Thread: How long before you get bored?

I don't think I'd ever get bored. Ever... Woah. I just got a story idea. No joke.

Lets say you got bored of lucid dreams after a month. During this month, you had constructed an entire dream world, and found your dream guide, and gained complete control of the dream, however the luster has faded. Lucid dreaming has become an annoyance. You quit writing your dreams down, and although you are constantly lucid, recall fades due to lack of interest. After weeks (or longer) of forgetting your lucid dreams, you suddenly remember one! It isn't pleasant, however. It is a plea for help, coming from your dream guide. She warns that you may die if you don't take action... Against what? Where? And most importantly, by when?

. . . A few more details: you may have had 'feelings' for the dream guide at one point (and got bored of her later). The dream guide has some connection to your autonomic processes, often predicting a cold or flu days before the actual occurence (for this reason, her warning is highly disturbing). You are worried, and now try hard to remember your dreams. When you return to the dream world you created, you find it is in ruin, and your dream guide has mysteriously disappeared. While lucidity remains, you find you have no control over anything but your own body.

There are even more details, but I won't give them away, since they'd most likely give away what is causing the protagonist's illness.


... Anyway. I don't think I could ever get bored. Too much to do! I'd become bored with life much faster than becoming bored with dreaming.

I'd get bored within a month i believe, Unless I was actually doing something useful like practicing my skating technique . So maybe a little more. I guess it depens whether you find something to do, i guess you could say the same about real life.

Thanks for your replies so far. Anyone else?.... please?

As much fun as regular dreams are (although they have paled in comparison to lucid dream), I think it would take me much longer than a year to get tired of lucid dreaming. When the whole play-god thing gets old, there's always experiencing every single myth, work of literature, movie, and video game to keep you busy. On top of that, there is room for self-reflection, psychological experimentation, speaking with the deceased, studying in dreams, building things, exploring and engaging in creativity, developing skills, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Just like I could read forever, I think I could lucid dream forever. Maybe it's a personality thing. I've always been that sort of type, even before I could lucid dream. Now that I can, it's an outlet for something I've desired my entire life.

I would use the chance to expand my mind by exploring it to the ends. I would do things that I think are not at all possible in any situation, even a dream. I would try and invent new colors, try and experience the ketamine "void", do so many things.

I wouldn't get bored. I would maybe enjoy an occasional normal dream once in a while, but really there is so much lucid dreaming can do for you. I would really try and explore the limits of my psyche.

I would probably get bored after 6 months. True I would LOVE being able to have tons of lucid dreams, but I really love my other dreams too! Sometimes it is nice going to bed knowing that you will have some adventure to look forward too that will be something completely random and unexpected!

@How would you spend your first few days of full lucidity?
Uh ... Hehe...

I don't think I'd ever get bored, there's sooo much to do when there is no limits.
Shift mentioned some of them, but he forgot one thing you can do.. Having sex with any girl/guy you want, be it a celebrity or a close friend. There's thousands of hot girls out there! You can have threesomes, foursomes, even hundredsomes and thousandsomes!