Thread: Aware of dreaming when I was 8

I was about 8 the first time I was aware I was dreaming. It's not really noteworthy, except for the response from the characters in my dream.

We were all lining up to go in after morning recess. I was in line when I realized I never woke up. I went from being in my bed to suddenly lining up to go to class. So I screamed "It's a dream do whatever you want"

The entire school started running around like they were nuts, and the teacher finally calmed us down. I was crying and said "I thought I was dreaming". The teacher told me "How would you like it if someone did that in your dream"

Sadly, this was back in the late 80's, and didnt have internet access. My next experience with a lucid dream wouldnt happen until around 2001.

That's pretty cool. I wish I was aware of dreaming when I was 8. I Mean, I knew I had dreams, but never knew you could control them until around 2005.

Well Ive never been able to control them. I've only known enough to know I was dreaming, and that the rules wouldnt apply to me in dreams.

Originally Posted by alienaa70433

Sadly, this was back in the late 80's, and didnt have internet access. My next experience with a lucid dream wouldnt happen until around 2001.

That's quite a time gap between lucid dreams!! I'm sorry it took you so long to have another.. but I'm glad you did!

I had a few lucid dreams around that age, if not earlier. I couldn't really control them, but I could see the potential. Unfortunately, my parents didn't know anything about controlling dreams, and I wasn't used to learning things from the internet at that age(if we even had it), so I basically forgot about trying to induce lucid dreams until I found the lucid dreaming article on Wikipedia.

I had lucid dreams around age 8, though I can remember using the name Amanda in so many sentences the next day (I couldn't get the name of the first woman under the blue kaleidoscopic pattern), and "Amanda" was shown after the pink kaleidoscopic-like pattern. I had no control over "Amanda'"s groaning, however. This dream happened in the spring of 1994, by the way.

Wow dude thats really cool. I've had some kid lucids (depends on what you call kid. Im 13.) at around age 5 or so.


I remember I was walking to the lunchroom, and the teacher sat me and my friend Truman down because of something. So I told him "Do you realize that we're dreaming?" I could tell he was really freaked out.

The sad part was that I didn't know you could control your dreams, so that really dwindled the experience.