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

**nbent412** · 10-22-2014 02:26 PM

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

**yaya** · 10-22-2014 02:30 PM

From one night to one year

**ParadoxOwl** · 10-22-2014 07:52 PM

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

**Jayme** · 10-23-2014 04:26 AM

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

**EamonWill** · 10-23-2014 06:10 AM

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.

**DragonSword** · 10-23-2014 06:31 AM

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.

**StephL** · 10-23-2014 01:03 PM

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.

**JadeGreen** · 10-23-2014 02:38 PM

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.

**ageofthunder** · 10-23-2014 10:47 PM

My first was on my second week of trying.

**MisakaMikoto** · 10-23-2014 10:56 PM

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

When i decided to give serious try to lucid dreams it took 3 - 5 days?

**SarcasticIndeed** · 10-24-2014 10:04 AM

Exactly 3 years, roughly.

EDIT: 3 years and 13 days exactly.

**StephL** · 10-24-2014 01:39 PM

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...

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.

**SarcasticIndeed** · 10-24-2014 06:55 PM

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.

**lionizing1** · 10-24-2014 03:03 PM

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.

**Efthemia** · 10-25-2014 03:07 AM

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

**CNGB** · 10-25-2014 09:56 PM

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. ^^;

**Cobalt Storm** · 10-25-2014 11:46 PM

That night.

**Rothgar** · 10-26-2014 01:57 AM

3 days after starting to read EWOLD

**nbent412** · 10-27-2014 07:58 PM

Rothgar, what is EWOLD?

**MisakaMikoto** · 10-27-2014 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by nbent412

Rothgar, what is EWOLD?

Exploring The World Of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen Laberge probably

**stevendoig** · 10-27-2014 10:59 PM

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!

**Rothgar** · 10-28-2014 10:29 PM

Yep, EWOLD is the LaBerge book.

**Noell** · 11-01-2014 07:21 PM

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 :/

**SinisterDezz** · 11-03-2014 06:54 AM

*cough* Natural *cough*

**EbbTide000** · 11-03-2014 08:04 AM

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

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Post #6 is me.