I remember I had about 10 lucid dreams between the ages of 7 and 13, after which was when I first learned about lucid dreaming. Almost all of them came from nightmares except maybe a couple of them. I can remember most of them fairly well because at the time I thought they were very well worth remembering. Unfortunately my control was very limited at the time.
When I was young, there was a small period where I would get them pretty often but after I had 3 I didn’t get anymore until now. Might have been because I was so terrified of dreams back then, most of the dreams I remembered where nightmares. Then I hated them, but now I find them cool, after I wake up at least.
No way I’m a natural, I wish I was though.
I suppose I am one but years of depression and some other things have distracted me from any kind of dreaming.
As I wrote in the introduction thread, I remember having lucid dreams since early childhood. I used to be able to control most of them, but sometimes I just went with whatever the dream had to offer. I remember telling my cousins that before I go to bed, I visit a little shop in my head, where I “buy” whatever dream I wanted to have that night, and I claimed that by holding their hand while going to that shop I could buy dreams for them too. Then I would imagine myself entering a little red car and storming off into white light, as I was falling asleep. I had problems irl, though, because I was constantly questioning my surroundings, not sure of whether I was still inside a dream.
Yes i am a natural( as you call them) but never had them when i was a child?
I remember a lucid dream I had when I was younger. Can’t remember how old, but pretty young.
Most of the dream is lost to me now (but that part was not lucid anyways), I do remember I was in some random relatives house playing with a toy truck. I sort of looked around and came to the realization that the house was sort of a mix of several houses I was in before. I quickly realized that this was impossible so I must be dreaming.
I remember thinking that this was really amazing, and even came to the realization that I could do anything I wanted, nothing was impossible in a dream! I thought about what I wanted to do most in the entire world. Then I looked at the truck I was playing with, and thought “this is an awesome truck, I’m completely happy just playing with this truck”.
So it was, I became lucid, realized I could do anything, but choose to continue in the same direction I was going while non lucid. In my defence, it was a really awesome truck.
Never been Lucid when i was Young :’(
i completely understood every thing you said there , although iv never had one as a child the way you explained how you knew you were dreaming(you said this is immposible so it must be a dream ) is some thing iv said to my self many many times, in with u my friend on the rally awsome truck, just remember your dreams arnt dreams anymore THERE YOU!!
I often just sit on a chair in my dreams content in the fact that i know its a dream and in quite happy to be here, just soaking the awsome feeling of KNOWING
As far back as I can remember, I’ve gone through phases where I have lucid dream after lucid dream, then just normal dreams. When I first found this site I read about the techniques you can use to self induce lucid dreaming, I tried them a few times and they do work for me, although I found on my first attempt to lucid dream (which proved unsuccessful) about a week later, I had very lengthy lucid dreams for about 4 or 5 nights in a row.
I’m not a natural at all. It took me months of learning and practice to be able to lucid dream. I think it makes me appreciate it more!
I’m not a natural too. I don’t remember any LD from my childhood…
But ever since I’ve learned about LDs, I usually wonder if I’m dreaming, even when I’m not trying to have LDs.
I’m not natural, but I do remember having two OBE’s or LD’s that were nearly exactly the same when I was a child.
In the first one, I floated up over my body and up towards the ceiling of my room, I wasn’t scared as I noticed I had a silver or gold rope with me that I could pull to get me back to my body.
The second one was nearly exactly the same, but I was floating higher than before, and then I noticed the rope was gone and I started freaking out as I thought I would float away. I actually thought I was dying.
They stuck with me all my life, but they only made sense when I heard about Lucid Dreaming this year.
It got a lot harder with age.
The LDs I have now (currently that’s very few) happen only at times of being actively interested in the topic. So I wouldn’t call myself a natural lucid dreamer
I’ve had some LDs when I was young though, but I think that’s because LDs are naturally more common in children…
I guess I am. I tend to realize I am in a dream more by intuition than any specific technique.
I don’t often have lucid dreams or get them at will, mostly I have prelucid style dreams where I know I can do impossible things and aren’t really in any danger but don’t quite click that I am dreaming.
I don’t keep a journal and tend to get a lucid dream when I stop trying too hard to have one but remain expectant and open to one occurring.
When I was young I used to use them as a ripcord to get out of dreams if I became too frightened. In one memorable dream There was a T-Rex prowling around the farm and I went outside the house to do something crucial by then the T-Rex was a man eating giant and was going to catch me that is when I got real scared and realized it was a dream. So I turned my back on it and sat down cross legged with my eyes closed and woke up.
I have started using reality checks and practicing mindfulness through the day. I have started recording titles for my dreams with a neat app called Lucidity too
Pfff…I’m a seasoned noob at best. I don’t remember anything even remotely resembling lucidity as a child. When I learned about it in college (having never even heard of it before) my interest took years and years to galvanize even to the point that I could start trying to generate an LD. Then it, without exaggeration, took me a full year of persistent trying to have my first one. When it finally manifested…well…you can imagine my excitement!
For those out there who are frustrated by delayed results…don’t sweat it. If I can LD…believe me, anyone can
High fives I ALWAYS say that.
Here’s to wishing both of us lucidity soon, mon ami