How long before you get bored?

Now, I've been here for a long time and I know some of you claim you would never get bored, but I'm writing a story that currently has a gaping plot hole and I need your opinion. Your response will make things so much easier and I thank you in advance.

Imagine you are given the chance to be constantly lucid in all of your dreams. There is something that reminds you that you're lucid, and when you start to lose lucidity it reminds you so that you are constantly aware. Since you are always aware, you always have to make your own decisions and try to figure out what you're going to do without any input from anyone else.

How long do you think it would take before you became bored and wanted to go back to regular dreaming? I know there are some naturals here who've actually gone through this and I would love your opinion.

*Extra credit: How would you spend your first few days of full lucidity?

I don't think I'd get bored, I'm not a big fan of regular dreams.

For my first few days I would fly around the world exploring caves, oceans, ruins and things like that. I would also wrestle puppies. :content:

I'd recommend sending a PM to Luminous, she only has about one regular dream a month.

I dunno, being lucid daily for 5 years now (soon to be 6) and not yet bored (ok, I must admit, it wasn't daily for the first 2 years... but nearly...), what I did in my first days: Lose omnipotence, get into wimp mode, learn magick in DW. And no, I'm not natural <.<

I voted 1-2 weeks, but that might be a bit quick. Either way soon enough I think I'd need some mental health days. Then again I've only had a handful of good lucid dreams. Regardless.

For the first few days I think I would probably do superhero things, I'd also try to be as social as possible. I'm really interested in talking to dream characters and meeting interesting figments of my imagination.

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 :P. 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? :D

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... :movingmrgreen::teeth:

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!

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Originally Posted by DanielWestman

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!

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I didn't forget that possibility, but I would never waste a lucid dream on sex. I guess if I had them all the time it would be a possibility, but in the meantime there are impossible things that I'd rather do. :whyme: Priorities.

Of course living a book/movie entails being around some pretty hot people. I think a lot of people would strive to be the Genghis Khan of the dream world :tongue: It's just not one of my pursuits.

I can't imagine ever getting bored. Every lucid dream re-blows my mind.

I said about two months, but this is based on when I would get bored occasionally and want to go back to not being always lucid, not when I would be bored constantly. I doubt I would ever be constantly bored if I was always lucid. However, I do have some pretty cool nonlucid dreams, and I would miss that and want to go back to having the possibility of being other people or other versions of myself after only a month or two.

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Originally Posted by JET73L

I said about two months, but this is based on when I would get bored occasionally and want to go back to not being always lucid, not when I would be bored constantly. I doubt I would ever be constantly bored if I was always lucid. However, I do have some pretty cool nonlucid dreams, and I would miss that and want to go back to having the possibility of being other people or other versions of myself after only a month or two.

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Yeah, my most interesting and bizarre dreams have been non-lucid ones.

I'm a natural. More than half of my dreams are lucid. So I've actually gone through some times that are what you describe.

I didn't vote in the poll because my answer wasn't available. I do get boored from time to time. When that happens I spend my LDs just doing whatever seems the dream wants. The boredome lasts for a week or two. Then I go back to being excited. Usually I'll go 2-3 months really excited about LDing, then I'll get tired or stressed or whatever and that leads to boredome with LDs. Then my LDs suck for a while, so I get excited about the possibilities again.

Some of my LDs are incredible -- I learn a lot about myself. I explore some questions that facinate me. However, some of my non-lucids are also incredible. I would miss them. There is no way, if given the choice, I'd choose LDs only.

I can promise you, with full lucidity I would NEVER get bored!

I would spend the first few days: creating a dream guide, doing (social)things I wouldn't do in real life [kissing the girl I have a crush on...lol], fighting bad guys - who don't look scary o.o - with amazing super powers, and creating for myself a wand and spellbook.

*Sigh*...that would be so awesome.....

If I'm able to live through life and still find new things about it at every corner, then I should be able to do it in my lucid dreams, too. Plus, you have the whole advantage of doing whatever you want to do in dreams, expanding your possibilities even further.

Well, if it was possible for me to get bored of flying, free falling, and being as acrobatic as spider-man (which I very highly doubt.) I would never get bored of that feeling of being in a dream Lucid.

There is more to being Lucid than doing stuff. I could easily do nothing but walk along exploring the scenery all night. The landscapes in my dreams are mindblowingly beautiful. And I could never get bored of observing any of the other amazing and seemingly random things and events my mind creates. And just knowing I have the freedom to do anything I can possibly imagine is enough to keep me happy, even if I don't do much at all.

OK, for extra credit. :) Well, if Lucid all night, every night, without the threat of waking up too soon. Being the sex starved male that I am, I would be spending the first few nights indulging in carnal pleasures. :P

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Originally Posted by ZmillA

I can't imagine ever getting bored. Every lucid dream re-blows my mind.

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Exactly. Its so much better than anything I've ever experienced in waking life I don't see how I could get bored.

Remind me again how this is different from real life?

If you're bored, think of something productive to do. If you're bored for an extended period of time, I pity your imagination.

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Originally Posted by Amethyst Star

Now, I've been here for a long time and I know some of you claim you would never get bored, but I'm writing a story that currently has a gaping plot hole and I need your opinion. Your response will make things so much easier and I thank you in advance.

Imagine you are given the chance to be constantly lucid in all of your dreams. There is something that reminds you that you're lucid, and when you start to lose lucidity it reminds you so that you are constantly aware. Since you are always aware, you always have to make your own decisions and try to figure out what you're going to do without any input from anyone else.

How long do you think it would take before you became bored and wanted to go back to regular dreaming? I know there are some naturals here who've actually gone through this and I would love your opinion.

*Extra credit: How would you spend your first few days of full lucidity?

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Unlikely! If I had the luxury of LDing that perfectly I'd trade reality for it anyday. I've got LD programs lined up and it's impossible to get bored. If your talking about within a LD where you have limited time then maybe I'd get bored as with a few of my LDs. But I'll never get bored of LDing.

IMJ

I think it would take a good few years for me to get bored of it. I'd go explore other worlds, meet people, fly out of the universe, talk to God, really do everything I can think of. It would take a long time, and I'd keep thinking of new things to do during the day.
Abra: That sounds like the most fantastic idea for a story I've ever heard of, and I hope you write it some day.

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Originally Posted by Amethyst Star

Now, I've been here for a long time and I know some of you claim you would never get bored, but I'm writing a story that currently has a gaping plot hole and I need your opinion. Your response will make things so much easier and I thank you in advance.

Imagine you are given the chance to be constantly lucid in all of your dreams. There is something that reminds you that you're lucid, and when you start to lose lucidity it reminds you so that you are constantly aware. Since you are always aware, you always have to make your own decisions and try to figure out what you're going to do without any input from anyone else.

How long do you think it would take before you became bored and wanted to go back to regular dreaming? I know there are some naturals here who've actually gone through this and I would love your opinion.

*Extra credit: How would you spend your first few days of full lucidity?

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If you think about it, the REM period where you LD is very short in comparison to the rest of your sleep night. I would never get bored spending an hour or an hour and a half MAX every night in LD because I know that Im gonna be unconscious and not aware for the rest of my sleep.

However, if I had to answer this question, it would most definitely be more than a year.

I can name a hundred things I would do. See the most important ones on my sig pic.

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Originally Posted by Caradon

OK, for extra credit. :) Well, if Lucid all night, every night, without the threat of waking up too soon. Being the sex starved male that I am, I would be spending the first few nights indulging in carnal pleasures. :P

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Lol same.

Bored of lucid dreaming? You're kidding, right? That's like letting a man who has been deaf, dumb, and blind all his life hear, speak, and see! He wouldn't get bored! Lucid dreaming is being able to do anything. It's infinite. are you trying to tell me there's a limit on the things you can do in infinity? ;)

if all the lucid dreams could continue off of eachother and I'd have full control, I don't think I'd get bored very quickly. It would be like a second life!

im sure there would be times when i would get bored but i would definatly keep myself busy for 3 or 4 months. and i dont care too much about having regular dreams. so id say over a year

Actually, dreams are such a dynamic experience (other than dream signs, the story line seems to be reallllllly random for me). I'm pretty sure it'd be randomly entertaining the whole time. Eventually I'd get bored of the randomness and want to wake up, probably after a month.

Like everything else, I'd burst the first few days of LDs with intense possibilities, like flying, fighting, summoning and all... Then the passion is dead after a week or two. But we never know. Maybe we would all act like seeker28 if it really happens.

I'd like to bloody have one first!:roll:

I can't see how you could get bored of them, though. Now reality - THAT'S boring!:shock:

There are times when I lucid dream in a night, where I wish I could actually just sleep normally. There are these annoying times where you're just constantly aware, and all I want to do is sleep, and at the time it does feel mentally draining and like I am not actually resting, although I know I am sleeping.

So for me, I like to know I am just sleeping without being lucid.

Thanks, ladies and gentlemen, for your thoughts on the matter. :) You've given me some good ideas for where to take the main character in my story.

To be honest, even though my main character regrets the choice she makes of being constantly lucid (having a rather unpleasant villain and a deteriorating social life will do that), I'd probably make the same choice as her. It would be quite the opportunity to live out some of the other stories I'm writing, along with other things.

Do YOU get bored of REAL life?
No, of course not! Until you get uncreative or tired of drawing on the infinite experiences that you can have lucid dreaming, until you become a boring person yourself, you won't get bored!

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Originally Posted by megamorphg

Do YOU get bored of REAL life?
No, of course not! Until you get uncreative or tired of drawing on the infinite experiences that you can have lucid dreaming, until you become a boring person yourself, you won't get bored!

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I get bored of real life easily most of the time, particularly when I am 'trapped'. Often when I have responsibilities and I am unable to do the things I want to do. Whether it's because of weather, lack of funds, lack of transportation, lack of company, illness, whatever, RL can get boring. What makes LD great is that there is nothing like that to hold you back. So I don't have money, anyone to go to China with, and I can't speak the language, and I am not sure if it's safe. So I can 'go to China' in a lucid dream and 'experience' it that way.

When you are awake and aware, how long does it take you to get bored?

Truly when there is no urge to go anywhere from the present moment, there is no boredom.

With much less distraction in dreams, it is also much easier to go into the moment, and in turn, going into the moment eliminates distraction and increases lucidity(awareness).
Boredom doesn't become a factor.

I would take about six months. I would spend the first while flying around all sorts of incredible areas, and admiring all the beutiful things I can imagine in an enviroment just like real life!

i think the way you have worded your post makes it seem like having the opportunity to constantly have a choice in what you do in your lucids is a bad thing. I like many other see it as a great thing. To be able to do whatever the hell you want any time. Also if u were to become 'the guru' of lucid dreams, it wouldbe like creating a whole world and re-visiting it, but changing whatever you want and keeping whatever you want.

I cannot see how it could be a negative thing..but hey thats just my 2 cents!

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Originally Posted by iank

Now reality - THAT'S boring!:shock:

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:( How sad. My dreams and my reality are (usually) both quite exciting... but that's just me

anyway, I think if you go about it right it can last a long time. If you do what dreamglimpse mentioned and just go all out within the first few lucids its not going to last long. But if you kind of let the dream take you where it will but still be lucid and exercise control over your own actions rather than the world around you (not the entire time, of course. There would be nothing wrong with using lucid powers every now and then) you can have some pretty amazing experiences. Seriously, you could make friends, revisit the same place often, have so many adventures, it would be awesome. It's really a matter of how you choose to control the dream. You can make it a short term thing and just have your little fun with your dream powers or you can make it long term.