Anyone Relate?

[Lucidity13]

Ever since i was maybe 5 or 6, i began to have nightmares (pretty normally, along with normal dreams) but after the first few, i began to get scared and searched for a way to end them. I gained a natural ability to recognise dreams. Whenever i had a dream that scared me, i would recognise it immediatly, and wake myself up. This happened up until seventh grade (the frequency of the nightmares had decreased), when one nightmare i chose to continue the dream, and started controlling it to a low extent. I told a freind of mine about it, and he freaked out, telling me about the whole lucid dreaming thing. I have always been able to remember my dreams clearly, but i dont have nightmares anymore, and its harder to induce lucidity without them. I have tried various methods of pre-sleep preperation and they dont work. I was just wondering if anyone could relate to my story, and any help in getting lucid more often

[CloudOne]

Ever since i was maybe 5 or 6, i began to have nightmares (pretty normally, along with normal dreams) but after the first few, i began to get scared and searched for a way to end them. I gained a natural ability to recognise dreams. Whenever i had a dream that scared me, i would recognise it immediatly, and wake myself up. This happened up until seventh grade (the frequency of the nightmares had decreased), when one nightmare i chose to continue the dream, and started controlling it to a low extent. I told a freind of mine about it, and he freaked out, telling me about the whole lucid dreaming thing. I have always been able to remember my dreams clearly, but i dont have nightmares anymore, and its harder to induce lucidity without them. I have tried various methods of pre-sleep preperation and they dont work. I was just wondering if anyone could relate to my story, and any help in getting lucid more often [/b] When I was about five (like you) I had a nightmare almost every night as a child and I remember that a few of them were vivid. Later on I chalenged the nightmares and destroyed them - that was one of the greatest dream experiences I've ever had. Since then I was able to control my dreams (not every night, only occasionally) and I somehow mastered it to have vivid lucid dreams I have now. About recognising the bad ones and waking up, yes, I could do it as well (except for the tricky ones). To get lucid, the best method for me is to sleep for six hours, then wake up, do some work (eat food, watching tv, etc.) for about thirty minutes and then go back to sleep.

[zypher0550]

My situation is different slightly. I used to have recurring nightmares, and then they stopped probably when I was 10 or 11. I didn't LD back then. But once I starting LDing, I had the occasional nightmare, but I recognized them and was able to gain lucidity.

[EagleEye]

I'm an absolute newbie, but I was having recurring nightmares about elevators in my late 20s. I was lucky enough to have a lucid dream in which I stopped the DCs from dragging me into the elevator and just asked them why I was having the dreams. What they told me eventually resolved the problem and the nightmares went away. Wish I'd known that it was possible to induce LDs when this started and maybe I wouldn't have suffered so many of those terrifying dreams.