How Often Do You Actually have Lucid dream?
I've been curious about this for a long time. How often do people actually have lucid dreams? I know that we are a minority population that frequently experience lucid dreams, but I've been confused by some answers I've found online.
Apparently, some users claim that they have lucid dream every single night. And this is declared by quite a few number of people. Some of them seems quite young.
here are a few sample comments:
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That’s weird. Almost every time I have a lucid dream, I wake up pretty quickly afterward because I can’t keep the dream “going”, so to speak. But I’ve also had dreams where they’ve become lucid and I felt they were going to end, but instead the lucidity faded and the dream became a normal dream again. I wonder how often that happens to people
I do this every single time I dream, so almost every night of the month.
every dream of mine is. I just find a way while I’m still in the dream to make it fun or funny.
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If it's true, then I have to say, they r blessed with a very unique and wonderful gift. As an artist, I cannot help but be jealous. It means that I am seriously behind, and I got work to do ><
Well, I am frankly very skeptical. First, in some cases, there's problem with self-reporting in that some people confuse what "lucid dream" actually means. Second, I am always under the impression that only regular and diligent meditators have lucid dreams at this degree of frequency. And often experienced meditators report that they don't actually desire to control the dream, but merely witness it.
It is possible, I believe for most people here to experience "hypnogogic revelry" every single night. That I can certainly believe. It's the dance of imagery right before you lose consciousness. Those are the dream fragments where voices shuffle like you are on a crowded bus, and dreams dance in a kaleidoscopic liondance. Then comes the body paralysis--which signals the imminent dropping of lucidity.
An actual, lucid dream, for me is something different. I always think it's a wonderful event if I actually had one:
so just being curious, how often do you guys have lucid dreams? If you have frequent lucid dreams, e.g. 3-4 a week, how long did it take you to get there? I personally have 3-5 lucid dreams a month. I'm trying to increase the frequency. But I want to get some data as to how often experience lders actually have them.
My take on lucid dream is defined by the following criteria:
1)non-hypnogogic revelry type. If you can't tell the difference, this poll isn't for you XD
2)sustained across at least 2 episodes. the longer the better :)
3)lucidity does not make you immediately wake up. I'm including this because it seems the ones that reported lucidity every night also say that they wake up from it. I am wondering if that's just recall, or actually lucidity.
4)includes witnessing dreams in which you do not have a desire to control the dream, but simply watch the dream. But make sure you don't confuse witnessing dream with hypnogogic revelry. :) For this to satisfy, there has to be dream logic, false remembrance, and all the dreamy homologous variation stuff hehe.
Just one more question, what do you guys think about those who claim to lucid dream every nite? Is it trustworthy data? I myself am frankly frustrated by the paucity of research in this very important area of life.
I wish I have my own personal fMRI machine that so I can do research on myself. :bang:
