 Today's question comes from somebody who literally their username says I don't know so I guess they don't know their own name and They say basically I used to lose a dream all the time Yeah, I used to have these regular lucid dreams every week You know every few days and then I stopped doing it for a while for whatever reason they don't they don't specify They just started focusing on other things and there's nothing wrong with that by the way It's you know naturally when you start lucid dreaming you're gonna wake up with this newfound confidence and energy You can start focusing on other stuff, you know whether that's your own business your life your personal goals What you want to achieve or whatever it is you're gonna bring that back into the in the waking world And you're gonna start focusing on other stuff. That's just how it works. That's just where lucid dreaming takes you However, they say they tried to get back into lucid dreaming and found they couldn't do it They used to do it before fairly regularly, but now they can't do it and they're wondering what was changed Why is it so difficult now? Oh boy? This is a tricky one because as frustrating as it is There is a really simple answer to this and that is to do with the way that your brain adapts to new stimuli So when we learn something we typically Create a neural pathway in our brains Which is basically associates certain things with certain other things neurons that fire together will generally wire together So used to have a pattern used to have a routine where you would practice certain things and then eventually it led to lucid dreams Right as you say used to lucid dream quite a lot Now what happens when you stop doing that is that neural pathway gets broken down So although you'll never forget how to lucid dream. You'll never really forget everything about it What will happen is you'll become less and less likely to have the experience because you had that break in the middle All right, because you stopped doing it that neural pathway weakened and weakened and weakened until eventually It's gone. All right Now just like riding a bike you never truly forget However, riding a bike is actually easy to remember than lucid dreaming because it's a physical motor neuron pathway It's something a physical movement is always easier to remember in terms of you know Literally as they say muscle memory in terms of how you remember it than something mental like a habit or a Mental exercise and lucid dreaming really is a mental awareness exercise when you break it down So there's a few things that you could do the first one is probably the hardest But also the most simple and obvious solution is just to to learn again and to follow the exact set steps That led you to become a lucid dreamer in the first place. So however you learned the first time Go back and do those exact same things. It's annoying, right and it's gonna take a long time It's gonna however long it took you to learn how to lucid dream It's probably gonna take you this a similar amount of time to relearn it because you've essentially allowed yourself to forget How to do it although you know how it works in your brain Your subconscious mind the neural connections and the pathways. They're gone because you had that break So it is very much like a muscle. You need to use it or you will lose it So go back and learn exactly what you learned the first time and just go through the process again Now there is a second approach a sort of a backdoor way here, which will it'll make it work a lot faster It will get it'll get you back to the point that you were out before a lot faster Than if you just learned the same thing that you did before and that is Learning a completely new way of doing it Whatever techniques you were using before whatever methods you were using whatever reality checks you were using Put those to one side forget those for a second. I mean you've already forgotten them, right? It's I mean you've already forgotten them and learn new ones New techniques if you use the mild before use the wake back to bed now If you use the finger palm push reality check use a nose pinch now Use something different to what you were using before use a completely different new way of doing it And luckily with this a dreaming there are several techniques There are loads of different methods and you you have options right you have loads of different ways You could do this so just learn new techniques and do it in a different way and what that will do is that strengthens a new neural pathway and It builds it up a lot faster than it would build up if you didn't if you did something that you've already done now I can't think of why because in in logical terms It seems like the best way of doing it will be to follow the steps You've already done before but from my experience and the experience of several others. I've spoken to right You learn you get back on track faster if you do new things because your brain loves novelty we are wired to love new experiences new ways of doing things and Fresh approaches to things. So if you go in now and learn a different technique It's likely that that's going to work very fast for you And I would say that's probably the best way of getting back into it It's just to learn a different technique now. You mentioned that you have trouble Remembering how to do reality checks or you know reminding yourself to do them Okay, this is a very common problem as well if you have an iPhone you could download my app I made a a lucid dreaming app which reminds you to do reality checks It's literally called how to lucid if you search it on the iOS store, you will find it there However, you could also just put notes around your house like this note here literally says are you dreaming? I've got another one on my door You know, I speak about this all the time. I'm sure you've heard me speak about this Just try and remind yourself in as many ways as you can to do reality checks. You'll get back on track I promise you you will get back to the state you were at before if not slightly better But the fact that you've already experienced it You already know what it feels like and you know that it's possible, right? Which is a big hurdle for most people most people just don't even think it's real The fact that you've done lucid dreaming before means you're gonna find it a hell of a lot easier to motivate yourself to learn again So good luck. Let me know how it goes. 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