Hello,
After nearly a year of trying numerous methods, I finally had my first lucid dream using the hypnosis script for that purpose in the book “Instant Self Hypnosis”. However, it has only worked once. I’ve been continuously repeating the process for three weeks since then, but to no avail. I know you have said that a method can become habitual and thus lose its impact, but it doesn’t feel habitual to me. You have also said that lacking a sense of fun in the process can sabotage a dreamer. That may be my problem, but I don’t know how to change that. I don’t feel any enjoyment from the process at all, and I’ve never been able to make anything that wasn’t naturally fun for me more so.
Thank You
Hello and thanks for your question,
After a year of trying various methods unsuccessfully, why do you feel using self hypnosis enabled you to have one lucid dream?
Self hypnosis allows a person to ‘let go’ of limiting beliefs, and ‘allow’ new beliefs in their place.
With what you have provided, I can only make a guess. However, I assume that you have developed either 1) a “limiting belief” about achieving lucid dream awareness and/or 2) a subconscious fear of lucid dreaming.
So it does not seem about ‘habituation’ (or a technique losing its power by virtue of becoming a mindless habit).
I often tell people that they need to make the process of induction ‘fun’ in order for them to persist. Fun things, we can continue to do. Work things, we often resist.
Perhaps you can find or insert ‘fun’ into the self hypnotic process (and if you do so, you will likely have vastly enhanced results!).
Finally, in my book on techniques, Lucid Dreaming Plain and Simple, (w/ co-author Caroline McCready), I provide a number of techniques and support the psychology behind them to aid beginners in having lucid dreams.