I've been unconsciously aware of my dreamings since I've been 8-9 years old .although I didn't try to change much as of It all started with my first horrible nightmare . I've always had them so I stopped sleeping back when I was a kid . and even if I slept I always woke up at nights or needed assistance to sleep . but one night as I slept I was in a horrible dream where everyone around me died I remember being small and weak . it all seemed unrealistic . the dead people walking towards me didn't make sense . the first time I realize 'wait this Is a dream' and my immediate action was wake up . I was telling myself to wake up and I started pinching myself . so I woke up I guess I have always remembered most of my dreams as a kid because I found them fascinating so before that nightmare I had remembered all my dreams . I would usually use the general sense of my awareness to wake up from my nightmares because they were horrible. Not nonsensible . but Start off as normal and then something horrible happening . I still remember most of my dreams since kid . I would also have dreamt of something that would then happen that following day or just random games that I played on my Nintendo. Being creative I always made stories,movies, favorite characters/stars. And zombies are the most recurring ones . I recently have also learned how to dream of thing you like . and how you should have a proper schedule. Hoped I found this place before so I didn't have to take so much time to realize.it ! . I remember everything . but I stopped trying to recognize my dreams . at most ignored it . because as I realized that it was a dream indeed ,the people around in the dream started made this weird expression that I can't fathom . is it really okay to lucid dream ? I mean sometimes it feels like I shouldn't because of how the others inside the dream behave . Im.16 now but I the realization and the suspicious looks in the dreams scare me even after all these years .