Thread: Natural Lucid Dreaming?

So lately, I have been really on and off due to these problem in lucid dreaming, but I really want to try hard to attain lucidity!

I think I am beginning to become what one might consider a "Natural Lucid Dreamer", I don't reality check lately but when I am in a dream I just realize that I am dreaming due to either just thinking it up out of nowhere, or realizing this wouldn't happen in real life.

The problem that I am having in lucid dreaming is truly attaining lucidity and trying to stay in the dream.

By that I mean when I do realize that I am in a dream, I do not feel like I am fully conscious and just fuzzily feel in a dream, like I know I am dreaming but am not in FULL control. But before I can even do stuff to attain full lucidity I have the other problem of trying to stay in a dream.

Whenever I get lucid in a dream, my eyelids become heavy and I have the impulse to close them, and even if I close them for the slightest second I find myself woken up and mad that about what I just did!

If I could fix these two problems, I think I would be on my path to lucid dreaming very often!

Well, I would recommend working on your recall and awareness in dreams.

A natural is someone that starts becoming lucid without prior knowledge of LDing, so you can't really become a natural after learning, I believe.

I would put more attention into finding an induction method that works for you. It's understandably difficult to control your lucid dreams if they occur spontaneously without any prior intent. Plus, everything in life is going to take some practice, so you can't expect it would go flawlessly if you've never done this before.

Browse this site for induction methods. People are coming up with ideas all the time here. One of them is sure to work for you.

I don't think a 'natural' exists, I think it's just luck. For example someone has been having lucid dreams since childhood. Often this is after facing his nightmares and realizing he can influence his dreams and you know how it goes from there. This is just luck, many kids go through their childhood without the strength and/or knowledge to face their nightmares and become lucid. Sometimes a person just has the good circumstances to have a long and good quality sleep, increasing the chances for lucidity. Some are just bored during waking life and have 2 or 3 exciting dreams and they focus on their dream lives because that's where they get excited. And as they go deeper and deeper into their dream world they eventually discover lucidity and you know the rest. Or perhaps you hear a story from someone, a movie or a from a book and that sparks your imagination, you see them back in your dreams and it draws your attention, you keep on dreaming about it and eventually you get lucid somehow and if being aware in a dream somehow gets your attention you start thinking about it and somehow you get better and better at it. Or you see a hot girl somewhere that is way out of your reach, you see her in a dream, somehow realize you're dreaming and decide to hump her while you have the chance. This way you discover lucidity and so on. Or you meditate a lot or think deeply about the meaning of life or about reality and stuff like that, making you more aware, increasing your chance of lucidity. If you look at it that way, discovering an article or video on the internet or coming across someone who tells you about lucid dreaming and teaches you how to do it is not so different as randomly becoming aware of your dream. They both happen by chance, not because of a certain predisposition.

See? There are so many possibilities you can 'naturally' discover lucid dreaming. Everybody is a 'natural' lucid dreamer. It wouldn't be possible in the first place if lucid dreaming was not natural. Humans are lucid dreamers by nature. You might argue with it by asking 'Then why are we unconscious in most dreams and do we have to work for lucidity?' How the hell should I know?? I just know that if lucid dreaming was unnatural we wouldn't be able to become conscious during dreams no matter what we did.

So don't be bothered by things such as talent. I really hate the word talent. We are all humans and if a human has done a certain thing it is because of time and effort.