When you were young..

Is it just me, or did anyone else tend to have lucid dreams a lot as a kid?

Over the years I've kind of forgotten about dreaming all together, my recall is terrible. I can still remember though, when I was in primary school, dreams where for some reason I realised I was in a dream...and attempted to do things I wouldn't/couldn't usually do. One of the things I noticed straight away was my inability to stay in the dream once I realised what was going on (I just figured that was normal, 'hey, i'm in a dream, I better hurry and do something because its going to end soon'), I also had trouble controlling parts of it...nevertheless I still remember making myself fly, turning myself into animals by yelling out their names (which worked maybe twice) and stuff. Anyway, I never really thought much of it back then, but now I wish I could still become lucid and recall my dreams that well today. Finding this forum kind of awoke my desire for dreaming like I used to, and I notice a lot of techniques that I figured out by myself as a kid mentioned here (voice commands...umm...thats about it).

Anyway, i'd just like to know other peoples experiences, because contrary to what I used to believe...I dont think all my friends were having similar dreams at the time.

Also thanks for making such a great site! I cant keep my mind off dreaming now... :lol:

HI There :D I had alot of Lucid dreams as a kid. ( Im 17 now) Ive always had great recall so I have noticed the decline of natural Lucid dreams over the years. I remeber when I was very young, I used to think I had magic powers :P Looking back, I belive I htought that beacse I had Lucid dreams, and thoguth they coudted as real life. hehe.

Yep, as a kid I had much more LD power than I have today. For example I could easily recognize the start of a dream, but I dont remember what happened after that.

I'm not sure, but I might've shared dreams with my sister or some other entity, until certain point when we had a conflict and it stopped...

I don't know that I recognized them for what they were when I was a child.

One of my ex's said he used to LD all the time when he was a kid and said, in his words, "I would fly like Peter Pan and then eat as much ice cream as I wanted!"

Im very similar to you boxpilot, when i was small I remember having lucid dreams, but not very strongly. I always knew I was in a dream (and mostly still can) but the only control I had over them was that if I ever didnt like the dream, i would put my hands together and would wake up. I have however lost that talent which is very annoying!

a child's mind is very underrated.

I probably had a couple lucid dreams that I just can't remember. The first I can remember happened when I was about 10 or 11. I know that I had a LOT of false awakenings and sleep paralysis when I was a kid though, at least a couple nights a week. I didn't quite know what to make out of those. Now I welcome them with open arms.

I had them almost every night when i was younger...Now i only have them about 1-3 times a week...Which still is a lot.

It was very easy to become lucid before, i just knew it instantly.

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the title of this thread made me think of the beatles song "Live and let die"

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Originally posted by ledzepplin

the title of this thread made me think of the beatles song \"Live and let die\"

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WOOT!

I always thought the reason you wake up after starting and LD was because your already in the process of waking up and conciousness slowly creeps in.

When I have LD's like this it seems like I become lucid, and then a *really* bright, white curtain is closing in, swallowing everything as it gets closer.
kinda cool, but disappointing(sp?) when it actually happens, because I always wish the dream would actually last. I've tried way stop it, but it always happens too fast.

Hmm; I agree. Young childrens' thought-structures are very under-rated. I'd love to read about scientific-conductions attempting to distinguish the different psychological patterns of adults and children.