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This one's for the ladies! I've always wanted to know if there were any girls into lucid dreaming. When I told my girlfriend about the subject she dismissed it as pointless. I would like to know how many there are.
Post a reply if you are a female lucid dreamer. If you like, you may post how many you've had or any other information about yourself you think is appropriate. TAKE IT AWAY GIRLS! hehehe :P
*sits and watches computer screen*
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Hiya. I've been doing it all my life and have no plans of stopping. :)
Lucid female, right here. Why do you ask? I'm pretty sure gender has little to do with one's interest in lucid dreaming.
Yeah, I definitely don't think gender has anything to do with it. My boyfriend dismisses it as well, and I wish I could get him interested in it because it would help me with my own progression. :(
I've had 19 total, 16 of them since 2008 began.
My mom and my sister are both very into dreaming and lucid dreaming, too. My sister is a natural at LD and WILD, my mom sometimes has DILDs. My brother never remembers his dreams, but my dad said he had lucids when he was little. That's about it in my family, though. I don't have any friends who can LD, except one friend (female) who when I mentioned it, said "Yea I hate those kinds of dreams!" and we dropped the subject.
So from my personal experience the females are more likely to LD, but I know more and am closer to (meaning comfortable talking about LDing w/ them) more women than men anyway so it's completely biased.
I agree, gender has nothing to do with it.
I'm just getting into it but I don't see myself stopping any time soon. I've always been into things like this.
My parents remember their dreams, but I haven't in a long time until now. I know my mom could benefit from LD, but she has too many scary nightmares and doesn't like to think about dreams, and my dad is against anything "unnatural" (*rolls eyes*) so...
DV is all I have. =P
Well, I don't really talk about LDing much with my friends, mostly because I get funny looks for even being able to remember my dreams.
In fact, the only person I've ever really talked about it with is a guy, and he introduced me to this site.
But yes, I'm a girl, and yes, I LD, a little. I want to do it more; I find it fascinating. My sister is into drugs and drinking, mostly for the same kind of experiences I can get through dreams without harming myself. =D
:peek: Hey there! I've actually only had 2 lucid dreams (that I can remember), and they both were about 2 seconds, so that doesn't count. :?
I don't believe gender has anything to do with lucid dreaming. Then again, maybe it does. Aren't female and male brains a bit different from each other?
It does seem there are more male posters on this forum than female ones.
Maybe that's what prompted the question.
I've LD'd since I was young, but just not very frequently. I have gotten back into it in the last few years though. Can't remember if an LD made me think about it, or if I thought about it and then had an LD.
The only other LDers I know are male. I don't know any females into it in my little corner of the world. Most females in my family are big dreamers though, but I'm not sure if any of them have had or recognized having a lucid dream. My mom was pretty talented with OBE's.
Still a wannabe LDr but, yeah, female. :)
I'd never heard about LD until a couple of weeks ago, but always had a blast with my non-lucids.
hi there! I've had over 20 lucids, but only about 10 worth remembering
i'm workin on it
Hello....
:boogie:
22 years of solid lucid dreaming here, natural at it.
When I told my boyfriend about it he was pretty supportive.. when I told my grandmother she thought I was losing it and formed an intervention. It was grade-A bullox if you ask me.
Female and natural LD here since teenager and enjoying it. No one else in my family is interested !
I'm a female lucid dreamer! :D I haven't discussed lucid dreaming with that many of my female friends, but I know one is interested in it.
Oh, and I've had over 7000 lucid dreams.
I'm female and a natural lucid dreamer (done it all my life).
I've been lucid dreaming since the 3rd. grade
yea.
7000, bluddey hellQuote:
Originally Posted by Luminous
I know I'm not female but I just wanted to say a few things :P
I think there is about the same amount of female/male lucid dreamers but theres a whole load of other factors that could seemingly make it swing one way or another, such as if females/males in general post more then there counterparts.. Then again my pointless ramblings are pointless ramblings and I'm sorry to say I haven't been here long enough to confirm many things..
Also I think you should make this into a survey, I think the results might be surprising :P
A poll or survey would be interesting. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by shrimpster
Heya. :D I have LDs every night, and at least a few girls I know are interested in LDing, although I'm the only one I know IRL who is adept at it.
I'm a female lucid dreamer and I absolutely love it! To me, it's nothing scary to explore the inner realms of the mind, it's fascinating. I've only had 6 D.I.L.D.'s my entire life, and I'm trying to gain more experience and control over my mind and body so that I can experience more. I love lucid dreaming! What a cool escape from this boring world called reality? I mean you can have fun in reality, but you can't fly there, can you? Yeah, my Dad listens to me talk about lucidity but his eyes say "That's the devils work at hand", and my Mom just outright thinks it's weird and actually told me she's going to talk to her doctor about it, because she thinks it's a form of craziness. Great...my parents think I'm crazy lol. But my friend get all weirded out because they think it's completely abnormal and that it's too far over the edge. Oh well, I still have this forum and I approve so I say it's still a go.
Oh and if you or anyone else wants to check out my thread about the experience of sleep paralysis, here's the link.
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=60446
I'd love to hear more especially from the girls, since most girls freak out when I tell them I've experienced a lucid dream...lol.
:O helloooooo!
*raises hand*
And out of curiosity, I checked the numbers of users who've stated that they're either male or female. The numbers aren't really indicative, as many members have not mentioned their gender, and I know there are at least a few out there who put the opposite as a joke. But as it stands, there are 788 users who say they are female, and 2208 who say they are male.
I'm a female and a natural LDer. I've been lucid dreaming since I was a little girl.
I'm a natural LDer, done it all my life.
...Word! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Forever_Dreamer
I've mentioned dreaming a lot to my mom, and she's good at figuring things out. She knows I read a lot, including things that would make 'normal' people freak out. I asked her, and she says she loves me no matter what I am into (as long as it's not drinking, drugs and getting hitched before I'm 30 - she has no worries there). :content:
Now, as for my dad... Well, we try to avoid talking about anything 'abnormal' around him. :roll:
I don't have any friends RL to talk to about it, but I don't see anyone around here even knowing what 'lucid' means, so.
It's completely normal, in my opinion. A lot of people just have no idea about it and/or fear the unknown, citing it as something "the devil" brought about. :?
We're the lucky ones.
Female natural lucid :meditate:
We are the lucky ones...How many girls are able to see just how awesome their brain is? How many people really think about dreaming, how it affects them and how it reflects their daily lives? I think dreaming is another way to live. It's like living a second life, and if you have complete control over that second life, the wonder, the imagination, the freedom, the joy you experience is out of this world. We are better people, more satisfied with our lives, better able to handle the outside world because of lucid dreaming. It's a talent and how many people can lucid dream? Some people can sing, some can play the flute, some can act, and so on. It's apart of who we are. We are different from others because we aren't afraid of the unknown, and what is more unknown than our brain? :paranoid:Quote:
Originally Posted by Keitorin
Oh, I know! I am so grateful that I stumbled upon the Wikipedia entry on lucid dreaming (after looking up 'sleep', then following the link to 'dream'). It just made me realize even more how much human beings can miss. So much knowledge out there, so little time!Quote:
Originally Posted by Forever_Dreamer
We really are different. So many people would rather hide from their fears, or hate the unknown. We embrace it because we're safe in the knowledge that we can deal with it if we just try.
:D
Why did you think there were more males than females?
He probably thinks that either males have a dominating factor, where they are naturally better at lucid dreaming OR that there are more males willing to express interest or ability in lucid dreaming.
I'm female and I don't think I'm a natural :P. I had one Lucid dream when I was little, two before joining the forum and two after joining. I talk to my mom about
Lucid dreams and she says that I have enough things to do in reality :nono: I told about that to my friends but they got bored of me blabbering about dreams :( and said to not mention that anymore :P After that I told that to my classmates and almost all of them got interested!(Well I do go to an art school so it's probably logical)My art teacher even said that wherever I go everybody talks about dreaming :D
Men just tend to be bigger liars about it. If a young male has a screen name like "Lucid Master," he's probably never had an LD.
And people who say that LDs are all fun are lying too. LDs are just as apt to be unpleasant as ordinary dreams are.
Oh, I wouldn't know about that. I see a lot of female "naturals" in this thread...quite personally, I question the integrity of the claim that anything remotely resembling a lucid dream can be achieved on such a regular basis as "naturals" claim. Of course, I'm not one of them, and so I have nothing to go on but my own skepticism. :?Quote:
Originally Posted by arne saknussemm
Anyway, back to the subject at hand; I couldn't possibly see how gender would affect the ability to dream lucidly. Although men are typically portrayed as stupid or otherwise mentally deficient in the media, in reality the structure and functioning of the male brain is not much different at all from that of the female brain, so...I'd say gender has no impact here. We've all got the potential; it just depends on who's lucky enough to find out about them, and whether their cultures would regard it as unnatural...
[QUOTE=Lëzen;834956]Oh, I wouldn't know about that. I see a lot of female "naturals" in this thread...quite personally, I question the integrity of the claim that anything remotely resembling a lucid dream can be achieved on such a regular basis as "naturals" claim. Of course, I'm not one of them, and so I have nothing to go on but my own skepticism. :?
It's really easy to be a natural. Just look for dream signs.