If you want to learn how to lucid dream, it's easy to mess up.
So today I'm going to share with you five fatal lucid dreaming mistakes you're probably
making.
So let's get started.
Hi, dreamers.
Are you being your own worst enemy when it comes to learning how to lucid dream?
Is it possible that you might be making mistakes that are holding your progress back?
Well, in today's video, I want to share with you five of the most common lucid dreaming
mistakes so that you can avoid doing them.
And no, this isn't clickbait or hype.
I am a professional lucid dreaming teacher with decades of experience in this field.
And these are the five most common mistakes I've seen in the thousands of students I've
taught over the years.
And here's a little secret.
If you stick around till the end of the video, I'll pop in a bonus mistake that's really
important.
So stick around.
So I think that's quite enough YouTube waffle for now.
Here are the five fatal lucid grieving mistakes you're probably making.
Number five, thinking but not doing.
Are you someone who spends more time watching YouTube videos, reading about lucid dreaming
on lucid dreaming discord forums, on Reddit, generally doing a lot of pondering but not
much practical action?
If so, then you're doing one of the most common lucid dreaming mistakes.
You're a bit of a tourist.
You're someone who's very interested in everything about lucid dreaming, but you're not really
putting in the work.
You need to make sure that at least 50% of the time you spend thinking about lucid dreaming
is active.
Practical techniques and practices.
Don't become someone who simply thinks that thinking about lucid dreaming is enough.
It's not.
Number four autopilot.
Now, this has to be the single biggest problem for every lucid dreamer.
You're almost certainly making this mistake.
It's very hard not to do.
Are you doing your lucid dream practice on autopilot?
So things such as reality tests, are you truly present when you perform them?
When you're doing your lucid dreaming techniques at night, are you truly present or are you
going through the motions?
Going through the motions is not enough.
And I understand it's difficult because our brain wants to automate practices, but you
need to fight that urge.
Lucid dream practice, lucid dream techniques, lucid dream reality checks, all need full
presence.
Don't give in to autopilot.
Number three.
And I know most of you are probably doing this lazy dream journaling or not dream journaling
at all.
If you're not recording your dreams and you're not doing it correctly, then you're basically
stumbling blind through the realm of lucid dreaming.
The only way to become familiar with your dreams is to record them and become aware
about your dreams.
Lucid dreaming isn't just awareness in your dreams, it's awareness about your dreams.
And your dream journal is the number one tool for achieving that awareness.
Number two, being gullible.
Now this is a really sneaky one.
And it's especially difficult for beginners because you don't know what you don't know.
But you need to still have a little bit of critical thinking when you're learning about
lucid dreaming.
What is the legitimacy of your source?
Are you someone who just goes to discord and trusts the random advice of a possible twelve
year old?
Or are you someone who goes to professional, lifelong lucid dreamers?
Researchers such as Dr. Stephen Leversian gets your advice there.
Don't believe everything you hear.
Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Use your critical thinking.
Don't be a gullible dreamer number one overcomplicating everything.
Now this is human nature.
We want to think that lucid dreaming is this wondrous, exotic state of mind.
Therefore, it must be really complicated to get to.
Everyone does this and they do it in different ways.
Some people do it spiritually.
They believe that they have to reach a certain level of spiritual awareness to have lucid
dreams.
Other people think they need to understand the science of lucid dreaming incredibly in
depth.
Some people think they need to know all of the acronyms, all of the techniques, and be
respected in the community.
None of those are true lucid dreaming itself.
Lucid dream practice requires you to simplify things.
You don't need spiritual enlightenment.
You don't need to know a single acronym.
All you need to do is to be able to focus your attention on your practices.
And that requires simplicity.
Because essentially what you're doing as a lucid dreamer is trying to shout to your idiot
brain in the dream world and get them to realize they're dreaming.
It's not all that complicated.
So look at what you're doing with your practices and think, where can I cut away unnecessary
fluff and nonsense?
Because I can guarantee there's probably a little in there somewhere.
We all like to overcomplicate things.
Stop doing that and you'll find this becomes a much, much easier subject.
So that was an overview of the five fatal lucid grieving mistakes that most people make.
And remember, there's a bonus mistake coming up at the end of the video.
Now importantly, these are just guidelines as to where you might be wasting your efforts.
And everyone does this when they're beginning.
If you want more in depth tutorials on these things, check out the rest of the channel
because there are endless videos and tutorials going into all of these problems and more
so that you don't waste your time when it comes to lucid dreaming.
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Now let's jump into the bonus lucid dreaming mistake.
So if there's one thing that is probably the biggest mistake.
If I'm completely frank when it comes to lucid dreaming, it's not getting enough sleep.
Now, the majority of our REM sleep, our dreaming sleep rapid eye movement occurs in the final
hours of sleep.
Now this means if you're getting less than 8 hours sleep in a night, then you are missing
out on vital dreaming sleep.
So if that's you, you're already basically trying to run with your legs tied together,
it's not going to work.
Lucid dreaming requires a good night's sleep.
Now, the easiest way to fix that is to go to bed an hour earlier.
Equally, you could get up for a bit in the morning and go back to bed for a nap and you'll
be pretty much guaranteed REM in that nap following your natural night's sleep.
More sleep means more dreams and more dreams means a much bigger target for lucid dreaming.
Anyway, that's it for today.
I hope you've enjoyed the video.
I'm, Daniel Love, the Lucid guide.
This has been Lucid dream portal.