Thread: How did you discover Lucid Dreaming?

I actually had a LD first before I knew what it was. When I was a teenager, I had a really intense dream that I had supernatural abilities, and the CIA were chasing me. Near the end of the dream, they shot my dad on our lawn outside my house. I remember thinking I didn't want to see this plot through, I didn't want this to happen or deal with it, and it was like the scene rewound and I thought, "Oh wow, this is a dream!" and told my dad to get inside the house.

That dream prompted me to keep a dream journal, ever since then. I tried doing some research on the internet and found that dream control has a name, but I couldn't really find much else about it (this was about 12 or so years ago).

I'd sporadically had LD's since then, but never had very much control over them. Mostly just that I knew I was dreaming. Sometimes I only had enough control to make plot choice changes or scene changes. Sometimes I had enough control to activate certain abilities (like one dream I was in someone's house, and I didn't want to get caught, so I levitated), sometimes I had total control to stop the dream plot and do something cool like flying, only, I wouldn't get very far with that. I could get up there, and I kept getting dragged back down, while in flight.

I found DV through a google search too when I wanted to learn if I could have more control of lucidity.

Originally Posted by eternalstar01

I tried doing some research on the internet and found that dream control has a name, but I couldn't really find much else about it (this was about 12 or so years ago).

Isn't it amazing how rapidly information is continuing to expand on the internet? only 12 years ago there wasn't a great deal on the internet, now look at it! There's even multiple fricken forums just for Lucid Dreams!

I was clicking "random page" on Wikipedia and got pretty excited about it. At the evening, I've read through the half of Dreamviews Got first half-lucid that night and real lucid the next day.

When I was a kid I told some people about my dreams and they looked at me wonky, I was like what you dont dream like that?

Years later I was doing some research into dreams, to understand why I dreamed the way I did and I came across lucid dreaming. Round 2000 or so I came across DV it was one of two forums on the web regarding lucid dreaming.

I was browsing a bit on Wikipedia about psychedelic drugs and such and I came on the term psychonaut, someone who is researching himself, his brain, his thoughts through various methods (I now regard myself as one) and on that page there was also a heading about lucid dreaming and I became very interested and ended up here, but I already was keeping some sort of DJ.