 So I thought I'd make this video to explain what a lucid dreamer who has been practicing lucid dreaming for a long time, what their week actually looks like, how many lucid dreams they have, and just I wanted to give a bit more of a realistic expectation of what you can actually expect when you learn how to lucid dream. Because as Daniel Love pointed out in his latest video there is a lot of hype in the lucid dreaming community at the moment and obviously for a younger audience especially we want things fast we want to do things now and we want to buy into the idea that we can lucid dream immediately and every night. But the truth is you can't really do that and there's a number of reasons for that but at best you're going to be having maybe two to four lucid dreams a week once you've been practicing this for about a year or so. However that does vary massively and this is what I really wanted to explain in this video. The actual frequency with which you're going to lucid dream varies immensely and it depends on so many different things and so many variables that none of the explanations are true and also none of them are false. What I mean by that is you can have people who genuinely have a lucid dream every night or at least every other night or something like that and then you can also have people who try for a year and they don't have any lucid dreams and everything in between as well by the way. And this happens for beginners this happens for advanced lucid dreamers this even happens for people who teach lucid dreaming like myself and various other youtubers like we don't have that great of a control over how and when we lucid dream because so much of it is just still completely unknown. So before we get into this video make sure to subscribe and just leave a quick comment letting me know what you think so far I've upgraded my camera by the way I hope you can see the difference. Anyway there's just so much we don't know and because of that it's hard what do I want to say here it's hard to know for certain whether a technique will work every single time you try it and because of that you don't it's very hard to know how to title a video and how to title an article on YouTube because there are certain techniques for example the wake back to bed the finger and do lucid dream which if you do them right they can give you an instant lucid dream or an instant you know a lucid dream in five minutes they can that's how they work like for example the wake back to bed technique you wake up you take a if you are going to take them you take a lucid dreaming supplement and then you go back to bed with the intention of lucid dreaming now if you do that and you're tired enough there's the right level of serotonin in your system melatonin it's balanced out you've had your restorative sleep the intention is strong that's another important one and there's the right amount of acetylcholine in your system which can be optimized with various supplements or whatever if all the conditions are correct and right for lucid dreaming then when you go back to sleep you know in a wake back to bed technique you will have an instant lucid dream it will only take five minutes or less because that's how the technique works the problem is and i think this is more to do with the people watching the videos than the people making them although i know people are going to disagree with me on that the problem is when you read a title like how to lucid dream in five minutes you assume and i'm talking about you the viewer here you assume that that will be what you will get that's what you will be able to achieve and it's the same with any title you know if you if you watch a video entitled how to get six pack abs in eight weeks is it possible it can be right but is everyone going to get that result absolutely not because it depends on so many things so the titles that people are making videos with and just content in general in the lucid dreaming area you have to understand that that the title as in like the desired result the dream the the goal won't ha won't apply to everyone they're always going to be people who try every technique and none of them work and then there are also going to be people who naturally lucid dream without even bothering to try a technique or even write their dreams down and you have everything in between as well so what i'm trying to say is yes the titles of certain videos and you know i've been um guilty of doing this myself you know i make titles that are attractive to click on because from a marketing perspective i know that people are more likely to click on them and therefore more likely to learn the technique i want to teach them and you know this this applies for anything if i just made a video entitled something like boring lucid dreaming video number 403 nobody would click it or at least the people that do click it you know i mean i'm sure there's a few of you who will just click any of my videos and you know i appreciate that level of support but for the most part people people click on a title that sounds attractive to click on right i mean you're the same anyone is the same we click on titles and thumbnails that look attractive and then if the video is good we stick around and watch it if it's not we don't watch it that then sends a signal to youtube which then means the video doesn't get promoted via the algorithm so even if something is really click baity if people click on it and it's not good and the quality is low and they don't and they don't um continue watching the video then youtube will bury it so really the clickbait aspect of things i don't think is that much of a problem because it really if people watch a long percentage of a video that's sending a signal to youtube that they like it otherwise they wouldn't watch it so you know for better or worse and i know that a lot of people think that the clickbait is a problem um because it sends a signal that there's this instant gratification that is possible through lucid dreaming that you can just uh instantly lucid dream every time but the truth is you can't and here's the important part a lot of the techniques in these instant videos these uh how to lucid dream tonight how to lucid dream in five minutes whatever i've made a few of them myself and by the way they're the most popular videos because people like to click on titles like that however if you actually do the technique and learn the technique it is 100 possible that it will work and that you will have lucid dream in five minutes in 30 seconds whatever when the technique works and this is a key point i want to make here when the technique works and i'm talking about the filed the wait back to bed the even the wild to some degree um and then i guess the more natural techniques you can't really say how long they take to work because you don't really know at what point in the dream you're going to be triggered into lucidity but the instant techniques like the filed the wait back to bed wild when they do work they work fast and that's why the title isn't actually that wrong it isn't false for example now if i said something like you will lucid dream every single time you try this technique without fail then of course that's misleading i understand that so just be aware of this guys you know there's a lot of hype around lucid dreaming at the moment and i want you guys to actually learn how to lucid dream properly i don't want you to just fall for the latest hype and then not have it work you know and that's why i always try my videos to actually teach you stuff that works uh techniques advice tips that have either worked for me or that i know work for others and that's the last sort of disclaimer i want to make here is that this is all my experiences you know this is all my my opinions and my personal advice this is not none of this is guaranteed really uh no technique can guarantee that you'll lucid dream and um yeah it's just it's my personal experience take it with a grain of salt just try this stuff out for yourself is what i'm saying try try these techniques out learn how they work and just see how it goes that's all you can do really it's an the whole thing the whole lucid dreaming experience and uh phenomenon is ultimately we're you know we're playing with something we have no idea how it works consciousness the brain the connections all of the neurochemistry that goes along with that we we don't really understand how it all connects together and how it works we have some idea you know we know certain hormones are associated with self-awareness and critical thinking and we know certain things about how sleep works sleep science cycles and all of that stuff but we don't truly understand what consciousness is where it resides or even even to a large degree what lucid the lucid dreaming state actually is and how it works we know a bit but in terms of what's possible and in terms of what we can do with it in terms of you know how it works how it all connects together how the subconscious mind works we really would you know we're like children playing in kindergarten when we're trying to understand this stuff so we have to remember that as well everyone not just the viewers and people learning it but also the people teaching it we have to remember that we don't really understand all that much about how consciousness works it's known as the um one of the hard problems that one of the most difficult problems is where did we come from how does consciousness work and where is consciousness these are really difficult questions that we don't really have an answer to if you've watched this far thank you for watching the whole video i hope you enjoy my new camera by the way as you can see it's um very high quality now i hope this means i can make better videos for you and uh more more frequent videos as well by the way here's here's the thing i've been posting daily on all social media platforms because i really want to just get this information out to you guys teach everyone how to lucid dream but not not just that there is a bigger vision behind this channel and behind how to lucid.com and that is to increase people's whatever you want to call it okay vibrations frequency and i know these are buzz words but the sentiment behind this is to increase people's self awareness and consciousness encourage love connectivity and purpose and i truly believe that's important you know more it's becoming more and more important as i look at the way the world is going now and i think connectivity unconditional love and just general positivity are so important right now so that's why i've been pumping out loads of content you know i've been pumping out the youtube videos um and just sharing as many positive messages as i can with as many people as i can so if you want to follow me in a different platform just search how to lucid all all one word or just how to lucid.com uh i have here are the platforms i'm on at the moment so instagram youtube tiktok facebook twitter snapchat and then i share i share things on other places like i might post uh i don't know in facebook groups on my linkedin or on reddit things like that but mainly i just post to the main social media networks every single day uh i do also have other channels which i do the same for for example transcend your limits which is i don't know if i've mentioned this before probably have it's just personal development related videos um so yeah go and check that out as well if you want to anyway what a long video i felt like this was needed though because uh and again it's in response to what inspired by i guess uh daniel love's latest videos you go and check it out just type in um type in mr lucid dream remember that firstly certain titles and videos won't apply to everyone and so you really need to try out the techniques and try them out for yourself see if they work for you secondly certain techniques like wait back to bed whatever when they when they do work that's the keyword uh they work fast however not all the time and also they don't work all the time you know it varies massively uh and thirdly take what i and anyone says about lucid dreaming with a grain of salt because we're really dabbling with something that is far more complex than we can even begin to understand