What do you think that it takes to become an advanced lucid dreamer?
Broadly, I’d define a lucid dreaming beginner as someone who has had less than 100 intentionally-induced lucid dreams, and is still testing which techniques work for them. They have trouble staying in the dream or staying lucid or troubleshooting problems in the dream. Their success rate is about, or less than, 50%.
I’d define an intermediate lucid dreamer as someone who has had less than 1,000 lucid dreams, knows which techniques work well for them, but whose success rate is still about 75%. They can usually stay in the dream, stay lucid, and can creatively solve problems within dreams.
But what’s an advanced lucid dreamer, and how do you become one?
Well, practice and experience are certainly prerequisites.
At times, I think, I’ve had really romantic notions of what LDing could be like eventually. Even advanced LDers, I’m sure, miss dreamsigns, lose lucidity, and get sidetracked. Even so, I think that an advanced LDer would have a ~90% success rate and has honed a variety of skills, like dream incubation, reentry, and in-dream techniques like changing the dream scene.
I’d personally rate myself as an intermediate LDer, and looking back (and forward) this is what I think it will take to improve my game:
(1) making more induction attempts—you can’t succeed more if you don’t try more
(2) commit consistently to meditation
(3) develop and use a lucidity protocol—a simple series of things to do immediately upon becoming lucid in order to increase lucidity, stabalize the dream, and remember what you wanted to do
(4) practice dream incubation
(5) learn to listen well to what your dreams are saying