Naturally Lucid

I was looking around and since there seem to be loads of people here that naturally have lucid dreams, I figured this would be interesting to talk about.

If you have "always had" lucid dreams or you do it naturally (aka you don't intentionally do a technique like MILD or WILD), how do you become lucid?

*Do you come into the dream already aware?
*Do you just realize eventually that you're dreaming?
*Have you always had dreamsigns and used them?
*Did you naturally use any of the techniques or variations of them?

For those that naturally dream lucid, would you say that working on different techniques improved the frequency of your lucid dreams or improved recall of them?

I have only become naturally lucid once, and that was even before I knew lucid dreaming existed. Basically I was stood in this room, and I took a minute to think. I realised that I was in a room that I'd never seen before, with no recollection of how I'd got there, I just thought, this is weird, I must be dreaming. I then woke up after about one second.

Yeah, me once too. I was being hunted down by sesame street characters, and I realized that this was ridiculous, and poof! :content:

Well, I've been reading about lucid dreaming, and I've been keeping a dream journal.

At the time, I've already written 3 full month of dreams, every single day of the summer.

In real life, we were on this train. And then we got out of it at 3 in the freakin' morning. So we had to walk all the way to our house. And I could barely keep my eyes open.

We got home. I went to sleep RIGHT away.

I had already brushed my teeth on the train. hehe ;)

And then, in my dream world, this guy was talking to me. He was trying to talk, and his speech was always muted at random spot. He would try to talk, but then suddenly the whole dream would be silent for those blank spots.
And then I would notice that that's weird.

Then I looked at the school clock, and I noticed there was fog inside! Like FOG, and it was so thick. And in real life, my brother's watch was fogged up like that.

I somehow thought about the two, connected it or something and exclaimmed "This is a dream!"

And holy shit, this was the first time I realized I was in a dream! I was actually able to control my walking, and it was sorta like bouncing around hehe XDXD

"Now to find a girl..."

And my dream ended, and I woke up. I thought to myself "what a short lucid dream." And I was so happy. I checked the time and it was 6 o clock (3 hours later). It took me several months before I Finally began to seriously practice reality checks..

When I go lucid, it's usually a spontaneous DILD (sometimes after WBTB, but not always since I'm not particularly fond of waking up at 5am). Occasionally an obvious dreamsign triggers it, but most often, I just suddenly realize, "Hey, this is a dream," perform an RC to make sure, and then go off to do whatever. It's been happening with varying frequency since I was 15, before I'd ever heard of lucid dreaming.

My cousin is a natural lucid dreaming. He doesn't have control (he never tried to control a dream) but he knows he is dreaming every dream. When he is in his dream, he knows it's a dream.

Before I knew about lucid dreaming, I would sleep 12 hours on weekends, the only time I would remember a dream. I would sometimes if I was lucky have lucid dreams triggered by me being naked in public. A couple times I had back-to-back lucid dreams, one on Saturday and one on Sunday.

Unfortuanetly I don't have any more nude-in-public dreams....

I've been LDing forever, but not every dream is lucid. I don't really enter the dream aware, I more "wake up" in the dream world. In the beginning, it can be confusing and groggy, just like waking up in real life. Sometimes I'll realize that something could not be happening in the real world so I must be dreaming. But usually I can just kinda feel it. Many of my dreamscapes are recurring, and there is no mistaking that they are not "real." I do use reality checks when I'm trying to LD and I WILD for fun, but I'm not that good at it. I spend most of my dreams in a quasi lucid state. I don't like becoming so concious that I feel like the real world me. I also don't worry to much about control, I like to let the dreams teach me and let my mind do it's thing. If I spend the whole dream controlling every little thing, I won't rest and will wake up mentally exhausted.

I realised I was dreaming because I froze somebody like Sub-Zero does in mortal kombat. Also I did the flying thing that Raiden does. It's just amazing. I had the best semi-LD last night. IT WAS THE BEST DREAM I'VE EVER HAD. ) that I remember :P )

I have had lucid dreams for as long as I can remember.Only didn't know it was called Lucid Dreaming N stuff and that it was a unique thing. To me it's always been normal, yet not less exciting and enjoyable.
Usually the Lucidity in my youth's Dreams came in times when I was really in NEED of it: In Nightmares that were terrible I would suddenly realise it was a dream and Deliberately awaken from it.

So basically I've always seen Lucidity as a means of Protecting my soul against the frightening and disturbing nightmares my Subconcious threw at me sometimes.
I've had alot of terrifying nightmares as a child. Yet I always appreciated these insane dreams afterwards as having been as frightening as amazingly creative and wonderfull as well.