Thread: how long did it take for you to get your first LD?

i'll have been practicing for 1 month tomorrow and still no lucidity. i'm still working on my recall. i remember 1-2 dreams every other night or every 3rd night. it's frustrating, but i'm persistent.

It took me a month or two after I first learned about LDing to gain anything resembling lucidity. Just be persistent, like you said

It took me about 5.5 months, but I made steady "progress" all the way to that before I got my first DILD via an early afternoon nap. I probably could have gotten one a bit earlier if I had been more aggressive with my journal and tried some WBTB.

A couple of weeks, it wasn't very good and I didn't have anymore for a while after that.

Originally Posted by Stardrowned

i'll have been practicing for 1 month tomorrow and still no lucidity. i'm still working on my recall. i remember 1-2 dreams every other night or every 3rd night. it's frustrating, but i'm persistent.

I had my first LD about 8 years ago after watching The Matrix. The shift of perception in the movie from "reality" (being plumbed and wired into the machine) to what your mind thinks is reality no doubt triggered it. I'd been studying "Dreaming" ala Casteneda too. But I didn't work on it after that.
My second LD was a year ago after reading LaBerge's Lucid Dreaming. Again though I sort of dropped it, until a couple of months ago when I got interested again and got some other LD books and have been doing affirmations and RC's about half the time since deciding I want to learn how to do this thing.

well I started reading up on everything 3 days ago, the first night I did the dream journal I was able to recall like 5 dreams, then last night I had 3 dreams before the last one and the last one was lucid but didn't last too long and was very fuzzy but i remember it.

I guess it is part luck part me being able to remember things so quickly

i have lucid dreams at random... yet i normally dont do reality checks it just seems to come to me. last night i had one. :/

A week

It's all about awareness. Be very aware while doing your reality checks, and try to always notice anything around you that seems strange or unusual or dreamlike. Also, don't just go through the motions with your reality checks, the whole trick is to actually try to find out, right now, whether or not you're dreaming, and actually prove it to yourself.

Hey, you aren't on your own.

it took me a few months before i had my first.
Even then, it diddnt last long, i woke up!
BUT, i wasnt even trying.
I thought i'd give it a rest for a day, a and out of nowhere i just realised i was dreaming.

i had one last night aswell. Im hoping for more :-)

took me about 6 weeks, didn't have a clue how I did it though. I think I'm just staring to get somewhat of a grip on this.

All tech's and stuff can get confusing I know I had that problem, jumping from tech to tech just to get it to work. My advice stick to one tech or combination of RC's and mantras and stuff and carry out your program with precision!

Elbow grease and determination is all it takes! Good luck, hopefully you'll get your LD soon

took me 2 days to get my first LD, then i had another the day after that, then another 2 days after that, but then i found it hard so ive only had a few since then. (got out of the habbit of RCs, and find it impossible to get back into it)

it took me about six weeks. but come to think about it I didn't RC the first 3 weeks, just wrote in my DJ, so actually it's 3 weeks. Now I'm looking forward to the next LD!!!

A week, but a month to get a really vivid one. I get at least one a week.

Originally Posted by Stardrowned

i'll have been practicing for 1 month tomorrow and still no lucidity. i'm still working on my recall. i remember 1-2 dreams every other night or every 3rd night. it's frustrating, but i'm persistent.

It took me about a week to have a deliberate LD years ago. I was using a hypnosis tape that had two people (a man and a woman) one doing hypnotic suggestions and one doing mental imagery. I wish I could find that tape or CD again. Anyway, I had my first MILD experience. It was truely life affirming. Good luck to you and you WILL get there.

I just joined a few months ago.

No LD's yet. I know it's coming though.

Have yet to get it.

Been trying since about a month before I joined.

Originally Posted by Odd_Nonposter

I had my first disappointingly short LD three months after joining DV. I suffer from really bad recall. I'll be lucky if I can remember three dreams in one week, then my journal entries are so illegible it's difficult to transfer them online.

In fact, my first lucid is right here: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=74091

If you're really having trouble with it, a few simple substances really helped me. Ginkgo, B6, green tea extract, and probably melatonin can all be found at your local Wal-Mart or some other store nearby.

I don't like the idea of using any sort of medicine to try and help me achieve lucidity. I only started working towards getting an LD less than a week ago and after two days of intense practice followed by four relaxing ones, I had a short LD day before yesterday

3.5 months. I win, hands-down! xD

I had a bit of a "haitus" In there for a while. In reality, if I had been going since August hardcore, I might have more than 3 racked up.

I got mine after about a week then there was a huge gap of about 3 months till I had my second.

a couple months, my first one was pretty hard to control

After i visited these forums for the first time, that very night i was so confident i was going to have a lucid dream, i just knew that i would. And i actually did (though it only lasted like 15 minutes, vividness was hella low, and i wasted it) but it only toook one night.. since then, i havent been able to repeat it.. i think the confidence thing is actually a technique, i think i read it in a tutorial? anyway i didint even know it was a technique when i did it.

Around a month.

Took me half a year.

A couple of weeks.