Is lucid dreaming easier the second time around?

**Shugo332** · 03-10-2015 07:49 AM

I started lucid dreaming when I was on seroquel. After I stopped taking it I also stopped lucid dreaming. I don't believe that it was totally because of the drug though. Because I did stop doing things to increase lucid dreams before I stopped taking seroquel, I wasn't even trying to lucid dream at that point but still got them till I stopped the drug. I know it will be a little harder for me to get into lucid dreaming now I don't have drug influence. But I was wondering if I would have a easier time achieving lucidity again versus someone who never had a lucid dream before. I know lucid dreaming involves teaching your brain to recognize what's not real within the dream. As far as I know it's very difficult for the brain to forget or lose the ability to do anything it learned. Not doing what it learned will weaken it's ability to do it, might even stop doing it all together. But proof can be found that it never forgotten by how it relearns much quicker the second time around. Is lucid dreaming no different?

**Nhuc** · 03-10-2015 08:31 AM

Well two parts
The first is when you first start drugs are an easy way to induce lucidity. However, the farther you get into it, the harder it is to induce drug based lucidity. It's basicly your subconscious looking out for you.
secondly. It doesn't get easier for a long while. It took me months to do it semi regularly. That being maybe once a week, or a few times if I napped a lot. And much longer for whenever I wanted to. Even now, I plan my sleep schedule for when I want to have lucid dreams and I've scheduled my classes around them. But I've also been a avid learner. With my study of mysticism and want to know and excel it took me a much shorter time than most people can hope for. The biggest thing to remember is to not get discouraged.

**Dodge631** · 03-10-2015 05:05 PM

one thing, is you will still retain the knowledge you had before. so when you go to practice again it may not be so hard this time around. i can tell you from experience a little bit. i was in full swing with it early summer but i stopped for some reason at the end of the summer. i picked it up about 2-3 weeks ago and could start up knowing some techniques already. i have only had 3 ever so far, but it took a lot less time to get my 3rd when i started it back up this time around. its like playing a level in a game for the first time, then after you beat it you come back to it again later and you kinda already know what you are supposed to do and next time you beat it even faster.

**Superdremer** · 03-18-2015 06:23 PM

OK well dude I'm going to give you the short answer I had been lucid dreaming last year since September and when it came to December I was having 3-4 lucids a nigh but my schedule got to busy and I stopped doing the things to induce it and since late in January this year 2015 I have been trying and well it is actually a lot hard for me but that's just me