Thread: how long did it take for you to get your first LD?

It was 9 years from the time I first became interested in LDs to the time I had my first remembered spontaneous LD.

Immediately after that, I did more research and found LaBerge's book "Lucid Dreaming".

After reading how to do his MILD technique, it was less than a week til my next LD.

A week.

Only one week from the first time I ever heard about LDs to my first LD.

Pwned.

way too long. months. I was so close to giving up, and then suddenly they came to me all the time. Then I gave up on them cause I had so much stuff going on and now I'm trying it again. Man, it's so hard getting back into it when I'm so busy

I didn't know about lucid dreaming until I had already become quite a pro at it. I think I was around 6 when I had my first one. So that means it took me 6 years.

a few days short of a month, that day was like god coming out of heaven, hold out youll get there

I've got my first WILD in 12 days. 3 days after that I got my second and 2 after that my third one. No DILDs though

Took me one month.
I'll never forget it -- even if it was a few seconds long.

2 weeks

Probably about 3-4 weeks. I finally got it when I got really OCD about reality checks - I probably counted my fingers about once every 5-10 minutes, plus every time I walked through a doorway.

It took me about 5 days to get into a very short lucid dream.

It took me 3 days, and all I did was read about it O_o..........

But now, I rarely gotten even 1 a week

I got mine after about a week then there was a huge gap of about 3 months till I had my second.

last night before i went to bed i read this thread. last night was also my first lucid dream, or actually my first four!! yeah im pretty stoked. i didnt even need to do a reality check in my first one, it just hit me. and in my second when i wanted to do a reality check i looked around for a digital clock and there would just be one there, even if it made no sense at all. it was awesome. i don't remember the other two.

Found this website yesterday. Thought "hey this looks cool." Perused around and read up on some of the techniques. And what happened last night? Had my first LD. Didn't do a RC right away but was able to notice that some things were "off" which allowed me to go lucid. Was able to change some colors, tried the spinning thing and did some umentionables with a DC who looked very similar to my wife. Then the alarm clock went off jolting me back to reality... lame.

a couple months, my first one was pretty hard to control

After i visited these forums for the first time, that very night i was so confident i was going to have a lucid dream, i just knew that i would. And i actually did (though it only lasted like 15 minutes, vividness was hella low, and i wasted it) but it only toook one night.. since then, i havent been able to repeat it.. i think the confidence thing is actually a technique, i think i read it in a tutorial? anyway i didint even know it was a technique when i did it.

ive been trying on and off for 3 months, now im actually been consistent so Im getting more better at recall and stuff, almost had one last night

Hmm...My first one was like two hours before I found this site...I woke up and I was like..."That was intense!" went to the computer and typed in something like "Know you are dreaming" or something like that...Stumbled around and found out about Lucid Dreaming and then DreamViews a little later on. I had a LD like every other day after a little recording of my dream journal and some experiments with certain drinks/food. (mostly milk! for some reason it helped me.) Then I hit a crazy like 5 month dry spell with no LD's and no recall and then another short LD hit me, I was like YAY...then back to having one every 1-2 weeks...It's been pretty slow for me lately

and good luck with everyone tonight at an LD!

I found out what lucid dreaming was, found this site and had my first lucid that night
I find it really easy if the day was stress free

I had about 3 in my life before joining and now in the last month since joining I've had 5 and I don't do any reality checks.

My first LD was about 2 years ago a couple people in my dream told me. Back then I didn't even though it was called a lucid dream. It wasn't until a couple of months ago that I've become a regular (having at least one once a month). I'm starting to get pretty good at it, usually only on the weekends, but often, on the weekends, I have multiple LD a night (more like mid morning)

Around a month.

Took me half a year.

Fan of incubus, flipside?