Lucid dream survey

I wish to graph the various factors of everyone here (well, everyone that answers).
The following are some various factors that may affect people's lucid dreams.Please describe in full detail, and answer any that you're comfy with.If you think of something else that I don't mention, feel free to include it.

1. Intelligence-IQ, college, grade, etc.If you include a school, please also include what subjects you study.
2. How many lucid dreams you have had, what technique you used, and when they happened-this is the most important.If you were having, or attempting to have, lucid dreams before another of these factors changed or came to be (such as, if you became a college student after a few months of using reality checks), include that.I don't expect many exact dates, but I know some use dream journals.If you don't know the dates, then just please estimate when you started, how often you had/have them, etc.
3. Hobbies.
4. Age.
5. Relationships, and if they (who you are with) practice lucid dreaming.Plus, what the relationship status is (marriage, date, etc.).
6. Gender.
7. Religion.
8. Family-how many members you have, who you see (and how often you see them), who you live with (if you live with any), etc.
9. Do you believe in anything paranormal?
10. Mental health issues.
(The above was edited because Krake kindly told me of two other factors, 9 and 10 on the list.)

If any of these are too personal, then just answer the rest.I don't mind how many of these you provide, but I do need the second one, or answering is pointless.If I get a result (a definitive influence of lucid dreams) from the graphs/equations, I will post them.

IQ - ~135. It's been anywhere from 129 to 140 depending on the test. Currently not in college, but I am attending a Vocational School for Computer Networking and Repair.
Lucid Dreams - ~85 mostly WILD but with some MILDs. I've been having more DILDs lately ever since I've tried practicing All Day Awareness and increasing my Reality Check frequency. I first got interested in lucid dreaming around July of last year, and had my first few lucids around October/November. I average probably around 3 a week, but it varies from anywhere to ~8 a week to none. My most in one night was 5 in a WILD/DEILD chain.
Hobbies - Video Games and surfing the net mainly
Age - 21
Relationships - None since starting Lucid Dreaming. My last relationship ended ~2months before starting. There are no women I'm currently interested in.
Gender - Male
Religion - Atheist
Family - When I started I was living with my father, but moved in with my mom about 2 months ago. I saw my dad everyday when I was living with him, and now I see my mom everyday. My lucids haven't changed much since I moved. No siblings.

Intelligence:
- 147 IQ
- State Honors University, 3rd Year Computer Science Major

Lucid count:
500 < X < 1000
Where X is the number of lucid dreams I've had in my lifetime.

I half considered trying to figure out a proper distribution for it based on the data I do have, but meh.

- 105 of those were WILDs, the rest DILDs.
- They've occurred at all times of the night and early afternoon naps.
- Even as a student I was able to maintain a 20 LD monthly average.
- If my count ever drop, I can typically jump start it again after a few weeks of practicing awareness.

Hobbies:
- HvZ
- Gaming

Age:
- 20

Relationships:
- GF
- Knows of LDing, but can't seem to get her recall up enough to try anything.

Gender:
- Male

Religion:
- No.

Family:
- Parents and one sibling.
- I see them all the time during breaks, but only a few times a month during school.

I suggest you put numbers to those points, it will make answering a bit easier:

1. Intelligence-IQ, college, grade, etc.If you include a school, please also include what subjects you study.
2. How many lucid dreams you have had, what technique you used, and when they happened-this is the most important.If you were having, or attempting to have, lucid dreams before another of these factors changed or came to be (such as, if you became a college student after a few months of using reality checks), include that.I don't expect many exact dates, but I know some use dream journals.If you don't know the dates, then just please estimate when you started, how often you had/have them, etc.
3. Hobbies.
4. Age.
5. Relationships, and if they (who you are with) practice lucid dreaming.Plus, what the relationship status is (marriage, date, etc.).
6. Gender.
7. Religion.
8. Family-how many members you have, who you see (and how often you see them), who you live with (if you live with any), etc.

Now, my answers:

1. I don't know my IQ, but I'm quite a good/successful university student (philosophy).
2. I remember having LDs since some time in my teens, it started when I was about 13 our 14 years old, I think. I didn't use any technique then and didn't even know there was a name for "suddenly becoming aware of the fact that you're dreaming and then being able to do what you want to until you, unfortunately, wake up". I have a dream diary, but so far I have never managed to write in it for more than a few weeks before losing interest for a few months. I joined this forum about a week ago and hope to keep on writing in my dream diary more regularly now as I hope it will increase the rate of natural LDs I have. I also tried WILD a few times, but it hasn't even brought me into SP so far.
3. I hardly have time for hobbies due to the amount of work I have to do for uni. But I've been breeding chickens for 8 years and do bellydance. I also like to draw, read, bake, cook... the usual stuff. I used to do ballet for ten years, LARP, taekwon-do, badminton, wrote poetry and am, unfortunately, rather volatile when it comes to hobbies.
4. 20.
5. I've been in a serious relationship for about one year now, it also is my first one. My BF doesn't LD and isn't interested in trying.
6. Female.
7. None. Agnostic.
8. Parents, still married, and one sister. I live on my own, though. And all of our other relatives live several hundred miles away.

I also suggest you add two more points, as I think they might be relevant to LDs in at least some way:

9. Do you believe in anything paranormal?
10. Mental health issues.

My answers:

9. No.
10. Yes, but I deem the details too private to tell in public. PMed you.


Ok, so I hope I was of some help, for the beginning :)

1.IQ - I don't know my actual IQ, but I get mostly Credit 2's in my subjects (which are equivelent to B's). I'm currently finishing off the standard grade courses in english, maths, biology, physics, chemistry, business management, drama and music. In my prelim results (haven't done the actual exams yet) I got english - 2, maths - 3 (equivelent to C), biology - 1 (A), physics - 2, chemistry - 3, business management - 2, drama - 1, music - 2.

2. I've probably had around 40-50 lucid dreams, including lucid fragments. I started in mid-July last year, and got my first lucid around 2 weeks after which was a DILD. I began to keep a dream journal on and off, and continue in DILDing. After awhile I began to get frequent dreams where I would just be standing in my room, aware I was dreaming. These increased once I started to MILD during WBTBs. I took a month long break in November, which cut my lucid dreaming frequency down quite a bit. I should also add that between July and November I suffered mild depression.

January I decided to get serious and started dream journalling more often and MILDing. This once again increased the amount of LD's I started to have (and the clarity of them). In January I had 5, in February I had 9. In March I decided to try to WILD (without success) but still had 5. So far this April I have had 3 because I've gone back to MILD.

4. I don't really have any hobbies. I play piano and compose music, I write short stories, I like to watch/act out plays and improvise drama pieces. I go running in spring/summer and also go cycling then too. I also like climbing and swimming.

5. 15 going on 16 in September.

6. None currently, though there's someone I'm close to at the moment. He doesn't know I lucid dream. I'm not sure if I'd tell him if we got together (or maybe I should say when we get together).

7. Female.

8. None.

9. I live with my dad and see my mum once a week. I also have a brother that I see about once every couple of months. None of them know I practice lucid dreaming. I am a sneaky ninja.

IQ: I'm not sure since I haven't taken one in a while, and when I did the result varied a lot from 111-140 depending on which test I took. It seems the average was about 126 or so, but I'm really not sure. I take a long time to think things through, but once I do, I usually do it well and get the right answer. So any IQ test that was timed I didn't do very well on.

Education:
(This may be too much detail, sorry.)
I'm in college (Langara College in Vancouver, Canada). I took courses that interested me for the first two years or so after getting out of high school. This is, I think, my third or fourth year in college. But only last year did I decide to go into Computer Sciences, and I'm currently planning to transfer into a university, into third year in a program to attain a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering degree. I've taken many math courses (currently in Calc 3) and have taken 3 philosophy courses, 2 biology courses, 2 physics courses, a psychology course, geology, statistics ... just a large assortment of courses, mostly in sciences and not arts, besides philosophy and a couple creative writing courses and an English course. I tend to do well in all subjects if I apply myself. But I take a long time to do things, so I can only take about 3 courses at a time without being overloaded. I've had 4 professors (English, Philosophy, Math, Computer Science) think highly enough of me to advise me to go pursue their subject as a career. I often have trouble following what the instructor is saying during class, but when I review my notes at home and give myself time to comprehend everything, I can understand it better than most people.


Lucid Dreaming:
When I was 16, the summer before high school (2006) I had been trying to have lucid dreams for about a month with no success. I was using reality checks about every 20 minutes and a general excitement about it. Then, I went to a spiritual group in Costa Rica. My life underwent an abrupt change and two days after getting there I had my first LD. From then on, I was getting about 1-4 LDs per night every night, and would record them on my laptop. I had been keeping a dream journal since I started trying to LD. Now, I'm trying to have LDs again but am having difficulty. I've had 11 so far in the last 3 months, with none in the last 3 weeks or so becuase I've unintentionally stopped trying. I started trying on winter break, and lost a bit of interest when school started again because I was occupied with it.
EDIT: They've almost all been MILDs (no specific routine before bed, just a general intent to lucid dream throughout the day). I usually just wonder if I'm dreaming for no apparent reason, once I'm aware enough in real life. But a few times it's been something that happens in the dream, like a dream character talking about lucid dreaming.

Hobbies: Computer programming, reading (mostly fantasy novels), PC games, going on walks, this forum.

Age: 21

Relationships: Boyfriend who lives far away, we meet every few months, besides that we talk mostly online, sometimes by phone. Long term relationship, been together for about 6 years and plan on getting married, I've never had another boyfriend. He does not practice lucid dreaming but will listen to mine.

Gender: female

Religion: atheist

Family: Live with them. Mom, dad, brother(19). We are not close and don't talk very much. I don't talk to them about lucid dreaming because the few times I've brought it up they aren't interested.

EDITED:
I don't believe in anything paranormal.

I don't have mental health issues, as I'd define them. I get depressed a lot, but I wouldn't say I "suffer from depression" because something like that is just an emotional tendency, not some sickness. I think drug companies probably try to get people to believe it's a condition/disease so that people feel like they need to be medicated for it. But if your study would count depression as an illness, then I guess I have it.

Intelligence-IQ:

Very high since I never took one of these tests and will never take one.

College:

I have an Associate degree from CCBC Essex and am current going to a four year college. My major is psychology.

How many lucid dreams you have had:

I had lucid dreams many times, at least 8,000. That’s 6,000 out of 9,400 dreams not counting the ninety times I haven’t dreamt at all.

What technique you used:

The falling out of bed method was used 60% of the time. 40% of the time I just realize it is a dream and become lucid.


When they happened-this is the most important:

60% occurred when I went to bed upset. 25% occurred when I could not get to sleep. 15% I just went to sleep normally.


Hobbies:

I draw, write and create stories in my spare time. I also like to sow, watch TV and read.

Age:

26 (so 365 days times 26 equals 9,490 dreams during lifetime)

Relationships:

I am single right now.

Family members:

I have a mother, a father, and two sisters.

Gender:

Female

Religion:

Christian, Lutheran


I also have a Learning Disability.

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Originally Posted by Diamondec

Intelligence-IQ:

Very high since I never took one of these tests and will never take one.

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lol, I might agree

Wow, this is a large number of answers-I expected there to just be one, maybe none 'till tomorrow.Thank you all for answering.Krake, thank you for pointing those two out.It seems a lot of you are into computer programming (or scripting).Mzzkc, what is 'HvZ?'And by "No." do you mean you don't have a religion, or don't want to say?

1.IQ don't know,environmental studies
2.Didn't count,no technique,every night
3.Reading magic fictions
4.17
5.Single,student
6.Female
7.Sided to Christian
8.A mom & dad,2 younger brothers & a grandma
9.Depends..
10.History of fits,lack of rest,headaches/migraines

1. ~130 , spatial and linguistic is high, working memory low.
I am currently in upper secondary school and my grades range mostly between 8-9 of 4-10. Philosophy is my strong subject.
2. ~80, 2-3 dilds per week spontaneously, started having them after i had WILDed for a while.
3. Gaming and modding games, drawing
4. 16
5. single, student
6. male
7. none, atheist
8. two brothers, mother and father.
9. naah
10. no

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Originally Posted by Chocobyte

Wow, this is a large number of answers-I expected there to just be one, maybe none 'till tomorrow.Thank you all for answering.Krake, thank you for pointing those two out.It seems a lot of you are into computer programming (or scripting).Mzzkc, what is 'HvZ?'And by "No." do you mean you don't have a religion, or don't want to say?

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HvZ = Humans vs. Zombies

No = I have no religion.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Diamondec

How many lucid dreams you have had:

I had lucid dreams many times, at least 8,000. That's 6,000 out of 9,400 dreams not counting the ninety times I haven't dreamt at all.

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Wait, so you've been keeping count of every single one of your dreams since you were a baby?

And somehow "at least 8,000" lucid dreams translates to "6,000 out of 9,400 dreams"?

Check me on my math here, but isn't 6000 outside of the range you originally gave us (>8000).

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Originally Posted by Diamondec

The falling out of bed method was used 60% of the time.

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Could you elaborate a bit more on this method? I'm curious how a single method could net you 3600 LDs (or >4800, not sure which one to go with), especially one that I've never heard of before.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Diamondec

When they happened-this is the most important:

60% occurred when I went to bed upset. 25% occurred when I could not get to sleep. 15% I just went to sleep normally.

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You went to bed upset 50% of your life and couldn't sleep for a separate 20% of it?

That's super depressing. =(

But it's cool that you can have lucids when you're awake. =)


[Math done assuming 8000 lucids and that the following way to determine the number of dreams you've had in your lifetime is valid]

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Originally Posted by Diamondec

Age:

26 (so 365 days times 26 equals 9,490 dreams during lifetime)

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This is not how counting dreams works. Everyone has multiple dreams each night, I'd expect a Psych major to know this.

Furthermore, this isn't even a proper way of determining the number of nights you had in your life, as you forgot to account for leap years. =P

You also didn't take out that 20% where you couldn't sleep. =(

1. Intelligence-IQ, college, grade, etc.If you include a school, please also include what subjects you study.

I don't know my IQ. I did around three years of college. An art college. My major was sequential art (comics).

2. How many lucid dreams you have had, what technique you used, and when they happened-this is the most important.

I have counted 87 lucid dreams since I started trying to lucid dream in May of 2009. Pretty sure I've had a few more than that. Started out using mostly variations of MILD. Gradually began having lucid dreams more often. I started WILDing successfully in January, this year, and I'm currently having 2 or 3 lucid dreams almost every week.

3. Hobbies.

I write and draw comics (trying to make that a job and not just a hobby), reading, learning to play ukulele, make craft-type stuff, lucid dreaming (perhaps it's a bit more than a hobby at this point).

4. Age.

29

5. Relationships, and if they (who you are with) practice lucid dreaming.Plus, what the relationship status is (marriage, date, etc.).

I have a girlfriend, we have been living together for about 5 years. She does not practice lucid dreaming, although she did have a spontaneous lucid dream recently.

6. Gender.

Male.

7. Religion.

Non-religious, atheist, but with an interest in religions and spirituality.

8. Family-how many members you have, who you see (and how often you see them), who you live with (if you live with any), etc.

I have a brother and a sister, both older than me. I live in a different state from my family and do not see them very often.

9. Do you believe in anything paranormal?

I am very skeptical of the paranormal.

10. Mental health issues.

I have been diagnosed with asperger's syndrome

Mzzkc, I just won't include her, unless she corrects and elaborates her previous reply.

1. Have no idea on IQ, currently studying on FES-Zaragoza on my biology major.
2. Don't know, when I started counting to now is 3678, DILD using the gravity RC, I had a few natural ones while a kid, mostly nightmares, after that they came when I learned how to RC at age 13. Started back in 1995 when I was 5, had no success until 8 years later at 2003, continue practicing ever since.
3. Manga I guess.
4. 20.
5. None currently, doubt anyone was into LDing.
6. Male.
7. Non-religious, I fall on atheist though (No belief in god)
8. Immediate family, mother, father, two brothers and two sisters, live with all of them except father, better relationship with sister and mom.
9. Yes.
10. None.

1. Not sure of IQ but I'd guess average-poss above average in certain aspects... I'm currently at univerity studying Global Health and Humanitarian relief.
2. How many lucid dreams you have had-I've had 10 (4 a few years ago spread out over many months (very infrequent) and 6 very recently.
What technique you used, and when they happened- Most were DILD. Techs used include Reality checking, increased awareness throughout the day and DEILD. My lucids became MUCH more common when i improved my confidence and changed reality check method (rcs whenever anything strange happened)
3. Violinist, Love animals and have many pets
4. 22
5. Married, onone i know is into Lucid dreaming :(
6. Female
7. Agnostic/slightly spiritual
8. Have Mum, Dad and 2 sisters. Live with Spouse and sometimes visit extended family.
9. Not usually... Do have some spiritual beliefs
10. No mental Health Issues

MZZKC


Question:
Wait, so you've been keeping count of every single one of your dreams since you were a baby?
Answer:
No. I took my age and timed that number by 365 days and got 9,490 which is ABOUT the number of dreams I have had in my life time. The number 8,00O is a mistype and can't be taken out. Out of my estimated 9,490 dreams I estimate that 6,000 of them were lucid and 90 of the time I did not dream at all.

Question:
Could you elaborate a bit more on this method? I'm curious how a single method could net you 3600 LDs (or >4800, not sure which one to go with), especially one that I've never heard of before.
Answer:
Basically, I would concentrate on my limbs and think about them slowly moving toward the end of the bed. I will continuously do this until my whole body is out of bed. Now, once out of bed I am normally in lucid dream mode. I have also concentrated on thinking about the bed slowly tipping me over onto the floor. This is done by concentrating on my breathing and imagination that the bed moves up and down with my breathing. Soon as I get into a deeper sleep the bed moves higher until gravity causes me to fall out of bed onto the floor. Once out of bed I am in lucid state. The only downside, is that this method takes a lot of concentration, time, and patience.
Question:
You went to bed upset 50% of your life and couldn't sleep for a separate 20% of it?
Answer:
No.
The following number is out the times I was lucid. So thinking of my lucid dream amount number of 6,000 as one hundred percent, I calculate that:

60% of the time I had lucid dreams when I went to bed upset. 25% occurred when I tried the fall out of bed method (explained above). 10% of the time I went was when I had trouble going to sleep and then right before sleep said "I want to go lucid" to myself. 5% happened when I just went to sleep normally. I did not calculate the times I could not sleep.

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Originally Posted by Diamondec

MZZKC
No. I took my age and timed that number by 365 days and got 9,490 which is ABOUT the number of dreams I have had in my life time. The number 8,00O is a mistype and can't be taken out. Out of my estimated 9,490 dreams I estimate that 6,000 of them were lucid and 90 of the time I did not dream at all.

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And like I said, that's not a valid way of determining your dream count. Assuming a conservative count of 5 dreams per night, you've really had around 47450 dreams, give or take 10000.

Of course, if we can't trust you know that much, and this mistake is indicative of your abilities of estimation, how can we trust your rather outstanding, admittedly guessed, lucid count?

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Originally Posted by Diamondec

Basically, I would concentrate on my limbs and think about them slowly moving toward the end of the bed. I will continuously do this until my whole body is out of bed. Now, once out of bed I am normally in lucid dream mode. I have also concentrated on thinking about the bed slowly tipping me over onto the floor. This is done by concentrating on my breathing and imagination that the bed moves up and down with my breathing. Soon as I get into a deeper sleep the bed moves higher until gravity causes me to fall out of bed onto the floor. Once out of bed I am in lucid state. The only downside, is that this method takes a lot of concentration, time, and patience.

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So, it's a WILD.

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Originally Posted by Diamondec

No.
The following number is out the times I was lucid. So thinking of my lucid dream amount number of 6,000 as one hundred percent, I calculate that:

60% of the time I had lucid dreams when I went to bed upset. 25% occurred when I tried the fall out of bed method (explained above). 10% of the time I went was when I had trouble going to sleep and then right before sleep said "I want to go lucid" to myself. 5% happened when I just went to sleep normally. I did not calculate the times I could not sleep.

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Yes.

As I said, my calculations were done assuming a lucid count of 8000 over a 26 year lifetime filled with 9400 dreams and that your percentage estimations were correct.

If I were to do the same calculations for 6000 LDs, (calculations below) I'd still conclude you went to bed upset 38% of your life. Which would mean that in any given week you're likely to go to bed upset about 3 times.

That is, indeed, super depressing.

.6*6000 = 3600 (number of lucid dreams occurring when you went to bed upset)
3600/9400 = .38 (estimated percentage of all dreams in which you go to bed upset, real value may be higher)
.38*7 = 2.7 (estimated percentage of dreams you go to bed upset applied to a one week sample space)

Edit: Also, your new percentages don't align with the old ones.

1. Penn State finishing my Junior year. I'm studying Criminal Justice, Chinese and Sociology with some Psychology.
2. Lost count over the years, all of em- MILD, WILD, DILD, DEILD. Started over 5 years ago. Most of my lucids happen during DILDs and unintentional WILDs (waking up in the middle of the night without a WBTB intention, then going to sleep). I don't regularly lucid dream as I've been on and off with this whole thing.
3. Hanging with friends, playing guitar, intentionally going out to meet new people.
4. 20
5. Single
6. Male
7. Agnostic
8. 3, I see my brother everyday, I see my parents occasionally throughout the year (cumulative 6 weeks at least split up throughout the year), live with my bro and like 20 other people in this oversized house.
9. Yes.
10. None.

1. Currently sophomore in HS.
2. I have never had a LD :[
3. I love to play Xbox Live, I have been for many years. I love comedy, preferably video game comedy (MACHINIMA) Music and school are my huge interests right now.
4. 16.
5. Single, Im bi. Going through some friendship problems, which is common of my age, but I'm maturing to the point of its ending.
6. Female.
7. Agnostic.
8. I live with my mother and my second step father. My real father is still in Fl.
9. I haven't experienced anything yet, but I am not saying it doesn't have potential.
10. I can get depressed, I'm quite sensitive, I cant be straight forward mean to people, I am usually very generous I don't understand some people, and why they are how they are, and I would like to get around that.