To all the very experienced lucid dreamers on this forum.

[JohnnyBoi]

When was the first time you had a lucid dream? How long did it last? What was it about? How long did it take to achieve the dream since you've started practicing lucid dreaming?

[Kona]

I'm not a pro but I wouldn't call myself a novice. I think my first lucid dream took place ins space and I flew around and my dad was there I really can't remember much about it. It was about 1 month in when I started practicing lucid dreaming. I didn't have really that high of awareness so it was like 40 secs I think? I really can't remember much about it sorry. It probably took me about three years to get where I am right now which is averaging like 1 lucid a week, but I was in and out of trying to lucid dream. I am now really busting my butt to get pretty experienced about it.

[RebelSeven]

My first lucid dream was when I was 11 It lasted about 5 minutes (really long!) I met a boy in the dream that I had dreamed about years earlier. Seeing him and realizing he had been in that long ago dream is what made me lucid. I spent the dream talking and getting to know him. I had lucid dreams consistently after that (1-4 a month) and when I started practicing lucidity seriously that became 1-2 a week.

[Zenithar66]

In a sense i am experienced, in that i have had now 27 lucids in 3 years, but only in the last few months have they become more frequent, but i do recall, only a month back, i had am astounding lucid that went on easily for 15-20 mins, i was shocked i could even feel myself breath in the dream. amazing. I cant recall my first since i dont think the first one in my dream journal WAS the first one...but i know it was short, got excited and awoke. I had a lucid after the first week of simply reading about it, like many others.

[Mayatara]

Don't know exactly what it is considered a "very experienced lucid dreamer". If someone can give me the answer, I'd appreciate! I don't know if I'm one, but I'll try to answer the questions. I don't remember exactly when I had my first lucid. I remember that as a kid, I had many unpleasant dreams in which I started to realize I was dreaming, but it was a very weak level of lucidity that lasted only for the brief moment that took me either to exit a nightmare or to shift dreams into a more pleasant direction, like summoning a dream character I wanted to be with or something like that. Parallel to that, vividness of dreams slowly increased, until, as a teenager, I could recall hour-long dreams with clear and vivid details. But no worthwhile mentioning lucidity (from my point of view, but I have really high standards ) The first dream in which I consider that I was 100% lucid, only happened when I was 27. It lasted a good amount of time, maybe 15 mins. It wasn't just a faint notion that I was dreaming and enjoying flying or some other fantasy, but a vivid experience, with 100% recall of my "real me", memories, life, values, etc. It happened when I was dreaming that I was in a public bathroom, with white tiles and a long mirror on the wall. I saw my image reflected in the mirror with minute details and somehow that triggered full lucidity. I started levitating and for the first time I wondered if I could master the dream plane and therefore my own mind. I decided to cross the mirror to see what was on the other side of the dream. After a few failed attempts, I did it and exited the dream to find myself as a formless conscience in absolute darkness with no references. I was in the limbo between dreams and wakefulness, but I stayed there for quite a long time, just meditating on that experience. Since then (4 years) , I had an almost exponential evolution in lucid dreams, in terms of control, duration and frequency. I have lucids that seem to last an hour, but I don't know for sure. The best I could prove was a 30 mins long lucid, because it was a WILD and I had registered the time I fell asleep and then the time of waking up from it.

[Stirred]

Why ask "very experienced" lucid dreamers about their first dream? Won't it be the same as a fledgling oneironaut's response? I have no idea, but I remember just being aware of being in a dream from time to time as a kid, never gave it any thought. The first real "lucid" that I can remember is one where I checked whether or not I was dreaming using the lightswitch test I had heard about in Waking Life before I commited several indecent acts upon my peers. After I watched Waking Life again last summer (and played lots of Yume Nikki) I began to search for information about the phenomenon, and suddenly I just had this unexplained burst of vivid dreams. I was mostly concerned with recording my dreams rather than dream control, so my dreams involved me walking around, exploring and thinking on occasion about what I should memorize, when I should wake up or whether I should risk letting the dream fade in exchange for more dream time. My first real, fully conscious lucid was quite recent. A month ago I succeeded at either WILDing or DEILDing, I'm not entirely sure. I was trying to WILD, but then I think I fell asleep for a while, and then when I woke up I continued as if I had been doing a WILD. I jumped outside, flew up a little to admire the city, then decided to try to roll the landscape up toward myself inception style. I only managed to pinch the landscape a little. I was excited, so the dream was short. Slightly disappointing, but great step forward.

[Puffin]

When was the first time you had a lucid dream? November 2009 was my first successfully induced one; I had an unintentional one the night before and wanted to research it; that brought me to Dreamviews and the different techniques used to have LDs. How long did it last? A good four or five minutes. What was it about?. I ate some food, and flew. How long did it take to achieve the dream since you've started practicing lucid dreaming? I had one the first night of learning how to induce them. It's different for everyone though.