When did you had your first LD?

Congratulations! :smile:

It sounds like a magic! Great! :slight_smile:

Thanks Laura!:slight_smile:

I was walking in a massively open area, it was really bright and sunny. I could feel the wind on my skin, it was loud and very calming. I remember just randomly saying “this is a dream”. I was so confused, I tried running but it started to fade. It lasted about 10 seconds.

Although It felt awesome and strange, I didn’t read up online about it. I actually thought it was some random thing I felt. Some months later I was watching a random youtube video of someone explaining dreams and mentioned ‘lucid dreaming’. I quickly went online and did some google searches. And boom! I was introduced into the world of lucid dreaming.

I couldn’t believe it was a ‘thing’. People studying it, developing methods to increase the frequency and length of it. I eventually found this forum, read the guides on it. A week later I had a 2 second LD started from pushing my fingers through the wall (my RC). Few days later I woke up from another LD of the same RC but after a FA, again lasting afew seconds.

Few weeks after that I had one last 1 min. After reading some guides and learning keeping a DJ is a good idea I was happy I had been doing it already. I was always interested In my dreams. Always waking up and thinking “how the hell did I think that was real”.

Anyway, thats how it all started for me, hopefully I can actually get to a point I last atleast 10 mins+.

GL on the journey within!

I had my first LD 12 days after I started trying, but it only lasted about 10 seconds. And that was over 2 years ago! Now I’m getting back into LDing and I want to see if I can break my previous record :content: . I’ve been at it for 5 days so far.

about a month after I started to keep a DJ …and it was long and amazing LD :tongue:

That’s awesome!!!

Cool! I have to keep motivated because i’m losing my patience :smile:

I am to it will come don’t worry keep trying

I had my first LD a few days ago, after about a month of trying. It only lasted about a minute, but it was such a cool experience. Now I look forward to every night’s sleep! :happy:

You’re pretty lucky. My first one last week was 1 second long

First even LD was a long time ago and at the end of a dream, I had been adventuring with some companions to help save a city and soon came to an open area of a temple with a giant hole in the middle of the floor. My mind suddenly concentrated on my steps and I was suddenly lucid because of it, it was a minute long but the dream destabilized and I fell to the floor, I then woke up.

But my latest one was this morning (yay!) that had me in a very foggy place, it only lasted for 2 seconds

I had my first lucid dream in the morning after learning about it. I had been reading dreamviews all night, and attempted WILD when I went to bed, to success.

Although, looking back on it, I always thought it was more like an OBE, because the sensations didn’t feel like my later WILDs. I literally felt something leave my body.

I’ve been deeply fascinated by the subject of dreaming ever since.

In 2006 I was editor-in-chief of the school newspaper. We ran a story on LD’s, I lurked on ld4all for a week or so and after about 3 months had a lucid moment.

I actually had my first LD before I knew anything about the possibility of becoming consious in my dream state. I was 19 and did an coincidental WBTB on a weekend, and had a good 45 seconds worth of exploring the dreamworld lucidly.

I went straight to the library to research what had happened and learned of the scientific phenomenon that was now proved and accepted as real.

Since then, i’ve been hooked!

I was almost 19, and it happened by accident because I was quite heavily into meditation then, and initiated a WILD. I’d read about lucid dreaming before, but I wasn’t interested enough to try for one. That first accidental one let me see how awesome LD’ing really was. :tongue:

Hey, so I’m new to this thing… I only had 1 LD when I was about 3… But back then I didn’t know it was a LD. But few days ago this really weird thing happened to me… I had a dream that I had a LD. But it was just a normal dream. Which is odd tbh… But anyways, that really interested me so I did a research and I learned loads about lucid dreams. I’m trying to control them, and I’ve been trying for like a week now, but nothing works and I just have to keep trying… It really fascinates me. Soo… My question is: How long did it take YOU to start lucid dreaming? Did you learn it on purpose? Or did it just come to you?
I really don’t wanna give up but I’m feeling it’s kind of impossible for me now :sad:

Merged from similar topic. :dragon:

Welcome to LD4all dragonshrill! :wave:
As for your question, I think the time it takes to become lucid is different for everyone. I used to have lucid dreams when I was a kid, and “outgrew” them. It was not until a few months ago that a friend of mine reintroduced me to the world of lucid dreaming. It took a month of daily reality checks, reading, mentally preparing myself etc. to get my first LD. Then found myself not able to even sleep much for 2 whole month due to a very time consuming deadline. (worked 16-20 hour days, so hardly any sleep). The minute it was done however I was able to start my WBTB again, and my meditating and I have had 8 lucid dreams in less then a month. For me it helps to focus on attaining lucidity during the day doing RCs and trying to become more aware as to what goes on around me and such.
Don’t give up, hang on in there, it is worth the time waiting for.

Thank you for your help :smile: I really needed a motivation :smile:

hey dragonshrill, nice to meet you! i’m sure i posted somewhere or other how long it took me to get an ld, but it doesn’t really matter, cause it’s totally different for everyone. the last thing you wanna do is compare yourself to the next person. posting here is a great way to keep it in the forefront of your mind. having a dream about having an ld is a great place to be i think! i’ve had a lot of those, and sometimes i wonder if i knew it was a dream more than i remember. good luck! and hope to see you around the boards!