Thread: question to experienced luciders

just how amazing is lucid and can you get addicted to it.

Its pretty amazing, but I don't think you can be addicted to it. If anything you get bored lol.

Well in my experience, I am struggling to get motivated to actively lucid dream, I am happy for the natural DILDs to come along. I think people are different though, depending on their aspirations and goals when it comes to lucid dreaming.

not to be nasty or anything but lets say its like masturbating,
it feels awesome for like 5-8 seconds and then its over

lucid dreaming doesn't last long enuff to wanna do it imo

Originally Posted by Pride

not to be nasty or anything but lets say its like masturbating,
it feels awesome for like 5-8 seconds and then its over

lucid dreaming doesn't last long enuff to wanna do it imo

It does if you get a Lucid at around 20 minutes

Lucid dreaming is AMAZING and I wouldn't say it's addictive. We all want to escape reality and if you're one of the people who can you're lucky enough; many people have never even heard of lucid dreaming. The only thing that is bad is that you're going to have to put a lot of effort into it and although I started having regular LDs in 2 weeks, perfecting a method can take years. Alternitavely you can look at LD websites all night until your head feels numb and there's a good chance you'll have one when you go to sleep .

Don't listen to the people that are telling it's only amazing for a short period of time. Because they probably only had a few LD's that lasted maybe at most a minute and a half. But to truly be amazed is when you take control and start using things, changing things, travel in seconds, and anything supernatural, that is when it it really gets amazing my friend. But like Adam said you could get bored with it for awhile and lose the intrest in Lucid Dreaming. I did for awhile then I just started again like 1 week ago lol.

Originally Posted by Fale55

Don't listen to the people that are telling it's only amazing for a short period of time. Because they probably only had a few LD's that lasted maybe at most a minute and a half. But to truly be amazed is when you take control and start using things, changing things, travel in seconds, and anything supernatural, that is when it it really gets amazing my friend. But like Adam said you could get bored with it for awhile and lose the intrest in Lucid Dreaming. I did for awhile then I just started again like 1 week ago lol.

These are just subjective views - You can't say why someone feels they are only amazing, some people for all you know; could be lucid masters, having achieved completely vivid and life like lucid dreams spanning many years.

I certainly feel from my personal point of view that the spark which was there in the early days does dwindle. I don't have the same excitement and appetite as I did in the early days. I don't wake up with the same amazement and excitement as I did when learning 15 odd years ago.

Being this question is aimed at experienced people, I would assume the question is over time?

Personally, I'm used to lucid dreaming, and most of my lucid dreams aren't "amazing." But some are, and they can last for a while. The awesome ones are the ones that are the most vivid and easy to manipulate.

I've never heard of anyone being addicted to lucid dreaming.

Originally Posted by Adam

These are just subjective views - You can't say why someone feels they are only amazing, some people for all you know; could be lucid masters, having achieved completely vivid and life like lucid dreams spanning many years.

I certainly feel from my personal point of view that the spark which was there in the early days does dwindle. I don't have the same excitement and appetite as I did in the early days. I don't wake up with the same amazement and excitement as I did when learning 15 odd years ago.

Being this question is aimed at experienced people, I would assume the question is over time?

People who have practiced with Lucid Dreaming long enough wouldn't make comments like the one below are not experienced if they've only enjoyed if for 5-8 seconds. But that is also why I said experianced people like you would get bored with it after awhile so no one would comment saying I can't put words into someones opinion because i've been LD'ing long enough to know someone experianced and un-experianced.

Originally Posted by Pride

not to be nasty or anything but lets say its like masturbating,
it feels awesome for like 5-8 seconds and then its over

lucid dreaming doesn't last long enuff to wanna do it imo

There is no word to describe how awesome it is, and it can become pretty addicting.

I honestly don't see how you can become bored of it.

Lucid dreams are amazing and definitely worth getting into!!!

I don't see how it can get boring at all. At least for me, I have way too many ideas and adventures that I can think of going on to get bored. And if I can't think of anything, I could always just write some music or just go explore and an adventure would come along.

They say that it can be addicting, but I think there's a limit on REM, so it's not like you'd just be sleeping all day.

If anything what it would do is steady out your sleep schedule and get you more sleep if you are like I was and some days go with only 3 to 5 hours of sleep. So it's actually healthy.

It can help you to know yourself better, and help you to gain insight into waking life things. So you can apply things that happen in lucid dreams (sometimes) to waking life.

And it's so fun!

Originally Posted by mylucidworld

I honestly don't see how you can become bored of it.

My thoughts exactly. Will someone please explain to me how lucid dreaming becomes boring??? It's not like you can say you run out of things to do, considering the list is endless.

Originally Posted by Fale55

Don't listen to the people that are telling it's only amazing for a short period of time. Because they probably only had a few LD's that lasted maybe at most a minute and a half. But to truly be amazed is when you take control and start using things, changing things, travel in seconds, and anything supernatural, that is when it it really gets amazing my friend. But like Adam said you could get bored with it for awhile and lose the intrest in Lucid Dreaming. I did for awhile then I just started again like 1 week ago lol.

Lol? i practiced lucid dreaming for over 2 years and iv had around 80-100
and i used to get up to 3-5 a week trying
Some lasting up to 20 mins some not so much, and there not even worth it then

iv done it off and on and recently completely quit trying


And you say you have been doing it long enuff to know if someone is unexperienced or not?
dont me me laugh, you dont even know me

Sounds to me like you have a problem with people having options of there own
well guess what, i do have one and im gonna say what i want.

just because im knocking it doesn't meen what i have to say is a fact for everyone
but all my friends who lucid dream have grown tired of it because its not even worth it
and some of them have had well over 200+

Dont get me wrong, its fun to do but not worth it imo

Originally Posted by Pride

Lol? i practiced lucid dreaming for over 2 years and iv had around 80-100
and i used to get up to 3-5 a week trying
Some lasting up to 20 mins some not so much, and there not even worth it then

iv done it off and on and recently completely quit trying


And you say you have been doing it long enuff to know if someone is unexperienced or not?
dont me me laugh, you dont even know me

Sounds to me like you have a problem with people having options of there own
well guess what, i do have one and im gonna say what i want.

just because im knocking it doesn't meen what i have to say is a fact for everyone
but all my friends who lucid dream have grown tired of it because its not even worth it
and some of them have had well over 200+

Dont get me wrong, its fun to do but not worth it imo

There is a difference between getting tired of it and only enjoying 5-8 seconds. I stated MY opinion on how I thought about it and YES I do not like some peoples opinion on certain things but I respect that is what they think and i'll say I disagree with them if I want. I'm sorry we took each other the wrong way but what doesn't make sence to me is why you have practiced it for years and had so many if you didn't even enjoy it or thought it was worth it...

Originally Posted by Fale55

There is a difference between getting tired of it and only enjoying 5-8 seconds. I stated MY opinion on how I thought about it and YES I do not like some peoples opinion on certain things but I respect that is what they think and i'll say I disagree with them if I want. I'm sorry we took each other the wrong way but what doesn't make sence to me is why you have practiced it for years and had so many if you didn't even enjoy it or thought it was worth it...

Well, around 50-60 i stopped trying because it had became boring.
my first 15 where only around a min or 2 long

and i cant just stop having lucids ether, they come naturally.
ill admit though i have a personal thing ageist lucid dreaming
out of all the lucids iv had i couldn't control anything so basically it was just like real life with no powers or anything

dont get me wrong , i tried and tried with no success so i came to hate it lol
and what really pissed me off was when id get the 1 min lucids
which happens alot so i came to the conclusion lucids arnt worth trying for

It's amazing but you can get bored sometimes.

Just keep yourself motivated, and it's great everytime.

Originally Posted by Pride

Well, around 50-60 i stopped trying because it had became boring.
my first 15 where only around a min or 2 long

and i cant just stop having lucids ether, they come naturally.
ill admit though i have a personal thing ageist lucid dreaming
out of all the lucids iv had i couldn't control anything so basically it was just like real life with no powers or anything

dont get me wrong , i tried and tried with no success so i came to hate it lol
and what really pissed me off was when id get the 1 min lucids
which happens alot so i came to the conclusion lucids arnt worth trying for

Have you tried the techneques for control and length on DV?

Originally Posted by Fale55

you could get bored with it for awhile and lose the intrest in Lucid Dreaming. I did for awhile then I just started again like 1 week ago lol.

I usually lose my interest in lucid dreaming only because I get frustrated when I never have them! I had my first lucid dream the other night almost randomly, and it sparked my interest all over again. If I could actually have lucid dreams on a regular basis, I wouldn't ever get bored of them. LMAO

Depending on how much awareness, control and vividness within the lucid dream, a lucid dream in a way is exactly like waking life. Though, I think a lucid dream is a amazing no matter on your amount of control. The only way I can see Lucid dreaming as an addiction is if that person isn't happy with their waking life and choose to live more so in their own reality ( their LD) then in reality. So the addiction would come in with the constantly sleeping trying to have a lucid dream so they can just stay there.

even though im not experienced options are something that 1 person thinks ,just becuase one person or more become bored doesnt mean you should cheat yourself and quit.

Originally Posted by Dreamhope11

just how amazing is lucid and can you get addicted to it.

Yes, some people do get addicted to lucid dreaming. There have been cases where people have stopped going to work because they prefer to dream all day long for weeks.

Originally Posted by Dreamhope11

just how amazing is lucid and can you get addicted to it.

well, dont even think that it is strange, because i am not even interested in lucid dreaming.. well, what can i do.. i get ld spontaniously..mostly..
suite yourself

Well as you can see by my lucid count I've had numeruos lucid dreams, but to be honest with you, there all very short and not that exighting at all, I think the reason I had so many was I was easily effected by practical methods like wbtb, deild, and fild (even though I have hardly tried it, I got lucids almost 50% of the time I tried) but honestly I think the best chance of someone enjoying lucid dreaming is through instant wild, though it could take along time to reach it, when you can ld whenever you want, you can increase your control, and not have to worry about loosing it the next time you go to practice just because you can't have an ld that night.

Lucids are like exploring space, thats how it feels to me, the world is totaly strange and unpredictable at first, and yes it can be exighting.

To me trying to master lucid dreaming has always been an addiction .

Trying to lucid dream can get addictive. I met the same (female) dream character (wink wink) several times in consecutive LD's. At one stage I was bordering on the obessional attempting to lucid dream more, with different methods. Some of my LD's could last up to 30 mins!

Eventually tho you will hit a 'dry patch' where it is difficult to LD. I jokingly call it 'Running out of lucid juice'.

This usually discourages a lot of people and it gradually becomes a 'passive' thing that happens naturally but occasionally.

If I get a spontaneous LD, I usually up my efforts over the next few weeks to have a few more whilst the lucid juice is strong!

Pride, I think you're just acting way to negative about lucid dreams and this is causing yours to be short and dull.