How long did it take you to learn how to lucid dream

How long did it take you to lucid dream from when you first started trying?

this is for a research project at school.

I'm grateful for all responses :D thanks a lot

Thatperson

I had had lucids before I knew about them, but it took me a while once I did.

I am sure there must be some that a person doesn't end up recalling.

Here is an old graph of my stats. I had my first lucid dream naturally in 2004. After that:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e27/shiftld/LDf.jpg

and so on and so on til today :)

Took me about 3 weeks or so after I joined DV. My last natural one before that was quite a few years ago

Ah, it only took me 8 years to get my very first induced lucid.

...and now you have apparently experienced 2000+ LD's, as well as completed the lucid task of the year.

Shows what dilligence can do for you.

For me it was within days of starting.
I guess I am one of the lucky few =/

I got it after ~10 days from learning about it.

im pretty sure it took me a week or 2 which is pretty good :D

My second night of trying I got my first one. (DILD)

I personally think there is no pattern. I think its absolutely different for each individual.

I had my first lucid just last night! I can tell you, though, you can NEVER stop trying...even throughout the day, in combination with my reality checks, I still autosuggest whenever I have a minute (i.e., say to myself over and over again a mantra, like "I AM dreaming"). Good luck to your school research project!

one day :)

Three months since joining this site.

I don't remember, I had a couple lucid dreams on purpose before I joined this site, but I suppose it must have took me about a month from being interested in it to having some fleeting success with it.

About one month of hard training :D

Well, the first lucid isn't really hard to have, I think. Everyone is mostly excited and are constantly thinking about LDs when they start so they'll have their first one pretty fast "naturally", but the quality of the LD is mostly pretty bad.

But it sure takes AGES before getting regular LDs with a decent quality. It'll soon make a year I'm hunting LDs and I'm still far away from this I think.

Wow, Shift, any idea what contributed to the sudden increase after 3/08?

bg ~~~

My first happened before I'd started seriously trying to have one, I'd just been reading about LDing one night and had one then. If you don't count that, I started trying after it and think I had another one two days later

i started having them spontaneously about six months ago. then i bought a book by robert waggoner in july. i thought OMG! you can DO this *on your own*? i think i had one the next day!

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yeah took me about 3 weeks to become semi lucid at least. I needed to gain my dream recall first.

My first lucid, after learning that you could do it consiously, was a few days after (I think...) Whatever the case, it was fairly soon after I joined DV. I was a natural when I was a little kid, but that was all before I really knew what it was and actively started working on it.

it took me two days. I had LDs before DV, but not many, mabye 3 or 4, even then after a few seconds I forgot I was dreaming. Agter joining when I LD I have complete and perfect contol, guess I'm lucky :)

Wow, that's some kind of necro-post.