How long does it take?

**Azure_Fire** · 06-20-2008 07:44 PM

I've read a lot from this forum and am sad to admit that I'm quite jealous of the things you do (talking to no one in perticular).
Last night I tried to AP, but it took so long that I got tired (about an hour or so to relax) and fell asleep. oops, i know. I'm thinking that i might need to get more into the LD things, because I've only had a few in the past four months. I can remember my dreams sometimes clearly to perfection, and i think i read that remembering helps lucid dreaming. I just don't think it's working very well

What i'd like to know is how long this type of stuff took any of you to figure out. I'm only in my early teens so i might be too young. but i'm not sure because i don't know anybody who's delt with this kind of stuff. so if you'd be kind enough to help me, i'd be more then grateful.

please & thank you!

**Bayside** · 06-20-2008 09:43 PM

You can never really be too young. The younger you start, the better really. I'm also in my teens, I'm seventeen now, and have been (trying) lucid dreaming for about three or four years now. Unfortunately, I lack the needed comittment, so I've only had like three and they were all low quality.

Having a good recall doesn't necesarily help lucid dreaming in the sense of becoming lucid, it's just you need to have good recall in order to remember the lucid dreams. If your recall sucks, you might not remember your lucid dream, and think you didn't have one. It can help to obtain lucidity though, because you should start to notice certain things in your dreams that you can begin to relate to dreams, so as soon as you see these things (dream signs), you realize you must be dreaming.

Anyways, as for how long it takes, it's different for everyone. Astral projection I would say takes a bit longer then lucid dreaming. I'd say try lucid dreaming for awhile longer, until you've mastered it a bit more, and then try astral projection. Some people will have lucid dreams the very first night they try, it all depends on your mindset and your dedication to it. If you really want to have them, and you really work at it, it shouldn't take long at all. The part that I find takes the longest really is developing your dream recall, but you seem to already have that under control, so you should be good to go.