Is this normal?

**Nikakwa** · 04-20-2015 03:51 PM

Hi!!
Sorry in advance if i have a bad eglish.
First of all when i aded about lucid dreams i got very excited about it.
I started with tutorials.
I started doing reality checks all that day .
Night came on and i used MILD technique so i sleeped saying :" i want to know that i'm dreaming".
And i falled asleep. When i started dreaming i was in like a medieval city the groud were made of died grass, my body just did a reality check (plug my nose and try to breath) and i breathed so I realised that i am dreaming i got too exited(i dind't know about stabilisation techniques) so i jumped high and woke up.
Second day i searched about more techniques for LD and stabilisation. All my day was doing reality checks. Nght came and igot to the bed (same time of yesterday) doing MILD .
And i fell asleep. I had a non-Lucid dream and i woke up at 6am imususally wake at 8am(it was easter vacation) but i used MILD another time wasn't familiar with other techniques . And fall directly asleep into a lucid state so i started stabilisating .
Iwas looking at mynhand closely when i woke up and saw my watch it was 8am.
And from that day, i discovered my dream sign (school) and doing all day awarness and RCs and writing a dream journal, my dream recal is good , i remember every day a dream, but i didn't had anyone from that day. My first lucid dream was from about 13 days. What am i doing wrong .
Help me if there any effective method worth learning it.
I tried FILD and DEILD but i need a technique that dosen't require a pre-sleep.
Thanks.

**ToukieToucan** · 04-20-2015 03:58 PM

Waking up within a few seconds is normal for a beginner, my first lucid dream took me 5 months so dont give up : P

**Nikakwa** · 04-20-2015 04:11 PM

Thanks for repliying.
But i had my lucid dream first night wy it wont happen again??

**Laurelindo** · 04-20-2015 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by Nikakwa

Thanks for repliying.
But i had my lucid dream first night wy it wont happen again??

This chart should give you some perspective of the typical frequency for dedicated lucid dreamers.
It shows the number of lucid dreams that the lucid dreaming researcher Stephen Laberge had per month over the course of three years when he practiced his so-called "MILD" technique ("Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams").

As you can see on the image, he had roughly 4-5 lucid dreams per month during the first year, then slowly started having more and more of them on average.
That's what it tends to look like for most people.
Pay special attention to his number of lucid dreams during months 7 and 8 - month 7 would count as what is usually called a "dryspell", that is, a long time without any lucid dreams, and on month 8 he suddenly got 10 of them, partly because he was in the lab at that point and needed to become lucid in order to do research on that later.

There are two important lessons here:
first of all, it is the average improvement over a longer period of time that you should focus on, and not worry too much about always having better and better success;
and also, motivation is extremely important.
In fact, I believe that all the lettered bars represent the months when he was at the lab, and you can see that those bars are significantly higher than the rest.

**Nikakwa** · 04-20-2015 05:04 PM

Thanks

**Rothgar** · 04-21-2015 04:22 AM

For most it takes a long time to develop the mindset necessary for frequent lucid dreams. You did really well to have one so quickly. My advice is to not try too hard or worry too much. It is counter productive. Just follow the basic techniques and let the lucid moments come as they will... 2 or 3 weeks isn't something to worry about starting out.... once a week is a good average but you may have 2 in 2 or 3 days and then none for 2 or 3 weeks.... pretty normal at first.

**EbbTide000** · 04-21-2015 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by Laurelindo

This chart

should give you some perspective of the typical frequency for dedicated lucid dreamers.

It shows the number of lucid dreams that the lucid dreaming researcher Stephen Laberge had per month over the course of three years when he practiced his so-called "MILD" technique ("Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams").

As you can see on the image, he had roughly 4-5 lucid dreams per month during the first year, then slowly started having more and more of them on average.

That's what it tends to look like for most people.

Pay special attention to his number of lucid dreams during months 7 and 8 - month 7 would count as what is usually called a "dryspell", that is, a long time without any lucid dreams, and on month 8 he suddenly got 10 of them, partly because he was in the lab at that point and needed to become lucid in order to do research on that later.

There are two important lessons here:

first of all, it is the average improvement over a longer period of time that you should focus on, and not worry too much about always having better and better success;

and also,

motivation is extremely important.
In fact, I believe that all the lettered bars represent the months when he was
at the lab, and you can see that those bars are significantly higher than the rest.

Laurelindo thank you

This is very encouraging for me (I never, or hardly ever, Lucid Dream).

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