Thread: How long does it take?

*Reads dream journal*
3 nights...

Originally posted by megabenman
*Reads dream journal*
3 nights...

haha. how encouraging.

I'll then give you encouragement. I'm terrible at dream recall. In my opinion Lucid Dreaming has 3 steps:
1) Dream recall
2) Being able to get a lucid dream
3) Controlling your lucid dreams

And I'm still stuck at step one, while you're at step 2.

That's encouragement for you

Does what i posted count as lucid dreaming?

Yeah... because you realized you're dreaming while in a dream. It was just..... very very very short.

http://dreamviews.com/stayinglucid.php

Well then I guess I am on the right track then. I will just stick with it. Thanks for your responses megabenman

How long? When I got into this ages ago, I had great dream recall. I got a good book n had a good long lucid dream on the 1st night. My wife did similar when she started trying to LD. The enthusiasiam one has at the beginning, can produce instant results. That said, Years before, I used to do the casteneda Reality check with your hands frequently, I'd say it was half a year before it worked. Essentially I reckon there is absolutly no standard time for this.

For me a question I'd be interested in is how long has it taken people to develop from having LD's occasionally, to regular, well sustained LD's? I think there are a lot of people at the novice stage, who've gotten their feet wet, but don't seem near getting a free pass to the swiming pool. Just the odd splash. For me the only potential with LD's is having enough access to them to explore things. Not just occasional shortish ones.
Probably the same answer. For some the progression is instant, for others vary's

hmm. I am pretty energetic about it. I spend a lot of time doing reality checks and the like. I guess discovering how it works for me will be part of the joy of learning it. Im expecting it to be easier after exams are done and i begin working. I will be working construction and can think all day. So i will just dedicate a lot of time while working to think about it.

I think i will see a lot more progress soon.

Originally posted by .jared.
Does what i posted count as lucid dreaming?

LOL. Yeah. You just haven't had dream control. Every time you realized you were dreaming was an LD. You've had plenty. As for how long it takes to develop control, I don't know. What I do know is if you want to not wake up almost instantly (which is what's happened to me), you have to learn, and implement stability tricks. I'd say you're doing great if you're keeping a DJ, doing RCs, and are having low level LDs. You've made more progress in 2 weeks than I've made in more than two months, but that because I'm having trouble getting myselt to DJ and RC. I takes different amounts of time for everyone, but if you continue to have many short LDs and remember to practice stabilizing, you'll be an expert pretty quickly.