For at least 5 years (I am 19 now) I have often realized I am dreaming during my dream, and then attempted to control it. This happens perhaps once a week. Most of the time I can control an aspect of my dream quite easily. I start flying just for fun, or wish for an object of some kind and recieve it etc... Then I usually forget that I am dreaming and continue on dreaming.

I just came to this site today. Before now I had never even heard of Lucid Dreaming. I have never "tried" to Lucid Dream before, it just happened.

A few people I have talked to say that this never happens to them or it happened once in their entire lives. Are my experiences normal? How many people can realize they are dreaming and start controlling them naturally with no effort? Are there any statistics I can look at? How many people never Lucid Dream in the entire lives?