Thread: When did you discover LDing

I've always loved Coast to Coast AM and so probably googled stuff about OBEs or something and came across lucid dreaming somewhere. I don't remember any lds before knowing about them. I found out about them maybe a year ago but didn't have any until around January of this year I think. I always believed it was possible when I heard about it. They aren't as "crazy" as things such as OBEs (which I'm not really sure what to think of now, I was under the impression that they were just WILDs but now reading "Far Journeys" by Robert Monroe there seems to be more to them, but we'll leave that up to Beyond Dreaming topics). Anyway, I was probably 16 when I first found out about lucid dreams.

I discovered the term LD 2 years ago, but have been doing it since I was a very little kid at the tender age of 4.

About a year ago

when I actually knew that it was this event called 'lucid dreaming' I was 13.

I'm pretty sure there was a thread similar to this before but I can't find it either. (i'm just too lazy to look to be honest)

I've lucid dreamed alot through most of my memorable life. I didn't find out it was an actual thing that you could learn to do until I was 15 or 16. I've been trying it off and on ever since.

I had a few LDs when I was a child, and remember having been told that "if you look at your hand ina dream, you can control it". (easy and genius idea for a dream sign & reality check, got me lucid twice as a child).

I had no idea of what this was, until i found lucid crossroads, while searching the internet for a way to stay conscious all night. I had done something similar before, and wanted to know if it was actually possible.

Of course that the keywords "staying aware all night" got a lucid dreaming site as a result from google. So I was in

Throughout pretty much all my life, I've had half-dreams, where I'm aware of my body laying in bed, and I'm also aware of the dream. These aren't lucid, because I have no idea which one is real most of the time.

I also had a scary, scary dream which lead to me being lucid (It wasn't scary in the OMG MONSTER sense, but in the fact that it lasted 5 days, and I felt I couldn't wake up. Not included in sig. count). I didn't know what lucid was at the time. I just knew I was dreaming.

Then a few months ago, I had a very, very nice dream about 2 girls from my school. Wonderful, really. So I went around the internet, looking for information about incubating dreams, as I wanted to have it again. That lead me to the Wikipedia article about dreams, which lead me to the wikipedia article about Lucid dreams, which lead me here.