Quote Originally Posted by PierceHerVeil View Post
For thhose of you that have mastered Lucid Dreaming, I have a few questions for you.

Question 1- Approximetly how long did it take for you to reach this goal?

Question 2- What plans or daily Excercise's did you do? (This includes Techniques, Mantras, Supplements ETC.)

Question 3- Was all of this worth your time in the end?

Thank you for taking your time to read/answer my questions!
I am 100% Grateful (:
Didn't you make a thread about mastering dream recall as well?

I answered there and I will answer here as well. And I say again, what's is the point of mastering something? And what is the definition?
If your definition of mastering is to have a lucid dream every night, then I would say that is a contra-productive goal, because no one can lucid dream every night, not because it is impossible, but because there is just no way of predicting what will happen each night. And then you are focusing on something that is out of your control. What you can do and what is within your control is to learn what process of actions that improves your chances of having a lucid dream.

I can say that I am now at a point where I know exactly what actions I need to take in order to almost be certain that I will have a lucid dream.

It took me about 4 years to realize.

And I have tried out most things like writing mantras on paper, setting multiple alarmclocks in the morning with autosnooze, drinking apple juice many nights in a row to notice it's effects, woke up in the middle of the night and then staying up for 90 minutes, and been laying still in my bed for hours to see the effects on my awareness and the list goes on. This is something that most people will do, try out a technique and then because they start to search for a new technique and new complex ideas and so on.

All these experiences was definitely worth my time, because I learn alot about myself, learned new abilities such as patience, relaxation, focusing on longterm processes rather than short-term result etc.

What I do is effective for me because I got experience of it all and I have a really deep understanding of what I am doing.

Which is why the next sextion of this post only should be seen as inspiration and not instruction!

In the day I meditate 20 min to reduce my stress, before going to bed I sometimes like to write a day journal where I write down what have happened during the day. Then I lay on my back and meditate, later on I will wake up and feel uncomfortable and I switch position to my side and then I either enter the dream consciously or atleast more aware. Then I wake up around 90 min after my bedtime because I am more aware of my microawakenings and I get up and write down my dreams. After that I do the same, lay on my back and meditate and then I fall asleep and wake up again and switch position.
I could continue to record my dreams all night, but that would be alot of work so I just fall back to sleep, and I it's possible that I forget some dreams because of this. When I wake up in the morning I get up on the first sound of my alarmclock and I write down the last dream I remember and my day begins.

To summarize what I do in terms of techniques: (WILD - DEILD/DILD - WBTB) - DREAM RECALL

Some nights however I am not in the mood to fall asleep in this manner (after a night out partying for example), so then my only goal is to recall my dreams in the morning, because this reinforce my intent of rembering and being aware of my dreams. (MILD)

Now I am going to sleep. Sweet dreams!