Thread: Could you lucid dream as a child?

I never had a LD as a child. I believe I would know, because I was intrested in "crazy stuff" like OBEs since young age and liked and paid attention to my dreams. Never even heard of lucid dreaming untill a day before my first one after finding Dreamviews.

I wonder how my life would evolve, had I discovered it sooner.

I have had most of my LD's as a child. As I remember, I had about 1 LD per 6 months when I was a child without any special inducing.

I don't think I would have had lucid dreams as a child if my father hadn't told me about them as a way to defeat nightmare creatures, but who knows. Unfortunately I got away from paying attention to my dreams at some point in my pre-teen years and just got back to it a little over a year ago. I did have interest years back when I heard about the novadreamer or dreamlight (forget which), though I can't recall where I heard about it and wasn't about to shell out that kind of money back then.

I don't think lucid dreaming in children is very common, but some research out of Germany suggested otherwise. We had a discussion about it in some thread on DV that I don't recall and there is a research article out there. I found this article for now: Why Children Have More Control of Their Dreams - WSJ.com

I didn't experience lucid dreams as I know them now. I do remember having become lucid at least once, and by that I mean I realised I was dreaming, but because I knew nothing about it, I did nothing to control the dream. I don't even remember what that dream was about.

I did on several other occasions have dreams in which I knew something was wrong but couldn't quite tell what or why. I strongly remember one very long false awakening which started one morning when my alarm clock went off. In the dream I was holding it (it didn't look like the actual one) and I was running around the house looking for someone to switch it off because I couldn't. I woke up at the exact moment when my physical hand found the clock and switched the alarm off. I still remember it in great detail and how I felt something wasn't quite right. I wish I had known about lucid dreaming back then.

I also remember how people in general (family and friends) didn't quite believe me when I told them what I experienced in dreams. They've always seen me as the "crazy-dreams girl"

Yup even before I can remember it was a fun way for me to do whatever I wanted without getting into trouble. Like leaving he house and flying over everything lol I did not know the proper terms I just thought it was something that everyone did all the time Lucid Dream and Dream Control.

I had lucid dreams as a child without any knowledge of what they were.
They stopped happening from about ages 9-16, until I learnt how to induce them.

Lucid Dreaming as a Child? Well, at best, i learned how to wake myself up. If not have some dream control. But i didn't start to lucid dream til my late teens.

I did as a young child, but it stopped around age 9/10 (probably) and I had to learn it newly around age 20.
Also I can't remember much else of them, than jumping out of the kitchen window to go fly about and explore. So I didn't develop good dream-control - I guess I would remember that.