True. I remember one LD from when i was perhaps 10 years old and i don’t believe it has helped me in achieving LDs in the last 1.5 years that i have trained. I now get 1-2 per week by will.
Man! I wish I was a natural… It would be so much easier!
Like others have said I dont expect it will be any easier for me as a natural LDer to LD at will than anyone else. I think the only advantage is that a natural LDer may be more relaxed about eventually having an induced LD as they know thay have had them before and that when they do manage to induce a LD it wont be as wierd as never having had one before.
Time will tell…
It’s like a natural talent. If you are good at something, then in a year (if you study intense) you are a professional. If you haven’t got a really natural talent, then it would take about a couple more years, but you still reach profy. Even as a natural, you can’t a achieve level professional in just one single day
Just think that it’s not impossible.
I’m not sure if I’m natural, but my first LD was very vivid and long(5min) for starter.
I remember a lot of dreams when I got out of them at will.
I guess I’m a natural but dreams were less important then.
i remember this one dream i had long time back, where I had lost my laptop n was quite afraid that my parents would find out…so i was looking all over n i could sense deep anxiety that time…n somehow i came to realize that i was dreaming so i dint worry much later or something…
But yeah…this is definitely the only memory i have about realization of a dream from my childhood…not quite close to lucid dreaming but still, i guess, it counts…
I’d call myself a natural, but I don’t really know if it counts if you can’t control the dream. Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve been pretty aware of when I’m dreaming or when I’m not. I mostly couldn’t control the dream, though, unless it’s a nightmare. Even then, though, I was scared of what would happen if I died in a dream (this was before I knew that I’d wake up if I died in a dream: back then I thought that if I died in a dream, I’d be stuck in some kind of a limbo… lol, Inception dejavu, anyone?).
So I had this way of forcing myself to wake up by squinting my eyes shut so hard that colored spots would dance before my eyes, and if I succeeded, the spots would grow bigger into a large vortex that’d send me spinning back to real life. The only problem was, sometimes I’d ‘wake up’ and still be stuck in the dream. I once had a dream where I had to redo the vortex thing at least ten times before I woke up in my real bed. It took me about twenty minutes before I stopped expecting some random dream-like thing to happen, like monkeys jumping out of a corner in my room to shoot me down with bananas.
I first became lucid after having read the guide of this forum!.. about a year and a half ago, already! I come from meditation and tibetan buddhism. So I am not a natural lucid dreamer.
A question I was wondering just before our french LD4All forum “closed”:
Are all the experimented and well known lucid dreamers (> several hundreds of LD) natural?
I guess i Say i am a Natural, because a friend told me of this Forum, and i have had plenty of Lucid dreams. Some end before they get amazing. I get Too exited Maybe?
and Some just carry on for ages and i can remember every little detail, Iv’e even lucid imagination whilst walking somewhere when suddenly i can see a whole nother world.
I’m not a natural but I can remember that I had a few LD’s when I was a kid I can even remember most of the dreams I’ve had, ever.
I guess not having any, means I’m not a natural
for me i really dont know what qualifies…
if only being aware that you are dreaming counts then many many times. and i have controlled dreams a couple times too, i think. but the one time i can really think of right now, i didn’t know i was dreaming. i just wanted to fly soooooo bad and i did. and it was awesome.
usually i dont know im dreaming, and i see different people or i am a different person. and like when awake u can see your arms and nose and body? well i cant when i dream. i could reach out a grab something but i don’t see my arm. and my vision is weird… its not like movies where its exactly the same as being awake.
although one time i guess i did. i could see my arms and everything was normal. i had a FA and it sucked cause when i woke up the second time i was like what the H**l!?!
I’m really surprised there is so many natural lucid dreamers here. How can I not know anyone of them?
or maybe they’re just proud of it and vote more than the others…
I voted yes because the question is “do you remember having some kind of LD as a child?” and yes I remember having some LD’s when I was a child (maybe 5).
Yet I don’t consider myself a natural because 5 LD’s is few and I have to induce them now.
I kinda agree with you Morning Star. “Are you a natural?” is a very dynamic question. The topic name should just be “Do you remember having some kind of LD as a child?”.
I’m DEFINITELY a natural dreamer. Even if I’m not lucid, I’m able to do everything people often do while lucid. I am very powerful in my dreams and I have at least 4-7 dream sequences a night that become increasingly vivid as I record them.
However, when it comes to lucid dreaming, I am not much of a natural. I have to work at it and I’m working at it right now!
Used to be a natural, I could do what I wanted when I was a child (even realise I was dreaming too )
After I started school my mind got too busy to control the dreams but sometimes when I feel for doing something I usually get such dreams and I still can make myself dream of dreams where I DILD myself lucid
Idk… i seem to realize i’m dreaming out of nowhere a lot. but i lose it pretty quickly or just keep going along with what’s happening in the dream cuz i’m entertained already.
When I was young, I use to have a nightmare in which I realised at the uttermost scary part I was dreaming, because it all suddenly seemed really illogical. I noticed it could not be real. At that point I just chose to wake up. It always was a sudden sense of control over the situation. It was kind of a gut feeling, I just like that realised I could close my eyes and wake up if I wanted to.
It was just once in a nightmare where I was chased by a tiger a snake and a wolve hat I turned around and thought: They can’t hurt me I’m dreaming but when they came close I thought: but right now isn’t the time to check it.
Once when I was like 9 or 10 (maybe even younger) I dreamed that I can transform to a light entity, only shining light and I could fight with my friends in some kind of an arena while I was transformed to light being. Doing all that I became more and more weak. Then it just came to me, why am I doing this? I’m dreaming! Then I woke up.