How long to become pro

[Chloph]

As an aspiring LDer i wanna know how long it took all you LDing experts to become experts. I guess from the time you first heard about(or discovered) them to when you were able to have an LD every night

[Indeed]

I don't think anybody here's been able to do that. Dv, Prove me wrong!

[Hukif]

Daily lucids doesn't mean being pro, depends on the lenght, control and stuff of them. Anyway, took me like 8 years and 5 months to achieve daily lucidity.

[Trickster]

For me conscious dreaming is the main goal, no need for labels like a pro. Just practice, practice, practice. I feel that the barrier to daily lucid dreaming may be thinner than it was a year ago. If I thought I was an expert, I may just start hanging out here masquerading as a person with something worth saying all the time.

[COLnop]

I've been at it for about a year and a half and have lucids around every other night

[Philosopher8659]

First of all, you have to ask what is the standard of being a pro? Mostly you will find people who flatter themselves, and if that is what you desire, you willl find a standard to suite your tastes. However, if you go by a real standard, you may never reach the real gold. If you want to know what the real standard is, you have to start with the question: Is the mind different from itself?

[Puffin]

I'm going through a terrible dryspell right now because of school, but other than that, I usually get 4-5 lucids a week. If that's considered "pro", it took me about two months. But some people progress faster than others, and the technique(s) they use can also play a part in it.

[Sigmund]

As with Puffin, I'm getting no luck 'cause of the stress of school, but usually if I focus and really try to get a lucid dream, I can achieve it. Meditation and mantras combined seem to have the most constant effect for me. But still, I don't think there's a real 'pro' way to dream. It's all based on what you want to achieve personally. If I just want my LD's to last long and not focus on achieving flight or fireballs or something, then that's what I'd focus on to become 'pro.' If I don't care about the length, only about the content, then yea, another area to focus on. The overall point is that I don't think you can be a professional dreamer. You can always improve on your skills, and others will get more dreams and stuff, but all in all, it's about personal wants and goals that determine anything. Summarized: Don't worry about 'pro.' Set personal goals and work towards them. Make sure these goals are simple enough to achieve, yet still a good place to shoot for (i.e. Make my average Lucid last 10 full minutes consciously).

[elucid]

This depends on a few things, as others already posted, you first have to create the standard for what makes a pro. Second, what method are you talking about, I personally think that with the WILD method, you can become a pro much faster than with the other methods. I would estimate a year or less to have a lucid dream every night with the WILD method, I would call that pro.

[moongrass]

I am very far from pro but I have at least 1 or 2 LD a week and it took me about 4 months.