 Okay, so today I'm going to be sharing, you know, some things that I wish I knew before I started lucid dreaming, because, you know, a lot of people would read an article about lucid dreaming and think, oh, well, that sounds really cool, you know, and then go ahead and try and learn it and, you know, jump into it without really understanding what it actually is going to mean and what it actually is going to feel like, what it's going to do, right? So here are some things that I really wish I did know before I started lucid dreaming. So firstly, you're going to be sort of, not addicted to it, but you're going to be very preoccupied with your next lucid dreaming adventure, you know, what you're going to do in the dream next, because it's so exciting and, you know, interesting, you might find it hard to concentrate during the day because you're thinking, well, what am I going to do in my lucid dream tonight? And this, I'd say the stage lasted about six months for me, where I would just constantly be sort of obsessing about what I'm going to do in the lucid dream, because it feels so real and, you know, exciting. And at the time, my life was quite boring anyway, so it was sort of like an escape and a lot of people use it, use lucid dreaming, sorry, for escapism. So that's the first thing. The second thing is that I didn't realise how much of an effect it was going to have on sort of everything else in my life, you know. So when I started, obviously, I didn't actually meditate at all. I didn't really care about, you know, any sort of consistency in my life. I didn't really write things down in a journal, I didn't plan anything, more than sort of a week in advance. Whereas since lucid dreaming, you know, now, I'm more likely to keep a journal, write down, you know, like what went wrong or write in a certain days, plan, you know, months, even years in advance of what I want to do. And I'll distribute that to lucid dreaming because that's sort of the same skill set that you use with lucid dreaming, you know, you meditate, you make sure that you're self-aware, you're constantly looking around you and questioning things. And that leads me on to the third thing, which is, again, you question things more. So when you're just starting out with lucid dreaming, right, when you've just heard about it and you want to learn how you actually have this experience and how you actually wake up in your dreams, one of the most important things that, you know, you'll find people say is you need to be more self-aware, you need to be more critical of what's going around you, right? Because everything's happening around you, you just need to be more aware of it and let it sort of become more of your awareness. So that was a really big one for me, I became more critical of what was going on around me, you know, of what's going on in the political world, what's happening in, you know, social economic scenarios, everything like that, you know, things that most of the time we're sort of oblivious to and we sort of go about our lives on autopilot, right? We're not really paying attention. And that's a big one I think lucid dreaming in general makes you just pay more attention, you know, it might make you pay more attention to the job you don't like and why you're there. It might make you think, do I need to be in this relationship? You know, is it making me happy? These sorts of things, it will help you become more critical and start asking more questions, right? And I didn't expect that when I started, I just thought it would be a bit of fun. And I didn't really know how much of an impact it was going to have on my whole life. So yeah, and the fourth to the fourth thing would be, sometimes you'll feel you're like you're stuck in a rut. Okay, and this is something that I never really expected with the lucid dreaming because I thought you would just learn how to do it. And then that's it, you know, you can just every single night control your dreams, but it's not it doesn't really quite work like that. Sometimes you'll have a month, a week, maybe even longer, where you just can't lose a dream, you don't know how to do it. And you're sort of stuck in a rut. Okay. And this is something that is really frustrating, obviously, it's really annoying. But it's just part of being a lucid dreamer. Sometimes you can't, you can't have a lucid dream for several days or weeks in a row. And it's no fault of your own, you know, you might be practicing your techniques perfectly, you might be doing everything right, you know, by the book, if there was such a thing, but you just can't lose a dream. And that's something that you just need to get used to. And something that I wish I knew before I started, because maybe it would have prepared me and I would have sort of been ready for it. But yeah, it's kind of an annoying thing, annoying side effects of being a lucid dreamer. So that's it really, they're the four main things that I wish I knew before I started lucid dreaming. If you have any others, please leave a comment. And don't forget to subscribe