How long did it take you to become lucid?

can you tell us your technique :smile:

OK. I’ll put the Castaneda’s method there !
[url]Castaneda's technique : looking at your hands]
But I especially emphasized on the fact that you have better results when you believe it will be easy, because people you like made it before, etc.

Cool. I read Castaneda’s method and indeed it does seem like a MILD. Interesting. I’ll try it.

Btw, I just got home from buying EWLD :smile:

I got lucid after trying for either 3 days or a week, but I woke up for a while when I had high lucidity LD 's

I got my first one lasting more than 2 seconds 1 month after starting

i had the same questions when I was starting out, and then my next question was “how often can everyone here lucid dream?” each person is different of course, but personally it took me eight days after staring my dream journal to have my first brush with lucidity. it was not very controlled, but i did perform a reality check. less than a minute in length. my first well controlled lucid dream, complete with flying and telepathic powers, came a week after that. my frequency of LDs was probably around one every two weeks to once a month for the first two years of practicing. others can do better I’m sure, but it’s a long process. the dream journal is a huge factor. if you stop writing in it you will be less in touch with your dreams and your frequency will probably go down as a result. maybe not for everyone, but this is how i see it. and if you can train yourself to reality check often, everyday, you should find yourself in a dream pretty quickly. enjoy EWLD. i lent out my copy… ugh. gotta buy another. :roll:

Wow, you all have excellent advice! I didn’t think I’d get this many replies! Thanks, everyone :smile:

1.4 months

It took me about two nights from when I first started reading about it to get my first Lucid Moment, and then another week until my first long LD. But I first started during final VCE exams and thus had plenty of time to sleep in and attempt stuff.
My main problem was that it was another two months or so after this point when I began to be able to use any Lucid Powers in the dreams.

It’s a pity really now that I look back on it, I had more LD’s back then than I could ever get now, but I wasted most of them running from one side of a field to the other trying unsuccessfully to fly.

My main suggestion is just to have some type of LD thought in your head at all times and you should LD naturaly as often as you need. My second suggestion is WBTB, which makes everything several times easier and more common.

First low level LD: after 3 days
First full blown LD: after about 1.5 months

I had a bit of luck during that period: I was living a rather isolated life from the rest of the world, so not much to worry about and not much disturbances. I was also extremely motivated in the beginning. This situation I think was optimal for me to concentrate fully on dream recall first and afterwards on LDing.

I had my first LD after 2 weeks. After that I started getting them about once a week.

Hey everyone! I tried the WBTB method and I managed to get into SP. Unfortunately, I started hearing noises (no imagery) and a high, cold laugh and then I tried to fall off my bed (stupid, I know) and I saw an image of me falling off my bed. I thoguht it was a dream and repeated that to myself BEFORE I saw the image of me falling. Can anyone tell me what this was? Was it close to a WILD?

Took me a month to get my recall up, and have my first crappy LD. Then it was an additional month before having a LD that was 5 minutes long and extremely vivid.

And yes, motivation plays a very extreme factor in lucid dreaming especially in MILD. Sometimes people have too much and sometimes not enough. I’ve been noticing that if I REALLY have an intensely strong intention to have a LD ( like if I need to solve a real life problem) then I will have a LD.

Took me 3 months to become lucid after finding out about it.

DreamerKrystal,

What you describe looks very like a WILD. I think you were more than close, in my opinion it WAS a WILD.
Perhaps could you post this question in a specific thread with a title related to it, so that good WILDers can see it and answer.

I always knew dreams were controlable before I found this site and I thought it just happened sometimes. After finding this site and reading more about it I had an LD 2 days later where i was able to fly around and look at the sky and I even got to talk to DCs but I cant remeber what I said or what they said. It all ended when an animal bit my leg and it was too painful so I woke myself. Now I have lucid dreams where I concentrate on doing one thing at a time so I dont wake up so fast

Ok, thanks Basilus! I’ll do that in “The Quest for Lucidity”. :smile:

I got my first LD on my second night, but I’ve still far from mastered it, averaging only about 1 or 2 a month.

Honestly, it took me a while to have my first LD. Partly because the were no forums around to help when I first started. All I had was a book and myself. Also, I thought of lucid dreaming as something that was hard and some thing that was beyond my ability so, I did not put the right effort into it. Once I had my first one though I was kicking myself over how hard I made things for my self.

Some advice:

=> Lucid dreaming is something that anyone can do if you just practice so don’t think of it as something that is hard. If you think it’s hard it will be.
=> Practice seriously. For example when you do reality checks put real effort into it and honestly question your reality. (Same goes for all techniques)
=> Your dream journal is your best friend.

Good luck and happy dreaming :smile:

took me about 2 months to have a lucid dream, and I woke up from it instantly. That was in march and i have only recently started having high-lucidity dreams… just dont give up, you’ll eventually lucid dream and b4 u know it you will be having lots of em too. Try working on reality tests a lot. it helps

It just kinda happened out of the blue for me. One day i just knew i was dreaming. After that experience i looked it up on the net. I’ve been having regular LD ever since.

Peace Sensi.