Question: How long before you would get bored?

[Amethyst Star]

EDIT:  I forgot to mention, I'm going to be writing a book next month and so this information will help a lot

Perhaps some naturals might be able to help me out with this.  Now, I've know about LDing for a long time and I know some claim they would never get bored, but I'm writing a story that currently has a gaping plot hole and I need your opinion. Your response will make things so much easier and I thank you in advance.

Imagine you are given the chance to be constantly lucid in all of your dreams.  Every single one of them.  Lucid.  There is something that reminds you that you're lucid, and when you start to lose lucidity it reminds you so that you are constantly aware. Since you are always aware, you always have to make your own decisions and try to figure out what you're going to do without any input from anyone else.

How long do you think it would take before you became bored and wanted to go back to regular dreaming? I know there are some naturals here who've actually gone through this and I would love your opinion.

*Extra credit: How would you spend your first few days of full, uninterrupted lucidity?

[Emerald Wolf]

Well I'm not close to being a natural at all but here's my 2 cents. Also my answers not so much about how long it would take to be bored as what I would do if I couldn't have normal dreams.

I imagine if I got tired of having to make decisions I'd start experimenting with different ways of doing nothing in my dreams, like stargazing or meditating or just sitting back and watching the world go by. What is important though is how much of a separate existance the DC's in the lucid would exhibit and whether or not constant lucidity would make you feel any more tired or overworked than otherwise. Still I'd imagine training yourself in various forms of meditation is the best course of action should you ever become bored with the dreamworld.

[Luminous]

I think my stats speak for themselves about how many of my dreams are lucid... and yes, I have ended up being bored in lucid dreams before, unable to come up with anything to do. When this happens, I just wander around in my dreamscape, waiting for something entertaining to happen. But, I haven't found myself wanting to have non lucid dreams even though I occasionally find myself bored. A "normal" person might be bored within a few weeks to a few months? I would assume that it depends on how easily they get bored in their waking life.

NanoWrimo?

[Amethyst Star]

NanoWrimo?

Yes.

[Sean999]

I don't see myself ever getting bored while lucid dreaming. It's not because I haven't had very many, but because there is an infinite amount of possibilities within dreams. It would be impossible for one to try everything. Of course, one's creativity (or lack of) might cause them to run out of ideas, therefore becoming bored.

I would spend my first few nights of uninterrupted lucidity solidifying certain characters and places, making them permanent in my dreams (at least my lucid ones). After that, anything goes really. Whatever comes to mind is what I'd do.

[annsie]

If you use LD as a mean to entertain then I guess you can get bored eventually. For me personally if all there is to LD is to fly around and create things then I will get bored very quickly. However, as many have realised and are practising, I am using LDs as the mean to access other consciousness levels and going to other planes, by going from LD to astral travelling to spiritual enlightening. Its a huge quest for me, so I will never get bored with it.

[Alex Lou]

This isn't exactly what your talking about, but I have difficulty being able to go out an do the things that I want to do in lucids.  As a result I can spend a lotta time in the dark in my room or my house while dreaming.  Many of my non-lucids are more interesting.  Even so, I've only wanted to be non-lucid instead once:
It was more than boredom, though.  It was a sad, lonely, trapped feeling.  Fortunately, I seem to have gotten my wish (perhaps by my own doing) and remember nothing afterwards.

[The Cusp]

[Sunshine]

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[Xox]

Not sure if I'd get "bored." Just tired of it. I've been tired of lucid dreams before, mostly in the periods where nearly all of my dreams were lucids. I grew very annoyed of this. I really wanted my regular dreams back.

Now how would I spend my few days of uniterrupted lucids? Traveling accross the world and beyond, talking to DC's. Mostly traveling.

[Alex Lou]

I agree with Xox. 

Lucid dreaming is a hobby, and sometimes I'm more interested with it and sometimes I'd rather not be thinking too much in my sleep.  And I always value my non-lucids.  I'd rather have a balance of non-lucids and lucids than be lucid all the time.

[Amethyst Star]

Again, thank you for your responses!  I'm almost to 20,000 words and just finished chapter 2 last night (darned chapter just wouldn't end!).

Just for clarification, I don't think I would have a problem with being "bored," but I'm putting my main character through a situation where she is always lucid but not always able to control the dream around her.  (I have few enough LDs to do much of anything at all, let alone grow bored.)  There's also a villain who makes things less pleasant for her and my goal with this thread was to try and come up with a semi-realistic time-line where she would go from being gung-ho about being lucid to saying "That's it, I want out!" (back to her normal dreams).

This isn't exactly what your talking about, but I have difficulty being able to go out an do the things that I want to do in lucids.  As a result I can spend a lotta time in the dark in my room or my house while dreaming.  Many of my non-lucids are more interesting.  Even so, I've only wanted to be non-lucid instead once:

Thanks for describing that dream.  That's exactly what I was looking for!

Not sure if I'd get "bored." Just tired of it. I've been tired of lucid dreams before, mostly in the periods where nearly all of my dreams were lucids. I grew very annoyed of this. I really wanted my regular dreams back.

How long would those lucid "spurts" last, approximately?

[Xox]

In my early teens (and before that) they would last for almost months, give or take a few days. They've lasted for weeks, days. Now, just a couple of days.

[Caradon]

It's like the person that is a billionaire in waking life and can literally go anywhere and do anything they want at any given moment. And yet they get bored because they can't think of anything to do. So they go and get a job at McDonalds and make hamburgers all day to pass the time.

In a dream, you have even more freedom than a billionaire in waking life does. For me, just knowing I have that kind of freedom is enough to keep me happy even if I don't even do anything more than sit on a rooftop and enjoy the view, and the feeling of being there.