I found out through my friend… god knows where he found out 
I found lucid dreaming accidentally on the internet 
while looking at hypnosis, I think. I became interested and continued to look on the internet for more information. I had no luck/lost interest (No one I talked to knew about lucid dreaming and frankly didn’t care. I had no one to share it with so there was no point.) This was at the very least 4 years ago. Then about a year or two ago I became interested again and new how to search the net. I found a few sites, and eventually I was led to this one. Finally I learned what I needed to do in order to lucid dream! and there were people to share it with! 
I’ve been trying ever since and have only had a few LD’s that I can remember. 
I’m looking at getting a book about LD’s and was wondering how Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming was. Is it worth buyin?
Thanks.
my ex mentioned she could do it about a year ago (she’s a natural LDer) and i thought hey cool for you because i didn’t know you could learn how. i was kinda jealous and then forgot about it. i heard about it again on the bus on the way home from school a few months later, and was jealous again because i had no idea i could learn how to do it. then, while looking at incubus sites (i used to be obsessed with them), i noticed that it said brandon boyd’s mom taught him how to do it at a young age, and i was like you can learn it?! next morning i searched and found lucidity.com and this site and it’s great stuff.
I found out about it on a forum about trance music. I would have found out anyway; cos i already had 2 independant friends that knew about it, and i ended up watching waking life without knowing it was about lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming isn’t that underground really…
My friend and I were painting and she just asked me, “are you dreaming?” I wasn’t really the new age type so I’m like “uh, no! Duh, I’d know if I was dreaming!” and she said, “then why don’t you when you dream?” oh dear I thought. My mind really is messed up. She lend me her dream book and I read it. There wasn’t a lot on LDs but enough to get me trying! Then I saw someones name on a random forum (somewhere else) and asked them if they could LD (there forum name was LucidDreamer23970357 or something) and they gave me this URL.
I had a really intense vivid dream last summer and was looking up dreams on the internet. There was a directory called lucid dreaming??? 3 months later I found this site.
Didn’t we have a topic about this before?Well,I’ll tell the story again.
First of all I’m really interested in how the brain works.So I’m sometimes just looking online for information for topics like dementia,brain chemical imbalances,and,of course dreams.So after spending a few days of reading peoples dream diarys I start getting really interested in nightmares.
I go to this one site that talks about different types of dreaming; nightmares, Old Hag Syndrome,interpreting dreams,and then I come across Lucid Dreaming.A dream where you know you are dreaming and can even control your surroundings.Pretty general knowledge,but nothing more.
That’s when I search for Lucid Dreaming,and then I come across this site.
Totally by accident… Was trying to find info on Telekinesis to prove my friend wrong (heh, that’s my favorite hobby 
), and found some site that had a discussion on how to control your dreams… I’ve immediately fallen in love with the idea, and now I’m here 
I was reading some message board where was a thread about LD’s. And I started training same day. 
i think i had posted this before in a similar topic, but whatever. I discovered lucid dreaming in a very stupid way. I was in the car listening to the radio and there was this commercial, it started “Did you know you can control your dreams?” doesn’t seem so weird huh? well it turns out that it was a comercial for hair spray/products… (???) anyways I thought they were just making it up to get ur attention. but i always thought it would be a good idea, so then like 3 years later i remembered and searched the net “How to control your dreams” and i thusly found Lucid dreaming
i found myself dreaming a lot more (or should i say remembering my dreams a lot more) when i started meditating and doing chi cultivation exercises. then i hit the internet and looked up astral projection and stumbled upon a site that mentioned that AP was similar to LD, so then i looked up LD and seemed that once i got good at it i’d try AP (which i was never successful at 
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I was talking to some mates about dreams and i said i could kind of control them and then my mate told me all about it.
19 years ago…lol when i was also 19 years old i was walking at the street in my old neighbourhood, in my dream, then suddenly it just hit me “Hey, iam dreaming!” Was not so much to read up to in those days hehe
Jeff
I somehow got some lucid dreams last few years, it just happened. Never had them before realy. In one of my 1st LD’s i walked down the stairs and smashed the TV set… i thought it was cool to do 
lol funny, how did learn about it??? did u just seach the internet or what???
(Nice Sig, Tao Te Ching, right?)
I read a couple of articles about it in the biggest national newspaper here a few years ago. I was unsure if it was real or just some kind of fiction but i remembered the articles and started RC:ing a few weeks later just for fun. Which worked, to my surprise
Well other-neo, as i already wrote, it just happened. I had never read anything about it, once upon a time in my sleep i just thought HEY LOL im dreaming… so then i continued to smash the TV hehehe. After that i talked about it with some friends and we got interested and i found this site while seeking info on the net.
I watched the movie waking life and saw a thread about Lucid dreaming on the IGN forums by neuropiate. After that I was too lazy to get a dream journal setup for another 4 months, then during christmas break I wanted alitle excitement and decided to start recording my dreams. I found it great remembering my dreams and loved how vivid theywere. The rest is history
remember back when i said something about brandon boyd lucid dreaming, and that got me interested? well here, i found an interview with him a few minutes ago…
do you practice lucid dreaming?
actually yes, my mom taught me when i was very young. i believe she read carlos castinada. i used to have nightmares when i was a child, and i’d wake up and go into her and say what do i do i’m scared and this and that. she always stressed enjoying your dreams. so she told me that if i was ever at a point in my dream where i wasn’t enjoying it, that i was to look at my hands and snap my fingers, and the third time i snapped my fingers i would wake up. when you’re a child, you think, oh yeah, i can do that. i would have certain reoccurring dreams, and when i wasn’t enjoying them, i would look at my hands, snap my fingers three times, and literally open my eyes. so that was how it started.
so you knew you could have an effect on your dreams at that point?
i became manipulative in good sense, in that i would create small flying machines and fly around the city in my dreams.
I learned to LD when I was a little kid because I suffered from HORRIBLE nightmares. After a while, I was able to realize I was dreaming and take complete control of my dream, thereby ending my nightmares. But by ending my nightmares, I no longer recieved the money my parents gave me if I didnt run downstairs screaming because of a nightmare, lol.
Eventually, I forgot about controlling my dreams until I Was looking for information on Astral Projection and came across Lucid Dreaming. Ever since ive been really interested in it, but ive never really tried to induce them until now.