Thread: How common is it to be lucid dreaming every single night?

Originally Posted by Moss

Hello,

I tried to find an answer, but couldn't! So, how common is it to be lucid dreaming every single night? I have been doing so for as long as I can remember, I would say from when I was about 4.

If you could give me a known percentage of people who do this, that would be cool. But if not, you estimating would also be cool.

Also, how common is it to start lucid dreaming at around age 4 every single night, and then continuing to do so?

Thank you!

Hello, Moss.

I have seen a few videos of seminars with Stephen LaBerge and Robert Waggoner where they pretty much ask their audiences this question, and it seems fairly rare - I would say that maybe 5% of the people in those audiences claim to have them "several times a month" (which can mean anything from "2-3 times a month" to "several times every single night" ), so it's probably fairly rare - not sure how rare, but probably less than 5%.

As far as I know, the professional lucid dreamer Alan Worsley (the guy who used eye signals to confirm to lucid dreaming researcher Keith Hearne that he was lucid in a dream) has been experimenting with lucid dreams almost his entire life - I am pretty sure that he started having them at around the age of 4.

By the way, how much do you personally value lucid dreaming?
Do you look forward to going to bed and then wake up overjoyed after yet another lucid dream, or has it gotten old to you at this point?

Here at dreamviews, we occasionally, but regularly welcome members who say the lucid dream every single night. You're not the only one!

I think of it this way: as of right now, there's 86,391 members at dreamviews. How many of those members say they lucid dream every single night? 8? 80? 800? I thinking 80 is the best guess.

I estimate 1 in 1000 dreamers have a lucid dream every single night.

That is awesome that you have them every night? How do you usually realize you are dreaming? Did it start from nightmares?

I have anywhere from 7-14 a week right now, but probably only 5 nights a week. I usually have a bad sleep schedule or something else come up (kids, friends, wife, etc) that usually stops me the other nights.

I would definitely say that Dolphins number is pretty accurate.

With the "5% of people say they have them monthly" i find interesting, because I have heard it before and one of the things that pops into my head is if someone asked me any time from age 10-20 if I had dreams every night, I would have said "every night, with maybe one or two nights a month that I don't have them." When I started djing at 21, I noticed that I had dreams about 4 nights a week and that I didn't notice the nights that we're in between since I wasnt as concerned about dreams. I think that people that don't care about dreams would generally think that their dreams were happening more consistently because of it not having an effect or matter at all to them in waking life. So I would say that the people that LD once a year would probably be around 5%. This is also because I have talked to many people about LDing, as well as trained people, and it is quite rare that people have the ability to just jump into multiple a month without proper training or (as in every hobby) natural talent.

A lot of "naturals" (people that learned LDing without hearing about it from an outside source) pop in here from time to time, but they also range from "one a month" to "5+ lucid dreams a night", so not even all of them are in the "once a night category.

One thing I would recommend is to think outside of the box when it comes to what you do in an LD. Look around through old masters on here and look at what they did with their dream control, not only the things that they accomplished or did in one dream (like easy things, like flying to the moon, shooting fireballs, eating the earth), but things that they did that they accomplished in waking because of lding, or things that lasted multiple lds (persistent people or items, a HUD, or the ability to change your unconscious thoughts on a subject).

Have fun LDing.

Hello again,

Originally Posted by Laurelindo

Hello, Moss.

I have seen a few videos of seminars with Stephen LaBerge and Robert Waggoner where they pretty much ask their audiences this question, and it seems fairly rare - I would say that maybe 5% of the people in those audiences claim to have them "several times a month" (which can mean anything from "2-3 times a month" to "several times every single night" ), so it's probably fairly rare - not sure how rare, but probably less than 5%.

As far as I know, the professional lucid dreamer Alan Worsley (the guy who used eye signals to confirm to lucid dreaming researcher Keith Hearne that he was lucid in a dream) has been experimenting with lucid dreams almost his entire life - I am pretty sure that he started having them at around the age of 4.

By the way, how much do you personally value lucid dreaming?
Do you look forward to going to bed and then wake up overjoyed after yet another lucid dream, or has it gotten old to you at this point?

Interesting.

I am pretty used to it, as of now (and guess I have always been). But I do think it is a really nice thing being able to do.

Just recently I have been trying something interesting. A few years ago in one of my dreams, I walked into a room. There were two guys in the room. One playing piano, and one singing.

Now, the song they performed was actually really good, and the cool thing was that I had never heard it before. I find that pretty cool, because that means the song was written by me. Unfortunately, I don't remember that song.

After having that dream I thought about asking people in my dreams to sing for me, turning on a radio, and such.

I never did any of that, until about 3 weeks ago. This time I heard a song in one of my dreams, and woke up just afterwards. I then went and recorded me singing the song.

A couple of days later the same thing happened again.

Now I have two songs recorded, and the cool thing is that they are both pretty good!

Originally Posted by dolphin

Here at dreamviews, we occasionally, but regularly welcome members who say the lucid dream every single night. You're not the only one!

I think of it this way: as of right now, there's 86,391 members at dreamviews. How many of those members say they lucid dream every single night? 8? 80? 800? I thinking 80 is the best guess.

I estimate 1 in 1000 dreamers have a lucid dream every single night.

Thanks for estimating!

Originally Posted by Sensei

That is awesome that you have them every night? How do you usually realize you are dreaming? Did it start from nightmares?

I have anywhere from 7-14 a week right now, but probably only 5 nights a week. I usually have a bad sleep schedule or something else come up (kids, friends, wife, etc) that usually stops me the other nights.

I would definitely say that Dolphins number is pretty accurate.

With the "5% of people say they have them monthly" i find interesting, because I have heard it before and one of the things that pops into my head is if someone asked me any time from age 10-20 if I had dreams every night, I would have said "every night, with maybe one or two nights a month that I don't have them." When I started djing at 21, I noticed that I had dreams about 4 nights a week and that I didn't notice the nights that we're in between since I wasnt as concerned about dreams. I think that people that don't care about dreams would generally think that their dreams were happening more consistently because of it not having an effect or matter at all to them in waking life. So I would say that the people that LD once a year would probably be around 5%. This is also because I have talked to many people about LDing, as well as trained people, and it is quite rare that people have the ability to just jump into multiple a month without proper training or (as in every hobby) natural talent.

A lot of "naturals" (people that learned LDing without hearing about it from an outside source) pop in here from time to time, but they also range from "one a month" to "5+ lucid dreams a night", so not even all of them are in the "once a night category.

One thing I would recommend is to think outside of the box when it comes to what you do in an LD. Look around through old masters on here and look at what they did with their dream control, not only the things that they accomplished or did in one dream (like easy things, like flying to the moon, shooting fireballs, eating the earth), but things that they did that they accomplished in waking because of lding, or things that lasted multiple lds (persistent people or items, a HUD, or the ability to change your unconscious thoughts on a subject).

Have fun LDing.

Interesting stuff!

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Hm... I think I just know it is a dream instantly!

Not sure how it started, but the oldest dreams I remember having I had around age 4. I used to sleep upstairs (just like the rest of my family), but then I had to move downstairs into my own new room. I remember I kept dreaming the same dream there every single night for some time, not sure for how long.

The dream started with me driving around in a grey car in a grey ice cave, third-person view. I don't think I controlled it (so maybe it wasn't really me driving), but I am not sure.

I remember trying to wake of from this dream for some reason (which means I was already aware of it being a dream), but I never could.

The dream had two parts. Not sure how it transitioned from the first part to the second, but after driving around in the car I saw a house and a rabbit. I don't remember too much here, but the house was being painted green and the rabbit fell into a jar of paint and became green. He then became "invisible" because he was the same color as the grass in front of the house.

I was always able to wake up from this part of the dream, and always did so.

(I think the first part of the dream was there because of some video game I had seen, and the second part because of some cartoon on the TV. But I am not sure.)

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One of the earliest nightmares I had, though, was a pretty cool one. (After being scary, that is.)

I don't remember how this dream started, but the scary part took place in a town in a desert.

I was in a house walking around, then all of a sudden I was attacked by a clown. Of course, it was scary ( ), but after a few seconds I yelled in the dream "Aaaaand cut!". I then turned around and saw a bunch of people with cameras, and such. All of a sudden, I was in the making of a scary movie.

Then I just walked away from there, and the nightmare became a normal dream. Pretty cool I think.

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Thanks to all of you for the information given.

Originally Posted by Moss

Interesting.

I am pretty used to it, as of now (and guess I have always been). But I do think it is a really nice thing being able to do.

Just recently I have been trying something interesting. A few years ago in one of my dreams, I walked into a room. There were two guys in the room. One playing piano, and one singing.

Now, the song they performed was actually really good, and the cool thing was that I had never heard it before. I find that pretty cool, because that means the song was written by me. Unfortunately, I don't remember that song.

After having that dream I thought about asking people in my dreams to sing for me, turning on a radio, and such.

I never did any of that, until about 3 weeks ago. This time I heard a song in one of my dreams, and woke up just afterwards. I then went and recorded me singing the song.

A couple of days later the same thing happened again.

Now I have two songs recorded, and the cool thing is that they are both pretty good!

Thanks for sharing your opinions.
Yeah, I can imagine that being able to lucid dream every night would pretty much be an infinite source of joy.
I have actually noticed that natural lucid dreamers are almost always very happy and pleased with life, and there is no doubt that this has something to do with their ability to experience lucid dreams every night.

Ordinary dreams are basically on autopilot, and the dreamer doesn't realize that it is a dream but just goes on like normal as if it were everyday life, and never really questions anything.
I guess you think of lucid dreaming as "breaking the fourth wall" - an ordinary dreamer is like a character in a movie who doesn't realize that it is a movie, whereas a lucid dreamer is more like "hi, yeah I know this is a movie, hello there viewers (*waves at screen*)".