 All right something a little bit different today guys is to talk about how subjective lucid dreaming can be and why it's important that you realize that loads of people Myself included at the start would Google things like how's lucid dream? They'd come up with a technique video or an article that read it step by step and then follow the steps to the letter Then what would usually happen is that I either have a lucid dream if they're one of the lucky ones Or they would just have nothing nothing would happen and They'd wonder why and then go back to the article and sort of read it again and And again, and then maybe they'd start to read another article and then try that technique and so on and The reason that most of the time it doesn't work The reason that most of the time with exceptions if you read a Tutorial for a technique step by step and follow the exact steps The chances are that it won't work for you if you're a new lucid dreamer if you're a beginner And the reason is not because the technique doesn't work and it's not because you haven't understood the technique properly It's just because it's so very very subjective and it differ it differs from person to person so much That to read a technique step by step and follow it to the letter Even if the technique is solid and it does work It's not a guaranteed lucid dream because there are so many variables at play here There's you know, what's your sleep quality like? Have you had any experience with this before do you meditate? How well if you understood the technique? Do you believe you can do it? Are you really intending to have a lucid dream? Are you really spending enough time doing reality checks? There are so many questions I could ask you guys loads and loads of questions, but Really the most important thing to realize with any of this with any technique supplement device or method is To focus on keeping a journal write down what is working for you write down What didn't work for you and really be aware of this be really critical of what you're doing if you try a technique For a week or even for a month Write down what parts of it worked for you whether it was difficult whether it made you sleep worse When you did you wake up tired? Write down everything like this and what you'll do is you'll start to build up a database of information of what works for you And that is the most powerful lucid dreaming technique of all so as I said incredibly subjective You need to work out what works for you because if you just follow techniques and articles that you read on Reddit or whatever to the letter The chances are they're either not going to work for you or you're going to be doing something wrong I mean, yes You can learn techniques from articles and that's you know a good way of learning them But you should constantly be rewriting them in your own way and making sure that you Write down in a journal what works for you like a good example If someone says in a technique article when you do the the way back to bed that you have to do a 45-minute gap between waking up and going back to sleep that might be completely nonsense for you That might not work at all And if you're like me and you find it hard to go back to sleep after you've stayed awake for longer than five minutes That's not going to work for you at all And you're going to wonder why nothing's happening and it's just because you need to be some you need to be aware of the fact That everything is different for each person So keep a journal obviously keep a dream journal as you should be but then also keep another journal for what is working for you What techniques are working? I mean you can even use the back of your existing dream journal if that's easier But just make sure you're constantly aware of what's working for you and how you're learning new techniques done