(February 16, 2018 at 4:34 pm)Thena323 Wrote: Yes, I read a how-to book as a teen and have since been having lucid dreams on a regular basis for many years, without actually wanting or trying to. The focus/concentration required to maintain that state generally makes it difficult for me to find lucid dreams particularly fulfilling or enjoyable, or to have much of a sense of them feeling real". So now, I just make a conscious effort to remember NOT TO CONTINUE make a conscious effort to remember that I'm dreaming, so that I can manage to stay asleep..and yes, that is as difficult as it sounds. It's a fucking mess.
All it really "does" for me, is disrupt my sleep cycle several nights a week. If I know that would've been my eventual outcome, I never would've bothered figuring out how to do it.
Not worth it, in my experience.
Wow, I never thought there could be a downside to it... other than the fact that it does go with broken sleep. I'm sorry it's causing you so much grief
Tbh I was too lazy to get into the whole dream signs thing... and didn't have much faith in being able to remember my dreams every night for the sake of finding them. So mine have always been more of a consolation for bad sleep rather than something I've gone out of my way to achieve... the most I've done to deliberately try to get them is to set an alarm to interrupt my sleep... but only once in a while.
