Thread: Is it possible to dream every dream lucid?

Oreo,

What was the longest period of time you had every dream lucid? I'm not asking for comparison to myself or anyone else, but just because I'm curious and this whole site could use some more "statistics" And how long did it take before you no longer felt mentally exhausted? Oh, and also how long had you been lucid dreaming before you acheived this?

I find it interesting that we have now had people say they have both been exhausted and been refreshed when doing this. But it seems at some point everyone here that has claimed has been able to do it without being tired at some point. Hmm, there are probably so many other factors that come into play.

Originally Posted by Dexter33

Oreo,

What was the longest period of time you had every dream lucid? I'm not asking for comparison to myself or anyone else, but just because I'm curious and this whole site could use some more "statistics" And how long did it take before you no longer felt mentally exhausted? Oh, and also how long had you been lucid dreaming before you acheived this?

I find it interesting that we have now had people say they have both been exhausted and been refreshed when doing this. But it seems at some point everyone here that has claimed has been able to do it without being tired at some point. Hmm, there are probably so many other factors that come into play.

After a while I stopped keeping track of how much exactly I had been lucid dreaming for how long. So I can't give a perfectly accurate statement. I would say that this carried on for about 3 years with the occasional non-lucid dream sneaking in every few months.

As for how long it took me to stop feeling mentally exhausted, I don't remember exactly either. I think it would have been a little over 1 month before I adjusted to non-stop lucidity. I had been using techniques like ADA and MILD and other things throughout the day and I believe that's where the exhaustion really came from. You could probably even call it a change in lifestyle.

I started lucid dreaming as a child from a young age, but it was pretty rare, sporadic, and unintentional. When I was 13 years old I found out that lucid dreaming could actually be learned and controlled. I wasted no time and immediately started studying and learning as much as I could about lucid dreaming and induction techniques. That's when I really started trying to lucid dream. I am 20 now so that would have been around 7 years ago.

Off the top of my head I can think of one possible factor for people feeling tired from lucid dreaming. REM phases are when we tend to get the most rest out of our sleep. But when we wake up during a REM phase it's often disruptive and makes us feel tired and groggy. Normally we would sleep throughout our entire REM phase and move on to the next part of our sleep cycle without any disruption. However when we lucid dream, we are more likely to cause ourselves to wake up from the dream before the REM phase has ended. But that's just an idea of what might be happening.

Oreo,
by ADA, you mean DDA right? or did you start with ADA and switch to that later?

Originally Posted by Sensei

Oreo,
by ADA, you mean DDA right? or did you start with ADA and switch to that later?

I was actually doing so many different things that it was probably overkill honestly. DDA (or VILD if you prefer) is the main thing that first allowed me to have fairly frequent lucids. I was eventually having an average of 1 or 2 lucid dreams a night with DDA I think. But I felt like I could take it even further and started practicing ADA as well. This eventually pushed me to the point that 100% of my dreams were lucid. After a while I also simplified the ADA to a form that focused mainly on a perpetual reality check sort of thing.

Other things that I had been doing in addition included general MILD stuff, WBTB, DEILD, focus on dream signs, reality checks, and rotating my bedroom furniture every 3 months.