 All right guys, so I'd like to talk about why some of us experience ruts in lucid dreaming Why why does it sometimes seem like no matter what we try we just can't seem to lucid dream and this goes for not only Beginners not only people who've had a few lucid dreams But also people who've had a lot of lucid dreams people like me people like other lucid dreaming gurus who? Although they know much more than the average person about lucid dreaming knowledge doesn't always equal skill or ability and and What I mean by that is that with lucid dreaming it's such a fine subtle art that if you get a few pieces of this puzzle wrong or if you If you take too much time off or you know if you have a Delay in doing reality checks if you just don't do the habits right and by habits I mean doing reality checks meditating writing dreams down Etc. Etc. If you take too long of if you take too long off and just don't do those things No matter what skill level you have the chances are you're not going to lose a dream And that's why it's actually very easy to stop lucid dreaming even if you're experienced You know, I mean I I often have bouts where I don't lose a dream at all for maybe one or two weeks even And I think this is normal, you know, I think I think it's not something to be worried about It's not the goal shouldn't be to have a lucid dream every night Or even every other night because when you do that you make the focus of your life about a lucid dream And you take away some focus not all focus But you take away some focus from what you should be doing in waking life, right? Which is living the best life you can being the best person you can inspiring others and learning So when you just take all of that focus and put it all into lucid dreaming with the intention of having a lucid dream every single night You you detract somewhat from your waking life I feel now there are those of you who will comment and say things like well I can do both I can find a balance and that is true every now and then you'll find no matter What skill level you are at lucid dreaming you'll find that you need to take some time off you need to step back a bit from the lucid dreaming world and just go back to Focusing on your waking life more, you know focusing on just sleeping well And although you can you should sleep well while you lucid dream. Okay, I shouldn't detract from a sleep I think there's a lot of focus these days on techniques like the wake back to bed Or techniques that involve using devices or waking up in the middle of the night to take a supplement And while these things can and do work. Okay, while they do actually influence your sleep I don't think they should be the focus of your lucid dream practice or indeed your waking life practice as well I think they they're tools and they can be used effectively But you shouldn't do them all the time because when you start to do that all the time when you're constantly Interrupting a sleep to take a pill right or to do a wake back to bed performance, I guess you could say Again, you're detracting from your sleep quality You're gonna feel worse in the morning and the chances are it's gonna influence your your waking life the next day Maybe you'll sleep in maybe you won't do the things that you should have done So I think it's important to have a balance and that's why every now and then I'm willing to admit that I go through bouts where I don't lucid dream, you know And I don't try to and I think this balance is very important to to manage Expectations of people coming into this community. I think there's a lot of people that are just becoming aware of lucid dreaming Maybe they've seen an advert, you know, or they've read an article or they've been told about it by their friends Well, they've just stumbled across the subreddit. I don't know But these people are coming into the community and there's a lot of hype, right? There's a lot of people hyping it up and saying like oh, wow, it's amazing, you know lucid dream every night Have crazy lucid dreaming sex do all of your wildest fantasies every single night for you know Hours on end and that's another myth. You can't dream for hours on end But I think this hype is quite damaging to the community because Like I've said in the in my latest live stream with Daniel Love. I mentioned that when you really have a lucid dream Okay, when you have a meaningful lucid experience not just for a few seconds, but you know a lucid dream experience The motivation that you'll get from that and the inspiration that will give you will last for weeks anyway If it's a really good lucid and obviously there are lucid dreams where that's not the case where they're just silly Or you're just playing around and that's fine, too Okay, but when you have a profound lucid dream and you really do experience it And you wake up and you it causes you to think about your life and your dreams And it changes your perspective on life and dreams that sort of thing Isn't designed to be experienced every night You shouldn't experience that every night because it's more meaningful if it happens less often I feel you know, I feel that these really profound lucid dreams if they were happening every night It'll be overwhelming You wouldn't know what to make of it and you'll be constantly trying to analyze even yesterday's dream Let alone last weeks or last months And after a while like imagine having a month of every single night having an intense lucid dream that really changed your life and outlook You'd be a mess by the time the that month came to an end You'd be scrambled your thoughts will be mixed up. You wouldn't know what to think or what to do Whereas if you'd had two profound lucid dreams in that same time period You'll be much more able to analyze them to implement maybe what you feel you've learned or How you've grown as a person if you have And it's just a more effective way of looking at it. I think and Not to mention the fact that it's pretty difficult to have a lucid dream every night Right. I mean, I'm willing to admit that as a I guess you could say a teacher on youtube It's pretty difficult Um, no matter how hard you try it's quite difficult to have a consistent lucid dream every single night of your sleep Because it's a subtle art and you know, you can't always control every aspect of your subconscious mind or how Your thoughts throughout the day will influence that night's dreams Your how your sleep will go you can't make yourself sleep perfectly for on any given night You know if there are sleep disturbances and that causes your REM sleep to be slightly Damaged and you know, there's loads of stuff that could happen. All you can really do is practice the right techniques focus on building your awareness and Improving your waking life and then those techniques and habits will shift over to the dream life Sooner or later and you'll have these spontaneous lucid dreams They won't be every night But they'll be often enough that they'll make a big positive difference in your life It's important to be managing expectations here You probably won't lose a dream every single night and if you do you're one of the very lucky people But again, like I said I wouldn't want to lose a dream every single night because it will be overwhelming like I've said I think it's key to find a balance with everything you do If you're trying to build muscles, you wouldn't go and work out every single hour of the day Because you'll be overtraining and you wouldn't progress You know, if you're trying to learn something you wouldn't cram You wouldn't cram your studies into every minute of the day because that's not how Long-term memory is formed. You need to have spaced repetition and do things over a long period of time With a more relaxed approach so that it will make a long You know a long-term difference in your memory And this is the case with lots of things you need to have a balance and being this for the long game Not just the short-term gains of oh, well, I've read about lucid dreaming I want to learn it tonight and then I want to do it every night from now on Because that's not it's just not realistic for one and by trying to do that and then failing You're going to be the sort of person that's going to post on reddit things like lucid dreaming doesn't work Or I tried it doesn't work Or you know, even even worse the posts where they say I only lose a dream three times a week. What's wrong with me? Nothing's wrong with you. You know, that's a perfectly healthy number of times to be lucid dreaming and that's enough to Make a difference and you know with three lucid dreams a month even, right? You could do some real positive work on yourself You could learn a lot about yourself. You could explore a vast array of different experiences In even just six months time, you could be a completely changed person because of this added perspective and experience, so Don't try and lucid dream every night. I know this has been a bit of a rant, but I just wanted to get off my chest So I'll see you tomorrow