Thread: Generally how long do Lucid's last?

Originally Posted by Skydreamer707

well all of my lucid's (so far) have been spontaneous (like suddenly out of nowhere you realize your dreaming) and had a low level of lucidity plus only lasted max maybe 4 minutes. so what i was wondering how long do stable high-level lucidity lucids last? as long as a typical dream does? or does it just depend?can you make them last longer somehow? sorry if there's a thread on this alreadly >.< i think i saw it somewhere but i forget

Sometimes even longer than your usual 15-odd minute dream. Lucids range from as short as a few seconds to about as long as an hour usually. An hour is kicked around as being the upper limit for 90% of the time, but there are scattered reports of being able to stay in it for much, much longer. There's no real tricks guaranteed to extend a dream, aside from performing the stabilization techniques again when you start to feel like you are going to take up. As Hidden mentioned, there's always DEILD.

It varies. My last lucid dream lasted about for a half hour and I've had other lucid dreams that were even shorter (around 10 seconds). They should last as much as you want them to, or at least try to.

There is no standard level, actually. But be assured that 4 minutes is actually quite good! Most people seem to have short lucids the majority of the time.

My first Lucid was around 15 minutes.

My second was a whopping 45 seconds

The highest I have heard it like a hour.

But only like 5 minutes for myself.

You can really build it up, and given the right circumstances you can drag it on for a long time.

TBH I think it's more important to have steady lucidity over quality, because it's easier to work up quality that way than vice versa.

If you want to experience long lucids as a beginner lucid dreamer, then I'd suggest you try waking yourself up a couple of hours before you'd feel rested in the morning, and then going back to sleep. You can easily ride the lucidity if you keep it low level.

Your longest REM period is 45mins to an hour.
So theoretically you could achieve that.

Originally Posted by ClouD

TBH I think it's more important to have steady lucidity over quality, because it's easier to work up quality that way than vice versa.

What do you do for steady lucidity?