 What's up ladies and gents? Now this is gonna be a video explaining what you can do if you're in a lucid dreaming rut And when I say rut what I mean by that is like if you have been trying for a while And you just find that maybe you've had some success in the past, right? You've had a couple of times when you've realized you're dreaming and you know what you're doing But then for some reason it just all disappears it stops right and this happens with everything You know if you play guitar Then if some of you notice my my little Ibanez in the background there Sometimes you know your practice and practice and you'll get as good as you can get and you'll reach sort of like a plateau where you just don't feel like you're improving and You're you're thinking what do I do, you know, I'm practicing I'm doing all the exercises. I'm training myself here, but I just feel like I'm stuck and A few of you've been emailing me saying you know, Stefan, I'm stuck. I don't know how to like progress I've been practicing all this stuff and I just don't know why none of it is clicking for me And there's a number of reasons that this could be happening So I'm gonna go through a few things you can do And then hopefully you'll start sort of breaking out of the rut and getting more lucid dreams having more fun Sleeping better the whole the whole works. Okay, so the first thing that you can try and do is Say you do normally five reality checks a day try doubling that But then also try it's much like Weight training for gaining muscle you sort of need to Sometimes you need to shock your system and sort of try different things so that you don't get used to one particular pattern or one particular routine Okay, so so for example if you normally do five reality checks a day Try doubling that and then maybe going a week without doing any and then the next week after that do five again And then the week after that maybe do 10 20 a day And really try and mix things up with all aspects of this So if you're doing if you're practicing different techniques try a different technique each day And then maybe a different set of techniques the next week And then maybe the next week after that do one technique for the whole week Hopefully you get the idea and this makes a bit of sense for you. Just try and mix things up and what this will do is it will shake up your your routine and your Your sort of patterns because what's probably happening is internally like If you're really trying to do this and you're really trying to practice and have a lose a dream as fast as possible, which obviously That's the goal right and what can sometimes happen is you can become so focused on wanting to make it happen that you You just sort of hold yourself back and you stop yourself from actually doing it You it's like you you're focusing on it too much almost So sometimes you just need to take a break and then when you come back to it Just try mixing things up. You can't get what you've never had by doing what you've always done I don't know if you've heard this quite before but what it means is in terms of list of dreaming is that If you've been doing the same thing for a long time and it's not been working Then you should probably try something different. You should probably try and mix your techniques up try approaching it a different way And hopefully this will get you to sort of break through that rut that you might have been having Alongside this obviously make sure you're still doing the basics writing your dreams down every morning Meditating doing the reality checks doing different techniques obviously reading up about lucid dreaming I've got lots of free articles on my site house of lucid calm watching these videos watching other videos Watching other youtubers, you know, don't just watch me and take everything I say is like the law Okay, it's different interpretations of this thing So go and watch kids Edwards go and watch Reese Jones go and watch all these other awesome lucid dreaming youtubers and Get their perspective and sort of get a blend of ideas So hopefully this has helped you and I'll see you in the next video go ahead and check out my links as well By the way, there's some cool little there's like a whiteboard course For beginners in lucid dreaming there's like a animated whiteboard course if you if you go on my description here You can see more information about that that's going to help them those of you who are new who want to just get started I want some like a Structured plan to follow in order to learn how to lucid dream for the first time There's also some links to some books and some other things resources that might help you So yeah, go ahead and leave a comment. I like the fact that you guys are commenting more in these videos It's good to get some feedback. So, um, thanks for that and I'll see you in the next video