Thread: Does it usually take this long?

So it's been about 3 weeks of doing RCs. Just a couple days ago I start doing ADA. 5 times everyday for about 3 minutes noticing the details and just noticing everything. And I only had 1 LD. I've also been saying mantras like "I will lucid dream" couple times every night and I say stuff like "am I dreaming?" During the day and do RCs. That still hasn't helped.

A first LD after 3 weeks isn't bad.

Are you keeping a dream journal? That is one of the most important things.

Yes I have a dream journal app on my ipad. I write my dreams down

Mantras should be engraved into your head - don't just think it twice, think it two hundred times over. The point of the mantra is to reassure you that you will get what you want.

It took me about 2 weeks to achieve my first LD. It does take time, and they get better with progress.

Is this your first time doing Lucid Dreaming? If so I wouldn't go with the methods you are using. I never had much success with ADA and I had over 100 of em over the years.

Since you seem quite into the subject I would advise you try WBTB and try to remember as much dreams as possible every night.

Lets say you sleep for 10 hours. Try to wake up after 6 hours then remember your dream (stay 5-10 min awake). Then after another 45 min do the same. Repeat till out of time or tired of sleeping.

This worked for me somewhat. Got me a nice dream recall + added LD chances. You should try it.

1 LD after only 3 weeks is great. Keep it up, and work for #2

Thanks guys

I have no say, since I am a natural lucid dreamer (Don't want to brag or anything...)

But based on what I have seen on this forum, you are doing better than other.

That is good progress actually!
I had mine after 2 months. But the real hard part is that you actually found LDing and committed to it. That is the hardest part done

Awareness and intent are the most important things. Keep up with your awareness training, RCs and mantras. They already paid off. Now you just keep doing it.

Check out this DILD and RCs to see what else could you add Induction Methods and Techniques. Yiou are doing great, keep at it.

I would estimate that on average, people have their first lucid dream after perhaps 4 or 5 weeks - if they practice consistently.
Then they might have one or two lucid dreams per month for a few months, until they slowly start getting them every week.
Just my rough estimations, based on information from other lucid dreamers.

So I would say that getting a lucid dream after three weeks is very good.

So much of lucid dreaming is keeping a healthy sleep schedule. I would often go to bed at 1-2AM because of college, and I wasn't seeing results. Finally, I began forcing myself to sleep at 11:30-12 and I became lucid soon after. Go to bed too late, and you're simply too tired to become aware. I also stay off of electronics a few hours before bed, as some tests say it depletes Serotonin levels which help in dream vividness and control. I think many of us here know the feeling of playing a video game ALL day, and then having it feverishly burned into your mind as you struggle to sleep.

Lucid dreaming is a golf swing - either you have it ALL right, or one tiny thing makes you smack the ball into the woods.

3 weeks is heaven. I've been trying for almost a year, and only this and last month I managed to get RC in my dreams, so i could almost get lucid. Also i started trying WILD this week, gotta learn a little bit about it yet.
So basically you're extra lucky.

Three weeks is pretty good. For me it took slightly less when I just started and at first my lucids were far and few between…maybe one or two a week. I've been at it for just over 3 months and now I have about 10 lucid dreams per week. I think keeping a journal and practicing self-awareness is very important as well as using mantras and visualization techniques (imagine yourself getting lucid in a recent dream you had and then take yourself through stabilization and what you want to accomplish in the dream).