Thread: A quick question

Some people born with the ability of lucid dreaming we call them natural lucid dreamers but as I know even if someone is natural lucid dreamer he/she cant be lucid every time.

Some people are naturally very gifted at lucid dreaming. DNA, karma, whatever. And yes--there are people who are lucid in most of their dreams without trying. I'm not sure how common this is, but I also know someone who claims to be lucid in every dream. She doesn't think it's a big deal.

A few possibilities:

1.) These people experience lots of semi-lucid dreams. So they think they are lucid but really aren't.
2.) These people have bad dream recall in general, and so only remember their lucid dreams.

Considering that your friend is being honest, the two possibilities I mentioned really aren't that likely, in my opinion. But I don't know. Maybe he doesn't know about all the really cool things he can do at night? You should enlighten him

But my point is, if you are lucid, don't you have the ability to turn it off? I mean, I find the idea that someone would have to "suffer" through a night of lucid dreaming odd. It seems like it takes mental control to be able to lucid dream, and do it well, so by that token, shouldn't he have the mental control to quit being lucid?

I would think so, but unfortunately I am only familiar with my own mind. Are you sure your friend knows what a lucid dream is? I have had discussions with people, and after sharing experiences, it seemed they were talking about precognitive dreams or dream control in general (neither of which need to be done lucidly). There is a lot of misinformation circulating about lucid dreaming; perhaps your friend just misunderstands the term.