Originally Posted by
DuB
Well, simply put, most of the time you won't realize it's a dream.
For example, I average 3-5 dreams per night, every night. That is considered average. That's around 28 dreams per week. I usually have one lucid dream per week, always a DILD. That means I only realize that I'm dreaming about 4% of the time. It sounds kind of depressing to express it statistically like that :| but one lucid dream a week is certainly not bad. It's not like I have anything better to do while sleeping :wink:.
How often you become lucid depends on many factors, most of which are not entirely known. Natural ability plays a part. So does dedication (dream journalling, consistent reality checks, practicing induction techniques, etc). The amount and quality of sleep you get is also a factor. The biggest factor, unfortunately, appears to be dumb luck.
It's been my experience that the dream content itself doesn't have a lot of bearing on whether or not you gain lucidity. Sometimes I gain lucidity basically spontaneously in a dream where nothing really that out of the ordinary is happening. Other times I'll have a complete bizarre dream that, in retrospect, should have been OBVIOUS to me that it was a dream- but I didn't become lucid.
So to sum it up - you don't have to understand how you're going to manage to realize that you're dreaming. As long as you practice your reality checks, it will eventually just happen. Trust me.
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