 some of you have been wondering how long it took me personally to have my first lucid dream now I don't often talk about my experiences just because I don't think it's relevant I don't think it actually helps you you know if I if I were to tell you all the time like you know I'm having nightly lucid dreams I'm having two hour long lucid dreams or I'm not but if I was that wouldn't help you that wouldn't motivate you but that being said I think it's time to answer this question so I want to just briefly tell you how and when I had my first lucid dream by the way I don't mention this too often but I do have a free video training and a free kind of PDF tutorial on lucid dreaming all you need to do to get that is to go to howtolucid.com forward slash gift the links in the description might be in the pinned comment so check that out it's you know it's free so it can't really go wrong so basically I had my first lucid dream instantly and what I mean by instantly is I didn't actually know what lucid dreaming was or how to do it when I had my first lucid dream it was by accident it was kind of random so when I was a kid you may have had this story before and spoken about this maybe a couple of times I was confined to my room and it was the middle of the day I couldn't really do anything else and so I just did it through sheer intention and boredom and luck and I think this is the case for a lot of people they don't really know what lucid dreaming is and then they have the experience and then after that they research it and figure out it's probably this lucid dreaming thing or maybe I can learn to do it more often or even whenever I want but the interesting thing is that when I had my first lucid dream I didn't have I didn't use any techniques I wasn't meditating and I really wasn't doing anything that you would consider to be like an essential thing that you have to do in order to lucid dream so why did it happen and this is the case for a lot of people especially when you're younger so if you're watching this and you're between the ages of let's say 12 and 25 okay so let's say if you're a young person you will find it naturally 10 times easier to lucid dream because you naturally have the awareness and the kind of the skills that you need to be able to lucid dream you're naturally curious inquisitive you ask questions and you question your reality but beyond that you don't have this kind of linear thinking this series of expectations that society places on you as you get older so you just kind of experience things you know and this is why a lot of young people experience out of body experiences lucid dreams they find it much more easy to be creative and to you know come up with ideas be inspired and that kind of thing and then what happens is society as a whole kind of programs you as you get older to be more left-brained to be to be more connected with the logic rationality really the opposite of the right brain which is creativity and inspiration which is you kind of need both to be able to lucid dream so that's why it's easier when you're younger among other things there's you know a huge variety of reasons but yeah that's probably what happened to me when I had my first lucid dream and then of course what happened is I basically got obsessed with it really wanted to learn more and so I kept researching and learning how to actually do it more reliably so what does this mean for you well it means that you don't have to put as much emphasis on technique instead you should put more emphasis on just being playful and inspired and motivated I think that will do a lot for you probably more than anything else and I don't know if you've seen I have a YouTube ad that I sometimes run to try and like teach more people about lucid dreaming where I basically say if you're trying to lose lucid dream using a technique you're wrong and the reason for that is that while techniques can be useful they're not essential they're just kind of like a tool you can use if you really have to or you know as a kind of like a bonus they're not the foundation that you certainly don't need a technique in order to lucid dream you don't need to wake up at 4 a.m. and you know count your fingers and whatever to lucid dream you can lose a dream through sheer intention and willpower alone I mean this is the case and this is what I did without even knowing what it was this is what many people do you don't need a technique they can be useful but you don't need them they're not essential so there's a lot more I could say about this I want you to check out my free kind of video training and PDF go to how to lucid.com forward slash gift or just click in the link in the description and check it out and let me know when your first lucid dream was like what was actually like and when you had it was it random or were you actually trying to lose a dream