Thread: How often do you have a Lucid Dream

I'm not very experienced and I'm certainly not trying as hard as I could be, but I get spontaneous LDs at least once or twice a month. Most are douring the weekend, when I sleep for like 11 hours. I guess if I fixed my sleeping habbits I would get them douring the week aswell and the number would most likely increase... I can't really expect much without sleeping which is something a real dreamer should do.

I'd guess the pros get more than one per week. It's all about your dedication and willpower. I could easily increase my number, but as my lazyness and sleepyness prevent me from doing so.
By the way, good luck with LDing.

I average about one every three days.

an average of twice a week

If I put in the proper effort--mostly motivation to WBTB on a cold linoleum floor in a freezing winter--I can have them every night (such as the past three nights). The quality ranges from "I don't know what the hell I'm doing" to "Best. Lucid. EVAR." That's one of the variables I'm finding it hardest to control. They usually start out great, but after ten minutes I find myself doing the zaniest things! By that time, my only hope to lucidity is to be saved by a false awakening. That can be discouraging.

Once you know lucidity... I mean know it. Know it to the point where you've had lucids in which you remember what you ate for dinner yesterday night, and kept that lucidity through the entire dream. That's when they'll begin coming on their own. After that point, it's all up to your own motivation.

Also, autosuggestion helps a bunch, even at the beginning of the night.

Originally Posted by Abra

If I put in the proper effort--mostly motivation to WBTB on a cold linoleum floor in a freezing winter--I can have them every night (such as the past three nights). The quality ranges from "I don't know what the hell I'm doing" to "Best. Lucid. EVAR." That's one of the variables I'm finding it hardest to control. They usually start out great, but after ten minutes I find myself doing the zaniest things! By that time, my only hope to lucidity is to be saved by a false awakening. That can be discouraging.

Once you know lucidity... I mean know it. Know it to the point where you've had lucids in which you remember what you ate for dinner yesterday night, and kept that lucidity through the entire dream. That's when they'll begin coming on their own. After that point, it's all up to your own motivation.

Also, autosuggestion helps a bunch, even at the beginning of the night.

ooooh man, thanks soo much. now i know what i'm doing wrong! I'm not staying lucid in my dreams. all the ones i've had i just put a nose RC and rubbed my hands for stability and lucidity and thats it. now i know i have to be, like... fully awake in my dreams! I think i get it now

well ive had 4 or 5 LD's and they seem to just happen spontaniously. i dont realy do things like keep a dream journal or religously do reality checks, i am starting to use induction MP3's so i hope that will increase my LD count.

Originally Posted by Abra

If I put in the proper effort--mostly motivation to WBTB on a cold linoleum floor in a freezing winter--I can have them every night (such as the past three nights). The quality ranges from "I don't know what the hell I'm doing" to "Best. Lucid. EVAR." That's one of the variables I'm finding it hardest to control. They usually start out great, but after ten minutes I find myself doing the zaniest things! By that time, my only hope to lucidity is to be saved by a false awakening. That can be discouraging.

Once you know lucidity... I mean know it. Know it to the point where you've had lucids in which you remember what you ate for dinner yesterday night, and kept that lucidity through the entire dream. That's when they'll begin coming on their own. After that point, it's all up to your own motivation.

Also, autosuggestion helps a bunch, even at the beginning of the night.

wow... is that level of lucidity really possible?

Originally Posted by lespaulsRcoo

wow... is that level of lucidity really possible?

Of course it is. But try keeping it through the entire dream. That's hard. I've only managed it a handful of times, but it has plenty of perks that make the effort well worth it (including remembering to lengthen a dream towards the end, using clarity techniques periodically, reviewing the dream while inside the dream, and engaging in intelligible conversations with dream characters).

Originally Posted by lespaulsRcoo

wow... is that level of lucidity really possible?

I've had it before. It's even easyer with WILDs. It's also more wicked, since the transition from waking to fantasy world is very "unreal".

I dont try to lucid dream and i pretty much have them every time...now only half the time can i completely control it, but for the most part, if im dreaming, ill know it. it gets so confusing sometimes. because although i know that im dreaming, when i wake up it makes my experiences feel all the more real..i know it sounds backwards...i dotn know.

I average about two a week if I'm motivated and keeping up with my practices (Dream journal, WBTB, autosuggestion, techniques, etc.)

...i've been LDing almost EVERY night, lately. o_O;; I don't know HOW I did it...I just started only a few MONTHS ago....

Since November 28th, 2007, I've had two lucid dreams. The first one was pretty short, but the second one I had lasted several minutes and it was awesome! I can't wait for my third lucid dream!

If I read and post here regularly, I can avoid my dry spells and more or less lucid every day. If I don't post here and keep a dream journal, I get one or two lucids a week. If I do neither, I get no lucids. SO I am going to see what happens if I do both.

And as for how real a lucid dream can be - I frequently have dreams where I cannot tell the difference between the lucid dream and the real world. I get all 5 senses in my dreams, and if it's somewhere that could be real, and is plausable, then I really can't tell the difference between the real world and the dream world.