Am I 'naturally' becoming lucid??

[Conquer]

Alright, so I've had around 10-15 lucid dreams. They've mostly been unpleasantly short, btw. To the point where it doesn't even feel like it should count as a lucid. Anyways, I noticed last night with the lucid dream I had, I didn't notice and dream signs or anything out of the ordinary, I just kind of had a sudden realization that I was lucid. I do have normal dreams so I don't think I'm a 'natural lucid dreamer', but I noticed that whenever I become aware I'm dreaming, its just sudden. Its like it's something that is just supposed to happen once in a while. So I guess the question is, does everyone else realize they are dreaming the same way sometimes? Am I 'naturally' becoming lucid? Or is this the same for everyone else? Thanks.

[:D]

I don't know if it's 'natural' or anything but that happens to me once in a while. The feeling just comes to you and your'e lucid all of a sudden. Not so sure if this is the same way for everyone else.

[The Cusp]

Yeah, that's how I get most of my lucids. I never bother with dream signs, and for all the reality checks I do, I think I've only done a RC once in a dream. But I don't have any need for RC, I just know.

[Conquer]

Yeah, I've only had one or two DILDs using reality checks, the rest were just sudden realizations.

[Eric]

Sometimes I think that happens to me too, but it's probably just that I don't remember the dream sign

[Shift]

Maybe 40% of my dreams are the sudden-realization type, I actually had three last night and was thinking about that because since I have become more adept at lucid dreaming, I am getting more and more through RCs and reality questioning than simply the luck of suddenly becoming conscious. I still think its more fun to find yourself lucid suddenly than to slowly question reality and then realize it's a dream. It's more of a kick when it happens suddenly, especially if you get those shivers. I don't know if I'd call that natural or not. I shy away from the term "natural" because there isn't really any set definition and it's way too open to interpretation. The only one of my LDs that I would call natural is the very first, before I knew it was possible to LD and where I had one of those sudden-realizations. You have to wonder if, after you knew it was possible, you were subconsciously just always waiting for another LD to come along. I know I am consciously!

[imj]

Alright, so I've had around 10-15 lucid dreams. They've mostly been unpleasantly short, btw. To the point where it doesn't even feel like it should count as a lucid. Anyways, I noticed last night with the lucid dream I had, I didn't notice and dream signs or anything out of the ordinary, I just kind of had a sudden realization that I was lucid. I do have normal dreams so I don't think I'm a 'natural lucid dreamer', but I noticed that whenever I become aware I'm dreaming, its just sudden. Its like it's something that is just supposed to happen once in a while. So I guess the question is, does everyone else realize they are dreaming the same way sometimes? Am I 'naturally' becoming lucid? Or is this the same for everyone else? Thanks. Naturally...no, it's induced. Did you have lucid dreams before coming to this forrum or knowing that it existed? If no then it isn't natural, it's induced by knowing about it and coming here. It's day residue that your subconcious accept as part of your existence much like walking in the dream. IMJ

[Conquer]

Well, I had a few lucid dreams when I was younger (mainly during nightmares, I was able to wake myself up) but I didn't know what they were.

[imj]

Well, I had a few lucid dreams when I was younger (mainly during nightmares, I was able to wake myself up) but I didn't know what they were. Then you already have the 'platform' for lucid dreaming. Just need a nudge to get it going, at least your one step better than the average person, a head start. Now you just need to know what's happening that caused the lucid dreams and what you did/think before you slept that could have caused it. Like for me now that I'm "moderately" experienced.... I can roughly tell what may cause and what won't cause a lucid dream. I notice for me...if I just have a impresion or an idea in the head about those reality checks that I've done for the past time. I'd have lucid related dreams or close to being aware that I'm in a dream without actually doing the checks. Maybe because I have been doing soooo many of them that I'm sick of it and now it just cruises in my head.... IMJ

[Conquer]

Well thanks for the explanation everyone, I think I'm unconfuzzled now.

[AlexLou]

You've had enough lucids now that you've learned what it feels like to be dreaming and all you need is the feeling of dreaming to know that you're dreaming. It's almost always like this for me now because I've been LDing for so many years. It doesn't mean that you'll stop having normal dreams because there will still be many dreams in which you're just not being observant enough.

[TheNocturnalGent]

Usually i become lucid and then i will do a RC jsut to make sure, usually trying to breath through a plugged nose. I'd hate to be awake and think im dreaming and do somthing silly hehe.

[horsebucket]

Yea same thing here. I've had about 200 hundred of them but never tried a single technique to make them happen. I've managed to learn all sorts of tricks in the ones I've had too like flying, breaking windows, walking through walls, pissing through my fingers and stretching my arms. I can do all sorts of mad fighting tricks like flying across rooms and kicking people in the head. I had one a couple of days ago I was in a big office building with my friend and I musta only been half lucid cuz we were running away from security guards and I was still trying to get away so I broke the window and I leaped out and started flying then I noticed my friend was still in there so I was trying to convince him it was a dream so he'd jump out but he wouldn't. Definitely one of those semi lucid dreams cuz I knew I was dreaming but I didn't consider the fact that it wasn't really my friend just a figment of my imagination.

[Conquer]

Yeah, thanks for sharing everyone. It actually makes sense now about the 'feeling of dreaming'.

[Kadal]

I personally had many lucid dreams before I even knew what they were. It was only through idly searching the web that I came across this site, and realized that I had been lucid dreaming all along.

[adraw]

You will become natural, when you will have so many lucid dreams comming on their own, that you will not want to induce them.