Hello everybody!
I know about lucid dreaming and dream yoga for some time, but only during the pandemics I took it seriously. I installed an app in my phone with dream jornal and RC alarm. I do RC 10 to 15 times a day, I am remembering and writting at least one dream a day. I do many techniques, I was successful with DILD and WILD. I have been meditating for 14 years.
I started in september, I had 3 lucid dreams, October 5, November 2, December 1... Since December 10th I did not have a single lucid dream.
Has this happened to someone?
I feel like Lucid dream is like the movie "karate kid". You have to paint the fence up and down, wax the car on and off... One day you are fighting karate.
I think if you try to have lucid dreams you will not have. Our paint the fence are dream recall, dream jornal. Our wax on and off are meditation, intention, learning techniques...
I understand now why Buddhism uses dreams, it is a practice of non practice. There is no goal. It is all about perfect the path!
Update! My block is over!!!!
First thanks for the support! second I really needed to calm down and low my expectations. I bought a decent sleeping mask too.
I watched the Daniel's "give up lucid dream" video. After that I started to care more about the path, the jorney than having lucid dreams. I became really focused on dream recall, I started to became good at it. each week I tried one technique.
I found myself in SSILD technique. I did not finish the block immediately, but the quality of my dream recall got so much better. Yesterday I had this begining of a dream (WILD), but I was so anxious that I did not wait until the dream was fully formed, did a RC and lost it! Today in the morning I had an OBE type of lucid dream after doing some cycles of SSILD. It was a short dream but was a lucid one!
@Conner Edgar That's very interesting! I'm a little envious. It would be nice to have that happen, haha! I have yet to experience anything like that.
Hi there, and welcome to the forum! I'll share some of my thoughts on the contents of your post -- but please remember that no one has all the right answers for you specifically :-)
First of all, well done for having a lucid dream so quickly after really starting focusing on your practices! It usually takes quite a bit of time, dedication and effort to have "regular" lucid dreams.
Regarding your current "lull" in lucidity, yes, this is absolutely normal, and will most definitely happen every now and then to virtually every single lucid dreamer out there (unless you have an extremely unusual brain chemistry). Lucid dreaming depends on so many factors, biologically and psychologically, and there are some factors we simply have little or no control over. So don't worry, this is both normal and to be expected!
Just in case anyone else is reading this, I feel like adding these points:
- WILD and DILD aren't techniques in themselves, but rather the two types of lucid dream -- so you would perform a technique to achieve either a DILD or a WILD.
- I'd strongly advise not to rely on an app, an alarm, or any kind of external reminder for remembering to perform reality checks. For your reality checks to help you achieve lucidity in the long run, you need to train your prospective memory -- you need to teach yourself to remind yourself to perform a reality test, if that makes sense. Most of the time, there won't be an alarm to remind you to perform a reality check in dreamland, so if you learn to rely on your own memory rather than an alarm, you'll likely end up having a lot more lucid dreams than if you don't!