Thread: Estimated Wait

Hi, welcome!
I had my first LD one week after I joined Dream views. douring that week I did frequent reality checks and started a dream journal.
Have fun dreaming!

i had my first ld the day i heard about lucid dreaming...

Originally Posted by PwnDanZor

Hey folks, I'm new here. I've read about LDing before, and just a couple weeks ago actually decided to commit to it. I've been trying to do reality checks and such during the day, probably not enough... I try.

Anyways, I was just wondering, how long did it take before you peeps got your first LD's?

I'm just kind of looking for some easy and realiable methods for beginning my LD adventures. I've tried waking up and doing MILD or FILDS but I always seem to "forget" immediately because I'm so tired. I guess that's my main problem...

I think I may have had 1 LD before... it was great, but I'm not exactly sure if it was a real LD or not.

Thanks very much! This is a great forum.
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hey, welcome to DV!

the length of time from beginning to learn about LDing to actually have one varies greatly from person to person.

As someone said, they had their first one after a week. I think it took me about a month to get the hang of it.
And i don't have them that regular.
The most important thing is to get a good foundation for lucid dreaming, this involves improved recall by keeping a dream journal.
I take it you are keeping a dream journal? If not, i strongly recommend you start one.
This site has an excellent feature for it.

You should aim to be recalling two or three dreams per night. This can vary depending on the quality of sleep you get, whether you get a routine or not. if you work shifts, like i do, that can be a pain in the butt!

Also, when you first try out a new technique, it can take a couple of weeks to get 'established' if you like. Same thing with reality checks. Your brain is having to 'remember' to do something.
You have to train your brain to question things that it would normally just accept. Like seeing a pink car for example. You have to train yourself at various points in the day to ask yourself if you're dreaming, and really believe in the possibility that you could indeed be in a dream, unless you can find evidence to prove otherwise.

I think there's some good stuff in the tutorials section on reality checks, and i'm sure the other members here would be happy to share their methods with you too.

Oh, and as for if you were lucid or not. If at any point in the dream you realised that what you were seeing wasn't reality, and you thought 'this is a dream' then congratulations. you had a lucid dream!!!

I think that's about it. sorry it was so longwinded. If you need any more help, don't hesitate to Pm one of us, we're all a helpful bunch here.

I'd be happy to have on before the end of the year..

Thanks for the replies, folks, and thank you very much Irishcream, for all the info. Don't worry about being longwinded, that's a good thing here I take it. I appreciate your helping me get started.

I did have a dreamjournal, but I decided I would just put my computer on sleep mode, and when I wake up, immediately record it on the microphone, because writing is tedious and I don't like writing every single detail, my hand gets tired and yeah you know...

I did make a program on the computer to play a sound clip I put together of myself w/ some soft dreamy music, and set it to play around 4:00. First time it woke me up but I will probably try again.

Hmm, I've just been doing RL's throughout the day, and hoping in a dream I will do one. My dreamds have definately gotten more vivid, possibly because my dream recall has developed more? Idk, but, I'm thinking of trying some other methods to get an LD, because I can't obtain one by just going to sleep and hoping i'll do an RL. Any suggestions on what else I could try?

Well, it took me over a month I think.

At first I thougt it sucked, but then i startet to remember my dreams better, and my dreams are pretty cool sometimes , so i enjoyed the wait,

I had done a few before, so it wasn't really my first. I just stumbled on this site on 11/8/2006 and about 5am PST 11/9/2006, I had one. I had been thinking I would have to do the dream journal, look for dreamsigns, etc. I had been asking myself if I was awake or asleep throughout the day like it said to do in the tutorial. I drifted down into sleep, wishing it would happen and it did. I'm still going to do the dream journal and look for dreamsigns; chalk it up to beginner's luck.

Originally Posted by PwnDanZor

Thanks for the replies, folks, and thank you very much Irishcream, for all the info. Don't worry about being longwinded, that's a good thing here I take it. I appreciate your helping me get started.

I did have a dreamjournal, but I decided I would just put my computer on sleep mode, and when I wake up, immediately record it on the microphone, because writing is tedious and I don't like writing every single detail, my hand gets tired and yeah you know...

I did make a program on the computer to play a sound clip I put together of myself w/ some soft dreamy music, and set it to play around 4:00. First time it woke me up but I will probably try again.
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Glad i could help you out!

AS for the microphone thing, i thought of trying that, but then i figured my voice would be so garbled, i'd never be able to transcribe it. Nope, it's gotta be the hard way for me.