Born with the ability to lucid dream?
Hello,
This is my very first post about lucid dreaming. All these years I've pretty much kept it to myself and my husband. Last night I had an amazing lucid dream:
I was flying through the air. It was dark and the moon was full. The sky was scattered with stars, like diamonds on black velvet. It was so sharp. I could smell the air and feel the morning dew. I flew across a river that was about the size of a football field. I realized I was dreaming and was surprise at how easily I could control my altitude. Usually when I realize I am dreaming I slowly float back towards the earth (or water). There is no fear in falling, I am usually trying very hard to will myself back up high again. But last night, I merely thought where I wanted to go. I flew/floated across an emerald green river. The trees were dipping into the water, leaving rings. The moon's reflection was mirrored in the river, the ripples distorting the image. I watched the dew drip off the leaves. It was all so breathtaking. It's hard to descibe. I followed along the snake-like river, taking the turns with ease, maybe 20 feet above the water. It felt like I was flying around 30-40 miles per hour. Then I willed myself to the ground and landed in a back yard with lush green lawn. There was a worn redwood fence surrounding the yard that I was in. I took a little run and leaped onto the fence horizontally and ran the length of one side. I jumped down and laughed at what I had just done, amazed at my newfound acrobatic capabilities... then woke up. :( I didn't want to wake up. It was so wonderful and peaceful.
I really love dreams like this. I've had them as long as I can remember. Is it possible to have this in my genes? I had a teacher recommend I look into lucid dreaming when I was a teen ager. Back then there wasn't an internet. When I became internet savvy, I realized that I was experiencing lucid dreams at least once every few months. Sometimes more often. This is all without trying though. When I was actively trying to recall dreams in my younger years, I recorded 3-5 dreams a night. It seemed almost effortless. I finally stopped doing it when I got married for fear of upsetting the husband with my nightly mini light, pen and paper. Now I am interested in starting it back up. Last night really rekindled my interest.
I look forward to reading your posts.
~ Extropian
Re: Born with the ability to lucid dream?
You've come to the right place. It sounds like you have a natural talent for it. You know, there are reliable ways of prolonging your lucid dreams and gaining more control over them, which you can find throughout this forum.
Nice to hear you've become interested in the concept again--it's really a great pass-time.
Keep at it and don't get frustrated if you don't have the success you desire. You have plenty of time to sleep!
Hope to see you around,
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My ability to lucid dream
i did not know this was something that people worked at.
i have always been able to lucid dream
usually they occur when someone or something tries to wake me and i refuse to wake so I go back to sleep and my dreams are so obviously dreams that sometimes I have even tinkered with them changing who was there or going back to a previously dreamt dream and doing it differently.
i, however, sometimes feel guilty lucid dreaming. I have discussed this a little with people on the chat through this website. I feel guilt because I think dreams are my subconcious' way of communicating with me. And when I lucid dream I feel like I am muddying up the connection and the message. I have also noticed that if I am having a good dream and realize that I am dreaming, I will automatically start changing the dream, which drives me nuts - I would rather have the good dream randomly. I like surprises, you know? But if it is a bad dream and I relaize I am dreaming, anything I can do to stop it is greatly appreciated and necessary.
in my family, we all dream alot. i am curious as to whether they lucid dream as much as I do and under what circumstances.
Re: Born with the ability to lucid dream?
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Originally posted by Extropian
Hello,
I had a teacher recommend I look into lucid dreaming when I was a teenager.
~ Extropian
Funny how it happens, isn't it? Most people haven't the faintest idea about Lucid Dreaming, but every so often you'll find someone who knows about it. We're like a secret club. :-P
What was this teacher like, out of interest?
Anyway, you are, as you will have undoubtebly gathered, very lucky. I doubt people are actually born with the ability to Lucid Dream (do your relatives, for example?), but it's a skill which is gained by the events in your life. Nurtured, not natured, as the saying goes.
I'm not sure I was taught . . .
i'm not sure i was taught - experientially or otherwise to lucid dream.
In fact - I never really wanted to until i found this website.
I didn't have nightmares as a child, but did as a teenager. when I got them, though, they did scare the piss out of me - they were graphic and real and generally f'd up. The kind where a grown up version of myself is battling the governement and they keep killin gmy loved ones and i am in a perpetaul state of hiding in the underground.
But my way of dealing with these dreams was to look at the circumstances in my life that were causing such woes in my subconcious. The people I was associating with were not good ones and they were causing me a lot of strife. When I got away from them, my nightmares stopped. Lucid dreaming had nothing to do with it.
I lucid dream all the time, but only when I found this website did i start Lucid dreaming with purpose. Before that I would change things just because I could. This is part of the reason i was not a big fan of lucid dreaming - my changes to the dream made the dreams less powerful instead of more.
And i had never heard of people who changed their dreams untill this website.
I think, though, i lucid dream alot because I do alot of waking and then going back to sleep right away. alarm goes off - i turn it off - i roll back over - I keep dreaming but with conciousness. Or I'm sleeping - someone tries to wake me - I grunt - roll back over - go back to sleep - and lucid dream till they come wake me again. Music. Construction sounds. Even the dreams themselves will wake me when I discover I am dreaming and then it is just a matter of going back to sleep soon enough that I am still on that same frequency.
I figured this out.
No one taught me.
Save this website - which I found last week.