am i a natural?

[pyrhho]

hmmmm. maybe i'm sort of a natural? I dunno. i started wondering that this morning.. i had another LD (my second) after like a month between my first and second ones. but.. the thing is.. neither was by RC, or WILD or anything.. they were both like.. wait a minute!!!! This doesn't work in real life! i dunno. i'm thinking, i might just be a natural, and never knew it since i always forgot my dreams. what do you think?

[Placebo]

Sorry to say, but I seriously doubt it pyrhho Naturals are people who experience LDs (which includes recalling them) without any intention or need to learn. If you've only had 2 - and you consciously wanted them - then I don't think you're a natural The good news is that you're a very fast learner at LD's Being a natural isn't everything - if you can self-learn at a good rate, then you can often be a lot better off than them (BTW, Im a borderline natural, as I had a few lucid nightmares as a child. Did it help me? Not that much, I still needed to re-learn how to induce them the hard way )

[pyrhho]

awww dang. lol. ah ok. see i was a little unclear on the whole "natural" definition. i thought it was where you don't do RCs or any of that stuff, you just sorta know. thanks for the info.

[Placebo]

No problem Someone correct me if I'm wrong of course - this is just my understanding of it...

[recombinant]

I agree with you Placebo.....By no means I am as well versed in the 'art' as others here, but I would say that your classification is correct. My dreams began as lucid nightmares when I was a kid, and then I learned to take control. Up until the last few years I never knew there was acutally a name for what I had been doing. However, from conversing and reading this forum I realized that being lucid is something that can be develped and am working improving the abilites that I posses. Safe to say, I am semi natural since I had a foundation for LD and am growing it with knowlege provided by the more practiced. I would think a true natural would have full blown all out and total command of every aspec of LD, ie: dream control, dream clarity, dream recall etc.....I think everyone who has some natural ability wants to improve some area of LDing.....I know I do.

[theroguechemist]

see in America when someone tries a new sport or something and picks it up real well, someone might say to them: "You're a natural!" there.

[Barbizzle]

ever since i was little i had dremas and i knew i was dremaing., i used to think it was a real work where i could controll everyhting. i tried to controll things when i woke up and always got confused on why it cou;dnt work. lol. yea, so im a semi natural, as in ill have lucid dremas even when i dont do anything, but if i use thechniques, i get them more often.

[Placebo]

mmm.. 'semi natural' I guess I was one of those I wouldn't go so far as to say that a full blown natural needs 100% dream control, but they at least need to have a lot of consistently occuring lucid dreams without any effort at all. But by and large, when that happens, the person learns control pretty quick. Like I said, not being a full blown natural isn't the end of the world. Would sure help... dammit..