Thread: A Question for the Naturals

If you have read my posts then you know that I have been LDing for the past 33 years since age six. My question pertains to how or why you think you began naturally LDing. I believe that I began as a way of coping with the mental and physical abuse that I underwent at the time. It was a self defense mechanism that hasn't stopped yet. What about the rest of you?

I just kinda started out of the blue one day while I was taking naps my freshman year of college in the dorms. I don't know how or why? But I'm very thankful.

Memoir of a Crazy Girl
Yep.

I've really never had very much of an imagination. If I see something abnormal I'll question it.

I had my first LD was when I was eight years old, about two days after school let out for summer vacation. I had a dream I was in school, and i said "what that heck, why am i at school?" After that, I decided to be more aware of my surroundings to see if I could LD again. (I didn't actually know the term "Lucid Dream," and I didn't really think it was anything too special either. I thought it was cool that I knew I was dreaming though.)

I'm not sure if this answers your question. (By the way, I don't have LDs every day, maybe 1-2 a week if i'm lucky. I don't know if that's considered a "natural.")

Originally posted by A Lost Soul
Memoir of a Crazy Girl
Yep.

good read, good read

I think since the first dream I had I knew I was dreaming. I just always know when I go to sleep and wake up. It just is natural. Ok I am going to sleep now I tell myself. I then think ok I am going to wake up. I then wake up from my sleep and start my day. It never occured to me that so many people would find it amazing to what I though was just the normal way to dream.

Mmm Life for me kinda suked at one point...I copped alot of crap at school so i use my imagination alot whilst walking and stuff, just playing out scenes in books that im writing. I used books, Rpgs ( w00t w00t teh Final Fantasy) and writing as escapism. At like the age of 13 I would have Lucid Dreams Like once a week. If had a dream journal since then, But I call it a dream Penseive...Go Figure <Cough> Harry Potter </Cough> But hey I love me Life now and I still have them. -=:LUCID 4EVA|::=-

my first one was a reaction to a situation in a dream.
Don't suppose anyone remembers The Muppet Show. Well I was being chased down a small shallow stoney riverbed by that real huge hairy monster muppet, you know that one thats about 7 feet tall and looks like a sasquach on meth.
I just realise all of a sudden - It's a muppet, it's a dream. Que summoning pump action 12ga. and its time for some payback

Never had another till I googled LDing and came here

Originally posted by Elephantman
my first one was a reaction to a situation in a dream.
Don't suppose anyone remembers The Muppet Show. Well I was being chased down a small shallow stoney riverbed by that real huge hairy monster muppet, you know that one thats about 7 feet tall and looks like a sasquach on meth.

LMAO.. I remember the Muppet Show and that hairy monster!

Originally posted by Elephantman
Don't suppose anyone remembers The Muppet Show. Well I was being chased down a small shallow stoney riverbed by that real huge hairy monster muppet, you know that one thats about 7 feet tall and looks like a sasquach on meth.

I believe his name is "Sweetums"

My first LD was a simple nightmare when I was 9 or 10. Like Elephantman, I was being chased by a monster, and suddenly thought "this must be a dream". I have always had a logical thought process, and I think it just grew out of that, rather than any particular event in my life.

I've been doing it every night since I was 3, so I am not far from behind you, considering that I am a Junior. Do you do it naturally, or by letting your body fall asleep b4 you start dreaming? I do that all the time!

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my first one was a reaction to a situation in a dream.
Don't suppose anyone remembers The Muppet Show. Well I was being chased down a small shallow stoney riverbed by that real huge hairy monster muppet, you know that one thats about 7 feet tall and looks like a sasquach on meth.

LMAO.. I remember the Muppet Show and that hairy monster![/b]

HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

MANAMANUH!!! ...ManaManUh!!

TygrHawk wrote:

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Elephantman wrote:
Don't suppose anyone remembers The Muppet Show. Well I was being chased down a small shallow stoney riverbed by that real huge hairy monster muppet, you know that one thats about 7 feet tall and looks like a sasquach on meth. [/b]

I believe his name is \"Sweetums\" [/b][/quote]

For some reason I thought that Sweetums was a girl...not sure though...I just had this brief recollection from one of the Muppet movies that made reference to him/her being a female.


And too furthur take this thread off topic...my most memorable Muppet Show was when Kenny Rogers was a guest and he sang "The Gambling Man" aboard a train car with "cowboy muppet ghosts" in the background singing along.

http://www.toonstogo.com/MP46.htm

Originally posted by lucidnina

MANAMANUH!!! ...ManaManUh!!

OMFG! I don't mean to butt in off subject here, but EVERY TIME I see that 7-up(?) commercial where the guy starts singing that muppet song, I laugh my ass off. I have no idea why it cracks me up so much, but it totally does. My brother thinks I'm so retarded. I think I need to find that mp3 and harass my brother with it!

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MANAMANUH!!! ...ManaManUh!!

OMFG! I don't mean to butt in off subject here, but EVERY TIME I see that 7-up(?) commercial where the guy starts singing that muppet song, I laugh my ass off. I have no idea why it cracks me up so much, but it totally does. My brother thinks I'm so retarded. I think I need to find that mp3 and harass my brother with it![/b]

They have 7-Up commercials?

Originally posted by Aneas
If you have read my posts then you know that I have been LDing for the past 33 years since age six. My question pertains to how or why you think you began naturally LDing. I believe that I began as a way of coping with the mental and physical abuse that I underwent at the time. It was a self defense mechanism that hasn't stopped yet. What about the rest of you?

Just a natural ability, that's why it's called Natural. For me it was not a result of any abuse.

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If you have read my posts then you know that I have been LDing for the past 33 years since age six. My question pertains to how or why you think you began naturally LDing. I believe that I began as a way of coping with the mental and physical abuse that I underwent at the time. It was a self defense mechanism that hasn't stopped yet. What about the rest of you?

Just a natural ability, that's why it's called Natural. For me it was not a result of any abuse.[/b]

I believe that it is natural for everyone.

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Originally posted by Yttrium@
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If you have read my posts then you know that I have been LDing for the past 33 years since age six. My question pertains to how or why you think you began naturally LDing. I believe that I began as a way of coping with the mental and physical abuse that I underwent at the time. It was a self defense mechanism that hasn't stopped yet. What about the rest of you?

Just a natural ability, that's why it's called Natural. For me it was not a result of any abuse.

I believe that it is natural for everyone.[/b]

Must be, considering my niece & I have them....& I have them all the time!

Im a naturla Lucid dreamer. I dont think its beacse of absue or anything like that. but... I have hearing aids, but i didnt get them untill they found out i need them at 4 years old. perhaps i just had 4 years to develpoe my inner slef more than most people did at the same age. I was always conviced that lucid dremas were a real place, just as real as waking life, and that might of contributed to my natural abilites. And when i was a little bit older i did the MILD technie aournd 7 or 8. Of corse I ddint knwo what it was, but i used ot wake up at night and knwo i wnated to go back into my dream world so I did.

Originally posted by barbizzle
Im a naturla Lucid dreamer. I dont think its beacse of absue or anything like that. but... I have hearing aids, but i didnt get them untill they found out i need them at 4 years old. perhaps i just had 4 years to develpoe my inner slef more than most people did at the same age. I was always conviced that lucid dremas were a real place, just as real as waking life, and that might of contributed to my natural abilites. And when i was a little bit older i did the MILD technie aournd 7 or 8. Of corse I ddint knwo what it was, but i used ot wake up at night and knwo i wnated to go back into my dream world so I did.

Alright! Another Dream Sage! You are so cool, b/c I don't see Dream Sages too often!

started since i can remember (estimate about 4 yrs old, possibly 3) and have had one every night since maybe 6 or 7

when i was 8 I had a lot of nightmares and one bad recurring one when during one of my nightmares i just realised that is not real and then i woke myself up

8) Well Since here every one is telling there stories I'll tell you mine. I'll try to stick to the basics so if it gets boring it won't hurt for long. I had a Jewish friend that read books on dreams about 35 years ago but I didn't pay it much attention at that time. As a matter of fact I forgot all about that for years. I said that because I don't know if that may of played a part threw my subconscious. So about 3 months ago I was having a normal dream as usual. I am walking down a road and to my right was a long cable hanging down and swinging from a Crain of some sort, like used to lift steel beams when constructing a building. It was swinging back and forth and then caught onto the branch of a tree and started to wrap itself around the branch like in a cartoon because when it finished wrapping around that branch it continued to the next smaller branch and so on and went faster and faster. As this was happening I said to myself this must be a dream. After the rush of realization I said praise Jesus to a few people standing near by and I flew up to a higher level of ground. It was not unusual for me to fly because I’ve done that in my non-lucid dreams many times since a young boy. I call this Lucid experiance natural because I didn't intentionally try to achieve it

I'm not sure if I qualify as a "natural" lucid dreamer or not. I've been lucid dreaming from at least the age of six or so, but can't recall if I was a lucid dreamer before then.

I wasn't abused or anything in my childhood, but I was very much a loner and in a distinctly different mental state to my peers. I had a strong imagination and daydreamed incessantly. Dreams too I found fascinating and probably took more of an interest than most children would.

So when I was having a boring dream and thought of a way it could be better, I changed it. When I woke up from a good dream and decided I wanted to go back into it, I'd try. My success was variable but often it worked.

The reason I joined the forum is to get back the lucidity I had when younger. These days I seem to be too tired or too grounded in reality to properly dream any more.