Thread: LDing as a child

well there is no "sort of" option. haha.

when I was very young, I discovered that it was possible for senses other that sight to be functional in dreams. I frequently had dreams where I would fly, and I could control it, and I thought it was the neatest thing ever...but that's all I knew. I also had plenty of dreams where I would get freaked out and tried to wake up. I knew it was a dream, but I never thought about changing the nightmare and controling my dreams.

I alwaysed lucid dreamed when I was a child. I used to think when I went to sleep I entered a different world where I had magic powers. In fact, i used to get annoyed that my poweres woudl nto work in the waking world ( I still feel the same way sometimes now) I remebr having dremas where i would fly around and explore these awomse wordls and tlka to all thses peopel and let them knwo that they are in my dream wolrd, and they have to do what I say. I aslo remeber that i used to change my drreams by choosing fomr a computer-like menue wiht differnet pictures of places where I wnated to go. As I look back now, I think it was a combination of being a natural Lucid dreamer, and unknowingly performing MILD techniques. I remebr waking up late at night and telling myslef that im really tired and jsut want to go back into my dream world.

When I was a child, I did have lucid dreams. Sometimes when I was having a nightmare I realized that it's just a dream and they can't hurt me. Just a pity that my only 'skill' was to wake myself up

I always tried to wake myself up from my nightmares.
It didn't work.

so... at what age do you stop considering someone a 'child'

because if your category's somewhat wide there, the ones i am having now might count. But i mostly did the same kind of stuff i do in LDs now that i did as a kid if your category ius like my category for 'kid'. Except for the toy shopping spree, i wouldn't do that nowdays.

Originally posted by luckegrlGC
so... at what age do you stop considering someone a 'child'

because if your category's somewhat wide there, the ones i am having now might count. But i mostly did the same kind of stuff i do in LDs now that i did as a kid if your category ius like my category for 'kid'. Except for the toy shopping spree, i wouldn't do that nowdays.

Around 13 years old, b/c that is when we get into careers, makeup, & sports more than little kids stuff like Cartoons & imagination!

When I was like 5-6 years old I saw a Smurf episode (you know these tiny little blue guys with the white hat) where they were trapped in one of the Smurf's dream. I think it was the old Smurf that said something to the effect that since it was a dream, the other smurf could control it so they could get out of whatever situation they were in. After that I started to try and control my dreams with little success. I did become lucid but I usually couldn't do very much... at first. Eventually I got better and mostly used my lucid dreams to fly. As I got around 12-13 I stopped doing it, until now where I picked it up again.

okay, so the ones i'm having right now don't count. Good... i hate being considered a child.

I have been lucid dreaming since I was 8 and the first time it happened was during a nightmare and then i suddenly realised this cant happen and then after that i started riding dragons down my street and stuf like that

I had a fair number of lucid dreams when I was young, but I never really understood the potential they had. I never had much control; I could really only control my own actions. I had such an easy time becoming lucid back then, though. There's something about the nature of children's minds that makes it so much easier for them to become lucid. I wonder what it is?

I think it is beacse they dont have social stigams that aducts or even teenagers do. I know when I was little I used to belvie in magic powers( well half of that reason if beacse I knew at night in my dreams I had them) But kids are exsepcted to belvie in the impossibe and they are alwyas being told that " they can do anythign they put thier mind to" At last thats hwat I heard all the time.

I have Lucid Dreams on occasion, especially when I am woken up at around 4:00 AM and I become aware of these dreams every time around there. It's kinda funny, when you are able to tell a big ol' Sumo who wants to challange you to challenge a peice of Broccoli instead. Quite funny indeed

Originally posted by nesgirl119
I would like to know, how many of you had LDs as a child? I have had alot more than I can count, like flying on a magical hyena, & making it rain candy bars. I want to know what yours were like when you had them?

you make it sound as though children have childish dreams. Do they?

I remember a few salient dreams from my own childhood. One, I was in a speedboat that was fully enclosed, which was a good thing, since the boat kept flipping completely over and around. I was anxious about a little bit of water that got in each time. It would not pose an immediate threat, but I was concerned that such leakage could not go on forever without disasterous results. Another one of my 'childish' dreams involved the theme of sibling rivalry. A vicious Polar Bear was in the basement, and one by one I lead my brothers down to the basement to be eaten. Of course I was appalled at such behavior in myself, and that may have very well been my moral awakening.

But I suppose other children may have had dreams more commensurate to the Children's Section. But I would wonder that the Higher Dream Mind could be so patronizing.

I remember a reoccuring dream I had as a small child... I would, every night when I went to sleep, walk outside my house (in the dream!) and wait there for this witch to take me away... she would come every night for me and I would ride around the nights sky on the back of her broomstick. This same dream went on for ages, every night in fact for weeks, and I just used to have somewhat...'adventures' in the sky...I guess I was partially lucid at the time without realizing, but the only part of the dream that I was in control of was actually going to meet the witch- which, I wanted to do! However, once on the broomstick, I had no control of what was going on... Anyone actually explain this?!

when i was younger, i was usually aware that I was dreaming, but I never considered the idea that I could control things. every time i was in a nightmare, or things were getting bad, i could wake myself up by squeezing my eyes shut.

a psychologist would have a field day with the above paragraph.