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

It took me a month or two after I first learned about LDing to gain anything resembling lucidity. Just be persistent, like you said

It took me about 5.5 months, but I made steady "progress" all the way to that before I got my first DILD via an early afternoon nap. I probably could have gotten one a bit earlier if I had been more aggressive with my journal and tried some WBTB.

A couple of weeks, it wasn't very good and I didn't have anymore for a while after that.

Originally Posted by Stardrowned

i'll have been practicing for 1 month tomorrow and still no lucidity. i'm still working on my recall. i remember 1-2 dreams every other night or every 3rd night. it's frustrating, but i'm persistent.

I had my first LD about 8 years ago after watching The Matrix. The shift of perception in the movie from "reality" (being plumbed and wired into the machine) to what your mind thinks is reality no doubt triggered it. I'd been studying "Dreaming" ala Casteneda too. But I didn't work on it after that.
My second LD was a year ago after reading LaBerge's Lucid Dreaming. Again though I sort of dropped it, until a couple of months ago when I got interested again and got some other LD books and have been doing affirmations and RC's about half the time since deciding I want to learn how to do this thing.

well I started reading up on everything 3 days ago, the first night I did the dream journal I was able to recall like 5 dreams, then last night I had 3 dreams before the last one and the last one was lucid but didn't last too long and was very fuzzy but i remember it.

I guess it is part luck part me being able to remember things so quickly

i have lucid dreams at random... yet i normally dont do reality checks it just seems to come to me. last night i had one. :/

A week

It's all about awareness. Be very aware while doing your reality checks, and try to always notice anything around you that seems strange or unusual or dreamlike. Also, don't just go through the motions with your reality checks, the whole trick is to actually try to find out, right now, whether or not you're dreaming, and actually prove it to yourself.

don't worry you will have a LD one way or another,after i stoped i got my first LDs,then i started geting randoms,and now i am back at this site trying to master LDing,all in all,you will have an LD one way or another don't worry

three months, by chance. Trolling these forums really gets me in the mindset. i only really remember my dreams when I feel like it.

today was my first ld and it been 5 days all depends on the person

Hey, you aren't on your own.

it took me a few months before i had my first.
Even then, it diddnt last long, i woke up!
BUT, i wasnt even trying.
I thought i'd give it a rest for a day, a and out of nowhere i just realised i was dreaming.

i had one last night aswell. Im hoping for more :-)

took me about 6 weeks, didn't have a clue how I did it though. I think I'm just staring to get somewhat of a grip on this.

All tech's and stuff can get confusing I know I had that problem, jumping from tech to tech just to get it to work. My advice stick to one tech or combination of RC's and mantras and stuff and carry out your program with precision!

Elbow grease and determination is all it takes! Good luck, hopefully you'll get your LD soon

took me 2 days to get my first LD, then i had another the day after that, then another 2 days after that, but then i found it hard so ive only had a few since then. (got out of the habbit of RCs, and find it impossible to get back into it)

it took me about six weeks. but come to think about it I didn't RC the first 3 weeks, just wrote in my DJ, so actually it's 3 weeks. Now I'm looking forward to the next LD!!!

A week, but a month to get a really vivid one. I get at least one a week.

3 days after reading about lucid dreaming without even trying.. and then short after that 2 more without trying also

I guess I'm lucky compared to the others in this thread that had to try for months.

About two months, it takes a diffrent ammount of time for everyone.

Originally Posted by no-name

About two months, it takes a diffrent ammount of time for everyone.

Is there something that changes either it will take you more or less time or is it just like any other skill, you can have the talent or you have to work hard for it?

It took me about a year to have my first one, but i wasnt really dedicated to dream journaling, and only really tried on and off to WILD. soon after it became an occurrence a couple times a week.

After I started to train... that was induced and not mere luck?
Only 8 years! Really short amount of time, right?

About 1 1/2 to 2 months. I think I might have slacked off a bit. I woke up right away though. :/ But I also got another one the next night.

Took me a little over a year. Geez Walms! I feel bad for you, I don't know how you kept going at it! I lost hope at a little over a year, and that very night I had one.

It took me 3 weeks after I first started trying, about 6 months ago. I just happened to catch a story on the news about the NovaDreamer (must have been a very slow news day) and the rest is history.

Originally Posted by Walms

After I started to train... that was induced and not mere luck?
Only 8 years! Really short amount of time, right?

Thanks for sharing that Walms, that's encouraging. Every morning I wake up lucidless I'll remember I'm still way ahead of where you were. I first heard about LDs and oobies in '99 and it freaked the hell out of me to the point where I couldn't sleep properly for about 6 months. I wish I'd grown a pair because I'd probably be a master by now.