Thread: Born with the ability to lucid dream?

Ive always remembered my dreams. Never been hard. They always have interested me since the day I was born. I actually started a dream journal at 8. I came across a journal and had no idea what to do with it so I wrote down a dream. Then another, and another, etc..I slowed down a bit realising it would fill up. So I only wrote down the most important dreams. I almost always have reocurring dreams and they usually are not very clear. My two biggest recurring dreams are a huge war where everyone is dieing and there are nukes, think of War of the Worlds.

Anyway, I have always had quite vivid dreams, I have always (during nightmares or thing i didnt like) told myself its a dream and then forced my body to sit up. I never realised this was going lucid. The nightmares stopped and so did my "natural lucidity" I suppose. Now that I have heard other people talk about this I realise it was a lucid. Now whenever I get into a nightmare (Rare) I shall try it.

I consider myself lucky but at the same time I hate not having a strong lucid yet...

Originally posted by Extropian
I've had them as long as I can remember. Is it possible to have this in my genes?

lucid dreaming is our heritage. some simply awaken sooner than others.

Originally posted by sand_worm
When I was a kid, I used to have nightmares too. I think I was about 5, and a boy at school told me, \"Next time someone points a gun at you, change it to a banana! Come on, it's *your* dream!\"

That is because he was a child with child-like attitude towards dreams. The barrier between the living world and dream world is much easier to cross than it is in adulthood. Children believe in things more readily without question than most adults with mundane minds. He may well have said changing a gun to a banana without question as there is no doubt at that age that such a thing would be impossible. Therefore, you do it and it works. Because of that you perhaps are more able to LD than the boy who suggested it. He will have grown up probably with a 'mundane' mind and wouldn't even recollect saying it to you if you met him again and asked him, but because of your circumstances of being scared at nightmares, and the suggestion put to you, and the fact it has worked has probably had a bigger impact on your life than it did on his.

I bet if it were possible for everyone on this forum who LDs to meet up at a given time, we'd all be surprised at how interesting and lively our personalities are, because we have not allowed our minds to become dull with age, and have a doorway to a playground limited only by our imagination.

It would be interesting to see what ages we all are and where the highest proportion of LDers are. I'm in my early 30s, and this is new to me, though I have always had vivid dreams but they have recently found a new dimension which I am thrilled at discovering. But I do wonder if I will still be able to at 60 or 70 years of age

I dont know where you got all that stuff about the kid that told him about the banana, but I am definantly going to tell my kids to do something like that if they ever have nightmares, hopefully if I teach them early, they wont have many nightmares, and they will be good lucid dreamers

What is "adulthood" anyway? And who says what qualities must be left at the door and which get to make the journey to grown up?
it is interesting which experiences stay with you and help to shape you and which just crumble away with a steady stream of time.