Thread: How Long Before First Lucid?

Originally Posted by Kraftwerk

2 months since first reading dreamviews. I wasn't very good about journaling, but now I am. JOURNAL. AND REALITY CHECK. RIGHT NOW.

Cool

That's exactly what I'm doing. I don't necessarily want to have a LD yet until I get the other things down

Originally Posted by Penterwast

Two months, then I got my first one last Wednesday after a WBTB.

WBTB??

I learned about lucid dreaming on September 27th 2009, had my first lucid (knowing what lucid dreams were) on October 4th, 2009 (7 days later)

However I recall 4 lucid nightmares from when I was young, however back then I didn't know I could do what ever I wanted in the dream, all I did in those nightmares was get the bad guy to kill me to wake up.

Originally Posted by Lucid_Guy.exe

Well, I first found out about lucid dreaming about a year ago, either before or after the mass shared dream. That's when I found this site. A few month or two later I found LD4all from this site. I was a lurker there for a while, and this last April or so I joined it, and forgot about Dreamviews. A month later, I started a dream journal. About two months ago, I rediscovered Dreamviews, and I joined it a month ago. Two days ago I put myself up for adoption and was adopted by Loaf. Finally, I had my first lucid dream, today.

Put yourself up for adoption??? What!?

What are you talking about?

Originally Posted by Amoeba

Hm... it's hard to judge. What's the line between lucidity and just realising you're in a dream? Some reckon there isn't one. I'll assume for now that there is a fine difference, lucidity also has a certain self-awareness that allows you to gain control over a dream. Realising you're in a dream but lacking that self-awareness can cause you to lose the realisation of dreaming quite rapidly, and can be compared to only half-waking up from sleep for a brief 3-10 seconds before rolling over and falling soundly back to sleep again.

My first real experience of lucidity was probably when I was about 7-years-old. I remember not only realising I was dreaming (which I had done plenty of times before) but actually becoming self-aware (which I had never done before). It was very confusing at first as I couldn't figure out how this could have happened, I thought something had gone terribly wrong.

I started wandering the streets of my dream world. I searched for a "way out" so I could wake back up again. I asked people on the street, who denied any of it was a dream. I was still adamant it was a dream, everything felt different from real life, movements were so fluid and crisp, there was no wind, no din of background noises rather you could select which you wanted to hear, the air felt denser but I also felt lighter. It felt many times more real than a non-lucid dream yet was somehow different too.

I knew where I wanted to be though, back in my bed, so I panicked and started getting hysterical which eventually woke me up.

Awwwwww

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Originally Posted by Jules2007

About two years at least, I actually can't believe I stuck with it so long-well not that I actually really do anything to have them now except WBTB. Still can't WILD but am working on it.

I thought I'd never get one, it seemed like lucid dreaming was this crazy unattainable thing that most other people could do (on this forum anyway) but I couldn't Then finally I got one, so if anyone is feeling discouraged, just know that however long it takes you you will get there eventually. By the way I'm not saying expect it to take you as long as it took me because most people seem to have them within a month of hearing about them, I must just be a really slow learner.

Same sentiments from me. I dreamed of being lucid last night (it was really invigorating, just being so close.) I, too, think that I should be feeling discouraged by now, but I'm really not.

I mean, it does seem like this ridiculously hard thing, when actually thinking about it proves that it is really quite simple. That might be why it seems so hard for us - our body thinks it is this unobtainable state.

One month. It was a sort of MILD...man, was I doing it wrong, though.

Originally Posted by Mario92

One month. It was a sort of MILD...man, was I doing it wrong, though.

We had our first lucid the same day , October 4th 2009!

Damn, that was you! Hang on, I have the original thread of voodoo around here somewhere...

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...y+racing+mario

Found it. You, me, and Fattox were all racing, and all had a lucid on the same day.

Originally Posted by Mario92

Damn, that was you! Hang on, I have the original thread of voodoo around here somewhere...

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...y+racing+mario

Found it. You, me, and Fattox were all racing, and all had a lucid on the same day.

haha yes it was me! I just went through that convo, good times, still remember my first lucid like it was yesterday... of course I have it written down. And I know! It was SOO creepy, the 3 of us, same morning BAM we went lucid for the first time

Originally Posted by Jules2007

most people seem to have them within a month of hearing about them, I must just be a really slow learner.

don worry everyone has their own pace - consider yourself fortunate since "most" people don't have em at all.

Originally Posted by AndresLD

haha yes it was me! I just went through that convo, good times, still remember my first lucid like it was yesterday... of course I have it written down. And I know! It was SOO creepy, the 3 of us, same morning BAM we went lucid for the first time

Heheh, the convo made me cringe a little bit. I forgot how annoying I was (and still sort of am). Apologies, everyone.

But yeah, freaky stuff. It would be seriously cool if a fourth person came out of the woodwork and claimed to do the same thing.

Originally Posted by yuriythebest

don worry everyone has their own pace - consider yourself fortunate since "most" people don't have em at all.

Oh I do, lucid dreams are definitely worth the wait and I probably appreciate them more because of how long it took me to have one. It is kinda frustrating that a lot of people are like "oh I got lucid the night I read about it" though. Well it would be if I still couldn't LD.

Within a few days of learning about it.

from 6 january 2010 to the awsum night of 23-24 january 2010

I had my first lucid dream three months after learning about it. I never activily tried to gain lucidity though. The night I did, I think it was because I had done salvia that night. It truly got me into lucid dreaming rather than just dreaming.

YAY salvia.

For me it took a fair while... I think I had little snippets of LDs within the first few weeks, but for a good length LD it was probably some months...

Believe it or not, I had my first LD the very first day I learned what lding was (March 19th 2009). That same night! I wasn't even trying to have it. I guess I was lucky and just so excited about that I had one.

I even saw my doppleganger that night too.

i got mine on my first try i used MILD but i lost controll half way threw the dream...

I had mine the night I read and knew about lucid dreaming. That was months ago. It was short though. I looked at my left hand and found that I only have four fingers, so I quickly thought to myself "This is lucid dream!". Then I pierced my ribs with my finger, and it penetrated through, then I looked at a clock and re-looked having the time change. After that, I already woke up. In other words, I did three reality check in that dream and then woke up. Then I lost interest to it. And just last week, I regained interest about lucid dreaming. I read even more info. about lucid dreaming and led me finding and joining this forum.

Although now that I am back, this time I am having a hard time having another lucid dream unlike months ago where I had lucid dream that very night I discovered lucid dreaming.

I got my first lucid on my first attempt and my second lucid on my 4th attempt

I had my first LD the the fifth day after trying to LD, having only RCd for 5 days and tried WILDing for 2