Thread: How long did it take for y'all to get your first DILD?

Everyone is different. I was fortunate in that I had my first one after 3 days. I was reading Stephen LaBerge's book EWOLD during those days. I was playing with my 6 year old son and caught him in my arms and said "you're such a little guy"! But then I realized that no, he was grown up, and became lucid. It was such a rush, but short. But after 3 years and 180 great LDs I'm in a dry spell and it's been a couple weeks since my last one, and i'm not really even dreaming much. I blame it on my new posturepedic bed. I sleep so darn comfortably I'm in more deep sleep cycles I suspect. But I'll work on it. I read on a post recently that referenced a scientific study proving rosemary oil scent can improve prospective memory, which is important for DILD so I might give it a try.

A few weeks I believe.

A few days after. Went straight to WILD and enjoyed 1 and a half hours of lying down, all for 5 minutes of wandering about my house. Felt good, but I didn't exactly achieve much.

I had always been interested in LDing. I had some very vivid dreams and found this website. I read a few forums, techniques etc
and had my first LD that same night. In the dream I had a feeling I was dreaming. I jumped into the air and came down much slower than I should have. This was enough to make it lucid. I did RC and enjoyed my first LD.

Exactly one month to the day after I first started reading about LDing and set my first intention to recall my dreams I got my first DILD at the end of a long vivid epic dream. It lasted a bit less than a minute, but it changed my life forever. I did pretty serious day work (PM exercises, reflection/intention, journaling, RCs, reading reading reading reading: ETWOLD, DV academy, DV threads/tutorials) leading up to that and still do.