How long did it take you to get your first LD?

I am just posting this for the poll, how long did it take you to get your first LD?

From one night to one year

Took me a month and a bit and I still haven't really done anything in a lucid dream about a year on.

Within 6 months. I dedicated myself to lucid dreaming and nothing else. It was kind of creepy.

I voted as "Within a month" because I have practiced LD twice and that's how long it took the first time. That was when I was about 12-13. It was my first and last fully LD until I started again about 2 months ago bc I was dissapointed in my lack of dream control and gave up. Once I started again I had my first LD within 1 week of that time. I have had a few since then. None have been very stable tho. :(

Not entirely Lucid, but alert enough to recognize it was a dream and wake up: About five months I think after I first heard of Lucid dreaming.

Well - I had lucids as a young child, pre-puberty. But when I started out to "learn it again", it took me two weeks for the first success.

It wasn't my first LD that was at all difficult. It was my second one. It took me three weeks. The third one took me two whole months.

My first was on my second week of trying.

I belive i had lucid dreams as a child cause i was doing kinda weird stuff while not caring about consequences in some of them :yeah
When i decided to give serious try to lucid dreams it took 3 - 5 days?

Exactly 3 years, roughly.

EDIT: 3 years and 13 days exactly.

Ah - but SarcasticIndeed - you didn't actually try for 3 years - you did try three years ago, and now were graced with a success by trying it once, and more or less out of the blue, did I get this right? Just saying - not that a newbie thinks this to be a normal time-frame...:wink:
Congratulation again!!

It would be great to have a much higher number of people respond, to really be able and maybe say - most common are two weeks to a month.
Looks like it at the moment, I could imagine that to be quite common.

I had LDs as a kid, but it took me a week or so to gain my first LD experience when training.
Took me another month for my second one.

Of course, not all of these 3 years were spent actively trying to Lucid Dream, I'm just giving the literal answer to the question, which seems to be quite the anomaly. I don't want to dissuade people from trying to achieve a Lucid Dream; statistically, I fall far ahead of the Bell curve. However, that is not to say that I did not actively try to have a lucid dream during a significant portion of my life. I just progressed slowly and my attempts at WILDs became much more spaced out. Including the fact that I cannot visualize at all (no, literally), I just thought that I was a helpless case.

Not everyone mighty have it easy.

It only took me a week to have my first lucid dream. Tbh I got pretty obsessed and thought about it 24/7.

Just a little more than a year (but I mean about thirteen months, so I just said "within a year"). It only happened after I was done trying. ^^;

That night.

3 days after starting to read EWOLD

Rothgar, what is EWOLD?

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Originally Posted by nbent412

Rothgar, what is EWOLD?

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Exploring The World Of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen Laberge probably :yeah

It was 18 months for me since starting a dream journal and having my first lucid. (Although, keeping a dream journal was the only thing I did, I wasn't practising RC's or anything else.) Then it took 10 weeks for my next lucid - this time doing Reality checks. I'm sure I'll have my third very soon!

Yep, EWOLD is the LaBerge book.

6 years ago, I tried to LD, but it didn't work and I gave up.

Then I started again this spring and managed to have my first, and so far only LD, in the middle of the summer, so about 3-4 months, but most of the time I was severely sleep deprived and I took a summer calculus 2 class :/

*cough* Natural *cough*

I love dreaming but I never go Lucid or OBE (Out of Body).

A long time ago I complained about never going lucid no matter how hard I try and someone here said

"Those with DID don't"

I took it as a witty little joke

but

I had posted that my diagnosis is "Discociative Disorder with Imaginative Reconstruction and Borderline Personality" which is Australian for "DID" (Discociative Identity Disorder).

So

Maybe a DID don't LD (???)



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I love dreaming but I never go Lucid or OBE (Out of Body).

A long time ago I complained about never going lucid no matter how hard I try and someone here said

"Those with DID don't"

I took it as a witty little joke

but

I had posted that my diagnosis is "Discociative Disorder with Imaginative Reconstruction and Borderline Personality" which is Australian for "DID" (Discociative Identity Disorder).

So

Maybe a DID don't LD (???)



Tina is doing a school assignment and needs our help. Here is the link:

♥♥♥

http://www.dreamviews.com/research/1...ng-survey.html

♥♥♥

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