Thread: How did you discover Lucid Dreaming?

I was looking into hypnosis (inspired by the Mythbusters and my IP relations professor) in an effort to hypnotize my sister just for fun, when I somehow stumbled upon lucid dreaming. I then recalled a documentary about lucid dreaming, and decided to do a bit more digging. I liked what I saw, and here I am.

I doing some research about Theta Wave and their reaction with the brains and stubbles upon this website. And I remembered my friend saying he was able to control his dreams and was amazed I could actually LEARN to do it!

I was intruduced to it on another forum. We had a "Nightmare/Bad Dream" Thread going and these guys were talking about Lucids...

I asked what they were on about and Eagle, who you all know as Dairyman here informed me. I was intriuged. He later linked me to his DJ, and then that got me started here.

Glad that conversation happened.

When I was in high school and first learned about dreaming in psych class, it occurred to me that being able to control my dreams would be really cool. One day, while I was rather interested in my dreams, I spontaneously realized I was in a dream, but immediately woke up upon that realization. About a year later, as a college freshman, at which point I think I'd heard of lucid dreaming proper (probably from a documentary video about dreams I'd gotten as a gift), I had my first stable LD, a WILD, after a long night of astronomy. Within about another year of that I bought LaBerge's book and kept dream journals and all that jazz. Since then it's been a hobby I pick back up every now and then to varying degrees of intensity. Every once in a while since I first developed the hobby I've also had very rare spontaneous LD's when I wasn't actively cultivating them.

I actually had a LD first before I knew what it was. When I was a teenager, I had a really intense dream that I had supernatural abilities, and the CIA were chasing me. Near the end of the dream, they shot my dad on our lawn outside my house. I remember thinking I didn't want to see this plot through, I didn't want this to happen or deal with it, and it was like the scene rewound and I thought, "Oh wow, this is a dream!" and told my dad to get inside the house.

That dream prompted me to keep a dream journal, ever since then. I tried doing some research on the internet and found that dream control has a name, but I couldn't really find much else about it (this was about 12 or so years ago).

I'd sporadically had LD's since then, but never had very much control over them. Mostly just that I knew I was dreaming. Sometimes I only had enough control to make plot choice changes or scene changes. Sometimes I had enough control to activate certain abilities (like one dream I was in someone's house, and I didn't want to get caught, so I levitated), sometimes I had total control to stop the dream plot and do something cool like flying, only, I wouldn't get very far with that. I could get up there, and I kept getting dragged back down, while in flight.

I found DV through a google search too when I wanted to learn if I could have more control of lucidity.

Originally Posted by eternalstar01

I tried doing some research on the internet and found that dream control has a name, but I couldn't really find much else about it (this was about 12 or so years ago).

Isn't it amazing how rapidly information is continuing to expand on the internet? only 12 years ago there wasn't a great deal on the internet, now look at it! There's even multiple fricken forums just for Lucid Dreams!

I was clicking "random page" on Wikipedia and got pretty excited about it. At the evening, I've read through the half of Dreamviews Got first half-lucid that night and real lucid the next day.

When I was a kid I told some people about my dreams and they looked at me wonky, I was like what you dont dream like that?

Years later I was doing some research into dreams, to understand why I dreamed the way I did and I came across lucid dreaming. Round 2000 or so I came across DV it was one of two forums on the web regarding lucid dreaming.