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.
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.
I grew up thinking it was just dreaming, didn’t know anything was special about it, until I was telling my mom about a weird dream I have when I was young.
I don’t remember ever waking up because I’ve become lucid. But I’ve always been a deep sleeper, my mom would have conversations with me about my day when she got home off the evening shift. Just a few sentences but I’d never remember them.
I do remember having a LD as a child and even solving a recurring nightmare that way, but I’m only a natural with WILD. If I can get myself to the ‘vibrations and whooshing sound’ stage, I find I can actually amplify the sensations and get into a WILD quickly and reliably. Good thing too, because there’s something in me (maybe several things) that prevent me from keeping a DJ. WILD circumvents that.
mmm… Not really, I haven’t had an LD yet but I feel like I’m getting better fast so I wouldn’t say I’m awful When I was little I used to have amazing dream recall but it faded, It’s slowly coming back as well So no I guess I’m not a natural
I remember one time when I was a child, I made it a mission to recognize I was dreaming (I was mad that my dreams were always hazy.)
I actually got a lucid dream the next day after my mission, however as I found out I was dreaming I suddenly got pulled towards the ceiling. Never really thought about replicating it. Figures .
Yes by all means I am a natural. I have been having Lucid Dreams since I was a young child. I’ve been able to fly, throw fire, make it rain, you name it! I just now, tonight learned that other people could do it also. I’ve knowninwas in dreams pretty much my entire life. I thought it was weird not being able to control your dreams, I guess I’m the weird one!