Thread: How did you discover Lucid Dreaming?

Originally Posted by Moodyangel

I learned/heard about LD'ing from a friend who visits these forums regularly. HI JARRHEAD!!!! *cheers with pompoms*

I'm thinking he has got me into a new topic that I will fall in love with.

ohai! lol


I saw Avatar and my brother was like "man I wish i lived there. I should do lucid dreaming or something."
I then watched ReeceJones87's videos on youtube and read a wikipedia article - which led me to this site.

I was reading an article on Cracked.com
I believe the title was "5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness", well, one of those ways was lucid dreaming !
I decided to do some research, and then came across DV.

My grandmother, actually, who is quite amazed that it does indeed exist, because she read it in a magazine and didn't believe it. I googled it and found this forum.
She is more suportive then my mother. My mother thinks SP is Demonic Possession, but the only problem my grandmother has with it is that she's a Worry Wort, so she thinks I might 'hurt myself'. I have no clue what she's on about...

One morning I woke up and remembered the dream from that night. The things that happened in it made no sense, and I had this amazing idea: what if you could realize that you were dreaming? Then couldn't you do anything you want?

So I got online, found out that what I realized was true, and that over one million people had realized this before me.

watched waking life, then net searched lucid dreaming and ended up buying exploring the world of lucid dreaming by stephen laberge.

Saw "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" on the shelf. Read the back, bought it, and then googled for a forums because I'm a bit of a forum hoe.

And here I am.

I first discovered the concept about 3 years ago. I encountered the word lucid, and didn't know what it meant (I still haven't encountered that word outside of dreaming topics, even though I read books all the time) so I googled it. I found lots of things about LDing. Around 6 months later, I decided I wanted to have a lucid dream, and since then I've been on and off, but never really dedicated enough to make any real progress (I also split my attention, half the time trying to OBE, the other half trying to LD. As you can guess, I got nowhere on either.). One year ago, I was trying to OBE, so I signed up tor DV to ask for advice in the beyond dreaming forum, but I still wasn't dedicated enough.
In the middle of February, I came back here for some more advice, using the same account I had from last year. Since then, I've been keeping a dream journal, and I had two near misses for LDs. (The first time, a few weeks ago, I thought about it in a dream, but didn't RC. Last night, I did RC, but was woken up before I could become truly lucid.)
I probably wouldn't have became as dedicated as I did in the last month and a half, except that this DV is a surprisingly friendly community, compared to most of the internet. I haven't seen anybody get made fun of for anything here. I shouldn't be surprised, though, considering that a lot of people would make fun of all of us just because of the topic. The only other forum that looks like it's as friendly as this forum (and also has a strange topic) is the INTJ forum.

Google "control my dreams." It honestly changed my life.

I have no idea how I first learned about lucid dreams, it just seems as if I've always known that it is possible to control ones dreams. I've always been interested in dreams, but until very recently I'd never had an LD. A month ago however I was visiting my family and my sister told me about a lucid dream she'd had where she'd turned into a wolf. I thought that sounded great, so I decided I wanted to start having LDs too. I googled it, and found this site.

it was a combination of surfing to the web, talking to my cousin, and the movie waking life

Found article about avatar fans and lucid dreaming. Googled lucid dreaming and found this site.

my art teacher in high school mentioned it one day

then I went home and asked my sister what it was.
I thought lucid dreaming was just being kinda half awake and seeing really vivid images, but i never knew it was when you were all the way asleep and you could control your dreams

then after I graduated I started having all these nightmares that I was back in school, and all my classmates were always there, I really hated high school, and everyone in my high school so it was really hard for me to dream I was back there again. I was a bit desperate to do something about it so I wouldn't have those nightmares anymore, that's when I got the idea to learn how to lucid dream. so I could at least have some sort of say on what I dreamed of, or not.

I got interested in lucid dreaming when I read an article on another forum.

I was really into the Nightmare on Elm street series. One day while I was watching part three, I started to think to myself, "Wow that's weird, it's like they always know when they're dreaming". I started to wonder if it was possible. Actually, I kinda had a feeling it was, because I had one lucid dream as a boy and for years I tried to tell people about it but they never understood me. Anyways, I looked up "knowing you're dreaming". I found the definition on wikipedia, and I was amazed. I was originally on another forum but that place was whack, so I eventually found this site .

I got told about it from a friend who found DV and now I'm here.

I really don't remember even though it was recent. I may have stumbled across it on the web and I always had these handful of dreams in my life I always remembered and it turns out one was a lucid dream when I was 8. I flew and I still remember how crazy it felt and I wanted to do it again.

I suffer from regular sleep paralysis. In search for advice I came across Lucid Dreaming and how I can use sleep paralysis to induce it.

One night, I randomly had a lucid dream.
Then I google'd it and found out you can do it intentionally (I found out about Dream Journals, WBTB etc )
But for some reason I never started to practice until around 1 month ago I decided to google it some more then I found this site and found out about DILDs/WILDs and other methods.