How did having your first lucid dream change the way you perceive non-lucid dreams?

[TheObserver]

[Pickle]

I think I gained an understanding of dreams, but that can be achieved on this website. Before lucid dreams I didn't think much of dreams and that led to them having an adverse effect on my emotions and also the dreams being perceived as real during them. Now I can tell dreams aren't real easier. Still working on it but these steps lead to DILD, my favorite technique. The only LD I've achieved was a DILD.

[blackbirdrising]

I've been aware in my dreams all my life, of what was going on, that I was asleep and dreaming. When I was little, I thought thats just the way it was, everybody did that. I think I was 7 the first time I actually "used that" to my advantage. I remember in the dream, simply changing the contents of a basket I saw on the ground. How did it make me feel? Safer. It made me less scared to go to sleep, but also opened a lot of doors for me psychically. That's why learning everything you can about astral shielding, is so vital.

[opalwolf]

i learned that i didn't have to be afraid of the monsters/demons. i learned to lucid dream when i was pretty young because of recurring nightmares. i taught myself to recognize that it wasn't real and that i could open my eyes and wake up on command if things got to scary. that led to learning to lucid dream before really knowing what "lucid dreaming" was. so i learned that i never had to be afraid of demons or monsters or really anything while i was asleep.

[dutchraptor]

I learned that non-lucid are boring and pale in comparison. Turning lucid feels like waking up from a drunk state.

[Neplock]

Well i had my first lucid dream when i was very young maybe around 6 or 7. I just thought it was cool and didn't really pay much attention to it. Later i found lucid dreaming and actually began to practice it. It took me 21 days to get what i now consider my first lucid dream (i have disregarded two that i have had in the past while unaware of what lucid dreaming actually was). During that process though i kept a dream journal and really enjoyed my non-lucid dreams. I don't know that lucid dreaming has changed how i perceive non-lucid dreams. I still enjoy them very much, sometimes more than the lucid dreams that i have had. The most i can say is that lucid dreams have showed me that anything is possible in a dream and that at anytime i can have near complete control. which i guess gives you a keen sense of security.

[MarineRecon]

It usually makes me upset that I didn't become lucid in that dream because there is always something so random!