OLD TITLE: “I know, ppl are getting sick of me”
Okay, I know I keep saying the same thing over and over today, but I’m just so excited. I had my first LD this morning and they way it came about was reverse psychology. I gave up on LDing and told myself I’d do it next month when I’d have time and it just came. I have 2 reasonably long dreams where I controlled everything. So maybe reverse psych works… have to experiment. Ciao 
Having an apathetic attitude often seems to produce results… Think I might try the napping method with no added technique.
Congrats to you 
Well, this method worked to me too… After reading your post(s) about being passive to lucid dreaming, I decided to be passive to lucid dreaming myself 
, and it worked for me! 
I had my first lucid dream. Thanks to you! 
Yes, Alan Watts called this the “law of reverse effort”, only if you stop TRYING to get something you get it. I am a lazy person, so I like Alan Watts 
Congratulations. I’m glad it worked for you 
I’m pretty lazy like that too BrainHacker, sounds like the best way to me.
Hope you have more LD’s Lucidity. 
Bye all!
Bah. Nothing ever works for me. I completely stopped trying and totally forgot about it all school year, and havn’t had any.
Yes, I’m bitter.
This reverse effort thing worked for me too.
There was a lack of motivation so I decided to give myself a break, for a week or two and didn’t care about LDs no more. Stopped doing RCs. And then, the next morning, I had 2 short WILDs. ;-D
Um, WILDs? wouldn’t that mean that you’d have to be trying to have them?
Yes, but not trying too hard. You have to let them come to you. 
This 2 were totally spontaneous… One moment I’m looking at the hypnagogic images, totally drowsy, and the next thing I know is a white flash, the colors change a bit and I was in the middle of a dream!
Well as you can see I had success with this method before, but then I forgot all about it 
think I’ll give it a new shot again soon
Hahahaha sure reverse psychology works…
…just look at my signature
But on a serious note: telling yourself you practice LDing doesn’t mean you will forget about them. It means that you won’t consciously attempt to have them. And personally, I have had the best results when I’m not consciously trying to have them.
Before I go to bed I always write out the date and the approximate time of falling asleep. After 3 months of doing this I once was so tired I didn’t bother but I was “worried” that I wouldn’t be able to remember my dreams. That was the night I had a low level lucid dream (It faded very quickly).
My theory is that as I didn’t fill out my diary, as is habit, it was on my mind and thats why I had it. The same effect may be possible by INTENSE lucid indulgence throughout the day and making the writing of the diary a “holy” affair. Anyone understand this?
For 30 mins ago, I tried this passive thing once more, while trying WILD. In stead of concentrating all the time as I usually do (and I have had very little success, all what I got is a 10-sec LD which was blurry and unclear ), I just paid a little more attention to the hypnagogics than I would if I was going to sleep the “normal” way. 10 mins later, I found myself to be in that WILD trance! Well I didn’t get time to do very much before I woke up, but this approach seems to be perfect for me ! Thank you Kaldeko!