From: leemerkel@verizon.net   
      
   Yeah, Rob,   
      
   I used to have lucid dreams about 3 to 6 times a month years ago, but have   
   gone for long periods (a year or more) without them.   
   Have lately had a few more.   
      
   I remember having them most frequently when I had already had enough sleep   
   (6-8 hours) and then went back to sleep again, on days when I had the time   
   luxury.   
   It's as if part of me says, "Hey, I've had enough sleep. I should be awake   
   now. So even if I'm in a dream, I'm coming awake."   
   Or perhaps lucid dreaming calls for more reserves of mental energy,   
   generated from the sleep you've gotten already.   
      
   You can also resort to awareness techniques available in various books on   
   lucid dreaming.   
   One I remember was to stop yourself from time to time in regular waking life   
   and say, "Hey, is this a dream?"   
   If you do it often enough, sometime when you're dreaming, you'll think of   
   doing it, too.   
   Do that in a dream, and you're likely to realize it actually is one.   
      
   Then go ahead and have your lucid dream fun.   
   One of my fun activities in lucids -- besides flying, of course -- is to   
   find a wall, walk through it and see what happens. Sometimes you just enter   
   another room, but other times you might find yourself falling, as in a well,   
   and when you land, you're in a totally different place.   
   Another thing I do when I think of it is just to start a conversation with   
   someone in the dream, knowing it may be part of your own subconscious self.   
      
   Anyway, don't worry about the dry periods. When you start focusing more   
   attention on having dreams, you'll probably generate the energy to have more   
   lucid ones.   
      
   -- Lee   
      
      
   "Rob"  wrote in message   
   news:dkd5ps$sr6$1@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...   
   > Hi fellow dreamers,   
   >   
   > I use to have frequent lucid dreams   
   > - sometimes two or three a week.   
   > In the last four years I've recorded   
   > more than 300 lucid dreams in my   
   > dream journal.However, in the past   
   > six months I've only had a couple   
   > of (weak lucidity) dreams. This is   
   > the first time I've had such a serious   
   > dry spell. I'm concerned that they   
   > might stop completely.   
   >   
   > Has anybody in this NG had a   
   > prolonged dry spell or perhaps   
   > even had them stop completely?   
   >   
   > Can anybody relate to me on this?   
   >   
   > Rob   
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