so today I want to talk about a question from a buddy Clarkson who says basically I've fallen out
of lucid dreaming I've given up the cycle consists of taking up interest in lucid dreaming trying
again usually doing reality checks or setting you know comes some type of intention to lucid
dream and then it's not working so then you give up and there's a reason for that there's a reason
that people have this cycle where you try it for a bit it doesn't seem to work so you give up and
that's because you're not doing the right things and you're not doing them for long enough any
new skill whether it's driving you know climbing playing guitar will take some kind of practice you
can't learn new skills instantly as awesome as that would be that's just not the case you know
I'm sorry guys but that's not the case you can't learn something that quickly and lucid dreaming
is no exception most of you watching this have not been building up the self awareness practices you
need you haven't been meditating enough maybe you've done it a bit on the same with reality X
maybe you've done a few reality checks but maybe you haven't done them with enough mindfulness to
actually make them show up in your dreams and it's gonna it could be any number of things that are
the reason why you can't leave to dream but this seems to be really common that people like this
guy and many others will get interested in lucid dreaming you'll be inspired you'll watch videos
and read books you'll you know be posting like on Twitter and read about all these cool things
you're gonna do you try and do it let's say you do reality checks maybe a couple of nights or
maybe even a week in a row everyday for a week you might do like the way that's a bed technique you
might use a wild technique and for whatever reason it doesn't work and so then you give up and that
seems to be the cycle that a lot of people are repeating well here's how to break that cycle
number one you need to like with anything else okay you need to commit to a certain length of
time before you begin if you just start seeing how it goes if you just sort of launch into it
and you just you know you're kind of trying it out and you're seeing if it works you it's gonna fail
you're gonna fail because you need to commit to a certain length of time before you begin so that
you actually have enough time for it to work even when it becomes difficult and you're doing these
reality checks and waking up early or whatever your method is and it's difficult you need to
have some kind of reason or motivation to keep going otherwise you will just give up and then
maybe six months later you will try again maybe two years later you'll try again you're not gonna
get anywhere with doing doing like that so commit to doing in my opinion one or two months right fan
for that one or two months you're gonna practice something every day every single day for that two
months you'll practice something and it might be reality checks it might be that you write down in
your journal you might meditate okay you're gonna do something that will try and bring you closer
to lucidity every single day for those two months commit to doing that before and then you're much
more likely to have some kind of results in that time okay number two you're not trying the right
things so a lot of you will focus on the technique and by technique I mean like the wild you know
your wake up your set your alarm and yes that can work but you're ignoring the heed important
pieces of the puzzle that many people ignore the fundamentals the basics right where you're
actually building this on you need to tell it or trick your mind to become aware in a dream so even
if you're trying all the techniques in the world at the right times that won't work unless you set
your intention strongly enough to lucid dream and to actually engage your perspective memory
your memory of your ability to remember to do something in the future so in this case the your
perspective memory would need to remember to do a reality check in the dream without that you're
just sort of shooting in the dark really I mean no pun intended you're literally never going to
get there because you're focused so much on the practical step-by-step technique which is very
appealing you know that it's very interesting and it's kind of it's satisfying to think if I
just follow these steps I'll lucid dream it's not as simple as that you need to and yes you
can't follow certain steps but you need to really focus on the important intention the intention
to actually remember to do a reality check in a dream to actually remember to be aware when
you're dreaming that is the important thing that's what techniques like the dialed and the mild are
focused on these are the technique so I would is you know suggest you try and then if you want to
you can try things like the way back to bed and if you're watching this and you have no idea what
these techniques are then the first step would be to watch the other videos on my channel will
actually learn them but once you have learned them I would suggest that you commit to the time frame
one or two months focus on those two techniques the dial of the mild and focus on your intention
your your ability to remember to do something in the in this case of reality check and then
add in all of the other things that people seem to focus on that should be your last resort your
last resort should be things like supplements meditate audio guided meditations binaural beat
tracks step by step techniques like that wake back to bed that should be your last resort the
third step you try okay first step commit to the time frame meditate write your dreams down and
be self aware every day that's the first step step number two would be to focus on the dial
than the mild and your your affirmations your intention and your prospective memory reality
checks come in at the stage and then step number three finally to add on to those two steps then
you should do other things like I've mentioned but if you just jump into the third one without
the other two being involved you're gonna be the next story on reddit where you're just posting
something like I tried to lucid dream but it's just not working out for me thanks for watching
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