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The reason i want to ask this is because lately i am having regular long lucid dreams (some lasting what seems like hours) which seem to have come out of nowhere. Before i would struggle to stay in a lucid for more that 15-20 minutes but know all of a sudden this, but i certainly am not complaining. (keep them coming)
So how long do your lucids last on average?
Lucid dreams only last up to fifteen minutes during normal sleep because that's how long your REM cycle is. During naps that number can go up to an hour, but usually not longer than that.
If you mean dream time, then that's relative to what's being done. Through time dialation it'd be possible to have dreams that lasted millenia. Mine are usually about two or three minutes in both dream time and real time.
On average, I'd say my lucids last at least 25 minutes.
Well good for you :P Damn, my regular dreams are only ever a few minutes :( I gotta do a good WILD soon.
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my lucid's at most 25 seconds.
I'm sure it will improve with experience. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by pointofbeing
Please tell me you can get these hour long lucids with experience; it must be AMAZING! I'd be happy with just a ten minute one! I have had 2 LDs about this length and in one I got nothing done so I was miserable, but in the other I spent all my time talking to these made up DCs who were my friends. Man, I was pretty ripped in the morning because I'd really felt I'd made good friends; and it was an LD but that's all I wanted to do!
Well normally my lucids are only a few minutes.
But the one I had last night was about 10 minutes. Last night was my first proper Lucid in my eyes though.
Yes you can get these long lucids with experience i have and so have many others, it is amazing btw. Before i would struggle to stay in the lucid but lately it's the other way around, i can even have full lucid sex without it effecting the lucid most times (touch wood) which i couldn't do before so once you master this it is awesome. It seems like i have mastered it but it's too early to say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Idolfan
I know what you mean about making dream character friends, lots of them are awesome. Sometimes i just spend the whole lucid just hanging with them, but the down side is when you wake up you are gutted because you might never see them again.
mine are normally around 20 minutes.
well it depends on what you mean. ive had a lucid dream that lasted about 10 minutes but was only lucid during the first 5 or 6 minute
I mean how long you were lucid for without losing lucidity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jdog
well in that case the longest LD ive had was about 5 minutes
If I am going to have a LD, I almost always end up having more than one at a time. Generally the first one is fairly short -- maybe 3 minutes. Then each one gets progressivly longer. My last dream of the night is generally the longest. Somenights (or naps) it feels like only 15 minutes, but other times I wake up and confused because I feel like I'd been dreaming for days. I don't always stay lucid through the whole thing, but I often do.
Longest I think I had was about 4 minutes... :P
I, too, have a long way to go: most of my LDs are less than minute with the upper limit being around 3 minutes for the longest one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grod
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Well, that's a hard question to answer. One of my lucids felt like it lasted hours, but when I awoke I realized I'd only been asleep for 30 minutes, and in that time span I'd had two different dreams! Time in dreams can be different from time in real life.
Sadly most of lucid dreams are very short - 30 seconds to 3 minutes.
A few months ago I had an incredibly power lucid dream that I estimate was 45-60 minutes. It was by far the longest lucid dream I've ever had. It was amazing, totally amazing.
I'd have to guess 30 minutes, give or take a few. I have some that seem to last a really long time every once in a while. I begin to wonder if I'm stuck. Lol
Yeh i get that feeling alot, i am lucid for like what seems like hours and then all of a sudden i think :eek: what if i'm stuck in the dream world and i never wake up and that results sometimes in me panicing and waking myself up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael
When i wake up i am so P****d with myself. :bang:
How do you time a lucid dream if none of the clocks work?
~Tamias
DILDs tend to last until I accomplish whatever goals I could remember, on average. Then they go nonlucid. WILDs, though rare, last somewhat longer. That's my recent experience.
I became lucid about two months ago, sadly it only lasted 3 seconds. I've not become lucid since. :p
30 seconds / 1 minute... longest was maybe 5 minutes... and it doesn't seem to improve at all. I almost always wake up; and if I can stay in the dream, the lucid part is still short, only replaced by a regulard dream.
I had another long lucid last night but i had a false awakening in which i used my digital voice recorder to record my lucid, and then when i woke up a few hours later i couldn't recall a thing! I also had another lucid but againt he false awakening!
I had never used my voice recorder before, tonight was going to be the first night so i am shocked that inmy false awakening i didn't write it down.
Longest would have to be around an hour. :/ i lost most of my lucidity though.
If it's an afternoon nap, I'll probably dream lucidly for a good 45 minutes.
Less than a second.
Average is about a few minutes, I'd say.
well im sort of a beginner to lucid dreaming and surprisingly my lucid dreams last long but my longest was my fourth one it was hours long so long i forgot a lot of it and it was so vivid and amazing
Just had one a day long.
I averaged all of the times from the post so far and I came up with 13.9362745 minutes:)...
Amazing, my 100th like was ironically given on my very 1st post XD. Thanks ZorlzZz.
"Please tell me you can get these hour long lucids with experience"
After many years since I posted at most 25seconds I can say I have had a few nearly hour long experiences and they are amazing (so yes experience is everything). I still don't ever have consistent ld's but whenever I do I have vastly more control and length of ld's than back in 2007. One thing I notice about any extreme, or even moderate length ld is you will consonantly be in awe at how bizarre and amazing your inner plots become (my best really long lucids are the one's where I let the dreams plot unfold without altering it knowing it's all illusion). Your best bet for long lucids (at least in my experience's) is to forgo your own path, at least for a little, you need to be the observer, you need to feel how lucid dream physics feel. And how every time, they seem to have the same quarks. One of the best things to do is to not tell all the dream charters it's all a dream and don't force them into existence (they will show up on their own if you expect them, if you don't expect them and feel you need to create them, then it's already a failure).
Team up with dream charters, and you will be rewarded with plots you didn't even think you could write if you had a thousand years. My favorite continuing dream plot revolves around the dream Ruler of the Cat Kingdom, she showed up and started talking about her cat kingdom, that my friends is not something one say's ya but it's all a dream to. If they speak like that, let em talk. So being passive, I ended up in her cat kingdom with Buddhist flying cats, cat parades, cat politics, cats in cars, cat's that talk, cat's that know ninja, cat's in flying car's, because if cat's can already fly on their own, why the hell not? Wakingnomad would be proud of this plot. Like I said before if I say go to cat kingdom, guess what? I end up with the cool-aid man with a chainsaw;P Recurring plots and recurring dreams are where 90% of my long lucids come from, it's from expecting them, not creating them. Ironically I had never heard of the movie The Cat Returns (which has a Prince, and queen of the Cat Kingdom.) before I had this dream. I made (I mean the dream made) basically the queen of the Cat Kingdom, she's a human in my dream, and doesn't appear to be called Yuki. Thier is not Prince of cat kingdom ether. Still tho, I was like but I dreamed this :o
The more you lucid dream the more you will end up with moments like that. A more recent recurring world has me talking with a scientist, a scientist with a most bizarre theory. "Black holes have a stoplight that's why the lights don't get out" you don't interrupt that, EVER. He Stated that light and all matter stay at the black hole stoplight until it goes green for all the black holes gathered matter, and that it reaches the singularity all at one time to create a new universe. He said if observers of the new universe look back through telescopes they will only see it as one moment, one explosion when it was really a bunch of small explosions and gathered light waiting, waiting at a stoplight. Man I got to talk to this scientist again, such a rad plot. Yes he said when it goes green XD.
And because your passive you get to realize wile it's happening right then and how amazing it is but keep in check because you can be absorbed into the crazy plots. They will consistently give you absolutely amazing commentary as long as you don't say all a dream, cause then it just loops on that one simple idea, and suddenly you will have an empty dream with no characters, no more flying cat's no more interstellar stoplight's :( No characters equals no vast plot, no vast plot equals a quick boring dream, which will eventually end with you wondering, am I waking? Is this the dream fading? Passive control is how to have long lucid dreams. Back when I was having 25 second lucids at most, I was trying to control everything immediately. Afraid if I went to too many rooms too quick, I'd wake myself. To anyone who is in the 25 seconds top's phase like I was, say fuck that go through as many rooms as you want, that's the point.