I first learned about lucid dreaming many, many years ago. I've only been able to lucid dream a handful of times. I wonder if anyone lucid dreams on the daily? And if so, is the lucidity clearer and clearer as the days go by?
I first learned about lucid dreaming many, many years ago. I've only been able to lucid dream a handful of times. I wonder if anyone lucid dreams on the daily? And if so, is the lucidity clearer and clearer as the days go by?
I do get lucid daily, generally it is like waking life with powars!
But every now and then will be unable to sleep and will have periods where I'm not lucid, but generally get lucid on a daily basis.
I often have weeks where I'll be lucid every day - I also have dry spells where I can go weeks without a single lucid (although this is always due to me getting distracted from performing any methods). When actively performing methods each night I'd say I typically have 4-7+ lucids in a week minimum, when not actively performing methods I still tend to have 1 or 2 but not always.
So I voted for: "I've been able to lucid dream for 1+ week" - because technically I have in the past, although not always.
4 days in a row. It was a holiday. Considering I'm in uni now, lucid dreaming is a bit on the backburner while I focus on more directly important things. I only practice it on weekends and wednesdays.
4 days in a row is the best I had but only one time, and even 3 lucid days in a row are very rare although I seem to get better at it. That being said, plenty of the lucids are still either very short or mundane and I don't think I see a correlation between the quality and the number of lucid nights in a row... For me it's pretty random if they get clearer or less clear or just follow a weird pattern.
A long, long time ago I went for about three years of consistent, nightly LD'ing. Though the occasional all night partying would break the chain, I peaked at around 100 per month during that era. And no, the dreams did not become clearer and clearer; I'm not sure it works that way.
100 a month? Holy shit, how many a week? 25 a week? 5 a night?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sageous
^^ Well, 100 divided by four is 25, so around 25, I guess. ;)
This was an era when I was lucid pretty much all night, so 4 or 5 LD's in a night was not unusual. Here's a funny thing, though: at the time, I didn't count, because how many LD's I had didn't matter -- I sure hope that doesn't sound like a rich person saying "money doesn't matter!" In the end it's the quality that matters, and not the quantity.
That's pretty impressive Sageous. How about now? The more lucid dreams you have the more your going to become less bothered about the count I assume. Experience for you man! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sageous
Wow - pure inspiration. What would you say was the biggest contributing factor during that period Sageous?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sageous
^^ I'm not sure there was anything specific, really.
Dreams had pretty much become my llfe, during wake and sleep, in those years, so overall focus and consistent attention/self-awareness was sort of inevitible for me... plus I was still young and strong enough to manage that attitude night after night. Also, my work during those years revolved around maintaining self-awareness all night, so, as work progressed, the LD's piled up as a matter of course (i.e., four separate REM periods in a night meant four LD's that night).
Here's an interesting thing that might be worth considering, though. I never, not even once, thought about how often I was lucid; it wasn't even a goal for me, much less something I ever worried about. Indeed, the first time I ever considered it was when answering a questionnaire for the Lucicity Institute many years after that special era. I often wonder if dreamers spent less time being concerned about LD counts or success, that perhaps those counts and success rates would rise.
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I'm still not concerned about a count, but these days, for a lot of reasons, it is much lower. Though I am slightly lucid in most of my dreams (probably residue from all those years of lucidity work), I only do "heavy lifting" LD work once a week these days, with a more focused month of lucidity once or twice a year.