Thread: How did you discover Lucid Dreaming?

I was reading about dreams on Howstuffworks.com and it had a link to this website.

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.

Wow, cool thread!

I first heard of lucid dreaming sometime in the late 70's or early 80's. I don't remember what magazine it was now, but there was an ad for the original Novadreamer I think, and if I remember right it was a big full page ad with lots of info about LaBerge's then fledgeling studies. I also remember for those who couldn't afford something like a Novadreamer they sold lighted pens for writing in your DJ. The whole idea intrigued me powerfully, and I marked that page and kept telling myself one day I'd order a lighted pen and start my dream journal - but somehow I never did. I also dreamed (daydreamed) about one day saving up enough to get that Novadreamer (never did that either).

Shortly after that I started working up an idea for a comic book series I wanted to do called The Dreaming, about a lucid dreamer who inadvertently lets aliens into our world through his dreams and has to use powers of lucidity to hunt them down and save the earth before these advance scouts can bring in the equipment to open up portals and let in the actual invasion forces.

I didn't know much about lucidity or dreaming then... remember the internet wasn't even a gleam in Al Gore's eye yet... so I made a lot of it up, but I ended up with ideas pretty close to much of actual lucid techniques... I had my main character studying meditation and Eastern belief systems to master his state of mind so he can gain control over his dreaming mind etc.

Anyway, fast forward to a few months ago... very end of 2009 to be exact, I had long forgotten about all of it but a conversation I was having through email with a couple friends made me think about that long-buried comic book idea and I suddenly thought Damn! I have the internet now... I can google Lucid Dreaming!!!

... And here I am. Ironically, I'm now living The Dreaming.

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.

I had seen a youtube video on what LDing was, and the video linked me to Dreamviews, where I learnt to actually do it. I have never looked back. Thanks, DV! =D

The concept of LD came to me when I was pretty young... like 9 or 10? I remember thinking about dreams... and asking myself if they were random or if I was actually controlling them. I came to the conclusion I couldn't ( I kept thinking of stuff I would do when I was dreaming... I could never get myself to do them, lol)

Then, years later, I was reading something, I forgot what, and the expression lucid dream appeared there. At first I thought it was another way to say "wet dream", but realized it didn't make any sense at all, and decided to google it. Needless to say, I became fascinated about it, since it's something I always wanted to do, but thought it wasn't possible.

I found out about lucid dreaming a couple of years back when I first found out about OBEs. I ended up finding out about OBEs after I decided to google telekinesis after watching the Xmen 3 movie and the rest is history

Well, a couple of years ago, I was at camp, and this one guy on the last day fell asleep. I then decided to say something to him to mess with his head. When I woke up, he dreamed about what I said (being at an airport,btw). Everyone thought it was funny. () Later, I made him want Doritoes. I've figured that it was hypnosis, so I decided to look for it more to become a better hypnotist. And, from that, I found the Lucid Crossroads. Then, this great website, but I joined LD4all, then abandoned it for here, where I got my first lucids!

My story^

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.

I've had lucid dreams since I can remember. I could think about something and will it to happen in my dreams. I've always had great dream recall and people thought I was making up all the elaborate details of my dreams. I've kept a DJ since I was in gradeschool.

In highschool I watched Waking Life, and realized that's what I was doing. Then read Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen Laberge.

Since then my brother and I have both studied lucid dreaming (he more than I, I'm a slacker when it comes to studying, but I do practice) People think I'm wierd when I look forward to my dreams, and randomly tell people about them. meh, oh well, they're missing out

Well my first lucid dreams were when I was very young....maybe between 4-7. What was interesting about those early dreams was that they would all start the same. I would lie in bed for what felt like a long time...looking out this one window, then the next thing I knew I would have jumped to the window sill. There was always a moment of exhilaration here as I looked out at the dream world and then back at the bed where my real body was sleeping.

It wasn't until my teenage years that I heard of lucid dreaming, and realized what I had remembered had a name. When I was young I knew I was dreaming at the time and could do all kinds of wild stuff in my dreams, just didn't have a name for it just "dreaming".

I've always been interested in dreaming in general. One day in school I was bored, so I searched dreams on google. I came across several sites and one talked about being able to control dreams. I thought that would be super cool to learn how to do that. The site linked to here.. and now here I am.

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.

Before Lucid Dreaming hit the market in the 60's I had asked myself a question "Can people practice right behavior in dreams." It took me three nights to enter state, from then on I explored, I played, and I learned. This was in the late 50's. Althought I was agnostic, and am still not religious-I do not expect to ever be either-I became, by definition, a prophet. Not a prophet sent, but I am still confused about why--and more confused as to why it would matter to anyone. It simply made me very afraid, and resentful. Much of the work is study outside of the state, a life dedicated to understanding. If, whatever it is wants to teach, it will teach, if it does not, it will not. All I ever wanted out of life was to get marrried, raise a family, and explore this reality with a companion. Well, so much for desires.

Sharing what one has learned, and been through can be quite dangerous--learning how to do that in a manner that is safe is actually a challenge--especially when one seems to be artless. And so, I have been leaning toward a formal presentation, even though it has been written "line upon line, precept upon precept." The real crunch is will I ever get it right.

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 actually was attempting with little success to LD before I ever knew what it was. I had to use a technique where you tell yourself not to wet the bed out loud before you sleep to prevent bedwetting when I was a young child. And once out of random as a teenager I accidently became aware in a dream then I thought maybe I would be able to do it again so I used to try telling myself to realise I'm dreaming before going to bed.

I found out that LDing was actually a known and trainable thing recently on 4chan where somone linked me this site.

I now know the technique I was trying actually does work so I'm fairly proud of that hehe