Thread: Your Story

So what's your story?

How did you find out about lucid dreaming? What effect has it had on you? What sort of stuff have you achieved? What are the highlights of your lucid dreaming world? etc etc..

Let us know LDers - Post your story for all to see


To get the ball rolling..

Personally I'm new to Lucid Dreaming and only came across about a month ago on TV. Immediately I was intrigued and wanted to find out more about it.. watched some youtube videos on it and then found DV From there I found out how to do it, different techniques, people's experiences etc.
In my first month of attempting to Lucid Dream, I've had one OBE and one DILD where I flew, poorly lol, but it certainly was the best (and kinda the only) highlight so far.. that and trying to shoot someone in a dream but it didn't work.. no bullets came out.. It's only been a small number of weeks but the whole topic has certainly made me more interested in dreaming in general and helped me get more sleep because now I have a reason to go to sleep before 2am

My story is still being written so there's not much more I can say, but I can't wait to hear your stories and the highlights of your lucid career if you will so please post and comment on others so we can get a great thread going

Also, forgive me if this already exists, it seems like it should but after searching for some time I couldn't find anything like it.

Happy Posting ,
Cosmo

I myself am much like you. I have only been trying to LD for about a month and a half now, and i have had a few, but only one where i oculd actually control the dream. I also tried to fly and floated above the ground for a few seconds, then i can't remember the rest. I, personally, found out about lucid dreaming by having recurring nightmares and wanted to know what i could do about them. MY hilights though would have to be, of course, having my first LD and flying. It hasn't really had much affect on me though but I do enjoy going to sleep tonight and not thinking of what I should have done that day, and mroe about what I'm going to do the next day/night.

4 already, nice Burke! I hope it clears your nightmares up completely, a friend of mine had that problem and LDing certainly helped him out. Hovering is sweet..I've only done it once so I doubt my help will be much use for you, but the way it worked for me is if I imagined myself accelerating in a certain direction, upward for example, it just kind of does it - anyway great reading your story, Burke, thanks for sharing

I found out about lucid dreaming on a stuff you should know podcast, by how stuff works, discussing about controlling your dreams.

Don't be like wow 4!? because only 1 lasted longer than 3 seconds

shame, still shows you are learning fast, faster than me anyway

My brother told me about LDing. I'm sure glad he did too. I tried to learn to LD once in the past, but I gave up. Now I'm doing good . One of my highlights is last night I was dreaming that I was swimming in a river, and I decided to climp on a rock wall. I got to high up and was freaking out. All of the sudden I thought "Hey, I'm in a dream! I can just jump off!". I jumped off and shot one of those grappling guns that sticks in walls like from batman.
I haven't had many LD's, so it was awesome.

I stumbled upon Lucid Dreaming one day on google. I think I was looking up weather sleeping without a pillow is hood for your back or not. I clicked this one website and they had an article about lucid dreaming along with the sleeping with no pillow thing. So I googled some more and then found DV that was prolly about a year ago. I told my brother username695 about it and we tried it. we both quit soon after and now are both tying again. My biggest sucess with lucid dreaming was finaly being able to WILD.

I found out about lucid dreaming when I was avoiding my homework one day lol. I was wasting my time watching random videos, and one of them was on dreaming. Near the end of the video it said something about lucid dreaming. After hearing what it said about it, I remembered how I have had some lucid dreams before. I started researching it and found this sight.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "Highlights", but there is one thing I'm glad to have lucid dreaming for. I have nightmares/bad dreams sometimes, but lucid dreaming helps me stop them before they get worse. My first few lucid dreams became lucid because of nightmares/bad dreams, and when I became lucid I would be able to wake myself up to stop the dream. My next few lucid dreams became lucid for the same reason as my others, but in these ones I had a more effective ability. I somehow learned how to control time in my dreams. I learned it when a zombie was coming after me in my dream, and I became lucid all of the sudden. I instantly focused on the zombie and froze time around it to keep it from going after me. What I find weird about learning that though, is how controlling time (or my dream) never came across my conscious mind, and I just did it in self defense. I've been able to use it in my lucid dreams ever since though!

My achievments: I've had 1 lucid dream so far since visiting DV (I don't count the lucid dreams I've had before that because I can't remember them that well, and it's the only proper count I have). In my first lucid dream since coming to DV, I tought myself how to fly, but yet I can not describe how I managed to do it so easily. I also got to go sky diving in that dream, and pulled up right before I would hit the ground just to show off to my dream characters. I forgot there was a tree though, and when I pulled up I hit the tree lol.

My brother is a natural, so he told me about controling dreams when I was a kid, and tried to teach me, of course I failed until several years later, so, after 8 years of practice, was able to induce my first LD, then, more years later, found the term lucid dreaming on a gaming forum, on the off-topic section, on a thread about controlling dreams, and thats how it went.

Well, I'm actually not quite sure how I came upon lucid dreaming, but I've always been interested in how the human brain works, and dreams themselves. But, I found this site about a year ago, and it's helped me so much!
The effect it's had on me has been great. I wake up in the morning with more energy, and I've even overcome a major fear of mine, using lucid dreaming. (If you're wondering, the fear was performing/being in front of an audience).
I haven't achieved much as far as my dream goals go, though. I've flown, yes, but I'd like to learn how to summon people, and travel to space. Those are my two main goals right now.
My story is still in the progess of writing itself, though, so I can't really think of anything else to say. ;]

Hmmm, well I think I came across lucid dreaming on wikipedia. I was probably reading about dreams or something, then went to the wiki page for lucid dreaming. I think after that I googled it and found this site.

It's been about a year now, I think. I started off never having a LD before. Soon enough I had one and was hooked. I wanted to have fun and be truly free, and only dreams will really allow that.

I tried many techniques, but DILD is the one for me. I can't seem to get SP no matter what I do, so WILD was totally out of the question.

It was about a year of on and off LDing and dream journaling. I was having lots of trouble and getting a bit frustrated. Eventually I found a thread here about chakra meditation. Reading all of the crazy experiences, I became interested in it and decided to try it. Ever since I've tried it, I have had LDs every few nights at the least. I don't know what I did, but it only took one or two tries, and ever since I have been much more aware and been able to LD much more.

My success only started a short while ago. At one point I became quite sick and gave up dream journaling for a while, but now I'm back. I'm hoping to bring this to the next level; I finally feel successful, but I will need to work at it if I want to get my ultimate goal: being able to LD every night/at will. I want to be able to LD enough to be able to experiment with things that are thought to be supernatural. And that is why I'm back.

And well, hopefully my story can end well!

Thanks for all the interesting stories guys, keep em coming

Also thanks ReachingForTheDream for the informative story and heads up on Chakra meditation - I'll have to try that myself, if you don't mind of course , seems like the sorta thing i've been searching for.

When I was 8, I think, I had this dream where I woke up and was still asleep (what we'd call an FA). I realized this was still the dream, and my mind was blown. I woke up shortly after. I told my mother the next day, and she told me about lucid dreaming. I spent the next 6 years hoping I'd get these dreams, and every so often would. Then, right to the end of last year, I found this site (after a lot of searching) and learned more about it. Now I lucid dream regularly.

My highlights... every lucid is a new amazing adventure. But the real highlight would be having a shared dream with some of my favorite members on DV.

The way I got into lucid dreaming was really random. I was actually doing a report for school and I was at the library. While I was searching for a book I randomly stumbled upon a book about lucid dreaming. I picked it up and was like, WTF is this? Read the back and I was sold. Borrowed the book from the library and I think I had a lucid dream while I was still reading the book. That was 15 years ago, been hooked ever since. I don't recall how many LDs I've had but I figure at least 100 probably more (although they are usually really short). I have gotten pretty good at flying and at one point I was able to manifest dream characters at will but I got out of the loop. Past few years I have been slacking and not really been into dreaming too much but I had an amazing lucid dream the other night (where I met the girl of my dreams) and now I am back in the game. I was so excited that I dropped $200 on the REM-Dreamer, I hope it will help me have consistent LDs. Other than that I started reading another LD book (Lucid Dreaming in 30 days) and when I finish that I also have Advanced Lucid Dreaming: The Power of Supplements. I'm hoping I can get to like one lucid dream a week, that would be nice.

I was vaguely aware of LDs for a few years. I never really looked too much into it, because I thought it was an extremely rare thing that would never happen to me. How wrong I was hehe. About a year and a half ago I had a very long and vivid dream. The most vivid and clear one I have ever had. I wrote it down as soon as I woke up and managed to fill 4 pages. This was just me briefly summarizing it too. After I had recorded it in the notebook, it triggered a chain of events that eventually lead me here.

Firstly, it made me curious about dreaming in general. Then I looked into lucid dreaming again and was pretty excited by the prospect. I then stumbled onto ReeceJones87's channel on YouTube. He has quite a few interesting videos, including a beginner's guide to Lucid Dreaming. After watching it, he began to talk about keeping a dream journal. I suddenly remembered the empty notepad I grabbed, to write down that vivid dream I had, earlier on at the start of the year. I managed to find it quickly and decided to use it as my first dream journal. I'm eventually going to get a nice proper journal, but this A4 notepad is doing fine so far.

I discovered DV a few days later. About a week of RCing and dream journal keeping, I had my first (but very hazy and brief) LD. Unfortunately, I somehow lost interest after being unable to remember to RC often enough. Plus I got a new job.

Mid May this year I picked it up again. I had my second Lucid Dream last week. It was incredible and very vivid, plus I had full control of my body and actions. I even managed to do telekinesis on my first try. A few days later I had another one, though a bit less clear and not as long. I tried flying again, but couldn't get the doubt out of my mind.

So that's my story so far. Despite a few hectic changes to my life, I'm confident I can keep this up this time.

I first found out about lucid dreaming when I was little and my sister told me she could walk through walls and fly by controlling her dream. I never really knew the name of it so I it took me awhile before I actually looked it up. I had a few LDs before actually knowing a lot about them so about 2-3 years ago I finally tried to look them up and I found tons of websites that helped explain it. That's how I discovered DV. I didn't join till several months later because I hate going to a new website and taking time to find out how it works. Ever since joining DV, I have been recording dreams and attempting to LD from time to time. Now I am trying to be more consistent with it.

I have been recording dreams and doing tons of reality checks lately, which has caused me to have many more LDs. My favorite thing to do in the dream world is to fly and jump off of buildings, I get such a thrill from it .

Lucid dreaming has changed the way I think about sleep. I always think to myself "We waste 1/3 of our lives sleeping, so why not make it an adventure?"

I totally agree with that quote at the end there, Elsia and some great stories too Keep posting

I was on my DezertRangers forum in a daily thread (we have one thread for each day of the week and only post in the thread of that day. Mon you post in "Monday" etc.). Anyway, someone asked if they've ever had a lucid dream, and I thought he meant vivid. He explained a few things, and found some links which directed me here. Read up of the different methods of LDing, MILD WILD DILD etc. Was going to join after my first LD, but decided against it and joined within a week. I need to update my sig, but I've recorded 300+ dreams with only a few LDs. I've been out of it for a while due to school, so trying to get back into and pick up a few more LD's and get better at it

And I'm about 2wks behind in my DJ entries, lol. They're saved as drafts in my phone, lol

I'm really new to Lucid Dreaming. I was actually on a blog where it talked briefly about it. I was really tired that night so I laid down and tried to enter what I now know is SP. My body got really fuzzy and I heard noises. It freaked me out so I decided to look more into it, and that's when I found this website. Ever since then (it's only been 4 days or so) I haven't been able to get myself back to SP even when I lay there for like an hour. I'm still trying though.

I haven't had an LD where I had control, but I've had them where I realize I'm dreaming and then I wake up. I've only been working on it for so long, but sometimes I get frustrated haha. I get too anxious at night.

I've started a dream journal though it only has one entry. P: I'm a little lazy when it comes to it because when I wake up, I want to go back to sleep. I just have to push myself I suppose. (:

I had my first experiance at a youngish age, somewhere between seven and ten years of age. It started becaused I used to have a succession of nightmares, the same three would recur each night. The one I remember most vividly is about Medusa, a video I'd watched at my Grampa's is where I learn about her. Each night I would be trapped by her hair, held in the air by a coiled snake as she would proceed to eat me, me waking just before this happened. As the dreams kept repeating I learnt to recognise them and naturally I could tell it was a nightmare. After about a week, I could recognize a nightmare, and escape by awaking myself - a feeling I have described as opening my eyes twice.

Since then I've had a couple of Lucids throughout my life, flying on a beach was one. Another was having superhuman strength. More recently however, a friend rekindelled my interest and I looked into dreaming more seriously, leading to me joining the site. I've had quite a few lucids, it isn't unusual for me to have a moment of lucidity everyother night atleast. The problem is length, I seem to wake up after a very short ammount of time and am also experiencing false awakenings.

Today however, I resolved to keep an online dream Journal, as I figure it will be interesting and I downloaded DreamJournal 2.5. So my real progress will be posted from tommorow onwards, and my commitment is refreshed.

Hey there,

I had my first real memorable lucid dream back in March. I remember that in the dream I told people that I had learned to hypnotize myself into a state where I could enter this alternate reality whenever I wanted to. When I woke up I was amazed at how wonderful and realistic the experience was, but disappointed in how it wasn't true that I could actually hypnotize myself into that state. I had an experience with sleep paralysis later that week and thought it was fascinating, so I started doing research on the internet about SP, which led me to finding information about lucid dreaming. I was especially excited to find out about WILDing, which sounded a lot like the "hypnotizing" I had been talking about in my dream.

I started doing RCs regularly and had a few short DILDs, but it was WILDs I really wanted to try. Then I read about the CAN-WILD technique one day on this forum and tried it that night and had an OBE. Since then I've had 3 more solid WILD experiences and several very short DILDs and WILDs. I'm absolutely hooked now! So far the most fun things I've done are to summon a velociraptor on a leash and to fly up to the top of a beautiful enormous tree.

I had a very active imaginary world as a kid, and I feel like lucid dreaming is what I have always really wanted to do, if only I had known about it all this time.

i remember having my first lucid dream when i was around 7 or 8 years old i am 21 years old now, i was running away from jasons mother from friday the 13th, she was wielding a knife chasing after me, I realized that this wasnt real so i curled up in a ball and as soon as she came down with the knife i woke up.. can't remember any having any other lucid dreams from that age on till i was about 14-15 years old.. didnt even realize that there was even a name or even other people experiencing this till i asked a question about it on Yahoo Answers. I've read "exploring the world of lucid dreaming" by Stephen Laberge, very good read, gave me alot of valuable information about lucid dreaming.. I've probably had around 35-75 ld's by now, one of my favorites, is when i had a dream i appeared into a room dome shaped, but the other rooms are not, in front of me was a huge lion and there was a trainer with a stick keeping the lion in check but the lion suddenly attacks the trainer and eats him, i then became lucid at that point, so i confronted this lion(in all my other dreams its represented fear) and it began to shrink and look untimidating, it shrunk into what looked like a balloon animal, i laughed and it begins to run, it goes down a hallway and goes into a random room, i run after, it tries to go through the wall into the next room but i grabbed it before it could go through. I grabbed what i would describe its soul, and it then turned into a floating bubble, so i grabbed the bubble and began to eat it. (i was thinking, i was eating my fear away)it made a low growl as i was eating it.. i go out the room and stood in the hallway, everything begins to become more vivid as i become more lucid, then i ask the question to whomever may be out there lol, i said whats the meaning of life or universe cant remember which, but a very clear distinctive whisper sounded neither man nor women said something to this description, your body does not understand values or virtues/ and your soul does not understand values/virtues, i remember hearing virtues and values and body and soul... i woke up ecstatic though, not only did i get an answer from a question but i also confronted the lion which was my fear, even though maybe i should have talked to it.