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I've had one LD (via DILD), and it's been about 11 days since it occurred.
I'm not feeling impatient or anything, to the contrary I'm still invigorated by my first LD :)
But...
I kind of expected it to become a bit more frequent after my first LD. Maybe this was because it was induced by a DC who told me I was dreaming?
How long did it take for you guys to get your 2nd and 3rd lucid dreams? What techniques did you start with or move to after the first LD? :thanks:
For me it took only a few days before the next one, however I had been remembering dreams for about a year or so before I found out about lucid dreams, which may have helped me in some ways. Despite having them quite fast, it actually took a while before I had one that was very vivid and stable. About 2 months or so. My first technique were of using WILD, as I seemed to naturally wake during the night. I eventually started having DILD's and found that they were more stable and vivid for me so I tend to rely mostly on that.
Hope this helps in some way, and wish you all the best with your lucid journey =)
It should eventually become easier and easier...
Everyone is different but i still go 1 to 2 weeks on average. If i work harder at it I can maybe cut the time in half.
Hmm I guess I'll have to build up my dream recall more for DILD then, I'm only getting 2 reasonably decent dreams per night. Might be a bit easier if my dream signs were in the slightest bit common... Of the ones I recognize, I never see them in my day to day life, more like a rare occasion every few months if I'm lucky.
Thanks for the replies guys, hopefully a few more people contribute too :D
When starting out you see this initial streak of success after success in achieving lucid dreams one after the other, most likely during the first 2 weeks to a month of starting practicing. This sudden streak of success of lucid dreams could be attributed to the initial rush of excitement and determination we feel when finding something that's new to us, and we're very excited to taste what a lucid dream feels like. Now, I'm sure this doesn't apply to everyone so I'm just generalizing here. Still, after that first month, we sort of get into a plateau where the real training begins. This is where we work our way and practice consistently in order to reach a higher goal, this case being more frequent lucid dreams. The time one takes in the plateau depends on each individual dreamer, his/her practice and determination. Some people might take a couple of weeks to progress, while others could take months or maybe a year. From the plateau one finds a breakthrough from which they can induce lucid dreams with much more frequency than they did before. Experience will be gathered and the amount of time it takes to induce the very next lucid dream becomes a much more stable thing.
It took me 2 months of practicing Self Awareness alone to get multiple Lucid Dreams every night. On the other hand, just generally DILDing, when I did it, it took around 2 weeks to a month to really get my LDs consistent and frequent. The key is persistence and determination man, keep at it and never give up.
According to my Dream Journal, after my first lucid dream, I started to have them every 4-8 days or so. This was about five years ago, so it's a bit outdated, I got pretty crazy about it when I was in middle school xD. I think it comes down to the right mind set for lucid dreaming, always questioning your reality.
I don't know if this will help my awareness in dreams, but I'm doing my senior project on Buddhism, and a large part of it is enlightenment, and thus I'm starting to not daydream about the past or future, but rather keep my mind focused on the present, being aware of what I'm doing for the majority of the day. This and meditation, I hope, will make it easier to notice when I'm dreaming.
I would do techniques like DEILD, Dream Exit Induced Lucid Dream, but the only time I've been able to do those is when I was already in a lucid dream and was aware of myself waking up, so I got prepared and didn't move when I woke. But I'm too lazy, unfortunately, and not writing my dreams down and going back to sleep bothers me a lot sometimes. If I don't write a dream down today, I might not remember any dreams tomorrow, that's how my dream recall works, anyways, very inconsistent. :(
Lucid dreaming is different for everybody. I had my first lucid dream the first night I began practicing. It then took me more than a month of hard work to get the next one.
Isn't it odd how your first LD came after very little effort? Then to get your next one it took an entire month? I've read many articles on Lucid Dreaming that say the more focus you put into something and work at it, you'll get it less frequently. Not going off-topic but when I researched sorcery a while back many sites said that in order to get better at sorcery itself you have to only use intention and if you put in alot of work you won't see results in a sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by JadeGreen
It sounds very weird how this works, and I know it also sounds pretty bizarre. Maybe its true for some while for others its not. Maybe if we could destroy those mental blocks that tell us we can't perfect lucid dreaming or get them every night and use only intention to an extent, we too could increase our LDing frequency. Just an idea though of course.
This is more or less what I have been trying to do ever since I started lucid dreaming. When I started lucid dreaming, I spammed reality checks and autosuggestion and was lucky if I got lucid at all. It didn't take me long to make the connections that lucid dreaming is all in your head. If you believe that it will happen, then it will.Quote:
Maybe if we could destroy those mental blocks that tell us we can't perfect lucid dreaming or get them every night and use only intention to an extent, we too could increase our LDing frequency. Just an idea though of course.
I always call it the little demon in the back of your head, and no matter how many times you try to convince yourself that lucid dreaming is easy and that you can just do it automatically, he will always be there to say "No you can't".
I often relate lucid dreaming to an athletic skill, only for your brain. You need to go through the proper steps of training, you can't slack off too much. You've got to have a regular 'workout regimen' (Though for LDing it's the exact opposite of a workout). You will get better over time, and there will always be people with inborn advantages and drawbacks. Everyone will develop at their own pace. And most of all, taking a day off after a hard week of practice is always a good thing.
Athletes deal with the same mental blocks as lucid dreamers. That darn little demon telling us to quit. Telling us you can't. Just don't listen to him. You can do that extra rep. You can keep running another half mile. You will swim that extra lap. You will reality check when you find yourself in your old high school.
"No you wont" :evil:
It is my firm belief that with determination and confidence, you can silence this demon.
Confidence and determination are in direct relation with action and the results of those actions. It's obvious, the more lucid dreams you achieve, the greater your confidence grows, therefore allowing your expectations and beliefs to be met. Many stop at this last part, thinking that to achieve lucid dreams one only needs to believe he/she can do it. But that's only half of the equation. What gets us to that point, were what we believe ends up being what ultimately happens, is a result of the actions that we make every day towards that goal. This also applies to naturals. Maybe they're not aware of what they're doing, so to others it seems as if they're doing nothing. Maybe they don't follow any specific technique, but they do something in their own way that delivers results.
I can say I can do anything as long as I believe it, but if my mindset doesn't correlate with my actions, then as much as you might want to believe you can do something, it won't happen.