how long will it take to have an LD?

Quest for Lucidity
1

i was just wondering how long it takes in general to have an LD once you start one of the methods to have one?

2

Hard to say, is different to everyone.
From the next night, till many years… to have a full blown LD.

I’m trying for almost 5 years to have a full blown LD, and no real result yet… :wink:

3

It’s extremely unlikely to take years in my experience. A few weeks to several months is more usual if you keep up the techniques and adopt a positive and expectant state of mind.
It can happen very quickly though - I had one the first night I discovered lucid forums, and then did not have another for four months. Those four months were frustrating because I knew I had the abillity, but I kept trying different methods, and I’m now at the stage where I can become lucid virtually every night. So try to stay motivated and positive, it really is worth all the effort.

4

For me it took a few weeks, then until the next one it took like 2 years, i wasnt very motivated that time thou. Now when i’ve been practicing more, lucid’s have become more usual. You get nothing for free, i guess.

5

The average time is about 3 weeks, and many people have their first LD in the first two weeks. But if the average time is 3 weeks, it means that some people have their first one later…
And it depends on the method and if it fits well with you, too.

6

I’m curious…is it actually better to do LD tecs than to just think about LDs alot. Because I mostly just thin about LDs a lot, and recenmtly I haven’t been doing many techniques…like MILD, WILD, etc.

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I think the first ld probably comes if a person has just read about ld’s and is curious and spents a lots of time investigating them and then it has a strong effect on subconscious and causes the ld.

8

It’s best to do techs over thinking about LD’ing a lot (I found that out the hard way).

But really, it’s best to do techs AND think about LD’ing.

9

You rarely have a LD in the first week if you just think about LD’s during the day. It may happen but people I know who have had their 1st LD in the two first weeks were practising a technique, even a simple one like autosuggestion.