Thread: So, how many here naturally LD?

I probably naturally have an LD about as often as you. It was because I did it naturally that I even found this site in the first place, because I wanted to find out if what I did was normal.

No but all of my friends do and they don't care about LD's!

Im not but my brother is.

Okay looks like I'm going to have to look up what DEILDS is. LOL.

If I were to guess, I'd say I have a lucid dream maybe 30% of the time, naturally.

If I tell myself I'm going to be lucid before I fall asleep, than closer to 80%.

I took a hypnosis course once (a psychology class), but in the class, we learned that some people are very hypnotically suggestible. I believe I'm one of those people, so if I suggest to my mind that I will be lucid, than most likely I will be.

Now using the techniques is another matter. I envy those who can WILD. That's one of my goals as well.

Do you mean having a DILD without actually consciously using any techniques and not doing a reality check? I mean, does that mean those DILDs where you just suddenly know you are dreaming?

I'd say only my first lucid, because after that and I knew they were possible, I always think about wanting to have a lucid before I go to sleep.

Originally Posted by Shift

Do you mean having a DILD without actually consciously using any techniques and not doing a reality check? I mean, does that mean those DILDs where you just suddenly know you are dreaming?

I'd say only my first lucid, because after that and I knew they were possible, I always think about wanting to have a lucid before I go to sleep.

Exactly what I mean.

Originally Posted by NASCAR

Exactly what I mean.

Ah well in that case, I've only had one, my first, which is the highest amount you can have haha.
But if only thinking about lding, but not using any dream initiation techniques... I'd say about 70% or 24 of my LDs have been like that. It's hard to say though because some of them are because I chanced looking at a digital clock, and realized it was a dream (I remembered what time I'd gone to bed, and the clocks didn't match that and cued me). So that could technically be a RC, but I didn't look at them as an RC. But who knows how my subconscious was manipulating me.
Meh what I'm trying to say is that I don't think I can answer this question Because I am still not sure what defines natural and how much of a role my knowledge of induction techniques and RCs has changed my ability to LD.

Ah, that's me. All my DILDs were achieved without doing an RC.

Most of my LDs occur without any technique that I'm aware of. I'll go to sleep in the evening not thinking about dreaming and wake up in the morning from a lucid dream without remembering how I became lucid.

Or, I'll use a technique without intending to. I WILD naturally during naps or accidental WBTB (I wake up in the morning but don't want to get up yet so I go back to sleep or hit the snooze a dozen times). I also do DEILD accidentally. And every now and then I'll even WILD unintentionally at the beginning of the night. WILDing at the beginning of the night really sucks for me and usually I don't want it and try not to because I get terrifying SP and lucid nightmares following.

I have about 2 days of LDing naturally each week I think. But it varies; I have dry spells and prolific periods.

I naturally LD. I have since i was about 16 i guess, when a friend
told me what was happening in my weird dreams and suggested
i try something, and it worked. I lucid dream now at least once a
week. Sometimes more. If im too tired i dont like to. For me, i
believe it takes up time in natural sleep.....If i only have 6 hrs to
sleep then i wont waste some of it LDing.

Originally Posted by Shift

Do you mean having a DILD without actually consciously using any techniques and not doing a reality check? I mean, does that mean those DILDs where you just suddenly know you are dreaming?

I'd say only my first lucid, because after that and I knew they were possible, I always think about wanting to have a lucid before I go to sleep.

ok now i dont understand what he means by natural?? I have always
known that i was going into a LD, even since the first time, because i
made it happen....and i usually do.

er...i consider myself natural because i have always been able to do it but i came here and realized some of the times i use known techniques unknowingly to become lucid.i lucid dream about every night so about 95% ?

i have had them naturally on and off throughout my life since i was around 7. i dont really have a technuque i just notice somthing that is not true and then i know i am dreaming. like the other day my husband and i were living ina different house and i said "this is not my house"

*raises hand*

Current lucidity rate: 99,3%.

I don't have a ton, but all I have in current memory have been without an RC or technique.

Originally Posted by supreme

ok now i dont understand what he means by natural?? I have always
known that i was going into a LD, even since the first time, because i
made it happen....and i usually do.

That's what I meant by my posts, there is no set definition to the phrase "natural lucid dreamer", and people interpret it differently. I was saying that the only natural dream I could have had, without any induction techniques whatsoever, would be the very first one I had "naturally", because after that I would always wish for a lucid when I went to sleep, which is a method and makes every other lucid non-natural.