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

How long did it take for y'all to get your first DILD? How did you realize it?

Currently trying to get my first one. Well, my first LD lol

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.