Hi, I have only now stumbled to this forum but read around and was wondering when was your first lucid dream? My first lucid dreams started at the age of 7 when I was having nightmares every night. The only solution I saw was to train myself to recognize when I was in a dream and control it. What I did every night back then was tell myself to remember to say it's a dream while dreaming. Of course it took quite some time but at some point as weird as it sounds I was able to "conjure" an assistant which would help me in the dream. I soon learned to fly and to wake up whenever I wanted. I have started to read up on this whole concept when I was about 18 and somewhat lost the ability to control the dreams to that extent because they became more rare.

I have always thought that when you die in a dream you would die, but I read last year that it is a misconception and was actually trying to let myself die in a nightmare for a while now with no success; always wake up...

So when did you first start lucid dreaming?