Advice from on Lucid Dreaming

thanks jordan @ zaadz

my question:
I’ve been into lucid dreaming for years. but have had trouble doing it consistently. Any advice? I noticed that keeping a journal and Laberge’s “reality checking” works.

Answer from jordan
Hey there-It´s good to hear about your practice. I have a few things to say that will perhaps help you out. At my best, I was averaging about 2 lucid dreams per week. At the moment, I´m averaging about one or so per week. What I´ve noticed is that if I am sleep deprived, I dont have lucid dreams.

So perhaps you need to look at your sleeping schedule first. In
this way, you need to analyze your life from the perspective of whether having lucid dreams is worth devoting some more time to your sleep schedule. In my opinion, it is, but it´s hard to keep this in
perspective.

Secondly, the frame mind from which you approach your practice is very important. If you are merely looking to your lucid dreams for fantasy or pleasure, you won´t have as many as if you recognize their importance in helping you solve problems, meditate, or evolve spiritually. Lucid dreams have tremendous potential from this perspective, and we can talk about that more if you´re interested.

Last but not least, you need to let your unconscious mind do the work. Your only job is to keep reminding it to do the work. You accomplish this just like you have been, by using a dream journal and performing reality checks. However, you can´t look at your reality checks as the actual¨”thing” that is causing you to lucid dream. Rather, it´s just a reminder to your brain to put in the REAL unconscious effort which actually creates the lucid dream. Your conscoius effort plays a VERY small role in the process, and if you just trust in your unconscious to do its job, you´ll be better off for it. You can´t get frustrated for not having lucid dreams, you need to view every nights sleep, regardless of lucidity, as a step towards lucidity. Every time you remember a dream, write it down, do a reality check, etc., you need to reward yourself for reminding the unconscious. The more positive associations you make with
such little actions, the more weight they´ll carry to your unconscious
mind.

Good luck and look forward to hearing back from you,

jordan