).
Realms of Perdition, that isn’t WBTB. WBTB is getting up before you’re satisfied of sleep, spending 30-60 minutes reading about LD and then going back to sleep.
WBTB consists of few variations.
Lets not argue about that classification cuz we gonna end up in dead end and confusion:)We have this discussion on Pedros thread allready too:)
Well me too I have been trying to Ld for 5 months on the 1st of February. Funny my friend had a ld on Monday. Lucky bugger. I also do RC’s like 30 times every 30 minutes. I can wake myself up anytime that I want lol. I always wanted to do that. Well I don’t do any mantra to help me remember my dreams. They just come. Try to do that. I have also have a lot of other expeariences with dreams look at my sig.
Hope that helped.
Green_slash, The Golden King of Avalon
i have high expectations of my subconscious…the first time i have a lucid dream i plan to stay for 10 years in my dream world…(on day per second real time…)actually 9 years and 315 days to be exact if your nitpicky like that.
HEY!!!, that looking a mirror thing doesnt work for me dammit! i had a dream last night and saw my self in the mirror. i looked the same…save afew weird looking pimples on my chest… and a hole in my right forearm that kept gushing hot water. i remeber spitting up blood too.
oh yea that reminds me, i woke up at the exact moment that i spat in the dream. my first memory upon awakening is spitting on my pillow. is their a special term for that? also, if i do something physical in my dream like, idunno, sneeze or spit…will it happen in real life?
~thnx in advance.
sorry i have one more question for today. i was reading the forums about SD’s and they were talking about the ‘crossroads’ and ‘jeff corner’? what are these things? are they places in the dream world that are common for everyone? just wonderin.
Ya like a place if your in a dream you can go there to meet other fellow dreamers. If you want the link to that site I can give it to you. Funny actualy the Lucid crossroads were the first place other then some other forums that brought me here.