How I naturally stumbled on to Lucid Dreaming.
When i was younger, I had bad dreams about being chased and unable to get away. I dealt with it by waking myself up, but I never realized that most people couldn’t do this. As time went on, I had actually developed a power of some sorts over the situation. For example say someone is about to harm me in some way. I would say to the person or monster " you cant not hurt me because i can just wake up". Most of the time the situation would dissolve in some sort of wierd way or if need be, i would force myself to wake up. Having said that, this was before i knew anything about lucid dreaming. Also growing up, in my dreams I would aquire things of value and hide them somewhere like upder my pillow. The thinking was that when I woke up, the things would be there. So there had to be a level of awareness, but I just accepted it as normal.
Growing up ( im an old fart now ) I have always had a very good dream recall and always been able to fly. I never question what this was alll about until a little over a year ago when I had a weird dream. It went like this;
I woke up beside my wife in bed totaly unaware that this was a false awakening. I felt strange and things didnt look right. I ask my wife if i was awake and she said "yes of course you are awake, you are talking to me now". I replied that i didnt think i was awake and was dreaming. So I tried to convince her it was a dream by standing up and levitating . I said that look at this, I couldnt do this if i were awake. She accepted it as reality and was unimpressed. Then I looked into the mirror and to my horror, my head was upside down on my shoulders with a horrible disfigured appearance. I said " look at that ". Again, she was unimpressed and considered it as normal. I then awoke for real and my wife was still asleep. The next morning knowing this was not normal, i googled the hell out of "being aware that that you are dreaming" ( didnt even know what it was called ). Well, that was a little over a year ago and after researching and practicing, I started having LDs about once every few weeks to now having them 2-3 nights a week with a majority of them multiple LDs and FAs. I have recently learned to reconize the FAs which as increased my frequency.