 What's up guys if you're watching this and you have heard of lucid dreaming you've heard of the art of controlling your dreams In any way stop what you're doing apart from watching this video, of course And just just listen to what I'm gonna say for just a couple of minutes So if you find that you can't do it, right? If you're finding it difficult if you're struggling if you can't make the techniques work You can't get the reality checks to sharpen your dreams You just can't seem to break through and you just feel like giving up There are some very obvious and simple reasons why this is okay So I'm just gonna go through a few of them and then hopefully at the end You'll know what you need to be doing in order to actually have a lucid dream if you haven't already So there's normally some very simple things that hold people back And these are things that loads of people email me about you know, I get loads of comments I always hear when I talk speak to my friends that have tried it. They're always doing these same simple mistakes So the first one is your reality checks now when you do a reality check You need to make sure that whatever the action is Let's say if you're doing the finger palm push where you try and push your finger through your palm You need to really expect your finger to go through your hand if you don't it won't happen in dream And so the whole point of of doing a reality check is that you get a different result in a dream Then you do when you're awake So obviously now I'm awake if I try and push my finger through my palm It won't go through and I'll always feel that same resistance Whereas in a dream if I really expect it to go through it will and then that is what will make you lucid So make sure that when you're doing your reality checks, you're really expecting the thing to happen So say if it's the finger palm push you expect your fingers to go through if it's the pinching your nose Reality check you really expect to be able to breathe okay, if you don't then you won't be able to do it and You're just not going to have a lucid dream. You're not going to get the reality check to work Okay, so and another thing with that is to take a bit more time when you're doing them So say if you would normally take 20 seconds take about a minute or so just to really Like cement the idea in your mind and make sure that you're not dreaming or you are dreaming whichever the case may be Number two when you write your dreams down in the morning Make sure that you always highlight the important bits. So say if you've dream you've dreamt about a skyscraper falling over Make sure you highlight skyscraper And then if it burst into flames, for example highlight flames if you saw your mate Jim And he came into the dream highlight Jim these are all important things Which could be dream symbols or dream science, which means that in the future when you dream about the same things again You're more likely to recognize that you're dreaming because you've you've highlighted them before So I hope this makes sense. Another thing is when you do wake up in the morning Make sure that you write your dreams down as soon as you wake up No delay because if you wait even just a few minutes You'll find that all of the thoughts of the day everything you have planned to do that day It's all gonna come flooding into your mind and you're just gonna forget You're gonna forget what you dreamed about and you're not gonna be able to write it down If you don't write it down, then there's less of a chance that you'll become lucid in the future Number three getting confused with the different techniques This is a really common problem, and this is probably why you can't lose a dream Is if you're reading up about all these different techniques? Okay, and I I'm part of the problem here I've got dozens of articles on my site about different techniques. You can try methods, you know all these different things you can try The truth is when you're first starting out you should just focus on one You know if you try and learn them all at the same time, you're gonna learn none of them Someone there was a famous saying if you try to catch two rabbits You catch none of them because when you chase one and the other they're both gonna escape You know you have to at the start at least focus on one thing So for example the wild waking juice lucid dream or wait back to bed It doesn't really matter any technique pick one and then focus on that for the first month Focus on that for the first two months if you have to until you make it work If you try and do a different one each day Then they're not gonna work. You're gonna just struggle and you're gonna be really frustrated and you're gonna be one of One of those people who comments on my videos saying I've tried everything blah blah blah doesn't work It does work. You just need to be a bit more patient and be a bit more strategic with how you practice Okay, so you just pick one technique try it and then if it doesn't work So there's some confusion here. I should explain When you're first starting out you should pick one technique and focus on that until it works If it doesn't work move on to a different technique and focus on that until it works If you've gone six months or a year or even more Trying out various techniques and none of them have worked. This is very unlikely bear in mind Then you need to vary it and try one new technique every week. So you're varying it and rotating it around Not when you're a beginner though when you're a beginner you need to focus on just one so I hope this is clear things up for you guys and Don't go yet I just got a couple more things to say to you when you have finished watching one of my videos if you could leave a Very quick comment with a question I'm gonna try and get through them all by doing more than one video a day And to make this a bit easier for you guys when you look through the comments of the video Before you comment if you see someone that's already asked your question Give the comment a thumbs up and the one with the most thumbs up when I come to look at them again I'll try and make a video to answer that question. 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