On rare occasions in childhood, I would have occasional dreams in which I somehow realized during the dream that I was dreaming. I always assumed it was a normal fluke that happened to everyone every once in a blue moon and never thought too much of it. I never knew it was considered something “special” or even that it had a name. Eventually I found a book in a library about lucid dreaming and had a short-term interest in it, but I don't remember much about what happened.

One thing I never realized until more recently was that it is actually possible to control the dreams. Since I never had much luck with dream control in my early LDs (which was before I knew anything about control in the first place), I simply assumed it wasn't really possible. I discovered this forum around 2005 and saw evidence to the contrary, in addition to other things I either never considered or simply assumed weren't possible, and that caused me to start thinking. That began a long, interesting and exciting journey that I'm still on and don't intend to ever leave.