Lucid Goal Perseverance
Stick With Your Practice
You may not achieve lucidity the first time you go for it. You may not get there for a while. It depends on your individual brain, your thoughts, what methods you use and how you combine them. It may take perseverance. It may take grit. It comes easier for some people, for others it takes time.
One of the "tricks" I teach is to have a plan. A plan for what you will do once you become lucid. In order to induce lucidity at will, you need to desire to become lucid in a dream, and it helps to know how to stabilize, or maintain the lucidity. This can be done by spinning your body around, or rubbing your hands together, or saying something out loud like "Lucidity Now!" But beyond that, it really helps to have a plan of what to do inside of your dream. Of course, there is nothing wrong with just flying around or exploring the dream environment, but it easy to get so absorbed in the virtual reality of the dream world that you forget where you are, even after becoming lucid, and fall back into regular dreaming. But here is the real kicker - if you experiment in lucid dreams, you will come up against tasks which you cannot succeed at on the first try. Just because it is a dream doesn't mean that your habits and expectations from the waking world are left behind. you may not be used to flying high with no fear. You may not really believe that you can stick your hand and body through "solid" matter. How about telekinesis, moving things with your mind. Believe me, all of these are possible in dreams, and so much more, but they take practice.
Sometimes it took me several dreams to achieve a goal. There are things I still have not achieved, but I believe I will, eventually. Grit is that special capacity to persevere over long periods of time, even in the face of obstacles and setbacks. Don't give up. Nobody knows the full extent of human potential. For instance, I do not think that peole can really be in the same dream at the same time as one another. Prove me wrong.
One of the "tricks" I teach is to have a plan. A plan for what you will do once you become lucid. In order to induce lucidity at will, you need to desire to become lucid in a dream, and it helps to know how to stabilize, or maintain the lucidity. This can be done by spinning your body around, or rubbing your hands together, or saying something out loud like "Lucidity Now!" But beyond that, it really helps to have a plan of what to do inside of your dream. Of course, there is nothing wrong with just flying around or exploring the dream environment, but it easy to get so absorbed in the virtual reality of the dream world that you forget where you are, even after becoming lucid, and fall back into regular dreaming. But here is the real kicker - if you experiment in lucid dreams, you will come up against tasks which you cannot succeed at on the first try. Just because it is a dream doesn't mean that your habits and expectations from the waking world are left behind. you may not be used to flying high with no fear. You may not really believe that you can stick your hand and body through "solid" matter. How about telekinesis, moving things with your mind. Believe me, all of these are possible in dreams, and so much more, but they take practice.
Sometimes it took me several dreams to achieve a goal. There are things I still have not achieved, but I believe I will, eventually. Grit is that special capacity to persevere over long periods of time, even in the face of obstacles and setbacks. Don't give up. Nobody knows the full extent of human potential. For instance, I do not think that peole can really be in the same dream at the same time as one another. Prove me wrong.