Thread: After your first lucid dream..

I'd say it does. Once you have your first lucid you would get more confident, knowing that you can do it.

Well when you have your first lucid dream and it's amazing, you get motivated to have more so you work harder.

Other than that, I don't think it really affects it but because of the experience you'll learn how to make future lucid dreams longer and you'll start getting used to it, making it less common to wake up from being too excited.

Not derailing, but paranoidllama your signature creeps me out.... looks like that Llama is about to murder someone.

I'd say it does, because now you actually have an idea of how a LD feels. And that in and of itself can really help. Though I woudn't expect an explosion of LD's after the first one.

Motivation is key, it really does help and once you have your first lucid dream, you will want to have more and it will help.

Originally Posted by Ripull

Does it get easier to have lucid dreams after you have you first one?

It depends on people, for exemple me, after I have got my first lucid dream, I have a dry spell for about 1 year( I make just 1 lucid dream in a year). Then after I started making a lucid dream every 6 months and now I make a lucid dream every 1-2 months.

In my opinion the first lucid makes you want more because you work for it and get your first reward.
i would say the more lucids you have the easier it gets to get them but its not after the first or the first and not after the first ten. i noticed after about 50 or 60 lucids that it got easier.
on the one hand you feel more confident and that matters and on the other hand you get more and more experience what might work and what not. in the beginning you invest a hell lot of energy and get "random" lucids. there are days you would say worst lucid dreaming practice ever and get a lucid the night and there are days you was mindful the whole day didnt thought about anything else and did a lot of RC and dont get lucid...
but with every some lucids you can account it gets easier yes

lucid dreaming needs some work and commitment but lucid dreaming is not hard or difficult. the more lucids you will have the more you will understand what that means and that its not about techniques but about yourself and your mindset

I still find it comical that I had my first lucid dream the next time I slept after I posted this thread. Thanks for all the responses.

I think the right way to think about this is: it is raised awareness (both self awareness and dream awareness) that results in lucidity in dreams. Lucidity in dreams is a sign that your LD practice is "catching on" in your mind. It is continued effort in progressing in the fundamentals that results in more frequent lucid dreams. Some kind of effort I think is always required. But the more you get lucid, the more your mind gets used to operating in that mode, the less effort it takes to sustain a particular level of lucidity (either frequency of dreams or the level of lucidity). To reach ever higher heights, continued effort is certainly required. It's like any discipline that way.