Ever since i was maybe 5 or 6, i began to have nightmares (pretty normally, along with normal dreams) but after the first few, i began to get scared and searched for a way to end them. I gained a natural ability to recognise dreams. Whenever i had a dream that scared me, i would recognise it immediatly, and wake myself up. This happened up until seventh grade (the frequency of the nightmares had decreased), when one nightmare i chose to continue the dream, and started controlling it to a low extent. I told a freind of mine about it, and he freaked out, telling me about the whole lucid dreaming thing. I have always been able to remember my dreams clearly, but i dont have nightmares anymore, and its harder to induce lucidity without them. I have tried various methods of pre-sleep preperation and they dont work. I was just wondering if anyone could relate to my story, and any help in getting lucid more often