I personally had never had one before I learnt about them, but there are many I've heard who have. What have your experiences with it been?
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I personally had never had one before I learnt about them, but there are many I've heard who have. What have your experiences with it been?
Oh yeah. I've had lucids before i ever knew about the penomena. They were so weird, when i woke up i thought they actually happened (one was about smoking weed, i woke up and thought i was still high) and then i realized it was a dream. Strange stuff.
Yup yup. I'm a natural. My control was horrible though.
I just knew I was dreaming and then woke myself up.
Then I learned about how you could master control and I was amazed.
:)
I've only had 1 Lucid Dream before I learned what they actually were. Once I learned what they were, I was up to 2 - 3 month, then 2 - 3 per week a few months later. On that note, the poll is now evenly split 1/1/1/1.
I don't believe I ever had an LD before learning about them (or if I did.. I don't remember).
I had one lucid dream that I remember before I tried. The one I had before I tried was actually one of my best, with the most control.
isn't that odd:P
Nope I don't remember ever having any before knowing about them. I've always had vivid dreams but I don't remember being lucid at all before this year.
Yes, and then i entered dream control on google and then i came across lucid dreaming.
I think when I was little I tried to conduct an experiment to see how fast time went in dreams. I made myself have a dream about walking around my neighborhood at a certain time, woke myself up, and saw how long it took in the dream vs reality. That's the only one I remember, I'm sure I did other weird stuff like that.
Heh, an odd child was I.
i have always been able to do it since i was a kid. I just have never used it.
I started controlling my dreams before my teens.
I know when I was kid I did have Lucid dreams. One event I remember was when I actually said the night before that I was going to have the same dream I had before and realize that it was the same dream and extend it. And I did.
That generally ..was the idea of a lucid dream.
I do remember having others but not as frequently. So the answer would be yes but very rare.
Yep, had quite a few as a child,
Never really thought about what they were....
But now that I am older, I am trying to gain a better control of my dreams now :)
Namaste :)
Je suis un naturel
I don't remember any but have the vagur feeling I used to when I was very young and then stopped in my early teens.
Have always had a million vivid dreams every night though, still do. Too many to ever write down.
When I was in about first grade I thought "since they're my dreams, cant I control them?" and it all just sort of 'clicked'. Ever since then I had a lucid dream every couple of months or so but it wasnt until earlier this year that I actually found out that there was a name for them
Yes, I have been able to control myself since I can remember, but since joining this site and reading people's expreience and then working on my own expreiences ie. obtaining more clarity, and generally reading about peoples lucid level, I have been questioning myself and my abilities to Lucid dream, I know I can Lucid dream as I do as I like and can control myself etc... but apart from a few occasions my Lucid level is no where near as the lucid dreams detailed on here, and it is bugging me ......
im so very happen that im drawn to paranormal spiritual things, for i used to lucid dream alot as a child, but confused them with real memories, am so glade i know of it now.
Thanks for the responses, it was interesting reading about people having (or not having) lucid dreams naturally and now I'm glad to have some stats cause I've always wondered about it in my short time of posting here :)
Good poll here, Blargh. In fact, had I not had my few LDs before DV, I never would have looked for DV. I had a couple of LDs before I read up on it and searched 'dream control' in Google.
I can only remember one dream from when I was a kid. Maybe 11 years old or so.
In the dream I was playing piano in my house and suddenly realized "Hey.. I hate playing piano. Why am I sitting around doing this?" Then I started looking around and eventually realized I was in a dream. And I remember wanting to wake up, because the dream was so boring, and I was frustrated because I kept having false awakenings where I went down to the livingroom and the piano every time
Yup, I can clearly remember one. I don't think I was even 10 years old. And there was absolutely nothing to the dream. I was just kind of floating in this vast empty space, all lit up with a white glow. And I was just there, existing, and I though "oh my god, this is totally a dream." And that was it.
Then a few years ago I stumbled upon a book about LDing, read a page, tried one of the super simple techniques for a couple days, and had an awesome LD the second night.
Of course. Once every other year I would have one that was memorable. I never had the inspiration to realize that these dreams could be willed, though. I thought they occured at random. The lucid dreams were usually short, and are completely blown away in quality and frequency by my induced lucid dreams.
I had two lucids consecutively a few days before joining this forum. I had only known the definition for a few months prior. If I had not enjoyed those lucids so greatly, I would never have put the effort into it.
I've had lucids, but never knew that I could actually do something with them, so it wasnt cool.
PLEASE tell me the technique you used? Something super-simple that caused an awesome LD?Quote:
Originally Posted by kichu
Most techs aren't super-simple or else DV would be full of them so don't expect it to be that specialQuote:
Originally Posted by yelizaveta
Yes, just one or two
I've just posted something that really looks like lucid dreaming (I personally voted 1 or 2)
Take a look at that http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=49797
No... I always thought "Naturals" were just people who wished they were. Or maybe I'm just envious.:P
They exist! I recieved proof that there are naturals today...I asked a friend if he ever lucid dreamed, and he asked me what it was. When I explained it to him he was like 'wtf, I'm not the only person who does that? And there's a name for it?" Then we discussed his lucid experiences, which were actually pretty advanced and quite frequent from what i gathered on this forum. I was quivering with envy! I did give him a link to here though...Quote:
Originally Posted by Grod
The curse of being a natural lucid dreamer?
I began to have LD's so frequently, that I was having difficulty separating reality from the LD's.
Which really made for some crazy moments, bouts of deja vu, dizzyness, nausea.
Most of which took place during my high school years.
it began like this.
i had 4 natural in about 2 weeks. then nothing happend for years and i was wondering wtf that was but i didn't find anything about it. and years later i was downloading a mixed torrent and it said sometihng about lucid dreaming, i didn't know what is was so i read it and found that it was exactly what i had been looking for.
yes, only 3-4. nightmares as a little kid. i'd get scared, realize i'm dreaming, try to wake up, fail. it never occured to me to change the dream. i stopped having nightmares later, so no more LDs, until discovered the term lucid dream 2-3 years ago, Wikipedia. i got the LaBerge book from the library and half-ass attempts for a couple years, but didn't commit until July.
Yes, though much more frequent when I was a kid (between ages 4 - 10 or so)
you know i have just this second realised that sometimes when i am having nightmares i would shut my eyes and try and wake up. it would work everytime as well. why have I never thought about controlling the dream instead of forcing myself awake? :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. Jones
I never had a lucid before learning about them. The possiblity had never occured to me I just wanted to control the type of dream I had. I'm really glad I looked it up though:sniper:
I used to have lucid dreams from time to time before I even knew there was a name for it. I always thought it was quite normal to realize I was dreaming in a dream every great once in a while; I never knew it was anything special. Only problem was I was never able to control my dreams, and thought it was odd but figured it was just the way things were. Recently, I have been gaining dream control now that I have learned that it is possible. In my case, the key just seems to be patience and a great deal of persistence.
I answered with yes I'm a natural though I never really thought of myself as one, obviously I was one as a younger kid, and I can't say I'm not one now, because if I get enough sleep there is a fair chance of having an ld I'd say 20% each night, if I get 9 hours of sleep.
yeah around my teens I used to always have dreams about flying...and realize them, and I've always had great recall...well as long as I stay sober. Last year I was on some web site that had all kinds of information and one of them was about lucid dreaming...a few googles later I'm on here and having about 4 LDs a month.
Yeah I'v had a couple Lucid Dreams before I even came here. When I found this place it help boosted my dreams and now I can have Many Lucids in one night.
Yeah, I've also tried it several times when I was younger. I had one controlled dream after hearing about LD. Now Im going to start all over with this stuff :P
The technique I used was this - I opened my hand and looked at it throughout the day and asked myself if I was dreaming at the same time. I looked at one side of my hand, then the other side, and flipped back and forth a few times, and asked if I was dreaming. I did that for about two days straight, all day long, as often as possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by yelizaveta
That night, the hand flipping made it's way into my dream and as soon as I saw it, I realized I was dreaming.
I don't why it worked that easily for my first time, but it was awesome.
I've had lucid dreams for as long as I can remember. I thought everyone had them, especially because my best friend in elementary school also had them.
Always had them as a little kid, that is the only reason why I was able to find this site, because I wondered if it was natural or if I had super powers when I was younger.
Once or twice when I was very little I think... and they weren't much really. I just recall being able to control my actions to a certain degree in some dreams when I was much younger.
I had semi-frequent lucid dreams at least every few months since ages 6-8, and possibly before that. I remember trying to induce them, but having barely any luck since I couldn't think of any techniques to try besides imagining the dream I wanted to enter, which didn't work. I didn't use the internet much then, if we even had it that early, so I didn't think to look it up, and basically forgot about trying to induce them until I found the wikipedia article on lucid dreaming, years later. I started out with very little dream control, and didn't really gain any until seriously attempting lucid dreaming for a few months, and increasing my average frequency of lucid dreams to several in a week.