Thread: when I was a child I had lucid dreams all the time

I don't know where to begin. Let me say this much - I have been reading your web site for quite some time now and am very familar with your terms. Before I read this web site I never new what I was doing in my childhood was called lucid dreaming. When I approached alot of people with what was going on with me they just laughed at me or thought I was making it up.
I have so much to say but don't want to bore you with all the details of my life.
I remember when I was about eight years old I began to wake up in my dreams and begin to manipulate them into whatever I wanted. I remember being able to fly and visit far away places that I only could find in books or some of my favorite tv shows. I could do AnYTHING. This went on for several years.
And then one night it happened. (it's so incredible I remember the dream in such vivid detail many years later - I'm 37 years old now) I entered a cage with a lion. All I had to do was pry back the bars with my fingers to get into the cage. In a moment the lion leap forward to grab me and all I had to do was wave my hand in front of him and he turned into a kitten.
I picked up the cute kitty and began to stroke his fur. It's incredible how vivid lucid dreams are, I was realizing how I could feel actual fur when I looked to my left and noticed a brick wall that was not there when I entered the cage. Being the supreme being in my dreams I always was I began to knock the wall down. This brick wall however was a bit stubborn. But I finnally got it down and I noticed a dark room that I crawled into.
The moment I enterd the room a chill engulfed my entire body. In a instant I was surrouned by blackness, the very hole I crawled in from was now gone.
The only light that was begining to form came directly in front of me as what seemed like gaint floating heads approached me. I don't remember what exactly they said to me alot of it I assume went right over my adolecent head. but this I do remember they told me that if I didn't stop controlling my dreams my mind would go crazy and I would end up in an Insane asylum. I kept tring to wake up even screaming to the top of my lungs "I WANT TO WAKE UP" but the floating heads just kept on talking and telling me that I was to put a stop to all my dream controlling. I hated this feeling of not being able to controll my dreams. They told me that they would revisit me again.
I tried talking about this with several people like my brothers and friends but like I said they either laughed at me or thought I was making the whole thing up. For days I didn't go to sleep. My mother and father were very concerned about me getting sleep, they saw the bags under my eyes and knew I wasn't sleeping. I think it was almost three days of being up before I just fell into a hard sleep and when I woke I didn't remember dreaming.
I was very scared and forced myself to not control my dreams. And after a few years I just said I guess I was crazy, for a little while there I questioned whether I actually controlled my dreams or not. Every once in awhlie I would think back and wonder. But all that changed few days ago when out of curiosity I did a search on the web about controlling dreams and I stubbled across your web site.
All those years ago what I was doing was REAL and it is achievable. And I believe it is very possible that I can get right back into it. I don't want to continue babbling but I just want the person who is responsible for this web site to know that I appreciate them. I feel so overjoyed that a new begining is about to be released. And to all the people who are just checking this out and are not sure let me tell you a voice from the past is crying - little eight year old kid is yelling at the top of his lungs saying I't REAL you can do this!
Oh and as for those four floating heads that said they will be back, well I'm not a scared little kid anymore and besides that I have a great new family in these forums to help me cope and get along.

Welcome Hope you find what you need here to start LDing again, this is a great site

I have seen a few posts here that make me wonder about something.
A lot of dream time is just random images, but some can be very important in sorting out emotional issues ect.
What happens if you take control of ALL of you dream time, not allowing your mind to wander or process the things it needs to do from time to time?
Dose that result in an experience like this? A mind atempting to demand some time to unwind?
Perhaps this process of mental and emotional rest and rejuvination could be done in LD? setting aside a few nights a month for the contemplation of your YinYang 'n' stuff

Anyone else wondered about this?

Welocome on board!

The four heads sounds really wild! I hope they do return some night so you get a chance to tell them they are full of it!

It's great to have another "older" person here!

*cough*LURKER*cough*

Welcome to the board!

Welcome to Dream Views Paul!

Well, I hope we can help you with anything you need.

(Blast those heads! Pow Biatch!)

Childern have more freedom and arent so forcefeed with earthly material... their imaginations are free to roam. I have offen wondered why our minds or external forces want to breed fear in whatever spectrum in our dreams. Could this be to stunt us on a personal level and accept reality more. Your floating heads could be right in a way. When i used to see shrinks they would offen ask me 'can you control things, or make things happens in reality' you just dont answer yes to that sort of thing i guess even if you believe you can. those floating heads seem to be looking out for your mental well being. I found that at about 11 my dreams began to make up people to strike fear into me this entered reality and i became a recluse, society wasnt for me. i can control certain factors in reality and my dreamworld but i still have 'dreamhunters' trying to enstill fear into me, and this bubbles over into reality

what i am basically saying is as we get older our notions of boundries have progressed to a point where we are seen as having no control and are merely cogs in the square, where-as childern we laughed at these boundries... these boundries for some have followed us into our dreamworld and it takes more effort to break the shackles.

Hoping you once again become king of hill Paul