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Old 08-01-2008, 02:17 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Zwynd's advice is excellent.

I've gone through dry spells too. At one point I was having multiple lucid dreams per night, and then I went weeks without a single one.

There are some ways to "cheat." The easiest is to take a short nap 2 hours after you've gotten up. You'll fall asleep quickly and the short distance between awake and asleep helps you remember that you're dreaming.

Polyphasic is where I first learned to lucid dream. Every sleep on polyphasic is a nap. 100% of my naps resulted in lucid dreams while I was doing it. I managed to stay on it for a little over a month, so I had roughly 200 of them in one month!

Sometimes I ask myself in dreams "am I dreaming?" I realized that 100% of the time I ask that question, I am, in fact, dreaming. So I've put that into one of the, I guess you could call it affirmations, that I do throughout the day. I just tell myself a few times from morning to evening "if I ask myself if I am dreaming, the answer is always yes." That's also led to an increase in becoming lucid.

Hope you get over your dry spell soon. Don't sweat it because you will!
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